Dark, scratchy, and feverishly creepy. This is the hallucinatory soundscape of Klara Lewis, an amazing artist recording for Editions Mego, one of Austria’s coolest weirdo-electronica labels.
Music Videos
[Music] Junior Murvin – Police and Thieves
One of reggae’s sweetest voices, Junior Murvin making singing about corruption sound cool.
[Music] Sofa Surfers – Long Bone
My Facebook friend, Rididillo Theitalian, has long been a source of wonderful music for me. She goes down memory lane to dig up The Sofa Surfers, an Austrian project mixing trip hop, dub and acid jazz together flawlessly.
[Music] DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels – Nobody Speak
This would make the debates more interesting. Despite the cheap shot to one of the candidates (which is no surprise – I don’t expect a clean fight from anyone, but I also don’t expect sissified whining and bitching when it happens to their candidate), DJ Shadow makes a perfect video for the electoral season.
[Music] Zakir Hussain – The Great Indian Desert
Zakir Hussain is one of India’s national treasures. The tabla player is featured here providing a wonderful beat for this tune.
[Music] Incredible String Band – Creation
The Incredible String Band were at their best when the Scottish acid folkies would just let go and jam for long stretches at a time.
[Music] Rishad Shafi & Gunesh – Baikonur
Rishad Shafi was a drummer and percussionist from Turkmenistan who headed the best prog band out of Central Asia in the 1980s, Gunesh.
[Music] Toots Thielemans – Estate
Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans, known to millions of fans as ‘Toots‘, passed away yesterday at the age of 94. If you were ever a fan of Sesame Street as a child, you already know his work, as the whistling you hear is his, uncredited.
Rest in peace, Toots.
[Music] Damir Imamović’s Sevdah Takht – Sarajevo
I haven’t heard of anything good coming out of Bosnia-Herzegovina recently due to a lack of good contacts in the area. However, judging by the work of Damir Imamović, the scene looks to be doing just fine.
[Music] Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia – Dlaczego wschodni wiatr niesie mróz
I’m not sure if Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia (Orchestra of the Eighth Day) would qualify as a world music band, an experimental project, or an improv group, but leader Jan A. P. Kaczmarek has gone on to making some rather good movie soundtracks.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 