This week oi av been mostly list'nin' to:
Sidsel Endresen+Bugge Wesseltoft - Out Here. In Here
(Oslo Jazz/electronica with delicate vocals)
Penguin Café Orchestra - Signs of Life
(instrumental. classical rhythmic structures with folk/ instruments)
Brokeback - Look at the Birds
(post rock [i think that's what it's called. I just call it 'good stuff'])
VA - Folky 2
(folk-tinged electronica incl. Gorodisch)
Philip Glass - Glassworks
(modern classicist who inspired a generation)
Nuspirit Helsinki - Nuspirit Helsinki
(nujazz)
Sigur Ros - ( )
(icelandic tundramental* post/avant rock)
Múm - (almost e/thing they've ever done)
(major session of everything i have from these Icelandic avant rock/idm-ers)
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vriion
(minimal/gltich meets modern classical/jazz piano)
* Did i just make up a new genre title?
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Last few weeks it's been loads of vocal/guitar stuff like RHCP (By The Way), David Gray (A New Day At Midnight), Coldplay (A Rush of Blood To The Head), Johan (Pergola), The Shins (Oh, Inverted World).
I go through phases, shuttling back and forth between lively, 'sing-a-long out loud' guitar+vocal stuff and quieter, more 'intimate' electronica/jazz/folk-influenced instrumental.
The latter set is where my heart is.
I can't over-recommend stuff like Philip Glass, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Yann Tiersen (Le Phare, L'Absente, Amelie soundtrack).
Greatest stuff in the world to work to, imho.