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JULIET
TURNER full Irish tour in 2008 to support the album:
09 May - Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim
10 May - Down Civic Arts Centre, Downpatrick
16 May - Draiocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown
07 June - Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
08 June - The Yard, Wexford
11 June - The Pavilion, Cork
12 June - The Empire, Belfast
14 June - Dolans Warehouse, Limerick
15 June - The Roisin Dubh, Galway
19 June - Whelans, Dublin
20 June - An Creggan Visitor Centre, Cookstown
21 June - Station House Theatre, Clifden
22 June - Sandino’s, Derry
25 June - New Music Club, Brazil Coffee House, Clonmel
27 June - The Spirit Store, Dundalk
05 July - The Forum, Waterford
24 July - Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh
26 July - The Grill Venue, Letterkenny
Please check out the gig guide on Juliet's
myspace site www.myspace.com/burntheblacksuit
or at www.julietturner.com for
further shows and details.
For bookings contact Derek Nally Management, dereknally@gmail.com
Turner's live shows should be experienced. She is a quiet, relaxed
performer with a wicked sense of humour. Her voice is unusually
clear and sweet and her between song anecdotes are amusing, eccentric
and off-the-cuff. Prepare to be drawn in and bowled over.
>>> For Information / Interview
requests / Promotional Copies contact Berube Communications on info@berubecommunications.com
or phone 0872442695 <<<
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“I
want to introduce you to one of my favourite guitar players in the
whole f**king world…. There are guitarists who are good and
some guitar players who are f**king good. And then there’s
Kaki King” - Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, live in concert at
the O2 Arena, November 2008
KAKI KING
“Dreaming Of Revenge”
Irish Release 27th June 2008 on Cooking Vinyl
www.myspace.com/kakiking
~ www.kakiking.com
“the
queen of instrumental nu-gaze guitar…dazzling”
– MOJO
“a cult guitar heroine on the indie fringes”
- The Independent
“laced with sonic invention, look no further”
- Guitar Magazine
“That’s Kaki King. She’s an amazing guitarist.
Go to Youtube and watch the video for Playing With Pink Noise. She
makes Eddie Van Halen look like he was in the Germs!”
– Dave Grohl, quoted in MOJO |
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For Information / Interview requests / Promotional Copies contact
Berube Communications on info@berubecommunications.com or phone
0872442695 <<<
Live
Performance on LATER...WITH JOOLS HOLLAND: Click Here
Kaki King has never been one for convention.
The awesomely talented guitarist and singer-songwriter has been
leaving audiences and listeners stunned with her unorthodox approach
to the acoustic guitar, and her latest album Dreaming
Of Revenge is set continue the trend.
When her previous album …Until We Felt Red
was released in November 2007, it was on the back of a wave of
unreservedly enthusiastic hype and excitement. Aside from her
own music, she has been nominated for Best Original Score
at the Golden Globe Awards for her soundtrack
to the Sean Penn film Into The Wild. King also
appeared in Kirsten Sheriden’s film August Rush,
performing as the main character's hands and playing his virtuosic
guitar parts, and she was the only female player included in Rolling
Stone Magazine’s ‘New Gods Of Guitar’.
On top of this, she has guested on the Foo Fighters’
latest album Echoes, Silence, Patience And Grace
and toured internationally with the band. The rave reviews of
…Until We Felt Red from both fans and critics
led her to appear on BBC 2’s Later…With Jools Holland
and secured her a full page feature in MOJO magazine.
Over her last two albums she has matured into a fully-fledged
composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist and Dreaming
Of Revenge continues to see her develop her musical style.
Having enjoyed significant acclaim for her bold departure of a
third record, ...Until We Felt Red, produced
with John McEntire (Tortoise, Sea & Cake, Stereolab),
King found her way from her New York City home to the studios
of sonic texturalist Malcolm Burn. She and Burn
have created a record that firmly establishes King’s position
on the cutting-edge of the post-singer/songwriter movement. Featuring
King’s tender vocals, drums, keyboards, lap steel, bass,
electric guitar and of course her trademark acoustic playing,
this collection of gorgeous and tuneful left-field indie and post-rock
is poised to be her breakout success.
Ruthlessly inventive, achingly beautiful and joyously carefree,
Kaki King’s music is the result of a seemingly effortless
natural gift for crafting songs and melodies that connect with
both the head and the heart. Dreaming Of Revenge
is a glorious wake-up call from one of the most dazzling musicians
around.
TRACKLISTING:
1. Bone Chaos In The Castle
2. Life Being What It Is
3. Sad American
4. Pull Me Out Alive
5. Montreal
6. Open Mouth
7. So Much For So Little
8. Saving Days In A Frozen Head
9. Air and Kilometers
10. Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be A Bad Person?
11. 2 O’Clock

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Debut
Recording from the ex-Salthouse Frontman ...
NIALL
COLFER
"After All That's Happened"
Taken from the Upcoming Album "Lines
& Space"
Out May 2nd in All Good Irish Record Shops on DILUTUS RECORDS
Available Worldwide May 9th on iTunes
www.myspace.com/niallcolfer
~ www.niallcolfer.com
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::: LIVE :::
Thursday 1st May 2008 - Crawdaddy, Harcourt Street, Dublin
'After all that's happened' launch
~ Support from CHAPLIN
Doors 8pm - Adm. 10 Euro
Free Copy of the Single for first 50 people.
Other
Upcoming NIALL COLFER Shows:
Wed 21st May 2008 - The Vine, Wexford
Fri 6th June 2008 - Electric Avenue, Wateford
Wed 29 August 2008 - Whelans, Dublin
>>>
For Information / Interview requests / Promotional Copies contact
Berube Communications on info@berubecommunications.com or phone
0872442695 <<<
Recorded
and produced over the last year partially in his home studio,
partially in Sun Studios with additional production by Gareth
Mannix, Lines & Space is Niall’s first solo project.
Playing many of the instruments on these new tracks himself, Niall
has honed a distinctive style; a hushed confidence of melody and
groove, inside disco, rock and sometimes even folk. Not afraid
to admit where his inspiration comes from, he says it’s
everything from love, loss, and the history of life. You’ll
find street scenes in one song, ancient maps in another.
Niall’s
songs come across as honest explorations of everyday feelings
without the smaltz. He hits a characteristic groove in each song,
which just continues on through, hooking you in. Together, the
songs leave an impression of subtlety, individualism and toe-tapping
rhythm, with lyrics that creep on up and get you thinking.
