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Rough Trade's release of Jónsi & Alex's Riceboy Sleeps includes an exclusive bonus disc, Rain Down My Favorite Songs. It's the most wonderful and surprising compilation I've heard all year and absolutely essential. There are some great standards from Billie Holiday and Audrey Hepburn along with some Washington Phillips, Cliff Edwards and John Jacob Niles, but it's everything in between that makes this absolute magic.

Here's the complete tracklist:

01 Natalia Janotha - The Celebrated Polish Carillon using only the upper three keys of the piano'
02 Alessandro Moreschi - Ave Maria
03 Smárakvartettinn Á Akureyri - Voggubarnsins Mál
04 Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Word To Her Son
05 Django Reinhardt - Doux Sourire
06 John Jacob Niles - The Gypsie Laddie
07 Billie Holiday - I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
08 Lucienne Boyer - Parlez-Moi D'Amour
09 Raoul Pugno - Marche Funèbre
10 Audrey Hepburn - Moon River
11 Ekkehard Ehlers - John Cassevetes (2)
12 John Somers - A Candy Coated Slow Down
13 Cliff 'Ukulele Ike' Edwards - When You Wish Upon A Star

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