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Tunes featured over at my blog this month were

Tunes on Tuesday - November 10, 2009 featured a tune from 1928 played on washboard, ukulele and teapot(?) by Eddie Thomas & Carl Scott - Tomorrow.

Tunes on Tuesday - November 17, 2009 featured some fast Gypsy brass by Fanfare Ciocărlia.

Tunes on Tuesday - November 24, 2009 was Australian music themed, highlighting five tunes by Australian artists that I love. This post was inspired by Triple J's Ausmusic month.
Jimmy Little - Down Below
Dirty Three - Hope
The Drones - River of Tears
Josh Pyke - Memories & Dust
The Loved Ones - Sad Dark Eyes

Also I'm in the process of making a 100 Australians.

As always, I love to hear what you think, here or over at my blog Bear Among Bees :-)

1000: (2006-12-14 20:30:49): Mattafix - Clear and Present Danger
2000: (2007-01-17 22:45:44): Lovage - Stroker Ace
3000: (2007-04-09 18:47:50): Ben Harper - Crying Won't Help You Now
4000: (2007-05-05 20:08:26): Elliott Smith - Easy Way Out
5000: (2007-06-21 18:15:50): The Cat Empire - The Chariot
6000: (2007-09-11 09:31:04): London Symphony Orchestra - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - The Sea and Sindbad's Ship
7000: (2007-11-13 12:12:10): J.J. Johnson - Willie Chase
8000: (2007-12-29 22:22:25): Beat Junkies - Intro
9000: (2008-05-12 22:33:43): Ben Harper - Everything
10000: (2008-06-24 13:51:21): Scottish National Orchestra - Ein Heldenleben - The Hero's Retirement From The World And The Fulfilment Of His Life
11000: (2008-09-15 10:05:28): Fanfare Ciocărlia - Sirba De La Monastiera
12000: (2008-12-14 18:06:19): Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra - Sym # 5 Mvt 1
13000: (2009-07-08 17:59:35): Easy Star All-Stars - An Airbag Saved My Dub
14000: (2009-08-27 16:02:50): Bonobo - Pick Up

gotcha by anniversary tracks grabber

Ala dos Namorados
Alcoolémia
An X Tasy
Anti-Clockwise
Apocalyptica
Artworx
Avenged Sevenfold

Babylon Circus
Bandarra
Blacksunrise
Blasted Mechanism (x8)
Blind Charge
Blind Zero (x3)
Boss AC
Brain Bomb
Bunnyranch
Buraka Som Sistema

Cabeças No Ar
Carlos do Carmo
Celtic Dance
Ciganos D’Ouro
Cheb Mami
Chullage
Clã (x2)
Concealment
Cronaxia
Crushing Sun
CRYPTOR MORBIOUS FAMILY

Da Weasel (x5)
David Fonseca
Dazkarieh
Dealema
Delfins
Deolinda
Dr. Calypso

Echidna
Equaleft
Estroina
Exoss

Facedown
Fanfare Ciocărlia
Filarmónica Gil
Funkaina

Gabriel, O Pensador
Galandum Galandaina
Gazua
God (x4)
Grankapo
Grimlet

Hands On Approach
Head-On (x2)
Hiffen
Holocausto Canibal (x2)

Ibéria
Iron Maiden

Joe Satriani
Jorge Palma (x2)
Júlio Pereira

K2O3
Kumpania Algazarra (x2)
Kussondulola (x2)
Krissy Matthews

Lamb of God
Lauren Harris
Levellers

M.O.T.Ü.
Machine Head (x2)
Mão Morta
Mastodon (x2)
Mata-Ratos
Men Eater
Metallica (x3)
Mete-Repete
Mind Da Gap (x2)
Mind OverFlow
Moonspell (x6)
More Than A Thousand
Mothership
My Enchantment (x6)

Not That Bed (x2)

Opus Draconis (x3)

