Newly released or newly found global music

[johncorrigan]

Reissue:

Vieux Kanté - The Young Man's Harp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NWjgcW1P-w

http://www.sternsmusic.com/disk_info/STCD1127

New at 68:

As Joe B hinted, Chaim Tannenbaum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmCSf-aX6R0

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ng-folk-affair

Thanks Lat. I heard a very good track by Chaim Tannenbaum on Radcliffe's Folky show tonight. Keep meaning to look further.

[Lat-Literal]

Thanks Lat. I heard a very good track by Chaim Tannenbaum on Radcliffe's Folky show tonight. Keep meaning to look further.

[Globaltruth]

Post no 2500 - boom shakalaka boom

Mark Coles has posted some new episodes on Mixcloud.
Example:

https://m.mixcloud.com/markcolesmusic/the-shed-261/

There seems to be a problem with his shed website which may explain why there's been nothing since ep 250.
Still the greatest WM DJ not to be on a main BBC station.

[johncorrigan]

Mark Coles has posted some new episodes on Mixcloud.
Example:

https://m.mixcloud.com/markcolesmusic/the-shed-261/

There seems to be a problem with his shed website which may explain why there's been nothing since ep 250.
Still the greatest WM DJ not to be on a main BBC station.

Congrats on the milestone, Global. Every one a winner....well most of them anyway! Have some cake to celebrate...I will.

[Globaltruth]

Too kind JC, a small slice of lemon drizzle all round. It's been an emotional rollercoaster of a journey and a real honour, <sobs> can I just thank a few people?

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[Lat-Literal]

Too kind JC, a small slice of lemon drizzle all round. It's been an emotional rollercoaster of a journey and a real honour, <sobs> can I just thank a few people?

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Very well done GT.

[Globaltruth]

Chris Wood has finally got round to releasing his new album. Sure to pop up on LJ

http://chriswoodfolkmusician.bandcamp.com/album/so-much-to-defend

[Lat-Literal]

Chris Wood has finally got round to releasing his new album. Sure to pop up on LJ

http://chriswoodfolkmusician.bandcam...much-to-defend

Good. "So Much to Defend" has his distinctive - unusual - chord changes and "This Love Won't Let You Fail" is more conventionally strong. I like it a lot. "Only a Friendly" possibly stretches his odder lyrical shapes too far. I was interested to see what the production was like. It is probably my imagination but I am sensing that several recent releases in world and folk music have a commercial muscularity that is different from what we have heard in the 2010s. While arguably a tad rockist, that is as the Pogues were a tad rockist rather than as Status Quo were a tad rockist, it may not wholly be a bad thing. Recent alternative approaches - ie since 2010 - have not always achieved authenticity by sounding "indie lo-fi" and a bit washed out. If I am right, I think the new roots sound - that is, voice and production - lives more in the area of the mainstream 1970s and 1980s folk revival than, say - this inconveniently is a good example of lo-fi in the 2000s - Sufjan Stevens. Is it too ridiculous to suggest that the Chris Wood record, for example, has the solid production of a "Solid Air" John Martyn? Probably but I will go with this muse until it passes. Anyhow, I am about to post a few examples. Not sure how many yet but I've been reading Denselow:

"England's Answer to the McGarrigles":

O'Hooley & Tidow - Small, Big Love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je9Z809NoHk

(I'm placing this in the area of the Unthanks who have been ploughing their own furrow and at a push the Roches and even Kirsty MacColl)

"Exuberant Latin Big Band Fun":

Orkesta Mendoza - Caramelos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWuZ-g5x9vE

(Mano Negra meets the Animals, Inspiral Carpets and the Temptations - arguably "beat" - so quite a bit of 1960s' Los Bravos in there too)

"Exquisite Balladry"

Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker - Done - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y29t7TNTuJA

(EBTG? Aztec Camera? - the guitar, lovely, is Marrish 1980s - she's said "shall I do the lo-fi voice?" and decided, on balance, "no, I won't")

[teamsaint]

I've seen O'hooley and Tidow three times, and very good they are. Just as well really.

I know they are their names, but really, they could do with better branding.......

[Lat-Literal]

I've seen O'hooley and Tidow three times, and very good they are. Just as well really.

I know they are their names, but really, they could do with better branding.......

Interesting.

I quite like all the ones I'm posting but I am not sure that I should do.

Ah, now Jim Moray which gets me thinking. This was the other main folk strand in the 2000s, wasn't it. Him and Seth Lakeman. Modern productions. A version of "All You Pretty Girls". Perhaps it is a return to that 2000-2005 ish impulse but I am sure it is reaching further back. I've recently posted Bruce Hornsby and Marc Cohn. All things come in threes.

