October Downloads
As we approach Halloween I thought it was time to start us off.
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The Walkmen - You & Me: I'm slow sometimes.
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight: See?
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride: Do you believe me yet?
Arcade Fire - Funeral: Now you believe me.
Thom Yorke - FeelingPulledApartByHorses: Meh.
Amie Street
As per usual this is just albums I paid for or were free, but were particularly good.
Red Pens - Reasons: Twin Cities noise rock, voted best new band by The City Pages. Pretty darn good.
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come: Fantastic, as expected.
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy: Very good, but not great.
Mike Doughty - Sad Man Happy Man: I love Mike Doughty so much.
Alela Diane - Alela and Alina: Beautiful folk duets.
People Under the Stairs - Carried Away: Good throw back hip hop that features, among other things, Rainn Wilson, the theme to The Price is Right, and Keyboard Cat.
Glass America - Redivius: Instrumental rock downloaded on frogkopf's rec. Well worth it.
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms: My first foray into glo-fi, and I like it.
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - The Snake: Highly recommended Scandinavian pop.
El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar: Such good mellow pop.
Sunn 0))) - Black One: Experimenting with Metal which has never really been my thing. I like some parts and dislike others.
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions: See above.
Har Mar Superstar - Dark Touches: Good R&B from a white boy from Minnesota. I also live less than 5 miles from Har Mar Mall, so even if I didn't like it, I would need this album.
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Fruit: Been looking forward to this for some time, and it was worth the wait.
Pony Whinny - 265 Must Have Sound Effects: This truly is a must have.
Johnossi - Johnossi: Rocking Scandinavian pop. Quite good.
Also got two albums by The Figurines, one by I Was a King, and one by Gary Numan, but haven't yet had a chance to check them out.
The Record Store
Yes I went to an actual record store, and got:
Silversun Pickups - Swoon: Fantastic rock. They actually really do sound like old Smashing Pumpkins (that's a good thing).
Gossip - Music for Men: Makes me want to dance.
Almost forgot my lala.com pickups!
Daft Punk - Discovery
Animal Collective - Feels
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Craig
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The Walkmen - You & Me: I'm slow sometimes.
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight: See?
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride: Do you believe me yet?
Arcade Fire - Funeral: Now you believe me.
Thom Yorke - FeelingPulledApartByHorses: Meh.
Amie Street
As per usual this is just albums I paid for or were free, but were particularly good.
Red Pens - Reasons: Twin Cities noise rock, voted best new band by The City Pages. Pretty darn good.
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come: Fantastic, as expected.
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy: Very good, but not great.
Mike Doughty - Sad Man Happy Man: I love Mike Doughty so much.
Alela Diane - Alela and Alina: Beautiful folk duets.
People Under the Stairs - Carried Away: Good throw back hip hop that features, among other things, Rainn Wilson, the theme to The Price is Right, and Keyboard Cat.
Glass America - Redivius: Instrumental rock downloaded on frogkopf's rec. Well worth it.
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms: My first foray into glo-fi, and I like it.
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - The Snake: Highly recommended Scandinavian pop.
El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar: Such good mellow pop.
Sunn 0))) - Black One: Experimenting with Metal which has never really been my thing. I like some parts and dislike others.
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions: See above.
Har Mar Superstar - Dark Touches: Good R&B from a white boy from Minnesota. I also live less than 5 miles from Har Mar Mall, so even if I didn't like it, I would need this album.
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Fruit: Been looking forward to this for some time, and it was worth the wait.
Pony Whinny - 265 Must Have Sound Effects: This truly is a must have.
Johnossi - Johnossi: Rocking Scandinavian pop. Quite good.
Also got two albums by The Figurines, one by I Was a King, and one by Gary Numan, but haven't yet had a chance to check them out.
The Record Store
Yes I went to an actual record store, and got:
Silversun Pickups - Swoon: Fantastic rock. They actually really do sound like old Smashing Pumpkins (that's a good thing).
Gossip - Music for Men: Makes me want to dance.
Almost forgot my lala.com pickups!
