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This year continues to pull out more and more aces..In no particular order:

Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I
From Monument to Masses - On Little Known Frequencies
The Enablers - Tundra
Bell Orchestre – As Seen Through Windows
KTU – Quiver
Thursday – Common Existence
Eluvium - Life Through Bombardment
mudy on the sakuban - Kidnie
Mono – Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Callisto - Providence
Beirut – March of the Zapotec /RealPeople Holland
Gathiens – Nesh
Marching Dynamics – The Workers Party Of Haiti
Teeth Of The Sea – Orphaned By The Ocean
Pilori - Until the Day Dawn
Reigns - The House On the Causeway
Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors
Jah Wobble and the Chinese Dub Orchestra - Chinese Dub
Land Of Kush - Against the Day
squares on both sides - Indication
Takeo Toyama - Etudes
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Time Zones & Area Codes - Around the Ocean
Vanessa Van Basten - Psygnosis
A Wake A Week - Little Black Cloud
Fog in the Shell - Private South
The Antlers - Hospice
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Zu - Carboniferous
Jeniferever - Spring TIdes
Lustmord - The Dark Places of the Earth
Jacaszek - Pentral
If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky
Various productions feat. Gerry Mitchell - The Invisible Lodger
Eleni Karaindrou - Dust of Time
Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name
George Dorn Screams - O'Malley's Bar
Shelter Red - Strike a Mortal Terror
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Glen Johnson - Details Not Recorded
Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking
Torngat - Le Petite Nicole
Bronnt Industries Kapital - Hard For Justice
Celeste - Misanthrope(s)
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Long Distance Calling - Avoid the LIght
Tara Simmons - Spilt Milk
Sarah winchester - The Northeast Kingdom
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
The Gentleman Losers - Dustland
The Paper Chase - Some Day This Could Be All Yours Vol.1
Zola Jesus - New Amsterdam
Pontiak - Maker
St kilda - E.P.
Woodworkings - Untitled
Bark Cat Bark - Á Lífi
St. Vincent - Actor
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio
Last Days - The Safety of the North
Aidan Baker - A Picture of a Picture
Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
William Basinski - 92982
We vs. Death - A Black House, A Coloured Home
Saxon Shore - It Doesn't Matter
Redjetson - Other Arms
Pentark - Ha Ha Ha!
Øresund Space Collective - Good Planets Are Hard To Find
Mt. - Teach Your Children How To Think, Not What To Think
Jon Hopkins - Insides
Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot
dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Vassilis Tsabropoulos - The Promise
Giant Squid - Icthyologist
Pawa Up First - The Outcome
Hypnic Jerk - Martorell
Park Avenue Music - By Hearts + Horses
Jasper TX - Singing Stones
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone
zxyzxy - Hansuru
Arktika - Heartwrencher
Christopher Tignor - Core Memory Unwound
Flunk - This Is What You Get
Elfin Saddle - Ringing For The Begin Again
Pandora's Black Book - Black Brothel
Peter Broderick - Songs For Falling From Trees
A Broken Consort - Box of Birch
DUEN - Inner States
The One Ensemble Orchestra - Other Thunders
Karjalan Sissit - Fucking Whore Society
Cities Last Broadcast - The Cancelled Earth
New Risen Throne - Crossing the Withered Regions
Penemue - The Observers
Aethere - In Coma
French Teen Idol - El Siete Es La Luz
Max Alper - Music For Fritz Lang's "M"
Heroin and Your Veins - Nausea
Matryoshka - Coctura
Proem - Till There's No Breath
Sophia - Sigillum Militum
Negru Voda - Våld De Luxe Promo Appetizer
Nils Frahm - The Bells
Screenatorium - Audimat
All India Radio - A Low High
Yppah - They Know What Ghost Know
Desiderii Marginis - Years Lend a Golden Charm
Drudkh - Microcosmos
Max Richter - Henry May Long
Phallus Dei - A Day In The Life Of Brian Wilson
Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night
Luigi Rubino - A Theme For The Moon
Parabstruse - An Unconventional Future
The American Dollar - Ambient One
Caspian - Tertia
Pianos Become The Teeth - Old Pride
Trespassers William – The Natural Order of Things