Paulo Gonzo
Pedro Abrunhosa (x2)
Peste & Sida
Pitch Black
Pólo Norte (x2)
Porn Sheep Hospital
Primitive Reason
Prowl

r12
Rádio Macau
Ramp (x2)
Repulsive strife
Rose Tattoo
Rouxinol Faduncho

Sam the Kid
Santos & Pecadores (x2)
Sérgio Godinho (x3)
Serpentine Gallery
Simbiose
Ska-P
Skalibans
Skewer
Slayer
Slipknot
Stereofux
Stone Sour
Sweep 48
Switchtense

Tabanka Djaz
Tara Perdida
Terrakota (x2)
ThanatoSchizO
The Blood Brothers
The Element
The Gift
The Happy Mothers
The Men They Couldn’t Hang
The Open Wound
The Vicious Five
Thee Orakle
Theriomorphic
Theyweregunshots

Vespa
Vieux Farka Touré
Vitorino (x3)

W.A.K.O.
Willie Nile
Wraygunn
Wrong Tape

X-Wife (x2)
Xutos & Pontapés (x10)

Yellow W Van

4Taste

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Fanfare Ciocărlia



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My favourites of the ending year listed. Simple as that. All absolutely brilliant stuff, go take a listen!

30.Wavves - S/T
29.Shearwater - Rook
28.No Age - Nouns
27.Witch - Paralyzed
26.The Goodwillies - Greenmachines for all the children
25.Camille - Music hole
24.Pia Fraus - After summer
23.Magic Lantern - High beams
22.Martha Wainwright - I know you're married, but I've got feelings too
21.dEUS - Vantage point
20.Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali
19.Vivian Girls- S/T
18.Juana Molina - Un Día
17.Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - We brave bee stings and all
16.Jacaszek - Treny
15.Paavoharju - Laulu laakson kukasta
14.Murmansk - Chinese locks
13.Headache City - S/T
12.Frida Hyvönen - Silence is wild
11.Dungen - 4
10.Jonathan Richman - Because her beauty is raw and wild
9.Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie down in the light
8.Joose Keskitalo - Joose Keskitalo ja kolmas maailmanpalo
7.Thomas Function - Celebration
6.Beach House - Devotion
5.Pocahaunted - Island diamonds
4.Asa - Loppuasukas
3.Lambchop - OH (Ohio)
2.TV on the Radio - Dear science
1.Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill


Compilations:

Eccentric soul: The young disciples (Numero Group)
1970's Algerian proto-rai underground (Sublime Frequencies)
African Scream Contest (AnalogAfrica)
Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues (Soundway)
Obsession (Bully records)

Potential greatness waiting for more spins:

Little Joy - S/T
Gala Drop - S/T
High Places - S/T
Ponytail - Ice cream spiritual
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Teeth Mountain - S/T
Toumani Diabaté - The Mandé variations
DJ/rupture - Uproot
Department of Eagles - In ear park
Grace Jones - Hurricane
Harvey Milk - Life...The best game in town
Laineen Kasperi - Saatana saapuu Sörnäisiin
Randy Newman - Harps and angels
Sun Araw - Beach head
Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna


Gigs:

Einstürzende Neubauten (Tavastia)
dEUS (Nosturi)
dälek(Kuudes linja)
Beach House (Tavastia)
Fanfare Ciocarlia (Ilosaari)

When I lived in Spain a few years ago, I learnt a thing or two. I learned that Spain is NOT Mexico, as a lot of North Americans are wont to believe, assume, expect. I learned that Mexico is the way it is because of Spain -- The good, the bad, the ugly. I love Mexico, and I truly love Spain. One of the people in Spain that influenced me exponentially was a very beautiful person from San Fernando. I fell in love with her and stupidly messed it up... as I'm very good at doing. So anyway, she had great taste in everything, but I'm not so sure about her music, now that I look back. She had me HOOKED on Spanish pop. I don't know much else about music from the Iberian Peninsula, but whenever I hear Spanish pop, I wax sentimentally and am lost in nostalgia. Here are some of the groups (with the help of last.fm) that I still hear when I think of downtown Cadiz, Jerez, and the beaches of Costa de la Luz & Costa del Sol:

