Artist: Meghan Trainor | Album: Thank You | Released: 2016 | Genre: Pop Rock
Artist: Meghan Trainor | Album: Thank You | Released: 2016 | Genre: Pop Rock
This is something special and different. Another On-U Sound product
from the Adrian Sherwood school. Singer Ari and her crew bring this
reggae like experimental dub sound with a lot of emotion and devotion.
You love it or you hate it, I absolutely belong to the first group.
What do you think..?
Ja mensen, dit is eens iets totaal anders. Nog zo’n On-U Sound produkt
van de Adrian Sherwood stal. Zangeres Ari en haar ploeg brengen deze
reggae gebaseerde experimentele dub sound met veel emotie en overgave.
Je vindt het geweldig of je vindt het niets, ik behoor absoluut tot de eerste van
de twee groepen. Wat denk jij ervan ..?
0tracks ;
01 – My whole world
02 – Observe life
03 – Got to get away
04 – My love
05 – Problems
06 – Nuclear zulu
07 – Guiding star
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Irish singer-songwriter Ciaran Lavery may be decorated at home by the Northern Ireland Music Prize (for his 2016 album ‘Let Bad In’) and might have totted up over 80 million streams during his five year solo career, but it’s his unrivalled knack for a poetic, heart-stopping lyric that’s set to earn him wider recognition as a treasured singer-songwriter.
His forthcoming third album ‘Sweet Decay’ is a collection of strummed acoustic fragility that’s as comforting as it is at times devastating. Beyond the classic melodies, however, it’s the storytelling that sets Ciaran Lavery apart, one that can be as brutal as Angel Olsen and as delicate as Neil Young.
The recording process was spliced between tours and although arduous, the drawn-out nature of the work contributed to the songwriting itself, particularly when Lavery found himself inspired by his on-the-road bedside book collection. ?One of the best things I had for provision of sanity were short stories, different kinds of manuscripts that I could dip in and out of.” Pouring through Denis Johnson, Joy Williams, Raymond Carver, JD Salinger, Castle Freeman Jr and admiring the detail, emotional heft and pace these writers could fit into such a short space, Lavery paused to think about what he could achieve in individual songs. ?I thought about trying to create a space for people to find a connection.?
After getting off the road, Lavery headed into Camden Studios in Dublin and put down his ideas. The songs are full of questions, but don’t often offer many answers. It’s open-ended. You can hear a man struggling with personal growth. ?I acknowledge the darkness inside of me, one that has the potential to let people down and make the wrong decisions,? he says.In the studio, Lavery was able to invite a whole host of session players and musicians in to build out those little worlds to gorgeous effect.
With ‘Sweet Decay’, Lavery will be heading out on his biggest tour to date, across Europe, the UK, US, Ireland and Canada. Probably with a fine collection of short story books in tow.
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Cold War Kids will release a live album called Audience on April 13. The 16-track collection was recorded last September during a show in Athens, Georgia.
Tracklist:
01. All This Could Be Yours (Live) (3:22)
02. Miracle Mile (Live) (3:06)
03. Hot Coals (Live) (3:51)
04. Louder Than Ever (Live) (2:39)
05. Hang Me Up To Dry (Live) (3:55)
06. Can We Hang On ? (Live) (4:06)
07. Restless (Live) (5:15)
08. Mexican Dogs (Live) (7:01)
09. Bottled Affection (Live) (5:13)
10. So Tied Up (Live) (3:10)
11. We Used To Vacation (Live) (4:21)
12. Cameras Always On (Live) (0:32)
13. Hospital Beds (Live) (4:23)
14. First (Live) (3:47)
15. Audience (Live) (3:24)
16. Somethings Not Right With Me (Live) (7:02)
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The Very Best Of Andy Gibb honors the monumental worldwide success, achieved within just a few years, of one of the most celebrated recording artists and stage performers of his time. The collection’s 15 tracks include Gibb’s three Number One chart toppers, “I Just Want To Be Your Everything,” “Shadow Dancing,” and “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water.” Four more Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits are showcased: “An Everlasting Love,” “(Our Love) Don’t Throw It All Away,” “I Can’t Help It” featuring Olivia Newton-John, and “Desire,” Gibb’s collaboration with his brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.
All of the collection’s tracks are drawn from Andy Gibb’s three hit studio albums, 1977’s platinum-certified Flowing Rivers, 1978’s platinum-certified Shadow Dancing, and 1980’s gold-certified After Dark.
