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¡Qué risa Maria Luisa!

¡Tienen sentido del humor!

Está incluida en "Pío Pío"

La nueva sensación sueca en los blogs ultra indies (Tangents, indie-mp3) ("Unless you don’t like the whole Field Mice / Another Sunny Day / Sambassadeur kind of feel, in which case, um, go somewhere else." )

http://www.theelectricpopgroup.net/ y aquí te puedes bajar al completo su EP: http://www.theelectricpopgroup.net/music.html

http://www.tangents.co.uk/index2.html

http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/ 

Curioso lo de este grupo. Dicen: "In case we're asked to describe our music we like to answer: "Its just singer / songwriter music mostly without a singer". Our actual interest is to create pop music that makes a human voice unnecessary

Sin embargo sus dos mejores canciones en su nuevo lp son precisamente las que únicas dos en las que cantan...

El Lp se llama Separata Chambers y Before no está nada mal. Onda Stereolab, Broadcast.

Interesantes posts:  

HARVEY WILLIAMS Y THE BEATLES (http://karpov-agit-prop.blogspot.com/2006/11/harvey-williams-y-los-beatles.html ) 

THE LEGENDS EN MADRID (http://karpov-agit-prop.blogspot.com/2006/12/la-importancia-de-la-buena-disposicin.html ) Curioso que NADIE haya relacionado todavía el concepto del grupo. Y Mira que el nombre da pistas claras: Las Leyendas... (Primer LP Comet Gain/TV Personalities; segundo LP: The Cure; Tercer LP: Tecno pop 80s) 

25 AÑOS DE FLYING NUN - BOX SET (http://karpov-agit-prop.blogspot.com/2006/11/25-aos-cabeza-abajo.html ) 

BMX BANDITS en Madrid http://karpov-agit-prop.blogspot.com/2006/11/pequeas-enormidades.html

¿harán alguna vez algún single malo?

A día de hoy parece que imposible...

 Lucky Soul releases their new 3-track Ain't Never Been Cool on December 11 on their own Ruffa Lane label.

Based in Greenwich in the UK Lucky Soul builds their updated version of classic pop. I Gots The Magic starts with a few notes that sound a lot like Sweet Jane in the Cowboy Junkies version with a healthy chunk of distorted guitar thrown in, Struck Dumb is a fifties pastiche and Ain't Never Been Cool is a song that Nancy Sinatra should cover making Lucky Soul tons of money in the proces.

Lovely tunes. I say it again in case you misread it the first time: lovely tunes.

MP3: Lucky Soul - Ain't Never Been Cool

Es realmente bonita. Son 9 volumenes, pero vale la pena. Y el artwork es espectacular. Simula una colección de sellos (VER http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/ape/images/newspics/Warblesboxpackshotsmall.jpg )

The Official Fuzzy Warbles Collector's Album will be released on 16 October 2006 by Ape House UK. The box set includes all 8 volumes of Andy Partridge's Fuzzy Warbles, a bonus 9 track CD entitled Hinges, a book entitled A Brief History of Home Taping and a sheet of Fuzzy Warbles stamps. For those of you who have already bought autographed copies of Fuzzy Warbles volumes 1-6, the box is available with volumes 7+8 at a special price, as of 25 September.

Además aquí http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/1000034151?tag2=chalkhills hay una excelente entrevista a Partridge

El nuevo disco de The Magic Whispers para Siesta, vuelve a ser un divertimento para el señor Guiscafré -responsable del sello-

Se tratade una colección de versiones de temas elegidos con exquisito gusto (Hot rain- Someone Else’s Love; My Guru Says- Sally and John; Po!- Appleseed Alley; Fantastic something- Drawing Rooms ; The Hit Parade- Groovy Heart Attack; The Impossibles- Meet Me Again; Carole King para The Shirelles- Will You Love Me Tomorrow?; Jacques Brel/ BMX Bandits- Carousel; Popinjays- Helicopter People; Coloring book- Time To Grow; Malcolm Eden/ Herzfeld- Two Mothers; Mosquitos- Blue Heart ;Klaus Cornfield/ Throw that beat in the garbage can- Like Christmas)

La pena es que las versiones son... Una vez más se confirma que el señor Ramón Leal debería dedicarse a lo que realmente le gusta (el jazz-rock) y dejar el indie en paz. Afortunadamente parece que esta será la última vez ("esta va a ser la última coproducción de Leal & Guiscafré", según dice la nota promocional).

