Indie Pop

The first single off the Return to Paradise LP by Monster Rally, which dropped on October 29th as a limited edition 12" (plus digital).
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Following his move to Los Angeles from Ohio, Ted Feighan has returned with the next installment in his growing oeuvre as Exotica beatsmith, Monster Rally. Feighan’s third full-length as Monster Rally, Return to Paradise, is decidedly faster paced and more percussion-heavy than last year's Beyond the Sea, producing an aesthetic that closely resembles his live performances. The tracks melt together in a mysterious, blissful, and romantic haze invoking that signature Monster Rally thrill of being in a timeless, hypnagogic limbo. The album is pure pictorial fantasy, translating the images of a half-century of National Geographics into 17 tracks that’ll have both tiki drink connoisseurs and scotch aficionados swaying and bopping to the sweat and crackle of Feighan’s latest beatscapes. As with his past releases, Feighan is eager to have his passport stamped, reluctant to stay in one paradise for too long. His wanderlust samplings travel from Peru to Japan, Detroit to Maui, and Ghana to Barcelona expressing the pageantry and ceremony of destinations only the truly intrepid have tasted before.

The artwork of Return to Paradise is greatly inspired by the LP jackets of classic Exotica albums: Martin Denny's Quiet Village, Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz, and Arthur Lyman's Bwana to name just a few. Over fifty different varietals of flowers and plants from around the world decorate the blossoming arrangement on R2P’s cover. In addition, the packaging features printed sleeves showing a take on traditional Hawaiian patterned prints of native flowers and tropical birds. The inside of the gatefold jacket is a visual imagination of the kind of space Return to Paradise inevitably occupies. 

Return to Paradise

Orchids

Monster Rally - Orchids

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Nimble Girl

Myron & E with the Soul Investigators, from the album Broadway.  
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U.S. TOUR WITH CODY CHESTNUTT
Sep 27: St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill 
Sep 29: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall  
Oct 1: Charlotte, NC @ Visulite  
Oct 3: Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle  
Oct 4: Atlanta, GA @ The Loft  
Oct 5: Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge  

IN JAPAN WITH THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS
Oct 9: Tokyo @ Billboard Live Tokyo 

EUROPE TOUR WITH THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS
Nov 13: Turku, FI  @ Dynamo
Nov 15: Helsinki  @ Tavastia 
Nov 16: Copenhagen  @ Loppen
Nov 17: Stockholm @ Fasching Club
Nov 20: Rennes @ Ubu 
Nov 21: Paris @ Bellevilloise
Nov 22: Avignon @ Nuits Zebrees / Radio Nova
Nov 23: Marseille @ Cabaret Aleatoire
Nov 25: Frankfurt @ Orange Peel
Nov 26: Stuttgart @ Zwölfzehn
Nov 27: Pfarrkirchen, Germany @ Club Bogaloo 
Nov 28: Basel, Switzerland @ Kaserne 
Nov 29: Amsterdam @ Paradiso 
Nov 30: Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Bird 
Dec 1: Hanover, Germany @ Lux
Dec 2: Cologne @ Bahnhof Ehrenfeld 
Dec 4: London, UK @ Jazz Cafe 
Dec 5: Cardiff, UK @ Koko Gorillaz
Dec 6: Berlin @ Bohannon
Dec 7: Madrid @ Tempo Club

THE ALBUM

Myron & E - Going In Circles

From the upcoming album:
"How Can We Be Joyful In a World Full of Knowledge". 
Release date: 31 March 2014

Bruno Pernadas - Ahhhhh

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Like A Dream (Demo)

2º Dia

a shorthand remake of "Lovefool", originally performed by The Cardigans. 
written by Peter Svensson and Nina Persson.

remake produced, arranged, recorded  by Alex Isley

drums sampled from "The Fire", by The Stuyvesants

LoveFool (Redux)

Singles Club Issue 007 - Side A
Read more www.singlesclub.fm/issues/michael-nau

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Michelle Blades' New Ep "Polylust" out on March the 11th on Midnight Special Records

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Michelle Blades - Two Tongues feat. Cléa Vincent & Fishbach

The Conservation Of Energy is taken from the forthcoming Vanishing Twin album on Soundway Records. 

Vanishing Twin - The Conservation Of Energy

"Precious Life", produced with famed drummer Joey Waronker (Beck, Yeasayer, Atoms For Peace), is the the title track from Los Angeles songwriter AM out today. The drumming is raw, a treat for fans of Waronker’s playing and “Precious Life” captures sonically what it’s title suggests. The record is intimate, up close…even the groovers. You’re hearing the details clearly and, hopefully, appreciating the sensation.

AM summons a dreamy sound with Waronker behind the drums and the board, and with AM doing just about everything else on synths, bass, and guitar, the two carefully craft a record that is honest and emotional, yet swings and pulses. Music made for the headphones...the big ones that is.

AM - Heavenly Eyes

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The Cactus Channel’s new single “Leech” takes the orchestrated soul futurism that has become their signature sound and adds silvery vocal dimensions, as the band’s own Lewis Coleman steps up to the mic. The song’s emotionally potent lyrics evoke the wrestling that arises internally with the feelings that linger after a breakup. As Lewis elucidates, “Leech” is about “those feelings that don’t go away, and pop up at unexpected times. When something shifts inside, but even your best friends wouldn’t know; your mood is instantly altered, even if you can walk back into the room and nobody notices it externally.” The band has recently shared the video for their first single “Storefront” and announced a huge national tour and an October residency at Melbourne’s The Night Cat.

Stay A While

Leech

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The Cactus Channel - Leech

From the album Gentle Spirit by Jonathan Wilson.  Released on Bella Union 2011.

Desert Raven

Nick Waterhouse - Song For Winners

It All Feels Right

New!  AM's new album PRECIOUS LIFE is out May 20!

The transatlantic duo AM & Shawn Lee continue their journey forward via the past on their album Outlines, digging heavily into obscure soul, sound library and soundtracks for inspiration and re-imagine them through a pop lens.  AM & Shawn Lee focus heavily on synthesizers, but still keep the core organic, with live drums and bass and of course placing a heavy importance on groove.  

Sonically Outlines tips it's hat to other synthesized soul productions such as The System or The Blackbyrds . 

The first single "Persuasion" sets up the album perfectly with a revolving, atmospheric synth pattern suddenly interrupted by a deep funk groove peppered with staccato vocal stylings.  "Cold Tears", a heartbreaking tale of a friend's false imprisonment, flows over galloping funk and sinister synths.  "Again and Again", perhaps the epitome of sparse groove, is a perfect mid-tempo cruiser and a clear nod to AM's past tour mates AIR, while "Nightshine" delivers demented aerobic pop...picture Olivia Newton John's "Physical" set to a John Carpenter film.

The album title Outlines plays on a double meaning.  On the one hand the record sounds like a "trace", giving no more than necessary to the production...the essentials.  Lyrically, there is an undercurrent of an all too familiar modern struggle...the failure to communicate.  We're only giving each other shorthand… “the outlines.”
AM & Shawn Lee's musical and artistic chemistry is very obvious especially since they have never recorded in the same room together.  The duo trade tracks between London and Los Angeles until they feel the songs are complete.  The process is ego-less, and both AM and Shawn Lee play nearly every instrument on the record. 
Outlines is by far AM & Shawn Lee's favorite recording to date.  Minimalist, future soul re-worked for today, but never forgetting what came before. Above all the music just soars. …Like hang gliding into a summer sunset.


AM - Heavenly Eyes

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