humoola zeeboola booboola bop // rock :: blues :: folk :: acoustic

Hazy Eyes Maybe
Written by Koichi Yamanoha

Hazy Eyes Maybe

/// recorded by FURR
////// mixed by Patrick Enzor

Window of Time

Gathering

Rope Me In - Wet & Reckless

Set in a girls school in the late sixties, ‘The Falling’ is acclaimed director Carol Morley’s (Dream of a Life, The Alcohol Years) atmospheric debut feature film, which garnerned rave 5-star reviews in the Guardian and the Times when it premiered at the London Film Festival in September 2014.

The soundtrack is dominated by eight songs and sketches by Tracey Thorn gathered together on a new 17-minute EP - Songs from The Falling - released on Strange Feeling Records. 

Written after consultation with Morley to fit the film’s mood and themes Thorn’s music was inspired by one the central scenes in which several girls form the ‘Alternative School Orchesta’ and jam listlessly on instruments left lying around in the music room.

‘Carol sent me a cardboard box full of the instruments they used - the typical things you’d expect, wood-block, tambourine, triangle, recorder - and I decided to use the scene as a springboard for my songs,’ says Tracey.

Recorded in the north London home studio she shares with her partner Ben Watt (who engineered the recordings), Thorn added guitar and piano, wrote the songs and then - playing everything herself - allowed herself one take only on each of the instruments. ‘I wanted to leave in all timing discrepancies to try and capture the loose freeform feel of an untutored school performance,’ she adds. The final mixes were done by Bruno Ellingham.

Part folk, part minimal garage band, the music’s gauzy simplicity harks back to Tracey’s cult debut album ‘A Distant Shore’ (1982).

‘The Falling’ movie is out in cinemas from April 24.

Let Me In

Wild Yaks - Paradise

“On The Run” by THE GOLDHEARTS released 17th April 2015 on Pavement Records.

www.thegoldhearts.com.au
www.facebook.com/thegoldhearts
Official Video: https://youtu.be/cqJQOBoERiA
www.instagram.com/thegoldhearts 

THE GOLDHEARTS - On The Run

The new single 'Modern Phenomena' by Northern American.

Taken from the debut album 'Modern Phenomena', out now on CD and digital download.

Stream: http://smarturl.it/modphen-spotify
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/modphen-itunes
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/modphen-amazon
CD: http://smarturl.it/modphen-cd

Northern American - Modern Phenomena

Avers – 'Omega / Whatever' – Out July 29th via Egghunt Records
Order: po.st/AversOW

With four songwriters, four singers, and 11 tracks of guitar-saturated rock & roll, Avers' second album, Omega/Whatever, is proof that there's strength in numbers.

The record shines new light on a band that made its first splash with 2014's Empty Light. Avers supported that debut release by leaving their hometown of Richmond, VA, and crisscrossing the country on tour, opening for bands like Foo Fighters and J. Roddy Walston along the way. They made a national splash during the 2015 SXSW Festival, too, with everyone from Esquire Maga-zine to The Daily Beast listing them as one of the week's breakout bands.

Two years after Empty Light's release, Omega/Whatever finds them returning to their unofficial headquarters — Montrose Recording, a modern studio located on a historic Richmond plantation and operated by bandmate Adrian Olsen — and creating another self-produced album of rumbling rock, shot through with pop hooks, layers of percussion, and coed melodies from four different vocalists. It's a mix of old and new, much like the studio that birthed it.

It's an album about balance, too, centered around the struggles of living in the modern world. There are songs about divorce, technology, late nights, corrupt politicians, and societal norms, all delivered by a group of songwriters who share their creative duties equally. Olsen, Alexandra Spalding, James Mason, and JL Hodges trade off vocal duties, too, with multi-instrumentalist Charlie Glenn pitching in on keyboards, harmonies, and swells of electric guitar. There's no consistent frontman, no singular leader, no main guitarist. Those roles are fluid, which makes Omega/Whatever very much the product of a band, not just one bandmate's vanity project.

Like the album that came before it, Avers' second release came together during a series of in-spired sessions at Montrose, with each song beginning as a fledgling idea brought to the table by one of the band's four writers. The entire group would then pitch in, turning that idea into something nuanced and layered. Avers would ultimately finish each song as a collective unit, recording the track the same day it was written. The result is an "infectious" and "ebullient" (The AV Club) sound that not only reintroduces the band, but not also offers an insider's look at their creative process.

Mixed by Peter Kadis (The National, Kurt Vile) and mastered with Greg Calbi, Omega/Whatever is a battle cry from a band that's fighting the good fight.

www.aversmusic.com
www.facebook.com/aversrva

July 29 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry (Album Release Show)
Aug 3 – Washington, DC – DC9 Nightclub
Aug 4 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
Aug 5 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda's

Vampire

Cheers Elephant - Speak Think

08 - THE ESPIONNE - Hello Dreams

The first track from Champs Élysées - All Champs Go To Heaven.

http://store.jurassicpoprecords.com/products/champs-elysees-all-champs-go-to-heaven

Champs Élysées - Apollo

We've written a number of NBA/OKC related songs, including a song about when Serge went down in the Western Conference Finals. Neither of these songs are about the NBA. However, the GOAT diction makes it into one of Danny's songs here. I'm not sure who the GOAT is in this song, though. "Some Surf" was one of the five songs we recorded - at least in part - last November in Nashville, and I'm really happy we shaped it up into publishable form.

GOAT

A first listen to JULIA, the new single coming out soon from Fast Romantics. Official video and release to be announced in early May!

Watch the official video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDEdhNnO-28

Follow the band on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fastromantics

JULIA was produced by Gus Van Go and Werner F.
Written by Matthew Angus.
Performed and recorded by Fast Romantics.
©2015 All rights reserved.

Julia

Poor Things - No Way, José

2nd single of upcoming mini LP "In the right place"

Are You Coming Home?

Engineered and mixed by Mark Rains at Station House Studios
Mastered by Ed Brooks at RFI Mastering
Miya- guitar, vocals, synth, cafe sounds
Josh Grondin- guitar
Jon Engelhard- bass
Cassidy Turbin- drums

I Got Drunk

Vocals: Ms. King - Lorraine Kingham
Guitar: BLUESWORK, Rudolf Morf

"Need Your Love So Bad" sometimes known as "I Need Your Love So Bad", is a blues song first published in 1955 and written by Mertis John Jr.
The first recording of the song was by Mertis John's younger brother Little Willie John and was released by King Records. Willie John's single achieved No. 5 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1956.
B.B. King recorded the song in December 1967 under the title "I Need Your Love" for his album Lucille.

I Need Your Love So Bad

SPACE w/  NiCKY FRANCiS and The Quill 

COSMiC FOLK from LDN and NORFOLK, UK! The soaring voices of Nicky Francis and Lyla Foy harmonize like a creative Ying Yang. When the band THE QUILLS (upto 17! members) arouse its voluptous swell you can hardly not be touched. Debut album is in a constant progress. Meanwhile, you may start your Nicky Francis record collection within today. 
Go, BUY IT! You won't regret it! 
"THE GOLDHEARTS" EP is digital available on AMAZON or iTunes.
http://www.amazon.com/Goldhearts-EP-Nicky-Francis/dp/B002UXR9XG/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/the-goldhearts-ep/id335221137

http://www.myspace.com/nickyfrancisandthequill
Drawings by Maid Malou

NiCKY FRANCiS & The Quill - Mellow Magic, Mad Drift

Recorded March 1989 for the Sound Affects  6" flexi single 

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