Lokai is the Austrian-duo comprised of Florian Kmet and Stefan Németh (Radian/Németh), who have taken their hands-on approach to produce electric guitar decked to the hilt with effects; intertwined with fiendishly processed electronic noise. Though they crafts a delicate balance of human touch and machinated noise, these pieces are not mere cerebral exercises. They hint at the lushness one can find in a bare landscape, the richness in the slightest movement.
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Paine and Youngs started working together in 1998 as Ilk (their prog-rock tribute band) and then had waited 7 years until they released their second record. But from 2006 they have been recording very often and at this point they output together is something like 15 albums.

Most of them were released on Paine's home-made cd-r label - Sonic Oyster Records. They are very limited and cheap, so i suggest you should buy some before they disappear - here.
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This is quite a nice cassette that came from somewhere at some point, when and where I do not know. Maybe the Moroccan black market. Mahmoud Guinia plays gnawa music, which by African/Arabic tradition is religious and celebratory, and his playing here is rather suitably life-affirming. That DIY instrument he's holding on the cover/playing is a sintir (or guembri, take your pick), and as you can see it is a three-stringed lute-type thing that originated from Morocco.
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Jeph Jerman is an artist interested in natural sounds and possibilities of transforming them. So he often improvise using objects like sticks, leaves, shells, stones (for example in Animist Orchestra which he founded) or record ants walking on the contact mike. But he has also created collage tape-music under Hands To moniker. He was involved in the ensembles like City of Worms, Blowhole.

Art Fleury were an italian band from Brescia composed of young musicians politically active with the extreme left, which brought them somehow closer to Area and to tour with Henry Cow. After Die Schachtel re-printed their first album I luoghi del potere (in a fantastic package with an exhaustive booklet), some attention was brought again upon them, but unluckily their other LPs are still unavailable.
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I can't find information on this album, at least not with this spelling. If you happen to have insight, please put it in the comments. From what I can gather, this is experimental ambiance mixed with vocals. Not unlike a late-70s Italian counterpart to Sylvia Hallett or Scott Walker, with 'Ode to Joy' flourishes in a couple spots. Very spaced out, very empty at times, but the textures are great, as is the sequencing.
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I admit, this is a lot to take in. Rather beautiful songs based on African tribal music, and, even more excitingly, compositions of hand claps, all interspersed with Gyorgy's striking piano etudes. I don't know what else to say, but African rhythms and clapping music by Ligeti and Reich should be enough...
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I'm still in the right mood for checking out all the releases for 2008 so as to accomplish my year end list mission.

This is the record by Grit, one of the finest deep/abstract dub techno collections for 2008. Beautiful soundscapes and very nice layering of dub/ambience atmosphere; a versatile record that you can chill with or as the background music for latenights meditations, late night driving or a good companion while enjoying your black coffee.
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Ram Narayan is noted as the Sarangi connoisseur in Hindustani classical music. Basically, it's a type of Indian lute that you play with a bow and was originally used as a backdrop in vocal music. Narayan, however, brought it to the forefront, and this collection of songs is a great example of the beautiful, swelling drones he managed to create with the instrument.
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The greatest collection of songs (Qawwal, ghazal and kafi) I have heard from this amazing Pakistani vocalist. The comparisons with Nusrat are fairly adequate; every track on here is spiritually impassioned and delivered perfectly. The first song, the sole Qawwal (traditionally male territory), is as infectiously rhythmic as Aziz Mian and venturesome in both it's (almost narrative) build-up and the resultant journey it propels unto thee listener.

For fans of: Baboo.
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