The makers of my album of 2011, Aaron Jerome aka SBTRKT and his vocal partner Sampha will return to Dublin after a successful show in The Workman’s Club in December and an Other Voices performance in Dingle.
The pair will play The Academy on May 6th priced at €19.90 plus fees and on sale this Friday at 9am through Ticketmaster.
Madlib’s hyper-accelerated release cycle with a new album or mix dropping seemingly every month has left me unable to check out recent projects but maybe his upcoming collaboration album with Georgia Anne Muldrow will be the one to haul me back in.
Seeds has Madlib producing the entire album for Muldrow (in lieu of her regular partner Dudley Perkins). The opening title track is awash with soul and twinkling keys, and a juicy taster for what yet becoming when the album comes out on SomeOthaShip Connect next month.
Onra’s whipsmart edit of The Whispers’ ‘Keep on Loving Me’ from 1983 is a perfect Friday mood-enhancer. Originally released on Dublin’s All City through 7″, the tune almost made it onto his excellent Long Distance LP.
If Nialler9 did Person of the Year in music nominations, Merril Garbus would have won it hands down. On Jimmy Kimmel she performs my song of the year with ‘You Yes You’ following it up. W h o K i l l? tUnE-yArDs does. They’re back in Dublin in February.
I almost didn’t mention Lianne La Havas just because she charted in the BBC Sound of 2012 poll but I figure, if I haven’t had the time to go through the list, then maybe you haven’t either right?
As it happens, this song is a double deal. Lianne La Havas’ sweet and light vocals duet with Willy Mason’s (it’s been a long time Willy) more rugged timbre and it’s in-between where the magic happens. La Havas made an impression last year on Jools Holland (watch those two performances below) and ended up supporting Bon Iver. She has two EPs to her name so far. This song features on Lost & Found while the Forget EP was released last week. An album is due in May on Warner and she plays The Sugar Club on March 10th, perhaps the best place to judge her talent.
As for Willy Mason, well he appears to be still touring and working on a new album.
I would have thought WU LYF’s polarising sound would be pretty unsuitable for late night TV but Letterman gave them a chance. The result is a performance in which energy and verve can be felt through the screen. The band’s panoramic arrangements worked surprisingly well, even if the band themselves were unsure of end of song protocol. ‘Heavy Pop’ is from their debut album Go Tell Fire To The Mountain, one of my favourites of 2011. Video via The Audio Perv.
Loud Mouth Collective released Volume 3 in their series of compilations in the pre-Christmas rush. This one features Loudmouth regulars Redahan, CF Meister, The Gruesome Twosome, Archetype, Cian and Intuitive Travels in Sound while first-timers this time around include Lorem Ipsum, edit;erase, Benny Smiles and more.
There’s more of a rap lean to the first half than the previous two compilations while electronic and post-dubstep sounds dominate side B. Another assured collection from a collective who are making lots of lovely noise in Dublin at the moment.
Update: SOLD OUT.
Azealia Banks, Whelan’s.
Monday February 6th.
Tickets €15 plus fees on sale tomorrow morning 9am (Friday January 6th) from Ticketmaster.
Yesterday, Ms. Banks came a nominal third in the BBC Sound of 2012 poll if you’re into that sort of thing. The day before that the video for the Scissor Sisters song she guests on appeared:
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UGH. January. The prevailing sense of impending doom is too much. People on radio stations allude to it, social networks and conversations are awash with anti-grind sentiments. The wind howls and the rain batters. Just remember that it’s not real – the January doom is a bogeyman waiting to dissolve as the year grows up. You just need some brightness in your life – like North Carolina soul singer Lee Fields & The Expressions for instance.
Before the renaissance of Charles Bradley, there was Lee Fields. He made some notable recordings in the 1970s before the duo of Jeff Silverman and Leon Michels who make up the label Truth & Soul got him to record his first album since then in 2009 which was entitled My World.
In March, T&S will release the followup to that album entitled Faithful Man on MArch 13th. This is the first soulful cut from it. Bye Bye January blues…
Highlights: A quiet week all round but there is a whopper of a gig in Crawdaddy this Saturday…
A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30/8pm unless stated. Feel free to recommend gigs in the comments as this post gets a lot of eyes every week.
This album version of ‘Once And For All’ is the opening track on Clock Opera’s forthcoming debut Ways To Forget, due out in the first week in April. You can pre-order and listen to track previews at iTunes. The video is by Ben Strebel. This will be released as a single on 30th of January backed with a remix from Andrew Weatherall. A great band who are surely ready to go bigger this year.
Much more Clock Opera from last year on this blog.
