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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 2, 2015 11:50:09 GMT
Okay my first tip for this year is Dotan. His album, 7 layers, is released int he Uk in April but is already a big seller in Holland/Belgium. The song HOME is the most stramed song on spotify in Holland. Its singer songwriter style, melodic.
Go Listen to Home, Home11 or Hush.
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Post by peggs on Feb 2, 2015 14:24:44 GMT
Mr. Tein, I've always been impressed by your extensive musical curiousity. With the new forum I am going to do my best to seek out and listen to the artists and bands that you mention.
As I type I'm listening to Dotan. While his style is not something I gravitate toward, I appreciate being made aware of his talent. Thanks.
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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 2, 2015 16:24:43 GMT
Ah Peggs, let me know wehere your musical bent lies and I wills ee if I can find a playlist for you to try out. By the way did you knowI've seen your pictureand Your name in lights above it?
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Post by Jeff Truzzi on Feb 2, 2015 16:35:15 GMT
Mr Tein turned me on to Field Music. And their splinter groups The Week That Was and School Of Language.
For that alone, I shall forever be grateful.
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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 2, 2015 16:54:23 GMT
Hey Jeff. Check out the band SLUG. New album (RIPE)due soon but there are a few tracks about. Slug is the brainchild of the former Field Music bass player Ian Black and features the two Brewis brothers 9FM) on guitar and drums. Album recorded in Field Musics sunderland studio.
Check out
Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped in Plastic
on you tube,
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Post by Jeff Truzzi on Feb 2, 2015 17:11:19 GMT
Hey Jeff. Check out the band SLUG. New album (RIPE)due soon but there are a few tracks about. Slug is the brainchild of the former Field Music bass player Ian Black and features the two Brewis brothers 9FM) on guitar and drums. Album recorded in Field Musics sunderland studio. Check out Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped in Plastic on you tube,
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Post by peggs on Feb 4, 2015 2:06:53 GMT
Ah Peggs, let me know wehere your musical bent lies and I wills ee if I can find a playlist for you to try out. By the way did you knowI've seen your pictureand Your name in lights above it? Thanks, Mr T - I gravitate towards Brit Pop by default but like to keep my mind and ears open for all kinds of different sounds. yea, it was my big debut; like a dream come true
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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 6, 2015 10:51:21 GMT
SONGHOY BLUES - are currently touring the UK. What an amazing band - escaped from Mali. How so much joy comes out of such misery I have no idea. Probbaly live more than record although their album not out. See them live if you can... This is the story of the band below ( from the Guardian):- Garba Touré and his guitar were a familiar sight on the streets of Diré, a dusty town on the banks on the Niger, upstream from Timbuktu. But when armed jihadists took control of northern Mali in the spring of 2012, he knew it was time to leave. "The first rebel group to arrive were the MNLA [Mouvement National pour la Libération de l'Azawad], but they weren't against music, so there was no bad feeling between them and the population," he tells me over the phone from Bamako, Mali's capital. "But then Ansar Dine came and chased them out. They ordered people to stop smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and playing music. Even though I don't smoke or drink, I love the guitar, so I thought: 'This isn't the moment to hang around. I have to go south.'" Like thousands of refugees, Garba grabbed a bag, his guitar and boarded a bus to Bamako. His father, Oumar Touré, a musician who had played congas for Mali's guitar legend, Ali Farka Touré, stayed behind with the family. The hardline Islamist gunmen drove music underground. The penalties for playing or even just listening to it on your mobile phone were a public whipping, a stint in an overcrowded jail or worse. "When I arrived in Bamako the mood wasn't great," Garba remembers, "Different army factions were fighting each other. There were guns everywhere. All we heard was the scream of weapons. We weren't used to that." Garba and some other musician friends from the north decided they couldn't succumb to the feeling that their lives had been shipwrecked by the crisis. They had to form a band, if for no other reason than to boost the morale of other refugees in the same situation. "We wanted to recreate that lost ambience of the north and make all the refugees relive those northern songs."
That's how Songhoy Blues was born. "Songhoy" because Garba Touré, lead vocalist Aliou Touré and second guitarist Oumar Touré, although unrelated to each other – Touré is as common as Smith or Jones in northern Mali – all belong to the Songhoy people, one of the main ethnicities in the north. And "Blues" not only because northern Mali is the cradle of the blues and its music is often referred to as "the desert blues", but also because Garba and his mates are obsessed by that distant American cousin of their own blues. "My father used to make me listen to Jimi Hendrix. He's one of my idols. But I also listen BB King and John Lee Hooker a lot." Reading this on mobile? Click here to listen After signing up drummer Nathanael Dembélé from the local conservatoire, Songhoy Blues hit the Bamako club and maquis (a kind of local spit'n'grit bar restaurant) circuit with their raucous guitar anthems dedicated to peace and reconciliation. People flocked to see them, not only fellow Songhoy, but also Tuareg and other northern ethnicities. Even southerners came. Anybody familiar with the enmity between the Songhoy and Tuareg peoples left behind by Mali's recent civil war will appreciate how inspiring it must have been to see Tuareg and Songhoy youth wigging out together in a Bamako bar. In September, an uncle told Garba that a group of European and American musicians and producers were coming to town under the banner of Africa Express. Garba called Marc-Antoine Moreau, one of the Africa Express organisers, and – after passing an informal audition – Songhoy Blues were introduced to Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 6, 2015 10:52:00 GMT
I did not ask for that to turn red?
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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 6, 2015 11:32:23 GMT
Peggs: Still need to do a bit of thinking about "brit pop " style music.
But I assume you will have to like this - which i think is one of the best albums of the 21st centruty. Its The Defenestration of St. Martin and is the 2012 debut album by former Gene lead singer Martin Rossiter. Also the great nephew of leonard Rosiiter from Rising Damp.
Try Drop Anchor. There is also a live version of the album which has a great version of Olympian - all piano and voice!
Would make a great soundtrack to your favourite foreign movie
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Post by peggs on Feb 8, 2015 4:03:13 GMT
Wow, Mr. T., you are spot on in recommending Martin Rossiter. What an incredible voice. 'Drop Anchor' is a stunning song. I listened to a few other songs from the album and am mightily impressed. Then I listened to Gene. Oh my; Gene is just about the epitome of Brit Pop for me (Rossiter is so Morrissey-sounding and I don't even care for Morrissey's voice). Why hadn't I ever heard of them before? Oh well, just more new music to discover I also listened to Songhoy Blues. Great stuff! I do like me some blues and Sourbour has it all and then some. What an incredible story; the fact that they wish to express joy and harmony in such a joyless and discordant place is a testament to their talent and spirit. Go Songhoy Blues!
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Post by Mr Tein on Feb 9, 2015 9:07:13 GMT
Listen to Olympian by Gene Peggs. orignal single then live from the live version of Defenestration
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Post by peggs on Feb 9, 2015 15:38:29 GMT
Good call, Mr. T. Olympian is a very good band song and an even better solo piano and voice number. The raw emotion of the song shines in the later.
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Post by Mare on Feb 10, 2015 3:26:05 GMT
Scotty of Lido Beach is in another band called Green Light Theory... Here's a new one from them... "Our Last Day"
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Post by sticksman1 on Feb 10, 2015 9:30:45 GMT
Royal Blood are very good, worth a listen
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