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New Man
D.C. Bloom is a new man these days. After suffering a stroke during songwriter's night at the San Marcos, TX music hall Cheatham Street Warehouse in August 2010, Bloom decided to turn over a whole pile of leaves. So nasty old habits were discarded and healthy ones embraced. After he kept hearing friends say, "You sure are a new man," he knew he'd found the title of the album he'd been recording when health issues sidelined him for five months. When D.C. returned to South Austin's Byrd House Studio, he was, indeed, a new man ... with a brand new song. Another Day, the first song he'd written after regaining his fingerpicking touch and singing ability opens New Man. It's a rollicking celebration of life and a thankfulness to have " ... another day to pick and grin, another day to deal me in," as D.C. sings over a joyous amen choir and a gospel wall of saxophone, mandolin, fiddle and banjo sound. It's a newfound perspective grounded in old-time religion. New Man, Bloom's third solo release and coming on the heels of 2010's 5-song EP Cinco de Star-Oh!, finds D.C. bringing an array of styles to the easy way with words that has earned D.C. praise as a unique songwriter who won't be confined ... or easily defined. Bloom's Americana is a broad musical and thematic landscape stretching coast to coast. It's not the same-old, same-old concrete interstate lined with familiar, but boring franchises, it's the memorable scenic route of a two-lane blacktop meandering through the land of heart and hope. From the swinging clarinet-driven ode to donatable footwear, Dusty Wingtip Shoes, and the haunting song of a lover's longing On That Primal Shore, to the swamp rock sound of Oma's Secret Garden, a 'can't we all just get along' desire expressed in Points of View or the 50 ways to waste time watching mindless TV enumerated in a Sitcom world, Bloom's latest release is a fun, yet thoughtful roadtrip that the listener will want to travel time and time again. Joined once again by some of the finest musicians and coolest voices Austin has to offer, New Man features contributions from the likes of Warren Hood on violin and mandolin, Chip Dolan on keyboards and accordion, John Mills on flute, Dave Scherr and Greg Whitfield on lead guitar, LeeAnn Atherton (vocals - Dusty Wingtip Shoes, Yes, Indeedy) Mo McMorrow (duet on Sexual Tension), Jana Pochop (vocals on Fits and Starts) and Elizabeth Wills & Kristin DeWitt (vocals on Sitcom). D.C. BLOOM'S SONGS HAVE AN INTELLIGENT CUTTING EDGE, FROM OUTRAGEOUSLY CLEVER TO POIGNANTLY THOUGHT PROVOKING. HE'S A GREAT ENTERTAINER AND A RECOMMENDED LISTEN. Lloyd Maines LISTEN TO THE SWINGINGLY ECLECTIC NEW MAN AND I DARE YOU NOT TO DIG D.C.'S UNAPOLOGETICALLY UN-P.C. POINTS OF VIEW, DELIGHTFULLY SKEWED WIT AND WIRY WORDPLAY, APPARENT SEXUAL TENSION AND DATED SITCOM ADDICTIONS AND - JUST WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT - DISARMING HEART, SINCERITY, AND OPTIMISM. Richard Skanse, Editor, Lone Star Music.- Shop: odax
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Kin
Das Album des Londoner Quartetts um Liela Moss, die auch UNKLE am Mikrofon unterstützt, wurde produziert von Simon Raymonde (Bella Union / Cocteau Twins). Mit Gästen wie Mark Lanegan, Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey/Gallon Drunk) und Sam Windett (Archie Bronson Outfit). The London 4-piece return with an album brimming with new sounds amid a vibrant energy, flecked with sublimely delicate, intimate spaces and recorded by Simon Raymonde (Bella Union / Cocteau Twins). At the core is a deep respect for the frailty of life and the nobility that can be observed in death. Sonar, a highly emotional Liela Moss vocal, delivers a poignant goodbye to a loved one, framed by a magnificent circular guitar hook around which organs, bass and drums carry prayer and eulogy. There are some maverick guest appearances throughout the record, Mark Lanegan, Raymonde himself, longterm DS collaborator Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey/Gallon Drunk) and old friend Sam Windett from Archie Bronson Outfit is here also to duet with Liela on the wiry post-punk vibes of Side By Side. One of the many standouts on the album is Pacific, a hyper vigilant and introspective tale of travel and self-discovery, of the realisation that often silence is a better way to communicate than with words. Adding to the tension, a force that pulls you in deep throughout the album, is a beautiful melody at the start of the song played on the saw by Mara Carlyle who also lends her effortlessly fluid voice to this and Sonar. Despite these cameos, this is about The Duke Spirit, who in ten glorious songs, have resurfaced effortlessly and quietly, with one of the most exhilarating albums of this year.- Shop: odax
- Price: 11.96 EUR excl. shipping