Daft Punk - Discovery
Animal Collective - Feels
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Craig
Comments
froggie - I could ask you the same! I listen all day every day at work (except when I'm in court or a meeting). It's obviously more passive listening than I'd like, but it does the job.
Craig
With the exception of Thom Yorke, Har Mar Superstar and the CDs you bought, I've bought all of those albums at the same places as you did.
Did you know that Har Mar Mall was the birthplace of sorts of Best Buy? That's where Richard Schulze had his original Sound of Music store.
It is a lot of music, but I don't think I spent more than $50 in real cash this month for all of it. I should cut back, though.
I did not know that about Har Mar. That's a crazy area, because the Target across County Road B was the very first Target as well (new building now, though). I seriously miss all the lights that the Har Mar movie theater used to have going at night. Staples pales in comparison.
Craig
I picked up a whole bunch of free things from the UNSOUNDS label. I haven't listened to all of them yet, but what I have heard I've enjoyed a lot.
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy - wow! have to disagree with Craig on this one. I picked this up because it was still cheap and love it way more than I ever expected to.
Brian Eno & Harmonia - Tracks and Traces (Reissue) - so far I feel yawn about this. As I often do about Eno things, no matter how hard I try. The exception being Here Come the Warm Jets.
Torche - Meanderthal. oh yeah.
[edit] Oh and I forgot - Furry Lewis - Good Morning Judge.
El Perro Del Mar - El Perro Del Mar
El Perro Del Mar - From the Valley to the Stars - I always passed this up before, but now I'm loving it, and probably going to shell out for the new one at some point. Out of these two I like Valley slightly better so far.
I also managed to get all of the slew of Control Group albums that showed up recently - I haven't listened to them all yet, but judging from Scandinavian Gold I think I will really like some of this stuff.
Fela Kuti - I.T.T. Parts 1 and 2(song) and Gentlemen (song) from Best of the Black President
Fela Kuti - Na Poi
Fela Kuti - Beasts of no Nation
Fela Kuti - Shuffering and Shmiling
Fela Kuti - Shakara
Fela Kuti - Army Arrangement
Fela Kuti - O.D.O.O.
Fela Kuti - Underground System
Fela Kuti - Unknown Soldier (I haven't listened to all of these Fela albums yet but I know enough to know they're good)
The Cult - Love - I've been pretty lucky with freebies this month. Also managed to get all of the Skinny Puppy for free; hope they come back.
And Speaking of Freebies (new category):
I found another Uncle Owen Aunt Beru album - which I love.
Record Store: (all $5 used cd's)
Bob Dylan - New Morning
Tom Ze - Brazil Classics, Vol. 4: The Best of Tom Z
I think my problem with it is that it feels really scattershot stylistically, so I never really get into a groove with it.
Craig
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La forme du temps est un cercle by Francois Bayle (my first taste of INA GRM, thanks to brighternow)
Groenland by Mark O'Leary et al (another brighternow rec)
Hafis by Jon Leifs (picked upsome BIS before it show to 12 credits--Leifs is an obscure Icelandic composer)
Baldur's Dream by Geirr Tveitt (folksy melodies, medieval themes, quasi-Fascist composer)
Symphonic Dances by Aho (as per Bissie's rec)
Myrthen by Robert Schumann (Dawson and Partridge, performers) (I love Schumann, bu I had never heard this song cycle before--it's quite beautiful)
Africa N'da Blues by Kahil El-Zabar
Canada Day by Harris Eisenstadt (my second Eisenstadt album)
Widllife by Headlights
Mignonette by Avett Brothers (I do live in NC now)
3 by Susanna and the Magical Orchestra
Melody Mountain by Susanna and the Magical Orchestra
Amie Street (paid or significant)
Nigeria 70 vol. 1 (this showed at Amie?)
