(Alt. Country/Americana) Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters - Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters - 2017, MP3, 320 kbps
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters – Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters (2017)
320 kbps | 126 MB | LINKS
“Blending country with folk and country pop you have Americana music with a capitol ‘A’ and it is good! Platt’s roaming style of vocals and songs to match bring a feel of footloose free abandon to the table. At times she reminds in part of Kelly Willis and Eilen Jewell.” Flyinshoes
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Leah Senior – Pretty Faces (2017)
320 kbps | 102 MB | LINKS
Leah Senior’s second album Pretty Faces pays homage to her dark folk roots while hinting at layers of pop and psychedelic undertones. The blinds are drawn and the songs are covered in a fine layer of dust; yet there is sunlight peaking through the gaps, a silver lining to a dusky tone and a sense of humour behind the tragedy.
The songs are sparsely arranged, Leah’s finger picking providing a stark canvas for her unusual lyrical wit. Her luminous folk forms are complemented with old-world piano and guitar (Jesse Williams) and dulcet sibling harmonies (Andi Senior).
Pretty Faces was recorded and produced by King Gizzard’s own Joey Walker, and features Jesse Williams (keyboard/ electric guitar), Andi Senior (vocals), Joey Walker (therovox), Michael Cavanagh (drums), Alex Bleakly (bass) and Vince Ward (cello). The album was mixed by renowned Melbourne engineer/producer Nick Huggins, and mastered by Joseph Carra at Crystal Mastering.
Sam Baker – Land of Doubt (2017)
160 kbps | 80 MB | LINKS
Sam Baker’s 2013 album, Say Grace, was a highly-acclaimed body of work, prompting one well known music publication to put in in the top 10 country albums of that year. It is difficult to see Sam’s latest offering, Land of Doubt, making that particular list. Not because it isn’t very good, because it is, but because this is such a unique album in musical terms that it defies easy genre pigeon holing.
Since his late arrival on the music scene 13 years ago, Baker has always combined pared down lyrics with sparse and subtle instrumental accompaniment. Land of Doubt takes that approach a step further and he delivers an album in the truest sense of the word. This is not one to stick on the ‘shuffle’ button or lose within the black hole of an iPod. This is an album that has been carefully constructed to give a gloriously rewarding listen to those who are prepared to step off the merry-go-round for 43 minutes.
In Baker’s own words “I wanted a cinematic feel, a mixture of sparsity and tension. And beauty, I always come back to beauty on my records. That’s shorthand for something that is bigger than me.”
The songs segue seamlessly into one another, linked in places by short musical interludes varying in length from 47 seconds to 3 minutes. These work together perfectly, the musicianship atmospheric and moody. Support comes from Neilson Hubbard, who also does such a grand job of producing, Will Kimbrough, Dan Mitchell and the strings of David Henry and Eamon Mcloughlin. Dan brings a whole new feel to many of the tracks with his ‘50s jazz trumpet, never more so than on the lovely Say The Right Words, a lament to the departure of a daughter leaving the nest on her wedding day and the sadness of those left behind.
Many of these musical interventions may be brief within the confines of each song, but the secret of the wonderful feel surrounding this album is the knowledge that less is often more. The subtle acoustic guitar work on Peace Out is another perfect example of this working its way into a song that is hung on a gorgeous piano riff. Where Fallen Angels Dwell is the longest of the musical interludes and brings all these musical components together in a beautifully played piece of music, the strings and piano very much to the fore here.
All the songs are written by Sam aside from one co-write with Mary Gauthier, and the poetic nature of the lyrics and the beautifully interwoven accompaniment combine to deliver a labour of love. This is an album that gets better on each listen, new subtleties discovered with each play. If this is unlikely to fit into a top 10 country list this year that is only because this is not country. Shortlist for top 10 Americana 2017? Absolutely.
