28-06-2018 11:32 ~ FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2012-2017

28-06-2018 11:32 ~ FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2012-2017  >>Grinderman, Andrea Schroeder, Lydia Lunch, little hurricane, Ryley Walker, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Seasick Steve, Charles Howl, Savages, Jo Passed, Mike Stern, Lana Del Rey<<

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2012-2017

A noisier and more musically experimental side project for Nick Cave and three members of his band, the Bad Seeds.  While Nick Cave's music has evolved from the harrowing post-punk wail of the Birthday Party to the eloquent and often poetic approach he explored on the albums The Boatman's Call and No More Shall We Part with his group the Bad Seeds, the troublemaking noise merchant of his youth has never entirely gone away, and in 2006 Cave founded Grinderman to give this side of his musical personality a new outlet.
Grinderman
Super Heathen Child feat: Robert Fripp 6:30
Bellringer Blues [Nick Zinner Remix] 4:30
Hyper Worm Tamer (Remix) 5:57
from Grinderman 2 RMX 2012
Nick Cave's garage band to issue Grinderman 2 RMX, featuring 12 last pieces of gnarly noise before their 'indefinite hiatus' 
Although Nick Cave announced the end of the Grinderman last month, the band are set for one last hurrah. They will say farewell with a remix album featuring Josh Homme, UNKLE and the National's Matt Berninger. As the band begins an indefinite hiatus, Grinderman 2 RMX, due in March on Mute, will collect 12 reworkings, mix-ups, demos and B-sides, including a collaboration with King Crimson's Robert Fripp.

Once in a while, Germany offers uniquely talented female singers, and Andrea is one of those. Draw yourself a line from Marlene Dietrich over to Nico, add some dashes Chamber Pop in the vein of The Tindersticks to it and you come close. Discovered and loved by such illustrious people like Charles Plymell or Mike Watt, Andrea Schroeder is an exceptional phenomenon. 
Andrea Schroeder ‎
Paint It Blue 2:49
Bebop Blues 3:17
from Blackbird 2012

A pivotal figure in the late-'70s no wave scene, a punk poet/actor who recorded confrontational, sexually charged music. The year 2013 proved to be prolific for Lunch. Her live band offering Retro Virus (her backing trio included guitarist Weasel Walter, drummer Bob Bert, and bassist Algis Kyzis)...
Lydia Lunch
Mechanical Flattery 4:34
Ran Away Dark 2:19
from Retro Virus 2013
...Now based in Spain, Lunch both affirms and rejects the “grand dame of no wave” (or any such terminology) in Retro Virus, a quartet convened with Weasel Walter (guitar), Algis Kizys (bass, ex-Swans/Foetus), and Bob Bert (drums, ex-Sonic Youth/Pussy Galore). Released on Walter’s ugEXPLODE label, the eponymous Retro Virus was recorded live at Knitting Factory Brooklyn at the close of a November 2012 US tour, and it finds Lunch and company in top form...Looking beyond the somewhat dated production values of late-80s/early-90s avant-rock and “industrially-associated” music (which are occasionally played up here), the tunes and their general feel are surprisingly undated, tough and economical in execution but with an underlying ornateness (some might call that excess — to each one’s own). Lunch is a force among vocalists/presences, and it’s wonderful to be reminded of that so keenly. Her nuance, power, and theatrical dynamism are certainly front-and-center here, but with a cracking ensemble sonically dropped in from the prime era of scum, Retro Virus is also some of the most empathetic music Lunch has made.

