Djerdan vol.11

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Ebony Rhythm Band - Soul Heart Transplant :The Lamp Sessions (1970) [2004]

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Heavy funk from the Indy scene of the late 60s -- the lost album by one of the funkiest combos in the Midwest! Ebony Rhythm Band have an incredible sound that seems to take the heavy bottom of New Orleans Funk and merge it with the trippier elements of Detroit psychedelic soul -- no surprise, considering they hailed from Indianapolis, a point about halfway between the two cities! The tracks on the set have a really great tripped-out groove -- using lots of guitar and organ over heavy rhythms, in a style that's a bit like the Meters at times -- but a lot freer flowing. The album features 2 tracks that formed the basis of one of the group's singles -- plus a lot more that were never issued at the time, including a few by other incarnations of the combo!

1. Soul Heart Transplant
2. Light My Fire
3. Ode To Billy Joe
4. Vanilla Fudge
5. Drugs Ain't Cool
6. Get Yourself Together: Smiling Phases / Sunshine Of Your Love
7. Thought Of Losing Your Love, The - (edit, with The Vanguards)
8. Can I Call You Baby - (CD only, with The Pearls)
9. It's Too Late For Love - (with The Vanguards)
10. Fool Am I - (with Montiques)
11. Light My Fire - (alternate take)

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She & Him - Volume One (03/2008)

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This is the musical debut from M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, paired together by director Martin Hayens to perform the Richard and Linda Thompson tune "When I Get To The Border" for his film "The Go-Getter". Their match sparked the idea for "Volume One".

1. Sentimental Heart
2. Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
3. This Is Not A Test
4. Change Is Hard
5. I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
6. Take It Back
7. I Was Made For You
8. You Really Gotta Hold On Me
9. Black Hole
10. Got Me
11. I Should Have Known Better
12. Sweet Darlin'

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Halo Victory!!! De, molim te, stavi na downloud ponovo one materijale sa početka ovog foruma. One fanky kompilacije sa prve tri-četiri strane. Ajd Živ bio!!!

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Maceo Parker - Roots and Grooves [LIVE] (02/2008)


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Say the name Maceo Parker, and immediately the legendary R&B saxman's longterm association with the late, great James Brown comes to mind. Depending on how steeped one is in R&B, Parker's later work with George Clinton and Bootsy Collins might pop up. But long before the Godfather of Soul entered the saxman's life, Parker was grooving heavily on Ray Charles, who became one of the influential musical heroes of his life. The first disc of Roots and Grooves gloriously celebrates Parker's connection to these roots, his early years in North Carolina listening to early Charles tracks on the radio. The second is something of a wildly jazzy, impossibly funky jam retrospective on his best solo tracks. The hook that makes this more than simply a high energy covers date is that it teams the brilliant altoist with Germany's renowned WDR Big Band -- and from the first swinging blasts behind Parker's horn on "Hallelujah I Love Her So," "big" is the operative word. Given Parker's sense of groove invention and the evergreen emotional power of Charles' chestnuts like "Busted" and "Hit the Road Jack," anyone might have expected this to be a dream match. But it's more than that because Parker also sings with a gravelly, Charles-like perfection on these two songs, and even more poignantly on "You Don't Know Me," "Margie," and a magically moody "Georgia on My Mind." Charles may have been declared deceased in body in 2004, but he lives again through Parker in haunting yet wonderful ways. On "Getting Back to Funk" (the title of the second disc), Parker revisits his own rich catalog of classics, starting with "Uptown Up" and vibing right on through to a nearly 18-minute scorching take on "Pass the Peas." Released in early 2008, this double set was an instant classic. Charles was not the only genius who loved company -- Parker, too, has a blast working with one of the hippest big bands in the world. ~ Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide

Disc: 1
1. Hallelujah I Love Her So
2. Busted
3. Them That's Got
4. You Don't Know Me
5. Hit the Road Jack
6. Margie
7. Georgia On My Mind
8. What'd I Say

Disc: 2
1. Uptown Up
2. To Be Or Not To Be
3. Off the Hook
4. Advanced Funk
5. Shake Everything You Got
6. Pass the Peas

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Sharon Bousquet – Temple (2006)


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Sharon Bousquet is an award-winning songwriter and a published poet, combining spiritual and sensual lyrics with melodic forays into jazzy blues, folk and acoustic pop. Her new release, "Temple", "displays the quality and variety that have earned her numerous prestigious songwriting and performance awards across Texas in the past six years." Clean, uncluttered and transparent, the well-played, minimalist arrangements not only recall classic early singer/songwriter ventures by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Joan Armatrading and Janis Ian, but Bousquet -- remarkably -- holds her own in that lofty neighbourhood....Confident, sensual and in full command, Sharon Bousquet richly deserves all the rewards that dedication, talent and hard work can bring.

