Archive for February, 2009


Free Music for downloading

You may ask yourself why is the music on this site free ? Here’s an answer :

There’s no patent for using a minor scale, nor licence fees for playing the patterns Charlie Parker or Jimi Hendrix discovered and shared with the world. Nor in mathematics or physics should we pay for using a theorem or the formulation of a natural law. As such, our debt to the past and present musicians is immense, and when we write a musical piece, improvise on a set of chords or even mix down a couple of tracks with a personal home studio, we should remember that there’s no lonely creation, no inspiration cut apart from the rest of mankind, culture and history.

So, the music you will find on this web site can be freely listened to and shared with anyone ; it will be a pleasure and an honor for me to know that other people may enjoy tracks which needed hours and hours of late and lonely work, haunted by the present and the past of music. It would even be greater if someone would like this music enough to play it, and change it the way they like to, as everyone has always done in the jazz tradition or even in wider paths.

It would be great if you only could indicate that I made these tracks you may share, or wrote the theme you are playing. Yet, there is no right to sell, in any way, the music I offer here. Click here to consult the complete Creative Commons licence.

Or click on the album cover to return to the music :

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Lick in false fourths

After the lick in fourth, here’s another way to climb a scale using groups of three notes sometimes organised in fourth, sometimes not. The tone is D Major, the lick sounds also well on E dorian (second mode of D major), especially if you end the phrase on a C# instead of the B used here.

The second part of the lick is a very classical way to go down the same scale using stricly fourth intervals.

Preview of the album to come

Here’s a short extract of the new album, “Out of the City”. The climate of this album will be somewhat dark and stressed… and less jazzy than the previous one. This track is called “Stoned and Blurred”.

    

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