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Track: Bobby Oroza – ‘Loving Body’: a waking lover’s dream of a soul nugget
RAISED in Helsinki’s east side by a Latin mother and a jazz guitarist father, the music seized Bobby Oroza from an early age; an excellent familial record collection included Motown, doo-wop, crooners and South American folk and set him on his path to a deal with the lovely Big Crown – a great dovetailing. And …
Track: Brainstory -‘Bye Bye’: solid Sixties’ soul grooves from the April Big Crown 7″
BRAINSTORY came firing out of the San Bernadino Valley in California s in 2015 with a six-track, jazzy CD EP entitled A Natural Phantasm; and Big Crown over in Brooklyn properly liked what they heard, saw that it was good; quickly gathered Kevin, Tony, Eric into their welcoming arms. And Big Crown has been their …
NEWS: The Durutti Column to release first wax single this century
THE FIRST standalone vinyl single to come from Vini Reilly’s brittle guitar soundscapers The Durutti Column in the 21st century is due to be released this summer – on Vini’s birthday. The 7″, to be pressed on “crystal clear” vinyl, will contain two tracks: “Free From All Chaos”, as first issued on 2014’s Chronicle 2CD …
TRACK: Jimi Tenor – ‘Sugar and Spice’: you’re shimmying in its pocket
PHILOPHON, the Berlin label with a deep and abiding mission to bring forth all things with a deep groove, has today released a “haptic” 7” by Finnish multi-dimensional artist Jimi Tenor. The A, “Sugar and Spice” is big, fly, funk: brass stabs, polyrhythms from Ghanaian drummer Ekow Alabi, jazz horn clusters. It’s heading across 110th …
NEWS: Horsemeat Disco get back on the floor with Kathy Sledge
GLITTERBOX, Defected’s boutique disco imprint inspired by the Ibiza club night of the same name, has released a second collaborative single by the Horse Meat Disco boys and Sister Sledge legend Kathy Sledge. Following on from last year’s “Falling Deep In Love”, “Jump Into The Light” has everything you need: choppy, funky Fender Strat hooks, …
SEE: Archers of Loaf shuffle forward a new 7″
THE BEST made plans of mice and men: this year has seen everyone’s diary go into the shredder. US alt.rock mainstays Archers of Loaf are no exception. With Record Store Day at first postponed, and then chopped into three, the planned RSD-only release of “Raleigh Days”/“Street Fighting Man” has been delayed and delayed and finally …
Album Review : Beach House’s ‘7’
It took me a bit before I truly could appreciate the magic of Beach House’s music. The Baltimore band’s appeal eluded me their first couple records. What I’d heard off of Teen Dream and then Bloom was nice in a passerby sort of way, but I didn’t know what all the accolades were about. What …
From an old record box: Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl
In amongst some pretty bonkers material from a pretty bonkers career, the ‘Cornflake Girl’ b/w ‘Sister Janet’ single is still an impressive box of lyrical frogs. Atlantic catalogue number A7281 (East West Records 7567-87281-7) was released in the UK in 1994. It’s one in a long and impressive series of superbly-designed sleeves; the artwork for …
From an old record box – introduction
It was a Sunday, just back from Mass, so what else would I be doing but pottering around in the shed, doing some gardening and spraying some wd40 on the hinges of my car doors ? It’s the glamour that attracts me. I’d been thinking for ages about finally using the USB turntable that my …