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TOP 2009 [r.stones]
I usually don’t follow new bands, albums or trends. To be honest, I love to discover past releases that went unnoticed until a blog or someone dig it. But from the new things I heard, these are the 10% who deserve to be here (I may be forgetting someone):
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Circulatory System – Signal Morning
Drive-By Truckers - Fine Print
Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - The Audacity Of Hype
Jesu - Opiate Sun (EP)
John Foxx And Robin Guthrie - Mirrorball
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo
Sun O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
TOP 2009 [soidemersol]
Not a year of new releases for me, but of going deep into some roots and folkloric music, specially brazilian. Anyway, here are a few things that did not pass unnoticed:
Dälek
(2009) Gutter Tacticts / V2
Alva Noto
(2009) Xerox vol. 2 / V0
B Fachada
(2009) B Fachada / 192k
Honorable mention (try our artists index for most of it):
Giuseppe Ielasi - Aix
Romulo Fróes - No Chão Sem o Chão
Wavves - S/T
V.A. - Dirt Beneath the Daydream (A Collection of Sound from Aotearoa/New Zealand)
B Fachada - Um Fim-de-semana no Pónei Dourado
Matrix Metals - Flamingo Breeze
John Frusciante - The Empyrean
Atom TM - Liedgut
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Samuel Úria - Nem Lhe Tocava
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Zu - Carboniferous
Made me nauseous:
Molina & Johnson - S/T
Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Devendra Banhart - What Will Be
Cocorosie - Coconuts, Plenty of Junk Food
Bob Mould - Life and Times
Zola Jesus - New Amsterdam
TOP 2009 [joao filho]
group doueh treeg sallan
olaibi tingaruda
animal collective merriweather post pavilion
ooioo armonico hewa
tomutonttu tomutonttu
caetano veloso zii e zie
mf doom born like this
wet hair dream
fiery furnaces im going away
eric copeland RGAR
dinosaur jr farm
wolf eyes aways wrong
b fachada um fim de semana no pónei dourado
lightning bolt early delights
matrix metals flamingo breeze
cidadão instigado uhuu!
omar souleyman dabke 2020
black dice repo
excepter black beach
pumice persevere
group bombino guitars from agadez volume II
the parasails skylife
black pus 0: ultimate beat off
tortoise beacons of ancestorship
ducktails landscapes
high places and soft circle SPLIT
wavves wavves
jackie o-motherfucker ballads of the revolution
asa-chang and junray kage no nai hito
grizzly bear veckatimest
giusepi lelasi aix
Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho
Paêbirú is an obscure Brazilian psych concept album about the four elements (earth, air, fire, water) that was lost to time in a warehouse fire in 1974, causing it to become a massively sought-after lost classic, fetching up to $1500 for vinyl copies.
This recording of the collaboration between Brazilian artists Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho is a wonderfully off-kilter record, full of fantastic hooky and strange tunes that range all over the place, from full-on freakouts to quiet pastoral. The entire range of 1970s hippie Brazilian musician culture is displayed in this record. It’s experimental, but it's relentlessly driven towards fun. If you like good music, you will like this legendary album untouched by time.
The closest comparison might be to combine Amon Düül with Sunburned Hand of the Man and perhaps Double Leopards, if they lived on a commune together in Brazil and recorded while indulging in mass quantities of narcotics.
(1975) Paêbirú / 320k
Satwa
Seemingly taped live, each track is a dry documentation of the duo's gently rambling improvisations. Far from the recombinant psychedelia of tropicalismo that reigned over the pre-hippie underground in Brazil's bustling metropolises five years earlier, Satwa play bed peace bards. In double-mono, or fake stereo, Satwa is raw, untreated mentalism translated into pure songflow. At times exhausted and dusty – "Atom" – or archaically splendorous – "Valse Dos Cogumelos" – the duo's spiraling scrolls etched in rustic timbres unfurl gracefully. (dusted)
(1973) Satwa / V0
Elomar
Elomar is one of the most personal Brazilian composers. He expresses in music the culture of his region, a part of the northeast that has developed through the centuries a spoken dialect and a musical folklore based in medieval modal influences received by successive waves of European invaders. His production has an ambivalent quality, at the same time unpolished and sophisticated. His violão playing is very authoritative (in his style), as he had classical formation. (amg)
(1973) Das Barrancas do Rio Gavião / 320k
Beto Guedes
Beto Guedes was an active member of the Clube da Esquina (Club on the Corner), a musical movement that gave national projection to Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Fernando Brant and himself. He often shared the staged with progressive rock band 14 Bis and released his first LP, "A Página do Relâmpago Elétrico", in 1977. In the following year, the album "Amor de Índio" featured the title track as the greatest hit in his career, which he keeps going to this day.
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(1978) Amor de Índio / ~210 ABR
Joseph Spence
Sam Charters first recorded Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence on Andros Island in July 1958. Spence, long out of work as a stonemason, had used his time to perfect a unique style of playing. Charters took Spence as a model for what he wanted to hear in other Bahamian guitarists. Originally issued in 1959 as Folkways 3844 and part of Folkways 3847. (folkways)
(1992) The Complete Folkways Recordings 1958 / V0
Os Tincoãs
Os Tincoãs were a Brazilian popular music band from Bahia, primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s. They are named after the Tincoa bird. Surviving member Mateus Aleluia is still very active in singing and songwriting. (wiki)
Primarily samba influenced, with lyrics recurring to candomblé (afro-brazilian religion) imagery.
(1973) Os Tincoãs / 320k
Samuel Úria
In his debut, portuguese Samuel Úria is Elvis, a black reverend, Variações, Vitorino, Nick Cave and Waits. And it is always good.
For all Samuel Úria has released over the years on street releases, CD-Rs and compilations, for all that has been seen in videos on YouTube or live, his official debut album became one of the most anticipated pieces of 2009.
(2009) Nem Lhe Tocava / 320k
Naire
Brazilian extremely rare album of an artist almost unknown; there is not even a release about him. We can say is a progressive folk with typical Brazilian elements.
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