De http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/

 Concerning one of your projects, called The Legends, the songs as well as the production feels very different from album to album. Is the final outcome something that you have in mind before you even write the songs, or something that you figure out along the way?

Yes, I decide that before I write the songs. The album work starts when I've written a new song which I feels, well, really new for me. A great song with a sound that inspires me and that can lead the direction of all the other songs. Those songs were "Everything you say" (Up against the Legends), "Air" (Public Radio") and "Play it for today" (Facts and figures). After I finished the two first albums I felt there was not more to do in that particular musical style and felt I needed to change style all completely to keep it fun and inspiring. I want to keep that nice beginners feeling when I make music. Professionalism is music's worst enemy. I'm new at electronic music though so I don't think I'm finished with this quite yet.


3. This year it is 20 years since NMEs C86 was given away for free with an issue of their magazine. What is your relation to the music on this cassette and what to you put into the term C86?

The cassette was important because it defined a musical style for me. I discovered bands like McCarthy, Wolfhounds and Shop Assistants before I heard about C-86, loving them all of course, but C86 reference made it easy to discover more bands in the same style. The cassette itself really wasn't that good though.

4. Finally, please feel free to update us a little bit about on what you are working with right now.

I'm working on a new Club 8 album now. It's been a long time since we last released something so it's a bit of a comeback album it feels like. We've recorded 5 songs so far and I think it's the best stuff we've ever done.


My Favorite:

band on the c86tape: McCarthy

song ever: The Smiths "I know it's over"

instrument: Juno 106, Tambourine or Rickenbacker 330. Depends on my mood!

film: Manhattan (Woody Allen)

Atención a la versión acapella de Happy Hour 

Eso si, las versiones que no pertenecen a las sesiones de John Peel / Janice Long desmerecen. Demasiado ambiente a rock de grandes estadios...

The Housemartins (fourth best band in Hull) were regular vistors to the BBC's Maida Vale studios, recording 7 sessions as well as having their Glastonbury and Nottingham concerts broadcast. This album was compiled by band member Stan Cullimore and is a wonderful retrospective of their time at the beeb. This album includes most of the material recorded for the BBC from the beginning, up until the end of the band's brief but brilliant career. It's a superb snapshot of a group of artists doing what they do best with a minimum of fuss. This is the first time that most of these recordings have been available, and for many die hard fans, it's the missing piece of the puzzle. There are songs here that never made it onto record or CD, as well as a generous chunk of a classic 1987 live set recorded in Nottingham, and a couple of numbers from their near legendary Glastonbury performance of 1986

O al menos eso pensaba yo... Hasta hoy.

from their album called Modern Gameplay which is set to be released by Darla Records on the 18th of September 2006.

I started a blog, which nobody read
When I went to work I blogged there instead
I started a blog, which nobody viewed
It might be in cache, the topics include:

George Bush is an evil moron
What’s the story with revolving doors?
I’m in love with a girl who doesn’t know I exist
Nobody hates preppies anymore

I started a blog, but nobody came
No issues were raised, no comments were made
I started a blog, which nobody read
I’ll admit that it wasn’t that great
But if you must know, here’s what it said:

One hundred of my favorite albums
Two hundred people I can’t take
Four hundred movies I would like to recommend
Ten celebrities, four of whom I might assassinate

I started a blog, I sent you the link
I wanted the world (you) to know what I think

