Hi all,

I'm starting a new Web feature this month, titled "Music Mondays." It will be about Durham music news - I will be previewing new album releases, doing Q & A's with musicians who live here and more. Ideas? E-mail lisarossi@durhammag.com

Here is my first post, about Carrboro musician Maria Albani, who has a new album she's releasing in Durham this weekend.

Maria Albani, the Carrboro bassist you might know from the pop band Schooner, has a new solo project. Maria Albani

It’s called Organos, and she’s having what sounds like a pretty fun CD release party Friday at The Pinhook for her first CD on this project, called The Limbs EP.

She needs other musicians to play with her live, but on her recorded songs, she plays all the instruments, which could include phone books, spoons, a water jug or a cardboard box. She does all the vocals too.

“I’m not trying to do traditional indie-rock - I’ve already been involved with that. This is organic. The songs are short. Sometimes they are more like compositions than actually - here’s the hook, and here’s the chorus,” explains Albani, 36, who, during the day, works as an administration assistant to the assistant director of the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center at UNC hospitals.

At The Pinhook, she will be performing her songs with the help of Wes Stone-Phillips (from Ticonderoga and The Rosebuds), Reid Johnson (Schooner/Flute Flies), John Harrison (North Elementary) and Theresa Stone-Phillips and Nathan White (Nathan Oliver).

There will also be some music from Birds and Arrows and Ye Olde Shoppe (featuring members of Wild Wild Geese.

It sounds like a good show, and a good chance to get to know the music of many different musicians. $5 gets you in and a free copy of the new CD.

 Here's a YouTube clip of her song "Getbye."