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Artist: Goat Website: www.myspace.com/goatisevil Track Name: Moon Rises Playback: flash Download?: No (pity) Jools sent me this yesterday with a note that read “One for You”… however did she guess. This is another for the hard listening” file. So if you are looking for something jolly, try this from Shortwave Dahlia more about them next [...]

Artist: Cmy Website: www.myspace.com/cmyjazzda or www.last.fm/music/Cmy Track Name: The Truth & The Lie Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes I was wandering through Last-FM and clicking acts at random to see what happened (think of it as musical Russian Roulette… you never know which one is going to knock you out) and found Polish foggy/jazzy duo: Milton [...]

Artist: Jenny Scheinman Website: www.jennyscheinman.com/ Track Name: The Frog Threw His Head Back And Laughed or Song of the Open Road (it’s too hard to make up my mind) Playback: mp3 Download?: Yes Categorising music is so bloody difficult. I tend to mainly to work from the “feel” method, you know the stuff that sort [...]

Artist: LVX Nova Website: LVX Nova Track Name: S Love Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes Time for another Chill piece (where does a week go?) , S-Love and Kyoto Nights are two of the slower tracks on my “walking” playlist. The “walking” playlist runs from about 130BPM to 180BPM and is the music I play when [...]

Artist: Andrew Bird Website: www.andrewbird.net/ or www.myspace.com/andrewbird Track Name: Heretics Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes Andrew Bird started his musical career in the nineties playing violin with the Squirrel Nut Zippers and over the next ten years he managed to blend rock, folk, jazz and retro swing music in ways that seem frankly mindbending. After the [...]

Artist: Cassandra Wilson Website: www.cassandrawilson.com/ or Blue Note Records Track Name: It Would Be So Easy Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes A slightly different tack for today’s chill piece. I was reading about the Jazz Festivals about to happen in New York and happened across a potted bio of Cassandra Wilson. It made for an intriguing [...]

Artist: Aleksi Virta Website: www.archive.org/details/mtk123 Track Name: princess melodiae Playback: mp3/flash Download?: Yes I am a regular lurker at the Analogue Industries blog of Chris Randall and last week he posted an entry musing on “The Nature Of Things (click the link to read the post). The album that prompted the post was by Aleksi [...]