28th March 2013: Jake Thackray

A guy at an open mic where I sang "Chicken Farm" said my lyrics reminded him of Jake Thackray.

Judge for yourself...

27th March 2013: Tuvan Throat Singers and Paul Pena

I'm posting this because of this documentary:





Here is Paul Pena's throat singing (the documentary is about him):





And here is more of Paul Pena's music, more bluesy for sure:

26th March 2013: Niche Constructions

I can't embed today's post. You'll have to follow this link to hear Tom Besley's recordings of the Malagasy rainforests.

25th March 2013: Lou Reed, Live show, Paris '72

Another album I bought for 3€ and then listened to for three years.
"This is a song called Wild Child. It's about a Wild Child, funnily enough."
The album is completely mislabeled, and in fact, Wild Child is not even on this playlist.
You'd be missing out, so I found it on Youtube:

24th March 2013: Kafff - another soundcloud find

23rd March 2013: Melanie

Someone on soundcloud said I reminded her of Melanie, so I made a playlist.
I've mentioned Melanie before in this blogpost.
Some of the songs are a mix of Marianne Faithful and Devendra Banhart and the Shangri-Las. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

22nd March 2013: Franz Ferdinand

I bought this album in 2006 from an HMV.

21st March 2013: A Ghost is Born, Wilco

This was a recommendation.

20th March 2013: Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

19th March 2013: Guqin music

I bought this tape in a Charity shop:






Here's a picture of some woman playing a GuQin:

18th March 2013: Another Soundcloud discovery, Open Cage

17th March 2013: The Singing Nun

and the original:



The story of this nun is very sad and it goes something like this:
After earning loads of fame from this track, she then was less popular.
She had given all her proceeds to her convent and they refused to acknowledge it so she had to pay taxes on money she never had.
Then the convent found out she was gay and banished her so she went to live with her girlfriend.
Then she had more financial trouble and some drug trouble and she and her girlfriend killed themselves but not before the singing nun made a disco remake of her hit single.

In French, "nique" means fuck, which maybe explains why this song was so popular.

The life of the singing Belgian nun was first made into a happy broadway show in the 60's and then a depressing French film with one of my favourite actresses, Cécile de France.

16th March 2013: Anna Meredith

15th March 2013: Hot Chip, Made in the Dark

14th March 2013: some Otis Redding

13th March 2013: Beethoven, The Piano Trios - Beaux Arts Trio

Also:

12th March 2013: Talking Heads, Little Creatures

11th March 2013: Devendra Banhart, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Mountain

10th March 2013: The Pixies, Surfer Rosa

9th March 2013: Let's Get Out Of This Country, Camera Obscura

8th March 2013: Beatles out of Order

7th March 2013: Grimes

6th March 2013: Frente!

I took part in a choreography of "accidentally kelly street" when I was 11.







Here's Marvin The Album

5th March 2013: International, New Order

I got into this album after seeing Control in 2007.
I like Joy Division too, but that will be for another day.



Also - my favourite cover of Bizarre Love Triangle:

4th March 2013: Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill

More nostalgia.

3rd March 2013 : Arvo Part

2nd March 2013 : John Adams Century Rolls

1st March 2013: Bach Cello Suites 1-6

And if Bach doesn't do it for you, here's a French song about brave birds


Dominique A - Le Courage des Oiseaux by Cleoh

28th February 2013: Tracy Chapman

My sister listened to this when I was growing up. It makes me feel seven again.