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Scythelence - Post-Romantic Syndrome
Clint Mansell - Moon OST
The Snapping Of Whips, The Whipping Of Flags - The Soviet Children's Choir Sings for the World
Giardini di Mirò - Il Fuoco
Gerda - III
Jóhann Jóhannsson - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
Murcof - La Sangre Illuminada
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus
HEALTH - Get Color
Message to Bears - Departures
the Picturesque Episodes - Strange Lights and Ornaments
worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
The Eastern Wave - All Covet, All Lose
Amiina - Re Minore
Emeralds - What Happened
Maserati - Passages
Throbbing Gristle - Third Mind Movements
Vision Éternel - An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes
Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist
The Black Heart Procession - Six
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Access To Arasaka - Oppidan
GREYMACHINE - Disconnected
Natural Snow Buildings - Shadow Kingdom
Russian Circles - Geneva
Thomas Köner - La Barca
Vindensång - Terminus: Rebirth In Eight Parts...
Rachel Grimes - Book of Leaves
A Storm of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
HORSE the band - Desperate Living
Air - Love 2
Pleq - The Metamorphosis
Aarktica - In Sea
Converge - Axe To Fall
Nanda Devi - Fifth Season
Daïtro - Y
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Pansori - Demo 2009
Dolcim - Guillotine Ride
Drowning with Our Anchors - You Can Never Go Home Again
Land of Talk - Fun and Laughter
World's End Girlfriend - Air Doll OST
The Tiny - Gravity & Grace
Planning for Burial - Leaving
Hannu - Hintergarten
California Stories Uncovered - Confabulations
Struluckt - When The Night Falls - Tribute To Burzum
Detritus - Things Gone Wrong
Heather Woods Broderick - From The Ground
Nudge - As Good As Gone
Somatic Responses - Reformation
Hecq - Steeltongued
Loscil - Strathcona Variations
Mountains - Mountains, Mountains, Mountains
Piano Magic - Ovations
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
sgt. - Capital of Gravity
Elder - Reflect
Emilie Simon - The Big Machine
Arms and Sleepers - Matador
Institute of Joy - A Mountain of One
Arroyo - Individuum & Massen
Electric Assembly - White Splinter
Masske - Masske
3nd - World Tour
Mirah - (a)spera
aMute - Infernal Heights for a Drama
Empusae - Mortusae
Heinali - Film Music (El Mar)
pg.lost - In Never Out
PHANTOGRAM - Eyelid Movies
Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
Snowblood - Snowblood
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - Marlone
Benny Crespo's Gang - Benny Crespo's Gang
Kreidler - Mosaik 2014
Dominic - Nord
Lords - Fuck All Y'all Motherfuckers
Blueneck - The Fallen Host
Hauschka - Small Pieces
Jana Winderen - The Noisiest Guys On The Planet
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper
Murder by Death - Finch
Peter Wright - An Angel Fell Where The Kestrel Hover
Pyramids with Nadja - S/T
Korouva - Sleepwalker
Sumner McKane - Nanook
Ben Frost - By The Throat
eaststrikewest - w o l v v e s
The Great Disappointment - S/T
2econd Class Citizen - A World Without
Blockhead - The Music Scene
Dirac - Emphasis
Dante Augustus Scarlatti - Demises of the Dynamc Microphone
A Red Season Shade - Interiors
Fall Of Efafra - Inlé
The Bronzed Chorus - I'm The Spring
Autumn Moonlight - The Sky Over Your Shoulders
Guns Of Brixton - Cap Adare
Mountains Among Us - True North
MGR vs. SirDSS - Impromptu
Lisa Gerrard - The Black Opal
The Mercury Program - Chez Viking
Microfilm - The Bay of Future Passed
andorra~atkins - Augenlied
L'Homme Puma - On Remplace Les Yeux Cassés
Emmanu el - Moen
Life's Decay - Dysrieuses
Still Light - Lything
Heaven In Her Arms - Duplex-Coated Obstruction
Apse - Climb Up
Transitional - Stomach of the Sun
Yuki Murata - Films
Képzelt Város - Mit Nekem
Emeralds - The Overlook
English Heretic - Tales of The New Isis Lodge
Field Rotation - Licht Und Schatten
A Lot Like Birds - Plan B
Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - Firewolf
Raison d'Etre - The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice
On - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
Atrium Carceri - Phrenitis
Locomotora - Locomotora
Portland Cello Project - The Thao and Justin Power Sessions
Sunwrae - Autumn Never Fall

