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artist: faction focus
album: descubrir-0

track 01: it seeps through the floorboards
track 02: 1st sunset
track 03: earmark
track 04: a thorn that bleeds the eye
track 05: 14 hare
track 06: then / there
track 07: reflect
track 08: such soft cashmere
track 09: the caverns
track 10: mantid
track 11: how did this happen
track 12: re-reflect
track 13: 2nd sunset

album rating: 10/10

this is perhaps the greatest hidden gem i've unearthed. everything about this album is magical. the atmosphere. the vocals. the songwriting. even the song titles bait the mystery. such a great balance of songwriting and experimentation here. perfection.
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artist: martha correia
album: stranger, hold me

track 01: bees are buzzin' 'round
track 02: plutôt bon!
track 03: orcas
track 04: evening sorrow
track 05: a stroll through the garden
track 06: the city is a broken piano
track 07: avaient connu une voix
track 08: love from the airline / time i was
track 09: 'til time
track 10: dreams / joy's hour
track 11: les comprendront...
track 12: stranger, hold me
track 13: don't say it
track 14: i try to say goodbye

album rating: 7/10

when brutal honesty shares its light without dwelling too heavily on cynicism. there's a refreshing sense of optimism on this rather pleasant record.
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artist: gary lucas
album: the edge of heaven

track 01: old dreams
track 02: please allow me look at you again
track 03: the mad world
track 04: the wall
track 05: if i’m without you
track 06: a night in shanghai
track 07: where is my home
track 08: songstress on the edge of heaven
track 09: i wait for your return
track 10: pretense
track 11: the moon in the street

album rating: 9/10

gary lucas clearly loves these songs, and his dedication to representing them with accuracy reflects this, and he delivers exactly what he promised, no more and no less: old chinese pop songs reinterpreted on guitar. it’s really cool.
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jeff and tim never had a close relationship, meeting only once in their short lifetimes, but some of their best works centered around each other.

jeff buckley: what will you say?
tim buckley: i never asked to be your mountain
tim buckley: dream letter
jeff buckley: dream brother

the stories of these two are tragedy on top of tragedy. tim buckley's father beat him. jeff buckley's father deserted him. and they both died way too young...

† tim buckley - 28 yr
† jeff buckley - 30 yr

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it's interesting how closely entwined liz fraser got herself involved with the buckleys. she was a huge fan of tim buckley's music and famously covered his song to the siren in the 1980s.

tim buckley: song to the siren
this mortal coil: song to the siren

a young jeff buckley wrote her fanmail thanking her for her stunning cover. later, as jeff buckley began to establish himself as a musician, liz fraser admitted in an interview that she was a big fan of jeff's. shortly after, the two met and had a bit of a whirlwind romance, resulting in a brief collaboration and a handful of songs directed at each other.

liz fraser & jeff buckley: all flowers in time bend towards the sun

cocteau twins: rilkean heart
jeff buckley: thousand fold
jeff buckley: morning theft
massive attack: teardrop

according to legend, liz fraser was in the studio recording teardrop the day jeff buckley died. she has dabbled in musical projects on and off since then, but she mostly stepped away from the music scene after jeff's demise.

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jeff buckley called nusrat fateh ali khan his elvis and reportedly owned over a hundred cassette tapes of qawwali music, studying nusrat's music religiously and learning the punjabi lyrics to a few of his compositions, including his famous sin-e performance.

nusrat fateh ali khan: yeh jo halka halka suroor hai
jeff buckley: yeh jo halka halka suroor hai

he eventually had the opportunity to interview nusrat fateh ali khan, and the two became friends. a book published around the time of their deaths interviewed both of them extensively about music and spirituality. they died just a few months apart.