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Should your knowledge on the history of American folk music be a little rusty, Hedy West, who passed in 2005, aged 67, was one of the leading lights of traditional folk music. She is probably best known for her song 500 Miles. West was born in Cartersville in the hill country of northern Georgia. She was the daughter of Don West, a miners trade union organiser and poet who also ran a couple of folk music centres. She started singing early in her life, winning first prize at the Asheville Annual Folk Festival in the mid-50s when she was just 12, she was later invited by Pete Seeger to sing alongside him at Carnegie Hall. She signed to Vanguard and released her debut album in 1963 with the snappy title of Hedy West accompanying herself on the 5-string banjo, followed a year later by the no less imaginative Hedy West, Volume 2. A regular visitor to England, she spent seven years there in self-imposed exile, recording three albums for Topic and one for Fontana, moving to Germany in the early 70s, releasing a further two albums on Bear Records before eventually returning home to America.
She withdrew from the spotlight in later years and eventually stopped sing completely when she was struck down with cancer; however, prior to her death she had put together this until now unreleased album of songs learned from her grandmother, Lillie Mulkie West, a collection of songs gathered by the family over the years. Indeed, it was Lillie, born in 1888 in Gilmer County, herself who selected the material and who serves as the album’s narrator, hers the voice first heard as a prelude to the scene-setting Lil’ Ol Mountain Shack, the song co-penned by Hedy and her father. It’s the only non-traditional number, the first of which comes with Once I Had an Old Grey Mare with West on banjo and accompanied by fiddle player Tracy Schwarz. It’s followed by Blockader Mama, featuring just West’s voice and guitar on a song, set to a tune she wrote in 1977 based around The Orphan Child, about impoverished mountain folk women making bootleg whiskey for their menfolk to sell, such as sixteen year old sisters Ollie and Rillie Seay, the subject of Lillie’s subsequent recollection.
The next track is actually titled Two Sisters, but has no connection to the narration, being, instead, a variation on the familiar English folk ballad also variously known as The Twa Sisters, The Wind and the Rain and Cruel Sister although West’s version, while still having the bones of the drowned girl’s bones turned into fiddle screws and bow, makes no mention of any sororicide.
West and Schwarz augmented by David Qualley on guitar, a waltzer drawn from the Music Hall tradition, Jack and Joe unfolds another siblings tale, the former asking the latter to take care of his sweetheart while he’s off making his fortune, only to find on his return that the pair have married.
I have no idea of the provenance of Sally Carter, a bluegrass banjo tune driving a song about a feckless wife though the sleeve notes suggest the lyrics Lillie learned from her father involved an elderly mill worker crapping in her stocking and giving it to her boss. Its origins lying in a traditional Irish song about the pitfalls of inebriation and with the earliest documented recording being by Riley Puckett in 1925, the waltzing sway-along I’ll Never Get Drunk Anymore is the catchiest track, Tracy Schwarz again on fiddle and joined by wife Eloise on harmonies. Probably the best known and certainly the oldest – song here is the much-recorded Frog Went Courting which dates back to at least 1548 and, while it may once have had a political context, has long been a children’s nursery rhyme staple. It prompts the last of Lillie’s contributions, a whimsical never give up allegory, about two frogs falling into a churn of milk and being saved because one kicks around so hard he turns it into a lump of butter.
Sung by Hedy and Eloise with banjo and guitar accompaniment, it ends on a gospel note with the redoubtable hymnal The Uncloudy Day, written in 1879 and later popularised by The Staple Singers, the tune drawing on the Scottish traditional Will Ye No Come Back Again? and also serving as the basis for Hank Williams’ I Saw The Light.
All praise to Fledg’ling for not only rescuing this superb collection from wherever it had been gathering dust but, in the process, bringing West’s name back into the spotlight she deserves as one of the great revivalists of American folk music alongside the likes of Baez and Seeger and, it is to be hoped, inspiring a fitting career-spanning anthology of her previous work in the not too distant future.
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*When McNeill originally emerged from the prairies of Canada, her accordion tinged songs featuring wild stories and layers of haunting looped vocals were described as Folk Noir. On ‘Hunger Made You Brave’ she seems to have crossed the line into a new genre-Space Folk. Unmistakably Wendy- with her dark twists and turns- this new recording has something more. When she goes back in time or up to the stars on a sparkling synth line and a howl- you follow. When she whispers that ‘all the rules have changed’- you believe her.
The talents of McNeill’s long time collaborators Andreas Nordell/Double Bass, Erik Nilsson/Percussion, and co producer/multi instrumentalist Christoffer Lundquist weave a unique chemistry which was captured live to tape at AGM Studio Sweden.*