Hello, music lovers! 🎶
It's Friday again, and after a two-week break, I'm back with a brand new #newtunes post. This post features new music from well-known and lesser-known artists, bringing their latest creations just in time for these scorching summer days.
Some of these tunes still ring in my ears today, and it is fitting that I mention them. Whether they will spread globally or sink into the archives remains to be seen.
If you have a few minutes, you can support the musicians by listening. Maybe you will discover something new and dig deeper.
But if you don't like something, just skip it.
Music4life!
Manu Chao - Mr Bobby | Playing For Change
Manu Chao, the Spanish musician and activist, always comes to mind in the summer, and now is no different. I neglected him a bit when he went solo, but I listened to him quite a lot with the Mano Negra band. In September, after 16 years, his seventh album, 'Viva Tu', will be released.
I suggest we listen to it, especially in this song, Mr.Bobby, which is performed in the Playing For Change project. This unique initiative brings together musicians from different parts of the world, uniting us all in a shared mission to change the world for the better. It's truly inspiring and I can't wait for us to experience it together.
137 - Two Bass FLute
One Three Seven is a new band from Bristol, UK, consisting of four top musicians. It was initiated by Larry Stabins, clarinetist and saxophonist, who invited Adrian Utley, guitarist of Portyshead, drummer Seb Rochford (Polar Bear, Sons Of Kemet), and studio bassist Jim Barr (Get The Blessing). Actually, it's a supergroup to use rock slang.
The result is the album Strangeness Oscillation, released a couple of days ago. It is a remarkable collection of recorded improvisations and variations of different styles, mainly rock and jazz, that did not leave me cold. I hope more will come from their hands. I recommend the whole album.
Martha Skye Murphy - Pick Yourself Up
Martha Skye Murphy is a musician from London, UK. A new name after two EPs, she recently released her debut album 'UM.' She immediately caught the attention of audiences and music critics alike with her sophisticated but chaotic music that oscillates between lo-fi guitar art and chamber pop with elements of experimentation, ambient, folk, drone, and field recordings underpinned by intimate lyricism. Sometimes, I find her expressiveness and vocals reminiscent of Kate Bush, but that's my opinion and doesn't change anything.
Oneida - Salt
Oneida is a band from New York, USA. They've been in the rock scene for over twenty-seven years and have a large body of work - over twenty EPs and albums. Their songs add psychedelia, improvisation, noise, minimalism, and repetition, all reinforced with punk instincts and analog electronics.
Expensive Air is their latest album, released this year, and this kraut rocker's style song, Salt, is from it.
Slick Stings - One In A Million
Slick Stings is a new Croatian band from Zagreb. The members are not so new; they have been present on the Croatian guitar rock'n'roll scene for more than twenty years, so it's not surprising that the debut album 'Loves & Curse' sounds very in tune and synchronous as if they have been playing together for years.
If anyone is familiar with Erotic Biljan and His Heretics or My Buddy Moose they'll quickly know what we're talking about.
With a sound that harks back to the 50's and 60's garage rock'n'roll, Slick Stings' music is a delightful blend of retro and modern pop rhythms. This nostalgic journey through the music of the past is a rare find in today's music landscape, making it a treasure for those who, like me, grew up with this music.
The young audience may not be familiar with it, so I should present it.
Chimpo - Slime Climb
Now we're moving into more modern, dancey, electronic waters with Manchester-based producer and DJ John Goodwin, aka Chimpo, and his DJ-oriented Slime Climb EP.
Garage jungle ambient, precision-produced breaks that leave plenty of room for other musical elements to interfere can be stretched or contracted at will to the tempo you want and are therefore highly versatile in combining different genres and speeds.
Amy Kisnorbo & Ron Mercy: The Squeeze
Amy Kisnorbo, a producer based in Bristol, UK, specializes in cross-genre Miami bass, juke, electro, and Chicago house. On their latest EP, The Squeeze, they created modern and progressive dance club music with Florida DJ Ron Mercy.
Experimenting with booty bass and ghetto unsaturated beats in the 140-155 BPM range, they have established a unique bridge and new standards for transitions between the many subgenres of the eclectic club sphere.
Hiatus Kaiyote - White Rabbit
Hiatus Kaiyote, a band from Melbourne, Australia, has been making music since 2011, releasing seven albums and four remix EPs. Given their neo-soul leanings, mainly thanks to the extraordinary vocals of lead singer Nai Palm, you'd expect to hear similar styles on their latest album 'Love Heart Cheat Code', released in June this year. However, this is (almost) not the case. In an age of fragmenting genres and intense mixing of all kinds of influences, the band has positioned itself in a bipolar position, where half of the album is old and half is something new, a bold experimentation best exemplified by the bold cover of Jefferson Airplane's famous song 'White Rabbit'. You have to have the balls to do something like that.
Sorcerer - Devotion
Finally, the French version of metal hardcore. Sorcerer is a band from Paris. They started playing together in 2021 and have released 1 EP and two albums so far. The album Devotion, released in April, indicates their musical direction.
It's not a fast-paced hardcore track; it features ambient guitar riffs, distant dark organs, intense drumming, and touches of melancholic medieval tales.
🎶That's all for today, and enjoy your weekend with new songs!
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If you're interested in #newtunes suggestions from the past five years, you can listen to them at these links - there are Spotify playlists for each year:
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