Saturday, 19 March 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : Elbow - Open Arms
Brilliant version sung last night on the record breaking Comic Relief
Friday, 18 March 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : Misty in Roots - Man Kind (Live)
Misty in Roots began life as a Southall-based British roots reggae band in the early 1970s. Their first album was 1979's Live at the Counter Eurovision, a record full of Biblical Rastafarian songs. It was championed by BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, helping to bring roots reggae to a white audience. At this early stage, the band was a collective with five lead singers and various musicians, though by the time of the second album the band had slimmed down to just three members. Along with Steel Pulse and Aswad, Misty in Roots were one of the most popular English reggae bands in the late 1970s.
In 1979 Clarence Baker, a member of the collective, was severely beaten and injured by the SPG during the protest in Southall against the National Front provocation. The punk band The Ruts who were partners of the People Unite cooperative honoured him in their song "Jah War" which appeared on their album The Crack.
After a break from recording in the 1990s, they returned, releasing a new album in 2002 and continuing to play concerts as of 2008[update].
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Josh T. Pearson – Woman When I Raised Hell (The Line of Best Fit Session)
Lots of Josh T Pearson this week to concide with release of his excellent CD
Josh T. Pearson – Woman When I Raised Hell (The Line of Best Fit Session) | The Line Of Best Fit
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : Keren Ann - Chelsea Burns
Keren Ann Zeidel (Hebrew: קרן אן זיידל born March 10, 1974) is a singer-songwriter-composer-producer and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv and New York City. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet, engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements.
3652011 Track of the Day : Randy Newman - Losing You
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores.
Newman often writes lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman's own experiences. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution. One of his biggest hits, "Short People" was written from the perspective of "a lunatic" who hates short people. Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach, Meet the Parents, Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog. He has scored six Disney-Pixar films: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars and most recently Toy Story 3.
He has been awarded two Academy Awards, three Emmys, five Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy. Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2007, Newman was inducted as a Disney Legend. In 2011, Newman won his second Oscar, for the song "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Like This Track : Phatogram - When I'm Small
Phantogram is an American electronic rock duo from Saratoga Springs, New York, consisting of guitarist Josh Carter and keyboardist Sarah Barthel. Compare the unplugged version of When I'm Small to the official video
Tape London
Following on from Frankfurt the tape art installation is coming to London at the London Design Musuem.
3652011 Track of the Day : The Ethopians - Train to Skaville
The Ethiopians is a ska, rocksteady, and reggae vocal group, founded by Leonard Dillon (born 9 December 1942, Port Antonio, Jamaica), Stephen Taylor and Aston Morris. The group started out recording for Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd in 1966.
Dillon had previously released some mento songs under the name Jack Sparrow. Around late 1966, Morris left the Ethiopians. Having left Dodd, the Ethiopians started recording at Dynamic Studios for the W.I.R.L. label, releasing the ska classic song "Train to Skaville", which was their first success. In 1968 they recorded the song "Everything Crash", their first big hit. The song criticised the political situation in Jamaica at the time, such as water rationing and power cuts that led to unrest; such as an incident in which 31 people were shot by police. "Everything Crash" was later covered by Prince Buster. "The Whip" is another of their enduring songs from that period.
In 1969 they released the album, Reggae Power, and in 1970 the album Woman a Capture Man. Between 1970 and 1975. The Ethiopians switched from producer to producer, releasing songs such as "No Baptism", "Pirate", and "Good Ambition". Reid left the group in 1974. In September 1975, Taylor was killed by a van while he was crossing a road. In 1977 Dillon fellow Ethiopians member Bro fatty,Bro Ewing,Bro T, Mello and Hychi Dread released the album "Slave Call" under The Ethiopians name. In 1991, he recorded the solo album On the Road Again. Toward the end of the 1990s, Dillon formed a new Ethiopians lineup with female backing vocalists Jennifer Lara and Merlene Webber, who appeared on the 1999 album, Tuffer Than Stone.[
Monday, 14 March 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : Telepopmusick - Love's Almighty
Télépopmusik is a French electronic music trio, composed of Fabrice Dumont (bassist of the pop band Autour de Lucie), Stephan Haeri (also known as 2 square for his solo projects), and Christophe Hetier.
The group's first album was Genetic World, with several singles from the album released subsequently. The group's second album, Angel Milk was released in 2005. According to Telepopmusik's official MySpace page, their next album will be available in September 2010.
Rapper Mau, from Earthling, appeared as guest vocalist on both Genetic World as Soda-Pop (tracks "Genetic World", "Da Hoola" and "Trishika") and on Angel Milk as Mau ("Anyway", "Last Train To Wherever", "Hollywood On My Toothpaste", "Tuesday" and "15 Minutes").
The track "Breathe" from the album Genetic World was used by Mitsubishi to launch the 2003 Outlander. It was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Dance Recording at the ceremony held in February 2004. The track peaked at #42 in the UK Singles Chart in March 2002. Angela McCluskey, the co-writer and guest vocalist on "Breathe," is from the American band Wild Colonials.
The track "Love Can Damage Your Health" gained popularity in the house music genre as a result of a remix by DJ/Producer Dennis Ferrer and Abicah Soul.
Sunday, 13 March 2011
3652011 Track of the Day : Unthanks - Gan to the Kye
The Unthanks (previously called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, until 2009) are an English folk group from Northumberland. They made their debut performance at Towersey Village Festival in August 2004 and, on 11 May 2005, launched their debut album, Cruel Sister at Holmfirth Folk Festival. Cruel Sister received support from a number of DJs on BBC Radio 2 and was subsequently awarded Folk Album of the Year by Mojo magazine.
Their 2007 follow-up album, The Bairns, was nominated for the Best Album award at the BBC Folk Awards 2008 and also nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize. The album debuted in the UK Top 200 Albums Chart at number 178 in the week after the Mercury prize award ceremony.
The band were nominated for three further BBC Folk Awards in 2008 (Best Band, Best Live Act, Horizon Award), and were successful in one category, receiving the Horizon Award at the ceremony in The Brewery, London.
Their third album, Here's The Tender Coming, was released in September 2009. Their fourth album, Last, will be released in March 2011.
In a departure from their usual practice of showcasing material from their studio albums, the Unthanks performed two concerts at London's Union Chapel on 8 and 9 December 2010 consisting entirely of material written by Robert Wyatt and by Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons.
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