Easy Christmas

Carlos informa:

Various --  Snow  3 -- The Get Easy Christmas Collection Vol 3 .  Universal (Germany), 1960s/1970s

One of the grooviest Christmas albums we've ever stocked -- a package that's full of unusual Holiday gems, yet which never trades obscurity for the festive spirit of the season! Like the first 2 volumes in the series, this one really digs deep -- moving past familiar favorites into a range of long-lost tunes from the vaults of a variety of labels -- some by bigger names, others by artists as obscure as the tunes! But throughout this pursuit of the unusual, the album never sacrifices the warmth and good spirit that makes Holiday music so great -- and if anything, these tunes seem to light our Christmas stars even brighter because they're fresh and unusual, and restore our faith in the music of late December! And just in case you feel you're getting a bit off track on the set, the compilers have thrown in a few more familiar numbers to hold you in line -- making for a well-rounded 24 track package that includes:

1. Andy Williams · It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
2. Ella Fitzgerald · Sleigh Ride
3. Wayne Newton · Here Comes Santa Claus
4. Bobby Sherman · Goin’ Home (Sing A Song Of Christmas Cheer)
5. Gladys Knight & The Pips · The Christmas Song
6. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles · I Believe In Christmas Eve
7. The Beginning Of The End · Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas
8. Dean Martin · I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
9. Peggy Lee · Ring Those Jingle Bells
10. Vince Guaraldi Trio · Christmas Time Is Here
11. The Staple Singers · Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas?
12. The Stridells · I Remember Christmas
13. The Rotary Connection · Peace At Least
14. Rhys O’Brien · Christmas Morning
15. The Singers Unlimited · Snowfall
16. The Temptations · Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
17. The Free Design · Close Your Mouth (It’s Christmas)
18. The Beach Boys · Frosty The Snowman
19. Bing Crosby · A Christmas Toast
20. The Candy Store · White Christmas
21. James Brown · Soulful Christmas
22. The Flirtations · Christmas Time Is Here Again
23. Luiz Henrique · Song Of Santa Claus (Papai Noel)
24. Nilsson · Snow

 

Claudine y reediciones de Cherry Red

Revola a través de Cherry Red edita esta recopilación

 Hello Hello: The Best Of

Claudine Longet, the very model of the breathy, sexy French waif as the US and world audience perceived her - film star, TV star, singer/notsinger, a fey presence in a beautiful forest, where The A&M SOUND enveloped her in an embrace of Bossa Nova and reverb while Nick De Caro and Tommy Lipuma, masters of The A&M Soun, took us all on a journey where being a singer or not a singer didn't matter as long as the languid erotic vibe was there. A journey where A.C. Jobim came and wrote and played, where there was a PARTY, and Henry Mancini wrote, as he had done for Audrey Hepburn, the perfect song/notsong, for the ethereal beauty Claudine to sing/notsing as Peter Sellers desperately searched for the bathroom and Blake Edwards collapsed laughing. A magical person in a magical world, in a magical time, "Sleep Safe And Warm" never had a more definitive reading, as Claudine brought her own take on 'vaga' to the non-latino world, and if you know what that all means you'll RUSH out and buy this...

Hello Hello / White Horses / Meditation / Am I Blue? / The Look Of Love / Lazy Summer Night / Manha De Carnaval / Small Talk / A Man And A Woman / Both Sides Now / Dindi (Jin-Jee) / Walk In The Park / I Love How You Love Me / Sleep Safe / Creators Of Rain / How Insensitive / Hurry On Down / Everybody's Talkin' / Man In A Raincoat / Love Is Blue / I Think It's Gonna Rain Today / Think Of Rain / It's Hard To Say Goodbye / Snow / I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You

Otras cosas que reedita Cherry Red: Martin Denny Hypnotique - Junes Brides Every Conversation - Nino Rota LSD Roma (peliculas de Fellini) - Denny Doherty  Waiting for a Song (Mamas & The Papas, "The Psychedelic Frank Sinatra" lo llaman) - John Barry & Elizabeth Taylor "Elizabeth Taylor in London" - Nick Garrie-Hamilton "The Nightmare Of JB Stanislas" (precioso folk rock) - Nancy Priddy  "You’ve Come That Way Before" - y tres lps de Bridget St John.

