April 2018

AF's Best Tracks Of The Week 4/9

Песни: 8-14 апреля

Momma kick things off this week, with plenty of jangly, swirling guitars and double-tracked vocals. Naon Kino keep things in a similar vein, and I'm still a huge fan of Sarah Suri's voice, before passing the baton to Anemone where the organ adds a psych twirl to proceedings. Then Les Sympathics start things moving with some great, almost demented at times, Afrobeat out of Benin. Saivor & Meis then move us into harder dance territory, and Will Lister and Detroit Rising both keep things going. The Vessels remix of PSB signals the beginning of the ambient end, with the excellent Sven Laux leading us nicely to some lovely harp from Mary Lattimore (and I mean harp, not harmonica!). I really like Nano Kino, and I bought the Sven Laux album, and will (probably) buy the Mary Lattimore one too, but pick of the week for me is Les Sympathics "A Min We Vo Nou We", which is just fantastic (and yes, I've ordered my copy).

Apr 13 -Apr 19 2018

New & hot: Ambient

Pore Checker

Written/Performed by Sean McVerry
Produced by Sean McVerry
Executive Produced by Elite
Mixed and Mastered by Mike Irish at Shifted

Red Light

Taken from the album 'Agent Im Objekt' released as LP and Download

Jung An Tagen '20:02 [3] starts logging #public / 23:08 <Y> THIS WAS THE LAST MESSAGE' (EMEGO 248)

"Youth Organ" by Brett Naucke from "The Mansion" album due out early spring 2018 on Spectrum Spools.

"Youth Organ" by Brett Naucke

Artist: Exitmusic
Album: The Recognitions 
Track: I'll Never Know
Label: felte

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The Recognitions

Exitmusic - I'll Never Know

The opening track from Pat Ament's 1971 debut "The Songs of Pat Ament," seeing reissue for the first time on Grapefruit Records on February 23, 2018.

Songs By Pat Ament

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Pat Ament - Sometime When I'm Lucky

Parallel Person will be released on 4/27 via Babe City Records.

A Friend Named Paul

Dear Nora - White Fur

The first single from 'Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing),' the Ba Da Bing debut from Leeds-based duo Hawthonn, out March 23rd. Preorder here: https://grapefruitrecordclub.com/t/hawthonn

Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)

Hawthonn - Eden

The first single from "Fall Asleep," the debut LP from ANMLPLNET (Leah Wellbaum and Mickey Vershbow), out 4/20 on Ba Da Bing Records. Preorder here: https://grapefruitrecordclub.com/t/anmlplnet

Fall Asleep

ANMLPLNET - I Was Fucked By A Cloud

A great compilation can open the gate to another world. Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog Africa released the first African Scream Contest in 2008, the proof was there for all to hear; gut-busting yelps, lethally well-drilled horn sections and irresistibly insistent rhythms added up to a record that took you into its own space with the same electrifying sureness as any favourite blues or soul or funk or punk sampler you might care to mention.

Ten years on, intrepid crate-digger Samy Ben Rejeb unveils a new treasure-trove of Vodoun-inspired Afrobeat heavy funk crossover greatness. Right from the laceratingly raw guitar fanfare which kicks off Les Sympathics’ pile-driving opener, it’s clear that African Scream Contest II is going to be every bit as joyous a voyage of discovery as its predecessor. And just as you’re trying to get off the canvas after this one-punch knock out, an irresistible Afro-ska romp with a more than subliminal echo of the Batman theme puts you right back there. Ignace De Souza and the Melody Aces’ “Asaw Fofor" would’ve been a killer instrumental but once you’ve factored in the improbably-rich-to-the-point-of-being-Nat-King-Cole-influenced lead vocal, it’s a total revelation.

The screaming does not stop there, in fact it’s only just beginning. But the strange thing about African Scream Contest II’s celebration of unfettered Beninese creativity is that it would not have been possible without the assistance of a musician who had been trained by the Russian secret services to "find and destroy" enemies of the country’s (then) Marxist-Leninist president Mathieu Kerekou.

