November Heralds Audio Masters – NHAM Mixtape 6

There’s some real beauty in this one. Strap in for a bit of everything: From mental vending to gentle mending via gender bending, it’s genre blending bliss!

Songs and artist details with links below the mixtape.

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Helen Bell – Two Before the Five
Such a gorgeous intro to a beautifully sung, played and arranged song. There’s something so pure and connected about Helen’s music.
@helenbellmusic

Unwoman – Cultivate
Staying in the stringed theme and adding a deep beat this is another one that has come from a strong connection to the soul.
@unwoman

Me:she – SWEETIE
And now in full swing with a whole ensemble this is such a cool funk, and with a dose of French rap to boot what’s not to like? I actually found this one browsing Peertube -the video version is cool too!
@meshe

Matt Young – Calling All the World
Calling All the World has a strong Richard Hawley vibe. It’s a luscious piece with an important call that we really need to answer in the affirmative.
@mattyoung

Limnetic Villains – How To Break A Boy
I love the way the rhythm and lo-fi beats twist and turn through the gears in what is a very well crafted tune. I gravitated to this the first time I heard it before learning what it’s actually about: a story worthy of a [insert-popular-streaming-service-here] docuseries. -I’ll leave you to explore that for yourself!
@limneticvillains

pgcd – This Is Just Illusion (1982)
What is no illusion is pgcd’s homage to 1980’s hi-NRG and new beat. Complete with a New Order drum fill, there are some lovely effects going on in and around this gloriously melancholic hit.
@pgcd

Single Bass – Red Ferrari
Ahhh, and then back to perfection in simplicity: The lovely voice of an English lady called Jennifer Moore accompanied solely by her bass. Red Ferrari is a fine example obtaining glory without leaving first gear.
@SingleBass

b.trx – All Night
The whole Garage Hearts EP from which this came is superb. If you have any kind of affinity to UK garage I’m sure you’ll love this slightly emotive and dark form with hints of Burial.
@coda

Fast Ghost – Mortal Wombat
Acid wombat rave, need I say more? As if it wasn’t already worth a chunk of your dime, any money made from Fast Ghost music gets match-funded and donated to charity at the end of each month. Hero.
@FastGhost

Stefan Bohacek – How To Stop Time
I had earmarked Stefan early on in the NHAM project with just one problem: Despite being a Fedi-heavyweight (a fediweight?) none of his music was on any of the Fair platforms, existing only on Soundcloud. He soon rectified that giving me license to publish. But then came another problem: The song I picked, this one, got me singing along, adding my own lyrics. I decided to record them and sent it to Stefan from which our own collaboration has now come about (we’re making tunes together as ‘Secret Deal’). Since we are now collaboraters and How To Stop Time is the basis of our first tune I wasn’t going to include it after all, before deciding that wouldn’t be fair on Stefan. So here it is, in all its glory, the original, funky beat from the man I’m still pinching myself to call my bandmate.
@stefan

Joe Ressington – Loss of Summer
Oh boy this hits the spot, THAT spot, the one it intends to, just perfectly. With the harmony in the chorus really grabbing at the reminiscence receptors you’ll be yearning for summer even if it’s your least favourite season!
@JoeRess

Kyle Bronsdon – Luxurious Poisons
A luxurious Cave-Waits blend to see the evening out, this is a perfectly smooth jazz groove and it completes what has been a wonderful November mixtape from some real masters of the audiosphere.
@kylebronsdon

⬇️ All here 🎧

Just two months from now, much of the world will celebrate another Public Domain Day, welcoming a year’s worth of works into the public domain. Many countries that have had life+70 years copyright terms for a while will get works by authors who died in 1954. Those still fortunate enough to still have life+50 years terms will get works by authors who died in 1974. The rules in the United States are more complicated, but we’ll have nearly all our remaining copyrights from 1929 expire. That means that, for us, essentially all of the publication history of the “roaring 20s” will be public domain when the new year arrives.¹ That’s a wide sweep of culture available for everyone to enjoy, share, build on, and reuse.

The Twenties encompass the start of national women’s suffrage, the rise of the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance, and the dawn of “talking” motion pictures, and extend to the “Black Tuesday” stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. The Twenties had political upheaval to match the cultural and economic upheaval, including civil war in Ireland and many other places around the world, the birth of fascism in Europe, and the revival and decline of the Ku Klux Klan as waves of anti-immigrant and racist sentiment washed over much of America. But the decade also saw widespread international efforts to try to end war generally among nations. While the 1928 pact that many nations signed on to has often been viewed as a failure for not preventing World War II, it set a precedent for later international cooperation and peacekeeping efforts that can be credited with more success.

As I have in past years, I’ll be featuring a Public Domain Day countdown in the days leading up to New Year’s Day 2025, each day featuring an interesting work that will be joining the public domain then. You can follow it on this blog, or using RSS readers or social media that can connect with this blog. That includes Mastodon and other “fediverse” sites that connect with Mastodon using the ActivityPub protocol. I’ll also boost or link to the daily posts from my Mastodon account. (Most of the posts will have 500 characters or fewer, the size of a typical Mastodon post; a few may be longer.) You might also be able to follow my boosts and links from Bluesky (since my account is hooked up to Bridgy Fed), as well as possibly from Threads if they’ve enabled following Mastodon accounts. (That was on their roadmap for 2024, but I don’t know if it’s working yet.) My posts will include the hashtag #PublicDomainDayCountdown. I’ll be focusing on works joining the US public domain that are of interest to me, but you’re also welcome to post about works of interest to you joining the public domain where you are, and use the same hashtag if you like.

Right now for me, and for many others I’ve talked to, it’s hard to think much beyond next Tuesday. But I hope these posts help us anticipate some good things coming in the future, built on the knowledge and creativity of the past. May we all see and help bring about a better future in the days to come!

1. The rules in the US are different for unpublished works, and for sound recordings that aren’t part of motion pictures. (I told you US copyright law was complicated.) But this January 1 we will be welcoming sound recordings released in 1924 (which have a 100-year term) into the public domain, as well as many unpublished works by people who died in 1954. For lots more details and special cases, see Cornell University Library’s public domain table. ↩︎

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#PublicDomainDayCountdown