Don Lennon

Siguiendo la recomendación de Niklas de The Acid House Kings, uno se ha agenciado una copia del nuevo trabajo de Don Lennon, "Routine", y verdaderamente es un disco hermoso. Ambientes relajados, melodías trabajadas, recitados, ecos de Nick Drake y evocaciones constantes a la nostalgia. A diferencia de otros de sus trabajos, hay un gran número de colaboraciones, destacando por nombre las de Peter Linnane (Willard Grant Conspiracy) y Jeff Norcross (The Paula Kelley Orchestra)

Brazalete para el iPod

ya no saben que inventarse...

 

Lo ofrece Nike para llevar el iPod nano mientras haces deporte.

Está fabricado en tejido Nike Pro Compression, muy ligero, y material Dri-FIT, que lo hace lavable.

Está disponible en dos combinaciones de colores: gris/naranja y negro/gris, a un precio de 40 dólares y en dos tamaños.

El iSnug está tambien especialmente diseñado para el iPod nano de Apple y por 20 dolares es tuyo, eso sí, parece de menor calidad que el de Nike.

La funda está fabricada en piel mientras que la correa es de neopreno.

Los favoritos de Niklas de The Acid House Kings

December 2005
The Orchids "The last thing" [demo]
The Smiths "The cowbell-click track" [unreleased instrumental]
Irene "Baby I love your way / To be with you" [single]
The Pipettes [live]
VA "Everyons sings along with Acid House Kings" [EP]

November 2005
Richard Hawley "Coles corner" [album]
Don Lennon "Routine" [album]
Cat Power "You are free" [album]
Sibiria "Norrlands inland" [album]
Vashti Bunyan "Lookaftering" [album]

October 2005
Vashti Bunyan "Lookaftering" [album]
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names "#3" [album]
The Legends "Play it for today" [song]
Irene [debut EP]
Cat Power "The greatest" [song]

September 2005
The Orchids "Lyceum" [album]
Television Personalities "May you dream the sweetest dreams" [song]
Sufjan Stevens "Casimir Pulaski Day" [song]
Kask "Discovery" [song]
Loveninjas "Keep your love" [song]

Nuevo single de Future Pilot AKA con Stuart Murdoch

Al parecer él single sólo se puede descargar de un sitio de pago y no tiene edición física, sólo digital

la portada (y demás información: http://www.futurepilotaka.com/

Sushil también anuncia nuevo lp para comienzos del 2006 con colaboradores ilustres (como siempre):  The Go-Betweens/Sonic Youth/Fire Engines/el novelista Alasdair Gray/ Can vocalist Damo Suzuki/folk artist Karine Polwart and early music ensemble Concerto Caledonia

The Creeping Bent Organisation can confirm that it will release the new FUTURE PILOT AKA single, "Eyes of Love", on 12th Dec. The single, which features Stuart and Sarah from Belle & Sebastian on vocals, is picking up considerable national radio support.

"Eyes of Love"/"Changes" will be released as a download-only single through Warp Record's digital wing bleep.com on the glorious 12th, a date which resonates with Creeping Bent as it is exactly 11 years since its inaugural flight at Glasgow's Tramway Theatre, "A Leap Into The Void BENT 001".

The FUTURE PILOT AKA technicolour pop performance on
BBC Scotland's Music Show can be viewed by going to...
www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/musicshow/

FUTURE PILOT AKA albums recorded for the sublime Geographic label, "Tiny Waves, Mighty Sea" and "Salute Your Soul", are available from Domino Mart.

