In a cold UK the music year starts to warm up. Some excellence delivered already - I'm especially enjoying Deerhunter; James Blake and Beriut but for me, best so far is the remastered Paddy McAloon album 'I trawl the megahertz' re-released as a Prefab Sprout album. Hope you find something you like:

Tracks:

1. Sing With Melodious Inarticulate Sound? 0:46 People Like Us “Recyclopedia Britannica” sound collage 2018

2. Shopping (2014) 5:46 People Like Us “25 Years of People Like Us” sound collage 2018

3. No One's Sleeping 4:26 Deerhunter “Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?” Alternative 2019

4. You've Got Your Mothers Hips 3:40 John Grant “Love Is Magic” Alternative 2018

5. Safe And Sound 8:41 Creep Show “Mr. Dynamite” Alternative 2018

6. Don't Miss It 4:59 James Blake “Assume Form” Dance & House 2019

7. Borrowed Lies 7:59 Gum Takes Tooth “Arrow” Psych Rock 2019

8. Circle of Clouds 7:36 Kid Koala “Music To Draw To: Io” Electronic 2019

9. Only Love Can Break Your Heart 3:48 Ida Sand “Young At Heart” Jazz 2015

10. Molehill 4:11 Underworld “DRIFT Episode 2” 2019

11. One 3:15 Esperanza Spalding “Emily's D+Evolution” R&B 2016

12. Sleeping Rough 3:31 Prefab Sprout “I Trawl the Megahertz” (Remastered) Sofistipop 2019

13. Gallipoli 4:07 Beirut “Gallipoli” Alternative 2019

2019. Who'd have thought. Well, I am still here and the tracks on this episode are as follows:

1. Picture You 4:03 Mumford & Sons Delta 2018

2. Darkness 3:11 Mumford & Sons Delta 2018

3. Witness 4:16 Macy Gray Ruby 2018

4. Without You 5:27 Lapalux Featuring Kerry Leatham Brainfeeder X 2018

5. Lay My Heart 6:35 Rachel Sermanni Lay My Heart 2017

6. Two Balloons (Part 3) 2:47 Peter Broderick Two Balloons 2018

7. TSVI - Whirl 4:21 TSVI Inner Worlds 2018

8. Memories (Live) 4:14 Chantal Acda And Bill Frisell Live At Jazz Middelheim 2018

9. The Garden 4:09 David Allred The Transition 2018

10. Dark Windows 3:41 Fantastic Negrito Please Don't Be Dead 2018

11. Unicorns 4:13 Jackie Oates The joy of living 2018

12. My Foolish Heart 4:59 Bill Evans Waltz for Deborah 1962

Hope you enjoy.

It's about this time of year I also share what I think were the best albums I bought in the year, so here goes with my Top 25 for 2018:

1 Johanna Johannssann Englaborn Re visoned

2 Nils Frahm All melody

3 Kamasi Washington Heaven & Earth

4 Mumford & Sons Delta

5 Jackie Oates The Joy of Living

6 Haley Pleasureland

7 Superorganism same

8 Coyboy Junkies All that reckoning

9 Lump same

10 Sepentwithfeet Soil

11 Erased tapes 1+1=X

12 Leon Vynehall Nothing is still

13 Molecule -22.7

14 Fantastic Negrito Please don't be dead

15 Submotion orchestra Kites

16 Melody Gardot Live in Europe

17 John Hopkins Singularity

18 Loma Same

19 Typoon Offerings

20 Boz Scaggs Out of the blue

21 Elvis Costello & the Attractions Look Now

22 Ed Harcourt Beyond the end

23 Big Red Machine same

24 Rhye Blood

25 Poppie Ackroyd Resolve

So, there you have it.

Tracks:

a. Intro – Peggy Lee – Siamese cats song from Lady & the Tramp

1. Me, myself, I 3:10 Joan Armatrading - Me, Myself, I 1980

an oldie but Goldie. I love this track and I hope you see the connection I make to Disney’s Siamese cats song. No! Just me then.

2. Stripping Paper 3:48 Elvis Costello - Look Now 2018

in my opinion – the best EC album for ages. A bit like the Weller album released earlier this year.

3. We live forever 3:44 The Prodigy - No Tourists 2018

Prodigy back to what they do best.

