Mar 5, 2008
Feeling really good about this week's selection of music from USA,
UK, France and Argentina - there now, that gives you fair warning
of what to expect. Then when I tell you to brace yourself for a
show that features not one but two magnificently different
orchestras, one of which is playing "Something completely
different" you'll know that it's going to be Suffolk 'n' Cool.
Intro
Happy - Jimmie Bratcher
(Missouri, USA)
www.jimmiebratcher.com
Why can't we be friends - Trash
Fashion (UK)
Trash Fashion continue their path to world domination with the
release their new EP Why can't we
be friends? on 10 March 2008
UK and Germany tours & SXSW appearance detailed on their
sites.
www.trashfashion.co.uk
www.myspace.com.trashfashion
www.youtube.com/trashfashiontube
We sat down to dinner on Saturday night to the dulcet tones of
Pete Cogle and his
A la carte podcast. Mmm
nice! Actually I really can recommend it - it provoked all sorts of
interesting conversation over the meal about music, genres and
tastes.
www.pcpodcast.blogsome.com
Rubber eyeballs - The Kazoo Funk
Orchestra (Glasgow / Toronto / Tijuana, United Kingdom)
The Kazoo Funk Orchestra are an alternative indie pop collective
from Glasgow, Scotland. Formed in 2005 during a finger painting
session attended by chief songwriters Little Beard and Big Beard.
Taking inspiration from various artists and genres, they created a
unique mesh of indie, pop, rock and hip-hop. Within a couple weeks,
the duo formed the backbone of the band with a few friends and had
already begun recording tracks for the debut album Midnight Finger Painter. They have a
new album Adventures in Fuzzy
Felt Land out on Jamendo too.
www.kazoofunkorchestra.com
www.jamendo.com
Had a fun Twitter conversation with Rob Wall and
Dave Cormier in Canada while prepping the show on Sunday about the
definitive cowbell song. My vote goes to Free"s "All Right Now?.
The live versions on YouTube (without cowbell) are perfect for
serious air cowbell.
Beautiful Imperfection - Fort
Pastor (Florida, USA)
Fort Pastor's new release Beautiful Imperfection. They are not
bashful about their stand for social reform. Blending their
Australian and American roots, Fort Pastor's signature organic
mixture of acoustic rock has garnered the praise of critics and
fans alike.
www.fortpastor.com/
If you've wanted to get the hang of playing the didgeridoo
Colin Goring has posted
some superb videos on Howcast. Seriously, take a look, they
are just wonderful.
www.howcast.com/videos/849-How-To-Play-Didgeridoo-the-Basic-Drone
2008 Academy Awards: "and
the best original song is … podsafe!"
Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Markete Irglova (who also
star in the film). The film also won the Sundance Film Festival
World Cinema Audience Award.
Glen Hansard left school at the age of thirteen to begin performing
on Dublin streets. He secured a record deal with Island Records and
subsequently formed The Frames in 1990. Hansard first came to wider
public attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the Alan Parker
film THE COMMITMENTS. He gradually established himself as one of
Irish music's most popular talents. In April 2006, Hansard released
his first solo album, The Swell
Season, in collaboration with his co-star in ONCE, Marketa
Irglova.
Written and directed by John Carney (On the Edge, Bachelors Walk),
ONCE is a nod to the classic musicals of the past, while it is also
grounded in the bohemian world of struggling young Dubliners that
he knew from his days as a young musician. I believe he was also
bass player in The Frames for a while.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=938XY6DX02w&feature=related
Green Machine - Sahib Radio
(North Carolina, USA)
If you're looking for some super smooth, over produced, pretty pop
tunes, or love songs, then keep on looking. You won't find it here.
Sahib Radio"s music is raw, rough around the edges, gritty, and
doesn't really fit into any specific genre. Subject matter is
usually controversial, and dark.
www.myspace.com/sahib
Do Me A Squeeze celebrates
its second birthday on Friday 7th March at Tabernacle in Tabernacle
Street in the City of London. I have to admit that my daughter
Jessie is largely responsible for Do Me a Squeeze and very proud of
her I am too. "At DMAS we are always interested in promoting new
talent, if you are a budding DJ and are interested in coming and
playing for us then please email jess@domeasqueeze.co.uk for
information." Chip off the old block? :
Happy birthday DMAS.
www.domeasqueeze.co.uk/
Boum-Boum-Affrica-China - Les Oreilles
en Ballades (Arles, France)
= Ears in Ballads.
Mélange de styles musicaux où nos oreilles se promènent d'un
univers à l'autre... surprenant. Direct rt=translation is again
quite poetic: Mix musical styles
where our ears walk of one universe to the other...
surprising.
http://christophe.kay.free.fr/les-oreilles-en-ballades/m.html
This week off to the north west of England in fact I think I've
engineered a morning free in the English Lake District. The first
time I've been up there in quite a few years and I have to say
that, tinged with a personal sadness as it will be, I'm really
looking forward to getting up onto a mountain on Thursday morning.
Even if, as usual, it is raining. Let's face it, it has to or the
Lake District would be called the "Valley District".
Festa - feat. Negro (La Cruda) -
Butumbaba (Santa Fe, Argentina)
Desde su formación en 1993 en la ciudad de Santa Fe, Argentina,
Butumbaba es una banda que se ha dedicado a la investigación y
experimentación de los ritmos derivados y afines al Ska y al
Reggae. A lo largo de estos años, en un trabajo constante, la banda
va sufriendo.
Direct = From its formation in
1993 in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina, Butumbaba are a band that
has dedicated to the investigation and experimentation of the rates
derived and compatible to the Ska and the Reggae. Throughout these
years, in a constant work, the band is suffering.
www.butumbaba.com.ar
Delighted for Suffolk 'n' Cool to have been featured as
The Editors Pick on
Podcast Nation this week.
An email arrived out of the blue on Thursday to say "Thank you for
all of your podcasts, your work is stunning, both in its quality
and its consistency?.
A friend has the signs of the zodiac on her kitchen wall with a
couple of paras on the characteristics of each sign. I'm a
Capricorn. It just said "Most prison warders are Capricorns?
There"s the consistency element then! The quality of the content is
down to the all the wonderful artists who are prepared to take the
risk of making their music available for podcasting and to you the
listener who makes it worth their creating the music and me just
passing it along.
Liberty Bell (Monty Python) - The
Hampshire Guitar Orchestra (UK)
Formed in 1999, we play 4 sizes of Classical Guitar - alto, prime,
bass and contra, with regular concerts in aid of local charities.
Come along and let us change your perception of Classical
Guitar.
www.hago.org.uk/