I started a blog, but when I read yours
It made me forget what I had started mine for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaxq_PFM1u0&eurl=

Número 9 de Smoke ya disponible: http://home.btconnect.com/smoke/index.htm

http://home.btconnect.com/smoke/excerpts/9excerpts/9excerpts.htm

Como es habitual, las fotos y los textos, maravillosos

 ( "I like the fact that people feel they "know us", even if all they've ever done is buy a record or magazine from us! And I suppose you could argue that selling a 52-page magazine for £2,5 is in the same spirit as selling a 7" single for £1.50 while everyone else was releasing 12"s and CDs." Matt Haynes a 3am Magazine)

Ya está de nuevo reeditado el lp navideño de Phil Spector...

La novedad es que este año han hecho una edición especial de dos cds en la que venden conjuntamente el disco navideño junto a un greatest hits spectoriano.

VARIOUS - SPECTOR, PHIL DEFINITIVE COLLECTION

Ahora vales de regalo a 10 libras...

Sparkly, shiny new style Rough Trade Shops gift vouchers - The perfect Christmas gift - ten pound vouchers only - just order as many as you want! - Can be used in either shop or mail order. £10.00

Por otra parte en el blog de la tienda aseguran:

 06 / 12 / 2006

Sufjan Steven's Xmas boxset has been flying out the door - shop regular Damon Albarn popped in last week to pick up a copy. He was followed not long after by Lily Allen, who picked up our favourite album of the year, The Gulag Orkestar by Beirut.

Pues si, nuestro querido Superzoquete ya está de nuevo online.

Dice que se lo va tomar con calma porque tiene mucho que estudiar, pero eso no se lo cree ni él (ja ja ja)

En fin, bienvenido de nuevo Javier

Imagino que con las imágenes ganará la cosa porque con la música sólo me he aburrido un poco.

Eso si, se oye a Debsey haciendo coros y eso si que es una maravilla

Y que mejor celebración que recordar el texto íntegro de ANTIROCK:

“Cuando decimos que somos ANTIROCK no lo decimos para epatar. Realmente lo decimos en serio, aunque nos damos cuenta de que formamos parte de su herencia. Pero no tenemos nada que ver con los drogotas. Odio los porros, los alucinógenos y las anfetaminas. Lo que queremos es echar a todos esos viejos rockeros. Creo que es estupendo que todos los del grupo seamos maravillosamente andróginos y afeminados porque es un ataque directo contra gente como los Cockney Rebels. Lo digo de verdad -dice Edwyn sonriendo- ya no es subversivo ser agresivo. Es lo sensual lo que importa."

(declaraciones de Edwyn Collins en 1981 recogidas en las líneas interiores del cd "The Heather´s on Fire" de Orange Juice)

En el nuevo número de MOJO, en la sección "The best thing I've heard all year" ("Lo mejor que he escuchado este año"), Richard Hawley no lo duda y se decanta por CAMERA OBSCURA. Bajo una imagen de la portada de "Let's get out of this country", el Sinatra de Sheffield (como lo llaman en la revista inglesa) dice: "Me encanta el disco de Camera Obscura, "Let's get out of this country". Es como que han partido del mismo punto del que partían The Beatles, con ese amor por los grupos de chicas, y han hecho algo diferente con ello. Están muy infravalorados; se merecen ser masivos".  (Fuente: Elefant Records)

¡Así se titulará el nuevo lp de the Clientele!

Se publicará en Marzo. Y Anuncian también la incorporación de una violinista (en la foto) como miembro oficial del grupo:

The new Clientele record will be recorded in Nashville in September, with Marky Nevers producing. Expect more Louis Philippe string arrangments and a slightly funkier feel. ‘God Save The Clientele’ to be ready to come caress our ears in spring 2007.  

