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- New music: Apache Beat – Another Day
The highlight of the Brooklyn quintet's chaotic new album is condensed into four minutes of new-age dance heaven
This New York-based quintet's debut album, Last Chants, is a bit all over the place. Most of the tracks seem to combine at least five different songs, taking in everything from afrobeat to post-punk to dance pop to the Swedish nose flute (that last one might be a lie). The highlight by a mile is Another Day, which on the album version stretches out to nearly seven glorious minutes. Well, that's not practical for a single release, so the fat's been trimmed and we're left with four and a half minutes of dreamy new-age dance complete with a psychedelic video based around vintage art house movies. Lovely.guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Переслать - John Prescott hears a great Rumer: 'She sang only one song but it moved me'
When the former deputy PM tweeted his approval of singer Rumer last night, we cheekily replied asking if he fancied blogging for us. Here, he praises a singer who set him on a journey down memory lane
Music has always played a big part in my life. When I travelled on the transatlantic run on the Cunard liners out of Liverpool [while working as a ship steward], I'd always go ashore in New York to find the latest pop or rock'n'roll track. As an 18-year-old in the mid-50s, I'd bring back singles like Elvis's Blue Moon and Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock six months before they were released over here – and even developed a bit of a reputation in Liverpool as a music insider!
But jazz and blues became my main love. I'll always remember going to the Apollo in Harlem to see Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, the legendary Miles Davis and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson – all for just $2.50. I was always drawn to blues and jazz because of female singers such as Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Sarah's In the Land of Hifi is a brilliant album and Billie had a very sad and plaintive voice, understandable when you think of the demons she faced.
Another was the southern belle Marion Montgomery – a truly brilliant singer who, with her husband Laurie Holloway, became a good friend to Pauline and I. Every year, Marion and Laurie would come and perform for all our friends at our New Year's Eve parties. She was taken from us far too soon and we still miss her – but her music lives on in my iPod.
Now these legendary singers – Marion, Ella, Sarah and Billie – will have a new neighbour on the Nano.
I know very little of Rumer. In fact it was only by chance that I came across her on Later ... with Jools Holland on BBC2 last night. She sang only one song but it moved me – right back to the 70s and the days of eight-track cartridges playing the likes of Karen Carpenter and Carole King.
She reminds me a lot of both singers, especially Karen. Like Billie Holiday, there was real sadness and longing in her voice as she sang Slow – a song about a woman having to suppress her emotions for fear of putting off a man.
What's more remarkable is her backstory. Rumer is no overnight sensation or X Factor wannabe. She has grafted in part-time and dead-end jobs for more than 10 years to keep her dream alive. If Slow is anything to go by, that struggle was not in vain and she's finally going to get the success she thoroughly deserves.
Burt Bacharach and Elton John have already become firm fans. Well, you can add me to that list. And I think you'll be next.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest: exclusive album stream
Your chance to hear the band's fourth album before it's released
The prolific Atlanta quartet return with Halcyon Digest, an album recorded largely in their native Georgia and featuring the moving track He Would Have Laughed, which is dedicated to recently deceased Memphis musician Jay Reatard. You can listen to the full album above. Share your thoughts below.
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