Not Alone - Medicins Sans Frontieres

Not Alone - Medicins Sans Frontieres Artist: Various Artists
Label: Durtro / Jnana
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 5


UPC: 621617535923
EAN: 0621617535923
ASIN: B000B6TTAK


Release Date: 2006-04-04

Not Alone - Medicins Sans Frontieres


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Tracks:

  1. Fly Away - And Then What? - irr. app. (ext.), Ghost
  2. Song for You - Damon & Naomi, Bricoleur
  3. Brian - John Contreras
  4. Forgotten Language of Light - Sarah Hallman, Mirror
  5. In Lieu Of - F
  6. When You Found Me - Baby Dee, Baby Dee
  7. Yesterday I Was a Cow - Howie B,
  8. Sea World - Tom Recchion
  9. Song for the Appeal - Matmos
  10. Sweet Shadow Heart - Blue Eyed Black
  11. Exploration of a Spacious Yet Enclosed Domain [Excerpt] - Eric Lanzillotta
  12. Freddy and Me - Little Annie, Little Annie
  13. It's Coming - Colin Potter
  14. Fleeing Panic-Stricken Shriveled Equal Temperment - Keiji Haino
  15. On Another's Sorrow - Allen Ginsberg
  16. Sight to Behold - Devendra Banhart
  17. Without Borders - David Surkamp

Tracks:

  1. Mantra - Jarboe
  2. First Flower People - Charlemagne Palestine, L
  3. Do You Want to Go Somewhere - Richard Buckner
  4. Indulge Yourselves with Our Delicious Monster - Cyclobe
  5. You Will Be the Sun - Six Organs of Admittance, Six Organs of Admittance
  6. Poor Sally Sits a Weeping - Dolly Collins
  7. Because - William Basinski
  8. Sticks & Stones [Version] - Edward Ka-Spel
  9. Sogno di Momi - Larsen
  10. Same But Different - Vashti Bunyan
  11. Song for My Father - Angels of Light, Angels of Light
  12. Star Malloy - Thighpaulsandra
  13. In the Clouds - Suishou No Fune
  14. Change My World [Alternative Mix] - Pantaleimon
  15. Movement - Aube
  16. Denial - Mr. Durt, Jooel
  17. Somebody - Michael Yonkers Band

Tracks:

  1. Someone Always Talks [#] - The Bevis Frond, Coil
  2. Snowballin' - Sarah Hallman
  3. Transit Rider - Faun Fables
  4. Unbelievable - Luke Doucet
  5. Right on the Line - Jad Fair, Charlemagne Palestine
  6. Endless - Unveiled
  7. Hole in My Soul - Antony, Antony
  8. Espoir Guerison - Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Charlemagne Palestine
  9. House of Constant Song - Alexander Neilson, Alexander Neilson, Richard Youngs
  10. Hit the Road - Anomoanon
  11. Back Home Again - James William Hindle
  12. Beat Goes On - Isobel Campbell
  13. Prah Pip Ta - Bricoleur
  14. Long Dark Shadow - Mary 5E, Sorrow
  15. I Need Direction [Alternative Version][Alternate Take] - Teenage Fanclub
  16. Therapy - The Bevis Frond, Mary 5E
  17. Crazy Horses - Sun Dial, Sundial

Tracks:

  1. Heliogabalus - Jeremy Reed
  2. Huntsville Affair - NQ Arbuckle
  3. No Thing - Shannon Lyon
  4. Work of Washing - The Hafler Trio
  5. Judgement Day - Marissa Nadler
  6. Flowers for Yulia - Max Richter
  7. It's the Small Things Now - Bill Fay
  8. Song for Doctors Without Borders - Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Bonnie "Prince" Billy
  9. Waiting for the Sky to Fall - Lynn Jackson
  10. Ubu Noir - Nurse with Wound
  11. Glacial Lake - Clodagh Simonds
  12. Come My Love - Shirley Collins
  13. Piractes - 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle
  14. Stoney Mansion - Large Door, John Terrill
  15. Our Lady of the Barren Tree - Brett Smiley
  16. Parallelograms - Linda Perhacs
  17. Sunset - Current 93
  18. Our Lady [Live] - Pearls Before Swine
  19. Sex Addiction - Thurston Moore

