On my phone so no image, but I'm listening to Yeezus because Ye just announced a show here. It's been about six years since I've seen an arena show, but that streak is about to be snapped.
@Greg - about that free 2013 Navigator Records Sampler - I'm in the US so can't get the free download, but I listened to the samples and that Josienne Clark & Ben Walker track really caught my ear. I'm currently listening to the album, "One Light Is Gone" on Bandcamp. She has a lovely voice. Beautiful songs. This is a new artist for me. Thanks for providing the path for me. Will definitely be getting this one.
UPDATE/ I just finished listening to the entire album, "One Light Is Gone." Wow - not a filler in it anywhere. This album is just stunningly beautiful from start to finish.
Just finished:
Beautiful, as I stated in my last post.
NP:
Ooh, I like this one just as well! So very gooood.
About Homemade Heartache EP:
When you hear Josienne Clarke sing, you arent likely to forget it in a hurry. Shes got a voice like a struck bell, clear and melancholic, and writes songs in the same troubled language, to which Ben Walkers guitars and arrangements provide a skillful foil. The duo have worked on two previous albums, one of originals and one of traditional folksongs, both drawing on British songwriting and balladry, but the Homemade Heartache EP takes its cues from the other side of the Atlantic, from artists like Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and the Old Crow Medicine Show. Its a natural progression from Clarkes previous work in British folksong, with which country shares a wounded, weary soul. As a listener my favourite songs are often the ones about lost love and break-ups, Clarke says, and country is a very good genre for that! As a songwriter I also seem to favour those themes and try, where possible, to make my songs as honest and meaningful as I can. The Homemade Heartache EP, as you may expect, mainly concerns itself with aching hearts, but is presented with a wistful beauty, as Clarkes voice winds itself around guitars, mandolins and accordian. - from the blog, When I Got The Music: Writing About Music in East London.
NP
I'm not sure how many albums of early Ibero-American music, but this is one of the best. The combined woodwinds are exquisited. All it needs is a little more rhythmic umph to make it head and shoulders above Villancicos Danzas Criollas.
- "Jorge Antunes was born in 1942, in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied violin, composition and conducting. He also majored in physics at the National Faculty of Philosophy. In 1961, after constructing by himself several generators, filters, modulators and other electronic equipment, Antunes founded the Chromo-Music Research Studio, and has since been recognized as the originator of electronic music in Brazil. In 1965 he began to research the correspondences between sound and color, and wrote works that he called Cromoplastofonias, for orchestras, magnetic tapes, and lights, also using the senses of smell, taste and touch. Between 1969 and 1973 he won scholarships to study in Buenos Aires, Utrecht and Paris under Alberto Ginastera, Gerardo Gandini, Francisco Kroepfl, Umberto Eco, Luis De Pablo, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Pierre Schaeffer and Fran
I got two free CDs from the Public Guilt going out of business sale. Destructo Swarmbots which is fantastic, and this one, which is...less so, but interesting.
Thanks for the Josienne Clark links, Kez. I admit that I am getting tempted to come out of my emusic hold, as several of those recordings are available there in the UK - I've just checked! Also I'd like the new album by Vieux Farka Toure. The emusic T and C suggest that you can only go on hold twice a year - has anybody actually tested that out? Can I come back just for a month and then go back on hold for another couple of months? This is my second hold this year already.
Writing a review takes time: repeated listening to pick up all the nuances and form a full opinion, and then getting that down into words for everyone to read. So it is always a joy when an album is a real pleasure to spend time with. Lúnasa return with their latest album, and a new take on their already fresh-sounding Irish folk tunes. Teaming up with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra the album takes the listener on a journey through some old favourites, but with new twists and drama to each.
The addition of the orchestra allows for some fabulous arrangements, though they never overshadow the band or sound at all out of place. The first tune set, Casu, is a gentle introduction to the orchestra, with them very much playing a supporting role, most beautifully when the horns subtly add their weight to the final tune, Muineira de Casu. Spoil the Dance contains some fantastic string augmentation, including sections of lovely pizzicato. What is particularly striking is that the strings are used to emphasise the rhythm section rather than the tune. This is really getting to the heart of the Lúnasa sound, as the band always try to seek out the heartbeat of a tune. The Last Pint is a beautiful tune, that begins with flutes/whistles playing in unison, a soft and lilting sound. As with all the tracks on this album, the tune then builds to a crescendo and a very satisfying conclusion. Merry Sisters of Fate allows Trevor Hutchinson to really come to the fore with the double bass. In the opening of the track it almost becomes a rock guitar, providing an insistent and powerful influence over the track.
However, the stand out track is probably An Buachaillín Bán. It has the most slow and poignant opening, concentrated on the orchestras strings. Then the Uilleann pipes start to sing their heartfelt song. The liner notes dont explain what the tune is about, but the emotion and expression is pure delight to listen to. Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra is an excellent album for lovers of Irish music, but also one for general folkies. The arrangements and musicianship makes this an album for all to enjoy.
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Craig
Kessel plays the hell out of these numbers.
Awesome!
UPDATE/ I just finished listening to the entire album, "One Light Is Gone." Wow - not a filler in it anywhere. This album is just stunningly beautiful from start to finish.
Beautiful, as I stated in my last post.
NP:
Ooh, I like this one just as well! So very gooood.
About Homemade Heartache EP:
This came up in the rotation. Thanks again.
Here's what i've heard.
Kaboom Karavan - Hokus Fokus
I'm not sure how many albums of early Ibero-American music, but this is one of the best. The combined woodwinds are exquisited. All it needs is a little more rhythmic umph to make it head and shoulders above Villancicos Danzas Criollas.
Johny Lamb turns up the volume on this, literally and metaphorically. "Mother, This Land Won't Hold Me" is epic.
New album from Giant Sand's Howe Gelb. Spare blues/folk. Evocative. $3.33 at BC.
- "Jorge Antunes was born in 1942, in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied violin, composition and conducting. He also majored in physics at the National Faculty of Philosophy. In 1961, after constructing by himself several generators, filters, modulators and other electronic equipment, Antunes founded the Chromo-Music Research Studio, and has since been recognized as the originator of electronic music in Brazil. In 1965 he began to research the correspondences between sound and color, and wrote works that he called Cromoplastofonias, for orchestras, magnetic tapes, and lights, also using the senses of smell, taste and touch. Between 1969 and 1973 he won scholarships to study in Buenos Aires, Utrecht and Paris under Alberto Ginastera, Gerardo Gandini, Francisco Kroepfl, Umberto Eco, Luis De Pablo, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Pierre Schaeffer and Fran
Thanks Greg for the heads up
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Craig
No Jorma, but it has Papa John
Craig
Another one from the Projekt haul. Bleaker than its cover art.
Another NYOP from petites plan
Stave by Petit Fant
Source: Bright Young Folk review
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Better than I expected.
Craig
Their marketing plan for the new album is working on me (not like I wouldn't have bought it anyway, but still).
Craig