Magnatune: back from mushroom poisoning hell

After a 7 week pause, we're once again releasing new albums!

Why the pause?

A perfect storm of bad timing occurred, when in the same few days I killed our main server, and got a bad case of mushroom poisoning. [more about this]

So... my apologies for the delay. We're back to doing new releases now, and I'm also back on task of programming to improve the new Magnatune. My main goal over the next few months will be improving how the music on Magnatune is organized, to make it easier to find what you might like.

This week's 4 new albums:

1) Daniel Estrem: "JS Bach on Solo Ukulele Volume 2" colorful classical guitar
Classical - http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/estrem-soloukutwo

2) Falling You: "Blush" haunting, ethereal pop ambient
Electro Rock - http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/fallingyou-blush

3) Maurice and the Beejays: "His Martian Flying Cobra" music for imaginary films and television shows
Jazz - http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/mauricebee-martiancobra

4) My Woshin Mashin: "Evil Must Die" Crossover-Electronic, Chaos-Pop
Electro Rock - http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/washinmash-evilmustdie

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-john

 



Description:Crossover-Electronic, Chaos-Pop
Genre:Electro Rock
Artist:My Woshin Mashin
Album:Evil Must Die

"Evil Must Die" is a great album if you're looking for something new, fun and fresh in electronic music. Created and delivered by My Woshin Mashin, an unconventionally artistic German-Russian three-piece act, these tunes are far from any common stereotypes and clichés of the modern pop scene.

Some songs are sure to make you dance, some will put a smile on your face (or maybe tears), some will make you wanna-go-crash-something-right-now. So, now or never - here they come! Bibi, Hugo, Wolfgang and their electro-punk-trip-pop monster, "Evil Must Die"!



Description:music for imaginary films and television shows
Genre:Jazz
Artist:Maurice and the Beejays
Album:His Martian Flying Cobra

After the critically acclaimed but financially disastrous "Robison Crusoe on Mars" ( Byron Haskins 1964) Paramount Pictures pulled the plug on the planned follow up "His Martian Flying Cobra". Screenwriter John C. Higgins (Murder Man, T-men, Daughters of Satan) with Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a strange land et al) acting in an advisory role had been developing the screenplay from an idea by Haskins. Needing a cheaper writer Haskins, on a recommendation by Heinlein, approached Phillip K. Dick to complete the script. Dick agreed but felt that the scope of the original sci-fi detective story was too narrow and wanted to draw out the parallels he felt where implied in the story between organised religion and big business. Haskins could not disagree more and the project was abandoned, after several arguments, shortly before the publication of Dick's "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (Doubleday November '64)

"His Martian Flying Cobra" story outline. Everyone knew that when the Owl of Love dropped his seed in the Great Ocean the water boiled and all of life was thrown up fully formed onto the land. So when Mars Kobra, a university reader in religious studies, discovers ancient texts describing the colonisation of Mars by people of the third planet (Arth ) he decides not to publish his findings for fear of being branded a heretic by The Council. Unknown to Kobra the Religious Opportunities Department of Omnifroot had been monitoring his research and the monthly download from his computer reveal his discoveries to the company. Omnifroot where diverting free water into a vast network of underground reservoirs undercover of outwardly environmentally friendly mining operations. They decide that Kobra is to be martyred in the name of The Arthian Herecy fomenting civil unrest and the decline of The Council and their warrior monk henchmen leaving the planet to be enjoyed by select Omnifroot employees.



Description:haunting, ethereal pop ambient
Genre:Electro Rock
Artist:Falling You
Album:Blush

"Blush", the 6th record from Falling You, continues in the dreampop / shoegaze direction that began with their previous release, "Adore". The atmosphere remains ethereal, the perspective remains optimistic. There are innumerable events, large and small, which happen all over the World which can induce a smile on our face and a gentle tug at our heart, if we only let them. This album is about celebrating those unexpected, yet beautiful moments.

Capillaries open. Flowers bloom. Hearts swell. Ideas spread.



Description:colorful classical guitar
Genre:Classical
Artist:Daniel Estrem
Album:JS Bach on Solo Ukulele Volume 2

Many of the instrumental works of Bach have the magical ability to be performed on a number of different instruments in addition to the ones they were composed for. The sonatas heard on this recording are from the Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin. The instrument used is a tenor ukulele with an unconventional tuning that has the same intervals as the violin (fifths).

Bach wrote these works around 1720 while he was Kapellmeister at the court of Anhalt- Cothen and with this collection firmly established the technical capability of the violin as a solo instrument. It is speculated that Bach himself gave the first performance. According to his son C.P.E. Bach, "in his youth, and until the approach of old age, he played the violin cleanly and powerfully." It was during this period that he also composed the Brandenburg Concerti, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Six Cello Suites.

The Sonatas and Partitas were first published in 1843, nine decades after the composer?s death. The original manuscript was famously saved after nearly being used as butcher paper.