Sunday, June 30, 2024

ALBUM OF THE WEEK / Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition (1971)


Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It features the group's rock adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971.

The band had performed the Mussorgsky piece since their live debut in August 1970, after keyboardist Keith Emerson had attended an orchestral performance of the piece several years before and pitched the idea to guitarist and frontman Greg Lake and drummer Carl Palmer, who agreed to adapt it while contributing sections to the arrangement. The album concludes with the concert's encore, "Nut Rocker", a rock adaptation of The Nutcracker originally arranged by Kim Fowley and recorded by B. Bumble and the Stingers in 1962.

Pictures at an Exhibition went to number 3 on the UK Albums Chart and number 10 on the US Billboard 200. In 2001, it was reissued as a remastered edition that included a studio version of the piece recorded in 1993.


Full Album ELP: https://youtu.be/xWQct6D6HsM?si=kaczZ6TuY7QN77fZ




Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition: 

https://youtu.be/S-At9tWyrLs?si=E3d29f8ig9Y2pm5I





Emerson, Lake & Palmer // Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition : 

https://youtu.be/cUal4MKFvPk?si=F-yNDK5-H_tY6flz



Emerson, Lake & Palmer:

Keith Emerson – Hammond C3 and L100 organ, pipe organ, Moog modular synthesizer, Minimoog, Clavinet

Greg Lake – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals

Carl Palmer – drums, percussion


Source: wiki, YouTube


Song of the day / Donovan - Lalena (1968)

 "Laléna" (also spelled "Lalena") is the title of a composition by Donovan. Billboard described the single as a "beautiful and intriguing original ballad."


https://youtu.be/K5bdJPvrbOw?si=fEfsc4c4roCVyzK2



Cash Box said that "sweet strings accent a hauntingly beautiful folk-flavored ballad which gets stronger with each listen." Record World said that Donovan "uses his reedy voice exquisitely."


History:

In 2004, Donovan revealed that the song was inspired by the actress Lotte Lenya and that the song's lyrics, addressed to a societally marginalized woman, were Donovan's reaction to Lenya's character in the film version of The Threepenny Opera:


She's a streetwalker, but in the history of the world, in all nations, women have taken on various roles from priestess to whore to mother to maiden to wife. This guise of sexual power is very prominent, and therein I saw the plight of the character. Women have roles thrust upon them and make the best they can out of them, so I'm describing the character Lotte Lenya is playing, and a few other women I've seen during my life, but it's a composite character of women who are outcasts on the edge of society.


Friday, June 7, 2024

Song of the day / Deep Purple - Lalena (1969)

Deep Purple  - Lalena   (1969)

Album: Deep Purple 





Lyrics:

When the sun goes to bed

That's the time you raise your head

That's your lot in life, Lalena

Can't blame ya, Lalena

Arty tart, la de da

Can your heart get much sadder?

That's your lot in life, Lalena

Can't blame ya, oh Lalena

Run your hands through your hair

Paint your face with despair

That's your lot in life, Lalena

Can't blame ya, oh Lalena

Run your hands through your hair

Paint your face, paint your face up with despair

That's your lot in life, Lalena

I can't blame ya, oh Lalena

When the sun goes to bed

That's the time you raise your head

That's your lot in life, Lalena

I can't blame ya, Lalena

Arty tart, oh so la de da

Can your part ever get, ever get much sadder?

That's your lot in life, Lalena

I can't blame ya, oh Lalena

Oh Lalena

No no no, Lalena

I can't blame ya, I can't blame ya, Lalena

Oh Lalena

So la de da

Lalena



Humble Pie (Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Boogie Rock / England)

Humble Pie are an English rock band formed by singer-guitarists Peter Frampton and Steve Marriott in Moreton, Essex,[not verified in body] in 1969. Often regarded as one of the first supergroups in music, Humble Pie experienced moderate popularity and commercial success during the 1970s with hit songs such as "Black Coffee", "30 Days in the Hole", "I Don't Need No Doctor", "Hot 'n' Nasty" and "Natural Born Bugie" among others.


The original line-up of members featured lead singer/frontman and guitarist Steve Marriott of Small Faces, singer-guitarist Peter Frampton of the Herd, former Spooky Tooth bassist Greg Ridley and drummer Jerry Shirley from the Apostolic Intervention.