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Ultimix Back Spins 11 (2017)
Title: Ultimix Back Spins 11
Label: Ultimix Records
Style: Funk, Boogie Woogie, Northern Soul, Gospel, Hip Hop, Dirty Rap, Disco, New Wave
Release Date: 01-05-2017
Format: CD, Compilation, Promo
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Tracks: 16 Tracks
Size: 182 Mb / 01:18:34 Min
Select Mix Essentials Vol 124 (2017)
Title: Select Essentials Vol 124
Label: Remix Holdings, Select Mix
Style: Power Pop, Dancehall, Electropop, Soul, Funk, Motown, Synthpop, Disco, Country
Release Date: 05-05-2017
Format: CD, Promo, Compilation
Quality: 320 Kbps/Joint Stereo/44100Hz
Tracks: 15 Tracks
Size: 181 Mb / 01:09:01 Min
Eleni Karaindrou – Euripides: Medea (2014) [World, HDTracks, FLAC 96kHz/24bit]
Artist: Eleni Karaindrou
Title: Euripides: Medea
Genre: World
Release Date: 2014
Label: ECM
Duration: 45:17
Quality: FLAC 96kHz/24bit
Source: HDTracks
Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou's collaborations with stage director Antonis Antypas have generated some of her most powerful music. Medea, like the earlier Trojan Women, comes out of this association. Created to accompany performances at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, the music vibrates with emotional intensity. Karaindrou gives her themes to a small ensemble, its sound-colours creating an ambiance both archaic and contemporary, as textures of santouri, ney, lyra and clarinets are combined and contrasted. Even with reduced instrumental forces the composer seems to imply an orchestral scope. Giorgos Cheimonas' Modern Greek adaptation of Euripides provides the lyrics, movingly sung by a 15-piece chorus under the direction of Antonis Kontogeorgiou and, on two pieces, by the composer.
Euripides' play, first staged in 431 BC, counts amongst the darkest of the dramas of antiquity, a harrowing tale of betrayal, rage, retribution, madness, and infanticide. When Jason abandons Medea to marry Glauce, daughter of King Creon, and thereby strengthen his political influence, Medea responds with a fury that knows no bounds. In a programme note for the Epidaurus production, Antonis Antypas writes "Medea's divine lineage [in Greek mythology she was the niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios] and preoccupation with the heroic code of honour gird her and put the knife in her hand. Her passion for Jason has humanized her, but when Jason's betrayal reveals her sacrifice to have been in vain, she regains her divine stature and the right to punish her mortal husband for his hubris."
Karaindrou counterpoints the plot with music that builds tension also through restraint and silences. Already the pulsing of the bendir on "Ceremonial Procession" and the baleful melodies for ney and clarinet seem to anticipate the misfortunes ahead. The themes passed from clarinet to cello in "On The Way To Exile" are laden with melancholy. In her liner note Eleni praises the commitment of the players, "travelling with me through Euripdes' bleak world of poetry, unfolding their song, compassionate toward the play's characters." They convey "sounds of the Orient, Greek but also global" to underline the drama of the barbarian Medea, "whose love for the Greek Jason made her renounce her homeland, father and mother."
Eleni Karaindrou's is the first voice heard on the album, singing Medea's laments. Thereafter the chorus take up the tale, enumerating the consequences of "love's great malevolence".
Tracklist:
01. Argo's Voyage 1:41
02. Ceremonial Procession 3:47
03. On The Way To Exile 4:51
04. The Haze Of Mania 1:14
05. Medea's Lament I 1:46
06. Woman Of Mourning 1:20
07. Medea's Lament II 1:45
08. Loss 1:43
09. Backwards To Their Sources 3:40
10. A Sinister Decision 3:55
11. Love's Great Malevolence 3:22
12. For The Sake Of A Greek's Words 1:51
13. Do Not Kill Your Children 4:30
14. An Unbearable Song 1:21
15. All Hope Is Lost Chorus 3:24
16. The Night Of Killing 2:48
17. Silence Chorus 2:09
Pesrsonal
Socratis Sinopoulos -- constantinople lute & lyra
Haris Lambrakis -- ney
Nikos Guinos -- clarinet on 1, 2, 6
Marie-Cecile Boulard -- clarinet on 1, 2, 6
Alexandros Arkadopoulos -- clarinet
Yiorgos Kaloudis -- violoncello
Andreas Katsigiannis -- santouri
Andreas Papas -- bendir
Eleni Karaindrou -- voice on 5, 7
Choir directed by Antonis Kontogeorgiou
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