Beach House - Elegy To The Void

Anderson Ponty Band "Wonderous Stories" from the new album "Better Late ...

The Anderson Ponty Band is a new supergroup of progressive rock music formed in Summer 2014 by music icons Jon Anderson (Yes's original singer/songwriter for 35 years) and French violin superstar of international fame Jean-Luc Ponty who have decided to combine their musical talents in a musical synergy.^[3]

Lyle Mays, "Ascent"

Lyle Mays (born November 27, 1953) is an American jazz pianist and composer from Wausaukee, Wisconsin.^[1][2] He is best known for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny as a member of the Pat Metheny Group. Along with Metheny, Mays has been a co-composer and arranger of almost all of the group's music and has won eleven Grammy Awards.^[3]

Rycerzyki

Winter Sun - Sarah Williams White

To celebrate her signing to First Word Records and announce her forthcoming mini-album 'Of The New World' Sarah Williams White presents 'Winter Sun'. 

Here's a little background to the track from Sarah herself: 

'I wrote this track to gratify all these images from films I had in my mind like Empire of The Sun, Fist of The North Star... imagery of a post apocalyptic/war-torn world, but nature with it's strength and beauty just standing it's ground! The Sun, or that something at the end of the tunnel that gives hope through darker times.. 

All my new music seems to have this underlying theme of time and repair, and the awesomeness of earth. Its a bit of a theme throughout my upcoming record Of The New World. 

'Winter Sun' started out as a li'l instrumental idea with my Hohner Pianet over a beat of Timmy's (Timmy Rickard is the drummer and engineer I work with) - I'd been listening to a lot of Roy Ayers! Then it kinda filled itself out over time into a more spacey harmonic piece with the poem and vocals, new b-boy drum grooves from timmy and my juno 106 playing the glaring Sun.'

- https://sarahwilliamswhite.bandcamp.com

Gabriela - Verano en la Pampa

Mouth Music-White Banner [Bratach Bana]

Bill Bruford, Ralph Towner and Eddie Gómez: "If Summer Had Its Ghosts"

Bruford, Towner y Gómez. ¡Qué combinación! Me encontré este CD de pura casualidad en el ya desaparecido negocio The Book Store en el Viejo San Juan en 1998.

Oh Pep!: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

October 16, 2015 by BOB BOILEN
I've seen Oh Pep! four times in three cities in the past month, and needless to say, the Melbourne band's music is infectious. Oh Pep gets its Oh from Olivia Hally (vocals, guitar) and its Pep! from Pepita Emmerichs (violin, mandolin). These Australians fit well in Nashville during an Americana music festival, as they played fiddles and mandolins alongside guitars, bass and drums. Their harmonies are sweet, with lyrics that are thoughtful, deep, funny and poetic.

Hally and Emmerichs told me they used to sit in their bedrooms back home watching Tiny Desk Concerts, so this day at NPR was a bit surreal for them, as they'd already traveled thousands of miles. Thankfully, Oh Pep!'s performance harnessed that surreality for a performance filled with magic.

Symphonic Music Of Yes (1993)- Mood For A Day

Symphonic Music of Yes is a 1993 album by London Philharmonic Orchestra, covering songs of theprogressive rock band Yes, with the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Community Gospel Choir. The arrangements were by Dee Palmer (then David Palmer). Playing on the album were Yes guitarist Steve Howe and Yes drummer Bill Bruford. Some tracks also featured Yes vocalist Jon Andersonand featured the ABWH additional keyboardist Julian Colbeck.^[1]

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KATARZIA - HLBOKO POD OBALOM (official music video)

Everything But The Girl - One Place

Everything But The Girl was formed in 1982 by Tracey Thorn (b. Brookman's Park, Herts 26.9.62) and Ben Watt (b. Barnes, London 06.12.62). Both had already had early acclaimed starts in their teens on the UK post-punk independent scene - Tracey with her indie minimal girl group, the Marine Girls (1980-1983, later name-checked as one of Kurt Cobain's favourite bands); Ben with more experimental solo folk-jazz recordings featuring alt-folk icon, Robert Wyatt (1981-1983). All the recordings had been released by London independent, Cherry Red, during it's A&R heyday under Mike Alway (1980-1983). The pair met by coincidence at Hull University in the autumn of 1981.

http://www.ebtg.com/

SALTA, Batty Sebastian Paz

Søren Juul

http://blog.kexp.org/2015/10/19/song-of-the-day-soren-juul-ambitions/

Søren Juul – Ambitions

By JACOB WEBB | Published: OCTOBER 19, 2015

photo by Beth Crook

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Morning Show with John Richards, is “Ambitions” by Søren Juul from his 2015 self-titled EP on 4AD.