More Future Pilot AKA and Creeping Bent release information from

www.bleep.com
www.myspace.com/creepingbent

www.creepingbent.org

Dickon de Fosca se va a Tanger y se encuentra a Shane McGowan

¡y se hace amigo de él!!! No se puede creer que McGowan sea un devorador de libros... Eso si, al Dickon se le olvida decir que en la foto -entra la pila de libros derramados por la cama- también hay un Mojo...

las fotos son impagables (ver http://dickonedwards.co.uk/diary/)

 Deliciously, he (Shane McGown) was allocated Room 101 at the excellent ghost-ridden Hotel Continental in the Medina. Note that his bedfellow is not a person, but a pile of books. I get annoyed when some people compare Mr MacG to Ozzy Osbourne or the late George Best, as if all legendary over-indulgers are alike. I doubt those other two notably dissipated names are as literary-inclined as Mr MacG, whose collected lyrics were published by Faber & Faber. His travel bag included works by Joyce, Plato, Burroughs, Kerouac, Dorothy Parker, and the entire James Ellroy LA Confidential trilogy. There is decadence, and then there is Decadence.

 

Un poco de country con Juanita Family

 más info y dos mp3s gratis en  http://www.juanitafamily.net/

Old fashioned country and western music. Sad and sweet original songs by vocalist/ lead guitarist Lana rebel

 Juanita Family was formed by Lana Rebel (from the noise-rock band Last of the Juanitas) as an outlet for the all the country songs she kept writing on the side. Her sad, sweet vocals and simple guitar lines encouraged the makeup of a separate band. No better choices for backup than some of her oldest friends, including Johnny from Last of the Juanitas (on drums), and Ben Wildenhaus of Federation X (on lap slide and piano). Dylan Reilly (bass) and James Curley (mandolin) are friends all the way back from Arizona. The combo is a great mix of friends, who lives to play, and the live shows are always a good time.
    In a completely DIY fashion, Lana and Dylan worked hard and saved money to put out the self-titled CD released in September of 2004. After touring and playing in rock venues, roadhouses, parties, crawfish boils, festivals, rodeos, radio stations, and street corners across the country, they are proud to report having nearly sold out of the 1000 pressing in the first year, with little help from national distributors.
    The CD has received positive response from radio stations across the globe, including BBC Radio 1, which has invited the Juanita Family to record a Peel session in 2006. Regionally, it continues to get airplay, and was chosen as best Northwest Country by KBCS Seattle’s Christine Linde

 

Everyone sings along with acid house kings

¡versiones karaoke de canciones de los acid house kings! ¡t´s lovely! dice Johan...

 Everyone sings along with acid house kings CD/EP-LAB089

release date: February 8 , 2006

1. Magnus Carlson “Will you love me in the morning?”
2. Les Très Bien Ensemble “Ce coeur est de pierre”
3. Lasse Lindh “Jag skyller allt på dig”
4. Montt Mardié “Do what you wanna do”
5. Don Lennon “Tonight is forever”

Otras grabaciones futuras de Labrador:

Irene »baby I love your way« CDsingle-LAB090 release date: January 11 , 2006

1. Baby I love your way
2. To be with you

BENOIT HENNEBERT

en el post de LTM se hacía referencia a este diseñador que fundamentalmente ha trabajado para Les Disques du Crepuscule. En esta página http://home.wxs.nl/~frankbri/creimage.html podrás encontrar algunos de sus trabajos y de ahí extraigo estas dos definitorias citas.

"When you love music, you want everything related to it, closely or not, to be beautiful too."
Benoît Hennebert, December 1984.

"Peter Saville certainly defined the post-punk look which reflected the modern world that
Factory Records were forcing us to confront. I appreciate Saville but, to be honest, if I was
influenced by anyone it was Benoît Hennebert of Les Disques Du Crépuscule. Eccentric,
charming and very much a genius."
Mike Alway (éL Records/Cherry Red), May 2004.

La foto que ilustra este post es su visión de Tintin

 

 

LTM PUBLISHING - 2ª PARTE( DEVINE & STATTON)

"Me and Alison had mutual friends. I liked her voice for what anybody would like about it - the absolute purity that I felt was the perfect vehicle for The Song. It was like a clean sheet, something you could project anything on to and it would fit. Maybe I also felt that if she sang these very personal songs, there would be an abstract quality to her voice that would create a disengaged relating of the tale, in the same way an actor would perform a spoken word CD."

