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My collection of free and legal mp3s is becoming an embarrassment of riches. Here are less than half of what I currently have stockpiled:

(artist - song - album + purchase link :: extra info)

The Mynabirds - Let The Record Go - What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood :: out April 27
JDH - The Crystal Lake - Of All the Things We’ve Made EP (free DL) :: Grandaddy Cover
Mates of State - Laura - Crushes: The Covers Mixtape :: out summer 2010
White Hinterland - Icarus - Kairos
Apples in Stereo - Dance Floor - Travelers in Space and Time
Emanuel and the Fear - Dear Friend - Listen
Phosphorescent - It’s Hard to Be Humble (When You’re From Alabama) - Here’s to Taking It Easy
Clem Snide - Denise - The Meat of Life
matt pond PA - Starting - The Dark Leaves
Jonna Lee - The Light - This is Jonna Lee :: iamamiwhoami on YouTube
Junip - Rope and Summit - forthcoming, untitled EP
BLK JKS - Zol! - Zol! :: out June 8
Ruby Suns - Cranberry - Fight Softly
Butterfly Explosion - Closer - Lost Trails
Thee Oh Sees - I was Denied - Warm Slime :: out May 11
The Go Find - Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen only not Tonight - Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen only not Tonight
Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed - Champ :: out June 8
Hotels - The Heart that Hears like a Bat - Where Hearts Go Broke
Stars - Fixed - The Five Ghosts :: out June 22
Sambassadeur - Stranded - European
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Even Heroes Have to Die - Brutalist Bricks
April Smith and the Great Picture Show -Colors - Songs for a Sinking Ship

mp3s:

The Mynabirds - Let the Record Go
Jonny Dylan Hughes - The Crystal Lake
Mates of State - Laura (email required)
White Hinterland - Icarus
Apples in Stereo - Dance Floor (email required)
Emanuel and the Fear - Deaf Friend
Phosphorescent - It’s Hard To Be Humble (when You’re from Alabama)
Clem Snide - Denise (via KEXP’s Song of the Day)
matt pond PA - Starting (via Magnet)
Jonna Lee - The Light (via It’s a Trap!)
Junip - Rope & Summit (email required)
BLK JKS - Zol!
Ruby Suns - Cranberry
Butterfly Explosion - Closer
The Oh Sees - I Was Denied
The Go Find - Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight
Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed (email required)
Stars - Fixed (via AW Music)
Sambassadeur - Stranded
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Even Heroes Have to Die
April Smith and the Great Picture Show - Colors

UPDATE: Wednesday, 4/21, 12:00 It would seem that I have misunderestimated the affinity of Swedish synthophiles with stereotypically Scandinavian stereoptics for the Philips Philicordia GM753. It turns out that Andreas Dahlback, a frequent collaborator of Jonna Lee, is also an owner of the keyboard in question. I guess I’m a Philicordia Philistine.

This is a photo of him from his MySpace page:

You can see an identical blemish on his forehead to the one on the young man in an altered, transcendent state in the “b” video. And, of course, the organ:

Thanks to Hils, for directing me toward Dahlback in the comments section.

Regardless that the “who is” mystery is solved, I love the mythology they’ve created: A mysterious and beautiful creature (conceived by aliens? science? nature? magic) is born out of an ancient tree all covered in Earth-vernix, eventually found, bathed, covered in protective plastic, and later just an Elizabethan collar. When she sings, humans around her go into a trance-like euphoria, and plants become sentient.

And I’m still looking forward to the Junip EP.

This is the latest video, “o,” released a couple weeks back:

I’ll be publishing a new show soon!

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My original post:

Another member of the enigmatic project discovered?

I am a relative latecomer to the iamamiwhoami party, only having discovered the electronic music/viral video phenomenon earlier this month. If you’re just getting to the party now, I’ll catch you up.

In late 2009, this video appeared on YouTube, posted by an anonymous user by the name of iamamiwhoami.

