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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 435

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 435 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by Fresh On The Net's Chris Ingram - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves435

Fresh Faves: Batch 435

The BBC Introducing Mixtape 🔊 (BBC 6 Music) - 5

Acoustic

Good Girl

Wow! thrilled to have made Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music show and Fresh Faves 14.2.22!! This is from my 2nd album The Awakening. Made using loops/samples with love, by Helen Meissner.
How often do we ask ourselves ‘who do we want to be?’ It’s something that gets asked a lot of us when we’re younger isn’t it? But with a twist, everyone wants to know WHAT we want to be.
As an adult, after years of conditioning, we might need to go back to that question, and look behind the masks. It’s difficult because for many we have become the persona we felt society demanded of us. So in a way it’s clean slate time, time to ‘play’ in a way. To really fantasise. And it’s not easy. We’re conditioned to conform and fit into society, seamlessly and obediently.

New roles emerge and old roles change throughout our life. Masks are worn. Pretty much all the time. What’s appropriate in one setting most certainly is not in another. We often learn the hard way. And it’s sometimes toe curlingly embarrassing. And we struggle to forgive ourselves. It’s a real problem. It stops us getting out of the boxes we’ve allowed ourselves to be put in. And gradually saps our energy and joy til we might feel like a 2D version of ourselves.
Am I being too dramatic here? Sorry if this does not resonate. I know it will for a number of people reading. Our fear of doing something which is ‘wrong’ or which makes people think we are a loser, or which makes people talk about us in a way we feel to be disrespectful or unkind is palpable. Which is a million times worse if we find we actually agree with some of it at some level (or would if we’re being honest with ourselves). Being ‘found out’, being called a fraud, a fake... does that strike fear into the heart of you? Make you feel sick? If so we have to go there.  It’s also sometimes called Imposter Syndrome. What if someone realises that I am actually winging it and making it up as I go along? Join the club!
Perhaps we’ve striven to be the child our parents always wanted? The pupil the teachers were proud of? The friend that never let anyone down? The lover who always excited? The star at work? The parent who loved unconditionally and didn’t ‘fuck their children up’? (thanks for that ironic cross to bear, Philip Larkin). And perhaps we’ve not been 100% successful in those quests?
The reality is we cannot please all the people all of the time. And anyway, how people react really does say more about them than about us. We might have inadvertently touched upon one of their red flags, one of their insecurities about themselves and they then overreact to something that really, is NOT a big deal to other people. Ever noticed this?

Well we all have a choice about how we react to someone else’s behaviour towards us. And I have learnt to, in the most part, notice it, assess it and then move on. 
As we can’t guarantee to please others, we might as well please the most important person in your life. You. And as a bonus, if you are comfortable and accepting of yourself, kind and perhaps loving and tolerant(like you would be to a friend?), you will draw people into your life who recognise those qualities. And do yourself a favour. Others, manipulators or narcissists, will be attracted too as they will see that they can have a very nice life with you, thinking you are a pushover. Please always notice your interchanges and exchanges with them. And as soon as something happens which presents a red flag for you, investigate it, discuss it and act on your instinct if you realise this person is not as good for you as they might have appeared early on. People CAN change and you might be the first person to have pointed this unacceptable behaviour out to them. So give them a chance to redeem if that’s what you both want. But just keep an eye out for your own red flags and don’t ignore them. It’s better to be in a good relationship with yourself than a bad relationship with someone else.

So WHO do you wanna be – NOW?

Who Do You Wanna Be

If you've ever been on a mad night out that got out of hand, you'll get this song. It's a song about the blurred lines between hedonism, self-control and addiction, and it's all there in the track. 
It's about the cyclical nature of drink and drug abuse and the way time itself distorts when you approach the precipice of the void. We wrote the song in a way to mirror that feeling of trying to keep the night going when everybody else going home; that desperate search for small hour thrills, interspersed with peals of drum and bass, hazy taxi rides and streetside longing.

Just Matter EP

Jagged Line

Eraser

The new single from Momo is a long-awaited new release from the forthcoming epic, The Shape of Things To Hum. And like all its stable-mates it explores a theme of science fiction – in this case, the galactic megalomaniac.

Out on 22.02.2022.

Featuring Patrick Hayes leading the horns and David Waller on drums and percussion.

