White soul. Some people say oxymoron. But don't get locked in a prison of attitude and cliche, brothers and sisters. While British electronica white person Jamie Lidell has been accused of being a bad karaoke act, I think there's something here to be considered and appreciated, a real intimacy with funk nuance. His clearest predecessor is early Robert Palmer, before the mannequin videos and cut-out bin hits, back when RP had a crack backup band made up of members of the Meters and Little Feat. Lidell is usually his own one-man band, pumping out the bleeps, blips and [...]
Berlin, Germany Jamie Lidell just recently put out an CD to accompany his 2005 release Multiply . Multiply Additions has remixes, rearrangements, and live tracks from last year's album. "When I Come Back Around (Freeform Reform)" Jamie Lidell on MySpace
Fabric, London - 5/26/05, courtesy of Jamie Lidell All this week, our Song of the Day podcast features artists that are performing at this year's Bumbershoot festival. The Song of the Day podcast features exclusive in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent musicians that KEXP DJs think listeners should hear, along with songs from more well-known artists. Today's featured selection is from Multiply Editions (available on Warp) by Jamie Lidell ... Jamie Lidell - Multiply (In A Minor Key) - ( [...]
I'm sure by now, you are all aware of Jamie Lidell's Multiply album from last year. It was definitely an album that caught me unawares, full of sun kissed rhythms and soulful vocals from a knob twiddler from England. You can hear strains of Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye throughout the record. Essentially Multiply is a modern soul record that hits all the right buttons but also has a contempary feel. In May, Jamie released Multiply Additions , a remix album (with a couple of live tracks thrown in) and [...]
Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton - The Lottery - Metric's lead singer makes solo goodness. Sugar-voiced and silky. Owen - Bad News - I've never been able to explain why I like Owen so much. It's just pleasant. Fingerpicking clear acoustic, layers of other texture. Brutally honest lyrics. Mike Kinsella is the man. Fionn Regan - The Underwood Typewriter - another quirky bouncy effort from this talented young UK songwriter. Jamie [...]
We're up in Chicago right now for the Pitchfork Fest , probably attempting to weasel our way into Wrigley for the Cubs-Cards game as you read this. I'm hoping to update sporadically from the road, and you can expect photos and a recap on Monday...for now, let me tell you about Herbert 's newest album, Scale : Matthew Herbert used over 700 items (musical and otherwise) to create his genius new record, Scale [...]
Although this crazy genious claims himself as a virgin, his music is full of soul and great vibes created by his computer. We saw him live in a free concert in Toronto at the beautiful Harborfront Center, earlier this month. What a gig! Be careful, he doesn't like to be compared to Gnarls Barkley. Below some pictures and a few mp3s to understand what I'm talking about... + Jamie Lidell - Multiply + Jamie Lidell - [...]
Today I'm gonna make an effort to beef this bastard up with less fluff and more stuff. Translation: Here's a fat gaggle of mp3s. I'm going full on menagerie mode here. Genre's are just a crutch for the weak. Now get to getting. Hot Chip-Colours Hot Chip-The Warning Normally, I am flabbergasted by how hard people dickride everything the DFA do [...]
I've always been skeptical of the idea of cloning, kind of worried about what would happen if one of those weird and scary sci-fi movies came true and people could create human clones at will. But after looking through the Bluesfest schedule, I would be all to willing to get my hands on something, anything, that would let me be in two places at once. The guide is split in 2, 5 days in each. Not sure how regualr blog-posting will go throughout.. a local Bluesfest performer profile here, a [...]
After stumbling out of the awesomeness that was Daft Punk on Day 1 - and I mean awesome in the Biblical sense - I made last-minute arrangements to sleep on my friend Mark's floor, so we had to go back to my other friend's car ("I think we're going the wrong way." "What?!" "I don't really remember." "Don't look at me, you dropped us off.") to get my stuff, then walk all the way from the balloon 6 lot to the balloon 2 lot, which was a lot farther than either of us was expecting. I [...]
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