Already familiar to fans of the first African Scream Contest as a mainstay of ruthlessly disciplined police band Les Volcans de la Capitale, Lokonon Andre vanished in a cloud of dust at Ben Redjeb’s behest with a list of names and some petrol money, only to return a few days later having miraculously tracked down every single name he’d been given. The source of this Afrobeat bounty-hunter’s impressive people-finding skills - his training with the KGB - highlights the tension between encroaching authoritarian politics and fearless expressions of personal creative freedom which is the back-story of so much great African music of the 60s and 70s. Happily, in this instance, Lokonon was tracking the artists down to offer them licensing deals, rather than to arrest them.

Where some purveyors of vintage African sounds seem to be strip-mining the continent’s musical heritage with no less rapacious intent than the mining companies and colonial authorities who previously extracted its mineral wealth, Samy Ben Redjeb’s determination to track this amazing music to its human sources pays huge karmic dividends. Like every other Analog Africa release, African Scream Contest II is illuminated by meticulously researched text and effortlessly fashion-forward photography supplied by the artists themselves. Looming large - alongside Lokonon Andre - in the cast of biopic-worthy characters to emerge from this seductive tropical miasma is visionary space-nerd Bernard Dohounso, who laid the foundations for Benin’s vinyl predominance by importing and assembling the record players that would play the products of his Bond villain-acronymed pressing plant SATEL, a company that would revolutionise the music industry in the whole region.

The scene documented here couldn’t have been born anywhere else but in Benin, and the prime reason for that was Vodoun. It’s one of the world’s most complex religions, involving the worship of some 250 divinities, where each divinity has its own specific set of rhythms, and the bands introduced on the African Scream Contest series and other compilations from the region were no less diverse than that army of different Gods.

African Scream Contest Vol.2

African Scream Contest Volume 2

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A Min We Vo Nou We // Les Sympathics (All Comments will be forwarded to Herman Laléyé, the founder)

The opening track from Suburban Dirts' upcoming third album, I Want Blood. The soundtrack to a story inspired by America's First Serial Killers, The Harpe Brothers.

Charcoal drawing by Poppy Rand

The Harpe Brothers Theme

"Whatever" is taken from The Beths' EP, "Warm Blood," out now on Carpark Records.

AVAILABLE HERE
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TOUR DATES
May 10th - Dublin, IRE - Workman's Club
May 12th - London, UK - The Radio Days Cafe
May 14th - Bristol, UK - The Louisiana 
May 15th - Manchester, UK - 57 Thomas Street
May 16th - Newport, UK - Le Pub
May 20th - Exeter, UK - The Cavern
May 21st - Leeds, UK - Wharf Chambers ^
May 22nd - Glasgow, UK - Bar Bloc ^
May 23rd - Edinburgh, UK - Henry's Cellar Bar ^
May 24th - Durham, UK - Empty Shop ^
May 25th - Portsmouth, UK - Wave Maiden
May 26th - Paris, FR - Le Popin
May 27th - Lille, FR - Do It Yourself Cafe
June 1st - Berlin, DE - Bei Ruth
June 3rd - Langnau im Emmental, CH - Kaeptn Holger
June 7th - Hamburg, DE - TBD
June 9th - Kiel, DE - Secret Lake House Party
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June 11th - Brooklyn, NY - Alphaville *
June 13th - Philadelphia, PA - Ortlieb's
June 14th - Washington, DC - Otherfeels
June 16th - Chicago, IL - Charm School
June 20th - San Francisco, CA - The Battery
June 22nd - Los Angeles, CA - Make Out Music