© Momo:tempo 2022

How Big

GUINEA PIG

From China Shop Bull's 2022 album Public Disorder Act 2 (Remixed)

Recorded by John Yates and Lsd-licious at Dojo Studio in Leeds - www.facebook.com/dojostudioleeds
Written by China Shop Bull
Produced by Lsd-licious and John Yates
Mixed and mastered by Rob Hobson 
Published by Bomber Music Ltd - www.bombermusic.com/

chinashopbull.bandcamp.com/

Public Disorder Act 2 (Remastered)

2 to 1 (Remastered)

2 To 1 (Remastered)

If I Look Carefully Enough (I Can Still See You) comes from that place where hope meets loss and memories surface in the bittersweet way that they occasionally do. Take that as you will, and I hope this piece serves as a suitable soundtrack to a few moments spent in a memory, however ephemeral that may be.

If I Look Carefully Enough (I Can Still See You)

An international collaboration between Indian Classical musicians, Aakriti Bhatt (vocals) and Maneesh Rawat (tabla), and Welsh pan-global-alt-pop-artist, Worldwide Welshman (guitar, synths, production) "इंडो - West – सहयोगी (Indo-West Collaboratives)" present their own arrangement of two compositions in Raag Yaman.

The first bandish (compostion), "Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re", from the Dilli Gharana tradition (of the Delhi region), is a song of love and gratitude for one's mentor, romantic partner, good friend, or family member. This is followed by a Tarana composed by Vidushi Kaushiki Chakraborty. A tarana is a type of vocal composition in Hindustani classical music that uses nonsense syllables which are most likely derived from Persian and Arabic.

Bhatt and Rawat recorded the vocals, tabla, tampura and swarmandal in Harmony Studio, New Delhi, and Rickard recorded the guitars & synths in Temporal Comet Studios, East London.

Lyrics & interpretation:

Tori jaun re jaun re balihari...
Tori Pyari si suratpe balma re 
jaun re jaun re balihari...

"oh my dear, you are my affectionate, your face is so beautiful and I feel so much positivity after seeing you that I just want to see you all the time. Your presence makes the ambience very nice, I feel so good when you are present in front of me"

Kush Rang ke mai bal bal jaun...
Charan me sheesh Jhukaun

"my dear mentor, I cannot explain how special you are to me. I just put my head on your feet"

Tana dir tanaum tana dir na...
Tana dir tanaum tana dim tana dir na...
Tana dim tana dere na
Na dir tada ni tadir tadani tadir tana na 
Tana dir tanaum tana dim tana dir na......

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Diolch yn fawr iawn i Subodh Pandey, our manager, who invited us to be part of this international collaboration and brought us together over video link in spring 2021.

Many thanks also to our sponsors, Asia-Europe Foundation, for their support via the Mobility First! grant: https://mobilityfirst.asef.org

Credits

Bandish (Composition) - Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re
Originally written and composed by Dilli Gharana

Tarana
Composed by Vidushi Kaushiki Chakraborty

Performed & arranged by:-

Liam Rickard (Wales)
Aakriti Bhatt (India)
Maneesh Rawat (India)

Produced by Liam Rickard

Recorded in Harmony Studio, New Delhi, & Temporal Comet Studio, London

Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re

Tori Jaaun re Jaaun re (feat. Aakriti Bhatt & Maneesh Rawat)

Polka Dot

Heaven

Big Moon Lake

The Land Belongs To Us

The Eighth Day

Ludwig Goransson- Greendale Is Where I Belong (Extended) [Community]

My One And Only Thrill EP

Baby I'm A Fool

To The Sea

Better Together (feat. Paula Fuga)

Sleep Through The Static: Remixed

Angel (Kid Koala Remix)

Diamonds

Home

Cerddor, cyfansoddwr, arlunydd, a digrifwr (ar adegau) o Fetws-y-coed, sydd bellach yn byw ym Machynlleth yw Liam Rickard a.k.a. Worldwide Welshman.
Mae'r WWW yn perfformio gyda band dychmygol neu gyda band go iawn. Gyda'i chymysgedd amlieithog o tragi-comic parti-bangars ac eiliadau o melancoli, mae WWW a'i griw (o dan nifer i enwau gwahanol) wedi bod yn difyrru gynulleidfaoedd ar draws Ewrop a thu hwnt ers tua 2007

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Liam Rickard (Worldwide Welshman) is a singer-songwriter, folk-singer, artist and occasional comedian from Betws-y-Coed, now based in Machynlleth. WWW often performs with a band. When they're not available, he performs with an imaginary band. WWW and his friends (under various guises) have been performing their multi-lingual mix of tragic-comic party anthems and folk-pop ballads across Europe and beyond since about 2007.