Aug 29, 2007
A formidable selection of music this week from New York, Hawaii,
France, Italy and Australia. First, Lame Duck from Finland. OK so
the viral cough is retreating a bit so hopefully back to normal
soon. A few fairly appropriate song titles may help: Rolling with
the punches, Pieces of me and Eucalyptus!
Rolling with the punches - Lame
Duck (Finland)
Lame Duck was formed at the end of 2003 by the current members:
Antti (guitar/vocals), Mika (bass) & Pete (drums). The band has
released two EPs: Bad Hair
Life (2004) & Chaos
Theory (2006). So far Lame Duck has played a few dozen shows
and their music can be heard on some skate/snowboarding films.
If the name is familiar, I played Lame Duck's track Chaos Theory after this intervention
on Adam Curry's Daily Source
Code last year.
www.thelameduck.net/
www.myspace.com/thelameduck
Pieces of Me - Eileen Meyer
(Hawaii, USA)
Another artist I've played before.
Eileen Meyer is currently recording her 3rd Album. Her cutting-edge
musical, mystical poetry has been licensed by Oprah's Oxygen
Network as well as featured on the CBS Morning News. She has shared
the stage with artists such as Dar Williams, Mick Fleetwood, and
Producer/Guitarist Larry Mitchell.
Ten tracks recorded at Santa Fe so I'd say it was time for some new
music for us to enjoy!
www.eileenmeyer.com/
http://myspace.com/eileenmeyer
Just listen to the vocals in …
J.E.T. Apostrophe A.I.M.E. -
Both ( Metz, France)
Metz is right up in the top right of France near the borders with
Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany.
Track from their 2004 album Simple Exercise - another album from
last year is also available either on CD from the band's site or by
download from Jamendo.
A six piece band featuring vocals from David and the quite stunning
voice of Christine I'll leave the rest in French as it's pretty
simple to get around!
Le groupe Both s'est formé en Mars 2004, il est composé de 6
membres :
2 chants leads (David et Christine)
un guitariste (Franck)
un bassiste (Fred)
un batteur (Yann)
un clavier (Clémentine)
www.both-world.com
www.myspace.com/bothmusic
Burning Man project out in
the Black Rock Desert of Nevada this week. Of course it's unlikely
that anyone who is there will hear this immediately but if you have
been, and came across Ellie C-H and can get a word to her, I met up
again with her mum Gillian in Suffolk at the weekend - and I rather
got the sense that she's so proud of you for getting up and doing
it!
Should be interesting with 89 Fahrenheit (30 plus centigrade) and
only 11% humidity. They hardly need to set fire to the man at the
end of the week do they!
Here it's in the mid-teens centigrade (mid-50s Fahrenheit) but you
know, we're very patient and are still waiting for summer to settle
into a pattern of decent warm weather.
www.burningman.com/
Les sonneurs de reves -
Kapadnoms (Rosny Sous Bois & Paris, France)
Just one track from their album Les Sonneurs de reves. It's an
album of really quite varied styles, I just got it from
Jamendo and I'd say that it certainly warrants more than one
listen. Although not particularly evident in that track, it does
have quite a strong hip-hop influence in some tracks. They have no
website but you too can, of course, get the album from the Jamendo
site and leave a donation or at least a comment for them.
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/kapadnoms/
A Joni Mitchell album (I think it was Court and Spark) was playing
in the house earlier when I went over and in common with this album
it almost demands that one participate in some interesting
clapping!
Diamond Caverns - Reflections
(New York, USA) PMN FIRST PLAY
This is the solo debut record by Clint Newsom. Clint was the
singer/guitarist in the critically acclaimed band Rythm of Black
Lines. On the Doghouse imprint label, Civil Defense League.
www.myspace.com/reflectionss
(don't forget the extra "s" if keying the address!)
Miscuote … mincanta - Il
Maniscalco Maldestro (Volterra, Italy)
From their 2005 eponymous album. The story starts with one small
citizen in the heart of Tuscany - the marionette Maldestra. The
distinctive appearance of this thin blacksmith character with the
long red nose is Maniscalco Maldestro …
Again this is quite a varied album with some great sounds and again
it is available from Jamendo.
www.ilmaniscalcomaldestro.com
www.myspace.com/ilmaniscalcomaldestro
Winelight news:
5th September - The Winelight Club at The Wine Press
18th September - Foy Vance returns to The Nortich Arts Centre
21 September - Holly Lerski at The Wine Press
Eucalyptus - The Deadly
Syndrome (New York, or Los Angeles, USA)
The LA Times said of The Deadly Syndrome: "... unbridled euphoria —
and wry touches such as onstage cutouts of ghosts — helped the
Deadly Syndrome go from zero to signed in a few short months. Well,
that and explosive, unaffected songs right out of the Arcade
Fire/Modest Mouse/Wolf Parade playbook."
They have a new album Ortolan out on September 11th and they
are playing The Roxy on Sunset in LA on Thursday this week and The
Echo, in Echo Park for the album release party on Saturday week
(8th September)
www.thedeadlysyndrome.com/
www.myspace.com/thedeadlysyndrome
Also picked up on the PMN a couple of weeks ago:
Caccamawatoo - The Molting
Vultures (Australia)
The Molting Vultures have supported Radio Birdman, Mach Pelican
(three times) and Guitar Wolf and have released 2 albums:
This won't hurt a BIT
(2006) and GET A GRIP
(2007 / Psycho Dog Records). Both have been number 1 on the 3D
Radio Charts in Adelaide and have been played internationally. And
now, it's being played via Podshow in San Francisco from Suffolk in
the UK (right on the other side of the planet) and back round again
to Mike Sefang in Adelaide who co-presents the excellent,
Extraordinary Everyday Lives
Show (http://extraordinary.thepodcastnetwork.com/)
which I listen to back here in Suffolk.
This podcasting business really is different!
www.myspace.com/moltingvultures