What's your latest "Discovery"

jack johnson 'brushfire fairytales',
very chill, really let me unwind and come down after an extremely busy year thus far while on easter holiday from my teaching duties, more than reminiscent of ben harper, but i could care less, it sounds and feels as honest and natural as a sunset or sunrise with your better half

The Shins "Oh, Inverted World". Its indie pop/rock, but it is well recorded, so maybe audiophiles might like too. Great album, cool lyrics.

I also got the American IV album. Despite the album's total fragmentation, and the "Personal Jesus" cover, it is worth stealing.

Paul Curreri, "From Long Gones to Hawkmoth", on City Salvage Records (limited availability--I bought from a cool online record store in Oregon). I first heard him when he opened for Kelly Joe Phelps at a show I saw last year, and I was mighty impressed. A young singer-songwriter of considerable talent and traditional sensibilities. His singing voice reminds me a little of Ramblin' Jack Elliot, but his songwriting is surely his own. I doubt he'll ever be big (no catchy hooks), but he sure is good.

I'm taking some good notes here too...thanks folks! I've got some great recommendations from this list over many threads like this! I'll second the recommendation for Biber's Unam Ceylum: Wonderful Disc which I got a while back and couldn't stop playing. In that same purchase (I usually tend to get three or four at once) I also enjoyed Silencio, which is I think is a Nonesuch disc with Gidon Kremer and his ensemble playing some more modern compositions by the likes of Arvo Part.

I had some friends stop by yesterday who wanted to hear my home system, and I always ask when people come by that they bring some of their current favorite disks with them. Great way to share the music and the passion. Here's two notes I took down after yesterday's session having only heard a few cuts of these discs (hence not detailed comments other than that I enjoyed what I heard). I'll certainly get both of these discs:

Roger Waters, Amused to Death (carrying on in the tradition of Pink Floyd...the sound and engineering is unmistakable)

Axiom of Choice, Beyond Denial (both cuts were very powerful, East meets West fusion...reminded me a little bit of Dead can Dance)

Kari Bremnes, a Norwegian singer/songwriter. I first heard her on Tom Russell's "The Man From God Knows Where" (also on that cd are Iris Dement and Dolores Keane). Hard to describe Ms. Bremnes music, and only one of her cds is in English. I'd recommend the Tom Russell cd, and then if you are as taken with her voice as I am, try some of her own cds from

www.kkv.no

or, another discovery of sorts, Harmony Ridge Music, www.hrmusic.com, specializing in women singer-songwriters, with a large and interesting catalog.