a good cause

Last month 4AD released a double cd titled Dark Was the Night, all profits benefitting the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. The album is also downloadable, information here.

The artists (in alphabetical order) that recorded tracks for this release:

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This week will be very busy for anyone involved in the art world with Frieze, Zoo and all that carousel, so I’m preparing myself with a bit of quiet music and the biography of Bert Jansch. Yes, I’m officially obsessed with folk music, but not everything is lost as I’m going to see Voice Of Seven Woods this Friday…

Bert Jansch/Jack Orion

Bert Jansch/Rosemary Lane

Appendix Out/Daylight Saving

Alasdair Roberts/Farewell Sorrow

Various Artists/Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli

Polvo/This Eclipse EP

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DoDos/Visiter

O'Death/Head Home

The Most Serene Republic/Population

Plus: Jandek/You Walk Alone [a glorious album, thanks M.]

acquisitions/7

Nina Nastasia/Dogs

Mono & world's end girlfriend/Palmless Prayer

Mono/You Are There

V.A./The Ultimate Folk Collection

V.A./The Imagined Village

Ken Garner/The Peel Sessions

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Bonnie Prince Billy/Lie Down in the Light [the cover art makes me think of this painting by Gauguin]

Vetiver/Thing of the Past

Stars Of The Lid/And Their Refinement of the Decline

This Will Destroy You/Young Mountain

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The Breeders/Mountain Battles

Phosphorescent/The Weight of Flight

Fairport Convention/What We Did On Our Holidays

Alasdair Roberts/No Earthly Man

Warp 10+3 Remixes