Contrast Podcast, Waldeck and Other Good Stuff
It's Tuesday, which means it's contrast podcast day, and this week the musicians themselves took over the episode, introducing their songs in their own inimitable ways. Check it out here.
Next week's theme is "Random Shuffle," which means you set your ipod to shuffle and the first song that comes up is your pick. I shouldn't have too hard a time with that, now should I? Neither should you, so give it a try. And no fixing or futzing. Whatever comes up is it (I say that to myself as much as to you, coz with my luck some song of my child's will show up and I will be hard-pressed not to want to change it). May the god of the shuffle be with you.
All righty then. Since I am not a musician, I'm not in the 'cast this week, but that doesn't mean I don't have anything to offer today. And luckily for you all I'm in a slightly better mood than I was yesterday, so I won't inundate you with sad shit. Instead, I point you toward these Pelle Carlberg links at frequenze indipendenti, an Italian blog. You can find an interview with him and acoustic versions of several of his songs.
Over at uberdrivel, Roland has up a really nice mix of November songs. My favorite of the bunch is the gorgeous Azure Ray song "November."
If you're in the mood for some "acoustic guitar driven, female melancholic voiced" music, head over to sounds from my garage. Juan has a pretty keen ear for lovely music, so I highly recommend it if he recommends it. He also has a much higher opinion of the recent time change, which as you know I don't necessarily agree with, but I can appreciate his position.
And thanks to Nat for pointing us toward this lol piece over at 15 minute lunch. It's a trip back in time via a 1977 JC Penney's catalog. You have to see it to believe it.
On to the music. This is not your typical indie fare. It's retro-jazzy, trip-hoppy and laid-back stuff from Waldeck, an Austrian musician / producer who's been a part of the downtempo / electronica scene since 1998. The first song, "Addicted," features Zeebee on vocals. She has a Billie Holiday texture to her voice, which I love. "So Black and Blue" is a very retro-sounding track that makes me think of New Orleans, with Brian Amos as vocalist. Ballroom Stories came out in August and is a collection of tunes that take you to another time and place, most readily to 1920s speakeasies and lounges. It's great. Just don't stare at that album cover too long.
Waldeck--"Addicted" mp3 off Ballroom Stories (buy)
Waldeck--"So Black and Blue" mp3 off Ballroom Stories
Thanks for the mention. I can't say that I owned any matching bathing
suits (with boyfriends) in the 70's, but I did have some pretty hideous
striped jeans, and a great denim jumpsuit with huge bell bottoms, which I
adorned with a scarf (a la Daphne from Scooby Doo.) EEK!
Thanks for the linkage! Definitely check out Maria Taylor and/or Art in
Manila (Orenda Fink's new band) if you haven't already.
Ok yeah next weeks theme is easy I should be able to handle that even
though I think that the ipod shuffle is a little odd as it seems to
re-shuffle the same songs over and over...Does anyone notice this?
nat--wow, i can see that jumpsuit ensemble extremely clearly! i was always
jealous of daphne, being more of a velma type myself. ;-)
That's about as far from electronica as you can get, I think! Austria,
too, for that matter. I'm reminded of Madeline Peyroux by the first track,
and The Flying Neutrinos by the second. I think TFNs are actually from New
Orleans, but I could be mistaken about that. Does anyone know what that
Parisian cafe sound is called? I need me some more of that...
rick, i think you might be drinking too much coffee!! : ) i agree, i didn't
think this sounded all that electronic, in the traditional sense, but he's
got a history of working with lots of other electronica folks, and i think
there are touches of it beneath the more obvious new orleans old-style
jazzy sound. maybe he spent some time in the big easy and was unduly
influenced. ;-)
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