Born in South Philadelphia to a musical family, Sharon grew up on the East Coast in towns like Chester, PA and Wilmington, DE. Voices from the left side of the radio dial began making an impression during the long vacations her family took each summer. With her father behind the wheel of a wood-paneled Ford station wagon and a small Scotty travel trailer rolling behind, the voices of Joni Mitchell, CSNY, and the progressive rock melodies of Yes, Led Zeppelin and Heart took hold. Those long car rides throughout the West left ample time for an artist’s imagination to rise, for a writer to be born.

Each of Sharon’s 6 CDs, including her first session in ’94 with the Vancouver-based ensemble “Travelers in Paradise” - a compilation that raised $10,000 for the H.I.V. ward of the Vancouver Children’s Hospital - have been independently released. Now, the strongest of the six reaches American audiences with the spring 2007 radio release of "Temple".

"Temple" was recorded and mixed in Austin, Texas at MoonHouse Studio with multi-instrumentalist Chris Gage at the helm (Albert & Gage, Roy Clark). The first track is a lush and open rendition of Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky”, with minimalist support from piano, bass and drums. This leaves plenty of room for Sharon Bousquet’s gift of a voice to take hold of the spotlight and not let it go.

“Sharon Bousquet does everything with sultry grace. She has considerable prowess on the acoustic guitar, yet puts her instrument down to belt out electrifying a cappella numbers like the gospel-tinged Temple. Bousquet has the substance to rise to the top.” R. Patt, Metro Santa

1. Northern Sky
2. Look At This Place
3. Holy Water
4. Myself For A Living
5. Where Are You Now
6. Swim This
7. Slip Away
8. People Drink
9. Only A Dream
10. All That You Have Given To Me Listen
11. Temple

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DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling (03/2008)

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The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place. They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music. Now, the band is au courant, poised to shine on with their Anti- Records debut A Mad and Faithful Telling. From the cinematic richness of "Transliterator" to the modern pop experiment of "The Clockwise Witness," to the soaring and wrenching "Undone," DeVotchKa have produced a career-defining record and the world is listening.

01. Basso Profundo
02. Along the Way
03. The Clockwise Witness
04. Head Honcho
05. Comrade Z
06. Transliterator
07. Blessing in Disguise
08. Undone
09. Strizzalo
10. New World

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The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (03/2008)

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
—Oscar Wilde

“Heaven, it’s quite a climb….”
—The Gutter Twins, “Seven Stories Underground”

Saturnalia is the anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed “the Satanic Everly Brothers” going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album both embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals’ individual notoriety. Pointedly not resting on the sonic laurels of their previous successes, Saturnalia instead proves rootsy but baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don’t resolve. Produced by Dulli and Lanegan along with the band’s unofficial third member Mathias Schneeberger, ??Saturnalia??’s eerie modal swirls trap the listener in each song’s atmosphere; simultaneously evoking everything from Indian sitars to Appalachian folk and Delta grit, the drones inadvertently create narcotic hooks. Spartan electronica indelibly collides with spooky space blues on “Who Will Lead Us?”; “Idle Hands” fuses Middle Eastern exoticism with shocking guitar riffs that shoot AC/DC boogie into another fucking galaxy. The cumulative effect proves internal yet epic: the netherworld symphonics of Mogwai, Sigur Ros and Bohren und der Club of Gore are touchstones, alongside the sprawling emotions of Pink Floyd, the melodically catchy paranoia of the Beach Boys, the primal confessionals of John Lennon. Still, what Dulli and Lanegan achieve here ultimately feels like the determinedly individual product of two auteurs coming together.

