Thank you for introducing me to your music. I had no idea that music like this existed... I have crude pop/folk taste. I have some knowledge of the history or western music from the early renaisannce to the early 20th centuary. But I am only familiar with Beethoven and Mozart. I had an interest in the decorative Baroque period, but I am naive when it comes to judging or understanding your musical talent.

That was extraordinary. Closest thing I could claim to compare it to is the Fleet Foxes, but it is only a loose asociation.

Black Mango: Naked Venus b/w Soft Kicks
(10” single/limited edition of 500)
Get the album here: http://glitterbeat.com/glitterbeat_store/

A mysterious two-song release, licensed directly from a group of Bamako musicians who, with the exception of the Souku master Zoumana Tereta, choose to remain anonymous. 

In the last years, the political turmoil in Mali has caused many of the cities clubs to shutdown and dried up other sources of musician income like weddings and festivals. With less work and more downtime, small recording projects like this one have been given more of a chance to happen. The situation continues to be desperate, but the music remains a powerful force: both a refuge and a medicine.

These two Black Mango tracks are ethereal, hard to classify artifacts, seemingly influenced in equal parts by Ali Farka Toure and Lou Reed. In fact, the titles of the songs name check compositions by the recently passed Rock & Roll legend, though they are clearly not cover versions, as much as explorations on themes. The backstory of how and why these two tracks came into being remains untold, and we are left to purely enjoy them as moments captured.

The one credited musician Zoumana Tereta is a legend of Malian music, having played his Sokou, a single-string, horse-hair violin, on albums by Oumou Sangare, Bassekou Kouyate, Samba Toure, the National Ensemble Instrumental du Mali and many others. 

We can only hope that this is not the last musical transmission we will hear from Black Mango.

Black Mango - Naked Venus

"'A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise" from Pride, released 10/23/07 via Dead Oceans


Musicians often head to New York, it's a familiar story. But something magical happened when Matthew Houck picked up stakes halfway through making his new Phosphorescent record, Pride, and moved to Brooklyn from Athens, Georgia.
Raised in Alabama, Houck has always made music steeped in the Southern-gothic tradition, a sweet American folk soaked in atmosphere like a pound cake in rum. On 2005's Aw Come Aw Wry, our weary-voiced bandleader cemented his reputation for making masterpiece albums filled with hallelujahs for both grace and tragedy with songs that swung from ramshackle and joyous to broken and pleading in the space of a prayer. The live show swung along this arc – with Houck sometimes backed by up to 14 or 15 members – creating a full-blown, shambling, marching-brass-band-revival-tent celebration.
Pride is something different. While it's not without the moments of sheer abandon that have made Phosphorescent's work unmistakable--"At Death, A Proclamation" thunders into familiar territory--mostly gone are the messy marching bands and evangelical fervor. Here, Houck instead channels something more mystical and haunting, offering up a dark, meditative set of songs that is all the more spiritual-sounding for its restrained tone. On previous albums, he's recruited guest musicians to fill the gaps, but on Pride, Houck has only enlisted the services of a makeshift choir, otherwise recording every instrument himself. His achingly cerebral delivery recalls Arthur Russell, but honestly, Pride sounds like nothing else we've ever heard. These are poems uttered in an empty field, punctuated by shouts and hollers, as if from a singer either abandoned or possessed. The lyrics are Houck's strongest ever, wrapped in washed out choral etudes that could be channeled from a rural French chapel or a solemn African tribe in prayer.
Pride sounds like it was made by a man set free. In fact, Pride sounds broken free of time and place altogether. Yet still it is warm, familiar, and welcoming--a record to call home.

"A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise" from Pride, released 10/23/07 via Dead Oceans


Pride

A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise

Pick it up here

Phosphorescent - 'A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise'

"Over And Even" by Joan Shelley

if u wonder how long.. i'd still say
meet me anywhere

wicca phase, ethel cain - meet me anywhere (doomr edit) SLOWED

Debut Maybug EP - Pollen Odyssey OUT NOW
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Produced, recorded and mixed by
Enda Gallen & Ben Crutchfield

Artwork created by
Mike Stout - www.mike-stout.com/

Cello written and performed by 
Valérie Balligand

All music and lyrics written by
Joseph Paul Dunn

~LYRICS~

December Sun,

Thanks for giving me,
The mildest month.
To be so cold in,
Are you the same Sun,
I swore upon,
That I wouldn't be this way again?
It’s been time,
A real long time,
Where do I begin?
Better to let,
A part exist,
With no disbelief or pretend,

How come you have to,
Set so early,
Way too soon,
and your cousin stays all the time?

A pale white Moon,
Sitting at the left of you,
Hanging faintly in the bluest of skies,

How come you have to,
Set so early,
Way too soon,
and your cousin stays all the time?

A pale white Moon,
Sitting at the left of you,
Hanging faintly in the bluest of skies,

And please don’t think,
I demand a thing,
Just your presence can bring,
Peace of mind,

Grateful doesn't quite seem,
To do,
Justice to what I can see,

Grateful doesn't quite seem,
To do,
Justice to what I can see,
Whilst bathed in,
Winter Sunshine.

X

Winter Sun

Chris and Thomas "Rooms Of Light And Wonder"

The second single from the forthcoming record by Melbourne base, The Ocean Party. 
Out November 9th through Spunk Records(AUS/NZ) & Emotionla Response (US/UK/EU).

Vinyl 
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US/UK/EU https://emotional-response-recs.bandcamp.com/album/the-oddfellows-hall

The Ocean Party - What It's Worth

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📝 Lyrics:

Wake looking toward the west, try to keep my thoughts inside my head for awhile. 
Hands are calloused to the bone, from working just to try to get along with a smile. 

There's a place beyond the pines, that I'd like to go if I had the time in the day. 
All my nickels and my dimes, one day they will buy me peace of mind, far away, far away. 

Follow the sun, flowers bloom, dead and gone is the blue, there's a song that is sung up in the hillside. 
Follow the sun, flowers bloom, dead and gone is the blue, there's a song that is sung up in the hillside.

Phosphorescent - 'A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise'

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