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1. Mecano
2. La Oreja de Van Gogh
3. Alejandro Sanz
4. Ana Torroja
5. Miguel Bosé
6. Hombres G
7. Presuntos Implicados
8. Ella Baila Sola
9. Amaral
10. Paulina Rubio
11. Julieta Venegas
12. Nena Daconte
13. Shakira
14. Rosana
15. Azúcar Moreno
16. Massiel
17. Juanes
18. Paloma San Basilio
19. Isabel Pantoja
20. Thalía
21. Mónica Naranjo
22. Luis Miguel
23. Efecto Mariposa
24. David Civera
25. Manu Tenorio

Perchance I wasn't snapping my fingers to latin pop, I was out looking for something more in-country, more folk. After all, Andalusia is the birthplace of flamenco, and one cannot walk through any spanish town any night and not see flamencodancers and/or a spanish guitar, somewhere. So I'd sit down and have a sherry and watch the show. Such great music.

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1. Ottmar Liebert
2. Jesse Cook
3. Armik
4. Paco de Lucía
5. Gipsy Kings
6. Oscar Lopez
7. Andrés Segovia
8. Julian Bream
9. Strunz & Farah
10. Joaquín Rodrigo
11. Tierra Negra
12. Manuel de Falla
13. Johannes Linstead
14. Vicente Amigo
15. Paco Peña
16. Pepe Romero
17. Heitor Villa-Lobos
18. Rodrigo y Gabriela
19. Carlos Campos
20. Alabina
21. Isaac Albéniz
22. Fanfare Ciocărlia
23. Henrik T
24. Lara & Reyes
25. Gino D'Auri

One other thing... There is another part of Iberia, a place to the west called Albufeira in a great country called Portugal. Such great people, great food, and great music. All those years of world influence has come back there in spades. Bossa Novas and Sambas from Brazil. But one of the best experiences is listening to Fado.

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1. Mariza
2. Amália Rodrigues
3. Maria Rita
4. Cesária Évora
5. Dulce Pontes
6. Cristina Branco
7. Madredeus
8. Mísia
9. Seu Jorge
10. Bebel Gilberto
11. Cibelle
12. Farofa Carioca
13. Marisa Monte
14. Astrud Gilberto
15. Lura
16. Arto Lindsay
17. Chico Buarque
18. Sabrina Malheiros
19. Mayra Andrade
20. Mafalda Arnauth
21. Jorge Ben Jor
22. João Gilberto
23. CéU
24. Katia Guerreiro
25. Ana Carolina

whatnots's top albums
1. Fanfare Ciocărlia - Radio Pascani (53) 2. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (50) 3. Fanfare Ciocărlia - Iag Bari (49) 4. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (36) 5. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (35) 6. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II (31) 7. The Smiths - The Very Best of the Smiths (30) 8. Portishead - Third (25) 9. Regina Spektor - Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories (24) 10. Placebo - Meds (22) 11. Regina Spektor - Songs (22) 12. Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague (20) 13. Regina Spektor - 11:11 (19) 14. The Killers - Sam's Town (18) 15. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch (18) 16. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (17) 17. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (17) 18. Tricky - A Ruff Guide (14) 19. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (14) 20. Nanowar - Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay! (14) 21. Syd Barrett - Barrett (14) 22. Camille Saint-Saëns - Carnaval des Animaux (Dutoit, London Sinfonietta) (14) 23. Portishead - Portishead (13) 24. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (13) 25. Björk - Post (13) 26. Rush - Snakes & Arrows (13) 27. Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts (12) 28. Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy (12) 29. Sarmalele Reci - Tara Te Vrea Prost (12) 30. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun (11)

1.How did you get into 29? (Indy & Wich)
From a flatmate in Prague.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Bat for Lashes)
What's A Girl To Do?