TOP 19 MUSICIANS FROM GREECE

1. Maria Callas
2. Vangelis
3. Basil Poledouris
4. Iannis Xenakis
5. Manos Hadjidakis
6. Markos Vamvakaris
7. Aphrodite's Child
8. Haris Alexiou
9. Nana Mouskouri
10. Eleni Karaindrou
11. Psarantonis
12. Stelios Kazantzidis
13. Marinella
14. Chris Spheeris
15. Mikis Theodorakis
16. Vasilis Papakonstantinou
17. Rotting Christ
18. Grigoris Bithikotsis
19. Yanni

Comment about missed names which should be in list and not deserving ones

edjeee's top albums
1. Nitin Sawhney - London Undersound (103) 2. DJ Krylon - 187 on A Muthafackin Cop (80) 3. Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny (65) 4. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams (62) 5. Diplo and Santogold - Top Ranking (53) 6. Skream - Skream: Watch The Ride (52) 7. Bill Frisell - Blues Dream (46) 8. De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - De Machine (45) 9. Ill Bill - The Hour Of Reprisal (43) 10. Camerata Mediterranea - Cantigas de Santa María (41) 11. Gustavo Mozzi - Los Ojos de la Noche (39) 12. Booka Shade - GPMCD006 - Movements (35) 13. Le Peuple de l'Herbe - Radio Blood Money (35) 14. Bonobo - Animal Magic (35) 15. Jedi Mind Tricks - Legacy of Blood (34) 16. Anouar Brahem - Vague (33) 17. Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things (33) 18. The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed (33) 19. Caspa & Rusko - Fabriclive 37 (33) 20. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (33) 21. Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note (31) 22. Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi (31) 23. Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (31) 24. Rae & Christian - Blazing the Crop (30) 25. Skream - skream! (30) 26. Shackleton - Skull Disco Soundboy Punishments SKULLCD1 (29) 27. Distance - My Demons (29) 28. Squarepusher - Hello Everything (28) 29. Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story (28) 30. Eleni Karaindrou - Elegy Of The Uprooting [Live] (Disc 1) (27) 31. Cujo - Adventures in Foam (26) 32. Benga - Skream: Watch The Ride (25) 33. Necro - I Need Drugs (24) 34. D1 - Hip Hop Halloween Haunted House Party (24) 35. Necro - Death Rap (23) 36. Air - Moon Safari (Special Edition) (23) 37. Soundtrack - The Sopranos - Music From The HBO Original Series - Peppers & Eggs (TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK) (23) 38. Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (22) 39. Jessie De Caluwe - Zee van rust (22) 40. Amon Tobin - Foley Room (21) 41. Eliades Ochoa - Sublime Ilusion (21) 42. Aphrodite - Aftershock (21) 43. Kode9 & the Spaceape - Memories Of The Future (21) 44. Pinch - 200 (21) 45. Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - Drawn From Life (21) 46. Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light 'Til Dawn (21) 47. Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (20) 48. Burial - Burial (20) 49. Various Artists - Luke Vibert's Further Nuggets (20) 50. MSTRKRFT - The Looks (19)

Apeiron Flux

Mr. Wednesday

Eleni Karaindrou

Cheikh Lô

A review of Eleni Karaindrou's "Elegy of the Uprooting"