Lines
& Space, Niall’s forthcoming album, will include After
all that’s happened and Stole the Day. And with Lennart
Breternitz on bass and Barry Smullen on drums, Lines & Space
is set to offer more quietly brilliant gems generated from the
Dublin home studio.

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Forever
Presents ...
An
Evening With ...
WEEN
3 Hour Show ... No Support
::: LIVE ::: THE VILLAGE, Dublin
SATURDAY 17 MAY
TICKETS: 27.50 Euro - Includes Booking Fee - Different Fees Apply.
Max 4 Per Person
www.ticketmaster.ie
/ www.tickets.ie
More
Info on www.foreverpresents.ie
New
Album "La Cucaracha" Out
Now on Rounder Records |
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allow Dean Ween do all the talking about their latest album La Cucaracha....
Ok, let me first start off by saying that we vowed
never, ever, ever, would there be horns on a Ween
album. As teenagers we always used that as a yardstick to determine
when our favorite band was starting to suck, when their new record
came out and it had horns on it. (This rule applies only to Rock
music, and white people). But there has always been one provision
to this rule, and that was we would only use horns if we could
get David Sanborn to play some sexy saxophone on a Ween
tune. We finally wrote a song worthy of him, contacted his manager
and it turns out he was a Ween fan and immediately
agreed to do it. So that, in and of itself, means that we have
accomplished one of our lifelong goals as a band. As far as the
rest of the record goes, we wrote and recorded “La
Cucaracha” in a rented, moldy 200 year old farmhouse
in our hometown of New Hope, PA. It is one of the most disgusting
places I've ever had the displeasure of working and I'm sure that
Gener and Andrew Weiss will back me up on that one. None of us
will let our kids go there, I'm not lying to you. Right now I
have an upper respiratory infection that was initially spawned
by working in our black mold filled “studio.” Hell,
I wouldn't even let my dog crap in that place. After we move out,
I hope a tree falls on it so they have to bulldoze the building
to it's foundation, although the house is already about to cave
in on it's own. I also want to make a special point of mentioning
that we recorded this record to TAPE, 24 track, 2 inch TAPE. I'm
really less than thrilled that most people will probably download
2 tracks from it and listen to it on their I-pods. The 13 songs
that make up “La Cucaracha” represent
a very small portion of what we wrote and recorded. The real number
is about 50 songs. If you hate the album, you should hear what
we left off of it. Hold on a second, I have to spit a greenish
black gob of phlegm into the sink. This is also our first record
on the Rounder label and I feel obligated to mention how this
came to pass. The guy from Rounder drove down to New Hope from
Massachusetts and took us to lunch. We've been on a lot of labels
the past 23 years and had a lot of lunches and we've heard a lot
of “pitches”. After making small talk for the first
20 minutes I finally felt like I should ask him something, anything--
since he drove all the way down here. The only thing I could come
up with was “are there any other bands on Rounder comparable
to Ween? I mean when I think of Rounder Records
I think of all those Thorogood records and mostly folk type stuff.”
He said “no, not really.” We all started laughing
and the decision was made in our minds right there that this was
where we needed to be. Later that night we watched the Red Sox
game at our studio and then he drove back to Boston the next day.
That's the whole story, and now Ween is on Rounder.
Anyway, it's not my job to critique Ween and
measure one of our records against another, but I will say that
we are super happy with “La Cucaracha,”
we consider it to be a party record, unlike our last record which
was more of a Jonestown type party vibe. This record is a lot
more fun because that's where we're at right now. (I'm getting
teary-eyed just typing this). I'm gonna go deal with my tuberculosis
now.
- dean ween
Nicely put Dean....
For further information on the wonderful world
of WEEN go to:
www.ween.com
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Th'
Legendary Shack*Shakers started their hell-for-leather,
Penta-caustic roadshow just a few years ago and have since earned
quite a name for themselves with their unique brand of American
Gothic that is all-at-once irreverent, revisionist, dangerous, and
fun. Led by their wildly charismatic rail thin frontman, the blues-harpist
J.D. Wilkes, the Shack*Shakers are a four-man wrecking
crew from the South whose explosive interpretations of the blues,
punk, rock and country have made fans, critics and legions of potential
converts into true believers.
Described as '...the last great Rock and Roll frontman'
by Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys), Shack*Shakers front man
J.D. Wilkes began yelpin the blues through a ham
radio microphone at his boyhood home of Paducah, Kentucky...a short
farmer's blow away from where his future bassist Mark Robertson
was cutting his teeth on punk rock and gospel in Nashville, Tennessee.
When their paths crossed a few years later in the lawless honky
tonks of Music City's Lower Broadway scene, they found their individuated
styles and common interests meshed and that's when the like-minded,
red-headed musical misfits began their crusade. With the addition
of guitarist extraordinaire David Lee (South Carolina's
preeminent bad-ass and 'Illustrated Man') and drumming
wunderkind, Brett Whitacre, th' Legendary Shack*Shakers
have quickly become known for providing some of the best entertainment
(live or otherwise) that you can get for your hard earned money.
For the uninitiated, the band's debauched live show is the necessary
counterpart to their hard-hitting recordings. Hillbilly royalty,
Hank Williams III once said after touring with them that it was
'like having SLAYER open up for you every night,' and called
J.D. Wilkes and his crew, 'the best damn front man and band
in America.' On stage, J.D. Wilkes is like a mad southern preacher
with a bible in one hand and a glass of strychnine in the other.
Meshing Pentecostal themes with pained lyrics and show-stopping
moves that draw comparisons to Tom Waits and the grotesque facial
and bodily contortions of Iggy Pop, the band has developed a live
show like none other.
'We try to tap into basic primal instincts,' said Wilkes.
'Rock 'n' roll is a cathartic release. Anything that doesn't
realize that bestial nature isn't rock 'n' roll.'
The band is also well known for 'The CB Song',
a.k.a: the soundbed for the long-running 'Sunglasses' Geico commercial,
featuring the famous gecko spokeslizard.
In addition to his musical accolades, J.D. Wilkes has also
been recognized as an accomplished illustrator, painter, and filmmaker
whose works further the band's mission of celebrating and honoring
the tradition of the American south. Alarm Magazine recently described
him as the 'Ambassador of Genuine Traditional Southern Culture'
and compared his unique storytelling abilities to that of other
Southern voices such as William Faulkner, Johnny Cash and Muddy
Waters.
Listen
: Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
Swampblood (Yep Roc Records) is their latest album....
Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers southern gothic epic
has its latest chapter. With Swampblood the Colonel
JD Wilkes takes the muddled influence of his new home in western
Kentucky, pours it through the funnel of eerie south Louisiana bayou
culture, and shakes it up 'til it explodes with the thick swamp
blues of Slim Harpo. ? With this new offering the band plays with
Wilkes' idea that, 'The world needs a ?new Creedence Clearwater
Revival.' But don't think 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain,'
Swampblood is all 'Run Through the Jungle' with its heavy but accessible
chug-like the sound of a pirogue's plodding diesel outboard moving
past the fire-breathing refineries of Port Sulfur. ??Though treading
new ground, Swampblood holds true to the Shackshakers' signature
aesthetic, resting on the dark fringes of American culture, more
interested in the sinister nuances behind a frequently Rockwellian
facade. Musically, straight swamp blues swirls with rockabilly,
minor key polkas, and industrial rock all draped over Bo Diddly's
primal thumping heartbeat. ?

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Push
Promotion is delighted to announce that Jimmy
Edgar will be returning to Ireland to play for one
night only in Spy on South William Street, Dublin 2. Tickets are
on sale now price 14 Euro including booking fee from City Discs,
Spin Dizzy, Big Brother, Road Records, WAV 1890 200 078 and online
at www.tickets.ie.
CLICK
HERE to buy tickets securely online
Jimmy
Edgar - Fashion photographer, artist and musician ...
Detroit based Jimmy Edgar
has been making music since he was 10 years old, when he started
producing sounds electronically and fashioned his first analogue
pieces. Influenced mainly by Jazz, Funk, Street Beat and R&B
in these early years, he began his musical pursuits by playing the
drums in bands and by producing music using tape recorders. Jimmy's
intense love for music propelled him to learn many instruments,
including guitar, bass, saxophone, percussion instruments and drums.
In 1998, at the age of 15, he started performing at Detroit raves
with Techno pioneers such as Juan
Atkins, Kevin Saunderson and Derrick
May. Not long after making his debut on the Detroit
scene, Edgar signed his first record deal with New York based Isophlux
Records. His early releases were critically acclaimed and he attracted
a lot of attention within the music industry. Jimmy was quickly
courted by a number of other record labels including Merck Records,
who released his debut album "My
Mines I" in February of 2002. As his reputation
as one of the leading innovators and producers of electronic music
continued to grow, Warp Records made a successful bid to sign Jimmy
Edgar in 2003.
Growing up in Detroit, the birth place of Techno music, Jimmy has
a strong affinity for the musical genre. However, it is not easy
to pigeon-hole or label Jimmy Edgar's music to one particular style.
Although, he is noted for his development of a music style called
'glitch and error' (a unique deconstructive style of electronic
music based on Techno and Funk) his music is well received across
the music spectrum from indie-kids to techno-heads. He sits comfortably
on the Warp Records' roster along side label mates such as Battles,
Plaid and Clark.
His most recent releases are quite funky and Detroit sounding. They
display a unique ‘rhythmical fashion' - while managing to
remain fresh and eclectic yet retaining the minimal aesthetics of
breaking the rhythm and melody down to its prime components, Jimmy
has created a tight sound with an ultra-modern R&B glazed feel.
Combining a variety of genres such as Funk, R&B, Soul, Hip-hop
and classical music, Jimmy Edgar's current productions have depth,
texture and a whole lot of attitude.
Jimmy does not limit his artistic expression to music alone. The
visuals he creates to go along with his music are equally important
to him. His musical influences are surrounded by avant-garde art
movements such as minimalist concepts and strict colour schemes.
He is also recognised for his visual art installations and artwork
- both digital and handmade.
Jimmy Edgar is also an award winning fashion photographer whose
work can be seen in such publications as H Magazine, Spot Magazine,
Urb Magazine, Blink Magazine and more. When not producing and composing
music, he divides his time as a fashion photographer between Los
Angeles and New York City. Jimmy shoots in a varying of different
styles from new digital HDR technology, to medium format film inspired
by early Prada, Fendi and Calvin Klein ads.
Jimmy Edgar is a remarkably accomplished artist and only in his
25th year this young man has a stellar career ahead.
Come down and check Jimmy Edgar
out in the plush surroundings of Spy
on South William Street.
This is going to be a great night of music from a truly remarkable
and outstanding artist. A night that should not be missed!
www.jimmyedgar.com
www.myspace.com/colorstrip
www.jimmyedgarphotography.com
Tickets are
on sale now price 14 Euro including booking fee from City
Discs, Spin Dizzy, Big Brother, Road Records, WAV 1890 200 078
and online at www.tickets.ie.

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DR
JOHN
NEW ORLEANS ‘GREATEST
LIVING AMBASSADOR’ (NPR) HARNESSES RIGHTEOUS WRATH TO HEAL
OLD WOUNDS ON NEW ALBUM,
“CITY THAT CARE FORGOT”
www.cookingvinyl.com
/ www.drjohn.org
Irish Release 30th May on Cooking Vinyl |
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SONGS FUSE BLUES, FUNK AND SOUL ON POINTED AND POIGNANT LOVE LETTER
TO POST-HURRICANE KATRINA NEW ORLEANS
On “City That Care Forgot”,
released in Ireland Friday 30th May, Dr.
John delivers an elegantly elegiac homage to his drowned
hometown that's at once an incredible collection of songs - possibly
his best work of the past two decades - and a bold statement and
cultural event. Musically anchored with that legendary gravely drawl
and a buoyant riot of swamp-voodoo piano grooves (and aid from a
few friends like Eric Clapton) the album's 14 tracks also provide
a lyrical reminder that the rawness and divisions exposed by Hurricane
Katrina are as fresh as ever.
Infused with elements of barrelhouse funk and freewheeling proto-rock,
at times Dr. John raises as much hell as he does
questions. But his hopeful, if harrowing, songwriting never loses
the notion that once we start to address our problems we can heal
as a nation. The songs, at a time when the word "change"
seems to be everybody's buzzword, are at once a musical return to
roots, yet suffused with an unusual urgency.
On the loping, blues-inflected "Time For A Change",
Dr. John conjures what could be considered "What's
Going On" for the YouTube generation, as he manages
to provide a rollicking good time while holding forth on such on
issues as the war in Iraq and the current administration. In contrast,
the stirring title track is simple - and life-affirming - requiem
for the victims of Katrina - leading off an album that stands as
a sad, searing, sacrilegious, and ultimately auspicious statement
that promises to stand as one of the most compelling and enduring
musical statements of this complex era.
Regarded as a celebrated icon and peerless performer, Dr.
