Rolling 'One Track Per Week' Thread 2014

I'd just thought I'd start a new week every monday, to make it easier to remember.

I've been digging this track a lot, a friend of mine from Minneapolis who's been knocking around various alt-country projects for quite a while, drifting closer to blue eyed soul here. Kind of reminds me of Timmy Thomas' "Why Can't We Live Together."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1uTusZKrA&feature=youtu.be

Ooh lots to catch up with, currently really enjoying the 6th Borough Project album
Particularly this cosmos-stomping tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TERInmBTbiw

I've harped on about this on ILM before, but this is taken from Ariel Raminez' Misa Criolla mass which was composed in the early 1960s after the Vatican ruled that masses could be written in vernacular languages other than Latin. It features a lot of traditional folk instruments and singing from South America. The whole mass is very short and worth a listen through, but this is the highlight for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da9x0ZxtG3k

I just got caught up in this live video so i'm back to listening to Caetano Veloso's O Leaozinho again and again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1WDI3vmbVI

That amazing whistle. Who arranges tracks like that? Weird sparse folk is probably my favorite Veloso, Joia is one of my favorite records. If it had O Leaozinho instead of Help on it, it would compete with being best album ever.

Dammit! This is the original version, with the whistle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW0urIU5vpQ

http://youtu.be/pauHspEM3ls

AFX-Mangle 11 (Circuit Bent V.I.P Mix)

because aphex twin, and this track is monstrous.

i'm flying high! i'm flying high now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLj0D-z_daU#

I'm excited that there is going to be an ilm Eurovision Song Contest poll, though it's going to be several years until it happens so I've been listening to lots of Eurovision this week, still think this might be my favourite (Nina Morato 'Je Suis Un Vrai Garcon', France 1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzs60_xLeyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXn_Ev36QJo

xp That's gotta be one of the finer entries from France in the last 25 years
I did enjoy the Sébastien Tellier and Jessy Matador tracks in recent events

Wanted to post a track that reflects my feelings of the last week. Originally I wanted to post the Jabberjaw version of "Rock Star" where Courtney tracks her vocals with 15 overdubs. But instead I'm posting this! Have a good week!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKCwN8L7xZc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRwmQ1L9ILc

Been listening to Yello's "Live at the Roxy NY Dec '83" a lot lately, it's gotta be one of finest live performances by an electronic artist. For some reason it wasn't included in the recent reissue series except as a heavily edited version, but the full 15 minutes is the shit!

all of Yello's videos from the 80s are so incredible looking. did Dieter Meier direct them?

just been catching up with this whole thread. enjoyed pretty much everything here to be honest.

New Musik- Living By Numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viOAiUH0T1Q

okay I'm in with a calendar reminder.
I was shocked I've enjoyed the Lecrae album as much as I have; xtian rap is hardly a place i find worthwhile to troll but about 75% of Anomaly is quite good. Stylistically listening to a rapper who doesn't curse and has some flow is kinda unique. The lack of misogyny, consumerism, physical violence and minimal preachiness is a fun change of pace after putting bobby shmurda on repeat.
anyway, here's an anti-consumerist anthem from Jeremy Lin's favorite artist that interpolates luniz's 'i got 5 on it' and that also doesn't suck and that's a sentence i never thought i'd type.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqBBTm4Bh3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7sTrBnzJ8k

It's in Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth, which I watched a few days ago. The song salutes the heroes of the Cape Verdean struggle for independece, foremost among them Amilcar Carbral, who was assasinated a few years earlier, which makes the 'viva Cabral' sad and ironic. Also because during the making of Colossal Youth, Ildo Lobo, the lead singer in Os Tubaroes, died as well. Hauting and sad film, haunting though optimistic song.

That Caetano Veloso song Frederik B posted is lovely, but I can't help thinking it's going to turn into a Belle and Sebastian song any moment.

This is most likely old news among certain ILM contingencies, but I'm still in love with this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7trsy11auM

Feels like it's high time since someone like Popcaan came along. Love the lyrics to this one too.

That Caetano Veloso song Frederik B posted is lovely, but I can't help thinking it's going to turn into a Belle and Sebastian song any moment.

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It's so indie that Beirut has covered it, so yeah, otm.

Great Popcaan track as well.

an alluring and enchanting tango-ish piece of contemporary jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDI2_Gv77s

whole popcaan album is great; maybe one of faves of the year

Frederik - after I posted I put on the CV song again and had it in my head rest of the day. It's certainly grown on me a lot. Made me dig out some Os Mutantes and other Tropicalia stuff too.

Sweet Popcaan track
Really only heard (and loved) 'Waiting So Long' over the summer - will def check out the record.

The Brett record might seem a bit 'two-years-ago-y' but it does a great job of topping the sounds of Chad Valley, Kisses et al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYafuzJsB7s

Hollins & Starr- Cry Baby Cry (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CW0QU1mKYo

DJ Dodger Stadium - Never Win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV4Gk4I-VX8

Something about the gratuitous looped vocal samples reminds me of big beat era production styles...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxvWmE0HZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXA4BYRhZf0
reminded of this by zro screw version on the new mixtape, great song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_PUW91SgPs

So, I was never that big on Atom Heart's "funny" IDM projects, but I just got the "Alien Symphony" album he did with Masaki Sakamoto and some Japanese vocalists, and this is just some pure chopped-up synth pop bliss... Kinda indulgent, but not in a tiring way a lot of his other IDM stuff is.

