| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10166 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jose Mauro - A Viagem Das Horas. Randy, if you don’t know him already, this may be your cup of tea, or Brazilian coffee. https://josemauro.bandcamp.com/album/a-v iagem-das-horas | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1969 Registered: 10-2006 |
Beck - Sea Change Up to see how my countryside friends’ new house is coming on to replace the one the earthquake shattered some years back. Looking good, pretty solid ground floor in place. I didn’t know polystyrene was such a feature of modern building. The main problem now is that they’ve just received a letter from the mayor’s office telling them their original water source, a well, is illegal and they have to find a roaringly expensive alternative. And who, interestingly, in his other life as an estate agent, sold them the original house with its illegal well? The mayor of course. We sat in the sun with figs, cheese and a powerful local white and listened to Beck. Sometimes you need Italy to help you forget Italy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10169 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Cale - Fragments Of A Rainy Season | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10172 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Introduction To John Cale. A very fine one disc best of. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 535 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Lost Album ... https://www.zupimages.net/viewer.php?id= 21/36/904v.jpg Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot, Macca, please don't die... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1399 Registered: 03-2007 |
Answers - Answers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiDlV4CN 4No Debut album by this band who hail from Melbourne, Australia. They have since released a second album ( Fools In Despair ) which is only available as a digital download as far as I can tell. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4672 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. Solid shoegaze of a type that I don't really associate with Oz. Bummer about the lack of physical releases (other than the sold-out vinyl for this first album). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10176 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah | ||
| Uli B Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 30 Registered: 03-2006 |
Graham Parker - Between you and me From the fabolous „Howling Wind“ (1976) Graham Parker is still on fire.... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10181 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage. It gets better every time I play it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4674 Registered: 03-2005 |
La Foca - Vos Lejos de Vos Another substantial band from Montevideo, Uruguay, this is the first album by them I have been able to put my hands on in physical form. They have seven available on Bandcamp, the newest from 2019 and this one from 2008 lies in the middle of their recorded career. You can download this album for free but you get what you pay for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IptlPWaJ lsM&list=OLAK5uy_k76exjhIDT3chhCRVkvjvhJ 8krgRyl8L4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGRmkpbB O4c&list=OLAK5uy_k76exjhIDT3chhCRVkvjvhJ 8krgRyl8L4&index=8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10182 Registered: 05-2005 |
An interview with Julian Gough of Irish band Toasted Heretic, who is now a Berlin-based author. This is fascinating, even if you've never heard of the band. https://www.paulmcdermott.ie/episode-2 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1979 Registered: 10-2006 |
Since there’s no thread called “Random Rant” and it’s probably inadvisable to start one, I’ll just slap this in here: Do any of the rest of you have mates who call you up raving about some FANTASTIC NEW ARTIST YOU’VE JUST GOT TO HEAR who YOU already told THEM about, like, two months before? So I’ve been what’s apped by my Inverness friend telling me to “bin all your usual French nonsense” and drooling on about Hamish Hawk and his great new single and the album coming out and he’s Scottish and sounds a bit like Scott Walker and Divine Comedy and blah blah, so a quick bit of back-scrolling revealed that I’d told HIM about HH on 25TH APRIL!! Hah!! Plus, I went happily along to pre-order my HH CD (from a Dundee source, ironically enough), cost, £11.40 or something similar, shipping to Italy FIFTEEN QUID! Basket abruptly emptied. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10185 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, yes, pretty regularly. It is our cross to bear. Listening to The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 189 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yesterday’s Times compared Hawk to Scott Walker and the Divine Comedy so perhaps not an original observation. The Beths - Auckland, New Zealand 2020. One of the world’s best bands’ new live album. It’s great. More backing vocals than I’d like and Do You Want Me Now, the best track on the second album, doesn’t feature. Still it’s great. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1403 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, Be aware that if you order anything from the U.K. for delivery to Italy then you are more than likely to be caught up in the IOSS debacle and may well end up paying VAT twice as well as handling charges on receipt. Head over to Discogs - Forums - Marketplace where there are numerous threads for an idea of the impact this is having on buyers in the E.U. The cost of sending a large letter to Italy from the U.K. ranges from £3.00 ( 100g ) to £5.90 ( 750g ) using Royal Mail Click and Drop. A CD in a jiffy bag weighs less than 250g so the cost would be £4.00. I will happily pick up a copy for you if you want but you may well be hit with additional charges when it arrives in Italy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1981 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks for the offer, Hugh, I'll see how it goes! My UNCUT subscription has already been hit by this IOSS thing, with the local PO demanding cash upfront and the distributor telling me that charges are prepaid and not to pay anything! So the last edition is sadly winging its way back to Blighty. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1404 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, The introduction of IOSS is currently proving to be an unmitigated disaster for buyers in the E.U. It seems that attaching IOSS details to parcels via labels is insufficient. Sellers need to update the IOSS information electronically to the respective Customs Authorities and not all are able to do so easily at the present time. Not an issue for the big players ( Amazon; eBay etc.) but a nightmare for small companies and individual sellers. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1982 Registered: 10-2006 |
Last words on Hamish H, at least till I get the album, the following exchange in Mauritian etc is the most moving bit of lyric I’ve heard recently, an emotional knuckle to the kidneys, and I don’t even get the Jim dear part of it, ghosted in by the background vocals. And I call out, “Isn’t this living?”/And I call out, “Isn’t this living?”/And you call back (“Jim dear”), “It’s living…”/And you call back (“Jim dear”), “It’s living the dream…” | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10190 Registered: 05-2005 |
A podcast on The Fatima Mansions’ Viva Dead Ponies album. https://www.paulmcdermott.ie/episode-3 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10191 Registered: 05-2005 |
An interesting interview with Michael Stipe https://www.wnyc.org/story/michael-stipe -new-velvet-underground-tribute-album-an d-other-projects/ | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1406 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew Pearson & Lovers Turn To Monsters - Everything We Miss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrWjJ4PT wvY Andrew P. is a member of Hamish Hawk. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1986 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks for that, Hugh! Doesn’t he sound a lot like the Randolph’s Leap singer? Good to see Scotsmen getting into some interesting choreography. Meanwhile, a great song that seems to be turning up everywhere, ah, these days, in what I think is my favourite version – strange how the words of a teenager sit so well in the mouth of someone looking down towards the end of things. Glen Campbell – These days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4k0ygu _KU | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1407 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, I love the original by JB but my favourite version of the song is by Ian Matthews ( Fairport Convention; Matthews Southern Comfort; Plainsong; Iain Matthews.) From his album 'Valley Hi' which was released in 1973 ( the same year JB released his version of the song on his album 'For Everyman.') Produced by Mike Nesmith and with the wonderful Orville J. Rhodes / Red Rhodes on Pedal Steel Guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sIjVXux nyU Andrew P. does indeed sound a lot like Adam Ross of Randolph's Leap on that track. | ||
| David Unregistered guest |
Hamish Hawk is a nice find - thanks! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1408 Registered: 03-2007 |
The release of the new Hamish Hawk album ( Heavy Elevator ) has been delayed yet again. The label ( Assai Recordings ) are not now expecting to take delivery until towards the end of next week at the earliest due to Customs and Transport delays. Currently listening to :- Hamish Hawk & The New Outfit - From Zero To One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT-SwJid UrM | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1987 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hugh, I do love Ian M's voice, but he jiggles with the tune here, darn him! As well as hitting it cleanly, I think Glen gets the pace just right, giving it a jaunty swing, like a dance on the precipice, while the others seem to prefer to take it more slowly. |