John's live shows continue to garner praise. The New York
Times pop critic Jon Pareles referred to a recent concert as "part
tradition, part theatre, and geared for a good time", whilst
Daily Variety writer David Sprague added, "A roof-raising
big-band boogie-monster”.
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Due
to unforseen circumstances EDWYN COLLINS' May 1st show at the Village,
Dublin has been cancelled. Full refunds available.
www.foreverpresents.ie |
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Edwyn
Collins
www.edwyncollins.com
~ www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomedwyncollins
Not Falling, But Laughing
The first the world heard of Edwyn Collins was
in February 1980 with the release of Falling And Laughing.
The debut single by his band, Orange Juice, it
was also the first offering from Postcard Records, the independent
label Edwyn co-founded with Alan Horne, run from the latter’s
sock drawer in a former Red Light district in Glasgow’s West
End. As a record, Falling And Laughing was a hopeless
cacophony of shrill guitars and an inexplicably loud bass drum pedal.
But as a song, it was a sublime celebration of unfulfilled ardour
to a tune that aimed to bridge the chasm between The Velvet Underground
and Chic. In the age of New Romantics, Edwyn arrived as a Real Romantic,
one unafraid to simultaneously embrace "the pleasure with
the pain".
After ten more records, including three increasingly inventive Orange
Juice singles, Postcard closed its sock drawer in late
1981. It would be another two decades before Edwyn and Horne’s
endeavours would be belatedly recognised as a key foundation stone
for indie music, particularly in Scotland where Primal Scream, Belle
And Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand would all follow, and acknowledge,
Orange Juice’s trailblazing example.
In the interim, Edwyn took Orange Juice into the
Top 10 with 1983’s Rip It Up, perhaps the
epitome of their Velvets/Chic punk-funk hybrid, complete with Buzzcocks-homage
guitar solo. Alas, the pleasure of performing the song on Top
Of The Pops was neutered by the pain of Legs &
Co ripping up tissue paper whilst dancing on an adjoining
stage. Jinxed thereafter, Orange Juice would later
close their proverbial sock drawer in 1985.
Edwyn immediately embarked on a solo career, though it would be
ten years before he found himself back on Top Of The Pops with 1995’s
A Girl Like You. Luckily, this time Legs &
Co were nowhere to be seen. Better still, the song’s northern
soul groove and Isley Brothers guitar frills rewarded Edwyn with
a genuine "worldwide smash" and enough royalties
to fill a thousand sock drawers. Life, suddenly, was all pleasure.
Fast forward another decade to February 2005, when Edwyn had just
finished recording songs for his sixth solo album. Among the rough
mixes in the can was a track called One Is A Lonely Number.
Exactly 25 years after Falling And Laughing, it
saw the Old Romantic still embracing life’s pleasure with
its pain: "If life breaks your heart, you needn’t
fall apart." Little could he have realised how profoundly
prophetic these words would become in the months that followed.
On Sunday, February 20, 2005, Edwyn was admitted to hospital after
collapsing at home. He was later diagnosed with having suffered
two cerebral haemorrhages and underwent a precarious neurological
operation. Incredibly, through a combination of surgical brilliance,
the heroic support of his family and his own seemingly invincible
will power, Edwyn pulled through. Six months after his stroke, he
was back at home. But more phenomenal still was his determination
to overcome the physical after-effects hindering his movement and
speech so he could return to the studio and finish the album he’d
already begun.
The result is Home Again, a testament not only
to Edwyn Collins the songwriter, but Edwyn the man and his resolute
spirit. "This is hard for me," admits Edwyn.
"I’m learning to live again after my stroke. But
I am happy and contented also. I’m very pleased with the album
and with the songs. I’m getting there and I feel grateful
at last."
Recorded at Edwyn’s West Heath Studios in the six months prior
to his illness, Home Again was mixed after his
discharge from hospital with the help of engineer Seb Lewsley. "I
said, Righto, Seb! Let’s start the mix," smiles
Edwyn. "Bass up! Drums up! Let’s see how the thing
develops. Like that, back and forth and back and forth and so on."
Three years in the making, Home Again is by far
the most remarkable solo album of Edwyn’s career, as much
for its depth of content as the exceptional circumstances surrounding
its creation. "You think so?" laughs Edwyn. "I’m
just happy to get it finished!"
The poignant sentiment of the aforementioned One Is A Lonely
Number makes for a perfect opener, its soundtrack a wonderfully
eclectic fusion of dub bass and hillbilly banjo. "It is
scary," says Edwyn of the song’s eerie lyrical resonance
with his own recent trauma ("’Cos you’ve still
got your mind/ Which will serve you in kind/ If you’re true
to yourself.") "But it’s a great song," he
adds. "When I hear it now, the lovely chords. I have sadness
in my voice, but joy in my heart."
Much of Home Again is concerned with themes of
self-discovery and retracing one’s roots. The beautiful title
track, a wistful acoustic ballad where Edwyn reflects on his life’s
back pages, is among his personal favourites. When he first awoke
in hospital, he says it’s the tune he wanted to hear most.
"At first, I needed quiet. But then, Where’s my music?
My guitar? Where’s Home Again?," he laughs. "I
am very proud of that song."
Home for Edwyn is North London, where he lives with his partner
Grace and their son, William. But home is also Helmsdale, a coastal
village in Caithness in the East Highlands of Scotland where Edwyn’s
family originate. A place that’s "lonely and relaxing
at the same time" says Edwyn, it inspired the album’s
brooding folk epic, Leviathan. Its lyrics mention local landmark,
The Whaligoe Steps: a staircase cut into a cliff face with 365 steps,
"[one] for each day of the year." Says Edwyn,
"I enjoy it up there immensely. The peacefulness and tranquillity.
It’s a solitary life, but I find it liberating."
The same Caithness landscape reappears in Liberteenage Rag,
Edwyn promising to return "way up north where they know
my name" over a nimbly-plucked campfire-guitar vamp with
echoes of early T. Rex. Escaping the hubbub of the Big Smoke also
informs A Heavy Sigh, while the equally sanguine
Written In Stone sees Edwyn once again striving
"to find my way home." Between the introspective
soul-searching, there’s also romance (the delicate
In Your Heart and the bittersweet One Track Mind),
religion (blues rocker 7th Son) and satire, with the Dylan-ish Superstar
Talking Blues showing Edwyn’s not lost his gift for
a witty rhyming couplet: "Now it’s Hello Motorola/Goodbye
rock’n’rollers." Meanwhile, the gorgeous,
lovelorn You’ll Never Know is a return to
roots of a different kind, namely the Philly-via-Bearsden white
soul of classic Orange Juice.
