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Falling between two stools doesn’t sound like a graceful pursuit, especially for a debutant. But slipping and sliding between people’s expectations can make for some intriguing music, not least this debut by 28-year-old Londoner Jamie Woon. Heard from one angle, Woon is the sort of singer-songwriter that record companies love to turn into James Morrison. His mother was a session singer; Woon went to the Brit school. His voice is soulful; there’s Youtube footage of Woon in years past, playing guitar quite conventionally. If it didn’t start with the sound of a carbonated drink being poured into a glass, or bump along on little shards of digital ice, “Middle” could be a perfectly middling soul-pop hit. “I can’t get enough of your love,” Woon purrs smoothly, sweeping up a listenership who find his fellow-traveller James Blake too austere. But Woon isn’t just another wipe-clean R&B loverboy. A few years ago, he fell into the orbit of Mercury contender Burial. Burial’s dubstep remix of Woon’s debut single, “Wayfaring Stranger” – a cover of an old American spiritual – made that thoroughly haunting record even more of an event. Sadly, neither is included here. Woon has also absorbed the lessons of the xx, and has written a great deal of space and claustrophobia into his dozen album tracks. “I’ve acquired a taste for silence,” runs “Night Air”, still Woon’s finest three minutes. The sampled wicker chairs and Cornish pebbles, meanwhile, connect this very urban record to organic materials.
At its least interesting, Mirrorwriting just adds dubstep wobble and digital tricks to otherwise unspectacular songs. “Spirals” falls into this trap; soon afterwards, Mirrorwriting goes into a terminal decline that no measure of bejewelled moodiness can redress.
But for the most part, Woon strikes a terrific balance between convention and subversion. “Spirits”, a gospel-tinged track, swings along irresistibly. More tracks on this wavelength would have made Mirrorwriting a more authoritative release. As it is, you worry that this record won’t be challenging enough for the arthouse crowd, who will hear Woon’s vanilla vocals and switch off.
And having released his most commercial single, “Lady Luck”, last month, Woon has singularly failed to wow the mainstream, either. It charted at number 93. Perhaps a bootylicious pop video would have helped, rather than one of Woon looking doleful on the Budapest subway system. For this is really a most cutting-edge R&B pop record; it deserves a little ubiquity.
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01. We Found Each Other in the Dark
02. Natural Disaster
03. The Grand Optimist
04. Little Hell
05. Fragile Bird
06. Northern Wind
07. O’Sister
08. Weightless
09. Sorrowing Man
10. Silver and Gold
11. Hope for Now
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The long-anticipated brainchild of producer-composer Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniele Luppi, Rome benefits from a bit of context. More than five years in the making, the project assembles many of the surviving performers of classic ’60s and ’70s Ennio Morricone scores — and, in half a dozen memorable cases, pairs them up with the vocals of Norah Jones or The White Stripes’ Jack White.
Naturally, Rome can’t possibly exceed the sum of its parts, with its successful composer and arranger in Luppi, its groundbreaking producer and composer in Danger Mouse, countless combined years of orchestra experience, a painstaking recording process with vintage equipment, and the juxtaposition of White’s fatalistic moan with Jones’ coolly detached croon. It almost has to sound better on paper than in practice, but it’s terrific in practice, too, as it alternates appropriately cinematic instrumentals with a handful of nifty showcases for its headliners.
Jones is long overdue for an image makeover: All those tens of millions of records sold and armloads of Grammys have made it easy to forget that she’s still a remarkably cool singer. Here, Jones at times channels the wounded iciness of Metric’s great Emily Haines, while still lending her own brooding gravitas to “Season’s Trees,” “Black” and “Problem Queen.” Of course, White makes the most of his own three appearances, from the tone-setting portent of “The Rose With the Broken Neck” to the album-closing “The World,” which helps conjure mental images of rolling credits. But Jones and White aren’t the only scene-stealers in Rome: Edda Dell’Orso pops up in the album-opening “Theme of Rome,” picking up where she left off in the soundtrack to 1966’s The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
If it weren’t for the unmistakably contemporary voices among its ranks — White’s in particular — Rome could just as easily have emerged from a vault, sealed 40 or even 50 years ago. That’s clearly the point: From start to finish, the album provides a timeless, arduously arranged backdrop to past generations’ visions of panoramic vistas and blood-stained betrayals.
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Track List
01. Wicked Blood ( 4:25)
02. Dew in the Grass ( 4:24)
03. Orion & Dog ( 3:49)
04. Turn the Dirt Over ( 2:59)
05. O Maria! ( 4:00)
06. White Water, White Bloom ( 4:29)
07. Spirit Horse ( 3:53)
08. The Orchard ( 3:26)
09. The Traitor ( 4:17)
10. Winter’s Heir ( 4:20)
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Track listing:
01. Rewrite 04:45
02. Sunday 04:17
03. Breathe Me 04:34
04. The Bully 03:51
05. Sweet Potato 04:00
06. Don’t Bring Me Down 04:25
07. Natale’s Song 02:32
08. Butterflies 03:26
09. Moon 05:02
10. The Church Of What’s Happening Now 04:27
11. Numb 04:40
12. Where I Belong 04:43
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are like a modern-day version of Tina Turner stroking the microphone in a spangled mini-dress while fronting the Rolling Stones circa Sticky Fingers. The proof is there for all to hear on the band’s third album for Hollywood Records and marks an artistic breakthrough for a vital young band caught in the act of fulfilling its immense promise. Little wonder that Grace and her cohorts have chosen to title it, directly and emphatically, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Album produced by Mark Batson (Jay-Z, Dr Dre, Alicia Keys).
http://hotfile.com/dl/71817405/6d8ad2a/Grace_Potter_and_The_Nocturnals_-_Grace_Potter_and_the_Nocturnals_(2010).rar.html
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The third album in four years from song interpreter extraordinaire Madeleine Peyroux, Bare Bones is both an extension of the currents of 2004’s Careless Love and 2006’s Half the Perfect World and a bold step into previously unexplored psychological terrain. Produced, like its two predecessors, by Larry Klein, this fluid and enthralling new work is Peyroux’s most personal yet, hardly surprising considering she had a hand in writing each of the 11 songs, marking the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.
http://www.filesonic.com/file/31061069/Madeleine Peyroux – Bare Bones (2009).rar
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Grammy nominated and critically acclaimed, Ray LaMontagne returns with his anticipated fourth studio album, God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise. Entirely self produced (for the first time) the album was recorded in two weeks at LaMontagne’s home in the woods of western Massachusetts. The newly restored historic home served as a homemade recording studio for Ray and his fellow musicians. With Ray’s vocals at the forefront of the songs and a loose, almost live sounding recording, the album stands as a testament to a band at the height of their powers. The newly coined ‘Pariah Dogs’, consists of Jay Bellarose (drums), Jennifer Condos (bass), Patrick Warren (keyboard), Eric Heywood (guitar) and Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar). Individually these musicians have contributed to the live work of such heralded musicians including Beck, Joe Henry, Tom Waits, Lucinda Wlliams, Ryan Adams and Joe Cocker to name a few of their career highlights. Together with Ray they shared a sense that the sessions for this record were rare and extraordinary.
Free Download – Ray Lamontagne & The Pariah Dogs – God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise
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