Spain’s greatest beat group, Los Bravos scored a huge hit in the United States with this tune in 1966. Unfortunately, by 1967, the group began to disintegrate after the suicide of organist Manuel Fernández, who had just lost his bride to an auto accident.
Music
[Music] Marie Yacoub et Malicorne – Une fille dans le désespoir
Beautiful prog-folk from the legendary French band Malicorne.
[Music] Wang Wen – Sky of Dalian
Wang Wen are China’s top post-rock band.
[Music] David Bowie & Klaus Nomi – The Man Who Sold The World
You expect David Bowie to tear up his own song in an amazing performance. You don’t expect Klaus Nomi to join him and up the weird quotient a thousand fold. This collaboration was done on SNL many years ago.
[Music] Sahar Sahra – Godar
It’s not often that I run into some charming music out of Afghanistan. Sahar Sahra is one of the country’s biggest stars currently.
[Music] Saniboj Žugić – Uživo Kuća (1978)
Saniboj Žugić is a composer of electroacoustic music who hailed from Zagreb, Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia.
[Music/Theater] Libaaxyada Maaweeliska Banaadir – Naga Tag, Kac Hooyaa (Get Lost! Rise Up! Got It?)
Another treasure from Reddit, it turns out that Libaaxyada Maaweeliska Banaadir (Banaadir Entertainment Lions) was a theater group from Mogadishu who mixed talented veterans with burgeoning new talent from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, before everything went to Hell.
For more on the story of Libaaxyada Maaweeliska Banaadir, check out this blog post from Likembe.
[Music] Bango – Hell the World (Inferno No Mundo)
This came as a nice surprise while checking out some fuzz-laden garage tracks on Reddit today. As it turns out, Bango also have this available via Bandcamp.
[Music] Cranioclast – Vanorum Mare
Cranioclast were from Hagen, Germany, and were one of the most interesting of the German cassette label projects I used to collect. They ventured into making a couple of vinyl records and CDs, but then disappeared into the ether. They’re a group crying out for a reissue campaign, definitely.
[Music] Björk – Pagan Poetry
Björk seemed to be peaking when she recorded this track for her 2011 album, Vespertine. If you’ve ever had the chance to hear this in 5.1 Surround Sound, it’s a delight to the ears.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 