RE: New Music!

Anyone listen to the new Band of Horses? Or, Animal Collective? Or, Iron and Wine?

RE: New Music!

Posted by clairabelle Fri, Oct 12, 07 at 14:50

or Joni MItchell's new SHINE, even???

RE: New Music!

Posted by kwoods on Mon, Oct 15, 07 at 10:01

Or, the new Bruce Springsteen MAGIC even??? ;o)

RE: New Music!

Posted by kwoods (My Page) on Mon, Oct 15, 07 at 21:08

I hear The Arcade Fire appeared w/ Springsteen at his Ottawa show last night. E-Street Band played Keep The Car Running. Arcade Fire played State Trooper. Wonder if there will be any surprises this week at the NYC shows.

Scroll down for mp3s.

I'll put a link to a video clip of her singing a song in Spanish. The title translates to "and my band plays rock."

I like it a lot, but then I am a fan of The Cure:

I haven't heard the new Bruce and probably won't, since they hailed it as his best disc since Born In The USA, which I thought was the worst record he ever made, up to that point.

In the Reins is the Calexico one. I don't have it but I do have a coupla tunes from it. I got Our Endless Numbered Days when it came out and loved it so I was looking forward to the new one, Shepherd's Dog. Got it on it's day of release and I'm not disappointed at all. Been listening to it on and off now for the last two months.... it's one of those that keeps getting even better the more you let it wash over you.

Anyone like Beirut? I think what they/he's done so far is really interesting. Gulag Orkestar follow up The Flying Club Cup came out last month and that's another one I am really enjoying right now. Lots of this stuff can be found on the hypemachine right now or short samples on Amazon.

I'm going to order Shepherd's Dog soon.

What do you think of Lansing-Dreiden? They do some things with a retro 80s feel (but they also dip into other decades) that I like. Of the songs I find youtube videos for, I like this one best (not sure this is really their own video--it doesn't look like their other purely abstract ones):

Dividing Island

Lansing-Dreiden Myspace

I don't know, for some reason I like some of their stuff a lot more than the originals they are imitating, maybe because I haven't heard it a few hundred times already, or maybe it's just the way they put different strands together.

Anyway, most of them are covers of older, semi-obscure songs (as opposed to relatively recognizable classics) and I think they made a lot of good choices here.

Sludge metal
Doom metal
Stoner metal
Psychedelic rock
Noise

(I'm pretty much not into real metal though, so this is probably from the art metal end of the spectrum.)

I listened to Lansing-Dreiden's "The Eternal Lie" and found it energetic and retro. Watched the images on the "Dividing Island" video for a bit but needed to shut my eyes and just enjoy the music. I thought it was beautiful, reminding me of The Beatles' "Within You/Without You" from their psychedelic days. Thank you.

words are possibly " all thats left is a plate of gold": Even know that makes no sense.

PLEASE HELP and thank you in advance.

Now that you're gone
All that's left is a band of gold
All that's left of the dream I hold
Is a band of gold
And the memories of what love could be
If you are still here with me

You took me from the shelter of a mother I had never known
Who loved any other
We kissed after taking vows
But that night on our honeymoon
We stayed in separate rooms

I wait in the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon that you'll walk
Back through that door
And love me like you tried before

Since you've been gone
All that's left is a band of gold
All that's left of the dream I hold
Is a band of gold
And the dream of what love could be
If you are still here with me

Ooh, don't you know that I wait in the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon that you'll walk
Back through that door
And love me like you tried before

Since you've been gone
All that's left is a band of gold
All that's left of the dream I hold
Is a band of gold
And the dream of what love could be
If you are still here with me

Next time you have a question, if you can't find any old discussions on the subject, you can just go to the bottom of the home page and post a new topic.

(I'm not too well versed in Youtubisms, so bear with me. Just scroll down and click on any selection)

I'm going to check out some of the above when I have some time to sit and listen. I, too, have difficulty really hearing a song when it is presented along with a video. The closing the eyes or making the window small and looking at other things thing usually does the trick for me.

I like Betty LaVette--I think she really improved on that Lucinda Williams song (Found My Joy). I've been trying to get into Fred Frith--I downloaded some tracks from emusic a few months ago. I've never been able to "get" jazz, though.

NPR launched a beta of it's new Music site on Monday. They have a piece on Grizzly Bear on there.

Great Lake Swimmers - kinda good

Speaking of Great--where is the Great Big Sea guy? I'm not recognizing him anyhow or anywhere.

My favorite song from Cat Power's The Greatest from last year.

And, an edited version of a good Jenny Owen Youngs song. Same song unedited live. .

Time Out
No Fool

Gunjou Biyori
Kingyo no Hako

This band is sometimes joined by Scroobius Pip king of Angsta-Rap, notably, "Thou Shalt Always Kill":

I heard her singing "Oh My G0d" on an imports radio show this morning, and felt it told the story of my life (woe is me!) I'll put a link below:

I put a link below to several Raveonettes videos on the YouTube site. I see they're from Denmark. I think I like them:

Lots of people seem to be comparing the new album favorably to their earlier ones, so this might be a good time to be discovering them.