Fittingly, Home Again ends with Edwyn falling in
love and breaking his heart on Then I Cried, thus returning
full circle to the agony and the ecstasy of Falling And Laughing.
"It’s just one of those little songs about tears and
sadness," says Edwyn modestly. "It happened quickly
in the studio one day. A nice little ending."
Finishing Home Again has been a Herculean struggle,
but Edwyn’s perseverance has more than paid off. Asked to
rate it against his entire body of work, Orange Juice included,
Edwyn ponders for a few seconds. "Home Again,"
he finally says, "it’s perfect. These songs are me.
This is who I am."
Home Again is the end of an incredible journey,
but also the beginning of another. Edwyn is currently rehearsing
with his band and hopes to make his return to live performance this
autumn. "I sing every day," he says. "I’m
getting better and better. It’s important for me. Music, it’s
everything to me."
Despite all that he’s been through, in 2007 the Edwyn
Collins of Home Again is not falling,
but laughing. "My outlook on life has not changed. I’m
chirpy and quite contented. I was dead, and I was resurrected again,"
he says, suddenly chuckling to himself.
"So, the show must go on!"
Edwyn Collins. Welcome home.

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Forever
Presents ...
The
MAGNETIC FIELDS
Dublin Show added to 2008
European Tour
::: LIVE ::: Vicar Street,
Dublin - July 8, 2008
€33.00 inc booking fee - Tickets
will be on sale starting Friday, April 18 through Ticketmaster
More Info on www.foreverpresents.ie
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New Album: "DISTORTION"
Out Now on Nonesuch Records (Warner Music)
‘The NYC industro-showtune geniuses return with another masterpiece,
this time sounding like Psychocandy: The Musical.’ NME
The Magnetic Fields’
new album Distortion
was released in January by Nonesuch Records. The band’s eighth
album, and second Nonesuch release, is a follow-up to 2004’s
critically acclaimed i,
an album whose songs all began with the letter ‘i’, and
whose sound Magnetic Fields
songwriter and frontman Stephin
Merritt has referred to as “self-consciously
soft rock”. Distortion
is both a departure from and a response to i:
an album of three-minute power-pop songs, composed and produced by
Merritt and co-sung by Merritt and his longtime friend Shirley
Simms. [Simms also sang on Merritt’s 1999 opus,
69 Love Songs.]
Distortion features the single, ‘California
Girls’
On Distortion,
every instrument (except the drums) was made to purposely feed back,
creating a distorted ambient roar that informs this album’s
sound. “I don’t know if anyone has done feedback piano
before,” Merritt explains. “The whole record
has feedback acoustic piano. We put the amplifier directly up against
the frame of the piano and turned it up enough to start feeding back.”
The album also features feedback guitar, feedback cello, and even
feedback accordion."
Distortion
may startle those fans of Merritt’s who are more used to his
quieter approach on the last Magnetic
Fields album, but he is quick to point out that his
decade-plus career has produced a wide range of styles. He jokes,
“Many of my rock-oriented fans refused to buy any record
called Showtunes,” referring to his 2006 compilation of songs
from his work with Chinese theatre director Chen Shi-Zheng, and adds;
“So this one is for them.”
The initial inspiration for Distortion
was the upfront metal-machine drone and submerged Ronettes romanticism
of Jesus And Mary Chain’s 1985 post-punk landmark Psychocandy.
Merritt takes that concept a step further, radically altering the
entire sound of his chamber-pop ensemble (cellist
Sam Davol, pianist Claudia Gonson, and lead
guitarist John Woo, plus Daniel
Handler on accordion). His goal was “to
sound more like Jesus and Mary Chain than Jesus and Mary Chain.”
The Magnetic Fields
will perform a series of short residencies in several American cities
to support Distortion,
however they will not bring the feedback on the road, to protect themselves
from hearing damage. Merritt states: “We make records that
can’t be duplicated live, and then we go out and do it completely
differently.”
In 1999, the Magnetic Fields’
three-CD collection 69 Love
Songs established Stephin Merritt as one of this generation’s
most talented songwriters, and their most recent album, i,
followed in 2004. Merritt has also released numerous other albums
with his bands Future Bible
Heroes, the Gothic
Archies, and the 6ths,
as well as soundtracks to the films Eban
and Charley
and Pieces of April,
the theatre album Showtunes,
and a record of songs to accompany the popular Lemony
Snicket books, entitled The
Gothic Archies: The
Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate
Events (all on Nonesuch).
Tracklisting:
1. Three-Way
2. California Girls
3. Old Fools
4. Xavier Says
5. Mr Mistletoe
6. Please Stop Dancing
7. Drive On, Driver
8. Too Drunk To Dream
9. Till The Bitter End
10. I’ll Dream Alone
11. The Nun’s Litany
12. Zombie Boy
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PUSA in Ireland as part of their current World Tour:
* Belfast:
Friday April 25th - Spring & Airbrake
* Dublin: Saturday April 26th - Tripod
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For Information / Interview requests / Promotional Copies contact
Berube Communications on info@berubecommunications.com or phone
0872442695 <<<
Mixed
Up S.O.B. video - CLICK HERE
The Presidents of the United States of America
will be releasing a new single, “Mixed Up S.O.B”
on Friday 25th April. Taken from their new album, These
Are The Good Times People, the single will be available
on CD and as a digital download bundle, and features two new tracks,
“Ballad of the Unstoppable Female (The Anna Nicole
Smith Story)” and “Fire The Pilot”.
The accompanying promo video for “Mixed Up S.O.B”
which was directed by Weird Al Yankovic, is currently
the #1 video on YouTube’s Indie/ Alternative chart, #2 on
YouTube’s Rock chart and the #4 music video overall on YouTube.
With These
Are The Good Times People, PUSA have delivered
an inventive, uplifting and often brilliant rock & roll album.
Recorded with Northwest legends The Fastbacks’
and Young Fresh Fellows own Kurt Bloch
(Robyn Hitchcock, Mudhoney, Les Thugs) and mixed by Martin
Feveyear (Screaming Trees, The Epoxies, Amber Pacific).
PUSA dig deep and pull off their most diverse and accomplished record
yet on These Are The Good Times People, which shares
the landscape with recent acclaimed efforts by like-minded groups
The Hives and They Might Be Giants.