1. The Stations
2. God's Children
3. All Misery/Flowers
4. The Body
5. Idle Hands
6. Circle the Fringes
7. Who Will Lead Us?
8. Seven Stories Underground
9. I Was in Love with You
10. Bête Noire
11. Each to Each
12. Front Street

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Clinic - Do It! (04/2008)

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British art rockers Clinic will return April 8 with their fifth album, "Do It!." The Domino set was recorded in the group's Liverpool studio and shifts to a more melodic approach than was found on 2006's "Visitations."

Clinic frontman Ade Blackburn describes the album as a "contrast between mellow and weirdness. We heavily chopped up the song structures so they're not standard verse/chorus," Blackburn tells Billboard.com. "It makes the record hard to pin down and unpredictable."

"Do It!" was written and recorded "rather quickly," and teaming up with Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings Of Leon) for mixing duties "brought out a pop side" of the record. "The end result is quite a surreal mixture," Blackburn says. This stylistic melting pot most noticeably shows up on "Corpus Christi," a song Blackburn describes as a "jug band take on Can."

Clinic will tour the U.S. in May, and promises to expand into show into two sets. The first will be "Do It!" in its entirety, followed by a second set of older tunes. "It's our Bruce Springsteen phase," Blackburn says.

"Memories"
"Tomorrow"
"The Witch (Made to Measure)"
"Free Not Free"
"Shopping Bag"
"Corpus Christi"
"Emotions"
"High Coin"
"Mary & Eddie"
"Winged Wheel"
"Coda"

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Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 [BOX SET] (1999)

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Woody Guthrie was one of the 20th century's greatest poets and songwriters. Moses Asch was an idealistic, workaholic record-company owner who could be found in his small office/studio at all hours of the day or night and had a great respect for really creative artists, whether they were commercially viable or not. He and Guthrie made and documented history together in a vibrant moment that is brought to life in this boxed set, WOODY GUTHRIE, THE ASCH RECORDINGS VOLUMES 1-4. Guthrie rarely let a week go by without hammering out poetry, songs, rambling letters to friends, articles, diatribes and books on his manual typewriter. Hating conformity and distrusting authority, he would come to the studio when he felt like it -- often bringing his friend Cisco Houston along, and sometimes a larger group including Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Sonny Terry. The songs they sang there included some of the oldest folk songs in America, some of the newest and most powerful topical songs from Guthrie's typewriter, and some of the funniest and oddest songs you will ever hear.

Each CD in this set has a different emphasis, and together they are a powerful statement about Woody Guthrie the man and Moses Asch the producer. They are also the richest and most representative set of Woody Guthrie recordings ever assembled -- carefully selected, lovingly remastered, and richly annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon. VOLUME 1 presents many of what have become Guthrie's best-known songs; VOLUME 2 is a selection of the more traditional folk music repertory Guthrie had learned and made his own over the years; VOLUME 3 is selected from the enormous number of songs he wrote about current events; and VOLUME 4 presents songs about cowboys, outlaws and other western themes.

Anarchistic, wildly creative artistic geniuses are all too rare in this world. Even more rarely do they encounter a supporter who carefully collects and preserves their art. Guthrie's sharp, humorous, angry, quirky genius shines through in this sessions with Moses Asch. Asch carefully preserved the masters, and the Smithsonian Institution presents the best of them to the public as they have never been heard before.

The year 2000 ushers in the re-release of the historic Moe Asch recordings on the Smithsonian Folkways label. This 4-CD box set includes just about all the recordings Woody ever did for Folkways in the mid-1940s.

