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Looks like the experimental-bizarro music version of Live 8 is finally here. Jnana Records, a division of Current 93 mastermind David Tibet's Durtro empire, has announced the release of the massive compilation Not Alone, which will benefit the humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontierès (or Doctors Without Borders to those of us in the USA).

Curated by Tibet and Mark Logan, the five-disc set includes previously unreleased material by a galaxy of alternate universe stars, including Devendra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan, Current 93, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Damon and Naomi, Teenage Fanclub, Matmos, Six Organs of Admittance, William Basinski, Isobel Campbell, and Pitchfork Single of the Year winner Antony. (That thudding sound you hear is the The Wire's staff's jaws dropping simultaneously.)

All proceeds will go to MSF's work on the African AIDS crisis.

Not Alone is due out in mid-January, and is currently available for pre-order from the Jnana website. And it's cheap, too: only $24.99 plus postage.

Mega tracklist:

>>Disc 1
01 irr.app.ext - "Fly Away and Then What?"
02 Damon and Naomi - "A Song for You"
03 John Contreras - "Brian"
04 Mirror - "Forgotten Language of Light"
05 Fursaxa - "In Lieu Of"
06 Baby Dee - "When You Found Me"
07 Howie B - "Yesterday I Was a Cow"
08 Tom Recchion - "Sea World"
09 Matmos - "A Song for the Appeal"
10 Blue Eyed Black - "Sweet Shadow Heart"
11 Eric Lanzilotta - "An Exploration of a Spacious Yet Enclosed Domain (excerpt)"
12 Little Annie - "Freddy and Me"
13 Colin Potter - "It's Coming"
14 Keiji Haino - "fleeing panic-stricken shriveled equal temperament"
15 Allen Ginsberg - "On Another's Sorrow"
16 Devendra Banhart - "A Sight to Behold"
17 David Surkamp - "With Out Borders"

>>Disc 2
01 Jarboe - "Mantra"
02 L - "The First Flower People"
03 Richard Buckner - "Do You Want to Go Somewhere"
04 Cyclobe - "Indulge Yourselves With Our Delicious Monster"
05 Six Organs of Admittance - "You Will Be the Sun"
06 Dolly Collins - "Poor Sally Sits a Weeping"
07 William Basinski - "Because"
08 Edward Ka-Spel - "Sticks & Stones (version)"
09 Larsen - "Il Sogno Di Momi"
10 Vashti Bunyan - "The Same but Different"
11 Angels of Light - "Song for My Father"
12 Thighpaulsandra - "Star Malloy"
13 Suishou no Fune - "In the Clouds"
14 Pantaleimon - "Change My World (Alternative Mix)"
15 Aube - "Movement"
16 Mr Durt - "Denial"
17 Michael Yonkers - "Somebody"

>>Disc 3
01 Bevis Frond - "Someone Always Talks"
02 Sarah Hallman - "Snowballin'"
03 Faun Fables - "The Transit Rider"
04 Luke Doucet - "Unbelievable"
05 Jad Fair - "Right on the Line"
06 Unveiled - "Endless"
07 Antony - "Hole in My Soul"
08 Charlemagne Palestine - "Espoir Guerison"
09 Alex Neilson & Richard Youngs - "House of Constant Song"
10 Anomoanon - "Hit the Road"
11 James William Hindle - "Back Home Again"
12 Isobel Campbell - "The Beat Goes On"
13 The Bricoleur - "Prah Pip Ta"
14 Sorrow - "Long Dark Shadow"
15 Teenage Fanclub - "I Need Direction (Alternative Version)"
16 Mary 5E - "Therapy"
17 Sundial - "Crazy Horses"

>>Disc 4
01 Jeremy Reed - "Helioqabalus"
02 NQ Arbuckle - "Huntsville Affair"
03 Shannon Lyon - "No Thing"
04 The Hafler Trio - "The Work of Washing"
05 Marissa Nadler - "Judgement Day"
06 Max Richter - "Flowers for Yulia"
07 Bill Fay - "It's the Small Things Now"
08 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Song for Doctors Without Borders"
09 Lynn Jackson - "Waiting for the Sky to Fall"
10 Nurse With Wound - "Ubu Noir"
11 Clodagh Simonds - "The Glacial Lake"
12 Shirley Collins - "Come My Love"
13 7 Year Rabbit Cycle - "Pirates"
14 John Terrill - "Stoney Mansion"
15 Brett Smiley - "Our Lady of the Barren Tree"
16 Linda Perhacs - "Parallelograms"
17 Current 93 - "Sunset"
18 Pearls Before Swine - "Our Lady"
19 Thurston Moore - "Sex Addiction"

>>Disc 5
01 Marc Almond - "Our Love My Love"
02 Simon Finn - "Crow Flies"
03 Stephanie Volkmar - "The Gate of Polished Horn"
04 Small Creatures - "City of Dreams"
05 Thee Majesty - "Thee Seeding Ship"
06 Jim O'Rourke - "Naoru"
07 Scott Stapleton - "Shadow Makes a Snow Angel"
08 John Maslen - "Everything Was Handed Down"
09 Jooel - "Over the Sea"
10 Ghostigital - "Bump"
11 Amy Curl - "The Robin's Tiny Throat"
12 srmeixner - "Wild Spaces (excerpt)"
13 Mount Vernon Arts Lab - Untitled
14 Coil - "Broccoli"
15 Shock Headed Peters - "Aaron's Rod (Spared)"
16 Ghost - "Daggma"

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