Stereogum premiered info on the 21 artists compilation: Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy to help the former Miracle Legion front man continue making music while he raises his three-year old twin daughters. These kind of projects I love to see always and its nice to see someone like Thom Yorke down for the cause.
Sigur Rós frontman Jón (Jónsi) Þór Birgisson and partner Alex Somers, from Reykjavík band Parachutes collaborate on a LP which features this song Boy 1904, this might be the gentlest song ever posted on the blog which includes a boys choir i’m guessing and some beautiful drone. The art above isn’t the actual cover, I think its the photo that the cover was made from.
Tom Croose and Slow Hands turned me onto this Al Usher track, they literally did flips in the air while talking about it. I think it came out this week on INTERNASJONAL which is Prins Thomas’ label out of Norway. I think I hear harps, slow disco / balaeric being pushed to its edges when it comes to mellow cuts, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Remember Mazzy Star? well sometimes when I hear this song I wonder how it would be to be a musician that writes lyrics because I personally hardly listen to anything but instrumentals but if I wrote down “…fade into you, I think its strange you never knew…” i’d give myself goosebumps.
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Brilliant Post, loving all four!
Mazzy Star – Fade into you has been one of my favorite slow tracks for a long time. Good songs all around!
Love the Al Usher track! Where can I get this remix?
wow, this is the best day ever!
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thankyu for posting up the info bout this album,
mazzy star + thom yorke is my fav.
Not related to the post at all but I stumbled across a website today that reminded me of one of your previous architecture posts.
http://www.archdaily.com/29457/julius-schulman-1910-2009/
strange. Mazzy Star was on TV recently… an ad or a film, I can’t remember what… but I shazammed it… had never heard of them till this week, and here they are again!
Al Usher’s Lullaby for Robert digital will be released on 27 July at Juno: http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1447562-02.htm
Wooow Yeicob! (Jakub) thanks a lot, I apreciatte too much all your music posts, but this post is awesome! i love it, the 4 is precisse! the gentlest song is beautiful, the trip with Al Usher, mazzy star and Thom York..uff!.. hehe Im excited, again tons of thanks : )
sorry my english, have a great one!.