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		<title>Free music: Control K &#8211; &#8216;The Front Line (Redux)&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Globalism</dc:creator>
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As a part of the promotion for my recently launched new website, I am highlighting different features on this blog that are available in more detail over there. This post contains free downloads and an album player fo...]]></description>
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		<title>Free music for Japan (&#8216;The Sun Will Rise&#8217;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Globalism</dc:creator>
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<tr> <td>Many people around the world were quick to react to the Japanese  earthquake/tsunami and reach out to those affected, through donations of  cash, goods or time. The immediacy of the needs combined with the platform of the internet also led to some innovative approaches to fundraising.</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td>&#60;p&#62;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-will-rise-2"&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The Sun Will Rise = by The Sun Will Rise: An Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#60;/p&#62;</td> <td>One such example is the crowd-sourced book '<a href="http://www.quakebook.org/">2:46 - Aftershocks</a>' (previously written about <a href="http://postingsfromanedge.blogspot.com/2011/03/quake-gallery.html">here</a>). Another project, which has received far less publicity than the book, is the new album release '<a href="http://internetlabelcompilation.blogspot.com/">The Sun Will Rise</a>'. I've got a track on it too, so have another reason to want to spread the word.<br />
<br />
Started by ambient musician <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/saffronslumber">Kevin Stephens</a> from Portland Oregon a few days after the first quake, the 'double disc' collection was released online on April 17th. With contributions, musical and otherwise, flooding in via tweets, blog posts and Facebook status updates, the entire project went from idea to realisation in a little over a month.<br />
<br />
The compilation has its roots in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel">netlabel</a> scene. Netlabels are <a href="http://www.netlabelindex.com/">online record labels</a> that distribute music entirely over the internet via digital audio formats and typically give away the music for free under 'free to share' licences. With no physical product to contend with, the running costs of such a label are considerably lower than those of a traditional record label (if not non-existent). The element of curation that comes with a label means that there is also a level of quality control over the music. Although many netlabels deal mostly with electronic music, there are other genres of music also released in this way, as the tracks in the player on this page should show.</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td>Despite this music generally being made available for free, '<a href="http://internetlabelcompilation.blogspot.com/">The Sun Will Rise</a>' is intended as a charity project with 100% of proceeds raised going directly to the <a href="http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002144.html">Japanese Red Cross</a>. This is why downloads are completely free and donations are requested via a separate page at <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/dy/fundraiser/prevfund/gg.html?regid=5070">globalgiving.org</a>. The album itself is available from profiles at both <a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> and the <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TheSunWillRise">Internet Archive</a>.<br />
<br />
I must admit that the first 'disc', an entirely ambient collection, isn't completely to my tastes. The tracks are glacially slow, somewhat meditative, and almost uniformly rather dark sounding. This is perhaps inevitable for music inspired by the worst natural disaster ever to hit the benefiting country and perhaps likely for a collection that has emerged from the ambient community, but it doesn't seem a natural candidate for taking the project to a wider audience. I'm a fan of ambient music myself in some cases, but I do prefer a slight sense of narrative to what I listen to. However, it will undoubtedly have an audience with the right set of ears.<br />
<br />
The second collection is the more accessible one. It opens with <b>Kristopher Fisher</b>'s 'Tsunami', an building orchestral swell with a sense of large pending waves. The punky 'Another way of living' leads on to the gorgeously spacious 'Essex' by <b>Mark Preston</b>. </td> <td><br />
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<tr> <td><div>'Going My Way' is a fairly jaunty acoustic romp, followed by 'My Heart  Bleeps Noisy Beeps', a high school electro jaunt that in parts conjures up  early 80's New Wave. <b>Liam Stewart</b>'s 'German Army Coat' is up next, a  thoughtful guitar-based piece reminiscent of an upbeat Joy Division  after a bit of a lie down.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The next piece is the one that I was involved with. Now I am back in Brighton, I have started working again with an old band mate from <a href="http://www.soundsphenomenal.org/Zamora_home.htm">The Zamora</a>. The first fruits of this project (dubbed <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nasatechnicalstation">NASA Technical Station</a>) is titled 'Stenographic Records' and was essentially put together in a night - specifically for this album. I sequenced the beats and other samples, Steve played guitar over the top plus added a bass line, then I topped it off with a vocal (a reading of a speech given by someone from Japan's 1960's space programme). We were a little surprised yet rather thrilled to have been selected to appear on the album - an encouraging sign for such a new project. If you like the track, you can comment on it over at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nasatechnicalstation">SoundCloud</a>.</div><br />
<div><b>Aeroshell</b>'s 'Lighthugger' comes after us, delivering up more ambience, but beaty enough to be a distant relative to the likes of Air. The pace drops a little with <b>Dao Audio</b>, then gets dramatically Wagnerian with the orchestral swells of 'Heaven's Gate'. The slightly paranoid beeps and swirls of <b>IR</b>'s 'electric dragonfly' (great title) precede the thoughtful and spacious textural synthscapes of 'Light Splash Dream', which is the followed by 'Million Eyes Of Dew', the most 'Asian' sounding track on the collection. The album concludes with <b>Cascadian</b>'s 'The Corinthian Sea', a track of pending darkness.<br />