A gritty and down-home 21st century blues-rock duo out of San Diego, California. little hurricane formed in 2010 when guitarist and vocalist Anthony "Tone" Catalano answered a musician's call from drummer and vocalist Celeste "CC" Spina on craigslist. Catalano, originally from Santa Cruz, California, and Spina, originally from Chicago, Illinois, shared a common interest in both the blues and vintage musical equipment, and their ragged, passionate sound evolved almost instantly.
little hurricane
Dark End of the Street (James Carr cover) 2:21
Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover) 3:12
I'm on Fire (Bruce Springsteen cover) 2:20
Money (PinkFloyd cover) 4:03
from Stay Classy (A Collection of Cover Songs) 2013
...Having brought their scratchy, backwoodsy blues-rock to the masses, the pair are now back home, resting up until the next tour. However, to see their fans through the hiatus, the band have released a cover album, free on the internet... Overall, a brilliant cover collection which showcases Tone Catalano and CC Spina’s combined talents, as well as their trademark blues sound. Not only do they make the scratchy blues rock of my dreams, but they evidently have pretty good taste in music too. And best of all, you don’t even have to pay for it.

Music of Ryley Walker bridges similarities with Tim Buckley's, Sandy Bull's, Davey Graham's and John Martyn's. Ryley Walker is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Chicago whose music and evolution as an artist have proven mercurial. After spending a few years cutting his teeth on the city's indie and experimental music scenes, he began giving solo live performances on acoustic guitar drawing the inevitable comparisons to his peers, from William Tyler and Glenn Jones to British Isles guitarists ranging from Bert Jansch and John Renbourn to Davy Graham and Martin Carthy. For his part, Walker proved delightfully unpredictable.
Ryley Walker
The West Wind (Ryley Walker) 5:15
Blessings (Ryley Walker) 5:24
Twin Oaks, Pt. 1 (Ryley Walker) 3:22
from All Kinds of You 2014
After two limited-edition cassettes, a single, and 2013's fine West Wind EP, fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and songwriter Ryley Walker delivers All Kinds of You, his debut full-length for the discerning Tompkins Square. Produced and mixed by Cave's Cooper Crain, Walker fearlessly navigates musical traditions in bracing, seductive, and adventurous ways with the self-assuredness of an artist far older than his 24 years. His influences are on his sleeve: the British fingerstyle folk of guitarists Davy Graham and Bert Jansch, American primitive guitar soli à la Takoma Records, the delirious psychedelic folk of Tim Buckley, and the bluesy jazz-folk of Tim Hardin and more. But Walker's sound reaches deeper and wider; it cannot be reined in by them...

Freaked-out psychedelic madness by way of Melbourne, Australia.   King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's sense of unfettered sonic exploration makes them easy to mistake for a long-forgotten relic of the psych explosion of the '60s. With a far-out sound that, at times, feels barely held together, King Gizzard evoke the eclectic rock experimentation of Frank Zappa's early work with the Mothers of Invention as they follow their musical flights of fancy wherever they might go, and let the rest just fall into place on its own. Their prolific nature led them to release albums at a frenetic pace; their intense desire to seek out new sounds and follow new paths meant that every one of their multitude of releases sounded different from the last.

Head On/Pill 16:01
Pop in My Step 2:51
from Float Along - Fill Your Lungs 2014
Float Along – Fill Your Lungs is the third studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 27 September 2013 on Flightless. It peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Hitseekers Albums Chart.
Stu Mackenzie – vocals, lead guitar, flute, keyboards, synthesizer, mellotron, bass guitar, sitar, zurna, clarinet, saxophone
Ambrose Kenny Smith – harmonica, keyboards, synthesizer, organ, vocals, percussion, guitar
Joey Walker – lead guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, vocals, bass guitar, setar
Cook Craig – rhythm guitar, synthesizer, vocals, keyboards, bass guitar
Lucas Skinner – bass guitar, vocals, keyboards
Michael Cavanagh – drums, percussion
Eric Moore – drums, percussion, theremin, management

