Category:Music

My interest in music is diverse and covers most genres (although, there are certainly some genres I do not like). I plan to list information on my favourite artists and bands in this category.

Worldbeat (unsorted)

Delerium (official: [1])
Conjure One (official: [2])
This Mortal Coil
Deep Forest (by Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez)
Nitin Sawhney
Mory Kanté — Guinea vocalist and player of the kora harp (official: [3])
Wasis Diop — Senegalese musician (fusion of folk with pop and modern jazz)
Cheb Mami — an Algeria-born raï singer.
Enzo Avitabile — Italian / "Bottari" artist (official: [4])
Wes Madiko
Karunesh
Pandana
Trans Atlantic Air Waves
3rd Force - "Echoes of a Dream"
Mike Oldfield - "Let There By Light"
Kamel Nitrate — British; musical fusion (official: [5])

Modern musical projects based on Gregorian chant and other chants

Aereda
Cantara
Divine Works
Elbosco — "Nirvana"
Enigma
E Nomine (mit Christian Brückner)
Era — (music project by Eric Levi) "Don't You Forget", "If You Shout"
E.S. Posthumus
Gala
Gregorian
Industrial Monk
Lesiëm (mit Sven Meisel, Alex Wende, und Maggie Reilly)
Libera
Magna Canta
Mysteria
Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus
Richard Souther (Vision and Illumination)
Solyma

Trip hop

see also: World of Trip Hop

Imogen Heap (formerly of Frou Frou) — British
Massive Attack
Anja Garbarek — Norwegian ("Stay Tuned", "Can I Keep Him?")
Mandalay (with vocals by Nicola Hitchcock)
Frou Frou / Imogen Heap
Sigur Rós — Icelandic
Lunascape — Belgian (w/Kyoko Baertsoen and Walter Hilhorst; see: Hooverphonic) ("Lane Navachi") (official: [6])
Lamb — (w/Lou Rhodes and Andy Barlow) ("Gabriel", "Gorecki", etc.)
Halou — (w/Rebecca Coseboom / Ryan Coseboom / Mikael Eldridge)
Emilíana Torrini — Icelandic ("Love in the Time of Science") (vocalist: Thievery Corporation)
Jem (aka Jemma Griffiths) — Welsh
Under Byen — Danish [7]
Efterklang — Danish [8]
Moloko — (w/Róisín Murphy and Mark Brydon) ("Forever More")
Esthero (aka Jen-Bea Englishman) — Canadian
Sia (aka Sia Furler) — Australian (see: Zero 7)
Morcheeba — British (w/Paul Godfrey and Ross Godfrey; previously Skye Edwards)
Second Person — British (w/Julia Johnson, Mark Maclaine, and Alvaro Lopez)
Kosheen — British (w/Markee Substance, Darren Decoder, and Sian Evans)
Karmacoda — American (w/Heather Pierce, B., Rafael Acevedo, and Eric Matsuno) (official: [9])
Velure — Australian (w/Lynnelle Moran, Dan West, Roy John, Chris Hale, and Lachlan Carrick) (official: [10])
Aria — Iclandic ("Ariella") (see: [11])
Badmarsh & Shri — British
Antenne — Danish (w/Kim G. Hansen and Marie-Louise Munck) (see: [12])
Bang Gang — Icelandic (founded by Barði Jóhannson and Henrik Baldvin Björnsson; vocalists: Esther Talia Casey and Védís Hervör Árnadóttir)
Greetings From Tuskan — (official: [13])

Dream pop

Cocteau Twins (with Elizabeth Fraser as lead singer) [14]
Dead Can Dance (with Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry) [15]

Ethereal Wave

Kristy Thirsk — (official: Kristy Thirsk) Canadian (worked with Delerium)
Love Spirals Downwards — Scottish
This Mortal Coil
Lycia

