Purple Panda Project- Ode to The Bright Red Heart by Purple Panda Project
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Purple Panda Project
Purple Panda Project- Ode to The Bright Red Heart by Purple Panda Project
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Saturday Looks Good To me
Two Reasons you should be listening to them!
Info:(wikipedia)
Saturday Looks Good to Me is an experimental indie pop band. The group is led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Fred Thomas (former member of His Name Is Alive, Lovesick, Flashpapr). Through Fred Thomas, the group's major songwriter, the group creates intricate soundscapes which hearken back to Detroit soul.
The band built up a considerable following on the back of the indie pop albums All Your Summer Songs and the more polished Every Night. Every Night introduced new singer Betty Marie Barnes who became the nearest to a permanent female singer that the band ever had.
By 2007, Barnes had semi-left the band and Thomas took over as the band's sole front person. SLGTM's music also changed and the resulting "Fill Up The Room" album was more adventurous both lyrically and musically than the bands previous two albums (especially on the 6 minute 48 second pop odyssey of "When I Lose My Eyes").
Following another European tour in 2008, Thomas put the band on ice to concentrate on other projects.
Albums
* Saturday Looks Good to Me (Here Forever Always May 18, 2000)
* Cruel August Moon (Little Hands 2001)
* Love Will Find You (Whistletap 2002)
* All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl May 18, 2003)
* Every Night (Polyvinyl September 14, 2004)
* Sound on Sound (Redder Records 2006)
* Fill Up the Room (K Records 2007)
* Fill Up the Room (How Does It Feel To Be Loved 2007) UK version contained exclusive sleeve notes & bonus tracks (No Reaction & No Reception
Minor releases:
* Cassingle Series #3 (Sanitary Records, April 2006)
* The Girl Is Distracted 7" record
* Green Mansions (limited tour EP)
* Money in the Afterlife b/w All the Sidewalk Birds 7" (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) - February, 20 2007)
* Cold Colors EP (Polyvinyl - July, 24 2007)
* Dianne Falling Off Her Horse b/w Springtime Judgment 7" (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) - July, 8 2008)
Info:(wikipedia)
Saturday Looks Good to Me is an experimental indie pop band. The group is led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Fred Thomas (former member of His Name Is Alive, Lovesick, Flashpapr). Through Fred Thomas, the group's major songwriter, the group creates intricate soundscapes which hearken back to Detroit soul.
The band built up a considerable following on the back of the indie pop albums All Your Summer Songs and the more polished Every Night. Every Night introduced new singer Betty Marie Barnes who became the nearest to a permanent female singer that the band ever had.
By 2007, Barnes had semi-left the band and Thomas took over as the band's sole front person. SLGTM's music also changed and the resulting "Fill Up The Room" album was more adventurous both lyrically and musically than the bands previous two albums (especially on the 6 minute 48 second pop odyssey of "When I Lose My Eyes").
Following another European tour in 2008, Thomas put the band on ice to concentrate on other projects.
Albums
* Saturday Looks Good to Me (Here Forever Always May 18, 2000)
* Cruel August Moon (Little Hands 2001)
* Love Will Find You (Whistletap 2002)
* All Your Summer Songs (Polyvinyl May 18, 2003)
* Every Night (Polyvinyl September 14, 2004)
* Sound on Sound (Redder Records 2006)
* Fill Up the Room (K Records 2007)
* Fill Up the Room (How Does It Feel To Be Loved 2007) UK version contained exclusive sleeve notes & bonus tracks (No Reaction & No Reception
Minor releases:
* Cassingle Series #3 (Sanitary Records, April 2006)
* The Girl Is Distracted 7" record
* Green Mansions (limited tour EP)
* Money in the Afterlife b/w All the Sidewalk Birds 7" (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) - February, 20 2007)
* Cold Colors EP (Polyvinyl - July, 24 2007)
* Dianne Falling Off Her Horse b/w Springtime Judgment 7" (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) - July, 8 2008)
Jonsi- Go (2010)
Although it has been many moons since my last post, I return with a special treat that is too incredible to keep to myself. Probably the best album of 2010, Jonsi returns with a solo venture to reach inside our souls one more time and take our minds on his journey through the depths of his Icelandic inspired songwriting and folklore reenactments. Every song on here touches me in some extremely important way! I urge you to give it a listen and support this intertwining of electronic and acoustic bliss...
Info: (taken from http://jonsi.com/go)
"Go" contains nine songs amassed from the large pool of songs written by jónsi during his many years with sigur rós. the album is sung in english and icelandic, and was co-produced by jónsi, his partner alex somers and peter katis (the national, interpol).when he began working on go, jónsi initially thought he would be making a low-key, acoustic album until, as he says, “somewhere along the line, it just sort of exploded.” that explosion resulted in sheer aural fireworks. not a straight ahead pop record, nor rock, folk, ambient or electronic, it encompasses all of these to create an expansive musical palette that’s been brought to life by jónsi alongside a number of free-spirited collaborators.
chief among these is nico muhly, the philip glass protégé who is renowned for his work with björk, antony & the johnsons, bonnie “prince” billy and grizzly bear. muhly has arranged all the songs on go, bringing strings, brass and woodwind to dance playfully alongside his offbeat piano playing. add into the mix the percussive genius of samuli kosminen, whose original drumming powers many of the songs along, and you have a sonic landscape that bears little relation to anything else around today, yet explodes from the speakers with sheer happiness and wonder, wide-eyed and eager to be heard. Listen
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