Tom Waits - Blood MoneyBlood Moneyuses the same template and players asAlice(released at the same time in 2002) and first saw life as an opera production by Robert Wilson. It's Waits's treatment of Georg Buchner's 1837 socio political play,Woyzekwhich premiered in 2000 in Copenhagen. It's a dark morality play performed in a style where a barker from a medicine show is mysteriously transported to the weimar republic via tin pan alley. Disturbing and delirious when it's not

‘Berlin School’

The Monks were five beat playing American gis stationed in Germany who

constantly evolving spectacle marked by layers of intertwining guitars

Spliced and reformed by the band

jazz and even 60's mod

the album also represents a huge leap forward in terms of songwriting and vision

Featured guests include Robyn

and many more

Arguably the best kept secret in Midori Takada‰۪s fascinating discography

I have never seen musicians put so much into their instruments

'It's Kinda Funny' and 'Chance Meeting')

but then King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard aren't 'most bands'