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Emika – a fresh face on Ninja Tune

minha galera — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:25:24 +0000

She is a new comer, yet she has blown away many important producers, such as Pinch and Scuba and has landed a Ninja Tune deal. Good for her. She’s great!

Double edge

Double Edge (Pinch Remix)

Drop the other

Emika -- Drop The Other Scuba’s Vulpine Remix

Mi and L’au freakish folk or la boheme?

minha galera — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:31:27 +0000

Mira and Laurent -- a fashion model from Finland and soundtrack musician from France. Austere, minimal music made with voice and acoustic guitars and other very sparse orchestrations.

Mi and L’au met in Paris a few years back. Mi is Finnish and was working as a model to make ends meet and L’au (who’s French) was working in the music industry (soundtracks). They fell deeply and immediately in love, and after a short period of moving from apartment to apartment in Paris, they gave everything up and decided to move in a small cabin in woods in Finland, so they could be alone together in peace and spend their time discovering each other and their music. (last.fm).

Ten Kingdoms

Transparent

Dancing and smiling

MySpace

The Barry Sisters

mariuk — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:39:05 +0000

Two jewish sisters, Clara and Minnie Bagelman became popular in the jazz arena in the 1940s-1960s. Their swings with yiddish lyrics were the hits of the New York Radio Show “Yiddish Melodies in Swing”. Their glamour and harmonious voices brought them into public attention. They were guests in the Ed Sullivan Show, Jack Paar and had live appearances throughout the world. They were among the few American acts to tour the Soviet Union in 1959.

Yidl Mitn Fidl yiddish swing:

Perfect Harmony:

Eshet Chail:

Metallic Falcons – because CocoRosie was too boring

minha galera — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:16:22 +0000

Now that the goosepumps have stopped, I must share with you Metallic Falcons. We, here at Discorgy, have a long history and love affair with freak folk, giving you the pleasure of hearing and discovering the wonderful talents of CocoRosie, Devendra Banhart, Anthony Hegarty, but this is truly amazing. Sierra Cassady, the CocoRosie sister with the opera voice, has created with friend Mattea Bearn a side project that give the world a new genre: ”baby metal”.

Airships

Four harts

Metal Berry

Snakes & Tea

Nighttime and morning with Anthony Hagerty

Desert Cathedral

Pale Dog

Disparu

Myspace

Pitchfork review for the Desert Doughnuts album

The amazing voice of Sainkho Namtchylak

domnux — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:32:10 +0000

Boomerang:

Sainkho Namtchylak is an experimental singer, born in 1957 in a secluded village in the south of Tuva, an autonomous Russian state bordering Mongolia. She has an exceptional voice, spanning seven octaves and proficient in overtone singing; her music enmeshes avant-jazz, electronica, modern composition and Tuvan influences.

Lonely soul:

Inuit Wedding:

Excerpt from documantary “Sainkho -- a voice on the edge -- a journey of extremes”:

Order to survive:

Midnight blue:

Ritual Virtuality:

Kaar Deerge:

Old melodie:

Let The Sunshine:

Live performance from Lithuanian National Philarmonics, Vilnius:

TV russian show:

Performances:

Concert at “Yi du tang” in Shenzhen:

Links: Official page, MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.

Fever Ray – If I had a heart

gorette — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:35:37 +0000

Karin Dreijer Andersson, half of The Knife, debuts a solo project called Fever Ray. To be launched on the 23rd of March 2009 the album named Fever Ray is already considered a masterpiece. It cannot be anything else with the talent and unique voice of Karin.

The debut song -- If I had a heart is already everywhere!

Enjoy it!

Official site

MySpace

Robots in disguise – Arguments

gorette — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:03:21 +0000

Robots in Disguise are an English electro band. The group is composed of Dee Plume (vocals, guitars), Sue Denim (vocals, bass), and a rolling live line-up of backing musicians. Robots in Disguise have released three studio albums: Robots in disguise (2001), Get Rid! (2005), We’re in the music biz (2008). I love the sound of the two riot gurlz, hope you will like it too.

Arguments

Girl

The sex has made me stupid

MySpace

Official Site

For more from the two -- check out more!

Turn it up

The DJ’s got a gun

Shirley Bassey remixes

mariuk — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:54:52 +0000

I heard some Shirley Bassey songs and I said to myself…I would like to say these words to somebody at my wedding…Welsh singer with totally unhappy relationships became famous when she was only 19 years old…her ‘little voice’ made her win lots of prises and to be in the tops…dimonds seem to be forever, just like her voice and her lyrics…live shows were full of her personal touch and deep emotions were transmitted to the public…modest but still always glamourous, she had the air of belonging to a magical world…

In 2001 a remix album with Shirley Bassey´s songs made her enter the electronic life. Great artists remixed her songs like Propellerheads, Nightmares On Wax, Groove Armada and more…

The Fatima Spar Und Die Freedom Fries – Egyptian Ella

domnux — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:50:37 +0000

Listen here the version of Fatima Spar und die Freedom Fries, an Austrian folk brass band with a Turkish singer, which integrates jazz and many musical styles mainly from southeastern Europe.

This song, composed by Walter Doyle, it was singed by many bands in the past. The first one was Ted Weems and his Orchestra. Doyle was a member of the Ted Weems Orchestra of renown and also sang the lyric’s on the Weems record Egyptian Ella.

Jack Hylton’s Orchestra:

Ted Lewis & His Nut Band:

The song is stil singed by many bands in our times:

Pasadena Roof Orchestra:

The Cairo Club Orchestra:

The Cyclown Circus:

Links:
- Fatima Spar und die Freedom Fries: Official page, MySpace, LastFM.
- Ted Weems and His Orchestra: Red Hot Jazz, LastFM, Wikipedia.

Gloomy Sunday -my side of the story

minha galera — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:48:00 +0000

Mariuk and I discovered together the story of this song a few years ago on Discovery channel. We were hooked. After the show ended (it was about preconceptions and stupid traditions), we started digging on the Internet for all the cover versions. Among the approximate 90 existing, we settled for just a few.
I will let Domnux post la piece de resistence, as he is the one who discovered it.

Bjork

Diamanda Galas -- this one really freaks you out

Portishead (they couldn’t have missed it, could they?) -- Voice Sarah Mclaughlin; not Beth Gibbons, but still good

The original