Søren Juul – Ambitions (MP3)

The dazzling gleam of Søren Juul’s music feels both massive and understated, a one-man orchestra with an emotional resonance that gradually hums into something subtly affecting. Performing as Indians until recently, Juul played his first show under the moniker in 2012, quickly picking up buzz for his ability to craft glistening songs that struck a post-rock-esque emotional chord with their well-placed arrangements and meticulously sculpted tones. Juul toured Indians’ debut, 2012’s Somewhere Else, until last year, before announcing the release of a self-titled EP that moved even further in an electronic direction. (A full-length of new songs is expected early next year.) “Ambitions” never reaches an explosive, movie scene-soundtracking climax that so many bands who use the same atmospheric tools Juul utilizes, but that only underscores the song’s ability to harness quiet tension and transform it into something quietly breathtaking. Juul’s feather-light voice rides the song with gracious agility, allowing oscillating synths and guitars carry him through illumanted tones (think “I’m on Fire” or the first half of “Wait“), and even when he brings in drums and synthesizers in the song’s final third, he only uses them to augment his unwavering, luminescent sonic landscape. On the first listen, “Ambitions” may seem like anything but its titular descriptor, much less a mission statement, but it signals a new chapter for the Danish musician – Juul’s masterful grasp of calming tension is nothing short of sweeping across a stirring five and a half minutes.

Márta Sebestyén

Márta Sebestyén (n. Budapest, 19 de agosto de 1957) es una cantante húngara de música popular que se dio a conocer al gran público con la música de la película El paciente inglés.

Marta creció entre canciones en húngaro que oía en casa a su madre, Ilona Farkas, etnomusicóloga que había estudiado con el compositor Zoltán Kodály, quien, al igual que Béla Bartók, había recopilado miles de canciones populares, muchas de ellas de Transilvania, donde han perdurado las expresiones más puras del folclore húngaro. De los viajes de su madre y de los suyos propios a pueblos y aldeas de Transilvania, a Márta Sebestyén le ha quedado un profundo recuerdo.

Su nombre está ligado a Muzsikás, grupo formado en 1973 y al que ella se unió en 1980. Además, se incorporaría a Vujicsics, dedicado a la música de las minorías eslavas de Hungría. A orillas del Danubio, una nueva generación urbana estaba recuperando la vieja música campesina, como protesta contra la uniformización cultural del régimen comunista, que privilegiaba conjuntos folclóricos estatales. Un movimiento de estudiantes e intelectuales que se había formado en tánchaz, casas de baile, de Budapest y no gustaba a los burócratas prosoviéticos, temerosos de que despertara sentimientos nacionalistas. Márta todavía iba al colegio cuando empezó a cantar en tánchaz.

The B-52's - Deadbeat Club.

The B-52s (styled as The B-52's prior to 2008)^[1] are an American new wave band, formed in Athens, Georgia in 1976. The original line-up consisted of Fred Schneider (vocals, percussion, keyboards), Kate Pierson (organ, keyboards, bass, vocals), Cindy Wilson (vocals, bongos, tambourine), Ricky Wilson (guitars, bass), and Keith Strickland (drums, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, various instruments). Following Ricky Wilson's death in 1985, Strickland switched full-time to guitar. The band subsequently added various musicians for their live shows. This included Sara Lee or Tracy Wormworth(bass), Zachary Alford or Sterling Campbell (drums, percussion) and Pat Irwin or Paul Gordon (keyboards & guitars).

Rooted in new wave and 1960s rock and roll, the group later covered many genres ranging from post-punk to pop rock. The "guy vs. gals" vocals of Schneider, Pierson, and Wilson, sometimes used in call and response style ("Strobe Light," "Private Idaho", and "Good Stuff"), are a trademark. The group is also notable for almost all of its members being openly gay^[2][3][4] (Cindy Wilson is the lone exception).