Ghost, She Said by Deleted Waveform Gatherings
For Rosa, Maeve and Noreen by Samuel James (after Otis Taylor, my fave contemporary Bluesman)
Grond by Nihill
Secret House by Jodis
In Your Bright Ray by Grant McLennan
Pyramids With Nadja by Pyramids with Nadja (very subtle)
Shakara by Fela Kuti
The Sweetest Thing by Camera Obscura
Little Moon by Grant-Lee Phillips
Cascades 7" by Horse Feathers
Opiate Sun EP by Jesu
What We All Come To Need by Pelican (what King Crimson should have been)
Reefer Blues: Vintage Songs About Marijuana
The Way Things Are by Examples of Twelves
Vortex by Max Grunhard Quintet
Strange Faith and Practice by Jeb Loy Nichols
Fits by White Denim
The Legion Sessions by Great Lake Swimmers
Yo Gabba Gabba! Music Is Awesome (my son has a new fave)
The Real Feel by Spiral Stairs
The Doomsday EP by Elvis Perkins In Dearland
New Clouds by White Rainbows
Think Free by Ben Allison
Know Better Learn Faster by Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
Childish Prodigy by Kurt Vile
In and Out of Control by Raveonettes
Lala
Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem
Tyranny of Distance by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Change by Dismemberment Plan
Free, but cool
Just not normal (No-r-mal sampler) (too much great stuff to be free)
Formula, The Overcast Project (thanks, Plong42
Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (5 tracks)
Billy Cobham - Drums'n'Voice - All That Groove
Duke Ellington featuring Paul Gonsalves
Eduardo Paniague - La Flauta de Hueso de Alarcos
Franklin Kiermayer - Solomon's Daughter
Evan Ziporyn - Gamelan Glaak Tika
Idrissa Soumaoro - Kote
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Joseph Haynd - The Seven Last Words of Christ (Jordi Savall)
Mary Jane Leach - Ariadne's Lament (New York Treble Singers)
Haendel Opera Seria - Sandrine Piau
Parvez - Bangla Dub
Stephanie Dosen - A Lily in the Spectre
Al Majmaa - Maak's Spirit and Gnawa Experience
Michael Askill - Salome
Cheap downloads from Amazon.fr
Neil Young - Prairie Wind
Sing o' the Times - Prince (I'd lost one of the cds)
All Tiny Creatures - Segni The 1st track is reminiscent of Terry Riley and 2nd track retreads a familiar Krautrock theme, but still very enjoyable. Worth 4 downloads.
Atlas Sound - Logos great.
Au - Versions Skipped them last year and really glad that I gave this album a shot. They get compared to Animal Collective. Maybe throw in some of the dramatism of Shearwater, and you're getting closer. I like it better than AC.
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Cool album title.
Cedric IM Brooks - The Magical Light of Saba A good rec from 17 dots.
Embarrassment - Heyday 1979-1983 (Disc 1) Loved this way back then. Still need to give a re-listen. Amazing deal for 8 credits.
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms Overjoyed at these reissues. Both albums are great.
Feelies - The Good Earth
Flaming Tunes - Flaming Tunes Good stuff from ex This Heat member.
Fred Frith - Rivers and Tides A somewhat minimalistic work from Frith but still very enjoyable.
Guy Clark - Somedays The Song Writes You A story telling master.
Harmonia & Eno `76 - Tracks and Traces If you like the more pastoral instrumentals from the early Eno albums, you'll like this. I've been enjoying this quite a bit.
Health - Get Color
Japandroids - Post-Nothing Wished I picked something else.
Kiila - Tuota tuota Another good Icelandic release from Fonal. Not as striking as Paavoharju or Shogun Kunitoki but still enjoyable.
Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak What can I say, I like it.
Les Tueurs De La Lune De Miel / The Honeymoon Killers - Special Manubre
Liam Finn - Champagne In Seashells EP Doesn't hit the peaks of "I'll Be Lightning" but to nice to hear him again.
Marcos Valle - The Essential Marcos Valle Volume 2 Good vintage Brazilian.
Micachu - Jewellery fun
Moon Duo - Killing Time EP Features member from Wooden Shjips.
Mulatu Astatke / The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information 3 great combo.
Nisennenmondai - Destination Tokyo repetitive in a good way.
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey - hERE aND nOW Some decent songs but too saccharine for my tastes.
