Above is the song I have been obsessed with for two days now - The Irrepressibles new single Arrow. Seriously, I have had it on repeat since yesterday.  I. Can’t.

So yes, the Irrepressibles. Other contemporary musicians:

Tom Waits. Tom Waits Tom Waits Tom Waits Tom Waits TOM WAITS.

Gogol Bordello

Verka Serduchka

Meow Meow

Ute Lemper

Hugh Laurie

Max Raabe

Movits!

The Tiger Lillies

Jazz etc.

Benny Goodman

Billie Holiday

Cab Calloway

Edith Piaf

Gelber & Manning

Nöel Coward

Ivor Novello

Marlene Dietrich

Alexander Vertinsky

Opera, Operetta, Composers and Opera performers

Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Queen of Spades

Phillipe Jaroussky

Jochen Kowalsky

Karita Mattila

Gilbert and Sullivan (especially The Mikado, The Gondoliers and Patience)

Strauss’ Die Fledermaus

Wagner’s Lohengrin

Händel’s Agrippina

Rimsky-Korsakov

Stravinsky

Chopin

Roma (mainly Russian Roma)

Alexander Kolpakov (Kolpakov Trio)

ILO

Alya

Esma Redzepova

I also enjoy listening to soundtracks, so here are a few:

Gosford Park

Joyeux Nöel

Doctor Zhivago 

Lawrence of Arabia

Bright Young Things

and… a lot of others.