January 2012 Downloads

cafreemacafreema
edited February 2012 in General
I assume that most are like me and added substantially less in January than December, but still some good tunes are now in the collection.

mTraks

Grimes and d'Eon - Darkbloom: Split EP of dream pop/R&B.
Jimmy Cliff - Sacred Fire: New EP with some great covers.
Matthew Dear - Headcage: EP to tide us over to the next LP.
MC5 - Thunder Express: Debut live LP.
V/A - Lagos All Routes: Honest Jon's rerelease of Nigerian highlife/funk.
V/A - Lagos Shake: A Tony Allen Chop Up: Also Honest Jon's, this one is remixes of Tony Allen tunes.

Amazon

Neon Indian - Era Extrana: Good $3.99 deal.

CD at Show

V/A - Local Current Vol. 2: Compilation of in studio performances by local artists with the proceeds being split between supporting MPR and going to the artists. It's excellent and available now at the usual suspects (including mTraks surprisingly).

Craig

Comments

  • GermanprofGermanprof
    edited February 2012
    Well, in my case I think you assume wrongly; I went a little overboard. In my defense, my Christmas gifts included gift cards that got spent on music, emusic was throwing free credit at me that I had to spend, some labels gave me review copies of things to review for MiG, SEM Label and Rafael Anton Irisarri had 50% off sales on Bandcamp, and I realized that with one 75 track month at MTraks and a little cherry picking on some albums (e.g. I strongly dislike the tracks on Gurun Gurun that have Rurakiss on vocals, so I skipped those and got the rest) I could totally clear out my MTraks SFL (haven't even unzipped all of those yet - it was just more economical to buy them all at once and save them for later).

    Emusic
    Richard Knox and Frederic D. Oberland - The Rustle of the Stars
    Sebastian Plano - The Arrhythmical Parts of Heart
    Lutz Glandien - The 5th elephant
    The Boats - Ballads of the Research Department
    Emeralds - Emeralds
    Emeralds - Solar Bridge

    MTraks
    Wil Bolton - Time Lapse
    Hungry Ghosts - Alone, Alone
    Chord - Progression
    Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon
    Ryuichi Sakamoto - Comica
    3epkano - 3epkano
    Oliveray - Wonders
    Gurun Gurun - Self-titled
    Tomoyoshi Date - Otoha
    Soft Moon - Total Decay

    Bandcamp
    The Green Kingdom - The Green Kingdom
    Letna - Adria
    Rafael Anton Irisarri - The North Bend
    Rafael Anton Irisarri - Live
    Grand Canonical Ensemble - Saying Goodbye

    Amazon
    Greg Haines - Until the Point of Hushed Support
    Perfect Jazz Collection box set (25 CDs - thanks, Frogkopf!)

    Other
    Kane Ikin - Contrail
    From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide
    Good Weather for an Airstrike - Underneath the Stars
    Taylor Deupree + Marcus Fischer - In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes
    Giuseppe Ielasi - Tools (CD)
  • greggreg
    Now I am really tempted by that jazz set. Amazon here have it at a very simialr price (£32) with a second set for £29. Even though I have several of the CDs it must be worth it!
  • Bad ThoughtsBad Thoughts
    7Digital
    The Dubliners (box set) ****1/2

    Amazon
    Bach - 100 Supreme Classical Masterpieces: Rise of the Masters ****1/2

    Bandcamp
    The Album by The White Album ***1/2
    The North Bend by Rafael Anton Irisarri ****
    Kobzar by Owcharuk 5 ***1/2
    Songbook by Jackson Emmer ***1/2
    String Band by Jackson Emmer and Sam Moss ****

    eMusic
    Parallel Lines by Dick Gaughan and Andy Irvine ****
    Guiding Spirit by Nate Birchall ****
    S/T by Bab Assalam ****1/2
    Et la fleur vole: Airs
  • GermanprofGermanprof
    @BT, that reminds me, I got the Bach 100 as well. But it's still in the cloud somewhere so I don't know if it counts as a download yet.
  • GermanprofGermanprof
    @greg, totally worth it. I only had two of them already (David & Brubeck), and decided this was my best way to start learning the landscape (and also maybe figuring out which kinds of jazz I'd like to pursue more specifically). Haven't liked everything (we talked about the Jaco Pastorius CD), but I have so far liked most of it. I'm not trying to listen through it all at once, I'd rather get to know them one or two at a time.
  • greggreg
    Yes GP I think it will be worth me getting - much of my jazz collection is recently recorded, generally recommended by Jonah or through Guardian reviews. My jazz back story is limited to a handfual of key artists. From memory I had four from the boxed set, so well worth the money.
  • NankerPNankerP
    From eMusic:
    The Wind Horse - Anda Union (Mongolian folk)
    Kinshasa Succursale - Baloji (DR COngo hip-hop/African)
    Shrimp Boots and Vintage Suits - Creole String Beans (Lousiana swamp pop)
    Funeral for a Friend - Dirty Dozen Brass Band
    Adventures in New Orleans Jazz Part 1 - Dr Michael White
    Nagez Rameurs - Genticorum (Quebec folk)
    Walking Through Heaven's Gate - Glen David Andrews
    Hello Cruel World - Gretchen Peters
    Hellfire - Jou Louis Walker
    Allons Boire un Coup: A Collection of Cajun and Creole Drinking Songs - VA
    Two Days in Hanoi - Kim Sinh and Dom Turner (Vietnamese blues fusion)
    The Contradictor - Ndidi Onukwulu
    No I Never - Ndidi Onukwulu
    Bitches - Nicholas Payton
    Captain Black Big Band - Orrin Evans
    Rebirth of New Orleans - Rebirth Brass Band
    Let it Burn - Ruthie Foster
    Earnest - The Stillsons
    African Revolution - Tiken Jah Fakoly
    They Call Us the Trishas - The Trishas

    Downloaded elsewhere:
    Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen

    CD:
    This Ones for Him: Tribute to Guy Clark - VA

    Also a massive bunch of Daytrotter stuff.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited February 2012
    Here's a Link to my Enusic 2012 list . . .

    Month > label > year in comments.
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