From the album, 'South Wind,Clear Sky,' out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

Perhaps still most widely recognised for Dreaming With Alice, his 1972 psych-folk debut for RCA Italy as a 19-year-old art student-troubadour, Mark Fry has been turning his creative gaze on the world, and alchemising its elements into shimmering, quietly visionary works of art, ever since. Certainly not an artist who dances to the music of time in any conventional sense, Mark, a respected, and collected, painter, most often to be found holed up in his Normandy farmhouse studio, allowed more than three decades to glide by before recording Alice’s follow up, 2008’s Shooting The Moon. His subsequent musical activity has been frenetic by comparison.

Mark’s beguiling, Arcadian-flavoured 2011 Second Language album, I Lived In Trees, recorded in collaboration with The A. Lords – musicians from a more recent generation of psychedelic-folk experimenters – proved a major critical hit, demonstrating that Mark Fry’s musical stock lay not only in the Paisley-hued haze of his Aquarian Age youth, but also in the full glare of the postmodern, internet-facilitated present. A series of concerts in Japan and Scandinavia, and a widely reported ‘supergroup’ London showcase, featuring members of Mercury Rev, Super Furry Animals, Tunng and Lemon Jelly, further evinced the subtle but inexorable diffusion of the Mark Fry legend, something abetted by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme airing an interview with Mark in the wake of Trees’ release.

All of which brings us to Mark Fry’s latest, most exquisitely realised musical offering to date, South Wind, Clear Sky. Sung with that now familiar alloy of cool restraint and wondering innocence, and passingly reminiscent of the kind of English pastoralism associated with the likes of Kevin Ayers or Bill Fay, the album’s leanly arranged yet immersive songs are propelled by Mark’s glinting, plangent guitars and deliciously embroidered by John Parker’s double bass, Angèle David-Guillou’s piano and backing vocals and Katie Lang’s French horn, all bound together by producer Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab) into a delightfully iridescent whole. For all its finely honed arrangements, and the translucence of its recording, South Wind, Clear Sky is still very much the work of the man who made Dreaming With Alice; the mature Mark Fry’s feeling for wonderment and magic, for the dreamlike and the innocently surreal, is just as pervasive, and persuasive here, only more focused, and etched against a more luminous, even heavenly canvas.

Where the lyrics on his last album found Mark reaching up through the summer branches toward an azure sky, here that celestial dimension provides the focus for eight shimmering chamber-folk essays whose wistful narratives of flight and fancy and empyrean romance purr and soar with a stately grace, like the ‘Aeroplanes’ of the album’s richly melodic opening track.


Mark Fry - Aeroplanes

Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe (019EGGS)

Electric Dream Weaver.

Like all good parables Jane Weaver's sixth solo album, a concept album called The Silver Globe, is as multifaceted as it is beguiling.  Part coming of age/part cautionary tale and part romantic peon, this twelve track synth ridden post-apoc prog-pop opus is based on tightly embroidered, non-linear recurring themes and inspired by esoteric stories, cosmic imagery and re-filtered past experiences. Written from the optimistic vantage of a long-standing female independent artist, in an desperately evolving industry, Jane's latest set of self penned pop abstractions combine mechanical rock/recycled European cinema/empyrean vocalisations and an arsenal of rescued vintage synths to create a futurist narrative backdrop of a allegorical post apocalyptic landscape.

Assembled from disparate studio sessions recorded sporadically since the release of the critically acclaimed Fallen By Watchbird LP, The Silver Globe explores new collaborative relationships featuring  tracks co-produced by David Holmes, guest appearances by Australian vintage space rockers Cybotron, a recycled chunk of an 80s Hawkwind track, an intricate Damon Gough guitar solo, some Suzanne Ciani waves and post production/remix flourishes by Andy Votel. Enjoying her most fertile period to date Jane's reactions to the music of Italian synth starrs Daniela Casa and Doris Norton with local DIY artists like Una Baine's The Fates (released on her own Bird imprint) provide yet another launch pad for Jane's latest musical trajectories.
 
Paying homage in title to the troublesome Andrzej "Possession" Zulawski film of the same title, and combining influences from a wide range of lost-pop and cinematic obscurities Jane's new album uses the motif of a distant mythical impenetrable silver planet which eventually reveals itself to be a simple reflection of the beholders own souls.  Loosely metaphorical in its content The Silver Globe witnesses Jane's commitment to self-pressed conceptual pop music reach its next logical progression without compromising her natural skills as a talented melodic songwriter preserving pop vaudeville over prepacked vacuity.

http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/shop/jane-weaver-the-silver-globe/

Jane Weaver - The Electric Mountain

You have no freakin' clue
What I've been through
How can you judge
How can you determine

What's best for me
What's best to do
What's best to have
What's best for you

Ignorance
You wear it best
Ignorance
You wear it best

Don't pretend you know me
Don't pretend you care for me
Don't pretend
You think you know me
But you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't

