Roots

Our podcasts are back! The usual eclectic mix of tracks to follow! Please listen and enjoy and remember to check out the artists in more depth: 

1. Stanley Odd - 'The Friendly Games' recorded for BBC 5 LIVE 
2. SEØUEL - 'Gamli' 
3. The Great Albatross - 'Roots' 
4. Bronto Skylift - 'Bird Catcher/Eater' 
5. Turning Plates - 'Falling Lives' 
6. 1987 - 'Michelle (Boge & Scandal Remix)' 

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Episode 146: Glasgow Come Doon

Debut from Tongues. 

Lyrics:
Bones in my bed keep me up all night,
The lies in my head keep me eating dirt,
So I’m only one I know, this darkness where I hide. 
My soul, it’s the only thing I own, I guard it with my mind. 

Colours in the dark, they’re only lost on me
The whispers of the heart, I hunger for a taste
Oh my love, You’re all I need,
Oh my love 
Every secret place revealed, 
I stand in freedom 
my mind aligned and healed. 
I’m naked in your light 
Oh my love, you’re all I need
Oh my love

I’m not sure if you see it all, 
I am sorry, I’ve heard it all before, 
This heart has a point of view, 
I am sorry, I’ve never felt the call, 

All those whispers in the darkest night? 
All these feelings, disturbing to the core, 
You are loved you are more than this, 
I can’t fight this I’m married to the law. 

Colours In The Dark

Instrumental cover of a song written by A. Wesley Chung of The Great Albatross. Listen to the original here:

http://countyourluckystars.bandcamp.com/album/roots

(no copyright infringement intended :P)

the great albatross - roots (empyreans remix)

My second track! Hope you like!

Lyrics:
I’m feeling more alive today, 
Feeling more alive, with each step I take
Though i never knew the way,
My feet keep walking, 
Feeling more awake today, 
My eyes see colour, in all this grey, 
Now I know the words you say
don’t mean a thing to me anyway, 
They don’t mean a thing. 

Anymore
I’m feeling stronger
It’s what I’m going for, what I’m going for now. 

I’m feeling more at home today
Safe in my own skin,
I’m feeling more affirmed today
Thank you
I finally found the time to play
It took me years to forget
These diamonds pour on me like rain
I can’t go back

Anymore
I’m feeling stronger
It’s what I’m going for, what I’m going for now. 

Anymore

The Great Albatross - Asleep In The Kaatskills

Forever - Loose

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Loose

The first single from the new American Clay EP "Sky Hooks". Out late March both digitally and on cassette tape via LP Records

Written and performed by Martin Johnston

Sky Hooks

American Clay - Flow

The first single from upcoming album, Asleep In The Kaatskills. Released on vinyl and digitally via LP Records in May 2017.

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Twenty-seven tongue twisters,
fifteen opinions and too much wine
Two concentric circles meeting
from the ends of parallel lines
Two fatalistic lovers in a darkened room
of social-lights
Eighty-three quotations from
understated intellectual minds

Then I stood closer to you

Distracting conversations let me
introduce your shoulder to mine
The summation of our teenage fears
travels through the caverns of our insides
The clutter and the clamor of
tiny voices struggling to be heard
They huddle over broken bottles
to admire their reflections on the floor

Then you spoke to me

You don’t know me as well
to say the things you want to say

As the kinesis starts to make its move
we cast ourselves down the rabbit hole
A communion of the strangest kind
mysterious and old
I wonder where we go from here

You don’t know me as well
to say the things you want to say

Asleep In The Kaatskills

The Great Albatross - An Evening

The first single from the forthcoming Codist EP "Porcelain Boy", out digitally and on Cassette Tape late March via LP Records.

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Feel like I’m talking a language that I’m making up on the spot
You struggle with the comprehension, your eyes are crossed more often than not
Just look straight ahead and then I’ll slow it down

You can see me, not that clearly
I think you need the sunlight shining on your bones now
Vitamin D

The advice I could possibly give you wouldn’t increase your wingspan
Tried to look for you in the carpark, my window only frames what it can
Made myself sick and defeated thinking worse case scenarios
Made myself dizzy from laughing thinking ‘bout the afterglow
If you say my name then I will know it now

You can see me, not that clearly
I think you need the sunlight shine to thaw you out now
Vitamin D

Porcelain Boy

Codist - Vitamin D

The Magic Lantern, the musical moniker of Jamie Doe, is set to release his latest single Holding Hands on 30th October 2017 via Hectic Eclectic Records. 

The single opens with a defiant cry of hope, the lyrics “I’m searching…”, ringing out alone before two saxophones enter, freely weaving around the vocal, at once harmonising and echoing it. This texture builds as a third saxophone joins creating a rich brass warmth through which Doe’s voice glides, effortlessly leaping between the declamatory and the intimate. The  band enter with an infectious groove, and we are introduced to the songs’ key metaphor of a flood and the need for creative destruction - “One day, when all this is washed away, some will remain, full of hope in the pouring rain”. The track resolves with the triumph of hope over doubt.

Holding Hands was written during a moment of desperation, Jamie having travelled half way across the world only to run out of road.  Strung out and alone, he found himself writing this song for the true love he hoped to meet, as much an act of faith in their existence as a beacon to guide himself home.  Originally written for voice and guitar, it was after hearing Bjork’s ‘Anchor Song’ late one night that Jamie decided to arrange the song for saxophone trio. The timbre of the brass, the groove of the band, The Bad Plus style piano solo – it is an arrangement that brings together some of Jamie’s key influences which he describes as “the lyrical directness of folk, the harmonic openness and improvisational freedom of jazz and the craft of great songwriting. It’s a good example of how much more confident I have become as an arranger”. 

Born in Australia, before moving to the UK at 12, Jamie began performing as The Magic Lantern while studying philosophy in Bristol where he met and performed alongside friends This Is The Kit, Rozi Plain and Rachael Dadd. Moving to London in 2007, Jamie expanded The Magic Lantern into a quintet of friends and together they evolved a transporting sound, inspired by the immediacy of Jamie’s lyrics and lilting melodies and a shared love of improvised music. A debut album with the quintet was released in 2011 before Jamie returned to his solo roots with an intimate second album in 2014. The Magic Lantern has received praise from numerous publications including The Guardian, Acoustic Magazine and Folk Radio UK as well as BBC 6Music’s Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe and Bob Harris among others. His third album, To The Islands from which Holding Hands is taken, sees The Magic Lantern return with a new ensemble drawn from London’s thriving jazz scene, exploring memory and hope in a world of near constant uncertainty. 

With Holding Hands, The Magic Lantern is ready to introduce further listeners to his bittersweet, beautiful sound. 

Holding Hands is out on 30th October 2017 via Hectic Eclectic Records.

Roots

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