Ptose - Ignobles Limaces-Night Of The Reptiles Thanks brighternow! A French version of the Residents. Fun.
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer great.
Todd Sickafoose - Tiny Resistors Thanks jonahpwll for his rec here and the emu Jazz Recommendation thread. Very nice.
Uri Caine - Mahler: Urlicht - Primal Light Ambitious in its range of stylistic interpretations, but I'm still on the fence on how much I enjoy it.
Hopefully next month I'll have a good list of Amie Street items to share.
Happy to spread the news. And hey, I don't know if that's your first Califone or not, but I have all their albums (except the most recent), and I'll be happy to rec others that I think stand out from the rest.
My emusic downloads, the first batch since rejoining. 24dls from the plan, 75dls from the rejoin offer, and 10dls for rating ten albums.
Gabriela - "El Viaje" : Brazillian vocalist who works with Bill Frisell and his crew. Bill's presence is definitely felt on this beautiful album.
Trilok Gurtu - "Arkeology" : Trilok plays with a string quartet and makes an infectiously catchy album.
Jenny Scheinman - "Crossing the Field" : Another member of Bill Frisell's crew making some damn pretty Americana.
Cluster & Eno - s/t : Brian Eno and Cluster make a brillian ambient album.
Eivynd Opsvik - "Overseas III" - As I mention on another post, imagine if a lap pedal steel guitar sat in on an Esbjorn Svensson Trio session. Intriguing music.
Avishai Cohen "Gently Disturbed" : Bass player making some of the most consistently strong music out there. If you want a good direction in jazz to explore, check out Cohen and his running crew's music.
Klabbes Bank - "Je Suis la Mer" : Perhaps the album that has me the most excited these days. It appeals to me much in the same way the Esbjorn Svensson Trio does, along with a little of the playfulness of Kamikaze Ground Crew and perhaps some of the shiny notes from Azure's "When She Smiles"
Joseph (Joe) Bonner - "Triangle" : Live trio album from one of the more underrated pianists of his time. 6dls for an hour of excellent music.
Bang on a Can - "Eno: Music for Airports" - New York collective dedicated to performing contemporary experimental music live tackles Eno's Music for Airports. Very cool and very fun album.
Do Make Say Think - "Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn" : Shoegaze band. Some interesting songs, but the album is a bit noisier than the samples and myspace tracks indicated.
Disinterested - "Behind Us" : Ambient band with a decent sound. Bill Frisell makes a guest appearance on one track that everyone should own ("Blankets")
Christophe Pays - "Ellipse" : An amazing album. I don't know much about this guy, but this album is one of the freshest things I've heard lately. The interplay between guitar, piano, and bass clarinet is supremely rewarding.
Pablo Ablanado Octet - "Alegria" - Big band with some seriously big names on the scene make an album that even a generally disinterested about big bands guy like myself can really get into.
Emusic:
Concern - Truth And Distance (Digitalis)
Scott Tuma & Mike Weis - Taradiddle - (Digitalis)
Scott Tuma - The River 1234 - (Truckstop)
Henry Cow - Later and Post-Virgin (Recommended Records)
Flaming Tunes - Flaming Tunes - (Life and Living Records)
Thanks hoosfoos !
Miles Davis - Live In Poland '83 - (Gambit Records)
- great recording but with far to much audience noise.
Yves de Mey - Lichtung - (Line)
Deryl Stuermer - Go - (Inside Out)
- the guitar wizard from Jean-Luc Ponty's band back in the 70th
400 Lonely Things - A Barsoomian Lullaby Volume One - A Snow White Egg - (Pimalia)
Supersilent - Supersilent 9 - (Rune Grammofon)
Wilhem Latchoumia (piano) - Piano & electronic sounds - (Sisyphe / Abeille Musique)
- Track 6: Luc Ferrari and track 7: Luigi Nono
O'leary - Pasborg - Riis - Grønland - (Lens Records)
- Wonderfull !
The Cortet - Hhhh - (UNSOUNDS)
- rec'ed by... I can't remember who, but thanks !
