Downburst

This is the eleventh in a series of articles I’m writing about the songs in apocrypha, a compilation album I am publishing on DMusic. It is meant to complement my Jamendo album, evolution.

Yesterday I posted “Downburst” to DMusic, track #11 on apocrypha. There’s only one song left to post, so I face the situation of being almost finished writing this series of articles.

Of course I have many other projects to occupy my time. But releasing an album a track at a time has been an interesting experience. Jamendo and DMusic differ in their presentation of albums; on Jamendo, you upload the entire album at once. So I’ve been experiencing “the best of both worlds.”

I believe that both of these sites are the future of music–independent, interesting, and free. For too long our musical world has been choked by the corporations into committee-approved focus-group-tested bland bits of mediocrity.  Time for the revolution.

Now, “Downburst” is a musical metaphor for a thunderstorm.  The rain starts pounding midway through the song, but only for a short while–a downburst, an all too common phenomenon here in Florida.

I recorded this tune on December 3, 2006.