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The Sundays - Love

Blind is the second full-length album by The Sundays. It was released by Parlophone on October 19, 1992 in the UK, then in the US by Geffen the following day, October 20. Often considered the darkest and most experimental of The Sundays' albums, noted for its melancholic lyrics and closer resemblance to the darker dream pop work of artists such as Cocteau Twins.



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Maire Brennan- No Easy Way

Moya Brennan, born Máire Ní Bhraonáin^[3] (Irish pronunciation: [mˠaːrʲə nʲiː vɾˠiːn̪ˠaːn]), also known as Máire Brennan (born 4 August 1952), is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist. She began performing professionally in 1970 when her family formed the band Clannad,^[4] and is now widely considered as the "First Lady of Celtic Music".^[5]Moya released her first solo album in 1992 called Máire, a successful venture, her solo career has remained successful to this day, many years after Clannad took a hiatus in 1996.^[6] She has been nominated for two Grammys and has won an Emmy Award.^[7] She has recorded with many world-famous musicians and has provided music for several soundtracks, including Titanic, To End All Wars and King Arthur.^[8][9]

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The Be Good Tanyas, "Horses"

Alt folk trio The Be Good Tanyas have achieved cult status since the band's luminous debut Blue Horse, an album named one of 2002’s top 50 releases by Q magazine (UK), firmly established the group on the Americana music scene. With subsequent releases, Chinatown and Hello Love, the band has met with ever growing critical and fan acclaim, garnering 4 star reviews in Rolling Stone and MOJO magazine and selling out concert halls across North America and Europe. 

Frazey Ford, Trish Klein and Samantha Parton; three women with gorgeous, haunting and plaintive voices accompanied by rustic, sparse and soulful instrumentation, high lonesome harmonies, and intelligent song-writing. 

“The sonic equivalent of a prairie wind.” – Shawn Edward Cote - No Depression

"This balance of sweet and spooky is at the heart of the Be Good Tanyas' timeless beauty. Decades from now, their musical sound is natural next to the traditional songs that inspire their work"–Meredith Ochs of NPR Music

- http://www.begoodtanyas.com/about

Blue Six-Very Good Friends

Blue Six is the alias of producer Jay Denes, whose debut album, Beautiful Tomorrow, delivered a mix of deep house, soulful pop, and smooth jazz. 

Oh Pep- The Race

http://ohpep.com

Living is the forthcoming EP from two of Australia’s brightest young talents, multi-instrumental duo, Oh Pep!  The EP features a mix of reworked visions and new releases and is released August 21st through Star House Collective. The Race is the first single to be taken from the EP.

The sometimes foot-stomping, somewhat heart-breaking, multi-award-winning original contemporary folk Melbourne duo Oh Pep!,release their Living EP on August 21st through Star House Collective.  Comprising of  two of Australia’s brightest young talents Olivia ‘Liv’ Hally and Pepita ‘Pep’ Emmerichs, Living EP  features a mix of reworked visions and new releases. The Race is the first single to be taken from the EP.

Not even 23 years old, Oh Pep! have been awarded Young Folk Performer of the Year 2014 and nominated for Best Folk Roots Album by The Age Music Victoria. They have released two EPs to date and gained rapid momentum, touring Australia, the USA and Europe. Amongst others, they’ve been invited to play at The Woodford Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival  the National Folk Festival in Canberra, and Folk Alliance International, Kansas City.

Oh Pep! embark on another great adventure this September with their first North American tour which will see them perform at the Americana conference in Nashville, CMJ in NYC & an array of shows across Canada and the U.S.

Bloom County is back

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Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed brought back his comic strip Bloom Countyafter a 25 year hiatus. He tells Fresh Air producer Sam Briger the story:

“This summer Harper Collins cashed in on To Kill a Mockingbird … and they published Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, and I watched, slack-jawed in horror, as they threw one of the 20th century’s most iconic fictional heroes, Atticus Finch, under the bus. They almost killed him and he was as real to me as my own father. Believe it or not, there is a connection here. 