Origin: Moreton, Essex, England

Genres: Hard rock, blues rock, boogie rock

Years active: 1969-1975, 1979-1983, 1988-2000, 2001-2002, 2018-present.


Original members:

Steve Marriott – guitar, vocals, keyboards, harmonica (1969–1975, 1979–1983; died 1991)

Jerry Shirley – drums, keyboards (1969–1975, 1979–1981, 1988–1999, 2001–2002, 2018–present)

Greg Ridley – bass, vocals, guitar (1969–1975, 2001–2002; died 2003)

Peter Frampton – guitar, vocals, keyboards (1969–1971)

Current members:

Jerry Shirley – drums, percussion (1969–1975, 1979–1981, 1988–1999, 2001–2002, 2018–present)

Dave "Bucket" Colwell – guitar, backing vocals (2001–2002, 2018–present)

Ivan "Funkboy" Bodley – bass (2018–present)

Bobby Marks – drums, percussion (2018–present)

Jim Stapley – vocals, guitar, keyboards (2022–present)



Discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Pie#Discography


For Your Love (1970): https://youtu.be/1wOa0EzfxTo?si=jWqLujm0Ftj1Kc2-






Source: wikipedia

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Song of the Day - Emerson, Lake & Palmer // Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer // Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It features the group's rock adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971.

(In February 1971, Emerson, Lake & Palmer finished recording their second studio album "Tarkus". They resumed touring in the following month, which began with a UK leg that included a show at Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle on 26 March. The tour's setlist included their rock arrangement of the classical suite Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, which had been performed since their live debut in August 1970. Keyboardist Keith Emerson had attended an orchestral performance of the suite several years before, and bought a copy of the score. He pitched the idea of performing the suite to singer/bassist/guitarist Greg Lake and drummer Carl Palmer, who agreed to adapt it. Both members contributed their own arrangements and additions to the suite).


https://youtu.be/cUal4MKFvPk?si=IAo20EajpwuyCmEs :



Source: Wiki


Monday, April 8, 2024

ALBUM OF THE WEEK / David Bowie - Hours (Pop Rock , Art Pop)

 David Bowie - Hours (1999)



 


Hours (stylised as 'hours...' ) is the 22nd studio album by the English musician David Bowie. It was originally released on 21 September 1999 through the Internet on the artist's website BowieNet, followed by a physical CD release on 4 October through Virgin Records. It was one of the first albums by a major artist available to download over the Internet. Originating as a soundtrack to the video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999), Hours was the final collaboration between Bowie and guitarist Reeves Gabrels, with whom he had worked since 1988. The album was recorded in mid-1999 between studios in Bermuda and New York City. A song contest conducted on BowieNet in late 1998 resulted in a fan contributing lyrics and backing vocals to one of the tracks.

In contrast to the experimental nature of Bowie's other works throughout the decade, Hours presents a pop rock and art pop style reminiscent of Hunky Dory (1971), further evoking styles and ideals previously explored on Bowie's past works. The lyrics are introspective, detailing topics such as the collapse of relationships and subjects of angst. Also present are overtly Christian themes, which is reflected in the cover artwork. Inspired by the Pietà, it depicts the short-haired Bowie persona from the Earthling era, resting in the arms of a long-haired, more youthful version of Bowie. The title, originally The Dreamers, is a play on "ours".

Hours marked the final collaboration between Bowie and guitarist Reeves Gabrels , who departed following its release.

Track listing:

All tracks are written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels; except "What's Really Happening?", with lyrics by Alex Grant

(Standard edition)

1. "Thursday's Child" 5:24

2. "Something in the Air" 5:46

3. "Survive" 4:11

4. "If I'm Dreaming My Life" 7:04

5. "Seven" 4:04

6. "What's Really Happening?" 4:10

7. "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" 4:40

8. "New Angels of Promise" 4:35

9. "Brilliant Adventure" 1:54

10. "The Dreamers" 5:14


https://youtu.be/T8QOS4-zrwY?si=bfGmLaljsXwzoZz9 :




David Bowie: "The lyrics generally on the album are very simplistic, the simple things, I think, are expressed quite strongly. The music that we wrote for them is more of a supportive kind of music – it doesn't create two or three different focuses."