4. Carry fire 5:26 Robert Plant & TSSS - Carry Fire 2017

Robert with his super-band – the Sensational Space Shifters. At the O2 recently, they were superb. At the concert, I bumped into a couple of friends – what’s the chances of that happening with an audience close to 20,000?

5. Credit Forever Part 2 1:55 HALEY - Infinite Pleasure 2018

Haley was Haley Bonar and is now Haley McCallum (Bonar dropped in part following a lifetime of correcting some folk’s pronunciation….). Instrumental, mainly piano but some of her guitar playing – excellent for relaxation

6. Mumma Don't Tell 5:08 Leifur James - A Louder Silence 2018

Debut album which see’s him moving from his electronic ambience towards jazz.

7. Slowly we Decay 4:53 Led to Sea - The Beautiful Humming of Ms. Fortune 2015

Led to sea who was the support act for Laura Veirs in Guildford concert last month. Solo on this visit, she looped & mystified us through use of an electronic device which duplicated her playing but octaves lower, so sounding like violin & cello. Fascinating.

8. Algorithm 4:39 Muse - Simulation Theory 2018

didn’t enjoy the last album and this one seems to take songs from the past, adjust them slightly and it sounds like a new- ‘best of’… I’m enjoying it.

9. Les Jeux to You 6:19 Julia Holter - Aviary 2018

Julia as alternative as ever – the first 3 of the first 4 tracks are the most difficult to my mind then she settles down to the sort of stuff I’ve included here.

10. Nonkilling 3 | The Anteroom | False Skull 1 6:42 How To Dress Well - The Anteroom 2018 HTDW = USA s/s Tom Krell. He has engaged with styles like ambient music and experimental electronic music since the beginning of his career.

11. Inside Out 2:49 Aby Vulliamy - Spin Cycle 2018

Aby is a musician and composer, performing and recording frequently as a violist, pianist and vocalist in a range of ensembles and collaborations. Aby is also a Music Therapist

12. Bobbie's Dittie 4:29 Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload 2018

Georgia is an American s/s; producer, multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles who’s crosses many genres such as experimental, electro, jazz, funk, blues, hip-hop

13. Abusey Junction 7:09 Kokoroko - We out Here 2018

London jazz with an African feel. This type of jazz brings memories of watching Dudo Pukwana in the 70’s/80’s – as mad as a box of frogs, but talented God rhs.

Hope you find something you like. See you next month.

Peter

Hi all. Lot’s of good stuff on this episode (imo). A little more electronica swing, some jazz, ambient & rap, even a track from an album by a rather excellent banjo player, even though that’s not apparent on the track I’ve selected to play.

I’m hoping there is something this month you like

I play a track from Max Cooper’s latest and reference the following website:

https://www.onehundredbillionsparks.net/

Enjoy.

Peter

Tracks:

Clash 4:13 Caravan Palace Panic In The USA Electronica 2013

The Walker 4:16 Christine And The Queens Chris Pop 2018

Protest 4:44 GoGo Penguin Man Made Object Jazz 2016

Heart to Love 3:18 Passenger Runaway Singer-Songwriter 2018

The Deep 4:04 Phildel The Deep - Single Pop 2018

Love song 3:58 Max Cooper One Hundred Billion Sparks Electronic 2018

Wonderful 3:13 Eddi Reader Cavalier Alternative 2018

The Hex 3:28 Horse Feathers Appreciation Indi-folk/country 2018

White Glass 4:12 Loma Loma Alternative 2018

Imprints 3:22 Field Works Born in the Ear Electronic 2018

Magnetism 3:38 Kinobe Golden Age Electronica 2018

New Birth In New England 5:00 Phosphorescent C'est La Vie Indie rock/pop 2018

Now If You Remember 2:50 Nathan Bowles Plainly Mistaken Folk 2018

In Cold Blood (Kontra K Version) 3:35 alt-J REDUXER Rock/Rap 2018

Hi all, Hope you find something in this episode you like. It’s a varied selection this month with a different sounding Mogwai with music created for film; a superb cover of the Hollies ‘Air that I breath’ from KD Lang’s 1997 album; a mash from Max Richter of one of his violin pieces with a 60’s hit single from Diana Washington, a kind of super group in a new project from the main men in Bon Iver and The National with lots of various genres in between from classical to electronic –swing, blues to ambiance. Enjoy.

