Artist: VA | Album: 80s Arena Rock Classics | Released: 2017 | Genre: Rock
Artist: VA | Album: 80s Arena Rock Classics | Released: 2017 | Genre: Rock
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Phantom Lake: Northern Gothic 3 is the final installment of the trilogy which began in 2002 with Northern Gothic (Camera Obscura). It was followed up by, Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2 (Hidden Agenda) in 2007.
When Laura Weller and Jeff Kelly were thinking about where their next project might go, Laura introduced the idea of writing songs inspired by childhood. She had grown up in a neighborhood called Phantom Lake, memories of which eventually inspired four songs on this record. Jeff also drew from youth, remembering trips to Lost Lake, about twelve miles out of Shelton, Washington, where relatives had a cabin, as well as many vacations to the Washington coast over the years. Eric Lichter remembers a family from his past in the song, “The Rosebergs,” about a catastrophic tsunami roaring in off of the Pacific.
These are the same landscapes that populated many of the songs on the two previous Northern Gothic albums. The grey skies, the endless evergreens, the “black and blue moon” and “a thousand crows” which hang over small lakeside or West Coast towns populated by the lonesome, the unlucky-in-loves and even a few slightly eerie children.
This is a dark album. It is about obsession and sorrow and murder and too much whisky. The characters that permeate these songs exist in the shadows, often in the margins of society. These lost souls of the northern gothic world of Phantom Lake remind us of what it is to be human.
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How do you distill the essence of the 60s/70s chamber pop in all its variations, from Brian Wilson and Lee Hazelwood in the US, through George Martin and his Beatles productions to Serge Gainsbourg and his arranger Jean-Claude Vannier over in France?
Well, you sit somewhere in a secluded studio in New Zealand, produce and release records by Princess Chelsea and Ruby Suns, come up with some masterpieces of your own and when you appear in public, you and your band are dressed in plastic masks. In essence, you’re Jonathan Bree and your third solo album Sleepwalking is exactly that kind of masterpiece that is a product of somebody who drinks, eats, and sleeps music. Lush orchestrated pop, that has everything in it from the Lee Hazelwood/Nick Cave/Stuart A. Staples/ Neil Hannon baritone vocals of the title track, great string arrangements interspersed with Ennio Morricone-style twangy guitars, to shades of Gainsbourg with him, and one of the guest vocalists Clara Vinals (Princess Chelsea is the other). Everything else is in-between.
Actually, Bree was at it for a while, since his previous band, The Brunettes were picked up by Sub Pop after their opening stint for The Postal Service at the beginning of the century. It seems he has been trying to achieve the excellence all along, but it seems that he has hit the right vein with Sleepwalking where the enchanting pop of “You’re So Cool” is interspersed with Neil Hannon’s The Divine Comedy style melodramatics of “Characters” or “Roller Disco” with the string arrangement underlined by constant shimmering keyboards. Or, just a simply brilliant song like “Coke”
Bree is able to constantly introduce new melodic lines and arrangement details to escape any traps of boredom, in a way like a less verbose Stephen Merritt, with Bree’s arrangements being equally delightful. With all that, he just might have hit the right nerve, with the “You’re So Cool” video already counting quite a few million views. Bree, the Masked Marauder just might be that musical perfectionist that does not simply remain a tortured genius.
In this continuing story of juju craze I’d like to introduce Professor
Y.K. Ajao (N.J.K.). He began his musical career in 1962. It kind of went
downhill early eighties but with the help of Alhaji Ayinde Barrister
he got back in the saddle. The good professor worships Chief
Commander Ebenezer Obey, of whom more later. Today this
1991 album. B-side opens with some sort of juju ballad but
overall this is an inspiring slice of sparkling, strong juju..
In deze week van de juju gekte wil ik je vandaag kennis laten
maken met Professor Y.K. Ajao (N.J.K.). Hij begon zijn muzikale
carriere op negenjarige leeftijd in 1962. Begin jaren tachtig raakte
deze wat in het slop maar met de hulp van Alhaji Ayinde Barrister
kwam hij er weer bovenop. De professor aanbidt Chief Commander
Ebenezer Obey van wie later meer. Vndaag dit album uit 1991. Kant-B
opent met een soort juju balade maar over het geheel is dit een
sterke en inspirerende juju plaat, luister en geef weer door..
tracks ;
01 – Tabaranni ni se eru
—–Ma fun e ni makosa pata-pata
—–Hausa language
—–Ibo language
—–Omode yi janpepe
02 – Baba lope tosi
—–Oro nigeria
—–Omo-iya-ni-gbogbo wa
—–Tunde-kayode
—–Inu-mimo jogun lo
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With the recently released “Songs From the Land of Nod” garnering enthusiastic reviews across the board, BEECHWOOD delivers the follow up, “Inside The Flesh Hotel”. From two-minute pop perfection, to the sound of drug-induced nightmare psychoses, the trio’s music hits you where it hurts. Gordon Lawrence (guitar/vox), Isa Tineo (drums/vox) and Sid Simons (bass/vox) are drawing their rock n’roll line in the dirt, which side are you on?
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Tracklist:
01. Streams of Whiskey
02. Vagabonds
03. Long Way to the Top
04. Paranoid
05. The Fields of Athenry
06. Slovenian Metal Girl
07. Ace of Spades
08. The Clansman
09. Foggy Dew
10. Friggin in the Riggin
11. Turkish Song of the Damned
12. Young Ned of the Hill
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1973 – Show Your Hand (00:42:22)
2003 – How Sweet Can You Get? (aka ‘The Clover Sessions’ – 1973) (00:39:52)
1974 – AWB (00:39:58)
1975 – Put It Where You Want It (00:40:35)
1975 – Cut The Cake (00:42:38)
1976 – Soul Searching (00:46:14)
1976 – Person To Person 2CD (01:26:56)
1977 – Benny And Us / Average White Band & Ben E. King (00:41:47)
1978 – Warmer Communications (00:43:40)
1979 – Feel No Fret (00:37:38)
1980 – Shine (00:38:32)
1980 – Volume VIII (00:37:48)
1982 – Cupid’s In Fashion (00:41:37)
1988 – Aftershock (00:39:51)
1996 – Soul Tattoo (00:56:35)
2003 – Living In Colour (00:50:28)
2014 – Alternate Versions, Rarities And Mixes 2CD (01:36:00)