Tag: Light In The Attic
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Leslie Winer – a pioneer of trip-hop and a much-admired songwriter by artists such as Grace Jones and Boy George – is to be celebrated by the Light In The Attic label with a new compilation
Leslie Winer is an enigmatic artist and cultural icon and now gets the appropriate treatment from Light In The Attic – a compilation nine years in the making. Winer is often cited as the grandmother of trip-hop, as well as the first androgynous super model. Her music, writing and poetry is groundbreaking and evident on…
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Willie Dunn is eulogised in Light In The Attic’s next chapter of their Native North America series – ‘Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology’ is a treasure
Willie Dunn deserves as much acclaim as some of the most revered singers and songwriters of folk and Americana music, he was a true one off and his acoustic guitar playing is also some of the most soul stirring ever heard. There are some beautiful songs here via Light In The Attic’s next chapter in…
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New material and reissues from Japan display musical diversity of nation
One of the recent highlights has been the super-funky, super flaky LP by Shintaro Sakamoto. The former Yura Yura Teikoko guitarist smashes it with his Hawaiian lap steel guitar on this, the fourth solo album by this pioneer. When Sakamoto duets with robot voices (Purging the Demons) we are hearing something unique. Love Is Possible…
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Light In The Attic insight into the Colorado country funk and enigma of Tumbleweed Records
This sublime compilation on Light In The Attic showcases the very best of the Tumbleweed Records label and is out on Friday. The Tumbleweed label was founded in February, 1971, by Larry Ray and Bill Szymczyk. They had fled an earthquake and a debauched L.A. music scene to claim their own slice of utopia in Denver,…
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Reissued trio shows musical mastery of Brazil’s Erasmo Carlos on Light In The Attic
Light In The Attic have reissued three classic LPs of Brazilian legend Erasmo Carlos. All of the usual quality research and excellent archive photos have been included, plus the pressings sound joyously good. His collaborations with singer Roberto Carlos are some of the most commercially successful compositions in Brazil. These LPs display another side to…
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World Treasures Music end of year review
Click here to listen to the World Treasures Music review mix. A number of artists’ passing will make 2016 memorable. A champion of world treasures at the legendary New York venue, The Loft, was David Mancuso, who was mourned widely in the music world after his death aged 72. Sun Palace’s Rude Movements was remastered…
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Camberwell Now from the ashes of This Heat
Camberwell Now’s The Ghost Trade and The EP Collection will be reissued next month on Modern Classic Recordings (Light In The Attic). Camberwell Now featured This Heat’s vocalist and drummer Charles Hayward. He assembled a line-up comprising of Stephen Rickard, a former BBC sound engineer, on field recordings and tape manipulation and Trefor Goronwy on…
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Evolution: Tamam Shud’s cult surf soundtrack
Taman Shud’s psychedelic soundtrack to the cult Australian surf movie Evolution has been lovingly reissued by Anthology Records. It was recorded live in 1968 – whilst the film was projected upon the studio wall due to budget constraints – and was released in 1969. Tamam Shud evolved from an instrumental surf band called The Four…
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Homage to This Heat
One of the most pioneering and innovative bands of the 1970s was This Heat. Check this experimental production from 1979, the renowned 24 Track Loop: In 1976 Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams met in Camberwell, London, England and founded the band. John Peel loved them. These three releases sold poorly at the time,…
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