More Air-New Air

DOWNLOAD: Air- Do The Joy

More Air after last weeks live stuff. They have a new album in October, this is a new thing, a good thing, a familiar thing.

Album of the Day: Chess Psychedelic Jazz & Funky Grooves

SPOTIFY LINK: Chess Psychedelic Jazz & Funky Grooves

More a compilation less an album. Some of Chess Records finest cuts of jazz and funk psych grooves (clues in the title really). Rotary Connection, Muddy Waters, Solomon Burke, Bo Diddley, Marlena Shaw and more, it gets feet-a-tapping and hair-a-shaking. Ripe for getting ready for the weekend.

Album of the Day: D'Angelo- Voodoo

SPOTIFY LINK: D'Angelo- Voodoo

I hate this cover, it's rubbish, D'Angelo works out this can be seen, but I do not need to see the fruits of his labour in my record collection.
But not to be put off by the vain cover this album is a peach of a soul record, it has the right ingredients that I wish modern soul today had it's got some Sly, Jimmy Brown, Curtis Mayfield and a dash of Prince.
Take a slice of Devil's Pie.

Live Air. Phenomenal

Live at Kesselhaus, Berlin October 29th 1998
DOWNLOAD: Kelly Watch the Stars
DOWNLOAD: Be a Bee > Tomorrow Never Knows > Sexy Boy
DOWNLOAD: Le Voyage de Penelope

It'd be wrong of me to take the credit for these uploads which I grabbed from the guys at artdecade- a fantastic blog which is regularly updated with gems.
This is Air live from Berlin in October and sweet baby Jehovah is this a gas! Kelly Watch the Stars is electro-funk-rock-stomp (in the best possible way), Be a Beed into Tomorrow Never Knows then onto Sexy Boy is a seamless journey and Le Voyage de Penelope is lush.

Album of the Day: The Explorers Club- Freedom Wind

SPOTIFY LINK: The Explorers Club- Freedom Wind

I'll get this out of the way now, The Explorers Club sound so much like the Beach Boys it's close to pastiche. But the songs are far too well produced, the harmonies too tight, melodies so sunsoaked and infectious to simply dismiss.
And to sound like The Wilson's plus Mike Lowe is certainly not the worst direction for a band to make.
It's actually the softer songs on the second half of the album that reveals there is more to them obvious influences.

Album of the Day: Silversun Picks- Swoon

SPOTIFY LINK: Silversun Pickups- Swoon

I keep letting this happen to me, I keep missing essential gigs- Silversun Pickups played and went. I should've been there really, Carnavas was great and the follow up Swoon is just as good if not better. They make a hairdrying noise in the best possible ways, sonically awesome, loud and epic, it's rude not to experience it live.
I've already said "album of the year" a few times this year, so I'm gonna now refrain from doing so and admit that 2009 is a pretty good year. This is a highlight and for once I'm delving into the current on my "Album of the Day" picks.

Another Spotify List: Just a small taste of what I'm listening to.

SPOTIFY LINK: Nothing Else To Report

Man these posts are all over the place. Bit like my current status of being no fixed abode, it makes familiarity and adjustability a little outta step. Been buying plenty of discs lately, put some of the flavours on a harmless little spotify playlist.
There's some Traffic, John Williams, The Bees, Everly Brothers, Scratch Perry & The Upsetters and Vetiver amongst others.

Enjoy.