This week, music from
Honest Heart Collective – North American Dream
Elwins – Take Me all the Way
Valley –There’s Still a Light in the House – see them below
Born Ruffians – Waylaid
US Girls – And Yet It Moves / Y Se Mueve
Not Our First Goat Rodeo – Yo Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile
Future Islands, Plastic Beach
July Talk – The News
What do two old fellas – Bob Kennedy and Paul McGuire listen to when they want new music? Each week we bring you some samplings of new music produced after 2015. There’s lots of great material out there and for an hour each week, we spin some tunes and talk about pretty cool stuff. All on VoicEd Radio!
our opening on Spreaker
Some notes on where to find us.
Our ever-growing Spotify playlist is here.
You can find us on Spreaker here
And episode 2 can be heard LIVE on VoicEd Radio at 8:00 pm on Saturdays.
We plan to add some fun notes, not complete, at the end of each week of looking for new music. This seems like a good place to leave some of what we have talked about and discovered over the past week.
After two weeks, Bob Kennedy and I have played eight songs that are all newer than 2015 – this is the main criteria for choosing a sone.
All of this is possible because of the continuing encouragement of Stephen Hurley and VoicEd Radio. It has been a bit of a technical journey, putting two people together on radio from different locations with music chosen by both is quite the challenge!
So, this post is mainly about the music and stuff we talked about during the episode.
My first choice was US Girls
US Girls was my first choice. The song I chose was And Yet It Moves / Y Se Mueve, but it could have been
4 American Dollars – this is a great song too, very different style, really great sound. Hard to choose which one to play.
U.S. Girls is a Toronto-based band formed in 2007, consisting solely of American musician and record producer Meghan Remy. She had released music on a variety of independent record labels before signing to 4AD in 2015.[3]
Half Free, her first record for 4AD, was released the same year.[4] It garnered a Juno Award nomination for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2016,[5] and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize.[6]Remy collaborates with a number of Toronto-based musicians on both songwriting and music production.
notes from Wikipedia
Their video is really worth watching to see how these great musicians play together.
The album – Not Our First Goat Rodeo, is their second project, following The Goat Rodeo Sessions.
A got Rodeo is an interesting term and I think you can see an example of this in the video. The term is an aviation term that means that 100 things need to go right to avoid disaster. This is beautiful playing and the video really shows why their releases are so popular.
The Los Angelas describes this best:
There can be little doubt that the greatest composer ever would have been unfazed hearing his music played by a trio of cello, mandolin and bass, as Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer did at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday night. Five years ago the three took part in what became known as “The Goat Rodeo Sessions,” unlikely musicians on unlikely instruments in concerts and on bestselling recordings that were part blues, part bluegrass and a smidgen of Bach. Although sometimes slang for hapless chaos, for everything that can go wrong going wrong, a goat rodeo can also imply that out of pandemonium can come something new.
Los Angeles Times May 5, 2017
The next track is Plastic Beach by Future Islands. The song has some really great lyrics by Samuel T. herring:
I spent a lifetime in the mirror
Picking apart, what I couldn’t change
Now I see, I see tomorrow
I see, I see tomorrow
I see, I see tomorrow
I see, I see tomorrow
I see, I see tomorrow
What you saw today
This is accompanied by some really striking vocals. You can see them best on stage with David Letterman in 2014. This incredible performance by Herring was a sensation several years ago. Watch it and you will see why.
We choose five songs each for an episode, but we never get beyond four. My last choice was July Talk, an incredible Toronto Band known for dynamic live shows. The dramatic play between vocalists Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay is incredible. Again, seeing is believing.
The band has a new album out and I chose one track, The news which is great, but unfortunately only features Leah Fay. I would suggest listening to Push + Pull or Guns + Ammunition. They have an interesting use of the + symbol, but you will have to listen to our broadcast to find out more about that!
More notes – Bob mentions a site for music that has been around for a long time, again, news to me, but I am adding this to one of the places I need to go now every week – Aquarium Drunkard – how could you not love a name like that!
Screen shot from Aquarium Drunkard
You will also hear a reference To Never Repeated, a Spotify playlist – you can find it here.
If you want to hear the whole show, you can find it here
Whole-Hearted 