Source and more info:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours_(David_Bowie_album)#Release



Wednesday, September 13, 2023

ALBUM OF THE WEEK / Ayreon - The Source (2017)

Ayreon - The Source  (2017)



The Source is the ninth studio album from Ayreon, a progressive metal/rock opera project by Dutch musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen, released on 28 April 2017. It is Lucassen's first album under his new label, Mascot Label Group.


As with every Ayreon album, it is a concept album with each character being portrayed by one singer. Unlike the previous album The Theory of Everything, it marks a return to science fiction and the Ayreon storyline; it acts, in particular, as a prequel to 01011001, making it the first album in the storyline's chronology. In The Source, the Alphans, ancestors of humanity, try to prevent the extinction of their race from machines who took control of the entire planet Alpha, by sending a select few Alphans into space so they can attempt to start anew on a distant world.


In the typical style of the project, the album features several guest singers to portray the characters across the album; although Lucassen usually prefers to work only once with each singer in Ayreon, he mostly cast returning performers for The Source, including James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Simone Simons (Epica), Floor Jansen (Nightwish), Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian), Tobias Sammet (Edguy, Avantasia), Tommy Karevik (Kamelot, Seventh Wonder), and Russell Allen (Symphony X), together with newcomers such as Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me), for a total of eleven main vocalists.


Producer: Arjen Anthony Lucassen

Music  Publisher: Copyright Control

Composer: Arjen Anthony Lucassen

Lyricist: Arjen Anthony Lucassen


Plot

The Source is set before all previous albums, and tells the origins of the Forever, an alien race central to the Ayreon storyline. It acts as a prequel to 01011001. It is set in four parts, referred to as Chronicles. In the booklet, at the debut of each Chronicle is featured writings by The Historian (James LaBrie), giving more details about the story. 



More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(Ayreon_album)


Monterey Pop Festival 1967 (Summer of Love)


The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967  at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Monterey was the first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, attracting an estimated 55,000 total attendees with up to 90,000 people present at the event's peak at midnight on Sunday.

The Showground arena, where the performances took place, had 5,850 stand seats, but many others had floor and perimiter standing tickets. A charge of $1 was also allowed for people to enter the Fairgrounds without tickets to the actual arena, consequently approximately 200,000 were on the festival site over the 3 days.


Friday  June 16, 1967 

The Association 

The Paupers 

Lou Rawls 

Beverly 

Johnny Rivers 

The Animals 

Simon and Garfunkel 


Saturday June 17,1967 

Canned Heat 

Big Brother and the Holding Company 

Country Joe and The Fish 

Al Kooper 

The Butterfield Blues Band 

Quicksilver Messenger Service 

Steve Miller Band 

The Electric Flag 

Moby Grape 

Hugh Masekela 

The Byrds 

Laura Nyro 

Jefferson Airplane 

Booker T and The MG's 

Otis Redding 


Sunday June 18, 1967 

Ravi Shankar 

The Blues Project 

Big Brother and the Holding Company 

The Group With No Name 

Buffalo Springfield 

The Who 

Grateful Dead 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience 

Scott McKenzie 

The Mamas and the Papas 






The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the themes of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967. It also became the template for future music festivals, notably the Woodstock Festival two years later. 


The festival was planned in just seven weeks by promoter Lou Adler, John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, producer Alan Pariser, and publicist Derek Taylor. The festival board included members of The Beatles and The Beach Boys. The Monterey location had been known as the site for the long-running Monterey Jazz Festival and Monterey Folk Festival; the promoters saw the Monterey Pop festival as a way to validate rock music as an art form in the way jazz and folk were regarded. 


The artists performed for free, with all revenue donated to charity, with the exception of Ravi Shankar, who was paid $3,000 for his afternoon-long performance on the sitar. Country Joe and the Fish were paid $5,000 not by the festival itself, but from revenue generated from the D.A. Pennebaker documentary. 


The festival was later hailed as a triumph of organization and cooperation, setting a standard that few subsequent festivals have ever matched. 


Lou Adler later reflected: 

…ur idea for Monterey was to provide the best of everything -- sound equipment, sleeping and eating accommodations, transportation -- services that had never been provided for the artist before Monterey… 

We set up an on-site first aid clinic, because we knew there would be a need for medical supervision and that we would encounter drug-related problems. We didn't want people who got themselves into trouble and needed medical attention to go untreated. Nor did we want their problems to ruin or in any way disturb other people or disrupt the music… 

Our security worked with the Monterey police. The local law enforcement authorities never expected to like the people they came in contact with as much as they did. They never expected the spirit of 'Music, Love and Flowers' to take over to the point where they'd allow themselves to be festooned with flowers. 

