January's flying by isn't it? Whoosh what was that? That's another month gone, can I do it again? Err no!
Still every day brings more and more hope and this month, more great music. For the first time in months I feel I'm ready for an intake of new music. But of course being in that position has issues, my iPod is running low on space and there's only so much music that can be compressed down to 128/44. On Saturday I finally plucked up the courage to install the iPod Touch 3.0 O/S released last year which I rebelled against because I felt it would compromise what little space I had left on the little box of magic, after 30 minutes and several reboots it somehow cleared nearly 300mb leaving me ridiculously happy. So I went on an iTunes shopping spree to celebrate.
A few nights previously the fantastic Daniela Bove (who I met at a Strange Folks gig back in August last year) and a friend of mine posted up a video link on Facebook to a guy called Charlie Winston (the brother of musician Tom Baxter), I took a gamble (as I did with a certain Omer Leshem many months ago) and was totally blown away. It's a video of Charlie filmed by some random on a street in Paris at 5am singing the seriously haunting and beautiful Calling Me.
When it finished I went in search of more music and was a tad disappointed with a mix of songs on MySpace which whilst being clever felt a bit complicated and not really what I was hoping for. But still being curious I decided to push on a couple of nights later having decided to buy Calling Me if nothing else. So I had a look and listen on iTunes and found quite a few songs I really liked. So I downloaded a fair few songs and now I can't stop playing them...
So do yourself a favour, head over to the iTunes store, go check him out...you'll not be sorry :-)
Nite nite x
Thursday 21 January 2010
Saturday 9 January 2010
2010....another vintage for music?
Hello and a seriously belated Happy New Year from a wintery swept, freezing, snow filled London, it's sure cold here and if there was any doubt that it was January, it's been dispelled the last week.
Still it's a new year and whilst it starts a cold one, it's a very promising one with so much cool stuff on the horizon so it's all good.
I'm back to a degree of form with a new musical recommendation to start the year off with. This is one of those odd finds that just happens to be a right place, right time thing. The other day I was checking out Joshua Radin's myspace page, mainly because he's currently recording his next studio album here in London and I wanted to see if he was playing any shows whilst he's over here. Turns out he's not which is a bit disappointing but in being a bit nosey and scrolling a touch too far down the page through the comments I found a guy promoting his new album....so I thought, what the heck have I got to lose?
As I discovered just a half hour later, I had gained...seriously gained! So to add to my plethora of unheard of unknown music which needs promoting...welcome Houston, Texas' very own Lee Alexander.
Lee's recent album Mayhaw Vaudeville (which is available as a free download through the insanely clever Noisetrade) is an 11 track collection of Folk, Rock, Country and Roots music of immense quality. The two things that struck me initially were the quality of songwriting and the outstandingly smooth and rich vocals. Interestingly Lee describes the album on his MySpace page as an experimental album, and I guess that accounts from the amazing variety in style of song, from the very country Okemah Moon through the mainstream Miles Between right through to the ridiculously beautiful Folk number Union Street (which I will hasten to add is one of the most beautiful songs I have heard in simply ages and has an amazing story which Lee has explained in a blog on his MySpace) and the equally beautiful Carol Ann (which is just too short at 2:20).
But like some of my favourite musicians, what impresses me the most about Lee (apart from the quality of the music) is the array of instruments Lee uses to create his music..."guitar, piano, violin, harmonica, mandolin, fife, & eaullian pipe." That I think you will agree is a seriously impressive list?!?
The album though is a absolute must have, yes there might be a couple of songs that don't quite do it for you, but that's the beauty of an experimental album. One thing's for certain, Lee Alexander will enrich your music collection, and all for either a financial donation or simply recommending 5 of your friends to download the album....and you know if you haven't got 5 friends who'd absolutely adore Lee's music, then you're either quite lonely or well...you just need to get some new friends :-)
This man is going places...mark my words!
Good start to the new year, from a chilly London...nite all xx
Still it's a new year and whilst it starts a cold one, it's a very promising one with so much cool stuff on the horizon so it's all good.
I'm back to a degree of form with a new musical recommendation to start the year off with. This is one of those odd finds that just happens to be a right place, right time thing. The other day I was checking out Joshua Radin's myspace page, mainly because he's currently recording his next studio album here in London and I wanted to see if he was playing any shows whilst he's over here. Turns out he's not which is a bit disappointing but in being a bit nosey and scrolling a touch too far down the page through the comments I found a guy promoting his new album....so I thought, what the heck have I got to lose?
As I discovered just a half hour later, I had gained...seriously gained! So to add to my plethora of unheard of unknown music which needs promoting...welcome Houston, Texas' very own Lee Alexander.
Lee's recent album Mayhaw Vaudeville (which is available as a free download through the insanely clever Noisetrade) is an 11 track collection of Folk, Rock, Country and Roots music of immense quality. The two things that struck me initially were the quality of songwriting and the outstandingly smooth and rich vocals. Interestingly Lee describes the album on his MySpace page as an experimental album, and I guess that accounts from the amazing variety in style of song, from the very country Okemah Moon through the mainstream Miles Between right through to the ridiculously beautiful Folk number Union Street (which I will hasten to add is one of the most beautiful songs I have heard in simply ages and has an amazing story which Lee has explained in a blog on his MySpace) and the equally beautiful Carol Ann (which is just too short at 2:20).
But like some of my favourite musicians, what impresses me the most about Lee (apart from the quality of the music) is the array of instruments Lee uses to create his music..."guitar, piano, violin, harmonica, mandolin, fife, & eaullian pipe." That I think you will agree is a seriously impressive list?!?
The album though is a absolute must have, yes there might be a couple of songs that don't quite do it for you, but that's the beauty of an experimental album. One thing's for certain, Lee Alexander will enrich your music collection, and all for either a financial donation or simply recommending 5 of your friends to download the album....and you know if you haven't got 5 friends who'd absolutely adore Lee's music, then you're either quite lonely or well...you just need to get some new friends :-)
This man is going places...mark my words!
Good start to the new year, from a chilly London...nite all xx
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