<br />
The player at the top of this post contains all the tracks on the second collection. This post also contains a badge to donate directly to the fund (go on - they're aiming to raise $1,000) and a mini player for the first collection. Click through onto the album profile pages, download 'em all or track by track and please drop some cash in the collection box on your way out. Spread the word too, while you're at it.<br />
<br />
Thanks. </div></td> </tr>
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		<title>Free music for Japan (&#8216;The Sun Will Rise&#8217;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Globalism</dc:creator>
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<tr> <td>&#60;p&#62;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-will-rise-2"&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The Sun Will Rise = by The Sun Will Rise: An Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#60;/p&#62;</td> <td>One such example is the crowd-sourced book '<a href="http://www.quakebook.org/">2:46 - Aftershocks</a>' (previously written about <a href="http://postingsfromanedge.blogspot.com/2011/03/quake-gallery.html">here</a>). Another project, which has received far less publicity than the book, is the new album release '<a href="http://internetlabelcompilation.blogspot.com/">The Sun Will Rise</a>'. I've got a track on it too, so have another reason to want to spread the word.<br />
<br />
Started by ambient musician <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/saffronslumber">Kevin Stephens</a> from Portland Oregon a few days after the first quake, the 'double disc' collection was released online on April 17th. With contributions, musical and otherwise, flooding in via tweets, blog posts and Facebook status updates, the entire project went from idea to realisation in a little over a month.<br />
<br />
The compilation has its roots in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel">netlabel</a> scene. Netlabels are <a href="http://www.netlabelindex.com/">online record labels</a> that distribute music entirely over the internet via digital audio formats and typically give away the music for free under 'free to share' licences. With no physical product to contend with, the running costs of such a label are considerably lower than those of a traditional record label (if not non-existent). The element of curation that comes with a label means that there is also a level of quality control over the music. Although many netlabels deal mostly with electronic music, there are other genres of music also released in this way, as the tracks in the player on this page should show.</td> </tr>
</tbody></table></div><br />
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<tr> <td>Despite this music generally being made available for free, '<a href="http://internetlabelcompilation.blogspot.com/">The Sun Will Rise</a>' is intended as a charity project with 100% of proceeds raised going directly to the <a href="http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002144.html">Japanese Red Cross</a>. This is why downloads are completely free and donations are requested via a separate page at <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/dy/fundraiser/prevfund/gg.html?regid=5070">globalgiving.org</a>. The album itself is available from profiles at both <a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> and the <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TheSunWillRise">Internet Archive</a>.<br />
<br />
I must admit that the first 'disc', an entirely ambient collection, isn't completely to my tastes. The tracks are glacially slow, somewhat meditative, and almost uniformly rather dark sounding. This is perhaps inevitable for music inspired by the worst natural disaster ever to hit the benefiting country and perhaps likely for a collection that has emerged from the ambient community, but it doesn't seem a natural candidate for taking the project to a wider audience. I'm a fan of ambient music myself in some cases, but I do prefer a slight sense of narrative to what I listen to. However, it will undoubtedly have an audience with the right set of ears.<br />
<br />
The second collection is the more accessible one. It opens with <b>Kristopher Fisher</b>'s 'Tsunami', an building orchestral swell with a sense of large pending waves. The punky 'Another way of living' leads on to the gorgeously spacious 'Essex' by <b>Mark Preston</b>. </td> <td><br />
<br />
&#60;p&#62;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-will-rise"&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The Sun Will Rise - by The Sun Will Rise: An Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#60;/p&#62;</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td><div>'Going My Way' is a fairly jaunty acoustic romp, followed by 'My Heart  Bleeps Noisy Beeps', a high school electro jaunt that in parts conjures up  early 80's New Wave. <b>Liam Stewart</b>'s 'German Army Coat' is up next, a  thoughtful guitar-based piece reminiscent of an upbeat Joy Division  after a bit of a lie down.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The next piece is the one that I was involved with. Now I am back in Brighton, I have started working again with an old band mate from <a href="http://www.soundsphenomenal.org/Zamora_home.htm">The Zamora</a>. The first fruits of this project (dubbed <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nasatechnicalstation">NASA Technical Station</a>) is titled 'Stenographic Records' and was essentially put together in a night - specifically for this album. I sequenced the beats and other samples, Steve played guitar over the top plus added a bass line, then I topped it off with a vocal (a reading of a speech given by someone from Japan's 1960's space programme). We were a little surprised yet rather thrilled to have been selected to appear on the album - an encouraging sign for such a new project. If you like the track, you can comment on it over at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nasatechnicalstation">SoundCloud</a>.</div><br />
<div><b>Aeroshell</b>'s 'Lighthugger' comes after us, delivering up more ambience, but beaty enough to be a distant relative to the likes of Air. The pace drops a little with <b>Dao Audio</b>, then gets dramatically Wagnerian with the orchestral swells of 'Heaven's Gate'. The slightly paranoid beeps and swirls of <b>IR</b>'s 'electric dragonfly' (great title) precede the thoughtful and spacious textural synthscapes of 'Light Splash Dream', which is the followed by 'Million Eyes Of Dew', the most 'Asian' sounding track on the collection. The album concludes with <b>Cascadian</b>'s 'The Corinthian Sea', a track of pending darkness.<br />
