David Lynch Foundation Music launches Download For Good: Music That Changes The World, a star-studded digital music compilation to benefit the David Lynch Foundation that is now available exclusively on the iTunes Store.
Founded by iconic filmmaker David Lynch, the David Lynch Foundation is a not-for-profit educational organization which offers stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation® to underserved populations, including at-risk inner-city youth and U.S. veterans returning home from combat with post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as Native Americans, homeless adults and children, prisoners and those in need.
Download For Good features 33 renowned artists from around the world spanning Pop, Latin, Electronic, Rock, World, Indie, Hip-hop and Classical who have come together to express their support for the foundation and its visionary director.
Artists include Alanis Morissette, Amanda Palmer, Andy Summers (of The Police) with Geeta Novotny, Arrested Development, Au Revoir Simone, Ben Folds, Ben Lee, Carmen Rizzo with Grant-Lee Phillips, Dave Stewart (of The Eurythmics), Donovan, Iggy Pop, Maroon 5, Moby, Nancy Sinatra, Neon Trees, Ozomatli, Peter Gabriel, Pink Jaffee with Jakob Dylan & Daryl Hannah, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Slightly Stoopid with Don Carlos, The Charlatans and Tom Waits and more.
"The artists who have shared their music are spreading happiness," explains David Lynch. "With their music alone they're supporting programs that take away suffering and bring bliss to many people. When you download these songs, you'll get to enjoy great music and also know that you are bringing happiness to someone, somewhere in the world. Great artists, great mood, great music, great good is going to come. I encourage you to download for good."
All artists and label proceeds from Download For Good support the David Lynch Foundation.
Download For Good tracklisting:
1) Ozomatli, MONSTER
2) Iggy Pop, Milk Cow Blues
3) Pink Jaffee with Jakob Dylan & Daryl Hannah, Wont You Stay
4) Maroon 5, The Air I Breathe
5) Arrested Development, Let It Go
6) Peter Gabriel, Curtains
7) Carmen Rizzo with Grant-Lee Phillips, Bring the Mountain Down
8 Donovan, Listen
9) Heather Nova, Doubled Up
10) Andy Summers with Geeta Novotny, Ave Maria
11) Dave Stewart, Man To Man
12) Mary Hopkin, Gold and Silver
13) Tom Waits, The Briar and The Rose (Live)
14) Ben Folds, Wild Mountain Thyme
15) Slightly Stoopid with Don Carlos, Wiseman (Live at Black Water)
16) Salman Ahmad with Valerie Geffner, Natchoon Gi
17) Neon Trees, Animal (DJs From Mars Remix)
18) Au Revoir Simone, Boys Of Summer
19) Alanis Morissette, 20/20
20) Ben Lee, Food For The Moon
21) Waterboys, In The Beginning Was Love
22) Moby, The Poison Tree
23) The Charlatans, The Only One I Know (RMX with Factory Floor)
24) Julio Iglesias Jr., Geronimo
25) Nancy Sinatra, End of the World (Remix)
26) Special Beat with Pauline Black, Nightclub (Live)
27) Peter & Gordon, True Love Ways (Live)
28) Band From TV, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
29) Phil Soussan, Shot In The Dark
30) Rodrigo y Gabriela, Satori (Live)
31) Patricia Kaas, Ddicte Aux Heroines (Remix)
32) EMIN, All I Need Tonight
33) Amanda Palmer, In My Mind (Alternative Mix)
About the David Lynch Foundation:
The David Lynch Foundation was launched six years ago to bring the stress-reducing, health-promoting benefits of Transcendental Meditation® to underserved populations, including at-risk inner-city youth and U.S. veterans returning home from combat with post traumatic stress disorder, as well as Native Americans, the homeless and prisoners. To date, the David Lynch Foundation has provided scholarships for nearly 150,000 adults and youth to learn to meditate, eliminating the traumatic stress that undermines academic achievement and fuels substance abuse and violent behavior. Independent published scientific research shows that meditating individuals have better overall mental health and students have dramatically better test scores, grades and graduation rates, while dropout rates, suspensions, and expulsions greatly decrease.
About David Lynch:
Arguably the most renowned avant-garde film director and visual artist of his time, David Lynch is known for his unflaggingly original cinematic projects including Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway and The Elephant Man, not to mention his cult hit TV series Twin Peaks. This is not his first foray into the musical realm, as Lynch has a history of working with a host of musical luminaries. While making Blue Velvet, he needed a certain type of song for an important scene, so Lynch and his film composer Angelo Badalamenti wrote the song "Mysteries of Love" to be sung by Julee Cruise. This led to Lynch and Badalamenti writing and producing an entire album with Julee Cruise, entitled Floating Into The Night. The song "Falling" was the theme music for "Twin Peaks" and won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental. In 2008, having composed small sections for his other films and his musical ambitions growing, he became the eponymous creator of a record label, David Lynch MC. More recently Lynch collaborated on the album Dark Night of the Soul with Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse. Lynch designed a 100-page booklet to accompany the album, which was initially delivered--after disputes with the record company--in the form of a blank CD-R on which fans were told to "use as you will."
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