Aussie big city folk in electro-acoustic junk pop style, spiced with ambient garbage. Maybe the instruments and the tunes are from a dump or the Moon, where is „A place wherein is wonderfully stored / Whatever on our earth below we lose. / Collected there are all things whatsoe’er, / Lost through time, chance, or our own folly, here.”* The sound is like as if it would come straight from a trashcan. Perfect.

Orlando Furious – ‘Popular’ cassette or digital EP by Cinnamon Records

*fragment from Orlando Furioso: Canto 34/LXXIII by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

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Xiu Xiu is a famous experimental band. Many times on many site I red that it’s very good and very artistic, so I tried to make friends with their music, but it didn’t work. „Interesting” – thought about the previous Nina Simone cover album, but I will never listen to it again. Thanks, but there’re the originals. I have listened to their new album many times. Electronic noise, melancholic melodies, goth style lamentation, screams and cries. That’s all and not more. Too good and too artistic for me.

Angel Guts: Red Classroom LP by Polyvinyl (US) and Bella Union (UK)

The experimental band Xiu Xiu covered the jazz singer and musician Nina Simone‘s 11 songs. You’d Be So Nice

& 2 more from the album Nina by Graveface Records

The New Zealander The Drab Doo-Riffs: space surf & spockabilly with the Klingons

The first full-lenght album, „Home Surgery” is a best of collection from their previous EPs. CD or digital

There are two members, Karl Steven and Caoimhe Macfehin who are in the amazing blues trio, Heart Attack Alley. Unfortunately the band went on indefinite hiatus in late 2012. Their latest album was released by Voodoo Rhythm Records. Otherwise Karl Steven is among the highest educated rock musicians. He completed a Ph.D. in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy at Cambridge University.

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Nina Simone (1933-2003) was a fantastic Afro-American singer and musician. She sang and played jazz, blues, soul, gospel, funk classical and pop songs. The experimental electronic rock band, Xiu Xiu has covered her eleven songs in a peculiar free jazz-like way

Nina LP by Graveface Records

Tracklist: 1. Don’t Smoke in Bed (< listen to the original!) 2. Don’t Explain Baby 3. Wild is the Wind 4. Where Can I Go Without You 5. See-Line Woman 6. Just Say I Love Him (< listen to the original!) 7. Four Women (This tells the story of four different African-American women. Each of the four characters represents an African-American stereotype in society. Read about it and listen to it!) 8. Pirate Jenny 9. You’d Be So Nice 10. The Other Woman 11. Flo Me La

Nina Simone’s ashes were scattered in several African countries.