Former hobo/indie rock recording engineer picks up the guitar late in life, playing raucous country blues from a bygone era.   Dog House Music Like T-Model Ford, Seasick Steve (aka Steve Wold) began recording his own music much later in life than other musicians. A storytelling singer reviving traditional country blues, Wold spent his childhood in California, but left home at 14. As a hobo, he traveled for several years, jumping trains and working odd jobs. After drifting around the U.S. and Europe, he finally ended up in Norway. Aside from his respectable musical background (which includes recording early Modest Mouse, appearing on BBC television, and playing with John Lee Hooker), Wold is also noted for his unusual custom-made stringed instruments.
Seasick Steve
Roy's Gang (Seasick Steve) 6:07
Bring It On (Seasick Steve) 3:46
Dog Gonna Play (Seasick Steve) 5:17
from Sonic Soul Surfer 2015
John Lee Hooker built a long, rich career out of writing the same song over and over again for close to 50 years. That's not to say Hooker wasn't a great songwriter, as he most certainly was, but for him the most important thing wasn't the melody or the lyrics, but the boogie, the ceaseless forward rhythm that drove his music with an unholy force and was the foundation of nearly all his great songs. Seasick Steve is no John Lee Hooker, but he does share Hooker's true devotion to the deep and sinewy groove, an element that's run strong through Steve's music since he belatedly launched his recording career in 2006, and his albums have been cut from similar musical cloth, with the Seasick One wailing hard on a buzzy slide guitar while his rhythm section stomps behind him like the beat owes them money. 2015's Sonic Soul Surfer doesn't break a lot of new ground for Seasick Steve (the artist formerly known as Steve Wold)...

London-based band that combines the trippy psych of the '60s with the hazy psych of '90s dream poppers.   With one foot in the jangling, psychedelic world of the '60s and one in the jangling, psychedelic world of '90s dream pop, London's Charles Howl add in some surf, post-punk, indie pop, and '70s German rock influences to round their sound out nicely. Comprising guitarist/vocalist Danny Nellis (aka Charles Howl) and guitarist Bobby Syme (aka Danny Voltaire), the band formed when Nellis set aside his Jerry Tropicano project...
Charles Howl
So Long 4:19
Lunacy 3:58
The New Shade 3:26
from Sir Vices 2015
The duo of Charles Howl and Danny Voltaire are lovers of hazy, misty psychedelic sounds as heard since the 1960s. As the rhythm section of the Proper Ornaments, they get a chance to play a Velvet Underground style, but on their own as the driving force behind the band Charles Howl, they cast a wide net that gathers in all sorts of trippy sounds on their debut album Sir Vices. Taking all they can from the best practitioners of psychedelic sounds, whether it's the rambling feel of the 13th Floor Elevators, the tinny jangle of the Paisley Underground bands, the repetitive waves of sound of My Bloody Valentine, or the reverb-heavy crunch of modern groups like Crystal Stilts. A long list of styles and bands like that might lead one to think that Charles Howl are overly derivative, but that's not the case at all. Thanks to a light-fingered touch, they manage to beg, borrow, and steal just enough here and there to help build a sound that is mostly theirs alone. Plus, the songs are good enough that it wouldn't really matter if they heisted every fuzz box, Farfisa organ, and chord progression that was left lying around unguarded...

British all-female quartet revisits influences from London's punk heyday with its own brand of noisy, blistering music.  The all-female post-punk four-piece Savages recall the tenacity and more artistic movements of London's punk heyday with their blistering sound and noisy guitars. Hailing from the English capital, they formed at the end of 2011 after guitarist Gemma Thompson and singer Camille Berthomier -- known as Jehnny Beth -- had procrastinated over a name and starting a band until they eventually settled on Savages and set to work writing songs. Soon after, Ayse Hassan joined on bass and Fay Milton completed the lineup on drums.
Savages
The Answer (Jehnny Beth / Savages) 3:30
Evil (Jehnny Beth / Savages) 3:36
Adore (Jehnny Beth / Savages) 5:03
from Adore Life 2016
On Silence Yourself, Savages' passion burned so brightly it seemed like it might consume itself before they could record a second album. Fortunately, Adore Life proves that the band not only has the endurance to return, but the finesse to come back better than ever. Jehnny Beth and company sound as bold as they did on their debut, but with a newfound precision that only makes their impact more powerful. Adore Life depicts love's most fearsome and joyous sides with a hunger that feels like these songs are really about devouring and being devoured...

