Not a write up or review here but just to let you all know that The Felice Brothers new album Yonder Is The Clock is released on the 7th April. I’ve said all i’ve ever wanted to say in the past about this great band to anyone who would listen and for me personally I still haven’t come across a band as good as these since I first heard them. They have everything in their music, tales of drunkeness, love, drug deals, friendship, rejection, hope, the lot. In Simone and Ian Felice we have two of the most amazing, poetic songwriters around today. Simone is now also one half of The Duke and the King who you should check out too and has also made time to write two books, Goodbye, Amelia and Hail Mary full of holes, the latter being Uncut magazines book of the month !
If the whole album is anything like this footstomping, swaggering track they are giving away on the Team Love record label website (Where incidentally they have a HUGE library full of free albums and mp3′s) then we are in for one hell of an album. Enjoy.
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It’s been a while since I did not tip you with some noises… According to my mood the single acoustic genre even peppered with more drums or raised with some full orchestration is sometimes not enough to match my mood…
The Winter Kings, based in the East of England write powerful, emotive, melody driven music with a dark and introspective lyrical base. Underpinned by the fusion of Delderfield’s epic guitar work and Kehoe’s haunting vocal, their work is difficult to define in terms of influence but should appeal to fans of the atmospheric rock of Interpol and the National and the dark lyrical leanings of Nick Cave and Arcade Fire.
The Winter Kings is merging my eclectic tastes. Sometimes purely acoustic like on the superb ‘Audubon Hotel’ or ‘Indian Summer’ from their first full demo collection “Carnival Songs”, sometimes flirting so close to the hard-rock (call me old fashioned) like their brand new ‘Black Caravan’ single which will be released on the 1st of April. The band have now finished recording their first Album, ‘The Gallows on the Shore’ set for release in July 2009.
Call it Atmospheric or Hard Rock, The Winter Kings music range is wide enough – and so addictive – that it can be looped non-stop for weeks !
Since Kevin from ‘To the Dogs or Whoever’ quitted blogging, i’m no longer getting great tips about aussie bands, until… Until my browser loads this early morning, the bric-à-brac cdbaby.com new arrivals folk page… And for the first time, the very first click was the right one : Jess Ribeiro and the Bones Collector !
Alternative country folk from the tropical northern territory of Australia, with a diverse saddlebag of mature, enchanting, mesmerising and playful songs.
The opening track from this too short ep – the kind of frustration reminded me one of my best ep last year released by Jess’s fellow country songwriter Phillip Bracken ) is totally bewitching : an amazing voice à la Alela Diane is floating over a delicate fullstrings composition. Then the first listening of “It’ll Come to Pass” leave me with no voice and confirmed – as the following two tracks – the extent of such a dazzling talent !
Well I guess I won’t be the only one awaiting for the first full length which should be released later this year… In the meantime, buy the EP, read and listen to her interview on ABC here.
News, is this all about ?
If I had to mention and select a single album from the past years.. many chances my ears will request again and again the sound of Drawn to Dust from Camphor. Max Avery Lichtenstein has released in this thirteen songs collection a musical Everest. If you missed this album : you’re just 12 months late ; but no worries this is the kind of music which do not suffer the print of time. Before switching to the band website and learning the backstory of this special track, be sure to have you daybreak experience listening to Max most recent philosophical exploration : ‘Enjoy the Struggle‘.
NB : Due to express mention, YCD won’t stream this song right from this page – even if temptation to host such a perfect track was evily burning my fingers.
Many news to be shared in these early days of spring… First of all, Mr Holcombe Waller got – a brand new haircut but above all – a handfull of brand new songs that have been recentlty recorded @ Kink FM Station couple days ago…
Brand new beautiful songs and couple dates to shared them :
April 16 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
April 19 – Santa Cruz, CA – Cayuga Vault
April 20 – San Francisco, CA – Cafe Du Nord
April 22 – Los Angeles, CA – The Mint
April 26 – New York, NY – Joe’s Pub
Those April stages will be shared with Gabriel Kahane. At last but not the least :
PORTLAND PREMIERE INTO THE DARK UNKNOWN: THE HOPE CHEST
Thursday through Saturday, March 26-28, 8pm
Sunday, March 29, 2pm Matinee at the IMAGO THEATRE
For those of you who listen to my Simple folk show on radioreverb.com will over the past year or so heard us air a session by Joe Gideon & the Shark which was recorded a while back. I always meant to put them up here but somehow life got in the way at those moments but after seeing them live very recently I have put a halt to everything to make sure I write about them now.
Joe and Viva, a brother and sister duo make up the band. Joe on vocals and guitar, Viva on everything else, Drums, keys, vocal, all played from behind her drum kit and often simultaneously. It’s impossible to imagine how just two people can create a sound this brilliant, a sound that for me is impossible to describe as I hear so many influences in it. At their loudest reverberating best I hear some LCD soundsystem, The Fall and when Joe talks/sings he reminds me of Smog and on the outstanding track, Anything you love that much you will see again, well that’s just uniquely theirs. On the track Kathy Ray, a song about a woman who was a backing singer for the Eurythmics and Ray Charles, Joe’s narrative about her has you listening intently but then has you laughing at it’s unexpected turn, or at least it did me. There’s a few tracks like this on their debut album Harum Scarum, serious overtones with a humorous undertone, these are the most original band I’ve heard in a long long time and it’s so refreshing. Currently on a UK tour after having supported Nick Cave and the Bad seeds and more recently Seasick Steve. I think that 2009 is the year they are going to break through to a more mainstream audience but I urge you to go and see them live if you get the chance as they will blow you away.
Officially my new favourite band (until next week). Enjoy.
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Got so many albums to tip you about and such few time to write… so the music will do the job !
Just few information about Mr Bucaro : ‘Til Spring’ is his fourth full length and I still can’t believe his music didn’t reach my ears before… I had the opportunity to discover this album via MoreBarn Music (Neal Casal, Peter Salett… mentionning it them only for the curious..) and… and let’s simply say that this collection is producing an awesome mix of soul and blues producing enough good tunes to be part of this crazy website ! Yes I know, it’s a bit too self-centered but it should have gained your attention. If not :
And sure it will deserve more words … but sure you’ll be addicted to his music listening to more tracks on his own site : On the Map is simply unbelievable.
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