Tuesday, February 15, 2011
New Favourites 2010
I have prepared a CD-R of my favourite new (to me) tunes of 2010. You can have a copy if you want; let me know and I will make one for you. Here is a list of the tunes with information on where they come from and links to where you can read more about the artist in question.
Art Bears The Song of Investment Capital Overseas
From a private compilation of music featuring Dagmar Krause called Some Questions About Dagmar Krause
Veronica Falls Found Love in a Graveyard
From the Indietracks Festival 2010 compilation
Everybody Was In The French Resistance… Now Billie's Genes
This riposte to Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean' appears on the album Fixin' The Charts, Vol. 1
Lady Gaga Telephone
From the album The Fame Monster
The Blood Arm Suspicious Character
From the album Lie Lover Lie
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes Home
From the Rough Trade Shops compilation Counter Culture 2009, which I seem not to have reviewed online.
The Duckworth Lewis Method Test Match Special
From the untitled album by the Duckworth Lewis Method
Electrelane To the East
From the album No Shouts, No Calls
Cate Le Bon Eyes So Bright
From the brilliant album Me Oh My. I hope I have not buried this track here where people will not realise how great Cate Le Bon is.
Cluster Heisse Lippen
From the Soul Jazz compilation Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Musik 1972-83
Fever Ray Seven
From the untitled album by Fever Ray
Cineplexxx Para Mi
From the Indietracks Festival 2010 compilation
Las Cuervas Chan Chan
From the album De Mi Ciudad Te Traigo
Omar Souleyman Hafer Gabrak Bidi (I Will Dig Your Grave with My Hands)
From the album Jazeera Nights: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria
Group Doueh Ragsa Jaguar
From the album Treeg Salaam
Terrifying Tibetan Child and His Father Vocal with Erhu
From the Sublime Frequencies album Streets of Lhasa
Gerald Barry L'Agitation des Observateurs, le Tremblement des Voyeurs
From the CD given away with the Irish Museum of Modern Art's Boulevard magazine.
Trio Scordatura Invocation
From the album Dubh
The Streets of Lhasa
From the Sublime Frequencies album Streets of Lhasa
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I'd love a copy.
ReplyDeleteYour 2006 CD was referred to in our house for a while as "the proper music", as in "No! Put on the proper music, Mammy".
I'd love a copy!!!!
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Hi Ian,
ReplyDeleteI'd like a copy, please. Of course, if it will be coming to a certain old-fashioned APA thing, I'll get one anyway via that route.
I may have to call future compilations "The Proper Music".
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