04 First Real Job

Night Moves - Pernod & Black

This song can be found on this CD album
https://parktone.thebase.in/items/23652678

【PARK1026】Inokasira Rangers - Ziggy Stardust

Population 5120 (Unmastered)

【PARK1011】G.RINA feat Inokasira Rangers - Plastic Love

'The King' is Chaines' commanding return to Slip: a claustrophobic, dank book of abstracted torch songs, festering in an uneasy grandeur.

The LP collects work diligently amassed in the 3 years since the British composer/producer's Slip debut 'OST', which housed contributions from 'cellist Oliver Coates and artist Mary Stark within melancholic, uncannily tactile productions. The intervening period has seen Chaines collaborate extensively with the London Contemporary Orchestra, with commissions performed at The Roundhouse, Union Chapel, Printworks, and Tate Modern.

'The King' sees Chaines' eccentric, singular language grasp a fresh immediacy and emotive potency. Chaines’ voice is more present than ever - creepy, seductive and pained on the Scott-Walker-does-ASMR of "Eraserhead", and diva-ghost of "Population 5120" - and their arrangements dissolve the symphonic into freakish forms - "Carpathia" and "Knockturning" spike pastoral organs and flutes with industrial menace and convulsing beatwork.

'The King' [SLP037] is available on LP and download from March 2018. Artwork by Chaines. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Distributed by Boomkat.

Chaines (Cee Haines) is a musician based in Manchester, UK, who writes rather peculiar electronica and electro-acoustic music. More recently, they have had their music toured by producer and cellist Oliver Coates (PRAH Recordings) across Europe and America, and large scale electro-acoustic premières given by the London Contemporary Orchestra and organist James McVinnie (Bedroom Community) in venues such as the Roundhouse, Royal Albert Hall, and Tate Modern. They have been in residency with SAY award winner Anna Meredith and Grammy Award winner Imogen Heap, improvising, performing and producing audio and video.

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LP/DL

Eraserhead - Chaines

The Revenant

A lovesong for the European union with lavish flute arrangement and musical saw.

Europe, My Dear

This episode is an audio supplement to Classic Pop magazine, issue 53, published on 31 May 2019. It features my 35th Pop Art feature, this time with graphic designer, Pete Barrett.

Pete is now based in Melbourne, Australia, so we caught up online to talk about his massive portfolio of pop and discover the stories behind some of his work for artists including Dexys Midnight Runners, Bananarama, Madonna, The Jam, Simply Red, George Michael and Prefab Sprout.

Find out more about Pete's current design practice at: www.hoof.net.au

The Art on your sleeve archive is also online at: softoctopus.co.uk/category/podcast

Further information about Classic Pop magazine can be found at: www.classicpopmag.com

Information about this issue of Classic Pop is available at: https://www.classicpopmag.com/2019/05/issue-53-of-classic-pop-is-on-sale-now-2/

Art on your sleeve - Episode 9 - Pete Barrett

A melody I dreamed. Thoughts of Wuhan Province.

Sketches of Pain

Ramen

I was blown away by Steve McQueen's recent Small Axe series of films on BBC1. One of them, Lovers Rock, featured a life affirming scene using Janet Kay's "Silly Games", to incredible effect. "Silly Games" is an all time favourite of mine (see below if interested) and one night recently I couldn't sleep so decided to take the A Cappella singing from the film and weld it to Dennis Bovell's dub mix of "Silly Games". Easier said than done, it took hours and hours and did not help me sleep as it was lunch time when I finished. I only ever did it for my own amusement but played it on my NTS Radio show and have been inundated with requests for it, so here it is. If you don't know the original, which got to no. 2 in the UK Top 40 in 1979, and is now a bona fide evergreen classic, I thoroughly recommend checking it out.


"Silly Games" by Janet Kay is one of my all time favourite songs; a definite desert island disc. In the summer of 1979 it was ubiquitous and seemed to be on the radio all the time. I was just falling deeply in love with pop music and this song in particular stood out, both for myself and my sister, and indeed to this day, whenever I hear Silly Games I think of her and that glorious summer spent listening to the radio all day, every day.

In 1979, I didn’t know "Silly Games" was Reggae, let alone Lovers Rock, but it was the catalyst for me falling in love with Jamaican music in all its myriad forms which is a passion that has only grown as the years have passed.

Incidentally, 1979 was such a formative year for me and music that looking at the top 100 most popular hits in the UK singles music charts in 1979 I note that nearly a third of them have featured in my DJ sets over the years - http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1979.shtml

"Silly Games" was written and produced by Dennis Bovell, a genuine UK music legend who I am deeply honoured to have had appear on Optimo Music on two occasions. He features in the Lovers Rock episode of Small Axe and indeed you can hear his deep, booming bass heavy voice on this version. As stated, this version was done purely for my own amusement and I don't want to take anything away from the wonderful Janet Kay whose voice is such a wondrous and integral part of what makes "Silly Games" such a great, timeless song.

Janet Kay - Silly Games (JD Twitch Small Axe Version)

Founder member Bass/Vox of Dexys Midnight Runners/Co-Vocalist and Bass on Dexys 'One day Im going to Soar' 2012 Album and Tours.Currently touring as Pete Williams and his Band. 3 Critically acclaimed albums 'SEE' 2012 (Featuring Richard Hawley on Gtr)  'Roughnecks and Roustabouts' 2015 and H.O.L.L.A.N.D 2018.
'Like a landlocked Jacques Cousteau yearning for the Absinthe green ocean..'
Pete is moving forward through this world.

04 First Real Job

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