Artist: Prince | Album: Nothing Compares 2 U | Released: 2018 | Genre: Funk, Pop
Artist: Prince | Album: Nothing Compares 2 U | Released: 2018 | Genre: Funk, Pop
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The eight-track upshot of doubt, upheaval and financial strain, Stains on Silence by Girls Names is one such release. Following 2015’s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, the Belfast band suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. ‘There was a finished and then aborted mix of the album, which was shelved for six months,’ reveals Girls Names frontman Cathal Cully. ‘We then took a break from all music and went back to full-time work. We chilled out from the stress of rushing the record and not being happy with it, as well as being skint with no impending touring on the cards and constantly having to worry about rent.’ The stumbling blocks that proved a strain became the album’s defining breakthrough. Recorded in various locations including Belfast’s Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cully’s home and the band’s practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time. ‘We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year,’ says Cully. ‘When we got them to a place we were happier with we went back into Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley to finalise the mixes to what they are now.’ Where AAAV proved a brazen statement of intent, Stains on Silence bounds forth as its feature-length comedown. What could have seen the band buckle became an opportunity for approaching things tabula rasa. During its two-year transmutation, Cully, bassist Claire Miskimmin and guitarist Philip Quinn had a single aim for their fourth album: to make an old-fashioned record clocking in around 30 to 35 minutes in length that made the listener reach straight for repeat. From the Bang Bang bar-summoning swoon of opener 25 and the submerged disco doom of Haus Proud to the rapt, dub-leaning Fragments of a Portrait , Girls Names have excelled in their goal by forging an LP of synchronous nuance and defiance. Marked by the presence of drum machines and programming throughout, these eight masterfully-woven tales are once again commandeered by founder Cully, whose words, understated yet defiant, mine purpose and meaning from the mire (“I want to bathe again, I want to swim again / In a pool of twisting bodies, blackened gold.” 25 ). But while Stains on Silence came critically close to never being made, having lived with it, reconfigured it, and guided its metamorphosis from flickers of inspiration and half-formed schemes, it’s both a statement of pure perseverance, and a head-on confrontation with ambivalence that couldn’t be more assured. (Brian Coney March 2018).
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CD1:
01 – Pinball Wizard
02 – Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)
03 – (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
04 – Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock’n’ Roll) (Remastered 2014)
05 – Johnny B Goode
06 – Victim Of Love
07 – Are You Ready For Love (Remix)
08 – A Word In Spanish (7” Version)
09 – Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters (Part Two) (The Renaissance Mix)
10 – Dancing In The End Zone (7” Version)
11 – Sacrifice (7” Version)
12 – The One (7” Version)
13 – Circle Of Life (7” Version)
14 – Believe (7” Version)
15 – Can You Feel The Love Tonight (Extended Version)
CD2:
01 – I’m Still Standing (Extended Version)
01 – Intro
02 – Act Of War (Extended Remix) (feat. Millie Jackson)
03 – Wrap Her Up (Extended Remix)
04 – Heartache All Over The World (12” mix)
05 – I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That (Remix)
06 – Healing Hands (Extended Remix)
07 – Medicine Man (feat. Adamski)
08 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (7” Version) (feat. RuPaul)
09 – Are You Ready For Love (Freeform Five Mix)
10 – Sad (Seamus Haji Remix) (feat. Pnau)
11 – Good Morning To The Night (Cahill Remix) (feat. Pnau)
CD3:
01 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Album Version)
02 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Moroder 7′ Edit Mix)
03 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Moroder 12′ Remix)
04 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Serious Rope 7′ Mix)
05 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Remix)
06 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (MK Mix)
07 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Serious Rope 12”)
08 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Roger’s Dub Mix)
09 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Serious Rope Instrumental)
10 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Serious Rope Dirty Dub Mix)
11 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Extended Club Mix)
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Angelique Francis is a versatile and exceptionally gifted young musician with talent that is way beyond her years. This multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, singer song writer and composer has played some of the biggest venues across Canada and the USA. Angelique first took to the stage at age 7 and made her American national television debut at age 13 on the Oprah Network, for writing and composing an original theme song for the Gayle King show. She has an insatiable appetite for many different kinds of music, and has wowed audiences across the globe with her stage presence, instrumentals, song writing abilities and her deep textured vocals. She is known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including Blues, Soul, folk, Jazz and Rock. Her diversity, passion and love of music can be heard in all of her original compositions.
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The songwriter touches upon English folk heritage, while adding a defiantly modern spin to his deft acoustic constructions.
New album ‘Quiet Man’ arose from a determined attempt to take a step back, and was written and recorded in the English countryside.
Explaining that the material has “a general theme of encouragement” the music seemingly arose from “a place of stillness, peace and contentment”.
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Four-disc collection features 36 tracks in all, culled from ABB’s shows between July 25 and August 10, 2003, in Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Darien Center, NY, Hartford, CT, Charlotte, NC, and Raleigh, NC. The 2003 lineup of the group included founding members Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks and Jaimoe, plus Warren Haynes, Marc Quiñones, Oteil Burbridge and Derek Trucks.