Disc: 1
1. This Land Is Your Land
2. Riding in My Car (Car Song)
3. Ramblin' Round
4. Talking Fishing Blues
5. Philadelphia Lawyer
6. Lindbergh
7. Hobo's Lullaby
8. Pastures of Plenty
9. Grand Coulee Dam
10. End of the Line
11. New York Town
12. Gypsy Davy
13. Jesus Christ
14. This Land Is Your Land
15. Do-Re-Mi
16. Jarama Valley
17. Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
18. Picture from Life's Other Side
19. Jesse James
20. Talking Hard Work
21. When That Great Ship Went Down
22. Hard, Ain't It Hard
23. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
24. I Ain't Got Nobody
25. Sinking of the Reuben James
26. Why Oh Why
27. This Land Is Your Land (Reprise)

Disc: 2
1. Mule Skinner Blues
2. Wreck of the Old '97
3. Sally Goodin'
4. Little Black Train
5. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?
6. Baltimore to Washington
7. Rubber Dolly
8. 21 Years
9. Sowing on the Mountain
10. Bed on the Floor
11. Take a Whiff on Me
12. Stepstone
13. Put My Little Shoes Away
14. Hen Cackle
15. Poor Boy
16. Stack-O-Lee
17. Johnny Hart
18. Worried Man Blues
19. Danville Girl
20. Gambling Man
21. Rye Straw
22. Crawdad Song
23. Ida Red
24. Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
25. Train 45

Disc: 3
1. Hard Travelin'
2. Farmer-Labor Train
3. Howdjadoo
4. Ship in the Sky
5. I Ain't Got No Home
6. Mean Talking Blues
7. Better World A-Comin'
8. Miss Pavlichenko
9. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh) [WWII Version]
10. New Found Land
11. Oregon Trail
12. Vigilante Man
13. 1913 Massacre
14. Talking Columbia
15. Two Good Men
16. Sally Don't You Grieve
17. Talking Sailor Blues
18. What Are We Waiting On?
19. Railroad Blues
20. Ludlow Massacre
21. Ladies Auxiliary
22. Miner's Song
23. When the Yanks Go Marching In
24. Union Maid [Excerpt]
25. Rubaiyat [Excerpt]
26. Many and the Few
27. Hanukkah Dance

Disc: 4
1. Ranger's Command
2. Buffalo Skinners
3. Billy the Kid
4. Cowboy Waltz
5. Pretty Boy Floyd
6. Along in the Sun and the Rain
7. Whoopie-Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
8. Froggie Went A-Courtin'
9. Buffalo Gals
10. I Ride an Old Paint
11. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
12. Slipknot (Hangknot, Slipknot)
13. Cocaine Blues (Bad Lee Brown)
14. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
15. Chisholm Trail
16. Stewball
17. Wild Cyclone
18. Train Blues
19. Red River Valley
20. Fastest of Ponies
21. Stewball - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Leadbelly
22. Snow Deer
23. When the Curfew Blows (Curfew Blow)
24. Little Darling (At My Window Sad and Lonely)
25. Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road (Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad)
26. Return of Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty

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Olga Kouklaki - Get a Life (2008)


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Olga Kouklaki’s cooperation with F Communications has made her one of the most promising acts of Greece. The 1979 born artist moved to Paris in order to get in close contact with the Parisian music scene. While being there she released her first track with Sumsonic, called Don’t Look At Me, by the name ODD. It was not much later after that, that she began working with Laurent Garnier’s label. Apart from her own musical productions she has contributed her vocals to Fred Avril’s track TV Dinner and Poni Hoax’s track Budapest, while at the same time she participates at the live project of Bang Bang (Yellow prod.) and Nouvelle Vague (Peacefrog) as a programmer-keybord player. Her debut album Get A Life is due to be released through the label Perfect Kiss.

http://www.myspace.com/olgakouklaki
http://www.theperfectkiss.fr

01 Getalife
02 How Do You Feel
03 Be4 The Night End
04 Melted Torch
05 Call Me Liar
06 Right Shot
07 Ballade
08 Her Own Right
09 Afissos
10 Calling Up
11 Pick Up Your Pieces

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Cocoon - My Friends All Died In a Plane Crash (2007)


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A few months after releasing Panda Mountains EP, the two-piece band from Clermont-Ferrand is back with an album, My Friends All Died In A Plane Crash. With its cute cover representing band member Morgane Imbeaud kissing a cat, this first CD perfectly mixes up sad and depressing folk songs (Tell Me, Seesaw…) with joyful and jazzy tunes (Chupee, Vultures…) played on the piano, ukulele and acoustic guitar. Led by Mark Daumail’s beautiful voice -which obviously recalls Elliott Smith’s-, Cocoon’s first album takes you to a smooth and soft imaginary country where happiness is everybody’s quest. Named after a French lipstick, “ Cocoon” suits well to the young duet : in the arms of its twelve gorgeous songs, everyone can reach the fabulous world of Panda Mountain. Avoiding plane crash of course. // Ondine Benetier

