Adam digs deep into his box of 45s and pulls out a wild selection of 1950s and '60s blues, surf, rockabilly, R&B, gospel, garage, soul and rock'n'roll.
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Diddy Wah 201221

Out on 2LP/CD/digital April 26, Someone Like Me is a humanity-reminding suite of miracle moments that unites real people in the pursuit of a meaningful connection. Taping their lived experience in economic studios in quiet English counties, Pacific Northwest woodland retreats and the big city bustle of Sydney and Los Angeles, these kindred spirits rendered sheer beauty in the process. Custom pressed folk songs of love, loss and the lord saviour. 

Illuminating minor works from seasoned players such as former Syndicate Of Sound chart-topper Sharkey and late-era Canned Heat lynchpin James Thornbury, the collection simultaneously honours the fleeting amateurism of hobby musicians. With their one shot at tangible vinyl, freshman Lynne Ann Kingan realised her loose bubblegum rocker on campus time, while U.S. Navy recruit Fred Potts cut his unconditionally serene ballad remotely stationed on a Spanish naval base. Spartan production continues to reign with Jon Betmead’s hair-raising gospel, howling into infinite space, and Goldrust’s stripped back garden hymn.

Throughout the hour-long reflection, faith has an intermittent yet revelatory presence, most overtly with the divine choral soul of Seventh-day Adventist quartet Remnant. More subtly, Gary Ramey and Jim Kennedy both turned to song in their spiritual quests, offering their all to a universal power. An irrefutable compilation cornerstone, the National Office For Black Catholics showcased Charles Murphy’s lionhearted account of the Black experience at a 1971 concert. Five years earlier, high school seniors The Superwomen would use their hauntingly angelic harmonies to address racial inequity with a breathless take on ‘Lowlands’.

Reaching the furthest corners, Someone Like Me secures the inaugural licence of three homespun masterpieces. Discovered by fluke in the digital haystacks of Youtube and Soundcloud, Jim Huxley’s bedroom pop earworm melds peacefully into Charlie Webster’s synthesized reverie. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s John Agostino introduces us to the bizarre world of tax scam records, with the artist only now learning that his tender psych-folk demos were leaked via a 1977 bootleg.

Compiled and lovingly restored by armchair digger Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/The Green Child), Someone Like Me pays due service to seventeen rarefied journals of truth and devotion. Adorned with visual artist Chris Fallon’s figure and flora dream extractions, the uniting songbook is further detailed by expansive track-by-track liner notes and a forward from San Franciscan poet Rod Roland.

Charles Murphy - The Foot That's Holding Me Down (ES031)

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Giramundo

The hit of the kitchen jam (see the entire clip for all the other goodies that were born)

Charlie and I having a massive spontaneous concert in the kitchen. He had a pepper shaker microphone and was wearing just his jocks as he danced and paraded across the stage of the kitchen... The only audience was the neighbour's kids who hung out on the fence watching in from the window.

Charlie's (aka Dalsim's) profound and rapid lyrical beauty in action.

"Give your light 
give your light to the world,
Coz you are the world ladies and gentlemen
So when you give your light to the world
You give your light to yourself
and when you give your light to yourself 
you give your light to everybody else
and when you give your light to everybody else
you take all of your worries
you take all of your worries
you take all of your worries
you take all of your worries off the shelf
and you put all of your dreams
and you put all of these seemingly unattainable things
right up there on your shelf
now ladies and gentlemen the shelf is an allegory
the shelf is an allegory for how you want to construct your reality
how do you see
how do you see things unfolding
when you dance in the light of truth
cooooooooz
 when you dance in the light of truth
you find that sometimes you be bullshittin' you
 oh, oh
and when you dance with the light of bullshit in you
you see that the truth always shines through the bullshit in you
 so what do we do?
dance with the light,
dance with the light of truth
dance with the light 
love yourself
take all your worries, take them off the shelf
see that you're hiding
see that you're hiding nothing else
don't think about it
don't think about it no sirrrreeeeee
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happiness
happiness
 is the realisation
 just the realisation
that patience that you've been holding for
it doesn't need to be held anymore
you can realise all that you are
you can be ..."

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Asfâr

Douja

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