Almost every aspect of The Monterey International Pop Festival was a first: although the audience was predominantly white, Monterey's bill was truly multi-cultural and crossed all musical boundaries, mixing folk, blues, jazz, soul, R&B, rock, psychedelia, pop and classical genres, boasting a line-up that put established stars like The Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel and The Byrds alongside groundbreaking new acts from the UK, the USA, South Africa and India. 


Performances: 


The Who 

Although already a big act in the UK, and gaining some attention in the US, Monterey was the concert that propelled The Who into the American mainstream. The band's famed performance was decided by a coin toss, since guitarists Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix each refused to go on after the other. 


The Jimi Hendrix Experience 

Hendrix, ended his Monterey performance with an unpredictable version of "Wild Thing", which he capped by kneeling over his guitar, pouring lighter fluid over it, setting it aflame, and then smashing it. This produced unforeseen sounds and these actions contributed to his rising popularity in the USA. 


Janis Joplin 

Monterey Pop was also one of the earliest major public performances for Janis Joplin, who appeared as a member of Big Brother and The Holding Company. Joplin was seen swigging from a bottle of Southern Comfort as she gave a provocative rendition of the song "Ball 'n' Chain". Columbia Records signed Big Brother and The Holding Company on the basis of their performance at Monterey. "I became a supporter of feminism watching Janis Joplin at the Monterey Festival", says John McCleary, author of The Hippie Dictionary. "A lot of people had similar experiences watching female role models with that kind of power, unafraid to express themselves sexually while demanding their rights." 


Otis Redding 

Monterey was the first time that soul star Otis Redding performed in front of a large and predominantly white audience in his home country. Redding, backed in his performance by Booker T. & The MG's, was included on the bill through the efforts of promoter Jerry Wexler, who saw the festival as an opportunity to advance Redding's career. Redding's show included his single "Respect" (which had become an even bigger hit for Aretha Franklin just weeks earlier). Although the festival finally gave Redding mainstream attention, it would be one of his last major performances. He died 6 months later in a plane crash at the age of 26. 


Ravi Shankar 

Ravi Shankar was another artist who was introduced to America at the Monterey festival. Eighteen minutes of Dhun in Dadra Tal and Teental, an excerpt from Shankar's four-hour performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, concluded the Monterey Pop film, introducing the artist to a new generation of music fans. 


The Mamas & the Papas 

The Mamas & the Papas performed the closing act of the festival as member John Phillips helped organize the festival. They also introduced several of the acts including Scott McKenzie. They played some of their biggest hits including Monday, Monday and California Dreamin'. 



Cancellations and no-shows: 

Several acts were also notable for their non-appearance


The Beach Boys, who had been involved in the conception of the event and at one point scheduled to close the show, failed to perform. 


The Kinks were invited, but could not get a work visa to enter the US due to a dispute with the American Federation of Musicians. 


Donovan was refused a visa to enter the United States because of a 1966 drug bust. 


Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band was also invited to appear but according to the liner notes for the CD reissue of their album Safe As Milk, the band turned the offer down at the insistence of guitarist Ry Cooder, who felt the group was not ready.


According to Eric Clapton, Cream did not perform because the band's manager wanted to make a bigger splash for their American debut. 


Dionne Warwick and the Impressions were advertised on some of the early posters for the event, but Warwick dropped out due to a conflict in booking that weekend: she was booked at the Fairmont Hotel and it was thought that if she canceled that appearance it would negatively affect her career. 


Though the logo for the band Kaleidoscope is seen in the film, they did not perform at Monterey Pop. 


Though The Beatles refused an invitation to play, they were assigned to the board of directors. George Harrison and Paul McCartney were seen in Monterey the weekend of the festival and most likely attended the concert incognito. 


Although The Rolling Stones did not play, guitarist and founder Brian Jones attended and appeared on stage to introduce Hendrix. 


Though it was long rumored that Love had declined an invitation to Woodstock, Mojo Magazine later confirmed that it was Monterey they had rejected. 


