UN GOSPEL, DEUX FANTÔMES, NEUF ALBUMS Attention, cette hiérarchie est précaire, aléatoire pourrait-on même dire (en dehors du premier disque de cette liste, qui est très bien là, tout en haut, seul sur son piédestal) et n'est pas couverte par votre garantie. La maison décline toute responsabilité en cas de malencontreuse réévaluation. 1. THE NATIONAL, Boxer Dans le 91 et sur la ligne 13, au petit matin et dans le creux des nuits, sur la coulée verte la tête au niveau des toits, sur les grands boulevards le nez (...)
We Made This Ourselves is the debut album from English singer-songwriter Essie Jain. Jain's music is very simple, played in an old fashioned folk style though the sound is unmistakably modern. A... **Click on the link to read the full post, download mp3s, and comment.**
In handy table format! 20. Essie Jain We Made This Ourselves Ba Da Bing Disgrace This year for me was all about harmony. I discarded almost everything that wasn't in tune, and if there was a good harmony, I jumped on it with both feet. Which is not an appropriate metaphor for the delicate [...]
DOWNLOAD: Essie Jain - Glory (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Essie Jain - Haze (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Essie Jain - Disgrace (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Essie Jain - Talking (MP3) Originally from London, songwriter Essie Jain left her home town for New York a few years ago in pursuit of her muse. [ WNYC ] Essie Jain is playing my free day party upstairs at Pianos on Wednesday (Oct 17 @ 1:45pm), [...]
Essie Jain: "Glory," from the We Made This Ourselves LP (Ba Da Bing!, 2006)
Shake Your Fist doesn't update everyday, but I still check it everyday. I do it in the hope that there'll be a new entry but also just to browse through the considerable archives. It makes me want to strive harder in my own posts, raising the capacity of my writing, digging up untrod descriptors and newborn metaphors. It makes me want to plunder used CD bins too, excavating obscure finds and little-known wonders to champion. Needless to say, Shake Your Fist has quickly become one of my favorite music blogs, a exemplar of quality in a medium often regarded [...]
Essie Jain - "Indefinable". If you slow a diamond enough, slow it right down, you begin to see a different glitter: there, beneath the prettty, something sad and beautiful and smelling of coal. On her album Essie Jain seems drawn to both the nice and the weird (both of which can be traps), but here she's found something perfect, flickering, and slow, slow, slow. There's a desolation to the song, a stillness that recalls the earliest (spooky) work of Kathryn Williams, and Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek". Just Jain singing to the mines, tides, a doomed love. It's not those [...]
I'm still sick, but since SXSW have announced their lineup, with free mp3s as usual, here's a look at some of those playing this year. Una has a list of irish performers. Duke Special, the man above isn't playing, but he will be playing Berlin soon, and hopefully I'll regain my health in time to see him. Have a nice weekend. Duke Special - Last Night I Nearly Died Asobi Seksu - Thursday Au Revoir Simone - Fallen Snow Colour Revolt - Mattresses Underwater [...]
Pacha Massive Every Monday-Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. The podcast features exclusive in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent musicians that KEXP DJs think you should hear, along with songs from more well-known artists. Didn't get a chance to post anything on yesterday's song, but you should download it if you haven't already. Yesterday's song is from Pacha Massive , an impressive New York based duo born out of the Afro-New World tradition. Download a song from their [...]
Download "I Was Only Kidding" (mp3) from "Split" by Meanest Man Contest / Languis Sneakmove Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody More On This Album Download "Left At the Party" (mp3) from "Yes Yes To You" by The [...]
MP3: Essie Jain - Glory It's described as being "open" because it doesn't get closed in underneath surplus instrumentation fighting for a voice where it clearly can't match that already offered. This works because the voice carries it, in a way the production draws the voice upwards and the rest follows, swirling a close course behind. Essie Jain is British, but fits her music into New York where she makes music and tours. 'Glory' hardly has hit written all over it, just like it doesn't have British written [...]
"The order is chaos. We've no way of knowing." Essie Jain ~ Haze from We Made This Ourselves by Essie Jain
Haze - Essie Jain "Haze" starts like a secret prayer, a soliloquy, a slow grace of piano and voice. If that's all there was, it would be a very pretty song. Essie Jain's (full name, Essie Jain Wilkinson) hand is steady and her voice is keen and deliberate. She's restrained the way a singer who has operatic training is -- knowing it's all in the potential to push limits, but not necessary to constantly do so. And confident how women who daily [...]
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