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Is there anything better than discovering great new music? Yes, there is actually. And that is getting it for free.

In the wildly competitive music biz, Svoy figured that a good way to get his debut album heard is to give it away. For free. Yes, that's right. You can download Svoy's debut album "Eclectric" entirely for free. There's no catch, no strings, no gassy side effects. None of that stuff.

The Russian-born muscial prodigy came to Boston after his Russian conservatory professors acknowledged Svoy's songwriting talent. He enrolled in the prestigious Berklee School of Music to become a jazz musician. However, during his studies he encountered so many different genres and artists that he left the school as a pop-electronica singer.

In 2002, while still in school, he won the BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship Film Music Competition and spent six weeks studying with the renowned TV composer Mike Post (NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and Law and Order) at his studio in Hollywood. Further affirmation came in his winning of the 2004 BMI John Lennon Songwriting Competition in New York, presented by Yoko Ono.

I previously posted Svoy's track "Driving Away," a gorgeous pop song with crystal-clear harmonies, dreamy synths and a deliciously hooky chorus. His entire album is carefully formulated according this formula. When you strip out the compelling rhythm sections, you will be left with melodies and vocal parts that remind me of crooners like Christopher Cross and Richard Marx. Getting all this great music for free makes this album really too hard to resists. It simply doesn't come any sweeter than this.


Download Svoy "Driving Away" [MP3]


Download Svoy "The Other Side" [MP3]