I was surfing around the web today and came across Songza, which I had seen before, but not taken much notice. But today I noticed a link saying…

“Want to promote your band on Songza? Learn more about our Self-Promotion Beta Program.”.

I don’t know how long this link has been there, but I thought that I would point this out as it seems musicians may be able to start to promote their own tracks by adding them to the Songza playlist and they may even come up in the recommended results on the front page. You also get the added bonus of links next to your tracks which you can control. I’ve added a few of my own tracks and wanted to let my readers know so you can make full advantage of it now.

It looks like they especially like Creative Commons Licensed tracks and these may have a slight advantage for the front page.

Great little video showing the talented musician SaReGaMa playing a Kalimba Solo from his track Air. The Kalimba is an instrument I don’t see often and this video shows off the instrument very well.

If you are interested in hearing more music from SaReGaMa you can visit his personal site.

You can also find his album Inward Journey available now on both eMusic and also Napster.



Original YouTube Video

Searching through some videos on YouTube and I came across some videos of some very talented Glass Harp players that I wanted to share.

Here is a selection of my favourite ones I came across.

It must take a while to set up and tune these everytime, but the end result is a very nice sound. I wonder how often the glasses crack whilst being played. enjoy!



Original YouTube Posting by MetricSuperstar.



Original YouTube Posting by adamrcath.



Original YouTube Posting by cooterwillis.



Original YouTube Posting by BSICollision.

If you find any more great glass harp videos post the urls to them in the comments section of this post.

Another site worthy of entering Rhythm Creation’s Hall of Fame. OurStage is a nice site with a great concept in creating charts of submitted music from various genres. It has features for both listeners and musicians that make OurStage a worthwhile visit for both.

OurStage is unique due to the way the charts are worked out. Listeners or Judges as they are known have to choose between two tracks in their chosen genre, voting on a scale which one they prefer the most. All these votes are then worked out and the chart is updated. This system seems to work well because it stops people from being high up the charts just because they’ve got lots of friends who they have asked to become fans and it is more down to the actual music (Although it probably isn’t flawless at preventing this).

There are some great Prizes available too for musicians and bands which are very successful in the charts. I have been using OurStage now for a couple of months and have heard some good tracks and my track Overdrive managed to finished 7th in the electronic category for January. I asked no one to vote for me, so this shows you can get high up in the charts with no sneaky votes, showing their system works reasonably well.

OurStage is definately a place for musicians to get some free and also exciting publicity for their music.