Since you are interested in Man of Aran, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Air
Love 2 [ EMI Music / CD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] Air's fifth studio effort (well, seventh if you count 'The Virgin Suicides' & 'City Reading' discs) is instantly recognisable as their sound, but sees the band exploring some new territories, with the help of L.A.-based percussionist, Joey Waronker. |
Bill Frisell
Disfarmer [ Nonesuch / CD - released 21/Jul/2009 ] Disfarmer was an outsider artist who became famous for his Depression-era photographs. This 2009 Nonesuch CD by Bill Frisell is the score commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts to accompany a retrospective of the artist's work. |
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Special Expanded Edition [ Capitol Records / CD - released 8/Jun/2004 ] An updated, 24-bit re-mastered version of the landmark film soundtrack. With 10 previously unreleased tracks included, restoring the score to its original length. |
David Sylvian
Manafon (Digipak Edition) [ Simadhisound / CD - released 15/Sep/2009 ] On 'Manafon', David Sylvian pursues "a completely modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical." |
Jon Hopkins
Insides [ Domino Records / CD - released 4/May/2009 ] Jon Hopkins is a musical shapeshifter: a composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. He makes affecting, bold electronic music, using walls of synths, lustrous melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. |
Memory Tapes
Seek Magic [ POD / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] 'Seek Magic' is very modern-sounding and seductively exotic electronica that also clearly carries a torch for Eno; Moroder; and New Order, with nods to Cocteau Twins; Donna Summer; Justice; Johnny Marr; and My Bloody Valentine. |
Tortoise
Beacons of Ancestorship [ Thrill Jockey / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] It can be incredibly difficult for an experimental group to continue exploring for years on end without getting stale, but Tortoise achieve that balance here effortlessly. |