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LYRICS
blind you're blind 
full of breaths and sobs and shakes and shakes 
saying you will do whatever it takes 
whatever yeah whatever 
call declined 
say you're round the corner fine okay 
you think i will buy whatever you say 
whatever yeah whatever 

but now you're getting me started 
you're pulling the yarn and 
you're pulling it harder and i think i'm gonna 
you're getting me started you're pulling the yarn and 
you're breaking my heart 
you're making me want to 

crash the car we'll hit the water 
brush the rock and wait for the maker 
and if he doesn't show 
heaven knows heaven knows 
i will make you feel so blue 

you arrive 
towing silence on a lively eve 
eyes are crying for another reprieve 
another yeah whatever 
we're blood and water but my back is blown 
you're shoulders slumped are saying 
you should have known i'd let you down again 
whatever yeah whatever 

but now you're getting me started 
you're pulling the yarn and 
you're pulling it harder and i think i'm gonna 
you're getting me started you're pulling the yarn and 
you're breaking my heart 
you're making me want to 

crash the car we'll hit the water 
brush the rock and wait for the maker 
and if he doesn't show 
heaven knows heaven knows 
i will make you feel so 

baby you're breaking my heart 
baby you're breaking my heart 
why do you make it so hard 
you're breaking my heart

The Beths - Whatever

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Saivor & Meis - ONIMENA

Check out Don't You Worry on Spotify, Apple Music, and all other major streaming services on my recently-released debut album Mood Swings!

Don't You Worry (feat. Sophie St. John)

Taken from 'Hundreds of Days' LP by Mary Lattimore, out May 18, 2018.

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Hundreds Of Days

Hundreds of Days

Mary Lattimore - It Feels Like Floating

A kaleidoscopic, explosive psychoanalysis ft. the penguins of the New England Aquarium.

Lyrics: 
Giant waste of time 
Never on your mind

Who says I cannot be alone?

One day 
Not today

One day no one else will be in my tree with me.

Mixed by Sean Seaver 
Mastered by Jon Sage 
Artwork by Meghan Kelleher

Aquarium

"baybay"

written and performed by deem spencer
produced by leaping tiger

baybay (prod. by leaping tiger)

Nordic-inspired ambient pop duo Narrow Skies last week released their 13 track LP 'Seasons', a beautifully presented album of atmospheric bliss. This is track 5 from the album 'A Memory Remains'.

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Seasons

Narrow Skies - A Memory Remains

Title: Colors
Artist: Freddie Gibbs, G Perico, & Mozzy
Producer: League Of Starz

Available Now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/colors-single/1371041155?ls=1?at=1001l3Iq&app=itunes
Genres: Hip-Hop/Rap, Music

℗ 2018 League Of Starz

Colors

Colors - Freddie Gibbs, G Perico, & Mozzy

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You got me flowers once for being brave
How can I question your faith
I'm always trying to decipher your eyes
Is it a smile or a knife

I'm not choosing sides anymore
I don't have to decide anymore
I leave this world alone
There's nobody home
I'm not choosing sides anymore

Do I love you, do you love me the same
Why do we play so many games
Pointless dance we take when we're afraid
I'm here to tell you

I'm not choosing sides anymore
I don't have to decide anymore
I leave this world alone
There's nobody home
I'm not choosing sides anymore

x2

I'm not choosing sides anymore
I won't be losing sleep anymore
I won't be losing sleep
I've already lost the fight

I'm not choosing sides
I'm not choosing sides anymore
I'm not choosing sides
I'm not choosing sides anymore

Nothing Matters

Choosing Sides

Freestyle Extravaganza is a radio show on Chill channel of radiOzora – hosted live from the studio by dj Clairvo, a Chill Out Dome resident and founder of the music label called MustBeat. Also producing music and running his own record label called MustBeat, Clairvo had started this bi-weekly show in order to make those dope songs even more popular, that they cannot fit in during their Freestyle Extravaganza gigs!

Facebook: www.facebook.com/freestyle.extravaganza/ SoundCloud: @clairvo Beatport: pro.beatport.com/label/mustbeat/29828

CLAIRVO | Freestyle Extravaganza Vol. 93 | 26/03/2018

Mike Stellar‘s, promoter, DJ and a man of many artistic tastes and musical flavors is presenting his Stellar Regions showcase series on the Chill Channel: “Stellar Regions represents every month the diversity of my music taste and discoveries. The second hour is always given to a guest mix to showcase talents I come across.