Electronica

Hooverphonic (official: [16]) (w/Kyoko Baertsoen; see: Lunascape)
Café del Mar (official: [17])
Balligomingo (an electronic music project by Garrett Schwarz and Vic Levak; Kristy Thirsk as vocalist)
Miss Kittin — "Dub About Me" (see: [18])
Underworld — by Karl Hyde and Rick Smith.
Single Gun Theory
Asian Dub Foundation
The Engine Room — "A Perfect Lie" (Nip/Tuck theme song; Gabriel & Dresden remix)
Poloroid — "So Damn Beautiful"
Syntax — "Pride"
Sarah McLachlan ("Bloom Remix Album"; see: [19])
Division Kent — ("Monsterproof")
Goldfrapp — (w/Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory)
Röyksopp — "Poor Leno", "Only This Moment"
Air — (w/Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel)
Sleepthief — electronic/vocal musical project of producer/composer Justin Elswick and co-producer Israel Curtis
Thievery Corporation (see also: ESL Music)
Tosca — music project of Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber
Planet Funk — Anglo-Italian ("All Man's Land" (aka "Call Me Mother")) (official: [20])
The Postal Service — Seattle-based electronic indie pop band
Émilie Simon — Montpellier, France
Flunk — Norwegian (w/Ulf Nygaard, Jo Bakke, Erik Ruud, and Anja Øyen Vister) ("Blind My Mind")
Offer Nissim — (w/vocalist Maya Simantov)
Schiller — German; project of Christopher von Deylen

Ethnic Electronica

Banco de Gaia (w/Toby Marks) — British
Amethystium (aka Øystein Ramfjord) — Norwegian
Touch and Go — British

Dance

Therese Grankvist (formerly of Drömhus) — Swedish
DJ Tatana (aka Tatana Sterba) — "Neon Lights" (with Jaël)
Groove Coverage — German

Trance

Tiësto (aka DJ Tiësto or Tijs Verwest) — Dutch
Paul Oakenfold — British
Gabriel & Dresden — "Let Go" (feat. Molly Bancroft)
Andain — "Beautiful Things" (Andain is Josh Gabriel, Mavie Marcos, and David Penner)
Adam Nickey (aka Kai Del Noi) — (e.g., "Letting Go feat. Tiff Lacey")
Headstrong — (e.g., "Truth feat. Tiff Lacey")

Synth-rock

IAMX — the solo project of Sneaker Pimps singer/instrumentalist Chris Corner

Rock

Aerosmith
Dire Straits
Forty Foot Echo — "Brand New Day"

Alternative rock

Snow Patrol (official: [21])
Keane
OneRepublic (official: [22])
Coldplay
U2
JYNXT — British (official: [23])
Dishwalla
Deftones
Antimatter
Thirteen Senses — British ("Into the Fire"; official: [24])
Death Cab for Cutie — Seattle-based indie rock band

Indie Rock

The Slip — Boston ("Even Rats")
The Frames / Glen Hansard / Markéta Irglová — on OST Once

Symphonic metal

Within Temptation - "Stand My Ground", "Memories", "Pale", "Forsaken", "In Perfect Harmony", etc.

Pop

Scandinavian

Keren Ann — ("Nolita")
Lene Marlin (aka Lene Marlin Pedersen) — Norwegian [25]
Venke Knutson — Norwegian [26]
Margaret Berger — Norwegian [27]
Unni Wilhelmsen — Norwegian [28]
Marie Serneholt — Swedish
"Oxygen" at YouTube
Cecilia Vennersten — Swedish ("Det Vackraste", "Var Mig Nara", etc.)
September (aka Petra Marklund) — Swedish ("Looking For Love")
Jill Johnson — Swedish
Emilia Rydberg — Swedish
Lisa Ekdahl — Swedish
Marie Fredriksson — Swedish (from Roxette; e.g., "Tro")
Laleh — Iranian [29]
Meja (aka Anna Pernilla Bäckman) — Swedish; did "Private Emotion" duet with Ricky Martin (offcial: [30])
Espen Lind — Norwegian
Kurt Nilsen — Norwegian
Askil Holm — Norwegian
Carola Häggkvist — Swedish
September (aka Petra Marklund) — Swedish ("Cry for You")

