TAKE AWAY #59 by © Vince [Feb. 2021]

Kevin Morby - I Hear You Calling (Bill Fay cover)

from BRIC-A-BRAC Ep (out November 14. 2019)

Bric-A-Brac

Cinnamon Song

Nightingale Wake Up Calls

Nightingale, Pt. 1

The first single from "A Guide to the BIrdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean" comes from Belize's Garifuna Collective who interpreted the song of the Black Catbird.

This is the first single from an album of music inspired by the song of endangered birds with 100% of the profits going towards organisations working to protect them.

"A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean” is the second Volume in the series following on from "A Guide to the Birdsong of South America", originally released on Robin's old label Rhythm and Roots. Volume I raised nearly 15,000 USD for two birding organisations and featured artists like Nicola Cruz, Dengue Dengue Dengue and Chancha Via Circuito.

For this second edition we have shifted focus north of the equator and to the vulnerability of bird species like the Momoto Carenado (Nicaragua), Ferminia (Cuba) and the Jamaican Blackbird (Jamaica), birds who have dwindled in numbers as a result of the environmental repercussions of climate change, deforestation and trapping for the pet trade.

For the album we chose 10 endangered or threatened bird species and challenged 10 of our favourite producers or musicians from the region. Working with the Xeno Canto birdsong community and the Macaulay Library, we sourced a recording of each bird’s song. Each artist was then asked to create an original piece of music inspired by the bird and its song.

The project would not have been possible without the support of an incredible Kickstarter community, helping us raise £12,599 in August 2019.

Once the costs of production have been covered, all of the proceeds from this album will be donated to Birds Caribbean, La Asociación Ornitológica de Costa Rica and Fundacion TXORI in Mexico. All profits from the sales of the record, music streaming, poster and t-shirt will be shared between these organisations who focus on engaging local communities to help improve and grow the bird tourism sector, create awareness of vulnerable birds with young people and crucially, provide rescue, rehabilitation and breeding programmes.

A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean

A Guide to the BIrdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbeam

The Garifuna Collective - Black Catbird

"From This Shelter" is the first single from Shelter of a Song, the new solo acoustic album from Portland, Maine's LISA/LIZA. Orindal Records will release Shelter of a Song on vinyl, compact disc & digital formats on November 20, 2020.

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Rain like a whistle 
Rain like a signal 
Magnolia singing through a crescent moon
Then singing on through the shelter of a song.
 
It’s just love I couldn’t possibly erase,
from this shelter, from this place,
From this shelter, from this place.

It’s just love I couldn’t possibly erase, 
From this shelter, from this plane
From this shelter, from this plane.

Then, my heart-
It felt just like a heavy balloon,
And they tell you all your life “search for that infinite sound”.
When no one else is around, 
You hear it too, 
in the shelter of a song.

It’s just love I couldn’t possibly erase,
From this shelter from this place.
From this shelter from this place.

It’s just love I couldn’t possibly erase,
From this shelter from this plane.

From this shelter from this plane.

Shelter of a Song

From This Shelter by Lisa/Liza

Recollections

Angel From Montgomery

Release 16th September on Big Indie Records

I Meant What I Said

Orions Belte - Lotus

TRY / Tratar de Transformar

think i lost u w/ Max Fry

Why Wait Until Tomorrow

In Order to Know You

Deep Throat Choir - Alchemilla

From Dark's Teas sophomore self titled album out April 30th on Fire Talk.

Buy: https://ffm.to/darktea

Dark Tea

Dark Tea - Deanna

was in 1996 that Jay-Jay Johanson, a young man from a cold climate, fascinated by the Bristol sound they called trip-hop and Portishead in particular, first tapped delicately on our eardrums.
The intoxicating album that definitively put this rare and elegant Swede on the map was called Whiskey. It was the beginning of an enthralling adventure. In only a few songs he revealed a family tree that spread its roots far and wide: on one branch Lee Hazlewood, or pop from Talk Talk or Nilsson, on the other John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, and a whole army of calm jazz or symphonic
recordings sampled from everywhere imaginable.
Almost 20 years later he has returned with an
incredible new album. This new release is called Opium and it contains the very essence of Johanson’s music: an ease with inventing melodies, a voice that gently caresses, and the jacked up, heady rhythms that lift and carry the songs. From the peaceful harmonica opening of Drowsy / Too Young To Say Good Night to the smoke-wreathed love song I Don’t Know Much About Loving, via titles with a sporadic and light groove (NDE, Alone Too Long), Opium is a courageous offering. Johanson opens his heart with
fearlessness and modesty, gracefully lowering his guard and evoking the questions that torment men of his age: love, solitude, immaturity. The songwriting is unerring, the words have a suppressed poetry. This
new Johanson is the work of a guy who has survived the avalanches, who is no longer looking for answers and is content to sketch out the perspectives in as many songs. Some titles are serious (Harakiri), but others immediately take up the reins casting a more
gentle, peaceful light, like Scarecrow, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie that would not have sounded out of place on a Cocteau Twins album, or of the strange positivity of Be Yourself or I Love Him So.
The strength of Opium is that it asks questions that don’t necessarily have an answer; it offers a collection of songs freed from any certitude but which convince
through their modesty, through their precision.
In short, Jay-Jay at his best.

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” 
A few times a year I post the best of my research, 
to let you Take them Away.

Why Wait Until Tomorrow

JAY-JAY JOHANSON

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