Emad Sayyah - Bellydance from Lebanon: Habibi HayatiEmad Sayyah Bellydance from Lebanon: Habibi Hayati

because on his new album Ocky Milk he's gone far beyond the literary singer/songwriter fare of his 90s records (think Tom Lehrer with a laptop)

and continued his rambling lifestyle during what was a fitful recording career over the next fifteen years

they all wrote eloquent and articulate pieces that manage to do one and the same thing

almost unknown

And the album ends with Hanns Eisler's setting of a Brecht poem

Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560) stormed onto the Parisian literary scene with the resounding avant-garde manifesto Défense et illustration de la langue française

with a gift for impressions and mimicry

builds strength

founded the short-lived but extraordinary Clan Alba

Axis - Planet Didge

articulation

as well as the band's signature punk cabaret sound