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon -(Hospital Productions)
- Too uneventfull (I guess) for my taste.
Simon Emmerson - Spaces and Places - [SARGASSO)
-Track 6 and 11
-And last but not least:
Ambrose Field & John Potter - Beeing Dufay (ECM) - (Listen !)
- Absolutely gorgeous music !
Grabbed this because of Nereffid's review from his blog:
Netlabels:
Astrowind - Kurland (Resting Bell 2009)
- Gorgeous ambient music.
Dave Keifer - The Cartoon Mouse Regards (Bumpfoot 2009)
Dave Keifer - Cagey House - 1902 - (Bumpfoot 2009)
- Can't deschribe these... Check them out, they're great !
Three releases by an excellent Italian sax player: Sandro Marinoni - (Clinical Archives - 2009)
Helsingfors - Schematics - (Lost Children 2009)
- Decent math rock.
The Silent Ballet: Volume 12 (Lost Children compilation 2009)
- Another great one in this series.
And the 4 cd release from Just Not Normal: no-R-mal (2009)
I debated between the Harmonia and Cluster & Eno for last month. I'll probably be getting the Cluster & Eno before long.
Lots of interesting things to check out from people's lists...
@ Bad Thoughts: If he ranks up there with Otis, I'll have to check out Samuel James.
My favorite is an earlier one - "Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People Around". "Roots & Crowns" is definitely a favorite as well. I thought "King Heron Blues" was good, but my least favorite of their albums. Hard to sniff out exactly why it didn't quite pass the muster, but I think it has something about the way it builds from the early tracks of meloncholy brief tunes and ends on a choppy disco-ish type song. Still good though. "Quicksand/Cradlesnakes" has some excellent tunes and some average tunes. Overall, worth getting, but not before others. Califone is very entrenched in their sound. Without any preknowledge of the band, it would be tough to distinguish their first album from their last, but even then, all of their albums have a distinct feel from one another, each sounding like a fresh rendition of an old sound. They're sorta the Ramones of the alt-folk-experimental genre.
I don't know how much looking around you've done, but between the Cluster myspace page and youtube, there's a lot of free listens out there for the Cluster/Eno. And from my perspective, I've been listening to it pretty much every other morning since I picked it up, and I've not come anywhere close to tiring with it. With many of these ambient albums, there is a fine line between subtlety and snoozing, and this album, IMO, is on the right side of that line.
Cheers.
Glad you like it. It's good for listening to at work because it's not too intrusive yet still engaging.
Cajun Honky Tonk -- Various
Ghana Soundz -- Various
Mary Lou Williams -- Mary Lou Williams
Sensacional Soul Vol 1 -- Various
Shallow Grave -- The Tallest Man on Earth
Time Stands Still -- Chris Smither
Vintage French Songs No. 29 -- Charles Aznavour
Vintage Songs No.24 -- Edith Piaf
Vintage Vocal Swing -- Marlene Dietrich
From Amie St:
Anyway -- Amy Farris
For the Mission Baby -- Malcolm Holcombe
Wager -- Malcolm Holcombe
From elsewhere:
Glitter and Doom Live preview -- Tom Waits
Christmas in the Heart -- Bob Dylan
Mountain Soul II -- Patty Loveless
The List -- Rosanne Cash
VH1 Storytellers -- Johnny Cash/Willie Nelson
eMusic:
Choir Of Young Believers - This Is For The White In Your Eyes
Dan Zanes and Friends - Rocket Ship Beach
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Mike Doughty - Sad Man Happy Man
The Avett Brothers - Country Was
The Avett Brothers - A Carolina Jubliee
The Avett Brothers - Mignonette
The Avett Brothers - Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions
The Avett Brothers - The Gleam (EP)
The Avett Brothers - The Second Gleam (EP)
The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
White Denim - Let's Talk About It (EP)
AmieStreet.com - Not nearly as many throw away freebies this month so I'm just listing them all.
