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What's the cool thing about 'found' art? That it's random, quirky and original in a sense that something gets re-invented. There's those cool installations at art museums made of 'found' objects,  they make interesting literature that you can bide your time reading and 'found' music also makes for excellent, top quality listening.

For the past few weeks, I've been listening two albums by an Australian band, Architecture in Helsinki, and a band composed of two sisters, CocoRosie - two groups that I've enjoyed immensely. As a sampler, here's Architecture in Helsinki's "The Owls Go" and CocoRosie's "By Your Side".

So what does my four year old music connoisseur say about this? He not as thrilled as he was listening to Postal Service songs, but he loves itwhen I do the popping sound with my mouth when we listen to Architecture in Helsinki. He's warming up to it though, since it starts with counting (four, three, two, one), one of his current obsessions. It also has a little girl singing along too which is a plus. Me, I'm just amazed how tapdancing, handclaps, fingers snapping, popping noises, breathing noises and your usual musical instruments (the trombone is the best) would create such a wonderful song. Also, who knew the line "Attic and a basement with a knife serrated, I'll protect you" would sound ever so similar to "Finding a replacement with a heart sedated, I'll forget you". The CocoRosie song, Paolo's not too thrilled about - but I like it. It's supposedly recorded in an bathroom in an apartment in France with a couple of children's toy music and electronic instruments and jangling a couple of coins.

I just love finding 'found' music :)