01. take off 02:53
02. Vultures 03:01
03. On my way 02:51
04. Seesaw 03:22
05. Christmas song 03:12
06. Tell me 02:50
07. Owls 03:19
08. Paper boat 02:59
09. Cliffhanger 03:38
10. Chupee 02:57

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Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha Man (04/2008)

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On April 15th, 2008 Supergrass will release Diamond Hoo Ha via Astralwerks Records. This will be the band's sixth studio album.

"We wanted a record where you got all of Supergrass," says frontman Gaz of the new effort. "The joy, the intensity, the darkness, the melodies. All of those have always been important to us and still are."

Diamond Hoo Ha was recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin and produced by Nick Launay (PiL, Gang Of Four),

1. Diamond Hoo Ha Man
2. Bad Blood
3. Rebel In You
4. When I Needed You
5. 345
6. Return Of …
7. Rough Knuckles
8. Ghost Of A Friend
9. Whiskey And Green Tea
10. Outside
11. Butterfly

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Tommy Guerrero - Return Of The Bastard (03/2008)


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Info :
A new Tommy Guerrero album is always a treat. Even before listening, you already know it's gonna be lo-fi, overflowing with coolness, in a wide variety of styles, likely to offer a psychedelic tapestry of latin-funk grooves, Django-meets-Trip Hop and California sunshine vibes. Riding the P2P waves yesterday, I was lucky to stumble upon an album of his called "Return Of The Bastard"... Maybe that could be a new one, which I hadn't hear about yet?? Trying to hunt for information, I found a Japanese record label which seemed to have released this album at the end of August 2007 (Rush Production), along with a 10-year anniversary reissue of Tommy's first opus, "Loose Groove & Bastard Blues"!

On the artist's MySpace blog, more info from July '07 is available: "Hello to all... I'm in the studio mixing my next record as i type... It's called "Return of the Bastard"... Sort of a sequel to "Loose Grooves..." which is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary... Damn time does fly... It will be out in Aug in japan then Oct or so in the US. "Loose Grooves" is also being reissued this year... Been out of print for some time... Cool... Hope everyone is well and not smashing each other w/ blunt instruments... Take it easy... TG".

01. And The Folklore Continues
02. La Califas Perdido
03. I Would Go With You
04. No Time For Time
05. Bloodinthemud
06. Calling For Ya!
07. Zapata's Boots
08. Mosiac Man
09. What Have I Been Doing Since I Was Gone?
10. Paper Switchblade
11. Never Forget To Remember
12. Run With The Hunted
13. New Terrain
14. 40 Summers
15. The Simple Man

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July Skies - The Weather Clock (02/2008)

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The eagerly awaited follow up to the July Skies album The English Cold is now available from Make Mine Music.

The Weather Clock is firmly planted and focused on a lost post-war Britain . The beauty of the recently constructed regimented housing estates, fresh from the municipal architects drawing board….the green of front lawns against the blue of the summer sky.....it is the sound of the empty school hall once the summer holidays had commenced.... children playing on distant grassy hills far from the edge of the estate....faded branch line summers where steam met diesel.....the sound of swallows across the fields on a fresh dew drenched May morning.....the nothingness of days and afternoons….the innocence and lightness of a breeze through an open window, striking pastel patterns on curtains which billow….the sound of BBC closing down broadcasts during the daytime and displaying the TV test card for the afternoon, whilst the country continued to work, play or learn....this is the sound of The Weather Clock.

