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Kazuki Tomokawa

Tenji Nozoki (????) (born February 16, 1950), best known by the stage name Kazuki Tomokawa (?? ???), is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early seventies. He is often described as a "screaming philosopher". Multi-talented Kazuki Tomokawa (?????, singer, author, actor, painter, raconteur) remains curiously unappreciated in the West, in spite of creating some of the most consistently inspired, emotionally resonant outsider folk music of recent years.

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if i only could understand japanese

avantgarde

freakin beautiful and utterly depressing

wholesome wholemeal folk

the vitamin b12

superhero songwriters

do pilnej inwigilacji

japonia inna kultura

Acid Mother Temple

psychedelic Japanese

this is Bob Dylan to me

with a gun for a lover and a shot for a pain at hand

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Bandersnatch

The UK based folk/roots/acoustic band - Bandersnatch have been performing since 2000 although the line-up changed in 2007. Their repertoire ranges from sensitive arrangements of gentle ballads to driving, rhythmical folk rock and blues. Whilst often giving a refreshing edge to established favourites, the band also endeavours to introduce contrasting material from the less frequently explored corners of this particular musical landscape. The warmth and humour that allows them to connect with their audience is not compromised by the discipline that they bring to their performance.

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Danny Cavanagh

Danny Cavanagh (born October 6, 1972) is a British guitarist and songwriter, one of the founding members of Anathema - a band that began in a death doom metal style, before changing to a more atmospheric rock-based sound. Danny also worked with Lid, Antimatter and Leafblade. In 2005, he released a Nick Drake tribute album, called "A Place to Be". He played several acoustic shows made of covers from Anathema or others artists alone, or as Danny & Vincent Cavanagh and Anneke van Giersbergen & Danny Cavanagh.

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Linda Perhacs

Linda Perhacs is an American psychedelic folk singer-songwriter, who released her only album "Parallelograms" in 1970 to scant notice or sales. The album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and grew in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement and the Internet. It was reissued on CD and 2-LP in 2005, and again in 2008. Native of Mill Valley, California, United States, Linda Perhacs spent many years away from the music industry (mostly spent as dental technician).

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when we were older and our hair was longer

i wear emerald crowns

notice

love-pop

Americana-folk-siso vrouwen

genius loci

queen of everything

icicles

1960s Female Vocalists

artist to check again

new los angeles folk festival

SOLOMUSIKA-female vocalists

ellias

George Ellias

all those beautiful girls

herbarium

woodland psych

nudists beach after 9pm

tea with snake plus dominoes

Person Pitch Influences

gitarr i skogen

Mark you should check more

timdoyle

23Footsteps

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Night Genes

Night Genes is the musical brainchild of Eric Ingersoll, who began writing these songs in his notebook as he took in rainy summer days in England, crowded city streets in China, and trips home. And that

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Adam Wilson

Adam Wilson (born London, England) started musical life as the drummer for Aerial Stares, an art/punk band in the '90s, with major influences from early Floyd and early REM. He then played rhythm guitar for a country folk band, Aftershave and this genre fits his natural songwriting style more than the art/punk stuff. He's been a solo act for a while now and has achieved outstanding reviews for his recorded and live work, also he's a composer and photographer. Chaos and Grace is his first album for London-based Zube records and a follow-up is due out in early 2010.

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Patty Griffin

Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16th, 1964 in Old Town, Maine, is an American folk singer. She brought out her debut album Living With Ghosts--a set of demos featuring only Ms. Griffin and her guitar--to critical acclaim in 1996. Her sophomore album, Flaming Red, demonstrated a more rocking, full-band sound. The ill-fated Silver Bell album was never released by her record label, however, and the label terminated her recording contract shortly after that. Many of the songs from Silver Bell were re-recorded for subsequent albums.

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Things that would make Kiki sad

female singer-songwriter

female singer-songwriters

love-sickness emergency-care-kitt

a campfire and a tent and a flashlight and some matches and a tree and that river and my glasses and a spaceship and a really really big bear but the bear is really really far away

female singer songwriters

girls who love guitars more than boys

inspire me

guts in hand

cool finds

heart and ass out there

new american music

Sheer gorgeousness

top 20 all time

add to personal radio

fuckable voices

look at

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Griselda Sanderson

Griselda Sanderson is a folk musician and lecturer at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK. Gris is a multi-instrumentalist, specialising in the fiddle, organ, calabash and nyckelharpa, the last which features strongly in her album Harpaphonics, released 26 Jan 2009. www.grissanderson.com/nyckelharpa.html
www.myspace.com/nyckelgris

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lesser known yet streamable artists

hear

central point

under 2000 listeners

from fh library 120617

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Roxanne de Bastion

Roxanne de Bastion now lives in London, England having moved to Stratford-upon-Avon in 2006 after several years performing live in her home-town of Berlin. She will be gigging in the UK, Europe and America in the autumn of 2009. Recent live highlights include the world famous Cavern Club in Liverpool and London's 100 Club. Her debut EP, 'Mono' was released on July 21st, 2008 on Zube Records, with a concert and release party at Jrink in Soho, London.

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Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, South Dakota) is an American musician. Best known for her hit single "Sunny Came Home" from the album "A Few Small Repairs". Colvin's formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10. Her first public concert was at age 15 at the University of Illinois campus. Colvin cites Joni Mitchell as a primary influence on her music, and her initial performances closely mirrored Mitchell's inflections and guitar tunings.

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