Other

Garou (aka Pierre Garand) — Canadian
Bond (band) — an Australian/British classical crossover string quartet.
Emily Curtis — "What's If For?", GitS:SAC.*
Bebe (aka Nieves Rebolledo Vila)
Superbus (w/Jennifer Ayache)
Jeanette Dimech (aka Jannette) — "Por que te vas"
Hélène Ségara — French
Laura Pausini — Italian
Michael Bublé — Canadian
Anna Nalick — American
Mylène Farmer — "L'Amour n'est rien..."
Arash (aka Arash Labaf) — Iranian; "Temptation" feat. Rebecca Zadig
Katie Melua (aka Ketevan Melua) — Georgian-born British ("The Flood")

Vocalist

Jaël (aka Rahel Krebs) — Swiss (worked with Delerium; formerly with Lunik) [Jaël] (see: "Tired", "I Need You")
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Camille Henderson
Emily Haines (of Metric and Broken Social Scene)
Jes Brieden (aka JES) — ("Ghost" with Deepsky, etc.)
Ann Danielewski (aka Poe from Conjure One)
Chemda (aka Chemda Khalili)
Rachel Fuller (vocals for Delerium)
Julee Cruise — ("Fate of Faith" by Ror-Shak feat. Julee Cruise)
Tracey Thorn (vocals for Massive Attack)
Charlotte Martin — ("Sweet Things" on Tiësto's Elements of Life album)
Damien Rice — Irish folk singer ("The Blower's Daughter" was featured in the film Closer.)

Celtic

Mediaeval Baebes
Lisa Kelly — Irish (Celtic music)
Chloë Agnew — Irish (Celtic music) (see: [31])
Meav (aka Méav Ní Mhaolchatha) — Irish (Celtic music) (official: [32])
Mairead (aka Máiréad Nesbitt) — Irish (violin) (official: [33])

Contemporary Composers

Howard Shore
Hans Zimmer
James Horner
Gustavo Santaolalla (Argentine)
Lisa Gerrard
Ennio Morricone
Angelo Badalamenti
Karl Jenkins (of "Adiemus") — Welsh composer
Asche & Spencer — (e.g., Stay OST)

Classical

"Clair de lune", Claude Debussy's depiction of the poem in his Suite bergamasque

Baroque

"Canon in D major (Pachelbel's Canon)", by Johann Pachelbel (c. 1680)

Violinist

Itzhak Perlman (1945- )
Isaac Stern (1920-2001)

Misc

Sofia Jannok — Swedish, mainly sings in Sami (one of my favourites: "Irene"; also "Liekkas")
Federico Aubele — Argentine
Rodrigo y Gabriela — Mexican
La Cabra Mecanica — Spanish
Carmen Consoli — Italian
Timoria — Italian
Afterhours — Italian
Vasco Rossi (aka "Blasco") (Rewind) — Italian
Kyo - "Une Derniere Danse"
Rammstein - "Du hast"
Scorpions - "Send Me An Angel", "Rock You Like a Hurricane", etc.
Dela Dela - "Sacred Spirit"
Mercan Mercan - "Nar-i Mey"
Lyra - "How Can I Keep From Singing"
O-Zone - "Dragostea din tei" (Moldovan)
Freak Power - "Song Number 6"
Greg Laswell - "Sweet Dreams"
Diana Krall

Chanson français

Chanteurs

Raphaël Haroche (aka Raphael) — (e.g. "Schengen", "Caravane", "Sur la route" avec Jean-Louis Aubert)
AaRON (aka Artificial Animals Riding on Neverland)
Bénabar (aka Bruno Nicolini)
Renaud Séchan (aka Renaud)
Pierre Perret

Chanteuses

Emily Loizeau — (e.g. "L'autre Bout Du Monde")

Groupe

Louise Attaque
Les Cowboys Fringants — Québécois
Kaolin — "Partons vite"
Sinsemilia — "Tout Le Bonheur du Monde"

Nouvelle Chanson

Olivia Ruiz — French
Keren Ann
Anna Ternheim — Swedish

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