Jens Lekman - Cherry Trees Are Still In BlossomCasting his mind back over twenty years to his first rudimentary experiments with sampling using his father's old cassette recorder, Jens Lekman recalls an instinct to create music that would set him far apart from his Swedish pop peers: "All my friends were playing in these bass guitar drum bands," he says. "I'm going to sound like Scott Walker. But I'm going to do it in my bedroom." Works of sweeping, maximalist, orchestral wonder sung in a

The 1996 album has been out of print for many many years

NYC where Derek Neivergelt (Terrance Blanchard) Evan Pazner (Lee Fields) added a live rhythm section

blurring the lines between rhythm and blues and early rock n' roll

Habib Koité

With this release of Too Much Information

'Kathleen Battle sings Sacred Music'

the Skin I'm In

scraped and gently tapped the skins to build up the undulating and unstable rhythmic backdrop for each track

little has happened since to diminish it's impact: stylistically at odds with what was rapidly becoming the fag-end of Britpop

Ten successful years as part of the US music business (first as Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen) of lay already behind the former art student when he entered the stage the famous music temple "Aladin" in Bremen/Germany to celebrate this debut

'Ceremonial Healing' features the late Trombonist Roswell Rudd in one of his very last recorded appearances

following last years' Hildegard of Bingen