CjK Guest Post – Summer Cover #6
Ok you’re invited to a wedding and the ‘Bridzilla” has stipulated a strict dress code. These 3 piece jazz musicians provide a perfect backdrop to a warm summers’ evening wedding, where you might be going slightly better dressed than usual, and uncomfortable with a tie on. Something of a wedding band themselves this trio are letting it rip. Anyway Rob would never post Justin Timberlake…
The Step Kids:
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*Artist #701
I thought for a while about which band I wanted to post as the 700th (I can’t believe it’s been that many!) artist on my blogging journey. Then I realised what better a way to mark it than with a random band that stumbled across on YouTube a couple of days previously and pretty much know nothing about!
Kid Mountain are an un and coming band from Boston, MA. This track is taken from Happies, which was released late in 2012.
Kid Mountain:
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*Artist #700
I was just in the mood for some Marvin today. It really doesn’t get much better than this, the richness of the track and what must be one of the greatest vocal performances in history (hyperbole warning! – it’s certainly one of my favourites).
Marvin Gaye:
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This is taken from Kate Bush’s spectacular 2005 album Aerial. She is a perennial favourite of mine.
Kate Bush:
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I am still utterly infatuated with the beguiling Slow Machete who I posted a couple of weeks ago. This is taken from the 2012 album Evening Dust Choir.
Slow Machete:
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My world music kick continues. This time the band hails from Ethiopia, although it seems that Hailu Mergia is now a taxi driver in Washington D.C.
I really like the languid feel here. I am not often drawn to instrumental tracks but really enjoyed this and it has a great video to match.
Hailu Mergia:
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*Artist #699
CjK Guest Post – Summer Cover #5
This tinkly upbeat version of Only Love Can Break Your Heart hits the summer spot. The song is the third track on Neil Young’s album After the Gold Rush. As one of the first albums I bought I maybe listened too long to the maudlin lyrics and his droney version. The song may have been written for Graham Nash after his split from Joni Mitchell though Young seems to be vague on this. No matter, the London based group Saint Etienne sailed along with this version in 1990, but still retaining something of the irony.
Saint Etienne:
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*Artist #698
This is a little dark and brooding but I think rather beautiful and with a video to match. It is taken from Dean Blunt’s The Narcissist II which was released late last year.
Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland (AKA Hype Williams):
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Fade Into You, from Californian band Mazzy Star (which I posted earlier in the year), has been one of my most listened to tracks of 2013 so far.
This track is taken from Among My Swan which was released a couple of years later but also sounds great. A nice, mellow way to start to the week.
Mazzy Star:
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