They really do get very Jesus & Mary Chain on "You Want the Candy" (even with the song title), but I prefer their voices to J&MC's.

Also, I notice some of the effects they use are similar to Mono in VCF's (see above).

Since Kate Bush's Aerial, it seems like I've been warming up to rock (after hardly listening to it for a number of years).

Yeah, anyway, I think I like this.

Heard one song, Bright Lights, bought the whole disk. Well worth it.

Direct link to Wucan mp3

(More macho posters might want to stay away from this one.)

I just bought the Boris/Michio Kurihara (some Japanese psych. guitar legend) collaboration, Rainbow and it's very good, though not as good as Smile from this year (but be sure to get the Japanese version of that).

I'm mostly out of the loop with new music this year, or anyway not finding much that I like.

Soneros All Stars, Featuring Cesar "Pupy" Pedroso: La Timba Soy Yo (Scroll down for the whole album.)

Both these recordings are of contemporary Cuban music (and they both involved Cesar Pedroso, one of the only band leaders I often really like in contemporary Cuban music), although the second one is, at least nominally, the project of a Swedish musician.

Also, Ricardo Gallo's Urdimbres y Marañas seems promising--I like his approach to rhythm especially, which reminds me of Sun Ra, but might be coming from Colombian sources I don't recognize--but so far I haven't found more extensive sources than what's available here.

http://www.amazon.com/Ana-Hina/dp/B0017RVOHS

One Latin recording I missed above (because I have been lazy about finding out if it is 2008 or not) is Grupo Fantasma's Sonidos Gold. I liked one of their cumbia tracks that I heard on the radio here in Albuquerque, New Mexico (where I'm now living, at least for the time being--but maybe not much longer if I can't find a decent job), but they work in other genres (including funk), and apparently Prince is a fan.

Meridian Arts Ensemble is pretty classical, but I liked some of what I heard from it on a radio review.

Meridian Arts Ensemble: Timbrando.

It's got that Latin thing to hook me in.

Also kind of atmospheric, but maybe worthwhile: I am looking at this Spring Heel Jack album, Songs & Themes.

And I'm curious about an American composer with the very bland name of Steve Peters, aftering coming across an intriguing advertisement for his new CD The Webster Cycles, and then hearing a bunch of older music by him that I liked, on the radio.

Nikka Costa's new thing Pebble to Pearl I kinda like as well.

One of the best things I've heard this year is Conor Oberst's self titled CD. If you like Bright Eyes you will love this.

The Evening Descends by Evangelicals is another one I liked from earlier this year.

The End of the World by The Real Tuesday Weld while very similar to the rest of the "antique beat" stuff he's done is good brain food if you enjoy this idiosyncratic style.

You can prolly find all this stuff if you search the Hype Machine. Or you can listen to samples on Amazon.

TV on the Radio is Dear Science.

Check out some of the samples of Raphael Siddiq's The Way I See It on Amazon. Issued in September. If you're into the whole retro neo-soul thing this one is one of the best.

Animal Collective has a new disk coming out on Jan 9th. The cover art is very psychedelic.

Move your eyes around the image and the shapes "spin". Look at one "bean" and they stop.

Here is a video off of the Stawberry Jam disk from 2006. Peace Bone

His new album Working On A Dream is due in January. Songs already "leaked" are A Night With The Jersey Devil, The Wrestler, Working On A Dream.

S'Pretty good stuff if you're into Bruce.

Ghada Shbeir: Syriac Chants

Reissue of something old and fairly obscure, but not hard to get into (a mixture of Latin American styles and rock):

Juaneco Y Su Combo: Masters Of Chicha, Vol. 1

I've been listening to last years Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru which has several tracks from Juaneco Y Su Combo. The first track on that disk, Sonido Amazonico by Los Mirlos, has some amazing guitar. I'm hoping the "Vol. 1" on this new Chicha disk implies there will be a volume 2 and that it will be Los Mirlos. I am very glad to hear about this new disk.

Now I just have to get someone to buy it for me for christmas.

Anyone like this June's Sigur Rós disk? Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust. I do but I think I still like Takk better.

I have also been enjoying the disk Furr by Blitzen Trapper. Worth checking out.

Olga Bell is another artist I've been listening to lately.

Decade

Ab Initio

I particularly like the end of "Leucocyte," which is in four parts, and which ends up in minimalist territory. As you will notice, it could be called jazz, but it uses electronics and at times drifts into jazz-rock fusion territory. (Sadly, after discovering this album I also discovered that Svennson died last year, at a young age.)