Ignorance
You wear it best
Ignorance
You wear it best

I am a stranger to you
How can you think that
I am a stranger to you
You're not a friend

Don't pretend you know me
Don't pretend you care for me

Ignorance
You wear it best
Ignorance
You wear it best

Misunderstood Identity

The Knife 'We Share Our Mothers' Health' (live)

Live At The Venue

Never Known

DRY YOUR EYES, YOU LIL' SHIT
〰 A Mixtape/Sound Collage, june 2018

01 Os Tincoas - Promessa ao Gantois
02 The Breeders - The She
03 Mr Twin Sister - Blush
04 Ray Harlowe & Gip Fox - Run
05 Parcels - Older
06 Yo La Tengo - Saturday
07 Men I Trust - Tailwhip
08 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Zen-Gun

artwork by Studio Coco

DRY YOUR EYES, YOU LIL' SHIT

Listen to me explain the 5 songs of In Support Of 5ame Dude Vol 2 here: https://tuners.io/tracks/7170

0:00 Good Behavior
4:00 My Love, My Love
6:11 Baby
8:43 Unholy Night
10:15 Shut Your Mouth

In Support Of 5ame Dude - Vol 2

Tracklist : 

Cotonete "Guarani Kaiowa" (Super-Vilains / 2019 / Heavenly Sweetness
Bullet "The Peter Man" (The Hanged Man / 1975 / Contour Records/DC Recordings)
André Prévin "Executive Party Dance" (Rollerball / 1975 / United Artists Records)
Unknown "Hall Of Mirrors (Uncle O Edit)" (Drive Me Wild [Crazy Rhythms] / 2013)
Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel "Downtown" (Seven Up / 1973 / Die Kosmischen Kuriere, Ohr)
Pool-Pah "Sour Soul" (The Flasher / 1973 / Greene Bottle Records)
Pecqre "Kylyn" (Rasta Instantané Avec L'Effroyable Pecqre / 1980 / Better Days Records)
Alain Et Denis "Dans Le Métro" (Comme Les Anges Déchus De La Planète Saint-Michel / 1978 / Atelier 8)
Groupement Culturel Renault "Cadences 1" (Cadences / Par Les Damné.e.s De La Terre - Des Voix De Luttes / 1973 / Expression Spontanée/Hors Cadres)
Spider "The Comedown Song" (Impossible But True: The Kim Fowley Story / 1966 / Ace Records)
Billie Dearborn "Friday's Child" (Lee Hazlewood Industries: There's a Dream I've Been Saving / 1968 / LHI Records)
Ruth Brown "I Don't Know    I" (Don't Know / 1959 / Atlantic)
The Crying Shames "Please Stay" (The Music From The Balconies Nearby Was Overlaid By The Noise Of Sporadic Acts Of Violence / 1966 / Decca/Dirty)
Electric Six "Lovey-Wami" (Next Stop... Soweto Vol. 2 Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves From The Townships / 1970 / Strut)
Little Beaver "Let The Good Time Roll" (Party Down / 1974 / T.K. Records)
Latimore "Let's Straighten It Out" (Let's Straighten It Out - More, More, More / 1974 / Glades/RCA Victor)
N*E*R*D "Provider (Zero 7 Remix)" (Provider / 2001 / Virgin)
The Bernie Leadon-Michael Georgiades Band "Glass Off" (Natural Progressions / 1977 / Asylum Records)
Ben Sidran "Now I Live (And Now My Life Is Done)" (Puttin' In Time Of Planet Earth / 1973 / Blue Thumb Records)
Dashiell Hedayat "Eh, Mushroom, Will You Mush My Room? - Fille De L'Ombre" (Obsolete / 1971 / Shandar)
The 24-Carat Black "Gone The Promises Of Yesterday" (Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday / 1975 / BMI)
Giuliano Sorgini "Amboseli" (Zoo Folle / 1974 / Ricordi)
Arthur Russell "Instrumentals (Volume 2 Part 1)" (Instrumentals / 1975 / Audika)
Laid Back "Fly Away (Ole Smokey's Instrumental Edit)" (Fly Away / 2018)
Tom Tom Club "L'Éléphant" (Tom Tom Club / 1981 / Sire/Island Records)
Cristal "La Nuit Pour Nous" (Phonic/La Nuit Pour Nous / 1977 / Crocos Records)

Pierre Wax #41

The track 'Apologies' is taken from the new album 'Six Lenins' by The Proper Ornaments.

Six Lenins

Buy CD/LP/DL

The Proper Ornaments - Apologies

The Lostines - It's Been Wrong

Featuring Justin Vernon, Jenny Lewis, and Channy Leaneagh.
From the album 'Sorry You Couldn't Make It'. 
Released on Joyful Noise Recordings & Pioneer Works Press.

http://joyfulnoi.se/SorryICouldntMakeIt

In Support Of 5ame Dude - Vol 2

Alex Ebert