The Doors did not appear because the coordinators forgot to invite them. John Densmore, the bands drummer, in his book, "Riders on the Storm", expressed his belief that they were not invited because their music didn't express the ideals of the time, Peace and Love. 


Influence: 

Music writer Rusty DeSoto argues that pop music history tends to downplay the importance of Monterey in favour of the "bigger, higher-profile, more decadent" Woodstock Festival, held two years later. But, as he notes: 


…Monterey Pop was a seminal event: it was the first real rock festival ever held, featuring debut performances of bands that would shape the history of rock and affect popular culture from that day forward. The County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California… had been home to folk, jazz and blues festivals for many years. But the weekend of June 16 - 18, 1967 was the first time it was used to showcase rock music. 

The festival launched the careers of many who played there, making some of them into stars virtually overnight. Some artists who rose to popularity following their appearances at Monterey included Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Canned Heat, Otis Redding, Steve Miller and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. 


Monterey was also the first high-profile event to mix acts from major regional music centres in the U.S.A. — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Memphis and New York City — and it was the first time many of these bands had met each other in person. It was a particularly important meeting place for bands from the Bay Area and L.A., who had tended to regard each other with a degree of suspicion — Frank Zappa for one made no secret of his low regard for some of the San Francisco bands — and until that point the two scenes had been developing separately and along fairly distinct lines. Paul Kantner, of Jefferson Airplane, said, “The idea that San Francisco was heralding was a bit of freedom from oppression.” 


Monterey also marked a significant changing of the guard in British music. The Who and Eric Burdon & The New Animals represented the UK, with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones conspicuous by their absence. The Beatles had by then retired from touring and The Stones were unable to tour America due the recent drug busts and trials of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The Stone's Brian Jones appeared on his own, wafting through the crowd, resplendent in full psychedelic regalia, and appearing on stage briefly to introduce Jimi Hendrix. As it transpired, it was two more years before The Stones toured again, by which time Jones was dead; The Beatles never toured again. Meanwhile, The Who leaped into the breach and became the top UK touring act of the period. 


Also notable was the festival's innovative sound system, designed and built by audio engineer Abe Jacob, who started his career doing live sound for San Francisco bands, and went on to become a leading sound designer for the American theatre. Jacob's groundbreaking Monterey sound system was the progenitor of all the large-scale PA's that followed. It was a key factor in the festival's success and it was greatly appreciated by the artists -- in the Monterey film, David Crosby can clearly be seen saying "Great sound system!" to band-mate Chris Hillman at the start of The Byrds' performance. 


Electronic music pioneers Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause set up a booth at Monterey to demonstrate the new electronic music synthesizer developed by Robert Moog. Beaver and Krause had bought one of Moog's first synthesizers in 1966 and had spent a fruitless year trying to get someone in Hollywood interested in using it. Through their demonstration booth at Monterey, they gained the interest of acts including The Doors, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel and others. This quickly built into a steady stream of business and the eccentric Beaver was soon one of the busiest session men in L.A., and he and Krause earned a contract with Warner Brothers. 


Eric Burdon and The Animals later that same year sang a song about the festival entitled "Monterey", which quoted a line from the Byrds song "Renaissance Fair" ("I think that maybe I'm dreamin'"). In the song, Burdon mentions Monterey performers The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Hugh Masekela, The Grateful Dead, and The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones ("His Majesty Prince Jones smiled as he moved among the crowd"). The instruments used in the song imitate the styles of these performers. 


Recording and filming the festival: 


Main article: Monterey Pop 

The festival was the subject of an acclaimed documentary movie entitled Monterey Pop by noted documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker. Pennebaker's team used newly-developed portable 16mm color cameras equipped to record synchronized sound. Sound was captured by Wally Heider's mobile studio on state-of-the art eight-track tape. The Grateful Dead do not appear in the film, because the believed that this was too commercial, and thus refused to give permission to appear. 


An expanded version of the documentary has been released on DVD by the Criterion Collection. 


The audio recordings of the festival eventually became the basis for many albums. Most notable are the 1970 release Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival featuring the sets by Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix. Other releases recorded at the festival included The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Ravi Shankar. In 1992, a four-CD box set was released featuring performances by most of the artists; various other compilations have been released over the years. According to the radio promotional feature that accompanied the '92 box set release: on modified stages, including flatbed {Kaleidscope (LA)} trucks, set up in the surrounding environs, there were several spontaneous jam sessions for the overflow crowds, and erstwhile campers which included at the Monterey Peninsula Comm. College sports stadium (right across the Hwy. 1 interchange) where Jimi Hendrix flanked by (re: the Axis: Bold as Love cover) Jorma Kaukonen and John Cippolina played for the adoring throng. Reported locally also that Eric Burdon had checked out the provisions, and health care facilities. 


