Lots Of New Music Downloads Posted Today

New Orleans is known for good food and great music. Jimmy Robinson is a talented musician doing his part to make sure that acoustic guitar has a prominent place in that musical gumbo. His music is expansive, melodic and full of rich 6- and 12-string harmonies. With a lightning pick and a supple wrist, Jimmy draws fiery melodies and thunderous rhythms from his musical tinderbox. Over half of the tracks on his solo effort, Vibrating Strings, are instrumental. The vocal tracks will be especially pleasing to listeners who enjoy Jackson Browne. Two of the tracks are covers. Jimmy does a great job with Zep’s Kashmir, but the show stopper is The Wind Cries Mary. This is a visionary arrangement of Jimi’s classic done with acoustic guitar and a brass section. Yes, this one sounds like New Orleans: smooth, easy and tasty. Jimmy is also part of the fusion jazz group known as Twangorama. If it turns out that Frank Zappa faked his death and moved to New Orleans to concentrate on guitar based instrumental music, we know what group he is part of. Wonderfully intense, mind stretching music. He’s brought us 3 songs to share with you: Big Blue, Brian O’Neal and Hammers. You’ll find this sweet acoustic guitar music at FreeSoloGuitar.com

Dirk Schreurs has composed and arranged over 250 tunes, many of which have found their way not only to the performing stage but also to the realm of radio and television around Western Europe. Next to playing the acoustic piano and electro-acoustic vintage keyboards, he also likes to operate analog synthesizers and modules. Since 1994 Dirk has been a professor of music, teaching piano/keyboards, improvisation theory, ensemble, and jazz methodology at the Jazz Department of the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music. Nowadays you can find him at jazz clubs, theaters and on festival stages sitting in with The Roman Korolik Group, Chromatic Banana, Scora, and his own trio called DS3. He’s brought us a selection from his Extemporizations album, Extemporizations 4. You’ll find this beautiful solo piano piece at FreeSoloPiano.com

Over the past 5 years, Alexi Murdoch’s music has been quietly engaging a fast-growing audience across the globe. After the unprecedented indie success of a first home-spun EP in 2003, which ultimately sold over 50,000 copies, Murdoch released the critically acclaimed debut album Time Without Consequence through his own label in 2006. Rolling Stone quickly named Murdoch one of that year’s “10 Artists to Watch,” while Interview lauded his “ability to directly communicate a wellspring of deep emotion”. While his songs have been featured in such films as Gone Baby Gone and Garden State, as well as the trailer for Academy Award-nominated foreign film Paradise Now, his work on Away We Go represents the first instance where Murdoch is the primary musical voice of an entire film. A total of eight of Murdoch’s songs are featured in Away We Go which opens, fittingly, with All My Days, also the opening track from Time Without Consequence. The song has also been used in its entirety in the movie’s theatrical trailer, which is already creating a buzz about the film’s music. You’ll find this wonderful song at GreatSongsFree.com

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.

These last two instrumental pieces can be found at GreatInstrumentalDownloads.com