https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-mcguire3/old-fellas-new-music-episode-39-jan-25-2023
Episode 39 – our notes!
Bob’s notes
Martin Courtney – Sailboat
Martin Courtney is a member of the Brooklyn based band Real Estate. This track is taken from taken from his second solo album, “Magic Sign”. Pitchfork always a Real Estate supporter, gave a fairly positive review of the album.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/martin-courtney-magic-sign/
“Sailboat” is reminiscent of 80’s REM
I also include one of my fave Real Estate tracks
Nina Nastasia – Afterwards
Nina Maria Nastasia is an American folk singer-songwriter. I first came to know her from legendary British DJ John Peel’s online archives. She is prominently featured on his radio shows from the early 2000’s. As of 2022, Nastasia has released a total of seven studio albums. The latest, is “Riderless Horse” Much of the writing on this album was apparently influenced by the suicide Natasia’s partner in 2020.
Stereogum has an excellent interview with her regarding “Riderless Horse”
Gwenno- Anima
This is a first for old fellas. We have a song in Cornish! Gwenno Mererid is a Welsh musician, known by the stage name Gwenno. . Tresor is her third album from July 2022. All the songs on this album are entirely in Cornish except one song, “N.Y.C.A.W.” which is in Welsh. The album’s name comes from the Cornish word for “treasure”. The album was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize. The video is very cool as it is reminiscent of Terry Gilliam’s animation work in Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
For all her mysterious Cornish esoterica, it’s surprising to me that Gwenno used to be a member of The Pipettes!
MJ Lenderman – SUV
Jake Lenderman goes by the moniker as MJ Lenderman. He is an American singer, songwriter, and musician based in Asheville, North Carolina. In April, 2022, Lenderman released his third studio album, Boat Songs. He has been compared to John Prine, Neil Young and The Drive-By Truckers’s which is always a good thing. Here he is playing the crunchy little number SUV, live in Austin Texas.
Let us get to know MJ Lenderman! https://fortherabbits.net/2021/03/25/get-to-know-mj-lenderman/
This week’s playlist
Gord Downie, Bob Rock – Is there nowhere
Martin Courtney – Sailboat
July Talk – When You Stop
Nina Nastasia – Afterwards
Master KG, Burma Boy, Nomcebo Zikode – Jerusalema
Gwenno- Anima
Andy Shauf – Wasted on You
MJ Lenderman – SUV
Fast Romantics – Outta Love
Gord Downie, Bob Rock – Is there nowhere
This is totally new to me, but it is not every week that we get to feature a Gord Downie track!
By Alex Hudson
Published Nov 22, 2022
Late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie and mega-producer Bob Rock made an album together that never saw the light of day, but that is finally about to change. Following the single “Lustre Parfait” last month, Arts & Crafts has now shared two more songs and confirmed the details of the full-length. Lustre Parfait will be out May 5.
As a taste of the album to come, A&C has released the three-song collection The Raven and the Red-Tailed Hawk. It includes the title track, plus last month’s “Lustre Parfait” and the B-side “Is There Nowhere.”
The sessions for Lustre Parfait followed the two Hip albums produced by Rock, 2006’s World Container and 2009’s We Are the Same. According to a press release, Downie asked Rock if the producer had any music he could write lyrics for, and Rock created these raucous arrangements for the vocalist to accompany.
Rock said in a statement, “First and foremost Gord was my friend, and having the opportunity to work with him on these songs was one of the biggest highlights of my professional life. I am grateful that I got to witness his genius in such close proximity.”
Premiere: July Talk’s ‘When You Stop’ captures everything about the band that we love
Great to see July Talk featured on NPR. The band will be here in Ottawa at the NAC. Looking forward to this!
I included extra video material. The second one – After This is terrific!
Almost a decade ago, World Cafe went to Toronto for our Sense of Place series in search of new music discoveries. We found one in the indie rock band July Talk. At the time, the band had just released its self-titled debut album. We became instantly enamored of the band’s music. With co-lead vocalists Leah Fay Goldstein and Peter Dreimanis, the energy has always brought about an equal balance of beguiling tension. The twin guitar playing of guitarists Ian Docherty and Josh Warburton, and double drummers Danny Miles and Dani Nash, round out the band, who release their new album, Remember Never Before, tomorrow.
Today, World Cafe is premiering, “When You Stop.” From the band’s new album, it captures everything about this band that we love: the decadelong relationship between Goldstein and Derimanis that has brought about both light and darkness in the way their vocals work together, the co-mingling and interlacing of the guitar playing, and the understated yet powerful push and pull of the rhythms.
It’s been three years since their last album, Pray For It, and we asked them how the pandemic affected the making of this record. In an email, Goldstein said: ” In a lot of ways we feel we already released our pandemic album in July of 2020. Pray For It was written between 2017 and 2019 and was our way of processing the reality of a very uncertain new world. One that saw what felt like a global shift toward darkness, baseless hatred, intolerance, bigotry, fear-mongering, climate doom, etc.”
