Rolling 'One Track Per Week' Thread 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Vw49KM6JU

At the documentary film fest I saw Tomorrow is Always Too Long, a Scottish film, which really isn't that great. But it uses some songs by Cate le Bon, and I've been listening to them over and over. In the film, there is the scottish national orchestra, and it's sung by a prison inmate, and it's very emotional. But the original is cool as well.

AAAAARE YOU WITH ME NOW?

http://youtu.be/qKDjb8wXv94

Donald Adkins Lonely Side Walks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTkTnj3ofbQ

Scarlett Von Wollenmann - This Year's Model

this is melancholy electro-pop/disco; she is British but was successful in Italy. It can be nice to sit around feeling sad and glamorous sometimes

I found this because I was trying to discover more about John Hyde, who did the theme music for Henry's Cat. I don't know if the John Hyde who co-wrote this with Von Wollenmann is the same person, but I think they are as they both seem to be associated with De Wolfe Music. Discogs seems to think that this is also the same John Hyde who was in the post punk group The Gadgets with Matt Johnson from The The and also the same John Hyde as was in an 80s act called East Of Java who did Japan/Indochine style orientalist pop. there does seem to be a through line running through all of these projects even if they are not all the same person. they are all very good!

My girlfriend was on a Mylene Farmer nostalgia trip all weekend and this is the track that got stuck in my head - turns out "celestial" is the only look I really need from MF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6OO3muLGys

<3 Mylene is the greatest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJkveJMNMSo#t=13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6F8NpNBiu8

Seems like a good day for frosty Polish electropop.

Enjoying this piece of revivalist garage/proto-house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wZJVf1GvJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPrKYs2iDKQ

I often feel like I should listen to more italian music. So melodic.

http://youtu.be/meP7QincviY

sweet, sweet autechre

This is my favourite thread FYI, everything here is better than anything anywhere else <3 <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze-fNkqi_5I&spfreload=10

so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2nSh7QraY

Discovered this while researching for the Italo poll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAx7YUlryXI

I talked psych-pop with a friend today. He liked the psychy stuff, I liked the poppy. Reminded me I kinda prefer MPB to Tropicalia, and reminded me then of this incredible creation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRmZ6iiA_Es

More pop-songs should be less than three minutes long yet include a dozen instruments include harmonica and end with a big male choir singing 'Amen'.

So, went to christmas evening service on wednesday, at the cathedral in Copenhagen, where Copenhagen's Boys Choir, my old choir, sings. They ended with this here, for the first time ever, I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJrXhjt7Gwo

I resulted in aplause from the churchgoers, which, you know, is not usually how a service concludes. But it is a very very beautiful song, sounded very angelic in the cathedral space.

Karl Malone so glad to see you repping that Belong album upthread: it's one of my favorites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVrxFnPH950&feature=youtube_gdata_player

From 1981. The whole album is terrific, sounds a bit like a cross between The Cure and the more abrasive end of the postpunk spectrum; though this song in particular brings to mind nothing so much as Moonshake's Eva Luna, a decade too early amd with a healthy dose of coldwave mixed in.

a gorgeous kwaito track from south africa. i think this is just perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iZ5rpll9WA

daaaaaamn what a break!! who knew?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENzLb85b1Do

So that's where it's from!

<3 Odetta, obviously

v dope beat yes

Barre Phillips - Grant's Pass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuWv_PLjAlM

minimalist ECM jazz. it reminds me of old-time fiddle music even though it's most obviously patterned after Steve Reich

17 year old songwriter from Derry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_juevz9Qg

https://cylob.bandcamp.com/track/inseminoid-2

cot DAN, Cylob

can't get this song out of my head. how many 80's revival people have ever reached this level of awesome? my beloved lansing-dreiden might have been able to pull off a song like this. Tim Finney's beloved Studio maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OoBpvZbTJo

Just discovered this amazing Prince-written Kid Creole song from 1990.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdOZQ1LFxwQ

^ that's 'The Sex Of It' by Kid Creole and the Coconuts btw

i really like that Barre Phillips track posted above

Mariam the Believer - Black Mark: shambala meets Melanie de Biasio, or something...would probably have voted for Mariam in EOY if I'd heard it in time.

http://open.spotify.com/track/6mlGFF1KXLpOjbD7MQD6cD
http://youtu.be/QUR8FPGaGSs?t=11m29s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ2oeEXY5J4

A friend played "guess what this is" and it was fun for him to see me guessing a bunch of contemporary Wire-y names off the top and then watch my expression turned to awe

John Surman - Dark Reed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW6Si4dqZBU

ECM jazzman tries his hand at Bohren-style dark jazz (sort of)

that Odetta song Scott shared is amazing! did she record anything else in the same vein?

Deuter - Offener Himmel I - Gelichzeitig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsqlbUwodQQ

1970er krautrock newage goodvibes weltmusik

― once a week is ample

I'm loving everything on the afrobeats thread. the posters there are true experts, amazing knowledge. But this track stood out for me as being pretty unique among a genre that is in itself full of variety anyhow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZDS72ov1rU

Track is 'Godwin' by Korede Bello

I'm sure a fair share of you are familiar with this track but I'd forgotten he (mu-Ziq, u -ziq ??) was still making music. Lovely stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMgwERhfcI

How had I never heard 'Weekend Special' by Brenda & the Big Dudes before?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A16XFxDNVXc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FT5V0VmUo

This Italian mega-hit from 94 plays a significant role in The Wonders, the delightful film that one the Grand Prix from Cannes last year. Good poptune, great film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYbIl7TOgQc

24 years this week since Soviet indie-punk singer Yanka Dyagileva died (at 24 years old). Can't stop listening to Na Chornii Den'.

^^^ That's really cool. My ex had a copy of "Not Permitted" that we knew nothing about because it was all in Cyrillic. Any idea what album that electric version of "Na Chornii Den" is on?

https://youtu.be/867wjv3WOJY

Tequila fish_Big Loada_Squarepusher

Xp, it's on "Domoi".

Thanks!

Fantastikoi Hxoi - 'Etos 2525'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyIUZgcpTnA

modern krautrock/spacerock composed of samples from old Greek psych LPs. I found this album on some random blog in ≈2010 but I haven't properly listened to it until now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tSYXpq2kW0
I can't get this out of my head recently, have been playing the album frequently and love Autumn Leaves as well, but there is just "something" about love for sale.

That Fantastikoi Hxoi is great! (also weird that it's not transliterated as Echoi or Exoi, unless I'm up meself.)

ILXor, ithappens, posted this the other day on Facebook and I haven't been able to stop listening to it since.

New Musik - This World of Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJIu_na4gY

One of the funner things with foreign films is getting to know cheesy pop songs from other countries. This is from the new Ozon, and is probably a queer anthem in France. It's used that way, anyway. It's catchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-65kjpU1Qfw