Devine & Statton fue un duo compuesto por el líder de Ludus y la ex vocalista de Young Marble Giants y Weekend.

Sus dos lps acaba de ser reeditados por LTM con temas extras: "The Princess of Wales" (con "Under The Weather (Paco Trinidad Remix) In The Rain (version) e "Instrumental"), que contiene además una nueva portada realizada por el diseñador Benoit Hennebert (apuntalo en tu lista de diseñadores de los 80 junto con Peter Saville y Vaughan Oliver) y un maravilloso texto escrito por el mítico Everett True (The Legend!)

"Cardiffians" (("I met people in Japan who had visited Cardiff because of Cardiffians", remarks Devine) por su parte contiene cinco extras (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (12" Version), Advertisement, Hideaway (Donini/Mertens Remix), Take Me Or Leave Me y Giving In To Sin) y otro nuevo texto de Everett True.

 

LTM PUBLISHING, EL REFUGIO DE LOS NOSTALGICOS DE LOS OCHENTA

Erik Satie - Vexations (LTMCD 2389)

Isabelle Antena - L'Alphabet Du Plaisir: Best Of 1982-2005 (LTMCD 2452)

Northside - Chicken Rhythms + Extras (LTMCD 2386)

Isabelle Antena - On A Warm Summer Night (LTMCD 2448)

Devine & Statton - The Prince Of Wales (LTMCD 2433)

Devine & Statton - Cardiffians (LTMCD 2435)

Later in 2005/06 expect new CD releases from Wim Mertens (The Belly of an Architect ost), Isabelle Antena (On A Warm Summer Night/Tous Mes Caprices; new Antena album), Lowlife (Permanent Sleep + Rain, Diminuendo + Singles, Eternity Road (compilation)), Erik Satie (Socrate), Alison Statton and Spike (Tidal Blues/Weekend in Wales, The Shady Tree), Richard Jobson (The Ballad of Etiquette), Trembling Blue Stars (Her Handwriting, Lips That Taste of Tears), Francisco Casavola (Futur Lieder); Dislocation Dance (Music Music Music/Slip That Disc!, Midnight Shift) and lots more besides.

UN DISCO OCULTO

Estuvo bien la entrevista del Disco Grande con el Vitoria. Los dos se lo pasaron bomba contando batallitas en plan el abuelo cebolleta; sí, como el anuncio aquel de los coches en el que unos abuelitos tertuliaban en plan: "las mujeres de hoy ya no son como las de antes...", sólo que aquí se decía "el rock sinfónico de hoy ya no es como el de antes..."

Lo mejor fue el descubrimiento de uno de los discos ocultos que se pincharon: el de Gallagher & Lyle y una canción titulada "I Wanna Stay With You", puro AOR pop, mezcla de McCartney y la ELO, y que contenía una melodía perfecta y muy azucarada (¡incluso para un baboso como yo!)

El libro se presenta este martes 13 (Vitoria no parece muy supersticioso) en la casa del libro de Valencia con el Guillot de maestro de ceremonias.

Por cierto, hablando de abuelillos, el Cervera desembarca en Valencia el día 16 de este mes en el Tornillo para hacer de DJ. Lástima que lo anuncien como Rafa Cervera DJ y no como DJ Ni pincho ni corto, su otrora nombre artístico.

Ahora sólo falta que On Air Club contrate al Albi y ya podremos decir eso de "ya estamos todos" 

 

JACKSON

En el nª1 de lps del año de la tienda de Rough Trade, The Brakes (un supergrupo: alex white de electric soft parade, eamon de british sea power and marc de the tenderfoot) hay un hit: la versión que hacen del "Jackson" de Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra; claro que la original sigue siendo mejor y mucho mucho más divertida. Una gran canción. Country-pop con ese tipo de letra tan inane como divertida tan usual en el maestro Hazlewood

 

(We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout
We been talkin' 'bout Jackson
JOHNNY: Ever since the fire went out
I'm goin' to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around (yeah?)
Yeah, I'm goin' to Jackson, look out Jackson town... )

 

 

 

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