Source:: wikipedia.org 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival 

 


Sunday, July 9, 2023

Song of the Day / Eloy - Reflections from the Spheres Beyond

 

Eloy - Reflections from the Spheres Beyond 

Track from Eloy album Ocean 2 The Answer (1998)

Ocean 2: The Answer is the sixteenth studio album by German rock band Eloy, released in 1998. It was the conceptual and, some would say, musical follow-up to the band's 1977 album Ocean.

This album saw the addition to the band of drummer Bodo Schopf.

The keyboard outro to "Reflections from the Spheres Beyond" is very reminiscent of the main theme to the 1970s American sci-fi TV series, "Battlestar Galactica."


https://youtu.be/T6pJ24FEGeQ : 




https://youtu.be/ACW1ltOr9no :



Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Tangarine (Indi Folk / Netherlands)

Arnout and Sander Brinks of Tangarine have been the most famous singing brothers in the Netherlands for a decade and have become indispensable in the music landscape. They sing as only identical twins can. "Singing together, so beautiful that it seems to come from one mouth instead of two, wrote "de Volkskrant".


On June 23, 2023, the new full length album called 'Blank Cassette' will be released. An album that is characterized by strong melody lines and two-part harmonies and sounds both familiar and evokes a nostalgic feeling for the west coast and soft rock of the 1970s. The record includes the singles 'Big Star', 'City to the Country' and 'On the Road', with which they were frequently heard on radio and TV in the past year.

In 2014, Tangarine gained national fame as the house band of 'De Wereld Draait Door' and conquered the hearts of TV viewers. In the following years they released 4 albums, 2 EPs and several singles. Including the album 'There and Back', which they recorded together with the renowned American band Calexico in 2016. The brothers traveled to almost every stage in the Netherlands and played at festivals such as Lowlands, Haldern Pop and Into The Great Wide Open. Arnout and Sander were also named 'best dressed artist' by Esquire in 2017.

In addition to the release of the new album, Tangarine will be seen frequently on stage in the coming period, including this fall with their theater tour 'Running in the Family'.


Biography: 

Tangarine is a Dutch folk duo, consisting of the twins Sander Brinks (vocals, guitar) and Arnout Brinks (vocals, guitar).

'Tangarine' is formed by the twin brothers Sander and Arnout. They were born in Lelystad and moved to Assen at the age of nine. From the age of twelve, the brothers started writing and composing songs. Because they could not find a booker and record label, they decided to do everything themselves. They released a number of records, sometimes played together with their band 'Tangarine & Friends' and traveled all over the country to give performances (which they usually organized themselves).

In 2011 they played as support act for Tim Knol, where they came into contact with keyboard player Matthijs van Duijvenbode. He put them on the trail of Excelsior Recordings. In February 2012 they played in De Wereld Draait Door. An album that had already been recorded was scrapped and Tangarine recorded a new album, Seek & sigh, with Frans Hagenaars and Van Duijvenbode as producers. The album was released on April 12, 2013.

In the 2013/2014 season, Tangarine was the permanent house band of the television program De Wereld Draait Door.

On June 23, 2023, the new album Blank Cassette was released. The album includes the singles Big Star and City to the Country. For the recordings, the brothers worked together with producers Martijn Groeneveld and Christon Kloosterboer. Many musicians also play on the album, including a contribution by saxophonist Benjamin Herman in the song Still Kids.