Rocket science it is not. There is always room in my heart for catchy pop tunes though. Arm's Way, Islands release from 5/08 is good for this as was their fist release Return to the Sea. Nick Thorburn (Islands' lead) also has an interesting interview about Arm's Way here and a new disc, The Life Narcotic with a project called Reefer, mp3 here. Been listening a lot to Bon Iver as well.Hey, I listen to Vampire Weekend and MGMT, no shame here.

The new David Byrne, Brian Eno collaboration is interesting. Made a lot more interesting by familiarity of what they did together in the past, reading about how it came together and having heard what the two have been doing seperately all these years. Kind of Pop/Gospel influenced song structures and lyrics to Eno's ambient landscape sometimes screaming guitar compositions. One or two tunes stand out as being more experimental than the rest.

Everything That Happens...

Another new one I've been listening to a lot is the new Animal Collective I mentioned several posts above. It was released 1/20 but has been available as a torrent for a couple weeks, maybe a month. It is really thick with layers of sound, very ambient/psychedelic but more accessable than a lot of experimental stuff. Here's a song by song review from a listening party last week. And, a decent review of the album as a whole.

It's #2 on iTunes right now which is kind of freaking me out...

La Llorona from March of the Zapotec

My Night With A Prostitute From Marseille from Holland

Here's a review

Aparently she has been very involved with her ballet The Fiddle and the Drum recently.

Oh, I don't only like things that are rocket science by any means.

As far as tunefulness, I just still don't hear it in most indie rock. Maybe the other things (bad vocals, excessive ironic distancing, rhythmic slackness. . .) I don't like about it get in the way. Anyway, nothing much really to debate here. I know it's risky to slag a whole genre, but I can think of few as consistently disappointing to me.

Beyond Here Lies Nothin’

"Anyway, nothing much really to debate here"

Agreed.

Yusuf, Cat Stevens has a new disc out that I bought for my daughter. Very Cat Stevensy in a mellow, sleepy kind of way. Roadsinger, he still sounds good, still writes catchy tunes. Not really my thing but I liked the retro groove it gave me.

Levon Helm has a new disc coming out June 30 that I got an advance copy of Electric Dirt. It's a follow up to Dirt Farmer, his return to recording after his recovery from throat cancer. I loved Dirt Farmer... Electric Dirt is absolutely fantastic!

Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes disc Outer South came out May 5th... disappointment. Sounds like any other rock/pop stuff w/ no distinguishing characteristic other than his pedigree.

You can listen to a stream of it on NPR.

I like it. Exceptional for mainstream semi-commercial stuff. Wild guitar riffs and a very heavy sound. Many of the tunes sound like something you've heard before but re-imagined. You just can't put your finger on quite what it sounds like or is referencing. Considered "alternative"(?) but this is definitely blues based rock-n-roll. 3 Birds stands out for me.

The Dead Weather

Out a year ago, new to me, Jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove's first effort since leaving Verve. Earfood. Very nice, full sound and doesn't try to do too much, keeping it simple is a plus in this case.

Red Hot + Riot

And I'm sorry I've got nothing else new to talk about, but I really do like some of the stuff on this new Shiina Ringo album, Sanmon Gossip.

I'm a little curious to hear the Amerie album that's due out next month, if it doesn't get put back again. I have never bought anything by her, but I love "1 Thing", which sure stands out in a good way from most new R&B I hear around me. The song f***ing kills.

Seun Kuti Think Africa

I have the Red Hot CD you mentioned Lerue. Love it. My favorite performer is the Wolof superstar Cheikh Lo. Check out Bombay Geej for some interesting, soulful sounds.

Just saw Bela Fleck play with Oumou Sangare. I had her CD Moussoulou and loved it. Took both my kids to the show and they are now huge fans. Her new CD is Seya.... really, really great stuff. I have a video I recorded of her show... not great quality but when I get it on you tube I'll post a link. Saw Bela with Toumani Diabate as well, also excellent. Check out Kulanjan w/ Taj Mahal. Diabate had an excellent CD out last year The Mande Variations, his cousin(?) Mamado had one out in 2008 I have yet to hear that is 'sposed to be good as well.

Tracked down some more of that Chicha stuff you mentioned a while back. Los Mirlos Anthology... very happy with it.

I forgot one notable salsa release from this year, though I haven't heard it all myself, Choco Orta's Ahora Mismo. . .

(They should have gone for a harder sound with the band. This isn't from the super slick commercial end of the salsa spectrum, but it's not as hard and punchy as it should be, especially for a strong vocalist like this, which is probably the influence of producer and salsa star Gilberto Santa Rosa who puts out a lot of unnecessarily mushy stuff. But then, he seems to have no end of commercial success doing so.)

Bannakumbi: Un Nuevo Dia

These bands have been around for a little while, and have collaborated before. They do music rooted in Puerto Rico's distinctive plena and bomba traditions, blended at times with jazz, salsa, etc.

Truco & Zaperoko: En Plena Rumba