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lunes, 19 de julio de 2010

Minutos Musicales: Presentación Indietracks 2010


How Does It Feel To Be Loved?

Por fin llegó el fin de semana.Y con él llego la diversión... y el primer día de la mano de Ian Watson, hombre de música dedicado por entero al club londinense que lidera de nombre 'How Does It Feel To Be Loved?'.

Nos deleitó el jueves con una sesión exclusiva de nombre 'Soul And Sixties Special'.

Eramos unos 20, pero todos bailando encima de la tarima del Fotomatón. ¿Se puede pedir más? Creo que no.


En Radio 3

Os dejo la imagen de cuando estuvimos visitando Radio 3 para formar parte del programa 'Disco Grande' de Julio Ruiz.

Este es el podcast del programa por si algun@ quereis escucharlo. La verdad es que es de agradecer que nos invitaran. Yo me lo pasé de lujo. Gracias Julio por contactar con nosotros. ;-D


Y os dejo un resumen de lo que fueron el jueves y el viernes hecho por Eva.

Resumamos este fin de semana intenso. Jueves noche, recibir a Ian Watson tras muchos emails intercambiados, muy amable y agradecido. Como espacio de charla, un restaurante de tapeo centenario de Madrid.

Le preguntamos curiosidades del club HDIF, sus visitas a España, le explicamos que quizá no venga mucha gente a las fiestas, y se muestra agradecido igual en todo momento.

Paseos por Madrid, Recogida de sus 2 maletas de cd’s y en marcha al fotomatón. Hasta las 12 y media no terminan los conciertos previos.

Entramos y comienza, con la sesión Soul & Sixties que nos comenta sólo hace 4 veces al año (5 con esta de Madrid como excepción). No hay forma de parar de bailar, la veintena de personas que se encuentra en el bar no deja de bailar, especial el momento de todos juntos en la tarima.

A las 3, cerramos, con Sleep The Clock Around, canción con la que el día siguiente en Getafe empezaría su sesión. Nos apenamos de que haya habido poquita gente para vivirlo, pero Ian se muestra feliz, nos hizo bailar a todos.

Día siguiente, viernes, Jorge recibe a los Understudies en el aeropuerto, y de ahí al hotel de Getafe; hay programa en Radio 3 con ellos de 4 a 5 y sin pausa a Atocha, donde han quedado con la furgoneta de Radio 3 y Julio Ruiz.

Para Chris, Bree, Graeme y Brian es su primera actuación en una radio. Han estado ensayando en acústico para una hacer un ‘Live in the Patio’ en casa de Diana (gracias!) al día siguiente que les sirve también para la actuación de la radio.

Hasta las 8 no empezarán el ensayo en la sala, tras montar Zipper el equipo y hacer también su prueba de sonido. Nos vamos al bar de al lado a cenar y junto con Zipper, compartimos las primera charlas con los Understudies, al menos yo.

Comentan que ha sido inolvidable ir a la radio, nos comentan cosas de ellos, que es su primera visita a España…Hasta las 11 y media no comienza los conciertos, primero Zipper y luego Understudies.

Y llegaron los conciertos

A Zipper no les llegaron los EPs hasta el día siguiente debido a la nube de ceniza. Tocaron muchas canciones nuevas. Yo tengo debilidad por el grupo y me encantan todas; de las nuevas me gusta especialmente, The Badge. Tenéis que ver el diseño del ep, es precioso.

A decir verdad, sólo había escuchado a The Understudies a través de Myspace, el año pasado no los conocía y me los perdí en el Indietracks. Y tengo que decir que en directo me gustaron y me sorprendieron mucho. Muy sobrios, y unas canciones convincentes, la voz de Brian, especial. Teclado, bajo, batería, guitarra, xilófono, ukelele, melódica..se me hace corto el concierto y la gente parece también disfrutar.

Me quedo con, Everyone deserves at least one summer of love, y otras que tocan flicknives, the girl i used to knock… también les habíamos avisado que quiza no viniera mucha gente, a lo que ellos no parecían dar mucha importancia; al día siguiente nos dicen que tuvieron más gente en España que en Londres, y que han disfrutado mucho su concierto.