Tracks:

  1. Our Love My Love - Marc Almond
  2. Crow Flies - Simon Finn
  3. Gate of Polished Horn - Stephanie Wolkmar
  4. City of Dreams - Small Creatures
  5. Thee Seeding Ship - Thee Majesty
  6. Naoru - Jim O'Rourke
  7. Shadow Makes a Snow Angel - Scott Stapleton
  8. Everything Was Handed Down [Live] - John Maslen
  9. Over the Sea - Jooel
  10. Bump - Jad Fair, Jed Fair
  11. Robin's Tiny Throat - Amy Curl
  12. Wild Spaces [Excerpt] - Srmeixner
  13. Postal Workers Night Out - Black Noise
  14. Broccoli - Coil
  15. Aaron's Rod (Spared) [#] - Shock Headed Peters
  16. Daggma [Live] - Damon and Naomi, Ghost

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A Good, Diverse Collection.......2006-04-10

This set really is a bargain. Where else can you get such a high quanity of music for such a low price? But what's really amazing is the diversity of the songs included. There really is something for everyone, regardless whether your tastes lean towards pop, folk, ambient, rock or noise. Of course this means that most everyone will be dissatisfied with a number of the tracks as well. I myself find some of the neo-folk and Canadian pop/rock a bit tedious. However the tracks by Colin Potter, Black Noise, Thighpaulsandra, William Basinski, Mirror and many others are wonderful. I was rather disappointed with the tracks by Nurse With Wound and Coil, though. They are two of my favorite groups, but their contributions here are underwhelming. the NWW track is nothing more than the lyrics to "Black is the color of my Love so Fair" recited into a vocoder, and Coil's Broccoli is a live recording that consists mainly of John Balance talking about being abused by his stepfather.
Overall, though, it is well worth the cost and you will likely discover some new favorite artists.

4 out of 5 stars The best-priced box-set I've seen; high-quality music donated for a great humanitarian group........2006-04-07

Handsomely packaged in a white slide-open box, the set comes with 5 discs and one rather thick liner book.

Unfortunately, we don't get the lyrics in this book. However, there is a nice description of the charity and of the genesis of this compilation project. The important thing to remember is that the proceeds from this generous 5-disc box set go to the noble non-profit group, Doctors Without Borders (or Medecins Sans Frontieres, hence MSF), an independent humanitarian medical group which targets the African HIV/AIDS epidemic amongst dozens of other international emergency health crises.

By my count, there are 86 songs total. How many of them do I like? About half, so far, which isn't bad. 43 excellent songs for $33 is a tremendous deal. You might dig all the tracks; who knows?

"Not Alone" is a solid collection of artists who donated their songs for a good cause. Think of it as a benefit fundraising concert that you get to take home with you. The vocal tracks range from good to amazingly beautiful, and the genre spread is comfortably diverse. You'll find a swooning song from Antony of "Antony of the Johnsons," a tune from the prodigious Devendra Banhart, one from our old friend Marc Almond, the sublime psychedelic-folk group Pearls Before Swine and several others like Current 93, Vashti Bunyun, Angels of Light, Baby Dee, William Basinksi (who sounds a bit like Bowie) along with many more. Genres include rock, alternative, electronica, neo-folk, prog-rock, cabaret, and other categories.

I was admittedly a bit dissatisfied that nearly half of the songs are instrumental; lyricless. I don't have an automatic aversion to instrumental songs, but a good chunk of the instrumental tracks are just synthesized computer noise. But don't let that discourage you, because you will certainly enjoy many of the instrumental songs as much as the gorgeous vocal tracks. I just wish Jnana Records had told me up front that not all of the songs had vocalists.

All in all, it's worth the asking price, because many of the songs are excellent and the proceeds go to a magnificent charity.

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