Rock - what are you listening to?

[cybot]

Getting all nostalgic again....I have always found that his solo stuff sounded more like the real Genesis than Genesis themselves. The sleeve really says more about the music than I could ever attempt to describe.Gorgeous but tinted with a yearning for a happier and more innocent time......


Anthony Phillips - Private Parts and Pieces 1

[jadarin]

Pearly gate music:Younger brother of the Fleet Foxes drummer
Influenced from the same record collection as the Fleet Foxes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37rhDYc_Y-U

[cybot]

Pearly gate music:Younger brother of the Fleet Foxes drummer
Influenced from the same record collection as the Fleet Foxes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37rhDYc_Y-U

Keep them coming jad :-)

[cybot]

revisiting this challenging gem.

Never heard of these Ivor. Love the sleeve though... Hope you don't mind me posting the review below :) Haven't checked Youtube yet.......



Product Description
Review
Padma Newsome's Clogs–the group he co-founded with fellow member of The National, Bryce Dessner, back in the late 1990s–have long defied easy pigeonholing, delivering four albums of ambitious chamber-music-meets-jazz, via post-rock instrumentals between 2001 and 2006. This, their fifth long-play set, arrives after a four-year break in releases–and, more pertinently, represents the ensemble's first foray into material with vocals.
Newsome himself performs some, but it's largely left to an impressive guest cast to contribute the words woven between fantastical arrangements laid down on viola, bassoon, mandola and more. Most striking is Shara Worden, known for her work as My Brightest Diamond. Her operatic style is sure to provoke responses both enamoured and aghast, but to these ears her tones are velvety soft and supple enough to drape themselves over whatever Newsome can conjure, however complex he chooses to be. She's already proved herself adept at complementing a vast array of different arrangements, via remix projects for two of her studio albums, and on numbers like The Owl of Love her voice decorates the inspired instrumentation around it as elegantly as the cream of Joanna Newsom's recent triple-disc offering, Have One on Me.

This album's title refers to the Giardini la Mortella, in Naples, where Newsome enjoyed a residency in 2005. Although it took him a significant period of time to pull together this end product inspired by the Italian botanical attraction, open to the public since 1992, The Creatures... doesn't feel like a project unnecessarily embellished with adornments of affectation. Rather, its surprisingly sprightly and spare feel conveys compelling drama and, occasionally, devilish distemper, where it could have been expected to cloy. Each element has enough space to sing through the potential hubbub, and never is the mix uncomfortably cluttered. A labour of love this may be, but it's not one where perspective has been obscured by affection.

Newcomers to Clogs' singularly sensual sonic template will latch firstly to the tracks featuring the biggest names–Sufjan Stevens's gentle closer We Were Here, and Matt Berninger's stirring Last Song. But they'll soon become enraptured by what accompanies these highest-of-profile pieces: music that embraces the listener with a silken touch and seduces them with a beguiling beauty that, still, sits prettily beyond the clamour of convenient categorisation. --Mike Diver

[fergus]

Some Hippy music....

[cybot]

That album sleeve is another super image!

Yes, Fergus, thanks to jad..... I just can't wait to get my hands on a copy! Read the BBC review
below and see what you think; oh, and don't forget to listen to the Youtube clip posted by jad...





BBC Review:

With a name like that it would ill behove the Sussex duo of Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies (who are Smoke Fairies) to deal in anything but ethereal, folk-tinged melancholy and wistful, wonderstruck song craft. Right enough, that’s pretty much exactly what they deliver on this, their debut proper – the follow up to Ghosts, a singles and obscurities round up released to some acclaim last spring. Certainly, if romantic English folk languor à la Sandy Denny is your bag then Through Low Light and Trees ought to be an essential purchase.
Opening song Summer Fades, perfectly timed for early September contemplation, sets the album’s brooding, autumnal tone; gauzy, reverberant electric guitars and wraithlike keyboards framing the duo’s yearning, lustrous two-part harmonies as they intone the inquiring, shiver-inducing chorus, "Can you love me like you loved someone you loved so long ago?" Devil in My mind introduces strident drums and meandering fiddle – shades of prime Fairport Convention – while Hotel Room has a less rural, explicitly English feel, its insistent guitars, brisk rhythms, moody Hammond organ and stark lyrics ("It’s just a hotel room / And we’re only human") evocative of existential angst beneath the strip lights and peeling paint. Dragon, meanwhile – a tale of a damsel not so much in distress but out for vengeance against the titular beast – is a rolling, piano-propelled folk song worthy (and reminiscent) of Lionheart-period Kate Bush.

Elsewhere, Strange Moon Rising bears testament to time the duo spent in New Orleans early in their career. Its sinuous slide guitars and overt blues structure don’t seem to have much in common with leafy Sussex and, allied to the girls’ unmediated Home Counties accents, it ought to be distractingly incongruous; but somehow they pull it off, the disparate elements fusing into a seductive, hothouse orchid of a song. Morning Blues pulls off a similar trick with rustic folk-blues guitar supporting airy chorale descants.

For all the minor detours, Through Low Light and Trees is consistent in proffering a dreamy, timeless music which could have been recorded at any time in the last 40-odd years. That in itself is a kind of recommendation.

--David Sheppard

[cybot]

Some Hippy music....

What was it they used to say? 'Run for the hills' :-) Remember, it's just music, and aren't we so lucky.....

[fergus]

Yes, Fergus, thanks to jad..... I just can't wait to get my hands on a copy! Read the BBC review
below and see what you think; oh, and don't forget to listen to the Youtube clip posted by jad...

Will do Dermot.

[cybot]

This is just terrific! It's a MOV release and expensive too.... The seven minute instrumental Born Under A Bad Sign is worth the price of admission alone :-)

[fergus]