Thursday May 17 @ 7pm is VALTARI HOUR – Independent record stores around the world will be previewing the new album by Sigur Ros – Valtari – and Highlife is thrilled to be part of it. For fans of this Icelandic super group here is a chance to hear something special in the comfort of your local record store. We will have a poster and a test press vinyl copy of the album to giveaway to some lucky guest. Refreshments available. Where will you be listening?
Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, early Stones, classic jazz & blues, Janis Joplin, The Band, Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, etc. - 1100 albums – mostly in mint condition. Rare and very cool stuff. Come down and have some fun.
Just in, Cal Koat from World Beat International has reviewed “The Captive Road”:
…The Captive Road remains an extremely personal and intimate album. Finseth delivers the tales up front in a fragile voice teetering on collapse, held in play by his piano-based accompaniment. The ladies complement these tender moments with delicate, ethereal harmonies of their own. The Captive Road is an incomparable offering which, for someone who has made a career out of filing new sounds in old bins, must have been extremely challenging even for Kevin to describe. The moniker that seems to have stuck is “Ambient folk hymns … opium noir” which, I guess, is as good a place as any to start your journey down The Captive Road. Standout tracks include the opening air, Fall Away, The Reader, the exotic grooviness of Cairo April 1983 and some tasty guitar dueling on The Passenger…
Read the full review here (with a live music video).
A heads-up on some very cool sounds from ”Systema Solar“.
From World Music Network:
Colombia is fast becoming a musical powerhouse of South America, bubbling under with new talent. One group to watch out for among this creative frenzy is Systema Solar from the Caribbean coast who played WOMEX. A cooperative of musicians equally at home in traditional forms such as cumbia, porro and champeta as they are in techno, house and break beat, Systema Solar are a force of nature. Look out for them at the summer festivals in 2012.
Beautiful.
From the Guardian:
Malian singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara visits the Guardian studio to enchant us with an exclusive live version of the song Clandestin from her album Fatou on World Circuit records. Her music blends the Wassalou tradition of southern Mali with external influences to create a warm, friendly and sensual sound whether performing solo or in a group.
Did we mention we’re excited about this record? I guess we did. It is his first studio album of all new music in seven years!
Here are some more interesting appetizers. An interview in Pitchfork and a preview of one of the new songs:
“It’s weird talking about really funky old neighborhoods that you haven’t been to in a while. There’s this corner of 9th and Hennepin in Minneapolis.
It used to spell trouble; now it spells sandals and yogurt.”
Read the full interview on Pitchfork here.
Tom Waits – Back In The Crowd by antirecords
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