In the five months since, seven similar videos have been posted, each time revealing slightly more of the mysterious young woman’s features, who is seemingly born of a tree or out of the Earth. The last two, titled simply “b” and “o” (rather than long number sequences separated by periods) are full-length songs, and show enough of the woman’s face, uncovered by tar-like makeup and relatively undistorted otherwise, for some to recognize her as Swedish singer/songwriter Jonna Lee.

The above video demonstrates pretty clearly that Jonna Lee is the singer for iamamiwhoami, but there are three men also shown in the seventh video, “b,” presumably the other musicians comprising the project. I believe I have determined the identity of one of them: Tobias Winterkorn.

Winterkorn is keyboardist for the Swedish band Junip, which is fronted by Jose Gonzales. The band are currently working on a follow-up to their 2005 debut EP, and have released a single on their website called Rope & Summit (email required). On the website’s splash page, we see one of Winterkorn’s vintage keyboards, a Philips Philicordia GM753--the same exact model as shown in “b.”

So, maybe it’s just coincidence. After all, Philips did mass-produce those Philicordias. And Sweden is a country, not a neighborhood, so it doesn’t prove anything, right? But, although there’s not much to go on in terms of facial features, we are shown each of the three men’s eyes.

Here’s one of them from “b”:

And here’s a closeup, taken four years ago by Flickr user ca6:

Same country? Check. Same keyboard? Check. Same eyes? Check.

Now, who are the other two?

Watch iamamiwhoami’s “b”

Listen to Junip’s “Rope & Summit” (email required for download)

Watch Jonna Lee’s “My High”

 

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There’s enough great music on the cutting room floor this time around to make a whole nother show. (Yes, I just wrote “whole nother.” People say it all the time, way more than “NEW-kye-ler,” and yet that’s in the dictionary now as an acceptable pronunciation of nuclear. Maybe it should have an apostrophe. “Whole ‘nother?” Yeah, that’s better.)

(artist - song - album + purchase link :: extra info)

Aloha - Moonless March - Home Acres
Band Of Horses - Compliments - Infinite Arms :: out May 18
A Weather - Giant Stairs - Everyday Balloons
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio - High Violet :: out May 11
Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop + Wire - Hoop + Wire
Caribou - Odessa - Swim :: out April 20
Sally Seltmann - On the Borderline - Heart That’s Pounding
Club 8 - Western Hospitality - The People’s Record :: out May 18
Codeine Velvet Club - Hollywood - Codeine Velvet Club
Dr. Dog - Stranger - Shame, Shame
Aloe Blacc - I Need a Dollar - Good Things :: out in July
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La - I Will Be (oops, not self-titled)
Phantogram - When I’m Small - Eyelid Movies
Jónsi - Boy Lilikoi - Go
Here We Go Magic - Collector - Pigeons
Foals - Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix) - [original from] Total Life Forever :: out May 11
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee - Shadows :: out June 8
Blitzen Trapper - Heaven and Earth - Destroyer of the Void :: out June 8
Irestsu - Humbuzzer - Fang :: out May 24
Eliot Smith - Twilight - From a Basement on the Hill :: remastered reissue from KRS
Hacienda - I Keep Waiting - Big Red and Barbacoa
mp3s:

Aloha - Moonless March
Band of Horses - Compliments (via RCRD LBL)
A Weather - Giant Stairs
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop + Wire
Caribou - Odessa (via RCRD LBL)
Sally Seltmann - On the Borderline
Club 8 - Western Hospitality
Codeine Velvet Club - Hollywood
Dr. Dog - Stranger
Aloe Blacc - I Need a Dollar
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
Phantogram - When I’m Small
Jónsi - Boy Lilikoi
Here We Go Magic - Collector (email required)
Foals - Spanish Sahara (Mt. Kimbie remix) (via SoundCloud)
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
Blitzen Trapper - Heaven and Earth
Iretsu - Humbuzzer (via Hidden Shoal)
Eliot Smith - Twilight