Tinariwen
Elwan
(ANTI, 2017)
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320 kbps | 101 MB | UL | OB | TB | DF | KF
Tracklist:
1. Great Big World (3:10)
2. Until The Cows Come Home (3:29)
3. I Think You’re A Dick (3:10)
4. Salida (4:26)
5. Vixen (3:22)
6. The Things I Do For You (4:11)
7. Lucky (2:45)
8. Oh, The Places I’d Go (4:41)
9. Junk In My Trunk (5:02)
10. Dear Moon (3:54)
Chuck Prophet describes his new album ‘Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins’ (Feb 10, Yep Roc Records) as a “California Noir,” an album inspired partly by the mysterious death of rocker Bobby Fuller in LA in 1966. “California has always represented the Golden Dream, and it’s the tension between romance and reality that lurks underneath the surface in all noir films and paperbacks, and that connects these songs.” Gritty and jangly, Chuck’s new album features 13 original works that explore doomed love, loneliness and fast-paced violence via Chuck’s muscular songwriting craft. They include songs about Fuller, the death of David Bowie, and the killing of San Francisco security guard Alex Nieto that drew international headlines as “Death By Gentrification.”
‘Bobby Fuller’ finds Chuck coming full circle. He cut the album to tape at Hyde Street Studio in San Francisco, which also happens to be the same studio where Prophet did his very first recording session, while still in high school. Chuck brought out his ’64 Stratocaster for the sessions, conjuring a sound that Jonathan Richman once described as “gasoline in the sand, like a motorcycle at a hot dog stand.” He’s backed by The Mission Express, a band featuring his wife Stephanie Finch (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Kevin White (bass), Vicente Rodriguez (drums, vocals) and James DePrato (guitar).
Lead single “Bad Year For Rock and Roll” is a timely homage to rock greats lost in 2016: “The Thin White Duke took a final bow / there’s one more star in the heavens now/I’m all dressed up in a mohair suit / watching Peter Sellers thinking of you.” “Jesus Was A Social Drinker” starts as a punchy mid-tempo rocker with clanking cowbell before unfurling into an explosive, psychedelic coda. “Alex Nieto” is what Prophet refers to as his first protest song. It’s “an homage to a good man who should still be alive,” says Chuck.
Seven years ago, a half-dozen musicians got together one night for a simple jam session to provide live music for b-boys to battle and dance to. That jam session played out so well that the six musicians decided to continue working together as a full band. Four additional members and numerous tours later, Jungle Fire are set to release their second full-length album via Nacional Records.
It will come as no surprise to longtime fans of Jungle Fire to learn that the band’s second album, Jambu, is a fiery cocktail of Afro-Latin funk and rhythms. However, unlike its 2014 predecessor, Tropicoso, there isn’t an urgency to get listeners off their chairs and onto their feet. Instead, the album plays out more like the soundtrack to an unshot movie documenting the band’s travels in…
…South America.
“There are definitely some bangers,” says percussionist Alberto Lopez, who was one of the initial half-dozen musicians who comprised the original, then-unnamed Jungle Fire lineup. “All of the record is danceable, but I think there are three tracks, ‘Lamente Momposino,’ ‘Efori’ and ‘Bele Bele,’ that are very cinematic. They go beyond pure dance music. In addition to the tropi-funk, the Latin funk, that we explore, we went for a musically explorative thing where we introduced a psychedelic element, much more so than in the previous album.”
Jambu certainly puts Jungle Fire’s identity into sharper focus. While it was easy to call out the artists that influenced the tunes on Tropicoso, the group sounds more comfortable in its own skin this time around. That’s no easy feat considering the group ballooned from a six-man to a 10-man lineup featuring Lopez, Michael Duffy and Steve Haney on percussion, Sam Halterman on drums, Joey Reina on bass, guitarists Judson McDaniel and Patrick Bailey, and Sam Robles, Otto Granillo and Sean Billings in the brass/wind section.
The ideas and concept for Jambu were first planted during the band’s tour of South America in 2014, where they presented cuts from Tropicoso to rapt audiences in Colombia and Brazil before returning to the United States to debut the album at the Supersonico festival. As soon as the band had downtime, they revisited moments and recordings from their travels to begin composing new themes.
“We were influenced by those trips and we tried to incorporate some of the things that we picked up in those places, including the title,” says Lopez. “Jambu is a really cool sedative plant that they put in some drinks in Brazil. It’s not a psychotropic, but it produces kind of a numbing effect in the mouth. When you drink something else, it heightens the flavor and it’s really trippy.”
In keeping with the South American theme, the band decided to include a cover version of “Cumbia de Sal,” a classic cumbia track by Colombian group Los Falcons. Meanwhile, “Lamento Momposino” is an homage to the town of Mompós, where the band spent some time soaking in the ambience of the Mompox Jazz Festival. The inspiration for the song came from a group of kids playing music in a street.
