This Month we will once again be featuring an artist on the playlist. You may remember we did this a couple of onths ago with Eva and Manu's folk pop goodness. French band Borea, pop-rock practitioners of the first order, are this months feature. All Borea tracks are from the full length, Single Ride, available on Jamendo. So let's click play and get started!
Leading off is Borea with the title track of the afore mentioned full-length, Single Ride. Ride drives forward with a thumping beat and a minor key melody. Complete with string flourishes, guitar fills and a smattering of electronic noodling. The vocal is accomplished and the choruses perfectly mixed. Add a touch of piano, and you have a complete and satisfying pop track, worthy of any radio anywhere in the world. Borea's web site (French) is here and can also be found on sites like Last FM. Check them out, and we will have more coming up later.
Hailing from Italy, Comfort Farmers follow up with the country tinged folk Clear. If the band name sounds familiar and you've been following these radio shows every month, well, it should. Comfort Farmers have appeared on two previous radio show lists. Check them out.
From the full-length offering, Acoustic Blues Jams, Freeky Clean brings you the straight up blues of Married Man Blues. Unlike many other blues artists, Freeky Clean does not dwell on a track and beat it to death. The 15 tracks here clock in at a light-weight 28:19.
Heifervescent returns to the playlist with Adam's brand new full-length on Jamendo Further Adventures in Monkeyland. I've sung the praises of Heifervescent many times before so just enjoy Rejuvination and check out Heifervescent! It will be well worth your time!
The next track was chosen for the beautiful falsetto voice of Marilyn Crawford. Production values are minimal here-straight forward and simple, and that works really well for Marilyn's voice. So take a breather and just listen to her beautiful voice on Must Have Been Blind. I'm not finding a lot of information on Marilyn, so if you happen to know something about her and have links to share, let me know.
Which brings us to the second track off of Borea's Single Ride, Six Twenty Nine. Just a touch of grunge in the guitar-a fun romp! Go check them out while it plays!
Blues tinged R&B pop vocalist Matt Lammin, follows up with Take it on the Chin from his Jamendo full-length The Middle. This is a fun tune and Matt has a really nice tenor voice. The chorus on this number is really great, with a very unusual lyric "Did you ever see a monkey slip on his banana skin?" Indeed! More on Matt from his MySpace page and also, check out this video of Time To Go which also appears on The Middle:
Up next is almost an 80's styled pop tune. The artist-and I hope I get this right-is Phillippeamr " amaro "-and he has a few other tracks up on Jamendo as well. This is a single entitled Rain Of Love. If you've got some links for this guy you could share with me, that would be awesome!
A ballad with a very ethereal feel, from the band The And (yep, that's right) comes Signs. The And have a fair number of offerings up on Jamendo, so check them out there. Would that I could find some other info on this band, but alas my searches for 'The And' turn up a hosts of hits, none of which are for any band. So again, got some information on this group? Share it with me, and I'll be happy to modify the content here with that new info.
Zikali returns to the radio show this time out with Deaf and Blind, a more rock influenced track. Check them out on Jamendo.
Next up, the final track from Borea, Lazy. Listen to the lyric and see if you can relate to the sentiments here.
Pop-folkishness is up next from The Jaygles and Blind Sun. The Jaygles have several individual tracks available on Jamendo so check them out. You can find more information from their MySpace page. Also, as a bonus, check out this video of A Better World for Us:.
nd that just about wraps things up for another month. Let the credits roll with Lusproject and Air. I'd love to hear from anyone who is actually following this blog. If it's a waste of my time, that would be great to know too! Until next month, Enjoy! Remember to support the artists who make the music you love.
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