Music in the Public Domain

All the music we use for our showreels must be in the public domain or we have to gain specific permission to use it. Luckily for me, the main piece of music (at moment its a tough decision between a few songs) is going to be from 1930s. Hundreds of beautiful old tracks can be found on archive.org or jazz-on-line.com, both of which state they do not intend to infringe any copyright and all their tracks are available to download.

Another great source for dramatically different genres of music and music samples is Kevin Macleod's database on incompetech.com. I used a couple of his brilliant tracks for a showreel last year, and although very widely known and appreciated online already, I must say he really is amazing.

EDIT 15/4/11

I have chosen to use the song 'Love Is The Sweetest Thing' by Al Bowlly, as it is slow and melodic, and the singing starts sooner than my previous favourite 'Guilty' also a version by him. The song also has poignant references to feelings of love and uses the word 'sweet' fairly often. This is great, not because it is so cheesy, but because it goes back to my original storyline which was about a man who has lost his wife and remembers his younger years a lot better than recent ones.