The first 350 copies of the album will come with an exclusive CDep ˜The Weather Clock ep™ which will be available through the MMM shop only and nowhere else (with no repress or download).
http://www.makeminemailorder.com/

01. Afternoon Pips (0:31)
02. Branch Line Summers Fade (4:25)
03. Girl on the Hill (4:33)
04. See Britain by Train (3:21)
05. Friog (0:12)
06. Holidays to Wales (2:42)
07. Broadcasts for Autumn Term (2:47)
08. One Morning in May (3:28]
09. Distant Showers Sweep Across Norfolk Schools (4:31)
10. Waiting for the Test Card (2:29)
11. Skies for Nash (6:36)
12. To My Love (1:58]

The Weather Clock limited EP
01. Afternoon Pips (Piano Version) (3:03)
02. Harlow (4:02)
03. Girl on the Hill (Demo) (3:30)
04. See Britain by Train (Pevsner Version) (4:57)
05. The Weather Clock (6:19)
06. Holidays to Wales (Fegla Fawr Version) (1:42)
07. Festival of Britain (4:31)

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High Places - 03/07 - 09/07 (2008)


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Review by Todd Burns, eMusic
A Brooklyn-based duo and its discombobulating dubby masterpieces.
Mary Pearson and Rob Barber are Brooklyn-based duo High Places and 03/07 — 09/07, as the title suggests, collects the band's work from a six-month period in 2007. Some of it has been released on 7-inches and compilations, some of it is available on eMusic exclusively for the first time. The best description I've heard of the band's tunes? "Every national anthem going off at the same time in a bucket of water." Indeed, High Places ride that careful line between unadulterated anthem and a muddy effects-laden mess, emerging with discombobulating dubby masterpieces.

"Head Spins" bounces along on aquatic steel drums, good vibes and a melody built from samples drained almost completely of their source material. "Sandy Feat" is Beat Happening via King Tubby. Perhaps the most surprising moment is a commission that the group received from Pearson's mother. She asked the duo to write a song for the elementary school at which she teaches. "Jump In" doesn't have a lot of the murkiness that colors much of High Places output thus far. Instead, it nakedly showcases the bells, whistles, woodblocks and doodad's that the group buries underneath. It's a revelatory moment here — Pearson and Barber aren't just noiseniks having fun, they're first-rate pop songwriters.

With their short songs and inclination toward miniaturized releases, it's clear that High Places aren't big on mission statements. You could fairly say that 03/07 — 09/07 reflects what happens when a classically trained bassoonist heads out of the academy (Pearson) and a former hardcore kid gets into the noise scene (Barber). Sure, it's awfully specific and honest, but that's pretty much the charm of High Places. Jump in.

1. Head Spins (Extended Version)
2. Sandy Feat (7" Version)
3. Banana Slugs/Cosmonaut
4. Shared Islands
5. Universe
6. Greeting the Light
7. Granola
8. Freaked Flight (Alternate Version)
9. Jump In (For Gilkey Elementary School)
10. Canary

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Richard Shindell - Reunion Hill (1997)


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Review by Tim Sheridan, All Music Guide
In "The Next Best Western," the opening track of this terrific collection of tunes, life on the road takes its toll both literally and figuratively. The narrator goes so far as to question God's motives as he rolls along the turnpike: "Did he who made the lamb/Put the tremble in the hand/That reaches out to take my quarter?" Indeed, Shindell works in landscapes of desperation and longing throughout the album, with fugitives ("May"), absent fathers ("I Saw My Youth Today") and other assorted average Joes that you pass on the street every day. Producer Larry Campbell places these stories in spare and beautiful surroundings, never overwhelming the sentiment. This is songcraft at its finest.

01 - The Next Best Western
02 - Smiling
03 - May
04 - I Saw My Youth Today
05 - Reunion Hill
06 - Beyond the Iron Gate
07 - Darkness, Darkness
08 - Money for Floods
09 - Easy Street
10 - The Weather
11 - I'll Be Here in the Morning

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a li moze ponovno,Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha Man,please.hvala.

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a li moze ponovno,Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha Man,please.hvala.

