10E2482: Cat Power - Fool

10E2327: Fridays Are Tie Days - Robert Ellis

Fantastic cover of The Grand Tour (by the late George Jones) from Robert Ellis.
HT to T_C_F on this one... #tearjerker

UPDATE: forgot to mention - this guy playing at Great Scott in Boston area this Sunday Feb 16th - link.

10E2173: Shakey Graves

Total find. I'm late to the party no doubt. This guy being from Austin, you'd think w/ music scene he'd been pumped up everywhere, but he doesn't have a record out barely; first album Roll The Bones. He was at SXSW this year and picked by many outlets as one to watch -  but I'm out of that scene I guess... #latetotheparty Love his one-man-band approach and relaxed style in these barn clips recorded in Lubbock, TX (more here).

You might have guessed that Shakey Graves ain't his real name... the story is as below. He'll be at Pickathon in Portland, OR - that's early August.

10E2020: Shovels & Rope

They have a ton more on the youtubes. Shovels&Rope. Just released an album, but I am late to the party on this... via TheCountryF*cker

10E1996m: Tom Waits on Fallon

 Tom Waits on Jimmy Fallon last night performed Raised Right Men. Serious bar-jukebox music. Great coloring throughout and overhead shot to start. #autoreblog

10E1993m: "Hearts At Any Age" - new music from Flightless Buttress

 
New album from local duo [dont try and categorize them -ed.] Flightless Buttress will be released next week. The first single Tobin availalable to download now but also check out Dulcimer Part I and II

 

Plus, FB will open for indie folk rockers Saintseneca at Gallery 263 this Sunday; doors 7pm, $5.
Then on July 29, album release at The Burren in Davis Square.
Hearts At Any Age was produced and engineered by Dan Cardinal. Cover art by Fionn McCabe.
Flightless Buttress is John Nolan (Guitar, Piano, Melodica etc), Calin Peters (Cello, Dulcimer)

devon sproule -monk/monkey

Mentioned her a few times before; via OMIL.

all route 66 day tripper blues -featuring Carrie Wicks

All Route 66 Day Tripper Blues (feat. Carrie Wicks)

Seattle living sister-in-law Carrie Wicks steals the show in this one... Press play above if FF, for IE it is a link.

lambchop -gone tomorrow

Played Mr. M all weekend, Pops loved it. Also Ma and the kids went to some pro-am wrestling in someone's house. Not kidding. As below. Kids loved it. #bodyslam! #eyegouge! So this video for Lambchop's Gone Tomorrow is a natural fit.

lambchop -mr m

Limited to only 200 copies worldwide and only available directly from Frocksteady, this hand numbered deluxe, foil stamped linen box (size ca. 32 x 32 x 3,5cm) comes with a double LP of Lambchop's newest release, the CD/DVD limited edition, a special download card for even more extra tracks (5 remixes), and eleven 30 x 30cm art prints of Kurt Wagners original paintings used in the artwork. 99quid.

lambchop -gone tomorrow

Lambchop - Gone Tomorrow by cityslang

Felt like a long wait... but check this new release from Lambchop. Worth it... The song above just debuted on The Quietus.

Lambchop's eleventh album Mr. M is due out through City Slang on 20th February, and will be accompanied by a UK and European tour.

pina -wim wenders

Used to go to Sadlers Wells quite a bit when living in London. Do like a bit of modern dance. Wim Wenders has created this piece as a tribute to dancer and choreagrapher Pina Bausch. Showing in 3D. Could be quite intense I bet. Further reading.

robert j would have been 80 today

Robert J. Lurtsema, the host of WGBH's classical music program, Morning Pro Musica, he of the bass tones and pregnant pauses, a New England radio institution in the late 70's and 80's, would have been 80 today. Further reading.

Though Morning Pro Musica is not on the air anymore, the Dawn Chorus, also called Birds of Morning, is still used by WGBH Classical at 7am and 8am. It is the greatest way to wake up on the weekend. Set the alarm.

red heart the ticker

Tyler Gibbons and Robin MacArthur above form the band Red Heart The Ticker. Admit, I don't love every single thing they've done but you cannot deny their provenance; Robin's grandma Margaret was a famed oral historian and folklorist who recorded traditional and folk ballads around Vermont and performed them as well. She was called a "living art treasure of New England" at one time.