Peter

Tracks

1. Rolling On 4:33 Israel Nash Lifted

2. Magazine 3:39 White Denim Performance

3. The Unknown 4:15 Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp Sauvage Formes

4. Black Betty 2:50 Son of Dave Explosive Hits

5. Hymnostic 3:03 Big Red Machine Big Red Machine

6. Crash 4:56 Högni Erased Tapes Collection IX

7. Dreaming 6:09 Jon Hassell Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)

8. Miscreants 3:06 Mogwai Kin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Soundtrack

9. Always Trying to Work It Out 3:56 Low Double Negative

10. Hoo Hoo Ha Ha 4:05 Orbital Monsters Exist

11. Shade Of Dreams 3:00 Michael Price Tender Symmetry

12. Air that you breathe 5.52 KD Lang Drag

13. This bitter Earth – On the nature of daylight 6:13 Max Richter The Blue Notebooks

All but two tracks in this episode is a compilation of album tracks previously omitted for selection in earlier, more album release date timely episodes, as a consequence of the record label choice to omit digital download cards with some vinyl purchases. I’ve asterisked as such, see track list below. You may have heard me state that such & such record had been released but without a digital copy and that I couldn’t be bothered to create one from the vinyl. Well – there are so many this year, I eventually capitulated and episode 81 results. The other two are:

• A track from 2003, by the Matthew Herbert Big Band recorded when his project was about Iraq – his next Big Band project is about Brexit! Personally, I can’t wait.

• A track to mark the demise of guitarist Danny Kirwan.

Enjoy.

Tracks:

1. Mathew Herbert Big Band – Goodbye swingtime – “Misprints”

2. *Cowboys Junkies – All that reckoning – “When we arrive”

3. *Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth –“Sing”

4. *De-Phazz – Black white mono – “Foul and miss”

5. *Portico Quartet - Untitled (AITAOA #2 - “Unrest”

6. *Willie Nelson – Last man standing - It’s not something you get over

7. *Johann Johannsson IBM service manual “the sun’s gone dim and the sky’s turned black”

8. *Moby - Everything was beautiful and nothing – “Motherless child”

9. *Submotion Orch - Kites - “Tunnel”

10. *The Herbaliser - Bring out the sound - "over and over”

11. *Melody Gardot – Live in Europe - “Baby I’m a fool”

12. Fleetwood Mac - single – “Albatross”

The albums released over May/June 2018 have been rather excellent, so I’ve been spoiled for choice in this episode. However, some excellent stuff is omitted (i.e. there was no download card with the vinyl bought for a digital version of Kamasi Washington’s “Heaven & Earth”, nor for De-Phazz “Black, White, Mono” nor for the John Coltrane ‘Lost album – Both directions at once”. The first two are excellent – the Coltrane, whilst historically important is more an album for the Coltrane ‘completest’ imo.

From the selection in this episode, I am particularly enjoying the albums by Lump; Serpentwithfeet; Vynehall and the compilation from which the Dare track is taken plus the single from Doyle. Hope you find something you like.

Tracks:

1. Shake Your Shelter 5:23 LUMP LUMP .

2. Rush Hill Road) 5:55 The Orb No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds

3. Essential Four 6:08 Soulwax Essential Another Mother's Son 5:30 Phil Cook People Are My Drug Americana

4. Millersdale 5:00 William Doyle

5. Bad Decision 3:06 Chromeo Head Over Heels R&B

6. A Street Called Hope 3:23 Ray Davies Our Country: Americana Act 2

7. Whisper 4:21 serpentwithfeet soil R&B

8. Babylon 3:04 Oneohtrix Point Never Age Of Electronica

9. Molly Brannigan 4:34 Brona McVittie We Are the Wildlife Country & Folk

10. English Oak (Chapter VII) 4:27 Leon Vynehall Nothing Is Still

11. Darling 8:13 Douglas Dare 1+1=X Ambient/Drone/Modern Classical

Peter

The albums released over May/June 2018 have been rather excellent, so I’ve been spoiled for choice in this episode. However, some excellent stuff is omitted (i.e. there was no download card with the vinyl bought for a digital version of Kamasi Washington’s “Heaven & Earth”, nor for De-Phazz “Black, White, Mono” nor for the John Coltrane ‘Lost album – Both directions at once”. The first two are excellent – the Coltrane, whilst historically important is more an album for the Coltrane ‘completest’ imo.

