Not Alone - Medicins Sans Frontieres (2006)

About this title: Now this is an unwieldy yet treasure of a thing to be sure. Not Alone -- Musicans Sans Frontieres is a very economically priced, five-CD box set by a loose-knit group of artists under the umbrella "Musicians Sans Frontieres" to benefit the medical association known internationally as Doctors Without Borders. Assembled by Current 93's David Tibet and Jnana/Durtro's Mark Logan, it collects 86 cuts (mostly unknown or new) by 75 artists, many of whom one would never expect to be on a compilation project together. "We Are the World" this ain't. The sequencing must have been a nightmare, but for ... read more

Tracks:

1. Fly Away - And Then What? [Irr App Ext]
2. A Song for You [Parsons]
3. Brian [Contreras]
4. Forgotten Language of Light
5. In Lieu Of
6. When You Found Me [Baby Dee]
7. Yesterday I Was a Cow
8. Sea World [Recchion]
9. A Song for the Appeal
10. Sweet Shadow Heart [Hywyn/Cochrane]
11. An Exploration of a Spacious Yet Enclosed Domain [Excerpt] [Lanzillotta]
12. Freddy and Me [Bandez/Budenholzer]
13. It's Coming
14. Fleeing Panic-Stricken Shriveled Equal Temperment
15. On Another's Sorrow [Ginsberg]
16. A Sight to Behold
17. Without Borders [Surkamp]
18. Mantra
19. The First Flower People [L]
20. Do You Want to Go Somewhere? [Buckner]
21. Indulge Yourselves with Our Delicious Monster [Thrower/Brown/Moon]
22. You Will Be the Sun [Chasny]
23. Poor Sally Sits a Weeping [Traditional]
24. Because [Basinski]
25. Sticks & Stones [Version]
26. Il Sogno di Momi [Larsen]
27. The Same But Different [Bunyan]
28. Song for My Father [Gira]
29. Star Malloy [Thighpaulsandra]
30. In the Clouds [Kurenai/Kageo]
31. Change My World [Alternative Mix] [Degens]
32. Movement
33. Denial [Durt]
34. Somebody [Yonkers]
35. Someone Always Talks [Saloman]
36. Snowballin'
37. The Transit Rider [McCarthy]
38. Unbelievable [Doucet]
39. Right on the Line [Fair]
40. Endless [Hansen]
41. Hole in My Soul
42. Espoir Guerison
43. House of Constant Song
44. Hit the Road
45. Back Home Again [Hindle]
46. The Beat Goes On [Bono]
47. Prah Pip Ta
48. Long Dark Shadow [McDowall/Lee]
49. I Need Direction [Alternative Version][Alternate Take] [Love]
50. Therapy [Mary Five E]
51. Crazy Horses [Osmond/Osmond/Osmon]
52. Heliogabalus
53. Huntsville Affair [Arbuckle]
54. No Thing
55. The Work of Washing
56. Judgement Day [Nadler]
57. Flowers for Yulia [Richter]
58. It's the Small Things Now [Fay]
59. Song for Doctors Without Borders [Oldham]
60. Waiting for the Sky to Fall [Jackson]
61. Ubu Noir [Stapleton/Potter]
62. The Glacial Lake
63. Come My Love [Ball/Traditional]
64. Piractes [Seven Year Rabbit C]
65. Stoney Mansion [Terrill/Gitlin]
66. Our Lady of the Barren Tree [Smiley]
67. Parallelograms [Perhacs]
68. Sunset [Tibet/Chasny/Contre]
69. Our Lady [Live]
70. Sex Addiction [Moore]
71. Our Love My Love [Aznavour]
72. Crow Flies [Finn]
73. The Gate of Polished Horn [Wolkmar]
74. City of Dreams
75. Thee Seeding Ship [P-Orridge/Thrasher]
76. Naoru
77. Shadow Makes a Snow Angel
78. Over the Sea

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.