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The brand new album from Mick Clarke featuring 13 new tracks including 9 new MC compositions and new versions of songs by Charley Patton, Tarheel Slim, Pearly Brown and Robert Johnson.
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The brand new album from Mick Clarke featuring 13 new tracks including 9 new MC compositions and new versions of songs by Charley Patton, Tarheel Slim, Pearly Brown and Robert Johnson.
From the very start, a cosmic feeling elevates Gili Yalo’s debut album. As instrumental track “Tadese” begins, we hear familiar Ethio-jazz modes wind upward, laced with unexpectedly futuristic synths and rich swirls of electric guitar. It sets the stage well on Gili Yalo, introducing us to an artist who knows his roots and aims to actualize his own potential. No doubt about it, that potential is vast. Gili’s voice is versatile, his compositions fresh blends of funk, jazz, and Afropop. “Africa”, a duet with artist Keren Dun, is an obvious standout that packs a soulful heap of heat, brass, and punch into five uplifting minutes. An encouraging repetition of “Be happy!” punctuates each verse, and as simple as the lyrics are, they ring true – especially given Gili’s background.
The story is a heavy one; now based in Tel Aviv, Gili Yalo was evacuated from famine-stricken Sudan along with thousands of other Ethiopian Jews in 1984. While it’s been a few decades since the relocation, the artist’s familiarity with struggle echoes in his work. “Hot Shot” questions a subject estranged from an origin: “You’re bleeding for your own / What are you at all when you’re coming home?” “Coffee” features the melancholy sounds of subtle horns and an Ethiopian krar behind frustrated lyrics: “Coffee or cigarettes / Get me through the day / And nobody / Nobody is my friend.” By the end of the track, the mourning becomes an anxious frenzy.
He continues to reflect on hardships on ’70s-style funk track “City Life” (“Everybody’s making money / You can’t pay the rent…”) and finds the strength to overcome them within the resolute Ethio-jazz of “Fire” (“There is another pack of us / We want to break these vanity walls”). At the album’s finale, though, comes the stark emotional climax: “New Life”, a rallying cry of holding the line within oneself as life bears down: “They say a storm is coming / I say, well, let it come / The wind is blowing and humming / I ain’t got nowhere to run,” Gili sings, and as a flute spirals upward, the suitably simple melody’s only ornamentation, his voice holds steady, battle-hardened and prepared for whatever comes next.
Surrounding the introspections are the smoky, sinuous hits of Ethio-jazz, electrified and stunning. Penultimate cut “T’ebik’iu” is undoubtedly the most intriguing of these, featuring Gili’s voice at its most sensual and offering a timeless sense of melody, effortlessly balancing classic and modern. More upbeat dance tracks like “Sab Sam” and catchy Selam move and charm with straightforward beats and modes that don’t aim to challenge so much as they aim to stay tight and engaging. They’re the best kind of familiar, evoking warmth without being carbon copies of past tunes.
Gili Yalo sings with the authority and skill of a veteran musician; that his self-titled album is his first is a thing to be grateful for. Gili Yalo is one of those rare debuts with a clear sense of purpose and style, and its creator one of those rare artists who knows exactly how to process his past to create his vision for this very moment. He doesn’t sugarcoat the present, but he knows how to make it a satisfying listen.
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Tracklist:
1. Dance Party (3:58)
2. Party Time (3:58)
3. Love Talk (4:19)
4. (If You Like Fishing) You Better Know Your Hole From Mine (4:38)
5. I’m A Nibble Man (4:33)
6. I Ain’t Gonna Cry No More (4:19)
7. If It Feels Good (4:35)
8. Two Good Women (4:12)
9. My Outside Woman (4:04)
10. I Never Take A Day Off (4:14)
11. Ease On Down (7:57)
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New Order Presents Be Music is a compilation of productions by members of New Order, including classic dance and electro tracks released on Factory Records between 1982 and 1985, as well as more recent remixes for current artists such as Factory Floor, Marnie, Tim Burgess and Fujiya & Miyagi.
The generic tag Be Music was first used in 1981 and covered studio production work by all four members of New Order: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert. Sumner often teamed with Donald ‘Dojo’ Johnson of A Certain Ratio, including the pioneering electro cuts featured here by Quando Quango, 52nd Street, Marcel King, Paul Haig and Surprize. Morris and Gilbert worked with Thick Pigeon, Life, Red Turns To and also 52nd Street. Although more rock orientated, Hook proved he was no slouch on the dancefloor either with the mighty Fate/Hate by Nyam Nyam.
‘Producing was a really important sideline,’ recalls Bernard Sumner of the Factory era. ‘It’s OK doing it because although all the groups are skint, you learn a lot and you’re helping somebody.’
After 1985 the band focused more on producing their own records, both as New Order and solo projects such as Electronic, Revenge, The Other Two, Monaco and Bad Lieutenant. However in recent years Stephen Morris in particular has remixed several newer artists, notably London industrialists Factory Floor, as well as former Factory workers A Certain Ratio and Section 25.
Bonus tracks on the 3xCD box set include Knew Noise by Section 25, produced by Ian Curtis and Rob Gretton of Joy Division way back in 1979, and the complete 22 minute version of Video 586, recorded by New Order themselves in 1982.
All tracks (12 on vinyl, 36 on the CD) are newly remastered. The liner notes feature commentary on the tracks by the artists and also members of New Order. Design by Matt Robertson.
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John Wesley (Porcupine Tree) – Guitars, Vocals
Sean Malone (Cynic) – Bass
Mark Prator – Drums & Percussion
Ian Medhurst – Guitars
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Nearly two decades after his accidental death, a previously undiscovered album of early Jeff Buckley recordings.You & I, features Buckley performing nine covers and two originals – Grace, which became the title track of his debut album, and the previously unheard song Dream of You and I, described as “mysterious and haunting”. Among the covers are versions of Sly and The Family Stone’s Everyday People, Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman, and two Smiths songs, The Boy With the Thorn in His Side and I Know It’s Over. The release has been overseen by Buckley’s mother. Mary Guibert.
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‘Legend’ is a label hurled around all too frequently these days, but one singer to whom the term can legitimately be applied is the late Sam Cooke, whose ability to incorporate gospel, folk, R&B, show tunes, blues and pop into a magnificent and seamless blend was truly unique. This 100 hits collection includes some of his greatest hits such as “You Send Me”, “Wonderful World”, “Twisting The Night Away”, “Cupid” and many more!
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Live at Sigma Sound Studios.Rainbow Room,Philadelphia, PA.1972..WMMR-FM Broadcast
Gerry Beckley – vocals, guitars, bass
Dewey Bunnell – vocals, guitars
Dan Peek – vocals, guitars, bass, harmonica
Tracks:
01. Riverside
02. Sandman
03. I Need You
04. Submarine Ladies Part 2
05. Don’t Cross The River
06. Winter of Our Love
07. Children
08. Three Roses > Comin’ Into Los Angeles (tape flip cut in middle)
09. Living Isn’t Really Giving >
10. The Rain Song
11. Horse With No Name
12. How Long Must This Go On
13. California Revisited
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Jerry Naylor is an internationally recognized recording artist, performer, record producer, songwriter, radio and television personality, film and television producer, and Grammy nominated solo recording artist. With The Crickets, he recorded for Liberty/EMI Records and scored several hits including “Please Don’t Ever Change,” “My Little Girl” and “Teardrops Fall Like Rain.” As a solo artist he toured heavily from 1965-1982, performing 160-250 dates per year with his band in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. He scored a #5 pop hit with “But For Love” in 1970 and several country hits in the early ‘70s, including “Is This All There Is to a Honky Tonk.”