From the selection in this episode, I am particularly enjoying the albums by Lump; Serpentwithfeet; Vynehall and the compilation from which the Dare track is taken plus the single from Doyle. Hope you find something you like.

Tracks:

1. Shake Your Shelter 5:23 LUMP LUMP .

2. Rush Hill Road) 5:55 The Orb No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds

3. Essential Four 6:08 Soulwax Essential Another Mother's Son 5:30 Phil Cook People Are My Drug Americana

4. Millersdale 5:00 William Doyle

5. Bad Decision 3:06 Chromeo Head Over Heels R&B

6. A Street Called Hope 3:23 Ray Davies Our Country: Americana Act 2

7. Whisper 4:21 serpentwithfeet soil R&B

8. Babylon 3:04 Oneohtrix Point Never Age Of Electronica

9. Molly Brannigan 4:34 Brona McVittie We Are the Wildlife Country & Folk

10. English Oak (Chapter VII) 4:27 Leon Vynehall Nothing Is Still

11. Darling 8:13 Douglas Dare 1+1=X Ambient/Drone/Modern Classical

Peter

Mix of music genres from jazz to classical via electronica, psych & indie rock and R&B. Mostly new; one reissue and one out for the first time but recorded 13 years ago.

Track listing:

Medicine Chest Dub 1 4:12 Nostalgia 77 Fifteen Electronic

Learning The Hard Way 3:51 Stone Foundation A Life Unlimited R&B

Telluride Speed 6:28 Ryley Walker Deafman Glance Singer-Songwriter

Long May It Sustain 4:20 A Winged Victory For The Sullen 1+1=X Ambient

Emerald Rush 5:37 Jon Hopkins Singularity Electronic/Ambient

Drunk in LA 3:59 Beach House 7 Alternative

Staring At The Sun 7:28 Wooden Shjips V. Psychedelic Rock

Gabriel’s Ladder 3:36 Mark Peters Innerland (Large Scale Version) Ambient

S.I.A 3:47 GUM The underdog Indie Rock

Hypomania 3:46 Gazpatcho Soyuz Psych Rock

A Pile Of Dust 4:50 Jóhann Jóhannsson, Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra, Anthony Weeden The Mercy Electronica

Believe, Beleft, Below 7:24 Esbjörn Svensson Trio e.s.t. live in london Jazz

Enjoy.

Peter

Hi all, Another Podcast episode is posted. This features tracks from albums release on vinyl March April 2018 (in the main). It’s the usual mix of indie rock/electronic/ambient with a few tracks from the alternative genre. I’m enjoying all of the albums from which these tracks are taken and greatly enjoying the Johann Johannsson 1st album, re-engineered & revisioned for a 2018 release shortly before his death and the Superorganism is another excellent album. Hope you find something you like.

Tracks:

1. Semicircle Song 3:29 The Go! Team SEMICIRCLE

2. Something for your mind 2:45 Superorganism Superorganism

3. You Are Here 5:44 Yo La Tengo There's a Riot Going On

4. Crazy Girl 3:35 Lissie Castles

5. Odi Et Amo - Bis 4:03 Jóhann Jóhannsson Englaborn

6. I Gotta Weapon 2:17 Cut Chemist Die Cut

7. Mama's Hand 4:58 Fever Ray Plunge

8. Rare Birds 5:27 Jonathan Wilson Rare Birds

9. Track 03 4:05 Molecule -22.7 c

10. Cernubicua 3:31 Chris Carter Chemistry Lessons Volume 1

11. I Know It's Real 3:20 Wye Oak The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs

12. American Guilt 4:33 Unknown Mortal Orchestra Sex & Food

13. Rusty Pipes 4:04 Eels The Deconstruction

14. Gibberish 3:25 SLUG Higgledy Piggledy

15. Unfolding 5:58 Rival Consoles Persona

Peter