When you get to the club and you’re having a dancefloor session of an evening there’s always a point when you need to chill out in the Green Room for a bit. This is the kind of track that’ll drag you back on it after you hear the tweaks when you’ve peered up browsing around like a meercat going, “What’s this? What is THIS?!” This is a pearler.
I don’t about you but in the right hands the sound and vibe that comes from a well strummed banjo is truly quite delectable.
Courtney Marie Andrews not only has the ability to sing rather beautifully with great strength and subtlety but as well as being able to tinkle the ivories I believe that this Phoenix born heavenly voiced darling can really play the banjo suitably well to the wonderful, sunshine-daydream style of music that is performed.
This is a lovely folk musician who appears to come across as quite a performer and I’d prefer to watch her perform rather than just to listen. Courtney is enchanting and I feel myself melting to her words, her music and it wouldn’t surprise me but if I was in the crowd close enough and we happen to cross paths with her eyes then I would no doubt be a slither of a man on the grassy verge where I was once perched.
The songs she has created are well structured and flow marvellously carrying you through a short journey of usually 5 minutes o so which is nice to hear rather than a quick buck storyteller like what we are now currently listening to. It’s refreshing to see and hear.
To shortly describe I’d say Courtney Marie Andrews is sweeter than fresh peaches. Really nice indeed. However, this is a girl whom I feel could really raise a roof similar to Alanis Morrisette or Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries there was only a microphone to perform with.
This girl may sound sweet like chocolate but if it was perhaps “one of those days” then I swear there is the power here to destroy hearts and souls.
This is special. Available here on iTunes if you care.
I’ve uploaded this track because I feel the need to do so. I believe people have to hear this track because quite simply, it’s feckin’ divine! Polish DJ Codec he is. Anyone know of him, I need to hear more if not all of his work.
World Music is not as mainstream as some would like it to be. Fortunately, Jools Holland introduces us to artists and groups that have travelled miles to be able to deliver some true, cultural quality.
I recall Gracelands by Paul Simon being full of native Africans uplifting his work to where he had no chance of doing it himself, full of joy and happiness as well as tragedy and sorrow. And, an experienced musician by this time too.
The Baked Beans advert with Ladysmith Black Mambazo was just so warm and soothing it was a pleasure to have heard it. Just a shame how I find myself using that memory association to describe them.
But one man distinguishes himself as a true modern great using music from his roots and heritage on just an acoustic guitar.
This man sounds like he has the ability to stop wars with his vocal chords. He sounds like he can melt the entire continent of Antartica with a 45 minute set just because of the warmth that his vocalisation carries.
His guitaring is a faultless, harmonious, melancholy partner to aid him in his music, he is just inspiring.
Australia have a Son, who has done his country proud to be able to have the recent recognition which this man so richly deserves.
Profoundness comes from the heart and the soul in all men and in Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s music has it is everywhere. Not bad at all for a man who has no sight.
He is a Hero.
Straight away I am thinking this is a voice the ladies will adore. The Americana Blues stylie with a soulful yet throaty, vocal-embrace is warm, relaxing and reminiscent of the Crash Test Dummies, Axl Rose on Since I Don’t Have You and even a Jon Bon Jovi with a touch more depth similar to the more modern Newton Faulkner.
Jason Charles Miller has one of the best voices I’ve heard from any unsigned act. He’s a got a powerful gospel style voice, he’s a country man whom I can tolertae this time but usually I can not, so massive points awarded. I find his songs well written, well structured and well in sound. The strings attached on The Devil feat. Tina Guo on Cello sound brilliantly supporting.
Top stuff indeed. I expect to hear him sometime in the future but really, I’d expect him with a full band rather than being solo. He can master and orchestrate great songs so why not lead a band?
As anyone will know, if they peruse these pages regularly they will know of my slight fascination for French Electronica. So of course I jumped up at the sight of seeing Venus In The Dust despite no electronica being labelled.