Al terminar la actuación, Ian Watson y Miguelink terminan una noche redonda y feliz para nosotros, Ian pinchó 2 horas, hasta las 3, sin parar de nuevo de hacernos bailar a los que estábamos allí, ya ha comentado Alejandro algo; y tras terminar salió corriendo de la sala para guardar los cd’s en su hotel y volvió enseguida a toda velocidad, para bailar y bailar con la sesión de Miguelink, hasta las 5 o 6, con Cats on Fire, Go Betweens, Beach Boys, Jackson’s five…y como siempre, gracias a la sala Sgt Peppers por su ayuda y aguantarnos!

Esa noche, la despedida con Ian, que volvía el sábado para llegar el domingo al cumpleaños de su hijo; se muestra agradecido, nosotros también, y nos comenta que hay que repetir."Y aquí muestra sonora de lo allí se vivió.

Zipper.




The Understudies




Barbacoa Pop

El sábado, Barbacoa Pop con acústico de Understudies (tocaron 6 canciones con guitarra, , xilófono, ukelele y pantereta y melódica) y Zipper una acústica preciosa, (why i am so shy …), Maria del Mar al ukelele y David guitarra.

El domingo paseo por Madrid mostrándoles la ciudad: Latina, Austrias, Plaza Mayor… junto con Maria del Mar de Zipper; despedida emotiva y nos quedamos felices y con una sonrisa en los labios.

Vale la pena, hemos vivido momentos inolvidablesy hemos disfrutado, y por lo que nos han transmitido en cada momento, ellos también. Quedamos en compartir de nuevo unas cervezas, esta vez en el indietracks.

Ha merecido mucho mucho la pena el esfuerzo de prepararlo todo. Una visita inolvidable que nos deja recuerdos maravillosos. ;-D"Y aquí el momento sonoro de la Barbacoa Pop.

1. The Understudies.


2. Zipper.


Un placer compartir con todos los asistentes (gracias Diana por hacer una barbacoa pop tan maravillosa) tan magnífica velada así como una tarde/noche de sabado y todo el día del domingo.

Gracias Marimar (Zipper) por estar ahí hasta el final y compartir nuestras ilusiones. ;-D

viernes, 27 de febrero de 2009

Minutos Musicales: M. Ward

Estimados,
labor multidisciplicar hace este cantautor y guitarrista de Oregon, combinando diversos proyectos con un alto grado de calidad. Empezó su carrera en solitario allá por 1999 con la publicación de su primer disco "Duet for Guitars #2".

Ha tenido colaboraciones con múltiples artistas: Cat Power, Beth Orton, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket... e incluso se hizo una gira con REM y Bruce Springsteen en unas elecciones en los USA.

Pero quizá lo que más renombre le ha dado últimamente ha sido la formación del grupo 'She And Him' junto con la actriz Zooey Deschanel. Su album de debut "Volume One" se podría considerar uno de los mejor considerados en el pasado 2008 teniendo tal repercusión que incluso presentaron sus canciones junto a Yo La Tengo en el show de Conan O´Brien.

Hoy os presento su último trabajo, de nombre 'Hold Time'.... majestuoso, respetuoso, atemporal, reposado. Un disco para escuchar con tranquilidad, con tiempo suficiente para deleitarse con cada canción.
Un último apunte. La canción favorita del señor Ward es 'Amazing Grace'.... curioso, verdad?

"His solo debut Duet for Guitars #2 was released by Howe Gelb on his Ow Om record label. Ward's 2001 album, End of Amnesia, was put out by Future Farmer Records. A collection of live recordings, Live Music & The Voice of Strangers, was a self-released disc that was sold at his shows in 2001. His subsequent albums have been released on Merge Records.