The Seattle-based
groups' eponymous debut burst into the public eye in 1995 on the
strength of radio smashes like "Lump"
and "Peaches". They have been serving
out their trademark joy-pop to crowds worldwide ever since. Their
most recent campaign, around 2004's Love Everybody
- featured sold out concerts in cities across the globe, including
London, Amsterdam, Sydney, and Medford, OR. At these frenetic performances,
blissed-out teens by the thousands have served as testament to PUSA’s
timelessness.

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Russia! have announced that they will be releasing their
second album, Life Processes, on 14th April. This
will be their first album for Cooking Vinyl, having
previously released their material through guitarist Whiskas’,
Dance To The Radio label. The album will be preceded by a
single, Breaking Standing. Regarding
the decision to leave Dance To The Radio, Whiskas
explains, “It was a joy to be involved on a massive creative
level with this album and with so much investment in that aspect
of the record, it seemed wrong and I felt unable to plough that
attention into it's release - so as a whole band we thought it would
be best to seek an independent outlet for Life Processes. With Cooking
Vinyl so enthusiastic about the album, we've felt quite comfortable
throughout the change”
Life
Processes
is a considerable advancement from the scratchily acerbic, post-hardcore
histrionics of its predecessor, and has been shaped with the assistance
of renowed producer Matt Bayles (The Blood
Brothers, Mastodon, Minus The Bear, Pearl Jam), in Seattle.
The 11 tracks find the band honing their eruptive sound, resulting
in a cohesive, intricate and expertly layered experience. “People
may be surprised by some of the quieter, prettier parts; some of
the heavier parts will raise eyebrows, too,” says singer
Tom Woodhead. “‘Spanish Triangles’ is the
song that will be mentioned most with regard to our ‘new direction’.”
Spanish
Triangles will be available as an exclusive free download
via RCRD LBL - www.rcrdlbl.com/sublabels/DRWND_IN_SND
iForward,
Russia!
are: Rob Canning (bass) / Katie Nicholls (drums) / Whiskas (guitar)
/ Tom Woodhead (vocals, keys)

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the release of their third studio album ‘PROMISE LANDS’
Lowgold return with the outstanding "BURNING EMBERS"
on Goldhawk recordings, hitting the shops digitally on April
21st.
Burning Embers is widescreen indie-pop
revivalism, (Lowgold are officially the saviours of this genre)
at its best, it's a soulful introspection, an ode to capturing the
moment and wishing that it was forever unending. It’s a song
that smoulders and builds before sonically ascending and propelling
the listener into the musical stratosphere.
By concocting melting synths, soaring guitars and
Darren Ford’s heartfelt vocal melodies to
a lush and infectious pop arrangement, Lowgold
have created a song that is as pitch perfect as it is beautiful
and intimate.
Burning Embers is backed by an amazing video
directed by Phil Tidy at Draw Pictures
(Oasis, Girls Aloud). It is a remarkable splicing of 2001:
A Space Odyssey with Gorillas In The Mist. The band document the
evolution of man and music, beating basic wooden instruments in
the thick forest of the Congo, only to finish as fully fledged indie
rock astronauts on a boating jetty in Oxfordshire.
The band are also set to launch their fabulous new
look website which brilliantly pastiches the world famous google
homepage. lowgold.co.uk can still act as a functioning search engine
so can be used as a homepage by the fans of the band. ~It’s
complete genius.
Check out the video online at www.lowgold.co.uk
/ www.cookingvinyl.com
Lowgold are,
Darren Ford – Vox, Guitar, Drums
Daniel Symons - Guitar
Miles Willey - Bass
Burning Embers released on 21st April is preceded by the Lowgold’s
3rd studio LP Promise Lands on 31st March on Goldhawk Recordings.
>>>
For Information / Interview requests / Promotional Copies contact
Berube Communications on info@berubecommunications.com
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RICHMOND
FONTAINE'S Willy Vlautin With Paul Brainard
www.richmondfontaine.com
~ www.myspace.com/richmondfontaine
ACOUSTIC / NORTHLINE TOUR
- Irish Dates:
April 25 -- Dublin - Whelans (Upstairs)
April 26 -- Belfast - McHughs
April 27 -- Limerick - Dolans (Upstairs)
April 28 -- Cork - Cyprus Ave
April 29 -- Galway - The Crane |
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Vlautin returns for his first acoustic headline set
covering songs from his entire career. He will be supporting
his new novel on Faber & Faber, NORTHLINE,
which comes with it’s own soundtrack joined by his pedal
steel and trumpet player, Paul Brainard (also of the
Sadies) the shows will be a full set of music with
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label the bands the new "Kings of Americana"
and has awarded them two albums of the month and placed “Post
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album and ep features performances from Joey Burns (Calexico)
Howe Gelb (Giant Sand/Sno Angel), and Jacob
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Since arriving
on Irish shores for the first time in 2004 as part of the Kilkenny
Roots Festival, Richmond
Fontaine have been leading the Alt-country Americana
scene and just were awareded the best album and act by Americana
UK for 2007 last month. They have put out a total of seven albums
since forming in 1994 out of Portland Oregon. Richmond Fontaine
have built themselves up from an SST cowpunk inspired band to a
diverse and, at times, amazing live act leading them to be labelled
the “Kings of Americana”. They have
been compared to the likes of the Replacements,
Blasters, Wilco and Ryan
Adams. There last release “Thirteen Cities”
sees the band evovling into one of the most interesting and intense
leaders of literate rock from which the likes of Bob Dylan
and Tom Waits have paved the way.
February saw the release of Willy Vlautin’s
second novel, Northline, for Faber & Faber
which has also gathered huge praise and it is the first time that
an author has included his own original soundtrack to go along with
the book which has already gathered 4 and 5 star reviews from Mojo
and UNCUT
The bands last albums “The Fitzgerald” (2005)
and the alt country classic “Post To Wire” (2004)
both of which have been declared modern-day masterpieces and garnerd
“albums of the month” with 5 stars
in UNCUT who declared them the best new band in
the world during 2005. Thirteen Cities has already
received 4 star reviews in UNCUT and Mojo
comparing Vlautin’s writing again to Waits
and Springsteen.
"Vlautin's sharply distilled stories and disconnected melodies
are a haunting soundtrack for a lost generation." Joe
Breen, IRISH TIMES
"For all those still travelling Springsteen’s Thunder
Road, Richmond Fontaine are the new drivers” ****
Jamie Bowman, (THE) WORD
“nothing less than the Dylan of the dislocated”
**** Simmy Richman, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
7/10 NME, MOJO 4/5, UNCUT 5/5
"A future classic of American down-beat prose." Dazed
& Confused
“...cheerless
black, the colour of a world in mourning, for which Post To Wire
is an exquisite soundtrack. Uncut’s discovery of the year….Fans
of a certain kind of orphaned Americana are likely to fall on Post
To Wire like apostles on The Grail. By which I mean anyone who’s
been touched where it hurts by American Music Club, The Replacements,
Uncle Tupelo, Ryan Adams, Dave Alvin or Gram Parsons will soon be
entirely enthralled with this dark and mesmerizing masterpiece Brilliant.”