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Mandrill - Best Of Mandrill (1975)

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Rounding up the greatest grooves from the band's first five albums, right up until it left for United Artists in 1975, The Best of Mandrill is a top compilation for one of the most freewheeling bands of the early '70s. Unsurprisingly for a funk group, Mandrill excelled at recording catchy, well-played material with deep grooves, though unlike many bands, all of it was tempered by an experimentalist bent and a restless desire to explore many different avenues (occasionally in the same song). The compilation opens perfectly with "Ape Is High," "Fencewalk," "Git It All," and "Hang Loose" -- the band's four biggest hits, and (not a coincidence) its four greatest songs. The other seven tracks aren't always the best available: "Mango Meat" and its self-titled debut single are solid choices, but substituting a pair of album tracks ("House of Wood," "I Refuse to Smile") for the R&B hits "Positive Thing" and "The Road to Love" doesn't make much sense. Most importantly, though, The Best of Mandrill includes every song Mandrill's known for, in a punchy sequencing that does justice to the band's uncommon style. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

1 Ape Is High (5:34)
2 Fencewalk (5:32)
3 Git It All (4:31)
4 Hang Loose (4:48]
5 Mandrill (4:22)
6 Cohelo (1:45)
7 Mango Meat (4:43)
8 Symphonic Revolution (5:17)
9 Children of the Sun (4:59)
10 House of Wood (4:34)
11 I Refuse to Smile (4:07)

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Colour Revolt - Plunder, Beg, and Curse (04/2008)


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(PR) Oxford, MS gloominaries Colour Revolt are extremely excited for the release of their long-awaited full-length debut, Plunder, Beg, and Curse on new label home, Fat Possum on April 1st. For this album, the band has collaborated once more with producer and friend Clay Jones (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello) at Sweet Tea Recording studio in Oxford. Plunder is the followup to the band's self-titled EP, released by local label Esperanza Plantation, with a re-release by Tiny Evil, an imprint of Interscope (Nine Black Alps, Jimmy Eat World) in October, 2006.

Colour Revolt's name is derived from Edwin Abbott's 19th century social commentary, Flatland, an exploration of life in two dimensions. But Colour Revolt is far from two-dimensional, eschewing Fletchers familiar sonic assault of unorthodox song structures and time signatures for a more melancholic though equally guitar-driven aesthetic of the post-grunge Southern gothic. The band's thematic impulse reflects the literary heritage of their native Oxford, Miss., channeling the jagged emotionality and moral ambiguity of the locales forefathers, William Faulkner and Barry Hannah.

Colour Revolt has toured with Dinosaur Jr., Brand New, Black Lips, Okkervil River, Menomena, Explosions In the Sky, Malajube, and Manchester Orchestra among others and will be performing at several showcases at SXSW before heading out on the road again in 2008.
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1. Naked and Red
2. A Siren
3. Elegant View
4. See It
5. Moses of the South
6. Swamp
7. Ageless Everytime
8. Innocent and All
9. Shovel to Ground
10. What Will Come of Us?

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Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge (03/2008)

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When Kaki King went into the studioto record the tracks for her fourth album, Dreaming Of Revenge, her producer, Malcolm Burn (Dylan, Chris Whitley, Emmylou Harris), had one condition: "He said, `If someone can't be sawing a log in half and whistling along to the song, I don't want it on the record,'" King recalls with a laugh. And so the bar was set. Burn's mandate was just the push King needed to make her most accessible CD yet. "Even though half the tracks are instrumentals, I feel like I'm writing pop songs," she says. "We really concentrated on the melodies. Everything I write tends to be dense and chordal, but this time the idea was to layer the challenging guitar work under very simple, beautiful melodies. I really wanted them to be memorable." That strict attention to song craft is a logical step for King, whose previous album, 2006's ...Until We Felt Red propelled this dazzling young guitar player and composer, known to instrumental music fans for her finger-picking, fret-slapping, and percussive thumping style, into previously uncharted indie-rock territory. Red found King branching out with songs that featured electric and pedal-steel guitar, horns, and, for the first time, vocals. Dreaming Of Revenge picks up that thread, continuing her evolution from acoustic instrumentalist to full-fledged, multi-faceted songwriter. Previously, her whispery, ethereal voice was used as mainly another element in her sonic arsenal. This time around, King put more effort into both her vocals and the lyrics she wrote for such deeply felt tracks as "Pull Me Out Alive," "Saving Days In A Frozen Head," "Life Being What It Is," and "2 O'Clock," the latter two of which she describes as break-up songs. "The words mean something now," she says. "They're actually telling stories."

