Learning Music began as a collaborative album-a-month project. Started in November 2006 by John Wood (keyboardist for Inara George, Willoughby, Mike Andrews, Kelly Osbourne, Obi Best, etc.), the series included an album recorded entirely on handheld cassette recorder, a collection of music videos, an autobiographical musical written by a robot, and dozens of homemade electro-acoustic folk-pop anthems.
Twelve months and twelve albums later, Wood decided it was time to get out of the house. Inspired by the early works of Terry Riley, the Talking Heads, and Storm & Stress, Learning Music became a live band, which has included as little as four to as many as twenty musicians at one time.
In July of 2008, Learning Music released a re-mastered compilation of their favorite tracks from the album-a-month series. "The Greatest Hits So Far," in its colorful and smokable packaging, is available (for only $5) at shows and on their website: LearningMusicMusic.com . You can also listen to the original twelve albums in their entirety at communitypooltapes.com/learningmusic/archive.html .
one of the videos from Learning Music Vol VI: