Odonis Odonis - Ledged Up
Part 2 of our session with Odonis Odonis. If your in Brighton over the next few days they’re playing a number of shows at The Great Escape Festival. Find details here, here and here
May 9, 2012
May 8, 2012
Odonis Odonis - Busted Lip
Toronto boys Odonis Odonis came to Brighton a few weeks ago and we invited them to the Chateau D’ Wong to play some tunes for us. They’re back for shows at this weekends The Great Escape Festival and we’ll release a track a day from this session to get you warmed up.
April 27, 2012
Vieux Farka Touré - Komedia session pt. 2
Another awesome performance from Vieux Farka Touré for the second part of our session, filmed at Komedia in Brighton.
April 25, 2012
Vieux Farka Touré - Amana Quai
The brilliant Vieux Farka Touré is the first artist to grace the pages of our new website. We caught up with him at Komedia in Brighton, on his recent tour of the UK.
Son of the legendary Ali Farka Touré, Vieux has been building a legacy of his own since 2005’s debut album, despite going against his father’s original wishes for him to become a soldier and secretly learning guitar while growing up in Mali. Eventually winning over his father with his considerable ability and some kind words from Toumani Diabaté, Vieux has earned his nickname as the “Hendrix of the Sahara” by combining the Malian desert blues of his father with a penchant for adding modern elements of jazz and rock stylings under his quicksilver fretwork.
The soulful “Amana Quai”, from 2011’s The Secret, is the first track from his purely acoustic session with us but if you’re lucky enough to be stateside and within travelling distance of his current tour we highly recommend you check out the full plugged-in show in support of the recently released Tel Aviv Sessions as part of the Touré-Raichel Collective. Stunning stuff.
March 24, 2012
Charlie Parr - Simple Folk Radio Session
Simple Folk Radio arranged this session at The Well studio, Brighton it was recorded to tape by David Ringland, and Simon Pearson-Wood from our team shot this film.
“I’ve heard people refer to Charlie as being up there with the long gone greats of the blues world, and they’re right, he is that good. He’s a folk and country blues musician who is routinely labeled “authentic” and “the real deal”. He lays it on you, and you sense that the gamblers, the union workers, the criminals and the sinners that wander around his songs are peering right over your shoulder. The stories he tells get into some dark spots; that place where regret and remorse part company. A bit of a modern take on timeless conditions. Check him out and you’ll probably agree – Charlie Parr is coming from a very real place, and this has, in fact, always been a crazy world” Dillon / Simple Folk Radio
March 2, 2012
Jeffrey Lewis - Marco Polo
In this last piece from our session Jeff treated us to an illustrated history lesson about legendary explorer Marco Polo. One of Jeff’s passions apart from music is comic book writing. You can see more of this at his website here.
March 1, 2012
Seth Faergolzia - Yapp’s Birthday
Seth’s last song for our back-to-back session with Jeffrey Lewis.
February 29, 2012
Jeffrey Lewis - Cult Boyfriend
Song number three from our back-to back session with Jeffrey Lewis and Seth Faergolzia. This session was organized with the good folks of Simple Folk Radio You can hear this session in audio form at their site along with a great archive of performances from the likes of Akron Family, Charlie Parr, Great lake Swimmers Kimya Dawson and more sessions with Jeff Lewis.
February 28, 2012
Seth Faergolzia - Silence
Part two of our back-to-back session with Seth Faergolzia and Jeffrey Lewis. This song features Nicol Parkinson from Frozy on melodica. Seth and Jeff met at college back in the late 90s before becoming regulars of the New York anti folk/open mic scene, and Faergolzia led the experimental, off-kilter, “freak” folk band Dufus until their recent split. In addition to his solo work Faergolzia is also a sculptor, author, clothing designer and founder of new project 23 Psaegz, a 15 piece “folk grand orchestra” originially gathered to perform his stream-of-consciousness puppet rock opera (nope, us neither) that has since become a collaborative effort. Whether in his softer, more melodic and intimate moments or in those that are more barn-storming and slightly unhinged, Faergolzia’s work is always distinctly his own; inventive, touching or unnerving yet always enthralling and entertaining. With more people of his kind the world would be a better place.
February 27, 2012
Jeffery Lewis - Time Trades
A couple of months ago we caught Jeffrey Lewis, promoting his most recent A Turn in the Dream-Songs, on tour with Seth Faergolzia of Dufus and persuaded them to come play a few songs in return for a place to stay. This week we’ll be posting a new video each day from the set, but first here’s a little introduction…
For the slim percentage out there who haven’t heard of Jeffrey Lewis, he has become a de facto figurehead of the anti-folk movement (a label he neither embraces nor opposes) in the 15 years his musical career has spanned, producing albums that sway between finger-picked folk and raucous punk yet always typified by an intensely literate lyricism, full of wit, whimsy and wisdom be it on an auto-biographical or purely fictional subject matter. When you factor in the comic books, artwork and rhyming monologues accompanied by a flipbook of illustrations which regular feature in live shows, on subjects as diverse as the history of punk, history of marxism and a quasi-parable about a landlord’s angry dog, you have a truly original artist and, to many, a modern day punk hero.
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