He has guested on recordings by Cat Power, Beth Orton (with whom he co-wrote the title track to her album Comfort of Strangers), The Court & Spark, Bright Eyes (with whom he toured on the 2004 Vote For Change tour with R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen), Jenny Lewis (whose debut solo album Rabbit Fur Coat he co-produced), and My Morning Jacket.

In 2006, he contributed a song to, and helped produce the John Fahey tribute album I Am the Resurrection. He also appears on Norah Jones' album Not Too Late, performing backing vocals and guitar on "Sinkin' Soon", and toured as the opener and a member of her "Handsome Band" for the album in the spring of 2007. Also his cover of David Bowie's song "Let's Dance" is featured on the soundtrack of the 2007 New Zealand film Eagle vs Shark. Ward was previously a member of the band Rodriguez with Kyle Field of Little Wings. Their album Swing Like a Metronome was released in 2000 and produced by Jason Lytle of Grandaddy.

In 2004 Ward played guitar for Bright Eyes on a taping of The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. During the performance, Bright Eyes' singer Conor Oberst yelled out "M. Ward for President!" This prompted Newsweek to run an article on Ward and his next album Transistor Radio.

In 2006, he released Post-War, which was described by Vanity Fair in its August 2006 issue as thematic on the question "How will America heal once this craziness in Iraq is over?" Ward said in that article that he looked to the post-war music of the late 1940s and 50s. "I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America". The album was released on Merge Records and features cameo performances by Howe Gelb, Jim James and Neko Case. From the music blog It's Hard To Find A Friend: "According to the Omaha City Weekly: ...Also with recording plans for the winter is Conor Oberst. Beginning in the new year, Oberst is slated to begin recording two new albums — one a solo record in Mexico (the album is self titled "Conor Oberst") with Jake Bellows playing a role and another with a new band being formed with M Ward". [1] In 2006, Ward recorded a duet with actress Zooey Deschanel, which collaboration resulted in the formation of the band She & Him[1]. The duo's album Volume One — which Ward produced — was released on Merge Records on March 18, 2008. Ward and Deschanel performed (along with Yo La Tengo) on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on April 22, 2008. Returning from She & Him duties, M. Ward has released his sixth solo studio album, Hold Time, on February 17th 2009."

Grupo: M. Ward
Disco: Hold Time
Año: 2009
Puntuación: 8/10
Web oficial: http://www.mwardmusic.com/ y http://www.myspace.com/mward
Canciones destacadas: For Beginers, Fisher Of Man, Jailbird, One Hundred Million Years, Rave On, Shangri-La y To Save Me.

martes, 10 de junio de 2008

Minutos Musicales: The Kooks

Estimados,
hoy toca un poquito de Brit-Pop.
Este grupo tocará el próximo 18 de Julio en el Summercase 2008.

The Kooks son una banda de indie rock originaria de Brighton, Inglaterra. Su álbum de debut, Inside In/Inside Out, ha permanecido la mitad de 2006 en las listas británicas, vendiendo más de un millón de copias en el Reino Unido, 38 semanas en el Top 20 del Reino Unido y alcanzando tres veces el estatus de disco de platino.

La banda fue formada en el Hoover High School, de donde eran todos estudiantes. Al principio el nombre de la banda era solo Kooks, hasta que se dieron cuenta de que un grupo suizo también tenía ese nombre, por lo que lo cambiaron a The Kooks. Su debut fue en el Brighton's Free Butt festival. La canción que los llevó al éxito fue Naive, que está en su primer álbum Inside in/Inside out. The Kooks hicieron su primer tour por Estados Unidos en Octubre de 2006. Tocaron en Los Ángeles y Nueva York. Su segundo álbum se llama Konk y salió el 14 de abril de 2008.

"'The greatest records in the world can be put on in any situation: you can put them on at a party and they're going to sound great, you could put them on in a club and they're going to sound great, you could put them on on your headphones and listen in bed. That's when you get a great album,' says Luke Pritchard. 'And that's how I like to think of this album.'

