Dead Can Dance - A Passage in Time (1991)

How to describe Dead Can Dance? It's like medieval folk music with haunting, hypnotic chants and ambient noises. On occasion you will hear the bass guitar and drums, but more often there are weird string instruments and trippy harmonies. Sometimes Gerrard's Gregorian-like vocals are a bit overwhelming but she is quite soothing once you get into it. The only negative is that when Perry sings he kinda freaks me out, and the songs are not sequenced well... but they are powerful. They could have used their gorgeous instruments and written pop songs, but they didn't. It is beautiful because I have nothing that sounds so elegant, foreign and ancient. 4AD really had it going on with DCD and the Cocteau Twins. A really bizarre but intriguing album from my collection.

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Rokia Traoré - Bowmboï (2003)

Plays with the harmonies of the balafon (lute) and n'goni (crazy xylophone-like thingy), groovy kora and calabash percussion, powerful beautiful voice... this is compelling music.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmmdzlgkymz

Oumou Sangaré - Seya (2009)

Hopefully when I go to the festival in the desert, Oumou will be there.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ztokemf3omi

Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (1978)

http://www.mediafire.com/?wnhi1iylnmy

Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower (1975-1980)

http://www.mediafire.com/?qni2nwtjq3g

XTC - Skylarking (1986)

http://www.mediafire.com/?motqzzylyjw

The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs (1987)

A compilation of b-sides and unreleased tracks, this double album is packed with fantastic tracks.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mcjzmjomckv

Louder Than Bombs

Exuma - Rude Boy (1986)

The Obeah Man!
His older stuff is a lot more folky and satanic, this has more of a groovy reggae feel.
Clean on the outside, dirty on the inside...

http://www.mediafire.com/?wjzutmhmmni

Charles Bronson - The Mandom Chronicles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzWTr-BczGQ

Charles Bronson is the man...dom.

Guitar

Well, for some reason I figured out how to play guitar tonight. Have had one for years, played it off and on. It just clicked all of a sudden. I can almost play what's in my head. So I have been jamming away to myself and it feels swell. Maybe with a little abelson solution and fuZZy efx there will be something like A robot cancer patient dives into the ocean and encounters jellyfish gangstas at the top of the sea. I also have an old recording of the fuzzy rubber brain cells, might as well post that good shit. review forthcoming.

Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reservation (1995)

http://www.mediafire.com/?enijyn55hwh

Oumou Sangaré - Moussolou (Women) - (1989)

Beautiful.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ndzgveewztt

The Telescopes (1994)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ilfzmziymdz

Morrissey - Viva Hate (1988)

http://www.mediafire.com/?nj22mkrmedw

The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! (1966)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=61WQQPRC

Silver Jews - American Water (1998)

http://www.mediafire.com/?jzmmzhnmdmt

The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps (1993)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=68WDDIF4

Exuma - Do Wah Nanny (1971)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ztzwyzjj0mr

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q21ZWBCG

Charles Mingus - Ah Um (1959)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SZIPK1UE