We have mainly an acoustic style set up. Strings and piano’s peppered everywhere almost untidyly but neatly falling in the right places. These are supporting the darling singer who is seductively caressing the microphone with her lustful, saccharin vocals. Let Yourself Drown touches on that sultry dark side. Some tracks are soft, slow and the occasional ones more upbeat, in French and also, (being metaphorically descriptive) very “Sunday In The Park”. Reminiscent of Josh Weller doing the odd show tune.
This is Jazz club with out the bling and Soul without the tears being arousing, subtly passionate and in a positively, pleasant and complimentary way, also with a touch of filth. Easy listening and delightfully sexy stuff.
When it comes to a chillout act, Porcupine Tree do exactly that. Chill you out good and proper.
Having an overall sound that resembles the best of Placebo, The Bluetones and on their track Drawing The Line I can also hear Duran Duran.
I do quite enjoy listening to work such as this but at the same time I am also feeling a slight emptiness as I think some of the tracks are not quite as full in sound as they could be. What I do like however is the fact that some tracks are quite ambient, relaxing and soothing and others have a dark, moody quality and depth. So really, we have a good mix.
The Incident is the seventh in the discography and you can check them out here.
Be prepared to be moved.
We have sublime, delectable offerings this Autumn/Fall with The First days Of Spring from Noah & The Whale.
The first track off their latest release being the single of the album title is nothing short of a 6 minute 39 second symphony. Orchestrated wonderfully, sung divinely and so, so warm it is as sweet and an apricot dipped in gomme syrup.
The entire album is intelectual acoustic folk surrounded by strings, supported by the occassional choir and on a couple of tracks, no lyrics, just fantastic warming piano keys being tinkered for a short while. Nevertheless, they are lovely little numbers. For me, the track Blue Skies is exceptional, it is really, really good.
For a second album release this is quite an accomplishment and this is definately a global record that will certainly hit platinum status. It is easy listening, easy going and so easy to love.
But that is not all though. The group have even developed a short film too with the release of the music material. A glimpse of that is below and there is no doubt I’ll seeing that soon.
Having heard many, many student and university bands over the years I can’t help thinking that Frank Turner falls into that demographic. An artist who’s just got himself signed and chucked out his latest studio recordings for the world to hear. I believe that this work has been rushed into the stores and no enough time taken to produce a tight studio album. Unless Frank was going for the live recorded sound, that is definately what he has got. I don’t quite think it should have been done that way. You have live albums for that.
The tracks on his record Poetry Of The Deed are really quite good and you can hear some of them here on his MySpace. Slightly teenage emotional soft rock at times without having the feel of a ballad. Anthems in a smaller way they are but not exactly ground shaking. More lighters in the air and swaying from side to side however, the fans would no doubt be singing along as The Road music video below is a perfect example.
This is a young persons sound as you would hear on the track Isabel but on Faithful Son, it is rather more mature. So I wonder if he is experiencing more as time goes on? I do not know. For me, I think he still has a long way to go and perhaps slow down a little.
Masters Of Reality does sound like a bit of a cheesy name. Trying locate them on MySpace is not easy if you don’t know what you are looking for being as the name isn’t particularly original. Their music however, kind of is.
Achieving a slot in the Top 40 Rock Chart we have a band that have released various bits of material. Pine/Cross Dover their 5th album is soulful, rythymatic and produced very well. Collectively they are very experienced indeed. This is a mature band that are really good at putting together a record that has a mix of various sounds without it sounding like a mess. It is a touch psychedelic as well which makes it easy to listen to and easy is what I like at times, I don’t know about you.
There are tracks you can nod to, swing to and of course rock to. The tunes are tight though, very tightly done and there is no showing of which some guitarists tend to do and ruin a perfectly good track with their ego-showboating. None of that here. Just simply great harmonious strumming. Blissful, almost refreshing. VT In IT is a cracking example, Classic Rock. Dreamtime Stomp, also a brilliant little number.
This is an album that doesn’t blow my socks of whilst still being attached to my paraboots nor does it smash the internal hammer and anvil behind my lugholes. This is good, steady and solid, that is the reality of it and something they have mastered.
A track of their previous work. These boys are a very good group which I feel are seriously underfunded as well as rated.
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