El Patapsco is an instrumental rock band from Baltimore, MD...influenced by the usual suspects like Link Wray, Dick Dale and the Ventures as well as contemporary instrumental bands like Man or Astroman, Laika and the Cosmonauts and The Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet. That being said, you can hear plenty of punk, reggae, rockabilly and jazz in their songs. They are also big fans of TV and film scores of all eras and often tinker around with Mancini and Morricone tunes as well as more modern stuff such as the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme. They've brought us the title song from their L.R.D.G. album (Long Range Desert Group).
Wacky Southern Current is Marco Cervellin from Italy who, with a little help from his friend Gianni Garbo, recorded these songs at a farmer's country house and this calm of the surrounding rural scenery had a lasting effect on the songs. Ageless Calm in Times of War contains references to diverse music genres, but also contemporary ambient sounds. They've brought us Watercolour.
Our latest addition is Morning Has Broken by Nat Kerr, who performed this song on The Piano Guy series on PBS. He's one of Memphis' hottest and most well-known keyboard players, and accompanies blues singer, Barbara Blue, during weekly performances at Silky O'Sullivans on world-famous Beale Street in Memphis. The song itself was a popular church hymn which has appeared in hymnbooks for many years...but was also recorded by Cat Stevens in 1971, becoming a top 10 pop hit in the U.S. in 1972. |
There are TONS of music download sites on the web, right? Of course! So...why another one? Glad you asked! There are several reasons why we've chosen to create this site:
- legality
- taste
- focus
- anti-industry bias
Legality: Until recently, almost all music download sites were of a shady nature. Many of them involved ripping and posting commercial music without anyone's permission, and pretending it was OK. But, as the law catches up with these sites/programs, they are forced to "go legit" or shut down.
Taste: There's something to be said for quantity. Huge sites like MP3.com, Download.com and the free track download section at Amazon.com are great resources, with their thousands and thousands of tracks available for you to grab. But, there's a flip side to that coin: There are thousands and thousands of tracks to wade through to find something decent...something you might really like. And that's where we come in.
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