<br />
The player at the top of this post contains all the tracks on the second collection. This post also contains a badge to donate directly to the fund (go on - they're aiming to raise $1,000) and a mini player for the first collection. Click through onto the album profile pages, download 'em all or track by track and please drop some cash in the collection box on your way out. Spread the word too, while you're at it.<br />
<br />
Thanks. </div></td> </tr>
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		<title>King Creosote &amp; Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine (2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As excellent a collaboration as we are likely to hear all year; King Creosote&#8217;s ethereal folk, subtly enhanced by Jon Hopkins electronics and threaded with found samples. The songs are taken from various points in a twenty year career, re-recorded and sequenced into a coherent whole that presents in King Creosote&#8217;s own words, &#8220;a romanticised &#8230; <a href="http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/king-creosote-jon-hopkins-diamond-mine-2011/">Continue reading <span>&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1764&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Eno – My Squelchy Life (Unreleased -1991)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something of a mystery surrounds this record &#8211; it was withdrawn a couple of weeks before its scheduled release date, but not before preview copies had been sent out to the press. it consists of twelve tracks, four of which resurfaced on &#8220;Nerve Net&#8221; and one on the CD single &#8216;Ali Click&#8217;. Others, if my &#8230; <a href="http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/brian-eno-my-squelchy-life-unreleased-1991/">Continue reading <span>&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1724&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Album of the Year + Best of the Rest 2010…</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/album-of-the-year-best-of-the-rest-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alt.rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[americana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Eno]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No question here, album of the year has to be &#8216;High Violet&#8217; by The National. Absolutely stunning and it has to be said, streets ahead of the competition. This was the year The National really delivered. A league of their own. The next nine, reviewed elsewhere in these pages&#8230; 2. Tindersticks &#8211; Falling Down A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1586&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (1970)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/pink-floyd-atom-heart-mother-1970/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ambient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amon Duul]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Can]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deep Purple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Broughton Band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Zappa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genesis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tangerine Dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ten Years After]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Yin to Frank Zappa&#8217;s Yang. If sprawling, overblown orchestral prog rock is your bag, presided over by an eccentric scottish composer (Ron Geesin), then look no further. This is Pink Floyd before the pretension set in; the Wall was just a distant gleam in Roger Water&#8217;s eye and experimentation was actively encouraged by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1557&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea (2010)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/brian-eno-small-craft-on-a-milk-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ambient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Eno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Budd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leo Abrahams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roedelius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary, Provocative, Gorgeous, Dissonent, Ambient, Electronic, Organic, Percussive, Improvised, Experimental, Wonderful. He&#8217;s back and he doesn&#8217;t disappoint. This collaboration with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams leans back towards the organic classical of his work with Harold Budd in places, teasing impossibly lovely melodies from the barest of instrmentation. Elsewhere we find dense and propulsive percussive <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1545&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Material – Seven Souls (1987)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/material-seven-souls-1987/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afrobeat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Laswell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world for it is a journey beyond death&#8230;&#8221; William Burroughs Starting life as an avant-dance collective, by 1987 Bill Laswell&#8217;s Material epitomised a culture in fast forward, popular music eating itself. Fusion has never been so thoroughly realised as on <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1529&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yann Tiersen – Dust Lane (2010)</title>
		<link>http://chimeramusica.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/yann-tiersen-dust-lane-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The godlike genius of Johnny Halliday&#8221; is not a phrase that is likely to be heard too often in these parts. Putting to one side the noodlings of Gong, whilst savouring the Breton phrasings of Alan Stivell, it has to be said that with the exception of the occasional chanteuse, France&#8217;s contribution to alternative music <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chimeramusica.wordpress.com&#38;blog=5075818&#38;post=1489&#38;subd=chimeramusica&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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