At the time, and this is just a couple of months ago, it made me think that there would have been no Bloom County without Mockingbird because I was 12 when I read it, and the book’s fictional southern small town of Maycomb had settled deep into my graphic imagination and informed it forever. If you look at any of my art for the last 30 years there’s always a small town flavor to it. So when it came time to concoct a comic strip in 1979, 1980 when I was first syndicated, it became Harper Lee’s Alabama. Bloom County should’ve probably been called Silly Shit in Maycomb because that’s essentially what it was. So this summer, when Go Set a Watchman was causing an uproar, I went back to my files and I pulled an old fan letter from years ago. It was scripted in a shaky, handwritten scrawl and … it says: 

Dear Mr. Breathed, 

This is a plea from a dotty old lady and from others not dotty at all: Please don’t shut down Opus. Can’t you at least give him a reprieve? Opus is simply the best comic strip there is and depriving him of life is murder – a hard word to describe the obliteration of your creation. But Opus is real. He lives.

Sincerely yours,
Harper Lee

Monroeville, Alabama 

So that was June, just this last June, when I pulled it out. I hadn’t seen it for 25 years. I choked up and I thought about the preposterously ironic impossibility of my literary heroine from my childhood demanding that I not kill one of her fictional heroes 30 years later. The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by. Within 10 seconds I just thought, “I’m not gonna let them do to Opus what they did to Atticus Finch.” So that night I found the blank four frames of Bloom County from years before in my files and I sat down to draw the first one in 30 years and I had a picture of me doing it and posted it on Facebook in sort of a what-the-hell moment, “Here’s what I’m doing right now.” And that’s exactly how much careful reason, sober forethought went into the whole thing, and then it exploded after that.”

Uxía

Uxía Domínguez Senlle, conocida como Uxía, (Sanguiñeda, Mos, 19 de noviembre de 1962) es una cantante gallega… Uxía comenzó a cantar desde muy joven. Su carrera comienza oficialmente en 1985, cuando gana el primer premio del Festival de Bergantiños. En 1986, con solo veinticuatro años, publica su primer álbum, Foliada de Marzo, con una música bastante próxima a lo tradicional, influenciada por el despertar de la poesía gallega en la música popular. Al año siguiente se incorpora como vocalista al grupo Na Lúa, uno de los buques insignias del folk gallego, y tal vez el más renovador de los años ochenta. Con ellos graba dos discos, A Estrela de Maio (1987) y Ondas do Mar de Vigo (1989). Cuatro años después, en 1991, deja el grupo y edita otro álbum en solitario, el cosmopolita Entre cidades, un paseo emocional por las ciudades del mundo en clave literaria con el que acerca aires pop y uno cierto sabor urbano a su discografía.

Zuco 103 - Conscience

Zuco 103 is a Dutch musical ensemble which plays music chiefly in the styles of the music of Brazil.

The ensemble was initially founded under the name Rec.a in 1989 by students at the Rotterdam Conservatory.^[1] Three members of the ensemble SfeQ (singer Lilian Vieira, keyboardist Stefan Schmid, and drummer Stefan Kruger) began working together as a trio, exploring the musical repertory of Vieira's native land, Brazil. They released their debut album in 2000, and their 2006 full-length Whaa! reached #11 on the U.S. Billboard World Music charts.^[2]

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Bandcamp: DIY Hustlers

http://blog.bandcamp.com/2015/10/08/diy-hustlers/

DIY Hustlers

“Don’t put anything out that you’re not 100% sold on. Make sure that you’re recording because you enjoy it and because you really want to. Record it because it’s a need for you…” — Alex G

