I have been lurking and leeching for so long now - it's about time for me to return the favor I've been dealt by so many of you, who made so much different music available to me. This thread really had a huge impact on (re-)shaping my musical taste and broadening my view. THANKS!
Unfortunately my access to "hardly available" music is fairly limited - at least when compared to the amount and quality of stuff, other forumites are able to come up with. But maybe some of you might find these two albums interesting:
Ral Partha Vogelbacher - Shrill Falcons (2006)
I stumbled across this album at my local (and, sad enough, no longer existant) record store. My guess is that someone had ordered it, without ever coming by to actually fetch it. So after seeing it there on display for several weeks I finally gave it a listen and knew immediately that I had to buy it. Maybe the music can best be described as surprisingly catchy Indie-Rock with an affinity to Postrock and some distinct dashes of Noise - but then: I always find it hard to categorize music. No comments on them on P4k or Allmusic and even Wikipedia is fairly short with information on these guys ('cept the fact that they are from San Francisco and share personell with Thee More Shallows) - but actually I don't care so much about the background, since the music pretty much stands for itself.
http://www.myspace.com/ralpartha - for a quick glance without downloading
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?yjzdmhgmwty
Kaizers Orchestra - Evig Pint (2003)
This is a bunch of Norwegians making music on pretty much everything remotely capable of emitting soundwaves. Their stage performance is legendary - not just among fans. And despite the fact, that they sing in Norwegian (which, btw., sounds pretty nice and melodic) they have gained a devoted following throughout Northern and Central Europe. Their style is heavily influenced by gypsy-rock and (more specifically) the norwegian variant of marching-/polcka-music, called "Ompa" (their debut - which I could also upload if anybody is interested - therefore bears the telling title "Ompa til du dør" = Ompa 'Till You Die), but is in the same instant firmly rooted in the shadier parts of rock music. Tom Waits has often been mentioned as one of their sources of inspiration and maybe that's correct. But let me put it this way: if Tito Larriva, drunken on slivovitz rather than tequila, singing alongside Zach Condon and a supporting cast of Gogol Bordello sounds like something you might indeed enjoy, give this a try.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fzfrxq9aldte - this is, what Allmusic has to say on the album
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=109828260 - and here is some of their more recent stuff on stream
http://www.mediafire.com/?ownidi24nzo
Since this is my first post on this thread (and in regard of my underdeveloped computer skills), I can but hope that this works out (sorry, if not so).