Damon Albarn - Mali Music

Damon Albarn is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects and collaborations throughout his career. Perhaps best known internationally as the frontman and songwriter of Gorillaz, Albarn came to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur, and has been involved with such projects as The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Monkey: Journey to the West and Mali Music.

Albarn released Mali Music in 2002, recorded in Mali, during a trip he made to support Oxfam in 2000. He has also visited Nigeria to record music with African drummer Tony Allen and had the participation of Malian musicians like Afel Bocoum, Toumani Diabaté, and also featuring a cameo from Ko Kan Ko Sata.

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Mali Music - Niger

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Deluxe Edition

Plastic Beach is the third studio album by English virtual band Gorillaz, released 3 March 2010 on Parlophone and Virgin Records. Conceived from an unfinished Gorillaz project called Carousel, the album was recorded during June 2008 to November 2009 and produced primarily by group co-creator Damon Albarn. It features guest appearances by several artists. Primarily a pop album, Plastic Beach contains lyrics concerning consumerism and ecology-related themes.

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Gorillaz - Empire Ants

Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions

BBC Sessions is a compilation album featuring studio sessions and a live concert recorded by English rock group Led Zeppelin for the BBC. It was released on 11 November 1997, by Atlantic Records. This was the first release of new Led Zeppelin material in 15 years. Disc 1 consists of material from four different 1969 BBC sessions. Disc 2 contains most of the 1 April 1971 concert from the Paris Theatre in London.

Countless bootlegs of these recordings circulated for years before the official release. This release was widely welcomed by Led Zeppelin fans as the first live release since The Song Remains the Same in 1976. Others have criticized the decision to edit some of the songs and drop others that were recorded for the BBC. Most notable are one session from 1969 which included the unreleased song “Sunshine Woman,” and about 22 seconds of the “Whole Lotta Love” medley from 1971. 

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Led Zeppelin - Thank You

Gustavo Cerati - Fuerza Natural & Ahi Vamos

Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark (born in Buenos Aires on August 11, 1960) is an Argentinian artist and songwriter. During the 1980s and 90s he was a member of the Rock en Español group Soda Stereo. He released his first solo album in the early 90s, and continued his solo career after Soda Stereo disbanded in 1997.
 

Cerati is known for his lead and rhythm guitar talents and for his ability to play intricate lead solos on guitar while singing in key. In his album Ahí vamos his guitar playing is featured prominently as opposed to the heavy use of electronic samplers as in Bocanada. Ahí Vamos was certified platinum in Argentina in only one day.

Cerati has several electronic music alter egos as well, namely Plan V, Ocio and Roken. He has produced albums for other artists, most notably Sueños en Tránsito for Nicole and Mar for Leo García as well as for the band Friccion. He is a contributing artist on several albums for artists such as Caifanes, Los Calzones, and Shakira.

Despite stating that the Grammys do not matter to him he attended the Latin Grammys ceremony on November 2, 2006 where he won for Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song.

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El Mareo Ft. Gustavo Cerati

Jónsi - Go

Go contains nine songs amassed from the large pool of songs written by jónsi during his many years with sigur rós. the album is sung in english and icelandic, and was co-produced by jónsi, his partner alex somers and peter katis.

when he began working on go, jónsi initially thought he would be making a low-key, acoustic album until, as he says, “somewhere along the line, it just sort of exploded.” that explosion resulted in sheer aural fireworks. not a straight ahead pop record, nor rock, folk, ambient or electronic, it encompasses all of these to create an expansive musical palette that’s been brought to life by jónsi alongside a number of free-spirited collaborators.

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Jonsi - Go Do

Róisín Murphy - Overpowered

Overpowered is the second solo studio album by Irish singer–songwriter Róisín Murphy, released in Ireland on 12 October 2007 and in the United Kingdom and rest of Europe on 15 October 2007. The album was to be released in the United States in late 2008 or early 2009, but was cancelled by EMI due to financial difficulties on their part. Receiving widespread critical acclaim, the album was more commercially successful than its predecessor, debuting at number twenty on the UK Albums Chart.

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Roisin Murphy - You Know Me Better

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Bon Iver is an indie folk band, and one of Justin Vernon’s current and most notable music projects to date. The band also consists of: Mike Noyce, Sean Carey and Matt MacCaughan.

The name ‘Bon Iver’ is a play on the French phrase ‘bon hiver;’ for ‘good winter’. Vernon independently released Bon Iver’s debut album: For Emma, Forever Ago in 2007.

When released in the UK, For Emma, Forever Ago received 5/5 and “Album of the Month” reviews in both MOJO and Uncut magazines. It is currently the third highest rated album of 2008 on review-aggregator site Metacritic, with accolades from publications including The Village Voice, The Hartford Courant and The A.V. Club.

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Bon Iver - Flume