Mellow pop 10

Lullaby Of Grandmother

Nobody's Baby, Now

Original version appears on his 2012 album "Maraqopa". 

Enjoy

Damien Jurado - Maraqopa (Ole Smokey's Extd Edit)

These Days as covered by Matt Pond (feat. Laura Stevenson & Chris Hanson)
From the Wes Anderson film Royal Tenenbaums
Originally performed by Nico
Written by Jackson Browne
Published by Open Window Music (ASCAP)

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These Days - Matt Pond (feat. Laura Stevenson & Chris Hansen)

Taken from album Pastacas & Tenniscoats "Yaki-Läki Versions" (Õunaviks / Afterhours 2014):
www.ounaviks.ee/en/release/yakilakiversions/

Original song "Cup Of Freedom" taken from Pastacas & Tenniscoats' album "Yaki-Läki" (Õunaviks / Afterhours 2013):
www.ounaviks.ee/en/release/yakilaki/

Original music by Saya, Takashi Ueno, Ramo Teder, lyrics by Saya, remix by Fleckfumie

Yaki-Läki Versions

Pastacas & Tenniscoats - Yaki Udon (Fleckfumie remix)

Having released a dreamy album inspired by 60s sci-fi soundtracks, Swedish trio @death-and-vanilla were invited to live score cult horror Vampyr at a Scandi film festival and their slow, steady, swirling accent continued. 

Their new LP To Where The Wild Things Are,is a poppier affair; the warm analogue loops of their vintage instruments crying out for the sweet breathy vocals that Marleen delivers with a calm and enchanting ease. Named after the children’s book, the album celebrates imagination and the ability to delve into the less-explored areas of the mind. Exactly what we need to get us through today, we are pleased to present the premiere of album track, California Owls. Almost hypnotic, this is dream pop at its absolute best. Enjoy!

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Premiere: Death And Vanilla - California Owls

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Far to the north-east of Brazil’s twin musical capitals of Rio and São Paulo, lies the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. During the country’s lengthy and oppressive military dictatorship (1964-1985), a cadre of like-minded and socially conscientious musicians were quietly building their own music scene, away from the glare of the censors.... for a time, at least.

Strongly influenced by the psychedelic music coming out of America and Britain (and further inspired by visits to India and Morocco), local musicians such as Zé Ramalho, Lula Côrtes & Alceu Valença were to be the vanguard of their own, wild, hedonistic Psyche-scene. There would be sitars and lutes merging with traditional Pernambucan percussion; constant collaborations and ethereal art-collectives; experiments with ‘found-sound’ colliding with earthy flutes and driving backlines – all helped along by men wearing lipstick, acid, mushrooms, marijuana, suggestive dancing and plenty of onstage kissing.  
 
The songs and artists featured on this album are a fittingly schizophrenic selection. Psychedelic Pernambuco finds crazed ethno-punk giving way to tweaked Americana; mystical jungle-folk stands alongside cocaine-fuelled fuzz-rock, and acid-raga trance segues into mutated proto-disco.  
 
The party couldn’t last forever. The military were a constant nuisance and a growing threat to these underground experimentalists. In one famous incident Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho were forced to leave Recife and flee to the woods to record their cult-classic album, Paebiru – named after the mystical Paebiru Stone which is alleged to have alien hieroglyphs carved into its sides. In the end, compounding factors like the ascent of modern-rock and the severe restrictions on their output by the military (whole pressings of albums were frequently seized and destroyed), led many of the vanguard of the Pernambucan scene to slowly dissipate and eventually blow away with the wind, like so much marijuana smoke. The final hurrah would come from Lula Côrtes, who, wishing to “close all this with a golden key”, went into a small studio in 1980 to record ‘Rosa de Sangue’ – it was duly destroyed upon its completion. Nobody knows if any copies survived.

Double vinyl LP, CD and download with sleeve notes by Mr Bongo.


Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valença - 78 Rotações

coil - all the pretty little horses

Fort Mudge Memorial Dump was a band from Walpole, Massachusetts, that started playing by 1969, gathering a good number of fans. They got filed into the “Boston Sound”, among the Ultimate Spinach, the Beacon Street Union, Orpheus, Tangerine Zoo, ecc.

With good technique and better ideas, they recorded a very sought-after LP in which the voice of Caroline Stratton stands out to some Jefferson Airplane affinity.  Guitarist Dean Keady, with his jazzy effects, leads the band.

The Fort Mudge Memorial Dump - Tomorrow  1969

01.These Trails - These Trails

Song I made for the Kumoko compilation album. 

http://kumoko.bandcamp.com

It is also available on iTunes, Amazon.com.
All the proceeds will be donated to globalgiving.org to build schools in post-earthquake Nepal.
Check out the bandcamp link below to read more details about the compilation. 
The compilation features amazing artists from the US, Japan, and Europe. 
We hope you purchase this album to listen to some amazing music, and to help a great cause!

Lyrics:
"Red Star Blue Moon Pink Clouds And The Golden Sun" 

please paint me a cloud 
I've lost the one that I had 

please paint me the moon light 
behind the eye of the sky 

the night shines bright but it will fade 
before the dawn breaks I'll have to go 
I'll have to go 
as the sun takes me away 

red stars, blue moon, pink clouds 
and the golden sun 
sleep tight, the glowing sky is in her eyes 

the night shines bright but it will fade 
before the dawn breaks I'll have to go 
I'll have to go 
I'll see you again 

the night shines bright but it will fade 
before the dawn breaks I'll have to go 
I'll have to go 
I'll see you again 


Red Star Blue Moon Pink Clouds And The Golden Sun

from 'The Silent Season' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den278
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pacosala]

After the release of last autumn's 6 track "Ko Yo" 12'' on Denovali, Paco Sala return with a fifth full length album, their first since 2015. 
The Silent Season is the net result of a full tibiofemoral dislocation, a lot of surgery, a lot of really heavy drugs, a seemingly open-ended period of housebound isolation & a subsequent hazy regression to roots and influences. The Silent Season is a fever-dream, embodying the period of physical stasis & marking a shift from the outsider pop structures of previous releases. Here instead the duo employ delirious, morphing synth structures intertwined with semi-lucid samples and haunting vocals. All tracks were recorded in improvised sessions over the course of January 2016, before being shared for finishing touches in Berlin. Tracks are presented inclusive of the players' errors, recording mistakes & creative decisions made without reference to consequence. 

"fragmented, distorted pop music, and its melted concoction of influences – from 80s no-wave to contemporary R&B – is transformed into an inebriated haze of synthesizer and vocals" - FACT

"While without doubt deeply rooted in drone and forward-thinking experimental, kosmische-informed synth music, what we have before us as a result are some of the most beautiful and honest pop music we've come across this year." - No Fear Of Pop

"thoroughly serious and unique, and more than coherent enough to stand up without tacked-on signifiers" - Resident Advisor

The Silent Season

Paco Sala - MS2000R workout nmbr 1

The Art Of Lovin'

And I Have Seen Them All

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want- She&Him

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - I Won't Hurt You 1967

New Jersey by Red House Painters

The Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer

Liliental - Wattwurm

Thunder road - Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Beach House-Silver Soul

Been blogging, music sharing, etc. for a while now (see blog under this name) & DJing since 1982. I like all kinds of music.

Most of my playlists are not organized & just hold songs I'm interested in, many of which I haven't listened to yet. The "freeform current listening" playlist is as it says & will be updated regularly. Many of my reposts were unintentional, they were just random tracks I was trying to add to a playlist using my phone & I've got clumsy fingers.

Mellow pop 10

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