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I had a great feeling about this scottish folk band when I decided to attend their concert. I was surprised after finding out that my feeling was in fact... very low. Their live performance was astonishing, impossible to stand still for a second. Croftwork is a fantastic title, mixing total joy and melancholy. Violins, bagpipes, accoustic guitars, electronic beats, you name it. It all ends being

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Mew got very famous to the portuguese indie music lovers after having their debut single Comforting Sounds as the background soundtrack of a national mobile telecommunications operator television campaign. I remember myself and my music loving friends all trying to find out where that track came from. Finally it was no more a secret. A brand new space pop danish band formed by four young guys

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The perfect blending of Sigur Rós and Múm. Jimmy LaValle's, guitarrist of Tristeza, is the only man behind this solo project. In this album, all the previous compositions were reworked and became something that I consider a perfect masterpiece. Jimmy's particular electronic percussions and simple drums are a clear winner. Sigur Rós participation resulted in a track from the sky, Over The Pond.The

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Pascal Arbez's solo debut album is to me the most gorgeous Electro demonstration so far. Its french sweet touch results in perfect melodies and drumming games that exclude the need of human voice. OK Cowboy is probably the best general electronic release of 2005. Its quality recalls the greatly gifted Daft Punk and Air, both projects also curiously french.Trahison, track number 11, awakes my

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I've never listened to such a sweet melodic rock. Conor Oberst's project Bright Eyes sounds like a sometimes untuned voice playing along with some little electronic and guitar strings vibrations. Digital Ash In A Digital Urn grabs your smile from the very begining, always throwing out happy songs for happy people. Sometimes you may think you're listening to Waterboys, others to Green Day. In the

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Think latin, think gypsy, think mexican. That is what Lhasa de Sela's La Llorona is all about, folk at its best. La Llorona is an Aztec mythological figure said to sing to men and turn them to stone as a punishment. You can safely listen to the album without worry as Lhasa's voice will at most petrify you in the best sense of the word. The Spanish lyrics add an extra mistery to those who can't

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Somewhere between Indie Pop and Electronica, this German band has caught my attention since the very first listening. Owners of a male voice sounding like Pet Shop Boys's Neil Tennant speaking while singing, they reach the end of imagination and offer us hipnotizing melodic soundscapes. Yet just another perfect album, human creation, be prepared for a terribly consuming final track. Consequence

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Nordic folk revivalism at its best, that's what this quartet from Finland and Sweden has to offer. Making use of drums from all over the world, didgeridoos and a super fine female voice, Gjallarhorn takes you to a mythological trip where stories are told. Sjofn is named after the goddess, trying to request her energy to this top class world music album. The beautiful language adds a magical

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Iceland is, like Norway, an example of how small can be good. Most people associate the country with Bjork, but the Icelandic music scene is way beyond the queen. If you think I'm talking about the Sigur Ros hype then keep reading. I was introduced to a gentleman called Mugison the day I watched a Mum concert in Lisbon. He performed the first part. I could mainly see himself, a guitar and a

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Although it has a very small population, Norway has one of the finest music quality rate in the world. You may think of Röyksopp as its best reference project, but the irreverent Kaizers Orchestra is undoubtedly the most original of them. Presenting a risky mixture of rock, jazz and European folk, the sextet from Bergen (the city that has given us most of Norway's best music) grabs your attention

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It may sound like an entire Balcan gypsy orchestra, but Beirut is actually a one-man project, 19-year-old at he moment. Zach Condon is an Albuquerque native (U.S.A.) who has composed an album sounding like something between Talking Heads and Yann Tiersen.It's hard to choose a sample track, but I would pick Mount Wroclai (Idle Days), the 6th track, as certainly one of the most marvelous

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Some months ago I watched the French documentary La Marche de L'Empereur in a movie theater. I may start to say that it is the most beautiful nature documentary I've ever seen. But half of its magic is due to its original soundtrack. French singer and composer Emilie Simon had the task to surround the image with a wonderful sound atmosphere. And she has so done it. The first thing I did when I

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Now famous icelandic Sigur Ros always have been my heroes since their not less famous Agaetis Byrjun, surpassing my worshiping target Jean-Michel Jarre from the times I was a teenager. But suddenly the unthinkable happened and I met this not much known French project weirdly named M83 after a galaxy that made me believe that music will evolve forever. Some few listenings to their last album

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Why should we listen to what is forcedly pushed into our ears everyday? The so acclaimed commercial music surrounds us from radio to television to internet. Many years ago I decided to start exploring world music. I was sick of the very same American crap. I never fully understood why every junk project from the U.S.A. had the power (and the supposed quality) to appear in every foreign radio and

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