This is so good. Lizzo is a local hip hop/r&b artist who grew up in Detroit and Houston before relocating to the Twin Cities a few years ago. On this album she worked with Doomtree producer Lazerbeak and the folks at Totally Gross National Product who are behind Polica, Gayngs, and many other really fascinating/experimental pop artists. Including the album I'll be listening to next:
The Full English is a groundbreaking project sponsored by the English Folk Dance and Song Society that draws together for the first time the early 20th century folksong collections of Harry Albino, Lucy Broadwood, Clive Carey, Percy Grainger, Maud Karpeles, Frank Kidson, Thomas Fairman Ordish, Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alfred Williams. The result is the most comprehensive searchable database of British folk songs, tunes, dances and customs in the world.
And to mark the launch of the project, folksong scholar and acclaimed singer Fay Hield has assembled The Full English Tour, pulling together half a dozen of the top talents on the English folk music circuit for an evening of songs drawn from these unique collections. They include singer and fiddle player Seth Lakeman, who has successfully steered English folk into the musical mainstream with his high-energy performances and a series of best-selling albums, and one of the worlds finest and most admired guitarists, Martin Simpson. Nancy Kerr is another fiddler/singer with a deep commitment to the English traditional repertoire, celebrated for her boundary-smashing partnerships with Eliza Carthy and James Fagan. Sam Sweeney (fiddle) and Rob Harbron (concertina) are formidable instrumentalists who feature in Fays backing band The Hurricane Party as well as in Jon Bodens Remnant Kings, and are two of the most in-demand session musicians on the scene. Nailing all this multi-instrumentality down is Ben Nicholls, double bassist of choice for artists as diverse as the Seth Lakeman Band, Martin Carthy and Jimmy Sommerville.
There is no mildewy whiff of ancient archives about The Full English Tour. The singers and musicians shake out the songs into fresh new life with exciting instrumental textures and irresistible singalong choruses. The material ranges widely through comic songs, broadsides, tragic ballads and dance tunessome new takes on the well-known, others newly unearthedwith the manuscripts themselves and portraits of both the collectors and their informants displayed on screen as the performance unfolds. The whole process from transcription to interpretation to performance is laid plain before your eyes and ears.
One of Jonah's Jazz Picks this week at emusic. See his review below:
Ricardo Pinheiro, Song Form: A thrilling album with an expansive view. Guitarist Pinheiro mixes in modern jazz with electronic effects, sultry pop songs, avant-garde incursions, Latin influences, and sublime moments of tranquility. Utilizing different parts of a rotating cast of musicians, he finds a way to limit the scope of the albums voicing in its totality, while also intimating that the possibilities are endless. With Pinheiros guitars and effects, hes joined by Matt Renzi on reeds, Jon Irabagon on sax, Mario Laginha on piano, Joana Machado with some nifty vocal contributions, Demian Cabaud on double bass, Miguel Amado on electric bass, Alexandre Frazao and Vicky Marques on drums, with the latter adding Darbuka and Udu to the mix, and Pedro Pestana with the programming. An album that takes chances, and they pretty much pay off with big rewards throughout the entirety of the album. Pick of the Week.
Favorite Track: Heliotropic
@greg: I'm very confused about the Full English Digital Archive. Being a "digital archive," I would expect to be able to find manuscript notation. All I see is a catalog. Am I missing something?
ETA: Never mind. Browsing isn't really as effective as searching.
Beg, Borrow or Steal, new 2-track EP out today by Smokey Brights, who describe their music as "warm, vintage, pop savvy, yet slightly wry rock music. The kind that streams from the boombox all day at your uncle's barbecue, or crackles through the AM radio on an all night drive through some expansive American highway." It's quite good. Reminds me why I included their first 2-track EP, No Sheer Force of Will, in my 'best-of-2012' MiG piece. (The cover of the first EP has that same eye-catching kind of artwork as the new one, which I think adds to make for a very nice package.) The band says they're working on releasing their debut full-length album some time this winter. I'll be waiting.
5/31/69, McArthur Court, University of Oregon. Good show, but there is a ten minute break to deal with equipment hum. So the band tells jokes and generally screws around until the equipment is fixed.
Comments
Sylvain Chauveau - Kogetsudai
(Brocoli 013 - 14th October 2013)
This kind of music is definitely comfort food for me. My remaining SFL fits on one screen now.
Go Tigers!
Simple Acoustic Trio - Habanera.
(More recently known as Marcin Wasilewski Trio)
Various Artists (Enough Records): Profan / Josu
Listen to the Dead - 12/1/1966 at the Matrix
Lizzo - Lizzobangers
This is so good. Lizzo is a local hip hop/r&b artist who grew up in Detroit and Houston before relocating to the Twin Cities a few years ago. On this album she worked with Doomtree producer Lazerbeak and the folks at Totally Gross National Product who are behind Polica, Gayngs, and many other really fascinating/experimental pop artists. Including the album I'll be listening to next:
Marijuana Deathsquads - Oh My Sexy Lord
Also fantastic.
Craig
NP: Frank Bretschneider's new one.
Gu!
Currently watching Sigur R
Source - Fay Hield
See English Folk Dance and Song website for more details of the Project. The album is available at emusic, at least it is in the UK!
One of Jonah's Jazz Picks this week at emusic. See his review below:
CD4
ETA: Never mind. Browsing isn't really as effective as searching.
Getting my fix of raster-noton clinical abstraction. It's kind of a jazz antidote.
ETA, so far, this is really tasty.
Beg, Borrow or Steal, new 2-track EP out today by Smokey Brights, who describe their music as "warm, vintage, pop savvy, yet slightly wry rock music. The kind that streams from the boombox all day at your uncle's barbecue, or crackles through the AM radio on an all night drive through some expansive American highway." It's quite good. Reminds me why I included their first 2-track EP, No Sheer Force of Will, in my 'best-of-2012' MiG piece. (The cover of the first EP has that same eye-catching kind of artwork as the new one, which I think adds to make for a very nice package.) The band says they're working on releasing their debut full-length album some time this winter. I'll be waiting.
Streaming on Bandcamp.
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe
Turnbull Green - Heady
Nice. Available free at soundcloud.
5/31/69, McArthur Court, University of Oregon. Good show, but there is a ten minute break to deal with equipment hum. So the band tells jokes and generally screws around until the equipment is fixed.