also

7 songs by the Shivers

and one more

death throes

Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 (Reinbert de Leeuw)

Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1

Frederic Chopin - Nocturne No.1 in B flat minor (Arrau)

Frederic Chopin - Nocturne No.1 in B flat minor

Winter is coming...

...and we all need company.

Hildur Guðnadóttir - Without Sinking (2009)
















"I wanted to have open space for single notes and let them breath, like single clouds in a clear sky. As a contrast I also wanted create denser and heavier compositions which were more thundercloud like. I like the way clouds form, how many tiny droplets can form such dense forms and then slowly evaporate into thin string-like forms."

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

Uakti - I Ching (1994)
















http://www.mediafire.com/?gezk2yvjnm3

Phil Ochs - The Early Years (2000)












"In mid-1975, Ochs took on the identity of John Butler Train. He told people that Train had murdered Ochs, and that he, John Train, had replaced him. Train was convinced that somebody was trying to kill him, and he carried a weapon at all times—a hammer, a knife, or a lead pipe"

The Early Years collects recordings from 1963-1966. The files are .m4a.

http://www.mediafire.com/?hzqmdqnzjj0

Arthur Russell - Another Thought (1994)














This picture is broken this is not the actual album cover i am not going to fix it

"This was a guy who could sit down with a cello and sing with it in a way that no one on this Earth has ever done before, or will do so again." - Phillip Glass

http://www.mediafire.com/?tljtyznjny2

Bad Religion - No Control (1989)
















http://www.mediafire.com/?ndtyn4ckwtw

Goodnight Mercedes Sosa...

Mercedes Sosa - Canciones con Fundamento (1965)

Sosa's second record, Canciones con Fundamento is a collection of Argentine folk songs.

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

Mercedes Sosa - 30 Años (1994)

http://www.mediafire.com/?djmyjzkq0jh

Violeta Parra - Últimas Composiciones (1967)


The first track, "Gracias a la Vida," was covered and popularized by Sosa.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ewifhjwm5zh





Victor Jara - Pongo en tus manos abiertas (1969)


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



Goodnight Mercedes Sosa.

High school music.

These are things I used to listen to a lot but don't really listen to anymore but was recently reminded of and remembered how amazing they are and now I am listening to them again:

Mount Eerie - No Flashlight (2005)
















Mount Eerie - The Drums from No Flashlight (2005

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

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - BROOM (2006)











http://www.mediafire.com/?hm1otmmi4fj

Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assasin des Mouches (1972)












"This set is the terrain where soundtrack music, classical music, gauche pop, hard rock, French café music, Middle Eastern modal music, vanguard musical iconoclasty, and sound effects collide, stroke, and ultimately come into union with one another -- often in a single cut. This music is alternately violent, garish, tender, elegant, silly, and gritty."

Those are some words. This is an album:

http://www.mediafire.com/?o4ojzzlzyzz

Bill Holt - Dreamies (1972)















Bill Holt was working for a Fortune 500 company and then in 1972 he realised that the world was just way too trippy so he quit his job and recorded an album with an acoustic guitar and other things. Dreamies is a gorgeous acoustic folk album full of layered harmonies and other things that soar mixed up with sound collage of the experience of living through the late 1960s/early 1970s.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jz1xk4y5jx5


Peter and the Wolf - The Ivori Palms (2007)


http://www.mediafire.com/?wdlzjnuzw2u

Montreal has the greatest church bells. And crazy big fires:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/08/19/montreal-plateau-fire.html

Some more months later...

Phillip Glass and Uakti - Aguas de Amazonas (1999)

















Uakti is a Brazilian instrumental quartet known for making their own instruments. Apparently Phillip Glass really liked them, so they made an album. IT ACTUALLY SOUNDS LIKE A RIVER! No joke.

Phillip Glass and Uakti - Aguas de Amazonas

Istanbul Oriental Ensemble - Grand Bazaar (2006)
















Istanbul Oriental Ensemble - Grand Bazaar

Labi Siffre - Remember My Song (1975)
















Labi Siffre - Remember My Song

Various Artists - The Art of Field Recording Vol. 2 (2008)

















Various Artists - The Art of Field Recording Vol. 2, Discs 1 & 2

Various Artists - The Art of Field Recording Vol. 2, Discs 3 & 4

Six months later...

...I decided to upload some things. So here's a bunch of things.
Arborea - Arborea (2008)
















Lovely duo from Maine playing very pretty folk. Mixes a contemporary free folk sound with 60s English folk.

Arborea - Arborea (2008)
http://www.mediafire.com/?g3ywmrhmngc
Claude Debussy - 12 Etudes (piano: Mitsuko Uchida) (1990)














Claude Debussy - 12 Etudes (piano: Mitsuko Uchida) (1990)
http://www.mediafire.com/?ydyj0me20zm
Kosmos - Soundtracks of Eastern Germany's Adventures in Space (2005)














Soundtracks from German sci-fi movies from the 60s and 70s. Ok?

Kosmos - Soundtracks of Eastern Germany's Adventures in Space (2005)http://www.mediafire.com/?quztnwktzm5

Lee Ranaldo - Maelstrom From Drift (2008)













"blazah!"

Lee Ranaldo - Maelstrom From Drift (2008)
http://www.mediafire.com/?0dv2ytaywkm
A Hawk and A Hacksaw - Darkness at Noon (2005)












A Hawk and A Hacksaw - Darkness at Noon (2005)
http://www.mediafire.com/?mjtmjnzotyk