Florence: I read somewhere that you’ve written a disco track.
Is that to be included on the album? Alasdair: Yes. It’s got a very good string arrangement by Louis Philippe, who has done something incredibly pompous on top of it, so it’s now a proper disco song! Florence: Does it sit well with the rest of the album?
Alasdair: Absolutely not!

“It’s quite a schizophrenic album anyway compare to our usual style but we’ll probably still get accused of sounding the same as ever! so we’ve got a big string sound this time. It’s more of a Scott Walker type sound than an ‘Eleanor Rigby’ type sound!
 

Were you happy to let Louis Philippe take over your record and eventually change your sound? Alasdair: We gave him complete carte blanche and told him to do whatever he wanted to do. As a result he came up with some very unusual arrangements.
This will be the first record we haven’t mixed ourselves. We’ve made 2 or 3 records that had a similar mood all the way through, going deeper and deeper into an emotion but I wanted this one to be good humoured. I was happy to do my part and then give it to people more talented than me...I can’t write strings like Louis Philippe can write strings and I can’t record music like Marky Nevers [Lambchop] can record music...so I let them use their talent to add something to it and do something different. Pat [from Wilco] came down for the sessions and he added a lot to what we did and I wasn’t even there, I was partying and we let him do what he wanted.  

The new member We let Mel do what she wanted...a group of collaborators and friends who could add an equal amount. Mel wrote to us, through ‘mySpace’ saying that if we ever needed strings...and then the next day Brian O’Shaughnessy who produced our last album and knew what we were looking for, called me and said “there is this girl who plays amazing violin who knows all about your band and you should call her!”. 

(Entrevista completa en flomotions.com)  

Alasdair: I wish that I had written ‘My Girl’ by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles because that’s the platonic ideal of a perfect song.
It’s just the most beautiful and perfect song you could possibly imagine.

(Alasdair de The Clientele a flomotions.com)

Agradable y bonito. Textos extraidos de indie-mp3 y myspace. Las 2 canciones se pueden bajar de indie-mp3.co.uk ".

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The Zoe records site also has short previews of all the tracks on the album and you can hear the complete track (and recent single) Words You Used to Say on Dean and Britta's MySpace page

Back Numbers, also produced by Visconti, picks up where L'Avventura left off, with the spotlight on Dean & Britta's laconic, dreamy vocal interplay on originals like "Words You Used to Say" and "Wait for Me," along with covers of '60s gems such as The Troggs' "Our Love Will Still Be There" and Lee Hazlewood's "You Turned My Head Around."

Fuente: A Head Full of Wishes

http://imomus.livejournal.com/

"Oh, the radio interviewer (JULIO RUIZ-DISCO GRANDE), having read my Friday blog entry, asked whether I'd characterize Spanish culture live on air in a couple of words. I picked "vehement" (based mostly on the taxi in from the airport) and "digital-Islamic" (based on the beautiful poster, influenced by Moorish tile design, for the achitecture show)."

Short Film About Camera Obscura

VER http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19yZEAOmAo&mode=related&search=

Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdzKJMYuVNI&mode=related&search=

(Fuente: Blog de Karpov)

NUEVO SINGLE

"If looks could kill" es la tercera canción escogida como single del tercer elepé de CAMERA OBSCURA.

Junto a la canción titular, en la edición en vinilo de tirada limitada, se incluye una cara B exclusiva y previamente inédita: una versión del clásico de Phil Spector y las PARIS SISTERS, "I love how you love me".

en el formato CD-single se incluyen dos nuevos temas previamente inéditos: "Hands up baby" (un dueto compuesto y cantado por Kenny con el contrapunto vocal de Tracyanne, grabado durante las mismas sesiones del álbum en Suecia, y que los presenta a ambos como trasuntos escoceses de Lee Hazlewood y Nancy Sinatra en un día nublado) y el recentísimo "Alaska", tema nuevo de envolvente sonido atmosférico y ambiente inspirado en FLEETWOOD MAC, grabado el último fin de semana de Octubre por Paul Savage (THE DELGADOS) en los estudios Chem 19 de Glasgow (donde han grabado entre otros
Vashti Bunyan, TRASH CAN SINATRAS, Scout Niblett o TEENAGE FANCLUB).

