Fantastic rhythm guitar is this! Reminds us a little of New Europeans by Ultravox. :)

Man, Rodney, that's invigorating! Do you ever tour the eastern US?

October 2021 Discoveries.

Many people simply want to hear and enjoy some great new music without having to waste time searching for hours. These Musical Discoveries collections aim to fulfil those needs. At least, we hope so! :)

This playlist is a compilation of the favourite musical discoveries of the Wud Records team from everything they heard at SoundCloud during October 2021.

Tracks have been arranged according to the number of plays at the precise moment of publishing, starting with the fewest. Tracks that are early in playlists tend to receive more plays than later tracks, and we feel that the ones with fewer plays need the best chance of exposure.

This playlist is extremely eclectic, so if the track you are playing isn't quite doing it for you, try the next one. It will probably be completely different.

If you enjoyed listening to something here, please give it a like and a repost. Follow the artist. Give them a shoutout on social media. Check out some of their other tracks. Buy something from them and your support will help them to keep going. Doing any of this will help raise their profile. At the very least you might make their day. :)

Sharing is very, very important !!

Sharing is a massive help for independent artists. They don’t have big corporations and mainstream media saturating every channel with their product. Every independent share counts.

Giving something a ‘like’ is nice, but sharing exposes the artist to your followers. This means that anybody in your community can see and click on what you shared. They can potentially enjoy it as well. It enables somebody new to discover the artist and become their newest fan. You create the chance for that to happen.

If you happen to be on this playlist, please share, and give us a shoutout on your social media feeds - because if we spot it, it gives us another opportunity to repost you and big you up. Please listen to as many tracks by the other great bands as you can, and... enjoy!

See also:
* this playlist at Wud Records: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/october-2021-musical-discoveries
* all Musical Discoveries compilations: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/
* news about this playlist: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-october-2021-musical-discoveries

Downloads help us! :)

October 2021 Discoveries

Beauty Queen

Brain

Smile (instrumental)

Mod inspired dance tune, influenced by James Brown and Stax

Coltrane

Peter Dale Scott, Pepe Escobar, John Kiriakou, and Aaron Good discuss the September 9, 2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud assassination, an event that paved the way for the long-planned US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.  Other topics covered include the US deployment of jihadis in the Central Asian "Great Game" as well as the significance of Xinjiang and China's New Silk Road.

For all of the American Exception episodes, please subscribe at: www.patreon.com/americanexception

Here are the articles that were discussed in this episode:

"Was the Now-Forgotten Murder of One Man on September 9, 2001 a Crucial Pre-condition for 9/11?"  by Peter Dale Scott and Aaron Good
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/12/09/was-the-now-forgotten-murder-of-one-man-on-september-9-2001-a-crucial-pre-condition-for-9-11/

"9/9 and 9/11, 20 years later"  by Pepe Escobar
https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/9-9-and-9-11-20-years-later/

Music by Mock Orange!

Episode 2: The 9/9/2001 Massoud Assassination

as the raven king lay dying
by the all night pharmacy
the morning sun was rising
as he gazed across the street

he said 'a cold wind calls me home boys'
'and it will not be denied'
'but I made some trouble and I made some noise'
'and now there's nothing left inside'
'and so I cast this world aside'

and his soldiers gathered round him
as the day was growing bright
and crouched down where they found him
caught in the traffic lights

he said 'they had no ears to hear me',
'and their eyes they do not see',
'and though they had no cause to fear me'
'this world is not for me'
'no it's not for the likes of me'

and Death stood on the corner
all grim with apologies
his face fixed on the mourners
as they sang their eulogies
as they sang their eulogies

as their voices were receding
in the dust and the dirt of the street
the sun rose up to meet him
and laid gold at his feet

and every bird that flew
was gathered on the ground
and each a feather drew
for to make a fiery crown
for to make a fiery crown

As The Raven King Lay Dying

Terminal City

Sometimes Better, Sometimes Worse.

Rainy Town

The pandemic has forced my friends at Rural Grit Happy Hour back in Kansas City to move their weekly open mic session online. It's sad that they can't meet in person, but it has allowed me, three years after moving to the East Coast, to join in on something I've sorely missed. It's great to (virtually) hang out with these folks once again.

A couple of weeks ago, the theme was Songs About Food, and it prompted me to complete an idea that had been floating untethered in my head for a while.

