Mellow New Year

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Still recovering from the New Year festivities? A little tired? Sore head? Here's a mellow Friday Ripple to get you through it. The beats are downtempo, the guitars are mostly acoustic; it's a set for people who need a quiet January 1st.

Music from a lot of the usual sources (Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa etc), but this time with no heavy beats or distortion - even the hip hop is mellow. Have a nice cup of tea, sit back, and relax to the sound of the Friday Ripple's New Year special. 

Here's the playlist:
Decolonisons Collectif - Decolonisons! (Survie)
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (Postal Service remix) (Verve)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Lesley Gore on the TAMI Show (Tomlab)
Tumi and the Volume - What It's All About (Distrikt 6)
Eedris Abdulkareem feat. Ruggedman - Koleyewon (Kennis Music)
Hiba - Rima (Lebanese Underground)
Nadine Zhouri - All This Violence (Incognito)
Zoro & Tim Parr - Gal of I Dream (African Dope)
Mexican Institute of Sound - Sinfonia Agridulce (Nacionale)
Bernard Lavillers & Tiken Jah Fakoly - Question de Peau (Survie)
The Very Best - Yalira (Moshi Moshi)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric (acoustic version) (Interscope Records)
SelfBrush - Dry Feet (Absent Hour)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Strange form of Life (Drag City)
Ziad Saad - Full of You (Lebanese Underground)
Coco Rosie - God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me (Touch and Go Records)
340ml feat. Drean - Sorry for the Delay (Sheer)
Six Foot Plus - Anwudi (Out Here Records)
Zuluboy - Genocide (Native Rhythms / EMI South Africa)
Gogol Bordello - Through the Roof 'n' Underground (Rubric Records)
Bon Iver - Blood Bank (Jagjaguwar)
RH+ - Sambacanuta (La Oreja)
Colomach - Cotocun Gba Gounke (Soundway Records)
Rowland S Howard - I Know A Girl Called Jonny (feat. Jonnine Standish) (The Passport Label)
Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat (American Recordings)
Tica - Rock The Casbah (Smith & Mighty steppers mix) (Nuphonic)
Positive Black Soul - Boul Fale (remix) (World Music Network)