Katie Melua (Acoustic Guitar, Vocals) and Simon Goff (Violin).
Streaming on Qobuz (96/24)… kicking off this Friday morning with this beautiful album from Katie and she is sounding sublime! …feeling relaxed and mellow this morning and this album works so well to ease into the day, lie is sweet!
I’m not sure if they are still active, just the three albums to date with the last in 2019 which was about the time they relocated to London from Sweden. My feeling is that they are still going and that hopefully a new one will come. If I find out anything more I’ll let you know here.
Lady Blackbird (Vocals), Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews (Trumpet), Jonathan Flaugher (Double Bass), Deron Johnson (Piano), Jimmy Paxson (Drums) and Chris Seefried (Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar).
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/24)… continuing on this Friday morning with this fabulous ‘Lady Blackbird’ and she and the band are sounding mighty sweet!
After 13 miles on the GR 221 in Mallorca in the heat damned heat beered and showered listening to suitably Spanish Ojos de Brujo (flamenco/North African/hip hop mashup) Bari CD rip on Hi-res portable.
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation | Mirage | 2016
Earlier talk of JO+TL prompted me to get this out @Deeg, I’ve dropped her a line (via bandcamp) asking if they have any plans for a new album.
John Acevedo (Viola), Tori Amos (Piano, Vocals), Steve Caton (Guitar|), Paulinho Da Costa (Percussion), Michael Allen Harrison (Violin), Melissa Hasin (Cello), Ezra Killinger (Violin), Dane Little (Cello), Cynthia Morrow (Viola), Carlo Nuccio (Drums), George Porter, Jr. (Bass), Chris Reutinger (Violin), Trent Reznor (Vocals), Jimbo Ross (Viola), Nancy Roth (Violin), John Philip Shenale (Hammond Organ, Strings), Nancy Stein-Ross (Cello), Francine Walsh (Violin) and John Wittenberg (Violin).
Streaming on Qobuz (96/24)… continuing on this morning with Tori and her talented group of musicians working with her and they are sounding mighty fine!
Wooden Shjips | Back to Land | 2013
Sticking with psychedelic rock, the kind of stuff that would have inspired JÖ+LT, one of my favourite psyche bands and fine contemporary exponents who give it the 60s/70s Bay Area style.
Moon Duo | Live in Ravenna | 2014
Ripley Johnson (of Wooden Shjips) started up a side project with his other half Sanae Yamada to create more psychedelic rock with a different twist. This is a cracking live album recorded on a hot sultry night on the Adriatic, I would have loved to have been there, Sanae Yamada said: “Ravenna was memorable for a number of reasons, the most prominent being the really very intense heat, and the setting Hanabi has an outdoor stage on the beach, the Adriatic Sea only meters away,” the band’s Sanae Yamada said: “The show that night, and the recording of it, sort of encapsulates everything that was happening at the time the heat wave, the journey, and the shift in the energy and composition of the band.”
I bought this version (on Pink Floyd Records) of Wish You Were Here back in 2016, on the day it came out and it’s lain, unopened and unplayed, for six years! I’d better give it a listen!