Fuente: Elefant Records

Extractos de la entrevista a Bob Stanley para Pitchforkmedia.com

ECLIPSE RECORDS   Some ideas that we've come up with are a 10cc box set and a Billy Fury box set.I think with every batch that we put out there's going to be a Complete A and B Sides. There should be a Billy Fury one. We've got the Impressions, the Shangri-Las, Scott Walker, Richie Havens... 

PROYECTOS  We're writing a soundtrack for that that's going to include probably half a dozen songs-- so the soundtrack will effectively be a new album. We're working on that at the moment. We haven't got a name for the film yet but it will have, like, six regular pop songs in it as well as an instrumental score.  

THE CD86 COMPILATION  It's just from being a collector really. The C86 thing, it just seemed like the [20th] anniversary was going to come and go without anyone doing anything. It's funny because now [my involvement] with it makes it seem like it's my favorite genre of music that ever happened, which it isn't.

I've just got so many friends that I'm very close with now who I met at that time and through that scene. I think it really was a coming together of a generation of people of a certain bend-- although whether the actual music or the fanzines or anything that came out was of immense worth is doubtful. I think, certainly, a whole generation of music writers came out of it. A lot of friendships were made. I was upset about it, but it was a very political movement-- but with a small "p." There was a lot of fight against it. It felt like the future of pop music was at stake at the time, it really did. 

BOB STANLEY PERIODISTA Mostly I write for The Times, which is good because The Times' music section is probably the least read music section of any paper in Britain [laughs]. They came after me first. They let me do stuff on books and architecture and other things that lets me spread out instead of writing just about music. That's who I've been writing for mainly. And occasionally for Mojo and a bit or two for The Guardian.

Occasionally I'll also do sleeve notes. I'm doing sleeve notes for an Anne Briggs reissue now. Sony asked me to do it for The Time Has Come, which is coming out again, with no bonus tracks or anything. It's been deleted for a while, which I didn't even know. It's a weird thing where the CD is going for 50 or 60 quid on eBay! 

(Aquí se puede consultar la entrevista al completo http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40166/Saint_Etiennes_Stanley_Talks_Label_Films_Music )

La versión de Adam Green está algo más que bien. Es una preciosidad. La original era buena, pero la versión la supera en belleza.

New Dean & Britta EP, collecting four covers and a track from the forthcoming full length, due January 30.

The Words You Used to Say EP features the title track-- an original Wareham/Phillips composition set to appear on the new record-- and a quartet of covers: Donovan's "Colours", Bobby Darin's "Distractions, Pt. 1", folkie Michael Holland's "Since I Lay My Burden Down", and yes, Adam Green's "We're Not Supposed to Be Lovers".

We're not supposed to be lovers,

Or friends like theyd have us believe.

We're not supposed to know eachother;

Accept my apology

A finales de Enero verán la luz “In The Pines” y “Calenture”. Este es el tracklist de “Calenture” 

Disc 1

1. Bury Me Deep In Love2. Kelly's Blues3. A Trick Of The Light4. Hometown Farewell Kiss5. Unmade Love6. Open For You7. Holy Water8. Blinder By The Hour9. Vagabond Holes10. Jerdacuttup Man11. Calenture12. Save What You Can 13. BONUS TRACKS - Baby Can I Walk You Home14. Region Unknown15. Love The Fever16. Bad News Always Reminds Me Of You17. Everything You Touch Turns To Time 