Discography:


Albums:

- Between the lines (2008)

- Fields of Poetry  (2009)

- A Mystery That Binds Us, Still  (2010)

- Winter Songs - The December sessions (2010)

- Seek & sigh (2013)

- Move On  (2014)

- There and Back  (2016)

- Because of You  (2018)

- Barricade (2020)

- Shadow  (2021)

Y O U  (2021)

Blank Cassette  (2023)


Singles: 

This Old Robe (2008)

Fields of Poetry (2009)

Carry Your Stones (2010)

It's Alright (2014)

Move On, John (2014)

Things Go Like This Anyway (2016)

Home in Your Arms (2016)

New York City (2017)

Lemonade Sky (2018)

In Your Thoughts (2019)

Barricade (2020)

Shadow (2021)

Scars (2021)

Here with You (2022)

Big Star (2022)

City to the Country (2022)

On the Road (2023)

Words (2023)



You: https://youtu.be/ZjhkKnvMBbE  :





Source: Wikipedia

Song of the Day / Jonathan Jeremiah - Early Warning Sign

JONATHAN  JEREMIAH - "Early Warning Sign"  taken from his latest studio album 'Horsepower for the Streets'.


Early Warning Sign:   https://youtu.be/65NcWy33xis :





Source : YouTube

Monday, February 13, 2023

ALBUM OF THE WEEK - Evan Cheadle - Fault Line Serenade (2021)

Evan Cheadle - Fault Line Serenade (2021)


Evan Cheadle - Vocals, Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Slide Guitar, Piano, Bass, Organ, 12-string guitar

David Parry - Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Piano, Organ, Vibraphones, Mellotron

Clayton Linthicum - Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Steel Guitar

Maria Grigoryeva - Violin, Viola

Lyudmila Kadyrbaeva - Cello

Additional Strings - Colin Nealis

Brian Askew - Drums

Eli Browning - Drums

Ryan Boldt - Bass

Elan Noon - Backing Vocals, Glockenspiel

Fraser Roodbol - Backing Vocals


All songs written by Evan Cheadle

Produced by David Parry & Evan Cheadle


Full album: https://youtu.be/w27nHsD1TP0 :




Tracks:

No Love Lost

Sorrow in the Morning

I Hear the Singing

Joker Ice Water

Some Fool

First Morning Light

All Sing Out

Fumes

Look Out

So Wild

Float on Down the Line


Source: YouTube, https://evancheadle.bandcamp.com/album/fault-line-serenade



Monday, January 9, 2023

The Deep Dark Woods (alternative country, folk, folk rock / Canada)

The Deep Dark Woods are a Canadian folk band from Saskatoon, currently signed to Sugar Hill Records in the United States and Six Shooter Records in Canada. 

History:

First established in 2005, the band consisted of singer and guitarist Ryan Boldt, bass guitarist Chris Mason, guitarist Burke Barlow and drummer Lucas Goetz. Pianist and organist Geoff Hilhorst joined the group in 2009 after the release of their breakout album Winter Hours. Founding member Burke Barlow played guitar until 2012 when he left the group and was replaced by Clayton Linthicum. Founding Member Lucas Goetz left the group in late 2014, after which the band went on hiatus. In 2017 Chris Mason officially left the group.

They have released seven albums to date, and contributed an original song, "Charlie's (Is Coming Down)", to CBC Radio 2's Great Canadian Song Quest in 2009. Their fourth record, The Place I Left Behind, was released in Canada on Six Shooter Records in August 2011, and internationally on Sugar Hill Records on October 18, 2011. The band's fifth album, Jubilee was released on September 30, 2013 through Sugar Hill Records. The latest, Yarrow, was released on October 27, 2017 and was nominated for a Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year category in 2019.


Boldt has also released one album, Broadside Ballads, as a solo artist independently of the band.

Genres: Alternative country, folk, folk rock

Years active: 2005-present


Members:

- Ryan Boldt

- Geoff Hilhorst

- Evan Cheadle

- Leon Power

- Erik Nielsen

- Clayton Linthicum

- Mike Silverman


Past members:

- Burke Barlow

- Chris Mason

- Lucas Goetz


Discography:

Full albums:

- The Deep Dark Woods (2006)

- Hang Me, Oh Hang Me (2007)

- Winter Hours (2009)

- The Place I Left Behind (2011)

- Jubilee (2013)

- Yarrow (2017)

- Changing Faces (2021)


Singles: 

- Love Is Pleasing + The Tide Was Flowing b/w Lone Pilgrim (2018)


The Deep Dark Woods performs "River In The Pines" live in-studio for HearYa.com. The session was recorded in downtown Chicago at Shirk Music + Sound and sponsored by Beer Nuts.


The Place I Left Behind: https://youtu.be/sKKVF1cqGMU :



Source: wiki

More info: https://thedeepdarkwoods.com/about/