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

I've been listening to this track quite a lot lately. It's pretty famous in Denmark, debut single of a band that later became quite big. It's just lovely, and the lyrics are spot-on at the moment, the title translating as 'One Night It'll be Summer' and the line before that being 'Du Kan Ikke Sove' or 'You Can't Sleep', which, yup, correct on that count. Perfect song for autumn insomnia.

(btw if anyone wants to see the coolest of the cool in Denmark 90, check out this tv-performance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6bsSzBmLs

Jukebox Serenade by Brotherhood of Man

This is from their final album, where they had rebranded themselves as 'BHoM' and were trying trying to adjust to the New Pop landscape, I think it's their best album by some distance, judging by what I've heard of the others. Some of it sounds a bit like Dollar or Bucks Fizz. It was their only album with Barry Upton who later went on to co-write 5,6,7,8 for Steps and Bunsen Burner with John Otway

"Sri Jimi" stellar sandpaper, and not a Hendrix pastiche

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

Heard that on KMUW's Global Village stream, the Gandhi Day show, last Thursday; shows are temp archived here:
http://kmuw.org/programs/global-village

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kr8RSC9ysc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj-zpQ9v8Z8

Terry Riley, Kronos Quartet and Wu Man. I love the sample. It's from Cheburashka, old Russian stop-motion films.

v fitting for an overcast autumn wednesday

DJ Dodger Stadium upthread is sooooo good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVFB4-Y0OXE

i really like the Belong record from 2011, Common Era. i wish they'd release something new.

^ The Brotherhood of Man posted posted up there - haven't heard it before so thanks. But I think the influence is not so much New Pop as just the same old influence that informed some of their earlier hits - Abba. It sounds very similar to the late period Abba songs Under Attack & You Owe Me One which came out a few months earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tn6jl2VPdc

Gary Private - Waiting For You

this sounds a bit like Corey Hart, but it's a different song from the song 'Waiting For You' that Corey Hart sang. as well as this youtube has a cover of Reach Out (I'll Be There), but no other records, only his acting reel. I would be grateful to anyone who has more information on Gary Private

oh, there are some more tracks here, I think these are more recent?

http://www.broadjam.com/artists/songs.php?artistID=40525&mediaID=294001&play=true

and his entire back catalogue seems to be on spotify, dodn't know why I didn't look there first

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

the single cover is neat as well

https://secondhandsongs.com/picture/168000/original

yeah I found some great stuff in this thread.

Daniel Lanois - Frozen

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TnV6d7yiL0c

Japanese country reggae

I'm surprised The Smiths didn't appropriate that Twinkle photo for one of their sleeves. I listened to her Michael Hannah compilation a few years ago but wasn't too thrilled with it, title track aside. interesting backstory, though:

After dating Brian Jones, Paul and Barry Ryan, and Peter Noone, Twinkle settled with a male model, Michael Hannah. In 1969 she recorded a Motown-style song about him, "Micky", which was produced by Mike d'Abo, but their relationship was tempestuous, and she was admitted to hospital after attempting suicide.

In 1973, Hannah encouraged Twinkle to record new material; but he was killed in the Paris air disaster of 1974. The album, with the title Michael Hannah: The Lost Years, was eventually released in 2003 and told of their relationship. Twinkle married their mutual friend, Graham Rogers, a model who was better known as the Milk Tray Man.

Playgroup - Going Overdrawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3F-l93vM3A

dub + calypso + Gypsy fiddle + Adrian Sherwood at the controls. this was also used as the backing track for Chantage's 'It's Only Money'. the two Playgroup albums are probably overdue for reevaluation in light of the recent African Head Charge and Missing Brazilians reissues.

https://turkishdc10.wordpress.com/about-2/

January 20, 2015 at 3:16 am

Wes

I believe that I was Michael Hannah possibly in a past life ive had plenty of dreams to indicate him and would like to know more about him and any photos would be great ,and this is why I have a phobia of planes ,vertigo, and very introvert and shy because of what happened in my past life .I was told in my dreams I was a model in a past life who died in a plane crash and the country turkey is also relevant and the date of the crash is close to my d.o.b. Did Michael have any links to Bournemouth because I found my self moving there for a few years like my soul wanted to be there .The 981 plane looks very familiar and stirs up a lot of fear in my soul God bless to all the victims it was a terrible disaster

May 28, 2015 at 11:23 am

michael

i was michael hannah in a past life maybe i will have a child one day and call her twinkle God bless im just a bit upset how God uses tradegy to humble us also so we search for the true God head through Jesus Christ because now i cant even look at the sky without feeling great fear

song from a georgian prison camp at the end of world war i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQoBkFm4u0

kind of reminds me of genoese longshoremen's songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zin1bi51w9c

Jim Lawless - Lazing

wistful and slightly eerie instrumental from a compilation on British library music label Bruton Music. they had the most amazing record sleeves:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bruton+music&biw=1600&bih=799&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwil1dqJj-XNAhVBD8AKHdPBDYsQ_AUIBygC&dpr=1

can't get this song out of my head. haunting, heartbreaking burned out folk.. the way he sings 'memories' reminds me of cobain in "come as you are".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzKDK2mMb-w

sorry, i should probably label that: Robert Lester Folsom - "Please Don't Forget Me"

1982 version of "Alasdair Mac Colla" by Aneka (of "Japanese Boy" fame) complete with guitar soloing and Glitter Band/Adam & The Ants style drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whcS3c1oatI

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