Disc 2

 1. Bury Me Deep In Love (rehearsal demo)2. Kelly's Blues (rehearsal demo)3. A Trick Of The Light (rehearsal demo)4. Hometown Farewell Kiss (rehearsal demo)5. There Must Be A Curse On Me (rehearsal demo)6. Open For You (rehearsal demo)7. Burned (rehearsal demo)8. Blinder By The Hour (rehearsal demo)9. Vagabond Holes (rehearsal demo)10. Jerdacuttup Man (rehearsal demo)11. Save What You Can (rehearsal demo)12. Calentura 

"Reno Dakota, I´m not Nino Rota"   Reno Dakota--Stephin Merritt

La serie de libros que Continuum publica acerca de lps significativos en la historia del pop (Continuum 33 1/3 series; más info en este ¡blog! http://33third.blogspot.com/) aborda el 69 Love Songs de The Magnetic Fields. El Libro está escrito por LD Beghtol, si, el hombre de LD & The New Criticism y colaborador de The Magnetic Fields.

Más info en http://www.69lsbook.com/

69LS—A FIELD GUIDE is a fully illustrated history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple-disc, 69 LOVE SONGS — an album that was afforded "classic" status by many upon its release. LD Beghtol's book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in equal measures. It documents a vital and influential scene from the inside, involving ukuleles and tears, citations and footnotes, analogue drum machines, floods of cognac —oh, a crossword puzzle, too! The centre of the book is the secret history of these tuneful, acerbic, and sometimes heartbreaking songs of old love, new love, lost love, punk rock love, gay love, straight love, experimental music love, true love, blue love, and the utter lack of love that fill the album — as told by the album's creators, fans and critics, family and friends, imitators and naysayers, and heaps of others. This lavish little book (designed by the author) includes an extensive lexicon in the style of Ambrose Bierce’s “Devil's Dictionary," fascinating studio anecdotes and recording minutae, performance notes about the original-cast, full-album shows in New York and London, rare and unpublished images by offical TMF photgraphress Gail O'Hara and others, memorabilia, an introduction by noted music historian Ken Emerson, and much much more. 

Esto suena mucho a The Boat Club. Parece que en Suecia los nostálgicos de Sarah se han armado de guitarras y sintetizadores.  http://www.myspace.com/thebridalshop

The Bridal Shop is a new Swedish band. I don't know how many they are or anything. I just found out about them through Think Small and listened to them on MySpace. But they're very kind, that much I know! They let me put up this fantastic song, that will be on a forthcoming ep. If you like New Order and Sarah Records, this will most likely be your cup of tea. Enjoy (no extra sugar needed)!

MP3 
The Bridal Shop - From Seas    Fuente: The rain fell down blog

Sección "Living La Vida Loca" de Eduardo Guillot en La Cartelera

"El club londinense How Does It Feel To be Loved" (37 Cavendish Square) acogerá una noche de indie, pop y soul de la mano de dos programas de la radio valenciana. El Sábado 20 de Enero, su cabina (por la que han pasado David Gedge, Stuart Murdoch o Dan Tracey) será ocupada por Toxiscosmos y YaNoPuedoMás, dos de los pinchadiscos más activos de la ciudad"

Atención a la primera, es un hit. 

NEW FULL-LENGTH ALBUM: CAN CLADDERS

From Sean:

The new LP will be released on Drag City worldwide in February 2007. It's called Can Cladders. It's a pop record with a load of singing and happy happy tunes. It took a while but it's here. Strings, drums, harp, organs and pianos. All you need.

From Drag City:

It's a sweet, string-laden collection of tunes covering a diverse array of topics in the world of The High Llamas backed this time with an acoustic assembly including backup singers and a few drumbeats for that good pop album feeling.

Fuente (highllamas.com)

Las dos canciones están realmente bien 

Saint Etienne had a special Christmas party/dj/concert event at the Turntable Cafe at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank Centre on the 21st of December where they handed out, to the lucky ones in attendance, a 2 track CDEP containing the new tracks 21st Century Christmas (an awesome cover of the Cliff Richard Christmas hit!) and Through the Winter.