***** Uncut - Album of the Month
“Without a doubt, the best album of the decade so far”
COMES WITH A SMILE
"Vlautin's
one of the most compelling songwriters working today, compared equally
to great American novelists like Raymond Carver or John Steinbeck
and musicians such as Bruce Springsteen or Tom Waits"
4.5/5 THE SUN
“Importantly Richmond Fontaine’s America is not
a mythic or exagerrated one. They capture the bleak mundanity of
small-town life, and turn it into unforgiving art” ****
THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
“A brave departure for those who can find its dusty and
desolate charms” THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
“The most beautiful sad album of the year” Q
Magazine 4/5
“A worthy companion, to Springsteen’s recent songbook.”
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www.aintunes.com
~ www.myspace.com/notain
Ain will play the following
dates:
May 1st, May 7th, May 13th and May 22nd.
WHELANS (Upstairs), Dublin
TICKETS: 10 Euro - includes booking fee
www.tickets.ie
~ info@wavtickets.com
or 1890200078
There will be different guests on each night.
Doors are at 8pm.
Performing
on RTE TV's "THE VIEW" - Click Here
"There's a bit of Neil Young to his raw-boned croon, and
more than a bit of the Bad Seeds to the lurid pictures he paints
of his "dead-eyed mistress". Excellent listening for the
bleak midwinter." - Caroline Sullivan / The Guardian
"Wanna take a walk down some interesting folk pathways?
Here's a good place to start!" - Kevin Courtney
/ Irish Times
"With a six-string at his disposal he bares
his soul and taps into the barely there, slow-picking intensity
of the gloomier Delta blues guys, albeit with a sweet voice that
makes him more akin to Will Oldham". - Chris Parkin
/ Time Out (London)
"This mini-album of folksy-blues from Kildare
man Ain is so quietly tender that you get the impression he recorded
the tracks next to asleeping baby. There's a whiff of Willy Mason
and a young Ben Kweller in the vocals, which compliments the sparseness
of the lone guitar accompaniment" -
Una Mullally / Sunday Tribune
“Imagine a skinny white indie kid tackling the Delta blues
of Mississippi John Hurt…Amazing.” - NME
"Recalling the ambient shredding Durutti Column, Close
to Cotton is seductively down tempo, an album ripe with nuance and
sad eerie melodies" - Ed Power / Hot Press
"(Close to Cotton) one of the most addictive 20 minutes
of addictive acoustic guitar ramblings from an Irish singer-songwriter
in quite awhile" - John Joe Worrall / STATE Magazine
>>>
For Information / Interview requests / Promotional Copies contact
Berube Communications on info@berubecommunications.com or phone
0872442695 <<<
This is his story so far.....
Ain
is from Kildare, Ireland.
He came to Dublin as a teenager
Started a band with some friends, called The Opiates.
Fast forward
a couple of years and the desire to be Thurston Moore has since
subsided, to be replaced by a bevy of influences – the most
rooted of which stem from the deep south delta blues of Mississippi
John Hurt, Walter Tangle Eye Jackson and the like.
Imagine the
haunting howls of Skip James on “Devil
Got My Woman,” invoked today with all relevance in
tact.
This is the skewd folk-blues of Ain's laments.
From the Delta
blues and a host of other influences from My Bloody Valentine through
Mazzy Star to Suicide, that Ain's off-kilter, Folk-Blues emerged.
His song writing treads a path between the raw, beauty of Will Oldham
and the depraved solace of Elliott Smith - “I like the
idea of finding comfort in the appeal of bad things, depraved things…
And it goes well with the themes of death, boredom and well…”.
Ain
took his EKO guitar to London Town and earlier this summer, entered
2Khz Studio with Ian Grimble in West London and the result is the
gloriously understated, six-track mini-album, 'Close To
Cotton'.
v.s.u.
Sold Heaven
Sunday
Inside Arc
Spill Our Hands
Close To Cotton
“Close
To Cotton” is now available on CD or download.
More
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Live
footage from an 18 month World Tour showcases Marley at his finest
Reggae icon Ziggy Marley releases a full-length live
concert DVD. The Love Is My Religion was taped live
at Los Angeles’ Avalon Theatre in December 2006. The most extensive
worldwide tour of his career that wrapped in December 2007, the Avalon
show and the entire LIMR World Tour was heralded as some of Marleys’
finest work ever.
Ziggy appears in rare form throughout the DVD’s 19 tracks and
nearly two hours of live footage. With his voice and his band honed
to precision after months on the road, from the United States and
abroad, the live DVD captures the tours momentum in support of the
Grammy Award-winning album. During the 18 month tour, Marley visited
one hundred and sixty one cities across the globe and was honored
to be the first Reggae artist to perform in Mainland China.
Featuring selections from his solo arsenal, as well as Melody
Maker hits and a few of his father’s classics, Ziggy
delivers the show of a lifetime. Cinematography and production were
given the utmost attention, resulting in vivid imagery combined with
stunning sound. Viewers of the DVD will enjoy a front row seat to
the extravaganza as captured by an eight camera production taped in
widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio. DVD extras include behind
the scenes footage, the Love Is My Religion video,
plus the making of the Love is My Religion video,
and the video for Into The Groove.
About Ziggy Marley:
Born in Trenchtown, Jamaica, Ziggy Marley
was surrounded by the sights and sounds of the Jamaican recording
industry from a very young age. First accompanying his father in
the studio at a tender age, he soon joined with his siblings to
form The Melody Makers. The act enjoyed two decades
of successful touring and recording, netting three Grammy Awards
and worldwide renown.