For the action-packed video version of this song, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqxP18LbsCQ&t=35s

Egg Salad Sandwich

Callum Pitt - Ghost 

Silent like a ghost, don’t wanna be seen, I run
Like a boy near fire, dripping with gasoline
And the sun dropped behind your house as I pushed through the gate
And quickly up the thin staircase
Like I was running late

Nothing looked like it was different, you were smiling, it was bright
So much so I could imagine nothing changed and you were alright
While I wanted to believe it, I was holding you so tight

In and out of time, I feel it beating, the sun
April’s brief relief, relief is fleeting
It hurts to watch you fade this way, I’m moving to acceptance day
Lost in the fresh bouquets

We were walking down your lane, by a park we went when I was eight
It took two or three times long, the cars were lost within the birdsong
And I’ll remember all the best parts and I’ll hold them within my chest
Like the words of a song echo on and on

Nothing looked like it was different, you were smiling, it was bright
So much so I could imagine it was June and you were alright
While I wanted to believe it, sat up knowing on the night you had to go
You had to go, you had to go

Nothing looked like it was different, you were smiling, it was bright
So much so I could imagine it was June and you were alright
While I wanted to believe it, sat up knowing on the night

©℗ 2020 Humble Angel Records

Ghost

Lyrics:

The colours were running from all this distortion in my head
The speakers were humming, circling feedback in our ears
Swept by the current further until the choruses blurred and your shout was a murmur
Felt your tug away from the crowd ‘cause, everything always seems so loud

While we’re drifting in this sea of noise
Flooding in our ears and our eyes

Out of the water, these quarries feel smaller
My legs won’t seize up like a deer in the headlights

These eyes are reflectors, old movie projectors
They blur my perceptions, the waves of affection
Had drained all my colour, the previous summer, they painted a picture of hallways and wicker

So drag my body off the stage
‘Cause nothing ever seems to change

While we’re drifting in this sea of noise
Flooding in our ears and our eyes

Sea Of Noise

Track 8 from the album "However Measured or Far Away", available at https://hanklebury.bandcamp.com/album/however-measured-or-far-away

She Walks On The Wind, But She Is Not Afraid

Final track from the album "Unexplored Corridors", available right here: https://hanklebury.bandcamp.com/album/unexplored-corridors

Image: Improvised Landscape, watercolor, 2020

Unexplored Corridor #13

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LEGACY ARTISTS:
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ARCHIVE ARTISTS:
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* For DIY musicians:

Looking to grow your fanbase? Here's a proven strategy for success. It's a bit time-consuming at first because you need to work at it often. However, the awesome results will make it worth your while:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/be-discovered-on-social-media

That article was published in March 2017. While some of the links may no longer work, the theory absolutely will. Try it for yourself!

* Unfortunately...

Due to brexshit, broken britain, rip-off britain, corruption, lies and bias in the media, bigotry, racism, intolerance, polarisation, the fact that some of our family members would not be allowed to remain post-brexit, state-sponsored child trafficking (yes, that's right, we said it - it's pretty shocking, start reading from here if you don't believe it: https://forced-adoption.com/), an increasing sense of frustration and exasperation, and general total weariness of being treated with nothing but derision, ignorance and contempt by the entire shebang since the early 80s, we decided enough was enough and moved our entire operation from brexeter in the uk to begin our grand brexodus in 2017. We are now brefugees, living in brexile very near the border of the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. If you live in (the crumbling remains of) the uk, do yourself a favour and leave. The upgrade in life quality will blow your mind.

* What do we stand for as a label?

We support all independent musicians who are doing something we find interesting. Our team members all have formal music education qualifications.

We are against corporate brainwash muzak, their puppet friends in the mass media, and many other corporate activities. We will fight their desecration of music until either it stops or we die. 

We believe in helping others in the face of corrupt laws and a broken system. We are pro democracy, green energy and free speech.

We're politically liberal. We cannot support the republicans, maga or gun violence in the usa. We don't see there's any real difference, other than in name, between the christian far right in the USA and the taliban in Afghanistan.

In the uk we are broadly pro LibDem/Green/Labour/SNP. We are VERY anti-tory, bnp, ukip, and any of their friends and associates. We have no trust at all in the uk right wing press monopoly and the bbc. Beware the bbc and its claims of neutrality. It is the propaganda mouthpiece of the tory party. It even charges a propaganda tax called the licence fee. But we like Test Match Special and Radio 6, so does that make us hypocrites...? Hmm.

We support independence for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Cornwall. We support the individual and the underdog. We are anti-putin and his war, and pro-Ukraine.

Please notice the careful use of capitals. Capital letters imply respect!

We're only interested in the colour of your soul. Not your skin, hair or socks.

We like cricket! Most of us support Somerset County Cricket Club.

Terminal City

Rodney DeCroo

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