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jueves, 9 de julio de 2009

Minutos Musicales: God Help The Girl

Estimados,
hoy os ofrecemos un projecto personal de Stuart Murdoch.... unos de los líderes de esa banda actualmente escondida denominada 'Belle & Sebastian'. ¿Evolución lógica en la música de B&S? ¿Producto paralelo a lo que fue en su día Camera Obscura?

Seguramente nunca sabremos estas respuestas pero lo que si sabemos es que su música nos gusta, nos entusiasma y así os la ofrecemos.
Aquí un comentario de las canciones ofrecido desde jenesaispop.com:

"Aunque ‘God Help The Girl’ está cantado en su mayoría por Catherine Ireton (con contribuciones de otros vocalistas), el disco interrumpe el giro glam y soul de sus últimos discos para recuperar, en gran medida, la delicadeza de sus tiempos pre-Rough Trade con Isobel Campbell. Aparecen un par de canciones del por otro lado genial ‘The Life Pursuit‘, pero para explorar su vertiente más orquestada y folkie. ‘God Help The Girl’, que nos presenta a una chica bastante desarraigada, es una buena muestra de este sonido, como ‘If You Could Speak’, que podría ser de unos Moldy Peaches hi-fi. Neil Hannon de Divine Comedy está perfecto en el título, a su altura, ‘Perfection As A Hipster’, mientras que ‘Musician, Please Take Heed’, con sus cuerdas spaghetti, tampoco desentona. Hay pistas un poco más bailables, como ‘I’ll Have To Dance With Cassie’, y canciones más de banda sonora, como ‘The Music Room Window’, pero el disco es consistente y está muy lejos de ser una simple anécdota."




"‘God Help The Girl’ is a story set to music, which Stuart Murdoch has been working on intermittently for the last five years, its origin in some songs that were written while Belle and Sebastian were touring ‘Dear Catastrophe Waitress’ in 2004. Stuart explains:

"I was out for a run and I got this tune in my head and it occurred to me that it wasn't a Belle & Sebastian song. I could hear female voices and strings, I could hear the whole thing, but I just couldn’t envisage myself singing it with the group.”

As more songs emerged, a shape and theme began to develop, before the music was actually recorded, or the vocalists found to take on the parts.

“All the time I was touring with Belle and Sebastian, I was putting aside songs for certain characters,” he says, “and at one point I realised, that it would make sense to string them together to form the backbone of a musical narrative.”

The hunt was then on to find some great new voices to put to use during the recordings. A competition where singers could add their vocals to the demo recordings of ‘Funny Little Frog’ and ‘The Psychiatrist Is In’ was posted on the iMeem social networking site and attracted around 400 entries. From these, Brittany Stallings (Olympia, Washington) and Dina Bankole (Jackson, Michigan) came to Glasgow in February 2008 to rehearse and record some parts, Brittany making the lead vocal part on ‘Funny Little Frog’ her own.

Among those who auditioned early in the process was Catherine Ireton, who had moved from Limerick to Glasgow, a friend of a friend, who had previously appeared on the sleeve of Belle and Sebastian’s last single, ‘The White Collar Boy.’ She took on the lead vocals for the majority of the songs on the record.

The recording continued during 2008, with a total of nine different singers (including Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy and Asya from American teen trio, Smoosh) joining the members of Belle and Sebastian over the course of a few months. During this, Mick Cooke’s orchestral arrangements were recorded in London with the orchestra before the finishing touches were applied in Glasgow.

The result is a breathtaking record from one of pop’s most singular voices, combining the strengths and feel of the early Belle and Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, which draws equally on musicals, sixties’ girl groups, eighties’ indie and, most of all, classic pop records. And, in Catherine, Stuart has found a rare talent - her clear, lilting vocals bringing to life the characters in Stuart’s imagination and making for an ambitious and engrossing musical journey"


Grupo: God Help The Girl
Año: 2009
Disco: God Help The Girl
Nota: 9/10
Web oficial: http://godhelpthegirl.com y http://www.myspace.com/pleasegodhelpthegirl
Canciones destacadas: God Help The Girl, Funny Little Frog, Ill Have To Dance With Cassie, Musicians, Please Take Heed y Perfection As A Hipster



miércoles, 29 de abril de 2009

Minutos Musicales: Dark Was The Night

Estimados,
hoy os presento un disco recopilatorio que me tiene enganchado desde hace una semana.

El disco es un compendio enorme de grandes artistas que se unen en torno a una causa social como es el SIDA.

La Red Hot Organization es quien está detrás de todo el proyecto y quien ha ido buscando el dinero para financiarlo durante más de 20 años. Esta referencia que ahora presenta la ONG junto a la discográfica independiente 4AD se titula Dark Was The Night y viene en formato de lujo, con grandes artistas.

El álbum consiste en un doble disco o en un triple vinilo, según el formato que prefiramos, con 32 canciones exclusivas.

Una oportunidad única para poder escuchar nuevos temas de Bon Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, Arcade Fire o Yo La Tengo, entre muchos otros grupos. Un recopilatorio, que al margen de su loable causa, promete ser una referencia a tener dentro de cualquier discoteca personal. Pitchfork ya se ha aventurado a definirlo como “The most indie tracklist quite possibly ever”.

Os dejo el tracklist y un par de temas para abrir boca.


Tracklist:
DISC ONE:

1. “Knotty Pine” - Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
2. “Cello Song” - The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
3. “Train Song” - Feist and Ben Gibbard
4. “Brackett, WI” - Bon Iver
5. “Deep Blue Sea” - Grizzly Bear
6. “So Far Around The Bend” - The National
7. “Tightrope” - Yeasayer
8. “Feeling Good” - My Brightest Diamond
9. “Dark Was The Night” - Kronos Quartet
10. “I Was Young When I Left Home” - Antony with Bryce Dessner
11. “Big Red Machine” - Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner
12. “Sleepless” - The Decemberists
13. “Stolen Houses (Die)” - Iron & Wine
14. “Service Bell” - Grizzly Bear + Feist
15. “You Are The Blood” - Sufjan Stevens

DISC TWO:

1. “Well-Alright” - Spoon
2. “Lenin” - Arcade Fire
3. “Mimizan” - Beirut
4. “El Caporal” - My Morning Jacket
5. “Inspiration Information” - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
6. “With A Girl Like You” - Dave Sitek
7. “Blood Pt. 2″ - Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
8. “Hey, Snow White” - The New Pornographers
9. “Gentle Hour” - Yo La Tengo
10. “Amazing Grace” - Cat Power
11. “Happiness” - Riceboy Sleeps
12. “Another Saturday” - Stuart Murdoch
13. “The Giant Of Illinois” - Andrew Bird
14. “Lua” - Conor Oberst with Gillian Welch
15. “When The Road Runs Out” - Blonde Redhead & Devastations
16. “Love Vs. Porn” - Kevin Drew

Artista: Varios Artistas
Año: 2009
Disco: Dark Was The Night
Puntuación: 9/10
Web oficial: http://www.4ad.com/news/dark-was-the-ni/
Canciones destacadas: Gentle Hour, The Giant Of Illinois, I Was Young When I Left Home, Lenin, Mimizan, Brackett, Deep Blue Sea, Big Red Machine, Feeling Good, El Caporal y Another Saturday