Here is an all non-english mixtape that I made for some friends (with descriptions for them):

Tracklisting:
1. Caetano Veloso – “Alfomega” – Ground zero for Brazilian tropicalia music. The laid back cool delivery of this cannot be beat.
2. Selda Bagcan – “Mehmet Emmi” – Turkish psyche folk from 1976. Space age Anatolian brilliance.
3. Extra Golden – “Ok-Oyot System” – Kenyan benga band Orchestra Extra Solar Africa teams up with D.C.’s Golden for a fantastic collaboration.
4. Fred Frith (with Iva Bittova) – “Morning Song” – Czechoslovakian Iva Bittova’s vocals and amazing violin make this track a definite standout on the soundtrack to Frith’s documentary “Step Across the Border.”
5. Gal Costa – “Sebastiana” – Here is an absolutely frantic track from the queen of Brazilian music
6. Ghost – “Soma” – Hailing from Japan, Ghost is the closest thing to a 70’s Canterbury prog band out right now.
7. Harmonia – “Deluxe (Immer Wieder)” – Trancey Eno influenced krautrock from the members of Cluster.
8. Magma – “Maahnt” – Christian Vander’s brilliant French prog band Magma singing in their made up language Kobaïan. You wish you were this creative.
9. Ennio Morricone – “Le Foto Proibite Di Una Singnora Per Bene” – 60’s Italian soundtrack fun from the master composer
10. Serge Gainsbourg – “Hotel Particulier” – Obligatory Serge track. How far ahead of it’s time is the instrumentation on this?
11. Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto – “So Danco Samba” – Your parents or grandparents probably have this record…go steal it.
12. T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo – “Avoun Doupou Me Douga” – Great afrobeat from the “Kings of Benin.”

download here - http://www.sendspace.com/file/tls8qg

I have a couple Caetano albums if anyone's interested. I would really like to get into some of the noisier Brazilian Tropicalismo, if anyone has any recommendations.

I posted a bunch of brazilian music (including a Caetano album) way back in this thread, I don't think it'll still be online, though.

Year Long Distaster - s/t EP

YLD are Daniel Davies, son of Ray, on guitar and vocals, with Rich Mullins from the mighty Karma To Burn on bass and Brad Hargreaves of Third Eye Blind, of all people, on drums.

Kick-ass, gritty hard rock with Davies' damaged, insistent vocals and irresistibly engaging, driving melodies. I dig the shit out of this 7-song EP (is that really an EP anymore?).

NC

ant man bee wrote:. Magma – “Maahnt”

this has always been my favorite magma song (or close).

Thanks for the Howlin' Wolf, Minotaur. It's amazing hearing the little atmospherics and nuances that have been consistently stolen by generations of bands.

I'm waiting on you Skronk. Just kidding. Thanks in advance.

You peoples are the hottest audio pimps ever.

I've been having problems with my connection. I'll hopefully have it up tomorrow.

Colonel Panic wrote:I have a couple Caetano albums if anyone's interested. I would really like to get into some of the noisier Brazilian Tropicalismo, if anyone has any recommendations.

I p osted those Os Mutantes Records real early in the thread, but the links, I'm sure, are dead. I don't have the time this week toupload it, but if someone has snagged them and would like to do the rounds this time, please do.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3v5pln


"Half Alive is an essential reissue of the original ROIR cassette from 1981, compiling extremely rare early demo material and live tracks from 1974-1979. It's a mesmerizing, confrontational listen, and even more importantly – when contextualized in that time period, that harsh and beautiful juxtaposition of futuristic minimalism and anachronistic crooning (imagine Gene Vincent cornered on a mixture of quaaludes and speed), is confounding. Vega's scream is as damn reckless, damn frightening, and as full of abandon as a Stooges live show from the early '70s. Suicide went on to record a handful of indispensable albums before splitting up and reuniting innumerable times. If nothing else, this collection documents the peculiar fury of proto-industrial music prior to its eventual emasculation and/or reconfiguration as the millieu of studio hounds and gothic make-up artists." AMG

Luther Thomas~ Funky Donkey Vols 1&2 (1973)



http://www.sendspace.com/file/5jzidd

Recorded in a church in 1973, this is one of the great lost albums of '70s free jazz. The label "free," though, is something of a misnomer. There's structure here, just not a classical, rigid, "now it's your turn" thing that binds so much of jazz. Here the structure is supplied by mutual respect and the kind of telepathy that only comes from long sessions and careful study of the rules before you break them. Sure, this stuff is loose, but it stomps, it sways, and, good Lord, it swings. Just the thing to get us into church. As an added note, Charles "Bobo" Shaw is, as always, a revelation.



James Chance & The Contortions~ Soul Exorcism Redux



http://www.sendspace.com/file/2cn1jx

Remastered reissue with three bonus tracks added for extra punch ("Disposable You #2," "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing," "Truth or Consequence"...all three taken from a four-track recording session in 1987). This disc is a live recording of the band playing in Rotterdam, Holland in 1980. Must've been a wild night. This hot, blistering session features throbbing rhythms, James Chance's raw and intense vocals, and some crazy instrumental improvisation. While tons of artists are playing this style of music today, way back in the early 1980s James Chance and his associates were treading new territory. The band's music incorporates ingredients from rock, punk, modern jazz, experimental, and progressive rock into one big bad nasty stew. On that fateful night, the band consisted of Chance, Patrick Geoffrois, Fred Wells, Lorenzo Wyche, Al McDowell, Richi Harrison, and Anya Phillips. This is some pretty great stuff.