Words Fail Me
Yes, words have failed me in the past week or 2. And nothing much has changed - I just can't seem to string together a valid commentary in my head so it seemed entirely pointless to post something here. But I have heard a lot of good music which I wanted to share...
mp3: Charming Hostess - Heaven Sitting Down - patchouli is rife in this band but, amazingly, this track is just so unlike hippy heaven
mp3: Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Lichterloh - slow burning jazz a'la Carla Bley but add some abience as well
mp3: Mahjongg - The Stubborn Horse - a Dandy Warhol's track wonderously appears amidst a stack of cracked electro songs
mp3: Shining - Aleister Explains Everything - Hatfield and the North take enormous amounts of cocaine
mp3: Stronen-Storlokken - Acrobat - mix the Residents with the Silver Apples and what do ya get?
mp3: Aimee Mann - She Really Wants You - loathed it / loved it / loathed it / loved it: no wonder Aimee isn't a huge star when even an avowed fan gets the shits with her
mp3: Madeleine Peyroux - Between The Bars - smokey blues vocals and an Elliot Smith cover - what more could you want: this century's "one for my baby"
mp3: Martha Wainwright - Who Was I Kidding - delicate and emotional: the best thing on her dissapointing album
posted by Phil at
8:04 am
2 Comments:
thank you for those, phil. 1st time i have ever listened to madeleine peyroux and like everyone else i thought but i know this voice. billie has risen from her grave. according to a trustworthy amazon.de review her first album "dreamland" is the one to go for. do you know it?
shining i very much enjoyed too. what a beautiful mess, especially in the middle part.
aimee mann is the singer after mary margaret o'hara who seemed to be the most worthy heir to joni mitchell on the female songwriter throne. i haven't really made my mind up about that song but it seems to be very pretty.
i just got that kammerflimmer kollektief album today. quite surprised that you already know of a german band not too many know around here. the album as a whole is a little bit too much, too dense for my current likes but just one song like e.g. the opener which you posted is quite successful in setting up a nice cosy atmosphere with the surprise of a bit of free-jazz sax going on in the background.
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Alexander, at 7:33 am
thanks alex. i heard "dreamland" but didn't really like it as much as her latest album - it has a few too many old time jazz standards on it for me whereas the new one is slightly more wide ranging. as for aimee, well, in many ways her lyrics are the best thing about her work - clever, maybe a bit too clever. kammerflimmer - i read about them in the wire and that was enough for me. i really love their combination of jazz and electronics - it reminds me of eno's 'anti jazz ray gun' from wyatt's 'ruth is stranger than richard'.
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Phil, at 8:33 am
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