I just found out that you can embed albums from Lala on a blog. Now that I have discovered it I think I will use it with reckless abandon and periodically put different albums over the right.
If you haven't checked out Lala yet you really should, it lets you listen to almost anything ever released for free once. You can also buy the online version of most songs for about 10 cents and the actual mp3 for cheaper than on the Itunes store.
A quick intro to the album I have over there right now. It is by Brazilian artist Lo Borges, it was released in 1972 and it was his first solo album. He is probably most popular for his work with Milton Nascimiento on the album "Club de Esquina" but to be straight up, I like this album better. It is a very short album consisting of fifteen individually awesome pop/acoustic/folky songs that don't particularly sound like anything I have heard before. There are certainly elements of stuff I have heard before, but Borges is one of those artists who is nearly perfect at bringing tons of disparate elements together and fusing them in a very interesting way. I have chosen this album as the inaugural sidebar album because it was the first thing I listened to on Lala. I had read about the album and was really itching to hear it, but I was unable to find it anywhere (I looked both in legal and illegal places). Finally I thought I would check Lala on the off chance that it would be there and lo and behold, it was.
Incidentally if you like this it might also be worth your time to check out Yonlu who is also from Brazil. While he is less generally fantastic one of his songs "Humiliation" is quite possibly one of my favorite songs ever.
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