Ziggy has contributed to a variety of soundtracks
including 50 First Dates, Dora the Explorer,
the PBS children’s show Arthur, and Shark’s
Tale, in which he delved into acting for the first time,
playing the character of Bernie, the Jamaican jellyfish. In addition
to his skills as a singer, songwriter and producer, Ziggy founded
U.R.G.E. (Unlimited Resources Giving Enlightenment),
a non-profit organization that benefits a wide range of charitable
children’s causes in Jamaica, Ethiopia and
other developing nations. More recently he has lent his support
behind the Youth AIDS campaign and H&M’s
Fashion Against Aids campaign, which launched in stores
in February 2008.
www.cookingvinyl.com / www.ziggymarley.com
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LIVE :::
CHUCK PROPHET with The Mission
Express
Carlsberg Kilkenny Rhythm
& Roots Festival ~ May 4th & 5th
www.chuckprophet.com
/ www.kilkennyroots.com
The Critically Acclaimed New Album “SOAP
AND WATER” out now on Cooking Vinyl
(Reviews below)
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See
the video for the FRECKLE SONG - CLICK
HERE
Performing on the LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN in the USA - CLICK
HERE
Chuck Prophet, who released
his album Soap and Water
to critical acclaim last year, has announced he will be headlining
the Carlsberg Kilkenny Rhythm & Roots
Festival
* Sunday
Night 4th May '08 - Ormonde Hotel Concert - Time: 11.00pm. Tickets:
17.50 Euro
* Monday 5th May '08 - Paris Texas - Time: 9.00pm. Tickets: 15.00
Euro
"Even
in this iPod era, albums can be journeys of discovery. When I started
out on Soap and Water I was armed with a huge admiration for San
Francisco-based guitarist and songwriter Chuck Prophet, his work
with seminal alt. everything band Green on Red, and his large body
of solo work. Soap and Water, however, seemed cloaked in obscurity
and the music was oddly rootless. A few dozen plays later and there
is not a track I'd change - though I might argue a backing vocal
here or a guitar lick there. This is a monumental album of constant
surprise, chilled intelligence and quietly assured song writing
skill, singing, playing and production. Prophet has said it was
inspired by wayward rock icon Alex Chilton, but I also hear Randy
Newman's caustic amusement at the human condition, especially on
the epic New Kingdom. Wonderful, but time is required."
~ FIVE out of FIVE Stars ***** - Joe Breen - Irish Times
“The odd electronic beat may beef up Prophet’s swampy
blues and dusty country, but his ninth solo album is lavish and
haunting, from the post-punk attitude of Doubter Out Of Jesus (All
Over You) to Freckle Song’s bog riffing.” –
“The best work of his career” ~ Q Magazine / ****, Q
Recommends
“His
most satisfying album yet. The rang of styles is impressive, from
the pale hip hop of Something Stupid to the title track’s
murky southern fun and the swamp-blues of A Woman’s Voice.”
~ Uncut ****
“Soap
and Water runs the gamut of Prophet's influences, from Bob Dylan
(Naked Ray) to Alex Chilton (Let's Do Something Wrong) and the Stones
(Soap and Water), all of it delivered with a quixotic swagger and
Prophet's declamatory sneer of a voice. His quicksilver fretwork
still impresses - especially on the Television-like stomper Freckle
Song, though the stand-out track is the burnished, redemptive ballad
Would You Love Me, replete with a Methodist children's choir and
a counterpoint melody that could melt the stoniest heart.”
~ Mojo ****
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Soap and Water was recorded in Nashville at the
Alex the Great Recording Studios, with producer Brad Jones
(Yo La Tengo, Dolly Parton, Josh Rouse) manning the desk.
Chuck is joined by his own band The Mission Express,
Todd Roper (of Cake) on drums, and The
Spinto Band. Hell, they even drafted in the local Methodist
children’s church choir for a few tunes. The album sees him
blending his twisted soul-country-rock; a Alex Chilton-meets-Waylon
Jennings via Dylan thing, with that Fender
Telecaster he’s had since his Green On Red days weaving a
singular common thread throughout. From the beautiful lyricism and
arrangement of “Would You Love Me?”,
the witty and wicked call-and-response of the title track, to the
pure rock and roll ecstasy of “Let’s Do Something
Wrong” featuring Chuck’s well-honed six-string
abilities. “We goofed on some agitated single coil cubist
junk, got serious with the spring reverb on mournful ballads”
says Chuck.
It’s been
three years since his last album, “Age of Miracles”,
but Chuck Prophet is not a man to sit about. He revived the band
that started that whole goddamn alt-country thing, Green on Red,
for a recent spin around Europe. He produced and helped co-write
Kelly Willis’ new album “Translated From Love”,
and is currently collaborating with Alejandro Escovedo on his next
album. Chuck has also made his debut on the silver screen, acting
the part of the dope dealer in the new film “Revolution
Summer” (with a fine soundtrack by Jonathan Richman)
as well as contributing his own tracks to the Sundance Jury Award
winning film “Teeth” about a woman
with a toothed vagina. If that work doesn’t make you break
out in a sweat, the thought of a toothed vagina should do the trick
for the rest of you.
Chuck started it all as a kid back in the eighties when Green on
Red plucked him out of Berkeley, CA and threw him in the van for
an eight year ride and the recording of as many albums. Green on
Red were seminal purveyors of American Roots-Rock and broke up in
1992 just before an entire movement followed in their wake. Since
then Chuck has recorded seven amazing solo albums and toured and
recorded with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Aimee
Mann, Cake, Alejandro Escovedo,
and Jonathan Richman. Ryan Adams,
Solomon Burke and Heart have recorded
his songs, along with a host of others. Chuck’s never been
one to rest on his laurels and ride it out. He’s always manically
chopped and changed; with his distinctive panache for a classic
tune always in tow.
www.cookingvinyl.com
/ www.chuckprophet.com
/
www.coppertreerecords.com
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Phlorescent Leech and Eddie
Flo & Eddie
Out on FloEdCo / Manifesto (Essential Music) |
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This is the first-ever CD release of two long-lost Flo &
Eddie albums! Released as a Double CD on the FloEdCo imprint
on Manifesto.
Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (better
known as The Turtles) released these albums on Warner
Bros. Records in 1972 and 1974, right after their stint in Frank
Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
Digitally remastered from the original tapes, fans of Flo
& Eddie and The Turtles (still touring!)
will be looking for this one.
This package (with new liner notes) has two complete albums on two
CDs, at one special price.
For promotional
copies (Ireland) contact Stevo Berube info@berubecommunications.com
or 0872442695
Tracklisting:
The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie:
Flo & Eddie Theme
Thoughts Have Turned
It Never Happened
Burn The House
Lady Blue
Strange Girl
Who But I
I Been Born Again
Goodbye Surprise
Nikki Hoi
Really Love
Feel Older Now
There You Sit Lonely
Flo & Eddie:
If We Only Had The Time
Days
You’re A Lady
Carlos and the Bull
Afterglow
Best Part Of Breaking Up
The Sanzini Brothers
Another Pop Star’s Life
Just Another Town
Marmendy Mill
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