The Kooks are back. 2006's Inside In/Inside Out was a huge hit, selling some 2 million copies worldwide, spawning massive singles 'She Moves In Her Own Way', 'You Don't Love Me', 'Sofa Song', 'Eddie's Gun', 'Ooh La' and especially 'Naïve' – after which the album took on a whole new life of its own. The Brighton quartet quickly rang up sell-out shows not just in the UK but in America and all over the world, earning a support slot with The Rolling Stones along the way and categorically establishing themselves as A Great British Band.

Singer/guitarist Luke, lead guitarist Hugh Harris, bassist Max Rafferty and drummer Paul Garred quickly came to be regarded as a classic British song-writing outfit, able to stand alongside The Kinks, Oasis, Coldplay or any number of others you care to mention, simply because they understand what makes pop music great.

'If it doesn't make you feel good, then what's the point?' says Luke. 'There's too much drab shoe-gazing shit around. I hate all that cack. You've to push through it. That's where you get great songs.'

'Music should make you happy,' concurs Hugh. 'It should change you in some way. That's why our fans are so crazy and committed. There's that connection.'

'We give people a great night out,' continues Luke, who's still only 22. 'That's the whole point. And I probably buzz off the crowd more than they buzz off us. Music's all about getting everyone together. How can you be cynical when you're at a festival and there's 20,000 people – all different kinds of people; young, old, black, white – and everyone's singing the same songs?'

Anyone who's ever enjoyed (a) pop music or (b) a good night out, has plenty of reason to cheer when it comes to Konk, The Kooks' second long-player, recorded over six weeks at the tail-end of 2007 in Ray Davies' Konk Studios in north London, plus a week at Los Angeles' Sound Factory. The sessions once again united the group with esteemed producer Tony Hoffer (Beck/Air/The Fratellis). Luke: 'It was brilliant. It was like a school reunion. Tony's a genius; he's a really talented guy and he's fun to be around. We had the best time.'

While James Brown's Live At The Apollo classic 'I'll Go Crazy' provided daily in-studio listening, end-of-session downtime was spent in the local Irish pub, The Kooks' soon making friends with the locals. 'The owner would give us a lock-in,' says Luke. 'We'd end up having a drink with all the Irishmen.'

'I just started thinking how cool the studio is,' says Hugh, by way of explaining how he came to suggest the album title. 'And how much of a part of our sound it is.'

Indeed, in Konk The Kooks' fanbase will find plenty to recall the freewheeling spirit that made Inside In/Inside Out a true word-of-mouth success – one of those rare cultural phenomena that grew and grew the more people heard it – while others will be aware just how much they've subtly upped their game. 'It sounds big,' says Luke, someone not given to over-analysing the process, preferring to let the songs speak for themselves. 'We thought a lot more about production. It's a second album and we'd done a lot more touring and recording [by that stage]. We tried to make a dynamic album where every song has its own little world. That was the philosophy.'

'We always have so much material,' says Hugh, of the set that includes songs dating back to Inside In/Inside Out to others written a fortnight before the sessions ended. 'As a songwriter you need to get things down. Making an album has become such a big thing now. The Kinks used to do two albums a year. The Rolling Stones would go and cut a single – plus a b-side – between tours. Some of that immediacy gets lost today. But we've made a really great record that I'm really proud of it. I'm not ashamed to say that.'

While 'Gap' is classic Kooks, a song like 'Shine On' finds Luke exploring hitherto unchartered lyrical territory over the loveliest of melodies. It's destined to become another lynchpin in The Kooks' live set. 'We've never done a song like that before,' he says. 'A lot of people might think its quite standard, but when you listen to it, it's not. It's a really weird little tune. I'm really pleased with it.' Then there's 'Always Where I Need To Be' a tumbling rocker with a 'do-do-do, do-do-do-do' refrain that might just be the catchiest thing they've ever done. 'Sway', meanwhile, provides an early album highlight. ''Sway' is one I always go back to,' says Luke. 'Hugh's guitar solo is genius – I don't even know how he did it, even though I was there. And obviously the words hold a certain thing for me.'