"Bold, Brassy"

Jim Moray - Fair Margaret And Sweet William - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRShRYFOa8

(From "Upcetera", 2016 - it captures the zeitgeist - something of Sufjan is also there but "boosted" - expect a significant resurgence)

Finally, for now, because I won't over egg it:

"Unsettling Folk Songs Reworked"

Bush Gothic: Natural Selection Australian Songbook - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qo5Q-51O20

(This one is right on the cusp - the arrangement/vocals are rising towards stronger definition - the harmonies are commercial 1970s)

I even predict that one or two of these sorts of things will be starting to trouble the charts!

[Lat-Literal]

Additional Note:

"So what happened next?"

If I could take just one, it is the Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker.

I like her voice.

I like the tone and variety in the guitar (some of which, actually, is 1960s/1970s as well as the 1980s).

I like its subtlety.

It won me over as soon as I started hearing in it This Mortal Coil's 1980s version of "Song To The Siren".

Oh, and especially REM in their affecting moments - [/I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16VdBciUdV4

I've seen O'hooley and Tidow three times, and very good they are. Just as well really.

I know they are their names, but really, they could do with better branding.......

You seem to go to a lot of folk gigs, ts - what is your venue of choice?

[Globaltruth]

Good. "So Much to Defend" has his distinctive - unusual - chord changes and "This Love Won't Let You Fail" is more conventionally strong. I like it a lot. "Only a Friendly" possibly stretches his odder lyrical shapes too far. I was interested to see what the production was like. It is probably my imagination but I am sensing that several recent releases in world and folk music have a commercial muscularity that is different from what we have heard in the 2010s. While arguably a tad rockist, that is as the Pogues were a tad rockist rather than as Status Quo were a tad rockist, it may not wholly be a bad thing. Recent alternative approaches - ie since 2010 - have not always achieved authenticity by sounding "indie lo-fi" and a bit washed out. If I am right, I think the new roots sound - that is, voice and production - lives more in the area of the mainstream 1970s and 1980s folk revival than, say - this inconveniently is a good example of lo-fi in the 2000s - Sufjan Stevens. Is it too ridiculous to suggest that the Chris Wood record, for example, has the solid production of a "Solid Air" John Martyn? Probably but I will go with this muse until it passes. Anyhow, I am about to post a few examples. Not sure how many yet but I've been reading Denselow:

"England's Answer to the McGarrigles":

O'Hooley & Tidow - Small, Big Love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je9Z809NoHk

(I'm placing this in the area of the Unthanks who have been ploughing their own furrow and at a push the Roches and even Kirsty MacColl)

"Exuberant Latin Big Band Fun":

Orkesta Mendoza - Caramelos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWuZ-g5x9vE

(Mano Negra meets the Animals, Inspiral Carpets and the Temptations - arguably "beat" - so quite a bit of 1960s' Los Bravos in there too)

"Exquisite Balladry"

Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker - Done - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y29t7TNTuJA

(EBTG? Aztec Camera? - the guitar, lovely, is Marrish 1980s - she's said "shall I do the lo-fi voice?" and decided, on balance, "no, I won't")

Lovely post Lat, I am placing you in the 'This is our very own Joe Boyd' category

[Lat-Literal]

Lovely post Lat, I am placing you in the 'This is our very own Joe Boyd' category

Thank you Global.

That's good of you.

You are too kind.

[Lat-Literal]

Now then, where were we.....new albums this year from Madness, the Pretenders, ABC, Guns n Roses, Gwen Stefani, Dodgy, Green Day, .....ah, here we are:

Chuck Berry announces his first new album in four decades (although not for release until 2017) -

http://time.com/4536210/chuck-berry-birthday-new-album/

He has just turned 90 so a couple of memories:

With Robbie Robertson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXLuBCkeTJQ

......and Jimmy Carter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDkTLOv9Dpg

Prine and Isbell are running for the US Presidency following the release of JP's disc and ahead of teaming up with Ms Musgraves for New Years Eve at the Opry:

http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/10/18/john-prine-jason-isbell-launch-campaign-shirt/92356612/

John Prine and Iris Dement - Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEqJ9caPuI0

Buy this CD and you get a 96-page book of writing and art plus access to view Barry Mills' Mekonception video:

The Mekons - Fear and Beer (Hymn for Brexit) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUxm_Pd0XRw

(In July 2015, with the help of 75 mekoristers, Mekonception took place at Jalopy Theater in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an event dedicated to creating a new record in real time around a single microphone. "Why should a record take more time to record than it does to listen to!" was the concept. If only the now sadly departed Chumbawamba had thought of it first!)

[johncorrigan]

Happy Birthday, Chuck...
...and re Kacey, here she is in 2010 predicting that encounter with Mr Prine, Lat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocItFhwM8yk

...and there's just never enough Iris!