July Talk – When You Stop [Official Lyric Video]
July Talk – After This [Official Music Video]
Master KG, Burma Boy, Nomcebo Zikode – Jerusalema
“Jerusalema” is a song by South African DJ and record producer Master KG featuring South African vocalist Nomcebo. The upbeat gospel-influenced house song was initially released on 29 November 2019 after it garnered positive response online, with a music video following on 21 December. The music video of the song has generated half a billion views on YouTube. It was later included on Master KG’s second album of the same title, released in January 2020.[1]
What is so interesting is the viral challenge the song has created
Some examples below
The #Jerusalemachallenge has finally arrived to Jerusalem! During these challenging times of social distancing we have all gathered to dance together, so we can reunite.
Holocaust survivors, elementary school students, youth from both east and west of Jerusalem, university students, and municipality workers along with the mayor, Moshe Lion. Watch how good we dance during times of social distancing ♥
#jerusalema #jerusalem #dance #challenge #happy #socialdistancing #viralvideo #15M #dancing
Master KG – Jerusalema Remix [Feat. Burna Boy and Nomcebo] (Official Music Video)
Jerusalema Challenge in Jerusalem!
Jerusalema Dance Challenge – Ärentunastallet Uppsala Sweden #jerusalemachallenge #horse #stable
Andy Shauf – Wasted on You
This is such a great sone – hard to believe he has eight albums out.
May 20, 2016 by ROBIN HILTON • Saskatchewan singer-songwriter Andy Shauf is the kind of guy you’d find laying low at a party, maybe tucked into the corner of a room with a drink in his hand, keeping to himself but taking everything in. He’s soft-spoken and reserved, more comfortable delivering the news than being a part of it (though “comfortable” may be too strong a word).
Shauf’s latest album is, appropriately enough, called The Party. It’s an emotionally remote collection of character studies and bent observations made during a gathering of drunken fools, smooth operators and the painfully self-aware.
Andy Shauf recently brought The Party to the NPR Music offices for this quietly affecting Tiny Desk performance. His set opens with “The Magician,” a song about a poser schmoozing his way through a crowd, followed by “To You,” a slightly comical but awkward confession of unrequited love. Shauf closes with the relatively propulsive “You’re Out Wasting,” a meditation on greed, selling out and late-night anxiety; it’s from his 2015 album The Bearer Of Bad News.
“Wasted On You” was the lead single for Andy Shauf’s eighth studio album, Norm. The lyrics are from the perspective of the Christian God, who asks nonbelievers upon their arrival to heaven “Was all my love wasted on you?” In A 2016 interview, Shauf says he grew up Christian but became nonreligious in his twenties. He has touched on religion before, such as on his 2022 single “Satan”, usually with a dry sense of humor.
Major tour – Ottawa – 04-28 Ottawa, Ontario – The Bronson Centre
Andy Shauf has announced a new album: Norm is due February 10 via Anti-. The Canadian singer-songwriter has also shared the lead single, “Wasted on You,” along with a music video directed by V Haddad. Check it out below.
Spanning 12 tracks, Norm follows Shauf’s surprise-release album Wilds from last year and 2020’s The Neon Skyline. He performs every instrument on the new LP himself and shaped the lyrics around an invented, eponymous person. “The character of Norm is introduced in a really nice way,” Shauf explained in a statement. “But the closer you pay attention to the record, the more you’re going to realize that it’s sinister.”
Shauf will hit the road early next year in support of Norm. His 2023 North American tour will kick off on February 21 in Columbus, Ohio and see him stop at major cities across the United States and Canada. Find the complete list of dates below.
Pitchfork = Andy Shauf Announces New Album Norm, Shares Video for Song “Wasted on You”: Watch
Fast Romantics unveiled new single & video for “Outta Love”
Just love this band – I think this is the first time we have featured them on our show. I have included a 2020 recording at the height of the Pandemic – interesting to see what we were doing just a few years ago. This is a great concert to watch if you have a few minutes.
Toronto-based, Fast Romantics have been waiting patiently for 2023. Since 2017 they’d been traveling as a six-piece band, fronted by Matthew Angus and Kirty, around North America as unrelenting road warriors. NPR had declared their hit Julia “triumphant,” and they found themselves unexpectedly in Apple Music’s top ten. In those ensuing years of touring and radio charting, they perfected a larger-than-life live show, endearing fans to their unique brand of irresistible pop hooks and frontman Matthew Angus’ personal and emotive approach to lyricism.
They returned with their first new music in three years via a big and buoyant new sing-along single, “Outta Love,” that cleverly serves up a sublime sleight of hand with cutting lyrical cynicism belying the celebratory chorus vocals and lush instrumentation. The accompanying video was directed and produced by Raven Shields at Cheval Studio.
Fast Romantics – “Outta Love” (Official Video)
Fast Romantics – “Live From a Pandemic” (Full Show, Live from Dakota Tavern)
Fast Romantics – “Live From a Pandemic” (Full Show, Live from Dakota Tavern)
On August 20, 2020, Fast Romantics faced an empty Dakota Tavern in Toronto, Canada. Lights went up, director Jared Raab started filming, and the result was broadcast live to hundreds of people streaming it from their houses and backyards.
It was the thick of the pandemic. No audiences allowed. But the band gathered some close friends to join them in celebrating the release of their also pandemically-released album “PICK IT UP.” A year later, we’re releasing the entire concert, uncut from its original live broadcast.
And here is a shorter a clip from the concert – Julia
Whole-Hearted 
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