28-08-2018 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2014-2010

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

28-08-2018 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2014-2010  >>Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Queens Of The Stone Age, Grand General, Anna Calvi, David Byrne, St. Vincent, Focus, David Lynch, Black Devil Disco Club, Martina Topley-Bird, Zaz, Bushman's Revenge<<

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Eclectic and powerful post-punk band that's steadily evolved under the leadership of one of rock's most celebrated songwriters.  Formed after the breakup of the Birthday Party in 1983, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds became one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward. Playing music that meshed with the dark, multi-layered narratives of Cave's lyrics, the Bad Seeds created sounds that were physically and emotionally powerful, but with a sense of dynamics and drama that set them apart from their peers. While plenty of musicians would move in and out of the Bad Seeds' lineup over the years, throughout their history they were always a musical force as powerful as their leader.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
From Her to Eternity (Nick Cave) 5:35
Tupelo (Nick Cave) 7:18
The Carny (Nick Cave) 8:00
The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave) 7:18
from Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (1984-2014) 2017
Nick Cave is a singular figure in contemporary rock music; he first emerged as punk rock was making its presence known in Australia, but though he's never surrendered his status as a provocateur and a musical outlaw, he quickly abandoned the simplicity of punk for something grander and more literate, though no less punishing in its outlook. Cave also had an approach to collaboration that made his backing band, the Bad Seeds, an integral part of his creative vision, even as their membership changed and their sound evolved over the space of three decades of fury and eloquence. In Kirk Lake's liner notes to Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 1984-2014, he celebrates the band as much as their charismatic leader and songwriter, and the 45 songs collected on this three-disc set make the case that while Cave may be the frontman -- and a profoundly charismatic one with a powerful voice that can communicate from a whisper to a scream -- his musicians bring a color, shape, and texture to his songs that focus and amplify his gifts as a singer and lyricist...

Highly acclaimed hard rockers from the California desert who update old-school riff rock without overloading irony or slavish imitation. 
Queens Of The Stone Age
Keep Your Eyes Peeled (Queens of the Stone Age / Joshua Homme) 5:04
I Sat By the Ocean (Queens of the Stone Age / Joshua Homme) 3:55
The Vampyre of Time and Memory (Queens of the Stone Age / Joshua Homme) 3:34
...Like Clockwork (Joshua Homme / James Lavelle / Charlie May) 5:24
from …Like Clockwork 2013
All the surface evidence on ...Like Clockwork suggests Josh Homme is steering Queens of the Stone Age back to familiar territory. Once again, he's enlisted drummer Dave Grohl as his anchor and he's made amends with his erstwhile bassist Nick Oliveri, suggesting Homme is returning to either Rated R or Songs for the Deaf, the two turn-of-the-millennium masterpieces that thrust QOTSA out of their stoner rock cult, but ...Like Clockwork isn't so simple as a return to roots. Homme flirts with his history as a way to make sense of his present, reconnecting with his strengths as a way to reorient himself, consolidating his indulgences and fancies into a record that obliterates middle-age malaise without taking a moment to pander to the past...  This is forceful, purposeful, fueled by dense interwoven riffs and colored with hints of piano and analog synthesizers that quite consciously evoke '70s future dystopia. QOTSA always specialized in this eerie sexiness, but the precision on ...Like Clockwork -- quite different than the merciless propulsion of Era Vulgaris, the 2007 album that closed out their time at Interscope -- feels conceptually tight, Homme smartly sculpting guitar fuzz, elastic solos, haunted harmonies, and deceptively slinky rhythms into a cool, relentless collection of heavy rock. The force impresses but also the restraint: there are missed beats and open space, muscular music that seduces and pummels, even manages to soothe while it assaults. It's complex, harder, and catchier than anything QOTSA have done in a decade, and more song-oriented, too, but that's a sign of maturity: Homme has marshaled all of his strengths on ...Like Clockwork and has found a way forward, a way to deepen his music without compromising his identity.

This heavy Norwegian fusion quintet became Grand General after premiering as the Kenneth Kapstad Group at the Trondheim Jazzfest. 
Grand General
Antics (Trond Frønes) 12:20
Red Eye (Trond Frønes / Ola Kvernberg) 11:02
from Grand General 2013
This Norwegian fusion quintet features the same instrumental lineup as Mahavishnu Orchestra, so comparisons to John McLaughlin's legendary '70s band are probably inevitable. But on the basis of Grand General's eponymous 2013 Rune Grammofon debut, such comparisons would merely scratch the surface. The bandmembers have the chops to match any fusioneers past or present, but they're also fond of the relentless rock pummel, undergirding their pyrotechnics with a powerful rhythm section possessing deep reserves of energy. Motorpsycho fans will recognize the Norwegian psych/prog/metal institution's current drummer, Kenneth Kapstad, and Kapstad is indeed a driving rhythmic force here, but bassist Trond Frønes is at least an equal partner. Frønes adopts a thick, overdriven bass tone at times strikingly similar to that of Motorpsycho vocalist/bassist Bent Sæther (check out 2010's Heavy Metal Fruit). Kapstad and Frønes also play together in the metal band Goat the Head, so they are definitely on the same wavelength...