Musik

Crippled Black Phoenix spelar i Göteborg, Stockolm och i Oslo i höst: 31 oktober – Göteborg, Parken, 5 november – Stockholm, Strand och 6 november – Oslo, Garage.

Bakom namnet Crippled Black Phoenix döljer sig ett brittiskt postrock-kollektiv av finaste snitt. Medlemmarna kommer från diverse andra band – Iron Monkey, Mogwai, Gonga, Electric Wizard m.fl – och tillsammans gör supergruppen musik som vanligtvis är oerhört svår att definiera, vilket också är bandets styrka. ”Stoner-prog freak-folk goes doom” har nån sagt, och det kan kanske ge en fingervisning om vad Crippled Black Phoenix levererar. I år släppte bandet andra skivan ”200 Tons of Bad Luck” (som även finns utgiven som dubbelskivan ”The Resurrectionists/Night Raider”).

Tom Waits släpper albumet ”Glitter and Doom Live”.

Pressmeddelandet:
TOM WAITS is set to release Glitter and Doom Live, a collection of outstanding live tracks from his 2008 sold out US and European tour. This two CD set contains 17 live recordings from ten nights along the tour including, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Tulsa, Knoxville, Atlanta, Paris, Milan, Jacksonville, Dublin and Columbus. The second CD entitled, Tom Tales holds nearly 40 minutes of Waits quixotic ruminations on topics ranging from romantic spiders to injured vultures. The CD will also come with a booklet of live photos.

The vinyl version of Glitter and Doom Live will feature gatefold sleeve with live photos from the tour and contain all 17 tracks but no Tom Tales. Inside the LP, Anti- is providing a card w/mp3 download instructions, which will enable the buyer to download Tom Tales as well.

Musically, the live discs encapsulate Waits in all his chug, boom and steam. His shamanistic vocals, innovative arrangements, visionary lyrics, pounding rhythms and emotional melodies are all here. There are dark swampy tribal rhythms, ominous hymns, and cautionary tales all swirling around Waits’ unmistakable howl and croon. The CD has a dead man singing to his widow, a convict’s last words, an instructional dance number, lamenting sword swallowers and bragging pirates. All of the tracks were personally selected and sequenced to give you the feeling of one great night on tour.

On October 13, www.tomwaits.com is set to go live. You are invited to wander and roam through the first ever official website for all things Waits: news, updates on recordings, new releases, tours, films and more. A resource for lyrics, photos, wit and wisdom, strange but true tales, and more imponderables on topics as far ranging as the origin of consciousness, the sexuality of Christ and the lonely journey of the male seahorse.

Track listing is as follows:

1. Lucinda / Ain’t Goin Down (Birmingham – 07/03/08) – 5:37
2. Singapore (Edinburgh – 07/28/08) – 5:00
3. Get Behind The Mule (Tulsa – 06/25/08) – 6:26
4. Fannin Street (Knoxville – 06/29/08) – 4:16
5. Dirt In The Ground (Milan – 07/19/08) – 5:18
6. Such A Scream (Milan – 07/18/08) – 2:51
7. Live Circus (Jacksonville – 07/01/08) – 5:04
8. Goin’ Out West (Tulsa – 06/25/08) – 3:48
9. Falling Down (Paris – 07/25/08) – 4:21
10. The Part You Throw Away (Edinburgh – 07/28/08) – 5:07
11. Trampled Rose (Dublin – 08/01/08) – 5:06
12. Metropolitan Glide (Knoxville – 6/29/08) – 3:10
13. I’ll Shoot The Moon (Paris – 07/24/08) – 4:25
14. Green Grass (Edinburgh – 07/27/08) – 3:20
15. Make It Rain (Atlanta – 07/05/08) – 3:58
16. Story (Columbus – 06/28/08) – 2:02
17. Lucky Day (Atlanta – 07/05/08) – 3:47

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”Chasing Pirates” – första singeln från Norah Jones kommande album har släppts digitalt 13 oktober.

Pressmeddelandet:
On October 13, EMI’s Blue Note Records will release “Chasing Pirates,” the lead single from Norah Jones’s upcoming album The Fall. The track will be made available digitally at all online digital retailers. The singer-songwriter’s highly anticipated fourth studio album, The Fall, will be released in North America on November 17, and on November 16 internationally. In the UK, the single will be released on November 15.

“Chasing Pirates”-which is currently featured on Rolling Stone’s “Hot List”-immediately announces a new direction for Jones. ”For this record, I just had a sound in my head,” she says. ”I wanted the grooves to be more present and heavy. And I also just wanted to do something different.”

That new sound began to present itself on one of the first songs Jones wrote for the project. ”About a year ago, I did some demos in my home studio,” she says. ”I had some friends come in and we figured out a cool arrangement for ’Chasing Pirates,’ with a cool drum part. It went somewhere I didn’t expect it to go, and that became a direction to look in.”

“Norah Jones could have kept recording iterations of Come Away With Me for decades,” Newsweek wrote recently on their Pop Vox blog. “Clearly, that’s not what she’s doing. The gradual shifts away from that oversize debut have worked so far, and The Fall is an even bigger step away, and a step up in what is still the beginning of a big career.

“The first single, ‘Chasing Pirates,’ is a head-bobbing, compact little song whose catchy hook could put Jones on radio stations that may have spun her only rarely before. She sings, ‘I don’t know how to slow it down/My mind’s racing from chasing pirates,’ and as wistful as the lyric sounds, what Jones has done with the new record is indeed another departure. Only this time she’s heading down a louder, dusted-up rock path.”

The Fall finds Jones experimenting with a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris. King also helped Jones put together a new group of musicians to perform on the album, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer).

Norah Jones – Chasing Pirates (AUDIO)

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