† nusrat fateth ali khan - august 16, 1997
† jeff buckley - may 29, 1997

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--- MISCELLANEOUS ---
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there are other connections that probably aren't so strange considering the industry, but tim buckley was friends with leonard cohen (hallelujah) and gary lucas (captain beefheart guitarist who co-wrote mojo pin and grace).
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• Ahluwalia, Kiran : Hayat
  
• Akhtar, Najma : Har Sitam Aap Ka
  
• Atlas, Natacha : Marifnaash
  
• Badjogo, Pamela : Ngoka
  
• Bonet, Khadja : Delphine
  
• Buckley, Timothy Charles III : Happy Time
  
• Cohen, Leonard Norman : Everybody Knows
  
• Dalmais, Camille : The Monk
  
• Egilstrøð, Anna Katrin : Kelling
  
• Fraser, Elizabeth Davidson : Suckling The Mender
  
• Gibbons, Beth : Hunter
  
• Guðmundsdóttir, Björk : Hunter
  
• Hendrix, Johnny Allen "Jimi" : All Along The Watchtower
  
• Hewson, Paul "Bono" : The Unforgettable Fire
  
• Jones, Esther Mae "Esther Phillips" : Esther Phillips
  
• Khaing, Shwe Shwe : Glorious Sun
  
• Khan, Pervez "Nursat" Fateh Ali : Sanu Ek Pal Chain Na Aave
  
• Khan, Muazzam Mujahid Ali : Nara Ya Farid
  
• Khan, Rahat Fateh Ali : Kainda e Qalandar Ali Ali
  
• Khan, Rizwan Mujahid Ali : Nara Ya Farid
  
• Kher, Kailash : Daulat Shohrat
  
• Lyons, Geoffrey "Tahir Hussain Faridi Qawwal" : Raag Yaman Alap
  
• Martial, Leïla : Chiaroscuro
  
• Moorhead, Jeffrey Scott "Buckley" : Dream Brother
  
• Morrissey, Steven Patrick : Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
  
• Na, Yoon-sun : Breakfast In Baghdad
  
• Namtchylak, Sainkho : Order to Survive
  
• Pálsdóttir, Eivør : Trøllabundin
  
• Parveen, Abida : Ji Chahe
  
• Piaf, Édith : Sous Se Ciel De Paris
  
• Robinson, Janelle Monáe : Come Alive (The War Of The Roses)
  
• Rudolph, Minnie Julia Riperton : Reasons
  
• Severson, Edward Louis III "Vedder" : Black
  
• Spalding, Esperanza Emily : Judas
  
• Sundfør, Susanne Aartun : The Brothel
  
• Shwe, Khine Zin : Glorious Sun
  
• Tassa, David "Dudu" : Al Hilwa W'al Murra
  
• Tate, August Cinjun & Shelby : Gramarye
  
• Tzur, Shye Ben : To Die In Love
  
• Wang, Xia Lin "Fei" : 你快樂 所以我快樂
  
• Waymon, Eunice Kathleen "Nina Simone" : Don't Explain
  

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triumvirate of golden voices circa early to mid twentieth century:

eleanora fagan (billie holiday)
su pu / wang xiaohong / zhou xiaohong (zhou xuan)
edith giovanna gassion (edith piaf)

every single one of these stars overcame major adversity. be it racism, cultural oppression, poverty, child prostitution (terrible descriptor; see: statutory rape), or being sold by their own family to feed an opium addiction (su pu), it amazes me to no end what these women accomplished, inspiring hundreds of millions of people all around the globe over their brief lives.
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Abida Parveen :: Ji Chahe
Anoushka Shankar :: Say Your Prayers
A.R. Rahman, Javed Ali, Mohit Chauhan :: Kun Faya Kun
Badar Ali Khan :: How Beautiful
Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis :: La Trib Ani Utruch
Faiz Ali Faiz, Titi Robin :: Ya Ali
Fanna-Fi-Allah :: Man Ke Mohan
Gevende, Murat Ferhat Yegul, Sinan Sakizli :: Anonim
Ghazal :: My Eyes, My Heart
Indialucia :: Kyabathe
Jaubi, Tenderlonious, Latarnik :: Raga Gujri Todi
Kailash Kher :: Sanu Ik Pal/Tere Bina
Kiran Ahluwalia :: Mustt Mustt
Mercan Dede, Ceza :: Istanbul
Najma :: Har Sitam Aap Ka
Natacha Atlas, Jocelyn Pook :: Hallelujah
Niqolah Seeva :: 3Ne
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan :: Sanware Tore Bin Jiya
Parvyn :: Jara
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan :: Charkha
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali, Temple of Sound :: The Jewelled Heart
Shye Ben Tzur :: Dancing
Shusheela Raman, Naushad :: Mohabbat Ki Jhooti Kahani
Talvin Singh, Niladri Kumar :: River
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Naika mitlite icht me-sáh-chie tenas man.
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