I know my favourite album of 1963 now. My 40 years, 40 albums series can go on. It's some kind of new world music if you want. It was not in the poll by the way.

Probably I am not the biggest fan of Keith Jarrett in the world though I have sixty something of his records. And I guess I am neither the greatest living lover of Joni Mitchell's music though I have all her albums except the last one which was a sad orchestrated affair of strings recycling old songs. There are always people who are crazier for artists than me.

But I must be the ultimate fan of both of them at the same time. They are my two favourite musicians ever. What a surprise to read in the Joni Mitchell chapter of Konrad Heidkamp's book Sophisticated Ladies that Keith Jarrett apparently played one of her songs. All I Want from Blue. On The Mourning of a Star, the only early (from 1971 like Blue) Jarrett album I haven't got I think. All I Want without the gorgeous lyrics ("I am on a lonely road and I am traveling...") in the hands of the greatest solo pianist of the world. How did he do it? I am extremely curious. I had to order the cd a minute ago.

Radian's Rapid Eye Movement over at one faint deluded smile. Laptop meets post-rock meets shoegazing. I can even imagine to dance to this weird shit.

Stina Nordenstam, my favourite voice from Scandinavia (Rickie Lee Jones on sleeping pills), has a new album out. Stream The World Is Saved here (via this informative ILM thread).

Jandek, the Thomas Pynchon of rock music, has played on the Instal festival in Glasgow. His first live ever? Here are 8 tracks of his proto-blues. His singing to me is an acquired taste to say the least. But there is something about his naive approach to music somewhere between the Shaggs and Captain Beefheart.

This morning before going to work I listemed to a couple of songs by the Canadian singer Leslie Feist and I decided to go for her new album Let It Die instead of the albums I mentioned in my last post. Especially One Evening won me over. This song sounds like I would have liked Sade to sound in the eighties. Relaxed and jazzy but very expressive. It's weird and probably pathetic but I am in need of new female voices, fresh young blood if you want. The studio version of this song is light and deep at the same time. A cliché but isn't life about clichés? The other songs I heard of hers I didn't like too much as they were too contrived but this one is a miracle.

• jan garbarek-in praise of dreams
• giant sand-it's all over.. .the map
• john fahey-complete blind joe death
• tom liwa-dudajim
• albert ayler-spiritual unity
• eleni mandell-afternoon
• elliott smith-from a basement on the hill
• gun club-miami
• attwenger-???
• bark psychosis-hex
• tom waits-real gone
• "new rembetiko worldwide" (network)

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