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (Scott Walker)
Quick give us your lips
Give us your thighs
Give us your sad and devouring eyes
Cascading tears for every heartbeat
Tonight we'll sleep with The Girls From The Streets

4. How did you get into 49? (The Rolling Stones)
I've been aware of them for as long as I can remember, but the first time I really 'got' them would be listening to Gimme Shelter at about 5am in a Brighton university dorm in 2000.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (The Divine Comedy)
Five. I think I was out of the country for the last two.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Fat Truckers)
Anorexic Robot

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Dave Clarke)
In Short, no. Blue on Blue is a little intense, but it wouldn't make me sad.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Serge Gainsbourg)
La Javanaise

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (The Cabin Fever)
I Know You, You Know Me

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Soft Machine)
Slightly All The Time

11. What is the worst song by 40? (David Devant & His Spirit Wife)
I like most of what they recorded. There are a few b-sides that aren't really up to scratch, perhaps Slip It To Me # (live)

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Kevin Ayers)
Has to be Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Mr. Oizo)
I found the CD in a Levne Knihy shop for about 30p and listened to it a lot the next six months or so, but unusually there are no specific memories attached to the music.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Selfish Cunt)
Britain Is Shit

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Can)
Bring Me Coffee or Tea produces a wry, but genuine smile.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (The Jam)
No, however all of Paul Weller's solo work makes me sad for a different reason.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (John Barry)
I expect I heard some of his James Bond stuff when I was very young indeed, but the fist time I was aware of him individually would be with the music from Midnight Cowboy

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band)
"One red bean stuck in the bottom of uh tin bowl
Hot coffee from uh krimpt up can
Me 'n my girl named Bimbo Limbo Spam" - The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Pulp)
Jarvis Cocker probably, but I'd like to put a word in for Russell Senior too.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (Oneida)
I used to enjoy walking around Zhuhai while listening to Sheets of Easter

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Add N to (X))
Playing Fyuz in a little nightclub in Southampton.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Kraftwerk)
I'll always love Ruckzuck

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Hammock)
Before the Celebration, on a bus in Thailand.

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (The Herbaliser)
Remedies, because it's the only one I know properly.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Cassetteboy)
Has to be Fly Me to New York (Featuring DJ Rubbish) for very wrong and very funny wrong funnies.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Jefferson Airplane)
Hard to say as I imagine I heard them when I was fairly young. Something like White Rabbit most likely.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (The Fall
This Nation's Saving Grace is the slightly obvious choice, but Slates is a mini-album of equal quality.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (David Bowie)
Very, very hard to say. Something like Space Oddity, Queen Bitch, Station to Station or even A New Career in a New Town

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Jacques Dutronc)
Et moi, et moi, et moi

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Denim)
Middle of the Road

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Del Shannon)
Since he died when I was 10 I never got to see him. Shame.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Gail Force 3)
WLTM still makes me laugh on what must be the 50th play.

33. How did you get into 12? (DJ Shadow)
The local Indie DJ used to play Organ Donor all the time.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (The Incredible String Band)
There are no really bad ISB tracks, 50% are great, 50% are interminable hippy strumming, and therefore merely skippable.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Gang of Four)
I heard At Home He's A Tourist in about 1998 as my stepdad had the single.

36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48? (Fanfare Ciocărlia)
Asfalt Tango

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Echo & The Bunnymen)
I think I remember being underwhelmed by them at the Phoenix Festival one time. I'm not really that much of a fan.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (The Beatles)
The Word is pretty much a perfect song.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Joanna Newsom)
Sprout And The Bean, on an NME compilation.

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (The Yummy Fur)
Kinky Cinema has been one of my favourite albums since it was released, and now you can download the whole thing on Last fm. So do that.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (The Mighty Boosh)
Tundra Rap

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (John Cooper Clarke)
All I've got is World of Mouth: Very Best of John Cooper Clarke, which makes me want to get his real albums.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Dizzee Rascal)
Sittin' Here

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Roots Manuva)
Listening to Ninja Tune compilations in a hostel in Dali earlier this year.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Brian Eno)
I honestly think that The Big Ship could be one of the greatest bits of music ever recorded.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (David Sedaris)
Six To Eight Black Men








47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Robert Wyatt)
Rock Bottom is just astonishing.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Manu Chao)
Manu Chao. Obviously.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (LCD Soundsystem)
Losing My Edge

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (HALCALI)
ギリギリ・サーフライダー, also known as Girigiri Surf Rider