Idyllic Music

This week we'll explore the 'Folkartronica' made possible by the Creative Commons license. Dozens of websites have cropped up offering sound clips of various elements of established songs. These clips are then mixed, blended or mashed into something new. This new license allows artists to use the work of others under specific, usually, non-commercial guidelines. It has a kind of 'Folk Art' appeal that is, at turns, democratic and subversive.

This week we'll look at the blue. The space between the white and the black where notes have freedom to bend creating color, emotion and feeling. To that end, we'll enlist the music of Mavro, I Awake, Kyran, Skizzo Franick and Rude.

This week we'll look at youth and experience as we hear from 6 artists running from the teens to midlife. We'll hear from Victoria Mosley and The Sublimes, Big Wheel, Onderboven, Soo P and the Outsider, The Publicity Stunt and The Flavor Foundation.

This week we'll look at colors at night. Not the neon variety but the colors you might not even notice at first. When the spectrum of light just might be playing tricks on you. Our guides this week are EeBoO, Welder, Katie Turner and ruby jean and the thoughtful bees.

Again I am reminded of just how small our world has become and the richness given to our lives when we experience the music and culture of others around the globe. Contributing to that wealth this week are Irina Mikhailova, Dreaming Blue, Conduct Unbecoming, Alchemystic and Salam.

This week we look at the circular, whether in travels, time or logic with help from Mr. Frendo, Mystical Sun, Endlos and Emzk.

This week we'll look at flattery in its more sincere form with five bands that readily show their influences while remaining unique and individual. They are Day One Symphony, Electric Salmon, The Chill Conspiracy, Tricky and DRT.

This week we'll visit both hemispheres in search of the Idyllic found in the music of Apjiw, Munkie, Kalahari Surfers and Alienation.

This week will mark the 50th episode of Idyllic Music. Several messages reached me this week at idyllicmusic@cox.net asking how we intend celebrate this milestone. The answer is to follow through on our commitment from the onset to present the very best music we find for any particular week. And so we will hear from Ikarus, Ventriloquist, Smashed Toy, Artemis, Fear Called Living and I am Dog Biscuit and

This week we'll look at Break Downs, Breaking Points and tough Breaks, in general with the help of Sleeve Channel, A.W.A.L, Adam Fielding, Postscript and Lunar.

This week, it's the classical world of tragedy, love and war. Telling the tales are Elsiane, Sirk, Ici Aussi, Classic SciFi and Greenman.

This week, it's the solstice. The true measure of the New Year as dictated by the planet. It marks the seasonal change, the longest and shortest and in their way it is celebrated by Aeroflux, Cantaloup, Contact, Martin Herzberg and Jeff Rosiana.

This week we'll look at Opportunity and we'll start this episode with Maido Project's breezy mix of electronic music and acoustic instruments from their home base in France.

This week, we consider the boudoir, whether furnished with a bed of grass, four posts or cardboard, through the music of Owen, Centerpole, My Toys Like Me, Joana Smith and The Reel Banditos.

This week it's a mix of soft and loud, rough and smooth, of heaven and earth, sometimes within the same song. It comes from the music of Totosh, to the sea with me, Mr.S and Xenn, Justin R and Nervegasm.

This week's cornucopia includes the musical bounty offered up by Tinta, Volfoniq, Bitstream Dream, LaLuceNazione, Qui? Oui! and David Last.

This week, we'll look at states of Solitude, in place and time, by way of the music of Zero State Reflex, The Drake Equation, MichL Bridge and Brigitte Bijoux.

This week its resurrection and return. We'll mark the moment with the music of Endless Blue, Indy, Projexam, Juliet Hotel and Ella Blame.

This week we'll seek contrasts and connections from the music of The Projects, Chico Correa, Morcheeba, Monotape and Rettward von Doernberg.

In the spirit of the season this week, we'll slip through mists and apparitions to hear the music of Acidhead, Aidor, USB, Idyllic and Electric Salmon.