Today’s title is a single track, combining Lithuanian chanteuse Laurita Peleniūtė and the Latvian ethno-folk group Auļi performing a folkloric track which blends both Baltic cultures’ best features together seamlessly.
What a stunning way to end 2022! Jeff Gburek scores six pieces which have absorbed themselves into my listening space. This isn’t music to merely listen to – it is music that you feel. There is so much happening in the music that even microtones give you a tingling sensation. This must be the Schuman …
“Never meet your heroes”. If Víkingur Ólafsson had followed this advice, this gem of an album would have never come into existence. Having loved the … Víkingur Ólafsson ~ From Afar
I hate turbofolk, but there is a sick charm to the genre. A Youtuber called snakelover23 is the one who originally posted this video, but I can’t seem to find his account. This is a repost.
From the label’s Bandcamp site: Wewantsounds continues its collaboration with Bob Shad’s formidable label Mainstream Records, to present a selection of 12 turntable-friendly tracks recorded between 1971 and 1975 and showcasing the label’s superb blend of Spiritual Jazz, Funk and Soul by the likes of Buddy Terry, Sarah Vaughan, LaMont Johnson and Johnny Coles. Most …
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“Daniel Figgis was making post-classical/post-rock music years before either of those terms gained currency.” – John Schaefer, WNYC: NEW SOUNDS For those who spent their years listening to great radio, that quote alone should tell you the value of the music of Daniel Figgis. With a storied body of work behind him and a slew …
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Your taste in music is your own. We’re merely here to supplement it. Music You Need To Hear is the website of Rudy Carrera, a blogger, A&R manager, label owner and record store buyer based in Los Angeles, Brno and Beijing, who has spent the majority of his adult life promoting music of all kinds, …