A smooth remix of Oxford band Foals by youthful Glasgow DJ Koreless. It is another track that I discovered via Far From Cyan.
Foals:
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
The Chiffons* – One Fine Day
Soul classic from The Chiffons to start the week. It doesn’t get much better than this. Pure pop magic.
The Chiffons:
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Buena Vista Social Club* – El Cuarto De Tula
A colleague was talking about Cuban Collective Buena Vista Social Club and going to see them at the Cork Midsummer Festival in July.
It reminded me of finding them in my Dad’s record collection when I was at school and finding their sound both fascinating and hypnotic. Little has changed listening to them now probably 15 years later.
Buena Vista Social Club:
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Carla Thomas* – Pick up the pieces (Live at Wattstax)
This is a great live recording of Stax legend Carla Thomas taken from the 1972 Wattstax music festival which took place in The LA Colluseum. It is probably my favourite track of hers (the also excellent album version is here)
Carla Thomas:
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Tina Turner* – What’s love got to do with it? | (GPF)
Bombino* – Amidinine | (NAT)
Apologies for the rather esoteric choices this week, I just go where the music takes me.
A friend sent me this last week and I have been really enjoying it since. It is taken from Niger artist Bombino‘s recently released album Nomad.
Given his rather exotic roots and the fact that my friend used Tinariwen (another Tuareg band) as a comparison I was a little taken aback that I both understood the reference and really enjoyed the song! I suppose it goes to show how far writing this blog has expanded my musical horizons.
Bombino:
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Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers – Be with me Jesus
I am on a real Gospel kick this week. Once in a while I like to immerse myself in it. It is so pure that I always emerge feeling refreshed.
The Soul Stirrers is where the late, great Sam Cooke got his big break. That alone makes them worthy of some investigation.
The Soul Stirrers (with a very youthful Sam Cooke):
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The Staple Singers – Help me Jesus
My musical diet of late has been been an odd mixture. Off-kilter modern Electronica and early Soul and Gospel. As I mentioned before, I seem to have an outsized affection for Gospel of this era. I love the simple purity of the songs.
Chicago band The Staple Singers made a classic journey from an early career as a Gospel group to later career success in more mainstream Soul.
The Staple Singers:
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Cooly G* – He Said I Said
A nice mellow start to the week from Brixton’s Cooly G. It is taken from her debut album Playin’ Me, which is out on Hyperdub records.
Cooly G:
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Dean Blunt – Papi
A nice quiet and perhaps slightly dark track here from Dean Blunt, who I know next to nothing about, other that he (along with Inga Copeland) used to go by the name Hype Williams.
I really like his voice, it is rather distinctive. The only other singer who I can think of who is like it is Stuart A. Staples of Tindersticks.
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