Not all that long ago, Alex Giannascoli and Will Toledo were passing burned CD-Rs of their music around high schools, hoping to capture the attention of a few fellow teens. They graduated to college, and to releasing music on Bandcamp: Toledo uploaded his first album as Car Seat Headrest in 2010, Giannascoli his first song as Alex G in 2011. Fast-forward a few years and, for each musician, a dozen or so albums. In recent months, both have signed with major indie labels. Today, Alex G releases Beach Musicas his recording debut on Domino Records; on October 30, Matador Records will releaseTeens of Style, Car Seat Headrest’s first album for the label.
These represent perhaps the dream trajectory of the indie musician: from bedroom project to prestigious record label (and, incidentally, the dream trajectory for Bandcamp, as both Matador and Domino are now on the site). Domino is the home of Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors. Matador is known for everyone from Interpol to Yo La Tengo. And in an ideal iteration of this career arc, Giannascoli and Toledo were noticed not for stunt antics or flooding the world with press releases, but for carefully honing their craft and building dedicated online fan bases. Each delves into the personal and confessional in a distinct musical style—Alex G leans toward the trippy and soft-spoken, Car Seat Headrest is distorted and visceral—but both represent DIY success stories in an ever-shifting industry.
I spoke with the musicians independently over the phone in recent weeks; both were naturally enthused about their new opportunities and in the midst of newly busy press junkets and tours. How does an artist toil away and find that kind of success? And what lessons might these unlikely cases offer for all of the other musicians in the midst of their own careers?

Mari Boine - Balu Badjel Go Vuoittan

Mari Boine, previously known as Mari Boine Persen, née Mari Boine Olsen (born 8 November 1956) is a Norwegian Sami musician known for having added jazz and rock to the yoiks of her native people. Gula Gula (first released by Iđut, 1989, later re-released by Real World) was her breakthrough release, and she continued to record popular albums throughout the 1990s.^[1] In 2008, she was appointed Professor of musicology at Nesna University College.^[2]

Seapony

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Seapony – A Place We Can Go

By GERAN LANDEN | Published: OCTOBER 9, 2015
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is “A Place We Can Go” by Seapony from the 2015 self-released album A Vision.
On September 7th, 2015, Seattle band Seapony announced on Facebook that they were done as a band, offering thanks but providing little explanation. After three albums and five years, their always excellent take on dream pop has unfortunately come to a halt. Fortunately, though, they left fans with a parting give in their July album release, A Vision. No gathering of left-behinds, the record is a solid offering from the band, featuring a lush backing to the sunny haze of their always approachable pop. As ever, Seapony craft the type of music that truly embodies the term “dream pop,” providing listeners with an escape to distant sunny lands in every song. It’s a sentiment that resonates stronger in the face of the bands demise, as all their records will keep well and welcome return visits to sonic landscapes sure to remain untainted by time. In the vain of that theme, “A Place We Can Go” serves as a fitting Song of the Day send off for the band. On it, surfy guitar melodies back Jen Weidl’s airy vocals in delightful simplicity, before a fuzzy guitar solo flirts with the main riff, playing out the song. At under three minutes, the song feels much too short, as does the era of Seapony.

The Innocence Mission - Surreal

Patricia, esta es para tí.

We Were Echoes, by Prémio Mistério

The Sun Parade- Wenonah

http://thesunparade.bandcamp.com/album/hearts-out

Beyond The Phaneron Julien Mier Remix

Bridal Party, banda canadiense

http://bridalparty.bandcamp.com/album/hot-daze-ep

Khruangbin - White Gloves

http://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-smiles-upon-you



Khruangbin is a three-piece band from Texas, formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Johnson on drums. Taking influence from 1960's Thai funk - their name literally translates to "Engine Fly" in Thai - Khruangbin is steeped in the bass heavy, psychedelic sound of their inspiration, Tarantino soundtracks and surf-rock cool. 

Yppah - Never Mess With Sunday (Final Version)

04. Inside And Out [Genesis: Live in São Paulo - 1977/5/21]

Dead Can Dance - Fortune Presents Gifts not According to the Book

Aion is the fifth studio album by Dead Can Dance, released in 1990. The first album Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perrywrote after the end of their romantic partnership, it was recorded at Perry's new estate, Quivvy Church in Ireland.

The male soprano David Navarro Sust contributes vocals to the first track.

The album cover shows a detail from the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights(specifically, its central "Earth" panel).

Dead Can Dance is an English-Australian musical project formed in 1981 in Melbourne by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London, England, in May 1982. Australian music historian Ian McFarlanedescribed Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern mantras and art rock."^[1]

Having disbanded in 1998, they reunited briefly in 2005 for a world tour and reformed in 2011, releasing a new album (Anastasis) and embarking on several tours.

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