Macabre & Mysterious Music: Folk Alley Halloween Stream
Posted: October 14, 2013 Filed under: *Macabre Media, Macabre & Mysterious Music, Music & Art | Tags: Folk Alley, folk music, halloween music, Halloween stream, Macabre & Mysterious Music, Renae Rude, The Paranormalist 7 CommentsThe following image is a screen shot from FolkAlley.com where you can listen to a 5-hour stream of Halloween-appropriate folk music. (Click the image to go there.) Once you’ve arrived, locate and choose your listening option in the “listen” area, shown below. A small independant window will pop up, and you’ll likely be greeted by: This is the Halloween music stream bwah-ha-ha! Then you’ll join the music stream, in progress.
‘Seems like a great soundtrack for crafting or cooking. Many of the songs are actually stories, so it’s not an ideal background for writing or studying.
Click here for the Halloween stream page, then chose a listening option from within the yellow box.
Click here to learn about other music options at Folk Alley.
NOTE: Because I’m a stickler for respecting copyright, anything posted here at the blog will be carefully vetted – I’ll only embed videos and sound clips posted to YouTube by the artist for sharing, or those being offered by the original artist from the artist’s home page. If you know of a cool, creepy, macabre or mysterious song, drop me a comment. I’m always looking for good stuff.
Macabre & Mysterious Music: Free, old-timey songs from the early 1900s. (Think steampunk.)
Posted: August 21, 2013 Filed under: *Macabre Media, Macabre & Mysterious Music, Music & Art | Tags: halloween music, Library of Congress, Macabre & Mysterious Music, Renae Rude, steam punk music, steampunk, The National Jukebox, The Paranormalist 11 CommentsWhen I was searching for weird and interesting music with a creepy feel, I came across a new feature at The Library of Congress: The National Jukebox.
Description from the Library of Congress:
About the National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.
How to play with the National Jukebox:
Once at the site, you can browse and search through a wide variety of music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. You can make a playlist as you go, then email the link to yourself. There’s no registration required.
I spent a lovely hour or two there, sampling music and recordings. Eventually I found seven recordings that suit my spooky tastes particularly well.
To hear the playlist I created:
- Click: http://media.loc.gov/playlist/view/E39EBA6F1697009EE0438C93F116009E
- On the right of the page that opens, locate & click the text link that says ‘View Playlist’ next to the blue button.
- A new window will open with a small player.
- Click the play button and enjoy.
To hear any individual song from my playlist, click on the link below and press play.
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- The ghost of the violin (02:41)
- Male vocal duet, with orchestra
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- The skeleton rag (03:00)
- Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
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- At the devil’s ball (02:38)
- Male vocal quartet, with orchestra
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- A rheumatism cure in Jayville Centre (02:51)
- Descriptive scene
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- The ghost that never walked (02:34)
- Male vocal solo
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- I found a rose in the Devil’s garden (03:11)
- Male vocal trio, with trombone, bassoon, and orchestra
Renae Rude - The Paranormalist 