I was going to title this “Free Music Tuesday,” but that headline lacks in ring, doesn’t it? I should probably save the free music posts for Friday.
But I don’t know how long this free spell is going to last on the entire catalogue from this Denver, Co. band, who make worship music as Page CXVI and reg’lar tunes as The Autumn Film.
Download tons…and I mean tons…of free music here.
They’re calling this promotion “Jubilee,” like as in the fiftieth-year festival where God commanded Israel to set all its slaves free and people got their original property back.
(Which makes it kind of funny that they’re giving their stuff away…but maybe there’s some deep meta-meaning to it…anyway, you can figure that out on your own.)
It’s also, I suspect, an underhanded promotion of their “4 Records in 12 Months” campaign.
Clever, right? Get a bunch of people hooked on your music, and then hit them up for $60,000 so you can make some more. I’ve heard this tactic works great for crack dealers. Just goes to show you everything really is redeemable.
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Page CXVI is the better known of the band’s twin egos, probably because people eat up Christian music that doesn’t suck. The entire oeuvre is made up of hymns, some reworked, some left in their original settings. The Page CXVI treatment is deceptively simple, acoustic but fully ambient. It’s a rare worship album in that it lends itself as easily to mere good listening as to intensive personal use. And they have one album of remixes done by the inimitable Derek Webb. Their collective reworking of the Sunday school song “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy (down in my heart)” is a work of art, if bloggers are allowed to make such claims.
Listen to “Joy” from “Re:Hymns”
It’s a shame that the unprecedented excellence of their hymn project overshadows their work as The Autumn Film. (I think their upcoming campaign is meant to correct that–I hope it does, because the band morphs into a new and interesting animal when they’re singing original pop tunes. The Hammond organ that serves as base layer for their sacred music gets a kick from a more aggressive drumbeat and some fuzzy distortion, and lead singer Latifah Phillips’ vocals, suggestive (but not imitative) of Imogene Heap, add a smooth veneer as rich as the polish on a piece of museum furniture.
Most of the tunes are fairly even-paced and meditative, but a few tracks show that they can drive in high gear. Their song “Ships on the Ocean Floor” has become my new favorite flying-down-the-freeway anthem.
Listen to “Ships on the Ocean Floor” from “The Ship and the Sea”
Side by side is the best way to enjoy both projects. They don’t just highlight each other’s strengths; they tell different sides of the same story. Skillfully, in fact. The only reason I’m not jealous is because I’m not a musician.
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Download the entire Page CXVI/The Autumn Film catalogue for free, for a very limited time!
Learn more about the band’s alter egos, here and here.
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