This idea of keeping saved works vital definitely gels with current archival thinking. RHTT have brought out an album of these songs; try Locks And Bolts below and preview the rest here.
Locks and Bolts by Red Heart the Ticker

The late Margaret MacArthur of Marlboro [VT -ed.] made a life's work out of collecting and reinterpreting songs that Vermonters sang.

She saw old songs not as museum pieces but as things kept alive by constant use - made to be picked up, reshaped and performed.

That's why collecting songs was only part of MacArthur's life's work: Performing them in recordings and in front of audiences was equally important.

(Robin MacArthur) "We actually got a Vermont Arts Council grant to record this record, and what we said is if songs are going to survive, part of the folk music process is to change and evolve and fit the times, so that they can reach new audiences."

For the album, she spent time going through the original field recordings her grandmother made, which are kept in the archives at the Folklife Center.

(RM) "Most of it was unaccompanied by instruments and the singing was very different from the way she sings them, and she added dulcimer and harp and guitar and had family members sing along, so she changed them in her own way, so we've just taken that another step into the future."

(RM) "A lot of them are written by women and from the perspective of women, so its kind of this oral-literary legacy from this place that otherwise is forgotten. Singing these songs myself has really changed the way that I feel and relate to the landscape around me."
-via VPR

aaron copland -appalachian spring

The music was commissioned by Martha Graham, and was still only known as The Ballet For Martha apparently until the day before the premier. The majority of the ballet was composed while Copland was in California and Mexico, with final touches added after he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts to teach at Harvard University. Completed in 1944, its first performance was October 30, 1944, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C [thx wiki -ed.]


The "light, bouncy, happy" sound was meant to be shorthand for clear eyed American-ness, and has perhaps become a cliched cue in soundtracks... The modern, minimalist ballet by Graham strips it back a bit; good one to check off your list.

basement jaxx vs metropole orkest

This should be the new Bond soundtrack... A few months ago Atlantic Jaxx Recordings & Basement Jaxx announced the release of an orchestral project in collaboration with the Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest and renowned London conductor and arranger, Jules Buckley.

Produced, orchestrated and arranged by Jules and Basement Jaxx’s Felix Buxton, the project features a full orchestra and a twenty piece choir as well as many of the singers from the Jaxx’s live shows, performing contemporary orchestral versions of the legendary Basement Jaxx back catalogue.

hoedown from the rodeo suite

Lighten the mood... anyway, love this piece. Above, music video for the classical music work 'Hoedown' from the Rodeo Suite by Aaron Copland. Stop motion animation in which various characters, inspired by cowboy films come to life. Made by Eleanor Stewart for her degree at the Glasgow School of Art.

tom waits -bad as me

First single from the same named album, Bad As Me from Tom Waits. Almost a touch of Screamin' Jay Hawkins here. Today there is some kind of streaming/listening opportunity for the album over at TomWaits.com but the site is getting completely hammered right now (ThaNks WeST COAST!) -try later. The listening party was this clip that has been floating around all monring. Bonkers as usual.

Update: watch the below and never think of Tom Waits the same way again. Or Cookie... So good.

late to the party -mountain man

Molly Sarlé, Amelia Meath, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig are Mountain Man. Formed while they were all in Bennington, VT, they create acoustic and a cappella vocal harmonies. Pretty spare, in a great way. Appalachian references. #bosh

Debut album Made The Harbor was recorded in the attic of an old ice cream parlor I understand. Got me...

radio soulwax -librarian girl

Would have posted this anyway but "Librarian Girl" put it over the top...

...new Radio Soulwax app and website from 2manydjs is a radio station with a difference, placing visuals at the heart of the listening experience...
The app is available for use on the iPad and iPhone, and launched just over a week ago containing six hour-long mixes. Each is set to an individual theme and accompanied by bespoke visuals. 2manydjs will then add a new hour-long set to the app each week, until, in a few months' time, users of the app will have a 24-hour musical extravaganza available for their listening and viewing pleasure.

Most of the films are animated album covers but Librarian Girl (referring to the archive librarian, and 'library' music being instrumentals for tv/film) has a creepy 60s vibe. Only a clip above, the full thing is scheduled for 6pm I think...

Found via the CreativeReview blog, bookmark these guys.