Dreamy but aggressive guitar-based indie pop from Vancouver, led by guitarist and songwriter Jo Hirabayashi. A band whose music exists somewhere between dream pop, shoegaze, indie rock, and prog, Jo Passed balance languid melodies and blissed-out vocals against guitar figures that are by turns artful and aggressively physical. The Vancouver-based group was formed by guitarist and songwriter Jo Hirabayashi in 2015, originally as a two-man recording project with drummer Mac Lawrie; this edition of the group produced two EPs in 2016. After a sojourn in Montreal, the band expanded to a quartet with the addition of guitarist Bella Bébé and bassist Megan-Magdalena Bourne.
Jo Passed
In 4:28
Lego my Ego 4:27
No, Joy (I'm Not Real, Girl) 4:51
from Out 2016
...If you’re a fan of heavy layers of distortion and reverb, then this EP is going to speak volumes to you. Concerning the volume, Jo Passed get LOUD to the point of drowning out Hirabayashi’s vocals. Appropriately, there’s a song titled “Rage” on the Out EP, but it’s not the cannon blast of chaos you’d expect from its name. The song’s declarations of rage are more subtle than the EP’s opener “In”. Instead, “Rage” is comparable with sludgy, stoner rock. Hirabayashi does seem to be an admirer of Ty Segall’s balls-to-the-walls bad assery. Four out of five of Out‘s songs drive this point home with “Spring” being the most volatile; reaching thunderous highs and easing into a calm climax...

Rocking, experimental guitarist who played in two of Miles Davis' 1980s bands; debuted as a leader in 1985.  Recognized as one of the finest electric guitarists among his peers, Mike Stern was born on January 10, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts, but grew up in Washington, D.C. before returning to Boston to study at the Berklee School of Music. Stern was only 22 when he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears, with whom he played for three years before signing on with Billy Cobham's jazz fusion outfit, which led to Stern's big breakthrough when Miles Davis enlisted him as guitarist for Davis' return from a five-year musical hiatus in 1981...
Mike Stern
Trip (Mike Stern) 7:24
Blueprint (Mike Stern) 7:27
Half Crazy (Mike Stern) 5:37
from Trip 2017
...Stern enlisted an all-star cast playing in different configurations, achieving a diversity that even exceeds All Over the Place. The title track with drummer Dennis Chambers, bassist Victor Wooten, keyboardist/album producer Jim Beard, and saxophonist Bob Franceschini is a knotty exercise in rocking jazz-funk fusion with peeling guitar riffs, solos, and fills. There's a Miles Davis lilt to "Blueprint" with Randy Brecker guesting on muted trumpet, while Beard plays B-3 and synths, and Chambers offers his best take on Al Foster. Stern eventually touches on the blues before it winds out. "Half Crazy" is blazing, hard-grooving post-bop, with Beard on piano, swinging tenorist Bill Evans, drummer Lenny White, and Teymur Phell on bass. "Screws" commences slowly and quixotically with Wallace Roney on trumpet and the rest of the rhythm section above, as well as percussionist Arto Tuncboyaciyan. While the melody builds in layers and spirals upwards, Roney and Stern each solo hard, adding limber bluesy funk until they deconstruct it to a fade...

Vocalist who makes atmospheric orchestral pop showcasing her torchy image and sensuously husky singing style. Lana Del Rey envisioned a Southern Californian dream world constructed out of sad girls and bad boys, manufactured melancholy and genuine glamour, and then she came to embody this fantasy.
Lana Del Rey
Love (Emile Haynie / Benjamin Levin / Rick Nowels / Lana Del Rey) 4:32
Tomorrow Never Came feat: Sean Lennon (Sean Lennon / Rick Nowels / Lana Del Rey) 5:07
from Lust for Life 2017
Lana Del Rey knows perfectly well her Lust for Life sounds sleepy in comparison to Iggy Pop's full-blooded roar, but that doesn't mean the title of her fourth album is ironic. Compared to her previous albums, especially its somnolent 2015 predecessor, Honeymoon, Lust for Life is positively ebullient in tone, if not in tempo...