1. Bone Chaos In The Castle
2. Life Being What It Is
3. Sad American
4. Pull Me Out Alive
5. Montreal
6. Open Mouth
7. So Much For So Little
8. Saving Days In A Frozen Head
9. Air And Kilometers
10. Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be A Bad Person?
11. 2 O'Clock

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Shriekback - Jam Science (1984)

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Review by Bill Cassel

Shriekback expanded their ambitions with the aptly named Jam Science, adding more and more layers of rhythm, melody, and noise to their established sound. At times, the ten compositions here threaten to collapse under their own weight -- but they never do. In fact, this album is a minor masterpiece, with enough surface appeal to grab the ear immediately, and enough depth to reward scrutiny over the long term. Clearly, a lot of work went into Jam Science. The arrangements are worked out in microscopic detail and the production, by the band with dub producer Paul "Groucho" Smykle, is extremely sophisticated -- maybe excessively so; at times it feels like too much science, not enough jam. But the record's strengths carry it through: swooping, dangerous basslines from Dave Allen; complex, elliptical keyboard parts from Barry Andrews; and deft Linn drum programming, mostly by Carl Marsh. A shift in sonic emphasis results in Marsh's guitar being either buried in the mix or eliminated altogether, but he continues to develop as a vocalist and lyricist. The album boasts some of the first Shriekback songs with identifiable subject matter: "Hand on My Heart" is a thoughful consideration of the relationship between mind and body, and "Midnight Maps" is a chilling portrait of emotional fascism. Andrews chips in with an ethereal vocal on the lovely, haunting album closer, "Hubris."

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White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory (03/2008)


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Way back in the bygone hinterland of your mind, you may recall the name Casey Dienel, who released a very nice LP under her own name called Wind-Up Canary a couple years ago. Well, Casey's got herself a new thing called White Hinterland, and a new label called Dead Oceans. The two relatively new outfits are joining forces for Phylactery Factory (Haha! It rhymes!), White Hinterland's debut LP, due out March 4.

Whereas 2006's "Wind-Up Canary" was short stories and little Salinger vignettes, "Phylactery Factory" is filled with dreams, memories, warnings, and reminders. Twenty-two year old Casey Dienel's voice is more hidden; crouching amid swish, drone, and the wildflower jazz of her friends. There are echoes of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage, Alice Coltrane, and M. Ward. There are songs from private and uncertain places, vulnerable places. "Phylactery Factory" falls between freeze and frozen, between green and grey, just as the hinterland becomes white and we feel our first, happy shivers.

01 The Destruction of the Art Deco House
02 Dreaming of the Plum Trees
03 Calliope
04 Hometown Hooray
05 Lindberghs Metal Birds
06 A Beast Washed Ashore
07 Napoleon at Waterloo
08 Hung on a Thin Thread
09 Vessels

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Basalt Fingers - Basalt Fingers (2007)

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Often an excuse for elongated sessions of masturbatory ecstatica, thee-way distorted guitar jams seldom really work beyond initial listens. Thankfully Basalt Fingers manage to sidestep a seemingly endless stroke session with each of its three participants working an as effective hydra-like, many headed unit. With Ben Chasny (Six Organs), Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers), and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus) each being renowned for their sideways takes on guitar playing, these two tracks get progressively more gorgeous with every listen.

Three Lobed Recordings

The first untitled cut opens with a Bjorkian weave of melodies, the chimes and pulped sounds giving the album a Jekyll-and-Hyde vibe: the beauty charred by other half's hazard. Basalt Fingers offer up the soft white underbelly of math rock, slicing and massaging it into tones and optimistic grumbling guitar sounds. Both cuts feel more devotional than their limited Gashound debut, they sound like they were recorded in a church carved out like a wet pumpkin. Sounds can soak into surfaces or come up off them like sparking wires, at times it appears to be straight amp feedback or a snakey organ melody rather than manipulated guitars. Sines spiral up and around like maddening carnival anthems heard through rotted tenement floors.

There is more of a structure to the second track, a mobius melody that festers (but in a good way). Conjecture over who is playing what is short-lived, the three constituent parts matching the styles of the players. The high end out-of-head soloing seems incredibly Chasny-like, the bassy mud very close to Mouthus' trudge and the organ pitches like Ambrogio's hard-to-pin-down playing. All in all, this track is more choppy and sunken than anything they have released so far.