30 DAYS

 

This album was created in thirty days by thirty different artists, in a sort of chain-collaboration where one finished at midnight and passed it on to the next to continue the set, an idea inspired by Soulseek Records.  With all the different time zones and last minute scheduling issues the project was quite the challenge, and I think that added to the feel of it, these musicians pulled off quite the feat as it turned out quite musical.

The project is free to download, under a Creative Commons license.  Click here for more information.  Please share the project as a whole so others can listen to it in context.  Enjoy.

    

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SET ONE

1. KKFS - "First Day, Some Lake"
2. Kilowatts - "Glob Story"
3. Ruairi Lazers - "Blown Subs"
4. Rochie "The White Grass Bending"
5. Bogsnarth - "Acid Casualty"
6. Spark - "The World Has Spoken and Blowing Things Up Is Good"
7. dgoHn - "Roasted"
8. Darren McClure - "Dec_19"
9. Aligning Minds - "sEkrAt"
10. Cube - "Rampant Zoo Sex Orgy"
11. Atomly - "Medianoche"
12. The Square Root of Evil - "Frolic"
13. Peekay Tayloh - "Vast Minority"
14. Säwe - "Brain Cloud"
15. Domotic - "Ma Stereo"

SET TWO

1. Sunny D. Levine - "Got Something For Ya"
2. Secret Mommy - "Bowls"
3. Venetian Snares - "Peeing_Yelloq"
4. Zephyr Nova - "Patterns and Parallels"
5. Nedavine - "Nihongo De"
6. Antenne - "Blue Light"
7. Svenedikt - "The Attack of the Jellyfish"
8. The Flashbulb - "Smoking Blue Midi"
9. Santosh - "I Am Not Mad"
10. Lee Hutzulak - "Drops"
11. Polichinelle -  "Dans Ma Poitrine"
12. Orangebox - "Our Lines"
13. Sky Barstow - "Can We Leave This Place"
14. Peter Fuhry - "No Is A Wonderful Word"
15. Alice Rose - "A Poem In Slow Motion" 

"When I was a wee lad in the throws of a tumultuous semester at college, which mostly found me in the back corners of smoky bars and seedy coffee houses, I sometimes found refuge in a small group of musicians who would "piggy-back". Piggybacking, in musical terms, is a form of improvisation (not to be confused with "jamming", which basically has no foundation in any cohesive thought outside of playing chops) where solo-ists expound on previous solo-ists. I would say it's the musical equivalent of the old creative-writing exercise: one person writes three words, the next person writes three words, and so on to finish a story.

With all of that said, here is another take on this creative endeavor. "30 Days" is a project put together by 30 musicians over 30 days - one taking over where the other stopped. Sort of passing-the-baton, to mix metaphors. For now, the artists have made this collaboration absolutely free to you, the listener. (You may download the entire collection as a zip-file, or individually... but make sure to click through the song links to really get a feel for the project.)"

- Niel Brooks