We caught up with Other Lives’ songwriter and frontman Jesse Tabish at North London venue The Lexington to discuss his chamber-pop project’s current release Tamer Animals, touring and classical music.
End of the Road festival yet again evaded the wet weather bookending it, and returned to the Larmer Tree gardens in Salisbury with a new layout, new ‘The Woods’ stage and perhaps its most varied line up yet.
Last week’s Tasseomancy album release show at London venue CAMP exposed a short yet evocative set illuminating their talents as songwriters and songmakers, but more so as mood makers.
★★★★★ Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside mix vintage jazz, blues, roots, rockabilly and punk, not forgetting Sallie Ford’s incredible powerhouse of a voice that sounds like she walked out of an Alan Lomax recording to raise the goddamn roof like a southern preacher!
Chris Stout is delighted to have been asked by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to compose a piece of music especially for them and he also releases a new album this week: Chris Stout’s Brazilian Theory – Live In Concert
★★★★★ On Juju’s latest release, In Trance, they don’t just dissolve the fragile boundaries between African tradition and rock – they demolish them with relish, they turn the walls upside down, they crash the gates open and set the inmates free. And the freedom is exhilarating!
PJ Harvey has won the prestigous Mercury Prize for her outstanding album Let England Shake. This was one for the record books as she also won the award back in 2001 for “Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea” a first double win in the history of the award.
★★★★★ I’m Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die is the fifth installment from Global Jukebox, an independent label from the Alan Lomax Archive. No music collection should be without it!
TUSK Festival takes place in Newcastle upon Tyne from 7th – 9th October and boasts an unrivalled line-up of unclassifiable international music. Watch Uncle Jim’s Video promotion!
Congolese artist Niwel Tsumbu moved to Ireland in 2004. Like Liam O’Maonlaí he has continued to explore many strands of music and their eventual collaboration seemed inevitable. Watch them performing on Donal Dineen’s late night show The Small Hours.
★★★★★ Nils Frahm’s latest release, Felt, is an incredibly moving work of musical art that balances modern classical alongside the rich natural sounds that play at the edges of our consciousness, it is nothing short of a masterpiece.
Sheeped Away tells the tale of a farmer who just wants to be with his beloved sheep. When a giant UFO enters his life to claim his sheep, what will he do to keep them safe from harm? And can he do this without waking his monstrous wife?
