Recently writer and critic Robert Nagle made a list of 11 Incredible Musicians You Can Download for Free . Many of the musicians on this top list make their music freely available on Jamendo, a free and legal music sharing site. Several musicians appearing on this list also gave interviews to this blog (Read the other interviews). You can also download a free sampler containing full songs from artists profiled here . 
Tryad is an amazing musical group of people who never met until they produced an album. Listen, their second album is often ranked as the #1 most frequently listened to out of Jamendo’s 29,000 free albums. It is quiet, mysterious, unsettling, full of piano and strong rhythms, pauses, occasional crashes and silences (it’s labeled as “Industrial Classical Pop”). Although it includes a core group of performers, most of the songs are built upon songs by other Jamendo artists. The results are astonishing. Struttin’ is a kind of funky protest song about the music industry. Breathe is an intimate song that poses a question to an imaginary lover. Alone is a meditation on solitude that almost seems … joyful. Lovely is an uplifting romantic ballad that offers consolation to a sad individual (“trees and galaxies/can’t you see/just like these/you are so lovely/how could you ever think you’re separate from everything”). Mesmerize takes a lovely song by Brad Sucks, embellishes it with piano and gives the original melody a new meaning…and profundity. This is a powerful song by Vavrek based on a piano melody by Antony Raijekov with a solemn rhythm. The mysterious Waltz into the Moonlight uses gentle tapping sounds to give the song a steady momentum.
