I’ve subscribed couple months ago to the great Acoustic Long Island Podcast. I have to confess that i’m not a big Jazz amateur but Andy Shelton’s performance on May 28th was an amazing listening experience ! His music is simply addictive : a powerful mix of Jazz and Folk on which Andy Shelton layered some bright lyrics.
Right after the podcast, I’ve connected my emusic.com account for buying his 2006 album : Up On Market Street.
‘Grant Daddy Knew‘ and ‘8th Avenue‘ are far to be my favorites, two superbs folk songs, I can’t stop listening.
Like Olivier, please forgive the short post, busy times y’know?
Anyway, here’s a great pop/folk band i’ve come across from Iceland, Seabear. Signed to the Morr label in Germany (who also have the Brilliant Mum) Their album The ghost that carried us away has been on repeat now for a couple of days (Available on vinyl here). No sign of any influence of Bjork or the brilliant Sigur ros here, more influenced by the likes of Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens and that sweet mellow dreamy folk sound. You can also download their self released EP, Singing Arc directly from their website for free. The Scandanavians are taking over !! This band apparantly started off as just one person, Sindri Mar Sigfusson but has now increased to seven but he remains at the centre of it all with his songwriting. He’s brought in some glockenspiel, piano, harmonica and of course some acoustic guitar. Whispered harmonies to keep the dreamy mood intact at times it’s so slowed down you think it’s going to stop. Whatever you do do not fall asleep while listening to it as you will miss out on a superb album. Blissful ! Here also is some youtube of them singing their latest 7″ release of a cover of teenage kicks.
Ante Scriptum : for Trini, Laura, Susanna and all the girls reading this blog !
With a stunning debut album ‘Pirates & Cowboys‘ last year, California songwriter Wesley Jensen released this April a second high-rated collection with some of his friends : Jeremy Edwardson (The Myriad), Jonathan Berlin (Bernard), and Christie Dupree (Eisley family)… If you’re still awaiting for the summer sun, ‘Stories‘ EP will bring you the illusion of warmth, lightness, and the desire to jump in your car, all windows down ! It’s rare to have such a high-quality compositions on a 5 tracks EP - so don’t hesitate to buy his first album @ the same time !
This will be part of a short-post series, as most of my days have been filled with family, business, and wild life ! So I would like to beg my pardon to the artists for not taking time to probe my mind and writing longer posts. Be sure that I ‘ve taken time in months of listening ( with heart and soul) before suggesting any of the following artists and i’m quite sure most of you will be touched by those talented songwriters.
So the first of this series is the unqualified Kelley McRae ! First ; because, she will speak for me : both her portrait ( … )
and performance !
What else ? Kelley McRae released her first full length ‘Never Be’ - produced by J.D. Foster (Calexico, Laura Cantrell, Richard Buckner) in 2006 : a beautiful collection of honey-sweet harmonies including numerous treasures (Johnny Cash, Stone Cold Sober, Time, Never Be…).
That’s It ? No. Fasten your seatbelt : Kelley forthcoming album ‘Highrises in Brooklyn‘ will be released this August 19th and be produced by Brian Deck (Iron and Wine, Modest Mouse, Josh Ritter, Counting Crows). I didn’t get the privilege to hear more tracks than the ones already available on her myspace page but she’ll confirmed me that ‘Long Walk Home’, the song performed on the above video at the Forcastle Festival will be part of it. Forgive me for the low audio quality of this sample - audio track extracted from the video- but it’s a permanent loop for couple weeks !
I recently was in Dublin, as some of you may already know, I had the privilege of listening to the entire new Guggenheim Grotto album. I was completely blown away. It is absolutely beautiful. From start to finish I felt as if I was taken on this mystical journey of emotions and in the end just felt complete. “Waking up in America” was recently released as a single but is not on this new album. “Fee Da Da Dee” is the first track off the new album. It is one of many of my favorites on this album. To my surprise I just received this little piece of information in my email box:
Irish Single Fee Da Da Dee released 11th July
Our NEW single Fee Da Da Dee will be available to buy exclusively from iTunes Ireland on the 11th of July. We’ve also added Fee Da Da Dee to our music player on our site so if you pop over to Guggenheim Grotto you can listen to it right now.
I’d love to know what everyone else thinks of Fee Da Da Dee. I just absolutely love it!
Jolie Holland’s future career shows a considerable amount of promise.
She blends together a mix of folk, jazz and blues that casts a slow, woozy spell over it’s listener. The categorization of her genre may not be as easily described as it’s effects, but its all beyond infectious. A quick listen on Thursday was quickly heightened to an all-weekend binge after finding everything she’s ever publically released.
There’s a clear progression in her music that was released over the span of just a few years–from solo singer/songwriter to beautifully accompanied songs that still stay true to their more simplistic roots. It’s a bit of an up and down adventure if your more inclined to one of her styles than another, but it’s all wonderful stuff. So dust off those red-plumed adventuring caps and let her sail around your room for an hour or two.
Been absolutely loving the self-titled album from Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden. A friend put a song of theirs on a mix CD for me a few weeks ago and I was immediately drawn to the track “In Your Dreams”. I decided to investigate their tunes further and I am so glad I did. Kate has such a stunning voice and the whole album is just solid. This is definately one of those albums to listen to on a rainy day or a Sunday morning.
Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden hail from the Northwest corner of Seattle Washington amidst the fisherman and sailors of Ballard. They play lush indie pop with shimmering melodies, sparkling soundscapes, and beats like a train on a track.
Seattle Sound Magazine named them as one of 10 bands to watch in 2008.
Olivier : French singer-songwrite r Jean Ferrat had a beautiful old french song called : 'La Montagne', check it on youtube and you'll know exactly how to pronounce it...
Laura : it is pronounced "la-mon-tain"
Guest_4583 : how exactly does one pronounce lamontagne lol
Sean : sorry i broke the link www.crabsarescav engers.com/thete legrams.htm
Sean : hello i play guitar in the knoxville, tn based band the telegrams. we just finished a new album and wanted to see if you would be interested in giving it a listen. you can download the entire album here: www.crabsarescav engers.com/thete legrams.htm i look forward to hearing from you
Guest_4325 : Hi, my names Zak Smith, I don't know if you accept music submissions, but in case you do you can go to my website at zaksmithlive.com to hear some songs off it. If anyones interested in posting about any of the songs email me at «email» and I'll send some mp3s. Thanks. zaksmithlive.com to hear some I just independently released an album, feel free to post them if you want to. If you want me to send you the whole album just let me know. Also you can go to my website at zaksmithlive.com
neabbeple : "Siazno queste parole d'addio"?
questa NON ?? UNA DOMANDA...
volevo solo "esortare" a dire qual'?? la sorpresa...ma ho dovuto postare una domanda perch?? non potevo dare risposte(le ho esaurite)...
sicilianu? nu misteru...!!!
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Guest_167 : I'm quite sure the version of Cucurucucu Paloma it's not sang by Caetano.
Mike2007 : Hi!
The interesting name of a site - youcrazydreamers .com how you managed to get such beautiful name of the domain?
Very interesting site though there is no couple of sections. But section this here very much even by the way.
I 6 hours wandered on a network, have not left yet íâ your forum! I think, I here shall stay for a long time!
Thanks for the info, youcrazydreamers .com!
Guest_3541 : I will be recording a new Youcrazy dreamers radio show in the coming week. watch this space
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