2008, then: it promises to be another stellar year for the fourpiece. 'We came through [in 2006] with some great acts – Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse, Beirut – but, for me, last year was a really wishy-washy time for bands,' says Luke. 'It feels like the time's right for us to come back.'

With shows already lined up in places as far afield as Dubai, Brazil and – oh yes – Hawaii, not to say some very special UK venues ('We want to do things differently,' says Luke. 'Some of those arena venues… who wants to see a band in a tin shed?') plus a truly magical slot at The Isle Of Wight Festival, the outlook for the boys' 2008 is sunny.

'We've made a really good album,' concludes Luke. 'I love the idea of people putting it on in their bedrooms, then going mental.'

'I hope that everyone puts it on,' he says. 'And it makes them feel great.'
Let the good times roll. "


Grupo: The Kooks
Disco: Konk
Año: 2008
Web oficial: http://www.thekooks.co.uk/ y http://www.myspace.com/thekooks
Canciones destacadas: See The Sun y Always where I Need To Be

martes, 20 de noviembre de 2007

Minutos Musicales: Stars

Estimados,
hoy llega hasta vuestros oidos una banda canadiense formada por Torquil Campbell (vocalista) y Chis Seligman (teclados). Actualmente están ubicados en Montreal aunque sus pasos empezaron en Toronto, luego en New York y finalmente recalaron en Montreal.

Su música ha sido catalogada como "beautiful, eloquent indie pop". Su sonido ha evolucionado de un pop-electrónico como el ofrecido en su primer album (Nightsongs) a una instrumentación más rockera en sus dos últimos albums, la cual se refleja en la incorporación del cantante y guitarra Amy Millan y el bajo Evan Cranley así como de Pat McGee en el disco "Set Yourself On Fire" (una auténtica obra maestra y referencia absoluta para un dj que se precie).

"The band's breakthrough single was "Ageless Beauty", from their 2004 album Set Yourself on Fire. Millan, Cranley and Campbell are also members of the indie band Broken Social Scene, with whom they currently share a record label, Arts & Crafts. Campbell is also an actor and has appeared on the television shows Sex and the City and Law & Order. Millan released a solo album in 2006. Several of the band's songs, such as "The Vanishing", "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead", and "The Big Fight", have appeared on the Fox Network's The O.C. and CTV's Degrassi: The Next Generation. Their single "Ageless Beauty" was also featured in a promotional trailer for Vh1's So NoTORIous.

On their website, the band has noted that their name was chosen without prior knowledge of the short-lived project by Syd Barrett. They have cited a wide variety of musical likes and influences ranging from Berlioz to Outkast, citing among others Barrett, Paddy McAloon, New Order, The Smiths, Brian Wilson, Momus, and Broken Social Scene. They covered The Smiths' "This Charming Man" on 2001's Nightsongs and The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" in 2005. Other indie artists have been guest collaborators on many of their tracks, especially for an early period including the release of their first LP.

They recently surprised their fans by releasing their latest studio album (In Our Bedroom After the War), on July 10, 2007, a full two months ahead of its expected release date, onto iTunes. When Stars released In Our Bedroom After the War to online retailers weeks before the CD's actual release date to circumvent the album's inevitable leak, part of their reasoning touched on the increasingly blurry line between critics and listeners. The band believed indie-rock fans should be able to review and provide opinions of the band's albums similar in a way to the so-called critics, but soon realized that the outcome could be very far from their ideal expectation. Soon after the music site Pitchfork Media gave the new album a 7.4 out of 10, Torquil Campbell offered up a rant that not only tore into the music site and the reviewer but lamented the death of art and criticism, which as a result prompted much scoffing from some critics and bloggers, as well as approval from others. The band contributed a T-shirt design to the Yellow Bird Project. to raise money for Le Chainon, a women's shelter located in Montreal, Quebec."


Grupo: Stars
Disco: In Our Bedroom After The War
Año: 2007
Web oficial: http://www.arts-crafts.ca/stars/
Canciones destacadas: Midnight Coward, Take Me To The Riot y The Night Starts Here