Video: Jamie Lidell - Compass

Jamie Lidell meldet sich mit "The Ring" zurück. Der Soul-Zappelphilipp klingt auf seiner neuen Single zum Glück wieder um eines kränker als noch auf dem Motown-orientierten Album "Jim". [Im Feed kann dieses Video nicht angezeigt werden.Klicke zum Blogeintrag um das Video anzusehen.] Das Video zu "The Ring" spielt dort, wo der Song entstanden ist, an einem Strand [...]

Jamie Lidell @ Highline Ballroom in 2008 ( more by Chris La Putt ) Jamie Lidell 's fourth full-length album, Compass , will be released on May 17th 2010 (May 18th in the US). The album was recorded in Los Angeles, New York and Canada, and it includes collaborations with Beck , Feist , Gonzales , Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Pat Sansone of Wilco. Sessions began at Beck's Hudson Studios in Los Angeles, where he gathered [...]

The winter months having you feeling a bit down? News of the upcoming Jamie Lidell release will put a little pep into even the most frigid of gaits. Hearing of the new release, excitement started to boil up; just how will Lidell follow up the 2007 release Jim, which featured background vocals by Nikka Acosta, and collaborators Beck, Mocky, and Gonzalez? In short, with some of today's most exhilarating artists. After working with Beck and his most recent Record Club recording , Lidell kept the party going with recordings for his own solo-release, [...]

Last time we saw Jamie Lidell, he was helping Beck (and Feist, some Wilco folks) reinterpret Skip Spence's Oar . The favor's been returned: Beck, Feist, and Pat Sansone of Wilco show up on Lidell's third full-length Compass . In fact, the way it's spun, Lidell & Co. were inspired by the "chemistry" of the Record Club sessions, so they shifted focus to Compass . (Gonzales, drummer James Gadson, and co-producing Grizzly Bear Chris Taylor, among others, also lent assistance.) While you take a listen to the dusky, ambing, and satisfyingly raw title track, note [...]