For this ambitious performance she brings together 110 musicians, including a fourteen-piece ensemble of conventional instrumentalists, and a sextet featuring traditional instruments like ney, bendir and kanonaki, a choir and an orchestra.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=23171


+ another review: http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=2094

Track listing:
CD1: Prayer; Refugee's Theme; The Weeping Meadow; Dance; An Ode of Tears; For The Phrygian Land Vast Mourning; By the Sea; Depart and Eternity Theme; Rosa's Aria; Memories; Hecuba's Lament/Hecuba's Theme II; Telamon, You Came To Conquer Our Town; the city that gave birth to you was consumed by fire; An Ode of Tears; Theme Of The Uprooting I; The Weeping Meadow II; Voyage; Voyage To Cythera; On The Road.
CD2: Parade; Return; Andromache's Theme; The Land I Call Home; Home Of My Forefathers; I Wish I'm Given There; Refugee's Theme; The Seagull; Song Of The Lake; Adagio--Father's Theme; In Vain The Sacrifices; My Beloved, Your Soul Is Wandering; Decision; Farewell Theme; Theme Of The Lake; Hecuba's Theme II; Lament for Astynax; Exodus; The Weeping Meadow.

Colin Jones finds out about Eleni Karaindrou, a greek film music composer, using in her music mostly traditional instruments.

http://www.folkworld.de/9/e/eleni.html


Her music sound to me like it has its roots in Greek folk music. See her entry on IMDB, where all her soundtracks are listed.

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List your top 10 artists as played on Last.fm:


1 Eels
2 Tom Waits
3 Eleni Karaindrou
4 Guided by Voices
5 Magnolia Electric Co
6 Liars
7 Nick Drake
8 Neil Young
9 Rachel's
10 Dirty Three

Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Be Quiet Mt. Heart Attack

What is your favourite album of 2?
Rain Dogs

What is your favourite lyric that 5 has sung?
Down The Wrong Road Both Ways

“If today you’re left with nothing
Be thankful you’re not left with less
Some of us only lose the dark
To get lost in darkness”

How many times have you seen 4 live?
Guided By Voices, never, they had stopped pperforming before I knew them

What is your favourite song by 7?
River Man, no doubt about it

What is a good memory you have involving the music of 10?
Lying in bed at 4 o'clock and hearing Lullabye For Christie for the first time

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
Yes.. the song with only piano invoelved, By the Sea

What is your favourite lyric that 2 has sung?
Tom Waits:
"The piano has been drinking, not me, not me"

What is your favourite song by 9?
Water From the Same Source

How did you get into 3?
Having read a piece in which someone said how good it was, plus the fact that it's on the ECM-label.

What was the first song you heard by 1?
tough one, I guess it has to be Susan's House

What is your favourite song by 4?
Tractor Rape Chain

How many times have you seen 9 live?
Never :(

What is a good memory you have involving 2?
Not notcing Rain Dogs being set on 'repeat' for over 3 hours.

Is there a song of 8 that makes you sad?
Mellow My Mind no doubt

What is your favourite album of 5?
Sojourner

What is your favourite lyric that 4 has sung?
I Am a Scientist

“I am a pharmacist
Prescriptions I will fill you
Potions, pills and medicines
To ease your painful lives
I am a lost soul
I shoot myself with rock & roll
The hole I dig is bottomless
But nothing else can set me free”

What is your favourite song of 10?
Authentic Celestial Music

How many times have you seen 8 live?
Neil Young, never.. too expensive

What is your favourite album of 1?
Electro-Shock Blues and album that has everything, depressing lyrics, vague melodies, poppy songs, and a jaw-dropping album-closer

What is a great memory you have considering 9?
None

What was the first song you heard by 8?
Neil Young... something my mom and dad played when I was very young.. the first song I can remember is Rockin In A Free World

What is your favourite cover by 1?
That'll have to be Girl From the North Country, by the great Bob Dylan