Thursday, December 25, 2003

52 weeks project

Dutch music teacher Jan Turkenburg has started the 52 Weeks Project. Here's how Jan describes the project:
What is this all about? Every week in 2004 there will be a link to a page with recordings which are not available in the shop. The week will start and finish on sundays. The old pages will remain but without the downloads. Each time there will be a mirror with dial-up friendly versions of the sounds.
Today we'll take off with a special Christmas prologue
I wish you lots of fun.
Jan likes a wide variety of music. He describes himself as an "obsessive collector of amazing sounds."
Each week will feature recordings from different musicians that should be better known. The music files are in MP3 format for downloading. This week is a prologue to the 52 weeks project, featuring 5 songs recorded (at Christmastime, about 1970) by the Youth Choir of the Catholic Church at Vinkeveen NL. I recommend the dial-up friendly version of the prologue to the 52 Weeks Project if you have a slow connection to the web. If you are curious, hop to it. The downloads will disappear on Sunday the 28th, to make room for first week's batch of the 52 Weeks Project.