Though the group shifted gears and moods a bit on Jambu, the band will always keep a focus on getting people to dance wherever their music is played. More important, they want to continue creating music that b-boys can battle to, just as they did the night they congregated for the first time.
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The first-ever career-spanning boxed set! Produced and compiled to celebrate 50 years of the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet – NRBQ! Founded in 1966 in Shively, Kentucky, NRBQ has given their dedicated fan base 50 years of surprises and exceptional live shows. No style of music is safe around NRBQ as their repertoire consists of choice, wide-ranging covers (their first Columbia album for example, found them covering Eddie Cochran, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, and Sun Ra) to their own compositions, many, also covered by other artists (Bonnie Raitt, Dave Edmunds, She And Him, Steve Earle, Los Lobos). Playing all kinds of music made them hard to peg across the years, but it made them anything but boring. Their live shows are legendary and are made up spontaneously on the spot with no set list. They can, in a heartbeat, swing from one of their own hits (“Me And The Boys,” “RC Cola And A Moon Pie,” “Howard Johnson’s Got His Ho-Jo Workin’,” “Ridin’ In My Car”) to a perfectly curated cover, to a “magic box” request from the audience. They served as the unofficial house band for The Simpsons during seasons 10-12 and count among their fans Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, The Replacements, Keith Richards, Wilco, and Elvis Costello among legions of others! With more than 30 albums recorded across 50 years they, have proven themselves to be peerless as musicians, songwriters and performers. So to celebrate 50 years of NRBQ, Omnivore Recordings is proud to present High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective consisting of five CDs of hits, rarities, concert staples, covers and previously unissued gems alongside liner notes and previously unseen photos. A digital-only release, High Noon: Highlights, will serve as a sampler to the larger set and be released simultaneously. After 50 years of brilliant, unpredictable, joyfully exciting musical explorations, on stage and in the studio, it’s time to celebrate NRBQ!
Disc 1 – Everybody Say Yeah! (2005-2016)
1. Love In Outer Space
2. Never Cop Out
3. Waitin’ On My Sweetie Pie
4. Ruby My Dear
5. I’d Like To Know
6. Boozoo And Leona
7. I’m Alone
8. Can’t Wait To Kiss You
9. Everybody Say Yeah!
10. In Every Dream
11. Here I Am
12. The Animal Life
13. Getting To Know You
14. Talk
15. Snowfall
16. Keep This Love Goin’
17. Fightin’ Back
18. Let Go
19. Dutchess County Jail
Disc 2 – Ain’t It All Right (1966-1970)
1. Ain’t It All Right
2. Rocket Number 9
3. Tina
4. I Say Gooday Goodnite
5. Down In My Heart
6. Have You Heard
7. Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard
8. Get On The Right Track Baby
9. You Move So Fast (Live)
10. Flat Foot Flewzy
11. You Got Me Goin’
12. On The Farm
13. You Can?t Hide
14. Step Aside
15. Benellie
16. I Feel Good
17. Fergie’s Prayer
18. C’mon Everybody
19. Stomp
20. Stay With We
21. Heartbreaker
22. The Waiting Song
23. We Are Brothers
Disc 3 – Do You Feel It (1971-78)
1. That’s Neat, That’s Nice
2. Green Lights
3. Help Me Somebody
4. Only You
5. This Old House
6. Ridin’ In My Car
7. Things To You
8. Do You Feel It?
9. Howard Johnson Got His Ho-Jo Workin?
10. Electric Train
11. Magnet
12. Honey Hush (Live)
13. Get That Gasoline Blues
14. It’s Not Too Late
15. It Feels Good
16. Still In School
17. Be My Woman Tonight
18. RC Cola And A Moon Pie
19. Get Rhythm
20. You And I And George
21. It’s Not So Hard
Disc 4 – Me And The Boys (1977-1990)
1. Captain Lou
2. Me And The Boys
3. Talk To Me
4. I Love Her, She Loves Me
5. Smackaroo
6. This Love Is True
7. Feel You Around Me
8. Crazy Like A Fox
9. Rain At The Drive-In
10. S’posin’ (Live)
11. Wacky Tobacky
12. The One And Only
13. How Can I Make You Love Me
14. I Got A Rocket In My Pocket
15. Boy’s Life
16. Never Take The Place Of You
17. Want You To Feel Good Too
18. I Want You Bad
19. She Got The House
20. 12 Bar Blues
21. My Girlfriend’s Pretty
22. Christmas Wish
Disc 5 – Puddin’ Truck (1989-2004)
1. Little Floater
2. Sail On Sail On
3. Next Stop Brattleboro
4. What You Mean To Me
5. If I Don?t Have You
6. One Big Parking Lot
7. Love Came To Me
8. Dummy
9. Terry Got A Muffin
10. It’s St. Patrick’s Day
11. 21-50 Headquarters
12. Do The Primal Thing
13. Goodbye
14. Puddin’ Truck
15. Ain’t No Horse
16. Blame It On The World
17. Imaginary Radio
18. Always Safety First
19. Advice For Teenagers
20. Paris
21. See You Soon
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