This week’s diverting subversives include “songs for ewe” from: David Fair (Half Japanese), Jim White (Dirty Three/Xylorious White), Kev Hopper (Stump/Dimple Discs), Eli Janney (GVSB) & Maya Shenfield (Thrill Jockey Records)
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Here’s a link to last night’s eighth episode of Velvet Sheep radio – a show that’s broadcast...
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“Its an incredibly beautiful, spiritual, rhythmic masterpiece. Even though the artists hail from different continents, music is the universal language. You can hear that they play with respect for each other, and that they are inspired by each others playing (something we hoped to achieve in making the UNIVERSITY CHALLENGED album). You can feel them being fed by the same spirit. These guys are deep!”
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“I’ve just discovered this album where Alice (Coltrane) is singing, how lovely, I’ve been a fan always of her playing, and her huge expansive musicality, but hearing her sing floored me.”
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“Everything sung by Chavela Vargas is pure gold in my opinion. There is no other voice that hits me where hers does. I love the sound of age and experience in this song, the repetition, the patient pacing, no urgency, no hurry, just sorrow and beauty.”
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“The subtle combination and richness of strings, synth, Alice’s low deep voice and reparative lyrics take me to the depths of my emotional spectrum. The warbling/out of tune aesthetic is vulnerable and uncertain but not self conscious – definitely an inspiration for the track ‘Talking Tree’s’ on ‘unfurl’.”
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“I’ve got the north in mind, frozen or otherwise. A sonic ley line of frustrated male energy burning bad through the rusting cultural pylons stretching across the Northern landscape to light up the gloomy winter season and block out the commercial xmas HD overdrive, these seven beauties will hopefully see me through the dark weathered days and bright plastic nights.”
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“Soviet prog explosion on the Milky Way! What a fantastic track. So many insanely complex parts and it all fits so perfectly together. How this song came to be is beyond me – it’s taken me a year just to understand the different time signatures.”
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“Sometimes life’s edges are hard, very sharp and pierce you from time to time. It’s at times like that you need people around you that will put an arm around your shoulder and remind you that you’re doing OK. If you open your heart and listen closely this song will probably change your life.”
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“I have forever been interested in vocal music and extended technique but after hearing this one track off the Musique du Burundi issued in 1968 from the French label Ocora called Akazehe I have been relentlessly pursuing it.”
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“Have you ever tried to nap in a tour bus bunk? It’s a difficult task to shut out the constant activity of the world past the heavy plastic curtain one draws to provide the sole chance of privacy and rest.”
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