Alessandro Bottura - Morning Grooves
Belleruche - Turntable Soul Music
Boozoo Bajou - Grains
Bury Me A Lion - Bury Me A Lion
El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars
El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
Elvis Perkins In Dearland - The Doomsday EP
Fela Kuti - Na Poi
Fela Kuti - Shakara
Fela Kuti - Afrodisiac
Fela Kuti - Shuffering & Shmiling
Fela Kuti - Unknown Soldier
Fela Kuti - Coffin For Head Of State
Fela Kuti - Army Arrangement
Fela Kuti - Beasts Of No Nation
Fela Kuti - Underground System
Great Lake Swimmers - The Legion Sessions
Harmonia & Eno `76 - Tracks And Traces (2009 Reissue)
Hey Marseilles - To Travels & Trunks
James Husband - A Parallax I
Jodis - Secret House
John Butcher - 13 Friendly Numbers
Johnossi - Johnossi
Josh Kelley - Just Say The Word
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
Owen - New Leaves
People Under The Stairs - Carried Away
Rubik - Dada Bandits
She Wants Revenge - This Is Forever
She Wants Revenge - Up and Down
Skinny Puppy - Chainsaw (EP)
Spiral Stairs - The Real Feel
Sugar Billy - Super Duper Love
Svetogorsk - Valmistusvirhe
T.H. White - Company Book
Ted Gioia And Mark Lewis - Tango Cool
Ted Gioia Trio - The End Of The Open Road
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster
The Black Hollies - Softly Towards The Light
The Flys - Got You (Where I Want You) (Single)
The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
The Raveonettes - In And Out Of Control
Tosca - No Hassle
Ultra Violent Lights - Here In Filth
Lala.com
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Daft Punk - Discovery
Kings of Convenience - Declaration Of Dependence
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Radiohead - Kid A
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Hearts Of Oak
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - The Tyranny Of Distance
The Knife - Silent Shout
Amazon.com
Angie Stone - The Art of Love & War
Bad Lieutenant - Never Cry Another Tear
Lyle Lovett - Natural Forces
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Ye Old Times CD Store
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Craig
Pyramids with Nadja - s/t
Earth - "And the Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull"
Aix Em Klemm - s/t
Hammock - "Stranded Under Endless Sky"
Hans Joachim-Rodelius & Tim Story - "Inlandish" (I can't stop listening to this one; pure unadulterated beauty)
Avett Brothers - "The Second Gleam"
Ben Allison - "Think Free"
Terry Gibbs - "Hootenanny My Way" (I have no idea what this is, but my Amie St. page tells me I downloaded it)
Amie Street
Akahum - Electwistery
Au - Versions
Examples of Twelves - The Way Things Are
Examples of Twelves - The Way Things Were
Fela Kuti - Afrodisiac
Fela Kuti - Army Arrangement
Fela Kuti - Coffin For Head of State
Fela Kuti - He Miss Road
Fela Kuti - Na Poi
Fela Kuti - O.D.O.O
Fela Kuti - Shakara
Fela Kuti - Shuffering & Shmiling
Forro in the Dark - Light A Candle
Horace Andy - Inspiration Information 2
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
Max Grunhard Quintet - Vortex
Mike Doughty - Sad Man Happy Man
Nigeria 70 Vol. 1
Port O'Brien - Threadbare
Scion Sampler Vol. 22: Fool's Gold Remixed
Skeletonwitch - Beyond The Permafrost
Sugar Billy - Super Duper Love
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
Vision Of The Orient by Nouthong Phimvilayphone: Music From Laos
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BLK JKS - After Robots
Black Rio Vol. 2 Brazil Soul Power 1968-1981
John Coltrane - Coltrane [Rudy Van Gelder Remaster]
Juaneco Y Su Combo - Masters Of Chicha Vol 1
Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx
Orgone - The Killion Floor
Renaud Garcia-Fons - La L
Craig
Trouble is at the moment Jazz, Afrobeat, Brazilian, and Cuban are what is tickling my fancy so it'll probably be a couple of months before I sit up and exclaim, "Damn! Where the hell have I been? Thao and BLK JKS rule!" only to forget them when I discover some more traditional Laotian music. :-/
Craig