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Good Sunday #5

Melanie

I look across to the waterline 
the shore ~ trees 
then sky knowing full well 
there's more 
when will I see the rest

Eyes Of Man

Melanie with the crowd on stage in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera House in '74. A rare recording from the soundboard with grateful thanks to Mark Sumner!

MELANIE Love To Lose Again — Metropolitan Opera NYC '74

A crowd swamped the stage on Melanie's birthday, February 3rd, 1974, obscuring people's view in the body of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. People eventually returned to their seats but only after Melanie's please and another song. In the meantime......

MELANIE Mayhem At The Met '74

A Kiss From The Heart

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Dead End

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The Cactus Channel and Chet Faker announce a 7inch two-track recording out September 18.

Funk/soul band, The Cactus Channel, have collaborated with ARIA Award winner Chet Faker for two tracks, ‘Kill the Doubt’ and ‘Sleeping Alone’ on a 7inch set for release via HopeStreet Recordings.

The recording, two years in the making, is a fine example of the depth of Melbourne’s music scene. It features Chet Faker’s seasoned songwriting with The Cactus Channel’s ear for musical instrumentation, resulting in a dose of classic soul and funk seen through a uniquely Melbourne perspective.

‘Kill The Doubt’ – The Cactus Channel feat. Chet Faker:
A side: Kill the Doubt
B side: Sleeping Alone

* Chet faker appears courtesy of Future Classic

Available 18 September via HopeStreet Recordings / Downtown Records at: 
http://hopest.re/ktdktd (7” Vinyl)
hopest.re/1JX8XAE (iTunes)

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I Don't Eat Animals

Beautiful People
You live in the same world as I do
But somehow I never noticed
You before today
I'm ashamed to say

Beautiful People
We share the same back door
And it isn't right
We never met before
But then
We may never meet again
If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me
I would run and take all your hands
And I'd gather everyone together for a day
And when we're gathered
I'll pass buttons out that say
Beautiful People
Then you'll never be alone
'Cause there'll always be someone
With the same button on as you
Include him in everything you do

Beautiful People
You ride the same subway
As I do every morning
That's got to tell you something
We got so much in common
I go the same direction that you do
So if you take care of me
Maybe I'll take care of you

Beautiful People
You look like friends of mine
And it's about time
That someone said it here and now
I make a vow that sometime, somehow
I'll have a meeting
Invite everyone you know
I'll pass out buttons
For the ones come to show
Beautiful People
Never have to be alone
'Cause there'll always be someone
With the same button on as you
Include him in everything you do
He may be sitting right next to you
He may be a beautiful people too
And if you take care of him
Maybe he'll take care of you
'Cause all of the beautiful people do
And I'm a beautiful people too

©Melanie

Beautiful People

Beau and I wrote this just weeks after 9/11,  it was our First musical response.

9/11 2001was Beau's 21st birthday

Smile

Take no prisoner, leave no trace, make no wave
 Freedom’s illusion, home of the rich and the slave
 Cynics and critics, making the news, creating a scene
 Destiny lies in the fools who refuse to give up on a dream

And I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world
 I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world

Wear it well and it could appear in your heart
 Indelibly printed on someone a world apart
 Lights in the window all through our darkest day
 Human kindness outdistances being afraid

And I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world
 I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world

“I don’t trust the American smile. They smile for nothing.
 I think it’s to disarm you or something.” 
 ”No, I don’t think so. I smile because I want to make some kind of a connection.
 I look at someone and I think… we’re connected”

I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world
 I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world

(you sing) I love people who smile…
 (me) If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world
 What a wonderful world.


Smile

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Nicolas Haelg - Mind Games (via Spotify)

artist: BIXIGA 70
album: III
order here: https://glitterbeat.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Five years after their inception, the Sao Paulo based Brazilian group Bixiga 70 continues to travel musically forward, only to find themselves more and more at home. 

The band’s aptly named third album, “III”, is a luminescent and energized admixture of Atlantic cultures. The album’s hyper-contemporary dialogue journeys between the sounds and rhythms of Brazil and Africa, and between the band’s ten musicians and their distinctive musical identities.  Their collective influences include jazz, funk and Afro-Brazilian music, and stretch further afield into dub and reggae, electronics, cumbia and carimbó, ethio-jazz and samba.

Bixiga 70’s “III” is a breathtaking rhythmic storm where inspired solos, harmony and dynamics, beats and improvisation all mesh together in vital and unpredictable ways. Spanning between a joyous danceability, a sharp sense of humor and committed political reflections, the life-blood of this ten-piece unit is instrumental music, but it is an instrumental music that speaks profoundly.

Self-produced by the band in their own studio in Sao Paulo (and mixed by Victor Rice) all the compositions on “III” are written and arranged by the entire Bixiga 70 collective. There are no liner note details: the process of creation is decentralized and acknowledges the importance of each musician in the room. The album was recorded live in the studio to further assure the depth of this collaborative spirit and to accentuate the intensity of the band’s sonic experiments.

Following the global attention garnered by their previous album 2014’s “Ocupai” (Mais um Discos), Bixiga 70 headed out into the world. Their musical travels to Europe, the USA and Morocco, as well as the many varied regions of Brazil (including the streets of Bixiga) have all left a deep mark on the sounds and visions of the new album

Throughout the nine tracks found on “III”, styles merge and original syncretisms come to life. The album shape shifts contemporary afro-funk, Moroccan cumbia, spiritual jazz, adapted afro-brazilian chants, Cuban blaxploitation, sounds from São Paulo’s Black Rio movement, Arabian dub, Malinké drumming, Angolan guitar music and traditional bamboo fife bands.

There is no doubt that Bixiga 70 is one of the guiding voices of Brazil’s contemporary instrumental music scene and their new album “III” clearly demonstrates why. 

They are a band that deftly searches for untracked and thrilling musical spaces to occupy. 

And most importantly, they are a band that succeeds in finding them.

Ventania

Bixiga 70 - Ventania

New EP ‘Death Valley’ Out Now.

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Melanie Safka - Nothing Is Real

Melanie Safka first attracted national attention when she stepped onto the stage at Woodstock, the summer of '69. As dawn broke, and rain began to fall, she performed on a stage that transformed a generation and changed music forever. 

Photo © Maddy Miller