Here we go, the last Monday in March, which means, thankfully, that we can soon tear one more month of the calendar and be just that much closer to summer vacation. I, for one, can't have summer get here soon enough. Anyways, as per usual, your Melancholy Monday playlist, just like your ma used to make it: with love and the utmost care. 1. Cowboy Junkies: Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) ("The Trinity Sessions," 1988) 2. Bon Iver: Lisbon, OH ("Bon Iver," 2011) 3. Miles Davis: [...]
As usual, Sundazed has some interesting releases lined up for Record Store Day this year. Gene Clark fans should be particularly pleased to see a trio of 7" single releases featuring the late Byrd. Recorded under Gene Clark's name, "One In A Hundred"/"She's The Kind Of Girl" is actually something of a long-lost Byrds reunion. Recorded in 1970, the other four founding members of the Byrds backed up their former leader for these recordings. This single features the songs in their "unsweetened" form, sourced from the surviving, original rough-mix mono reels. "Why Not Your Baby"/"Lyin' [...]
The week brought us a mixed bag of offerings. We heared Zooey and Ben "Death Cab for Cutie" Gibbard called it splitsville, insisting that no third parties were involved, but we here at the office have imagined perhaps an inner competitive lover's spat between demographic relevance. Speaking of competition, Donald "Childish Gambino" Glover continues to ape the Odd Future vibe with his "Yonkers" references in a silly video for his track "Bonfire," while ...
Young Magic have offered up some new music in the shape of a remix of their favourite Martin Denny track. The band have given The Enchanted Sea the once over and have released it to celebrate their US tour. Congratulations! The band have got an album due out in 2012 and you can listen to their Martin Denny remix below.
Isaac Emmanuel, the Australian auteur behind Young Magic, a sort of cross-continental solo project, has kept a mysterious profile. One ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media /martin-denny/martin-denny-the -enchanted-sea-young-magic-rem ix/58184/
Today is a bittersweet story as it is with both sadness and joy that I present to you the 2011 conclusion to Ryan Radlers wonderful mixtape series, anti-winter 3 c. Week after week Ryan has given summer luxurious and comprehensive soundtrack setting a unique vibe for all our estival activities - Dear anti-winter, we'll miss you. When I use to perform classical music under the tutelage of the the late great Dr. Walter Turnbull we learned that clapping in between movements or grand pauses is inappropriate. That always fascinated me because Dr. T was an incredible teacher and got us sing classics like [...]
Hidden Shoal Recordings has announced the digital pre-release of the forthcoming sophomore album On Holiday by New York's shadowy lounge-pop maestro Rich Bennett . Influenced by the classic exotica of Martin Denny, the aching folk-pop of Fleet Foxes, and the conceptual sweep of The Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, On Holiday is, on the surface, 'a day in the life of a vacation'. Brimming with delicious breezy melodies and the buoyant vocals of both Bennett and Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Rebecca Pronsky, the optimistic side of the album is typified by gorgeous [...]
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This is your Daily 2% – Chilled and Ready to Serve . We will try to bring you one "chill" track every day. This is for when you get home and you are trying to unwind. You reach for that glass of wine or that unlit Black & Mild or maybe you reach for something more herbal. This track is for those times. We will try to bring you at least one a day. We are just your milkmen and I'm here to make a delivery. Chill….. Today's delivery is brought to you by Martin [...]
The time has come! Summer is upon us, and for me, as a blogger, it can only mean one thing: Time for the annual summer mix! However, this year's will be quite different from the previous ones, hence its appearance here instead of the main blog. This time around, I made it with a clear theme in mind: To create a soundtrack for a fantastic summer getaway fantasy. Exotic locales, improbably blue skies, palm trees & white sands... steel drums. You name it all. Summer Getaway is a concoction of [...]
Some albums deserve to be in every music listener's collection, no matter their age, their typical listening preference, their shoe size, or whether they preferred the Munsters or the Adams Family (I fall in the latter category). Time Out easily fits the bill. It's a jazz masterpiece that even jazz illiterates can joyfully appreciate, and as a result, one of the best selling jazz albums of all time. Recorded in 1959, the album was Dave Brubeck 's crowning masterpiece to a career that is still alive today. It's name comes from [...]
The immersion. A stinging. There is only color. No shape. No front or back, simply orbits rippling back from a central disturbance. some lighter bodies become vapor rather than resolve into the growing hum that shoots through mass and time. There is a dark room. Two boxes emit a coded spell. The organism opens it's eyes and sees flaming arcs and sparks within the boxes. This is good. No other recorded spell passed through these boxes completed the circuit in just this way. The spirit of the organism [...]
Martin Denny: Misirlou Seymour Rexite: Miserlou Deepest thanks to the Gardens for Seymour's version.
As we head into the final two episodes, Mad Men continues to lay the groundwork for some serious fireworks. This episode, "The Jet Set," was tied together by a theme of identifying one's self, featuring a myriad of examples including Duck going off the wagon, and as a result, upping his game. The theme culminates in that final scene of Don dropping a "Dick Whitman" on us when we least expect it, calling this season's mystery person (who he sent the book from the first episode to?) Come to think of [...]
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Wedding Song (ke kali ne au)
Ahoy! Today we see a new kid on the undomondo block, one of Istanbul's world renowned DJs and the musical director of our home radio Dinamo , Fuchs has written a review for K7's Quiet Village, whose album has literally amused us last night and made us sing praises. Hopefully he'll have more endurance to keep on writing for more than one occasion, unlike our previous guests, who has abandoned ship. Matt Edwards, aka Radio Slave , who is the current techno don, the in demand [...]
Anyone out there remember the Ultra Lounge series that Capitol put out back in the 90's? With titles like the Vegas Baby! , Mondo Exotica , Mambo Fever , Bachelor Pad Royale , Organs In Orbit , and the Tiki Sampler , you get an idea of what sounds were being propagated. I only had maybe a half dozen of the twenty-eight albums, but the ones I had certainly were quite different than the rest of my collection. What brings this to mind is Silent Movie , the debut release [...]
Reading Drew Daniels' contribution to the 33 1/3 series about 20 Jazz Funk Greats has made me hungrier for the Gristle, at all levels, the band are not so much dissected as teased into revealing their secrets, songs not displayed in the cold table of the deconstructionist butcher but beheld ...
Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the late 1950s to mid 1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism, exotica, means tropical ersatz: the non-native, pseudo experience of Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Southeast Asia, and especially Hawaii). While the South Seas forms the core region, exotica reflects the "musical impressions" of every place from standard travel destinations to the mythical "shangri-las" dreamt of by armchair safari-ers. (Wiki) Edmundo Ros [...]
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