Guest mix comes from BirdZzie and it’s a treat for your ears.

BirdZzie grew up immersed in a musical environment that included the radio, records and cassettes. Amateur radio broadcaster and selector from an early age, began his activities as a professional dj in 2008, traveling between a big miscellanea of musical styles. That year moved to Brazil and began to produce music, working with soundtrack and audiovisual instalations, besides being a part of the original formation of the Voodoohop collective and the revolution of São Paulo’s underground scene. Eight years later, releases by Tropical Twista Records his first EP, “Futuro Ancestral”, that with much nostalgia and research forge the first registers of a dive in the portuguese ancestry.

MIKE STELLAR presents Stellar Regions #17 | BIRDZZIE - Guest Mix | 28/03/2018

"Means of Knowing" is an exchange with the world, an effort to know it and ourselves more deeply. Like a long walk on a favorite path and the introspection and observation that such a journey inspires, it is an album full of constantly evolving interplay between natural and imagined sound sources. Tactile sounds from the physical world combine with textured, processed synthesis to evoke the depth of experience available to us every day.

All music written and recorded by Hotel Neon 
Additional mixing by Matt Kidd 
Mastering by Rafael Anton Irisarri 
Vocals in 'Referent' & 'Unseen Landscapes' by Lacey Tasselmyer 
Artwork by Steven Kemner 
CD Photography by Alexander Kopatz

HN-ARCH01 - 2018 
ARCHIVES

Means Of Knowing

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Hotel Neon - Essential Nature

Five years ago, while on tour in Japan, Claremont 56 founder Paul “Mudd” Murphy heard Pan Electric featuring Pops Mohamed’s “Sweet as Rain” for the very first time. It was, he says, one of those “moments” that only music can provide.

Over the years that followed, Murphy found himself returning time and again to the dreamy and alluring composition, which had been released on a couple of CD only compilations. So, at the tail end of 2017, he got in touch with Pan Electric producer Matt Coldrick to see if he could give the track a vinyl release for the very first time. Happily, Coldrick agreed, and the magical original version – backed by an extended remix set to appear on the next Pan Electric full-length – will finally be appearing on wax.

“Sweet As Rain” can trace its roots back to a trip Coldrick made to Ethiopia in the late 1990s to work on the soundtrack to a charity film, Teme-T-Teme, which was made to raise awareness of problems surrounding “street children” in Ethopian cities – often orphans who had fled the countryside for a better life. While out there, Coldrick set up a temporary studio and made field recordings of local musicians performing traditional songs. These naturally made it onto the film’s soundtrack, but also into a new composition Coldrick was working on some years later following a visit from legendary South African musician Pops Mohamed. During Mohamed’s visit, the pair jammed ideas around an acoustic guitar riff; Mohamed provided kalimba and percussion, with Coldrick adding rich electric piano parts and typically tactile production. With the addition of elements of Coldrick’s Ethiopian field recordings, “Sweet as Rain” was born. Today, it sounds every bit as magical, loved-up and dreamy as the day it was recorded.

For this Claremont 56 vinyl edition, Coldrick has also delivered a fresh Album Version that stretches out the track’s sunrise-friendly majesty to ten marvellous minutes. Naturally slower to build with greater emphasis on showcasing the track’s various instrumental elements, its arguably even better than the near peerless original version. Certainly, Murphy approves – after all, who wouldn’t want to bathe for longer in its vivid aural colours, horizontal dreaminess and life-affirming Ethiopian vocals?

Since “Sweet as Rain” was first released, Coldrick has donated half of all royalties generated from the track to Charity: Water, a voluntary organisation dedicated to improving access to clear water in some of the world’s poorest countries. Coldrick will continue to donate royalties
from the vinyl release of “Sweet as Rain” to support the charity’s work in Ethiopia.

https://water.org/

Sweet As Rain (Clip)

Watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2fM0N2rehA
Free download here : https://nanokino.bandcamp.com/track/sick-dreamer

Sick Dreamer

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Mary Lattimore - It Feels Like Floating

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