BEARDED LADIES - VARIOUS ARTISTS
AND JANE WEAVER 'CHERLOKALATE
(BMS008 and BMS009 - OUT NOW)
Effervescent songbird Jane Weaver has joined forces with Finders Keepers to produce a B-Music certified canon of femme-folk, laden with finger picked
This bespoke globe-trotting decade spanning collection traces a line between the acid soaked protest rumblings of yesteryear and the forward looking/backward facing revivalists of today.
Featuring Wendy & Bonnie, Susan Christie, Bonnie Dobson, Brigitte Fontaine, Jane Weaver (B-Music), Cate Le Bon, Selda (unreleased), Heaven & Earth, Lights (Produced by ESPERS' Greg Weeks), Speck Mountain, Heather Jones, Turid, and more.
Jane Weaver is a unique and seasoned voice and player, standing out amongst the ranks of femme singer-songwriters. For her debut US album, fans of Mazzy Star, Broadcast, Nico, Doves, Savath y Savalas, and Mia Doi Todd will not be disappointed.
“John Cale inflected heroin-chic, that trips and drips and pulls you down on a trip to the delta South. Moments of
eerie tranquility that are like echoes across a room haunted by childhood and ice cream vans†– AngryApe
VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS
VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS
(BMS007 - OUT NOW)
For those who wanted to hear the heart-wrenching ramblings of another finger-picking twat in a John Martyn T-shirt while basking in the sun at another low maintenance / highly accessible 'chill out' festival or lightweight ‘folk’ event - you might as well move along… there's nothing to see here
Though, there is a reason why a Voice of the Seven Woods gig stands out like a sore thumb, and you can guarantee he'll be asked back next time.....
An unnamed elderly guitar repairman at a reputable music shop in South Lancashire, UK is usually a mild-mannered character, but thanks to Rick Tomlinson this nimble-fingered technician is slowly coming to his wit's end. The fact that this reluctant leading light of the fickle 'nu-folk' movement has literally smashed his way out of a tight pigeonhole using his trusty wooden axe as a battering ram is evident by the blood-stained frets. But this is only part of the old man's concern. It's actually Rick's latest requests to make this handcrafted German guitar sound like a mutant instrument from the Middle East that are really eating him alive. Rick actually wants his strings to rattle and buzz.
Legendary Anatolian protest singer Selda has already donated a Turkish electric saz to Rick's un-blinkered cause. And at recent gigs, when his guitar has been in surgery, his replacement sitar and oud have become trusty substitutes. Rick's collection of kraut rock, South American psych and Turkish acid rock LPs, has also clearly played a large part in his inspired current output. He has also played live with TWO members of seminal Krautrockers 'Can', built up a hefty daytime bar tab in Wales with the legendary Meic Stevens and has backed lost West Coast folk/pop luminaries Wendy and Bonnie.
Add this to twelve months of shared stage space playing culturally disparate music with the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Dead Meadow, Espers, Chris Corsano and Thurston Moore, and it's evident that Mr. Tomlinson's puerile approach to traditional musicianship is actually re-constructing musical bridges as opposed to destroying them. Perhaps it's Voice of the Seven Woods who is the real musical repair man in this equation.
SAROLTA ZALATNAY
SAROLTA ZALATNAY
(BMS006 - OUT NOW)
"One night in Budapest, at Serge Gainsbourg's Eurovision aftershow. the Meters storm in. Then Zalatnay grabs the mike. Psych." - BOB STANLEY (SAINT ETIENNE)
""For years suspicious DJ's have asked me why I go to Hungary to buy my Records - Well here's the answer. Spanning multiple decades and genres Cliff Richards sexy Hungarian cousin gives Marrianne and Cilla a psychedelic run for their money." - DJ FORMAT
19 Stomping selections by Hungarian jet-set fit-bit. Eastern Europes most vivacious sexual secret piles heavy psych/jazz/glam and funk onto a heaped spoonful dripping with the cream of the 70's Hungarian rock scene - OMEGA, METRO. LOCOMOTIV GT AND SKORPIO.
Also available soon from the B-MUSIC US on-line shop
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