37th State – Why FT Tony Allen, Dele Sosimi and Lisa Lore by 37th State
New double album from original members of Fela Kuti’s band with a little help from top soul/hip hop/djs Slum Village, Ty, Breis, Terri Walker, Keziah Jones and many more to refresh and transform the ever uplifting afrobeat sound. There is also another 37th State track in our January Playlist from Fela’s legendary drummer Tony Allen, stage right on this here website well worth a listen >
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Sweatshop is the first track to be aired from ‘MACHINERY’ De Staat’s new album released in the UK on 7th March 2011. Holland’s critically acclaimed alternative rock band whose unqiue sound is as distinctive as the Dead Weather, Captain Beefhart, Nick Cave, Steve Reich, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Tom Waits.
De Staat – 2011 UK Tour
Tickets www.alt-tickets.co.uk 0845 413 4444
Wednesday 6th April – London Camden Barfly
Thursday 7th April – Manchester Deaf Institute
Friday 8th April – Nottingham Bodega.
Saturday 9th April – Bristol Louisiana
Prepare to be blown away.
Jim Kroft is in no mood for half measures and is coming out of the lunatic fringe wild and frenzied and swinging blindly.
An independent artist living in Berlin, Kroft chronicles life in the 21st century and the adventures of his own spirit. Widely unknown in Europe, he considers himself in exile from the UK.
His debut album was released in July 2010 and made considerable impact on the blogosphere before returning swiftly to obscurity.
New song ‘Memoirs from the Afterlife’ is like Esther´s staircase set to music. The same melody migrating through different keys, a paradox leading endlessly back on itself. In this way it attempts to portray the shifting realities facing modern man. The song posits that in the myriad of uncertainties, the polarization of ideas and the morphing of cultures, understanding can only come through acquiescence before the great tide of things.
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It’s time for something acoustically refreshing. Devon-born Josh Bray is emerging onto the folk-blues scene with his debut album ‘Whisky and Wool’, released March 7th, 2011 on NewTide Records.
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Second single ‘Colour of the Bear’ will be released Sunday 13th February 2011 on digital download. To coincide with this they will rip up the UK with Big Scary Monsters’s Hold Your Horse Is on the following dates in February,
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