• Erik Satie

    Trois Mélodies No. 3: Sylvie Erik Satie

    Erik Satie

    Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. Born in Honfleur to a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but did not complete his diploma. In the 1880s, he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works primarily for solo piano, including "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes". He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian group with which he was briefly affiliated. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne: No. 2 Erik Satie

    Erik Satie

    Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. Born in Honfleur to a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but did not complete his diploma. In the 1880s, he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works primarily for solo piano, including "Gymnopédies" and "Gnossiennes". He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian group with which he was briefly affiliated. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Roy Orbison

    In Dreams Roy Orbison

    Roy Orbison

    Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, known for his distinctive voice, complex song structures, and emotional ballads. He was active primarily in the early 1960s and experienced a resurgence in the late 1980s. Orbison was recognized for performing with minimal movement, often wearing dark clothing, dark sunglasses, and styling his hair black. Born in Texas, Orbison began performing in a country-and-western band as a teenager. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Lambchop

    Weakend Lambchop

    Lambchop

    Lambchop is an American alt-country band from Nashville, Tennessee, the capital of country music. Originally called Posterchild, the band (which formed in 1986) cannot easily be classified into a genre and certainly not into that of traditional country music. The collective around frontman Kurt Wagner has a fluid membership, at times including as many 18 musicians, and is frequently associated with alternative country. Lambchop’s music combines Read more on Last.fm

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  • John Martyn

    Lay It All Down John Martyn

    John Martyn

    John Martyn OBE, born Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a forty-year career he released twenty studio albums. He grew up in Glasgow and attended Shawlands Academy. John Martyn moved to London from Glasgow in the mid 1960s. He made his initial recorded impact in 1967, at the age of 19, with his debut album London Conversation. He then quickly became an integral part of the British music scene, incorporating Folk, Blues, and Jazz into his unique sound. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Talk Talk

    After The Flood Talk Talk

    Talk Talk

    Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981 by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), Paul Webb (bass), and Simon Brenner (keyboards). The band initially performed as a synth-pop group, and their first two albums, "The Party's Over" (1982) and "It's My Life" (1984), reached the top 40 in the UK and produced international singles including "Talk Talk", "Today", "It's My Life", and "Such a Shame". The band's third album, "The Colour of Spring" (1986) Read more on Last.fm

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  • Headless Heroes

    Blues Run the Game Headless Heroes

    Headless Heroes

    Headless Heroes is a collection of musicians put together by American producer Eddie Bezalel. Along with contributing producers Hugo Nicolson and David Holmes, the musicians and artists included American singer-songwriter Alela Diane and a set of musicians who have played with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beck, Smashing Pumpkins and R.E.M. (Josh Klinghoffer, Joey Waronker, Woodrow Jackson III, Gus Seyffert, and Leo Abrahams). Together they recorded an album of covers entitled ‘The Silence of Love’. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Ethel Ennis

    I Cried For You (Now It's Your Turn To Cry Over Me) Ethel Ennis

    Ethel Ennis

    Ethel Llewellyn Ennis (Baltimore, Maryland, November 28, 1932 – February 17, 2019) was an American jazz singer. Ethel Ennis began performing on the piano in high school, but her natural vocal abilities soon eclipsed those as a pianist. Embarking on a solo career, she recorded a number of sides for Atlantic Records before the LP debut, 1955's Lullabies for Losers was released by Jubilee Records. In 1957, Ennis moved to the Capitol Records label for a two-album contract, and A Change of Scenery was released. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Smog

    Drinking at the Dam Smog

    Smog

    Bill Callahan, born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan followed the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with homemade tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he signed a record contract with the label Drag City. Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, utilizing sub-standard instruments and recording equipment. His reason for using the lo-fi approach was not so much an aesthetic choice, rather it came from his lack of knowledge of recording studios, and fear of giving up control to professional engineers. Read more on Last.fm

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  • Massive Attack

    Splitting the Atom Massive Attack

    Massive Attack

    Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. The group consists of Del Naja and Marshall. Their debut album, "Blue Lines" (1991), is frequently cited as the first major work of the trip hop genre. The single "Unfinished Sympathy" achieved chart success in Europe, including reaching number one on the Dutch Top 40. Their second album Read more on Last.fm

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