SnC 419 – Wired for sound
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<figcaption id="caption-attachment-5929" class="wp-caption-text">Fabulous sounds from Mozambique feature in this week’s show.</figcaption></figure>We’re well and truly wired for sound this week with news of a fascinating project based in South Africa which travels out to remote communities to record and promote local music.
It’s all very appropriate as the temperature keeps on rising here in Suffolk, that we have music from a Mozambique and a real desert in Mauritania.
Criminals – Groenland (Montreal, Canada)
The Chase is the debut album from Montreal’s orchestral indie pop band Groenland, led by Sabrina Halde and Jean-Vivier Lévesque, and was released on Aprll 16th, 2013, via Bonsound.
With 20K copies sold and counting since it’s release and 45K downloads of their single Immune as free Single of the week on iTunes Canada, the opus received several nominations such as Album of the Year – Anglophone and Album Design at L’Autre Gala de l’ADISQ.
In 2013, Groenland toured across Canada while giving unforgettable performances at Osheaga and at M for Montreal and were also invited to play at the Festival Off-Courts in Trouville-sur-mer (France), while their song Daydreaming was used as the closing track for the season premiere of The Good Wife (CBS) and the song The Chase was used for an online British Airways ad.
www.facebook.com/groenlandband
This Is The Place – Sam Brookes (London, UK)
“There is something of a Tim Buckley about Sam Brookes…a sense of powerful fragility…vast emotional reserves at work” The Independent
Sam Brookes has become part of the burgeoning acoustic music scene, gigging around the UK on his own and with his contempories.
His songs are, fundamentally, beautifully crafted stories about familiar subject matters that captivate the listener. Musically, his immaculate phrasing and beautifully modulated delivery create echoes of giants like John Martyn and Tim Buckley.
Speaking of echoes, for me there’s just too much reverb washed over this production. I know that with that much it has to be a conscious production decision but I find myself longing to hear the raw recording.
He self-released his album Kairos in March. Watch out for him. I think he’s quite a talent.
You’ll be able to catch him at a few upcoming UK dates:
Jul 23 Wet Fish Cafe, London
Jul 24 Field Sessions – The Bat and Ball, Wisborough Green
Jul 25 Secret Garden Party, w/ Hot Feet, Huntingdon
Jul 29 The Prince Albert, Stroud
Jul 30 Green Note Camden, London
Aug 01 Lusty Glaze Festival, Newquay
Aug 02 Kendal Calling FestivalKendal
www.facebook.com/sambrookesmusic
Stiff – Hot Pistol Shrimp (London, UK)
Inspired by the Stray Cats` image and the growling sound of Seattle`s rock, the trio combines unique attributes to complete their stage sound and appearance, as the three band members line – up in the front of the stage as equal members with George`s electric double bass in the middle and a quirky drum kit on the left side of the stage (no drummers left behind)
George George – Electric Double Bass, Vocals
Andrea Samengo – Guitar
Emily Dolan-Davies or maybe Danny Gebeshev or perhaps Ben Wollacott – Drums
www.facebook.com/hotpistolshrimp
Before It Gets Cold & Smile at Life – Sir Sultry (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Led by guitarist and vocalist, Ethan Margolis, the Los Angeles-based Sir Sultry Quintet fuses elements of flamenco, jazz and blues and recently released its first full length album entitled “Soleángeles” (July 15th, 2014). The name, Soleángeles is derived from the combination of two words: Soleá (Flamenco’s mother song) and Angeles (Los Angeles). The album was recorded in both Los Angeles and Seville, Spain.
After having lived 11 years in southern Spain performing with Gypsy artists and having lead sold-out international tours, the 36 year-old Margolis arrived in Los Angeles with a mission to further bridge the musical cultures of Spain and American Jazz and Blues. “Soleángeles” is Margolis’s first album to be officially released with this purpose and is truly a remarkable work where he features some of the USA’s top jazz musicians as well as the collaborations of his Gypsy Flamenco artist friends from Spain.
There’s a show coming up at Alvas Showroom in LA on Saturday.
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Eguetmar – Noura Mint Seymali (Mautritania)
From the Saharan capital of Nouakchott, Mauritania, Noura Mint Seymali embarked on a successful debut tour of the United States in September 2013, bringing sounds from the desert tents and urban courtyards where Moorish music lives to the American concert hall. From one of Mauritania’s most prominent Moorish griot families.
Tzenni (the album title) in Hassaniya means to circulate, to spin, to turn. It’s the name for a whirling dance performed to the music of Moorish griots, often under khaima tents thrown up for street gatherings in the sandy quartiers of Nouakchott and out across the wide deserts of Mauritania. Tzenni is an orbit, the movement of the earth around the sun, the daily progression of light and dark, lunar cycles, tides and winds. Tzenni, the dance, comes forth as the cyclical trajectory of
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