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- New music: Panda Bear - Surfer's Hymn
Panda Bear's new album is finally scheduled for release. Here's a taster for it, a lush marriage of vocals, percussion and waves
Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox – one quarter of the Animal Collective line-up – has been working on the follow-up to his Person Pitch album for what seems like an eternity. Each new announcement about his fourth solo set seemed to arrive with a new release date, and despite tracks being released as 7in singles every so often, things seemed to have stalled. Now Tomboy finally has a set release date (11 April) and another new track is available, the typically lush-sounding Surfer's Hymn, which marries layers of distorted vocals with snatches of frenzied percussion and the literal sound of waves crashing against a shore. It's also been remixed by London-based DJ/producer Darren Cunningham, aka Actress, who strips out most of the vocals and creates a tribal dance cacophony.
Surfer's Hymn is out on the 28 March via Kompakt. You can hear the Actress remix here.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Elizabeth Taylor in London soundtrack danced to the rebel screen queen's tune
Composed by John Barry, the 1963 TV film's soundtrack is a fitting tribute to Hollywood's first rock'n'roll starlet
There are many reasons why Elizabeth Taylor was amazing and none of them are anything whatsoever to do with Michael Jackson. She was, in essence, the first rock star movie queen. She was more beautiful, more talented and more capricious than, well, anyone really. She also drank more, took more pills and slept with more unsuitable men. But whatever Taylor did, up to and including getting progressively older and more ragged, she did with incredible style. This, after all, is a woman who famously once ate a steak and kidney pie with one hand while wearing a 39-carat sapphire on the other.
In the summer of 1963, north-west London girl Liz – she was born in Hampstead to American parents – made a film about her home city for a coast-to-coast American TV broadcast. Called Elizabeth Taylor in London, the film was shot over five weeks and featured Liz wandering everywhere from the Albert Memorial to Limehouse docks wearing box-fresh Yves St Laurent, with amazing hair ("by Alexandre of Paris", no less) and ruby-rich lips a-quivering, reciting Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth Browning, Pitt and Churchill.
A critic at the time noted how viewers "saw a lot more of Miss Taylor's architecture than London's", but, what architecture! Oh yes, and she got $500,000 – equivalent to $3.5m (£1.8m) today – for doing it, which is the largest salary ever for a TV performance.
Interestingly, the hour-long film has an utterly brilliant soundtrack, with a score written by a 29-year-old John Barry and arranged by the awesome Johnnie Spence. Emmy-nominated on its release, Elizabeth Taylor in London is a truly fantastic record that pitches Barry's innate jazz cool up against Spence's super-lush orchestrations. A piece such as The Fire of London sounds more like a dapper-suited, Bond-in-peril moment than some (tinder) dry attempt to recreate the music of the 17th century, while London Theme, 48 years on, still trips, swings and sways (with a neat nod to Greensleeves) in a way that makes you feel glad to live in England, and a little sad if you don't.
A few years ago, a copy of this tremendous record would have cost serious money. Now, thanks to the restorative powers of internet technology, it'll cost you either nothing on Spotify, or next to nothing (it was recently re-released by Él Records).
If you're wondering how to honour the passing of one of the true greats (if not the two of them), then Elizabeth Taylor in London may be a good place to start. I'm listening to it right now while eating a delicious steak and kidney pie.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - The songs that inspired the Memory Band's new album
Stephen Cracknell, the leader of the Memory Band, presents his playlist of the music that sums up the sound of their third album, Oh My Days
Arthur Russell: I Couldn't Say It To Your Face
Arthur Russell's work has probably had the biggest lyrical influence on the Memory Band, especially in the way he combines mantra like chants and unflinching first person narratives such as this. I really like the way this song leads me to question who exactly are the I and You in the song, and what really happened in the story, rather than simply taking me to an emotional place with which I am supposed to empathise.Gabor Szabo: The Three King Fishers
One of the biggest influences on my guitar style has always been Gabor Szabo. I love the tone of his playing anda lot of our third album, Oh My Days, involved putting an acoustic guitar with a pickup through an amplifier in the way Gabor does.King Creosote: Curtain Craft
I've been fortunate to get to know many of the Fence Collective. You can't help but get excited by the breadth and quality of music produced in and around Anstruther. The arrangement on this song blows me away: the combination of horns and accordion is wonderful and the timing in the middle section sublime.Stevio Cipriani: La Polizia Sta A Guardere
I'm a big soundtrack listener, and like many people I'm probably drawn to them because of the diversity of moods and sounds . With the Memory Band I like to try to get the breadth that you get with a score – perhaps that's why I like to work with different combinations of voices. This is classic Italian fare from a master composer built around an amazing harpsichord loop.Son House: Grinnin' In Your Face
I don't always like a lot of blues, but that which I do I love very much and on I've found more and more blues influences creeping into what I do. Whether electric or acoustic, my favourite blues recordings have such an immense sense of space and are wonderfully direct.Steeleye Span: When I Was On Horseback
Just an incredible arrangement, although on our new album the influence of traditional music is perhaps less obvious than on the previous albums, it's an endless source of inspiration: songs washed smooth by time and tides still resonate today.Nancy Elizabeth: Feet Of Courage
Nancy is an incredible artist on the ever-interesting Leaf Label. I saw her perform this album solo just after it came out and it left a big impression upon me. She's so resourceful and her deftness of touch is stunning.Sébastien Tellier: La Ritournelle
Those drums with those strings are just about as good as it gets. We did this live at The Green Man festival last year as part of a new project called the Balearic Folk Orchestra, which I've started in conjunction with video director Kieran Evans. It has that uplifting, euphoric element that keeps drawing me back.Ellen McIlwaine: Can't Find My Way Home
From an amazing album called Honky Tonk Angel, this cover is my favourite version of a great song. With this album I've introduced more singers – such as Hannah Caughlin, Jess Roberts and Liam Bailey – who have a propensity to improvise around notes allowing a line to trip the light fantastic and really soar in similar ways to Ellen.Brian Eno: St Elmo's Fire
Two albums I listened to a lot while making the new record were John Cale's Paris 1919 and Brian Eno's Another Green World. I found myself responding very strongly to they way they both sing on these records and their unique ways with production and arrangements. I'm not really sure how that manifests itself on Oh My Days but I know it's there somewhere.Orange Juice: A Sad Lament
Towards the end of making the record I started work producing a young artist Pete Greenwood, and one of the first things we did was a cover of this song. It gave me a great excuse to go back and listen to a lot of Edwyn Collins's material – he was a big influence on my early forays into music. I listen to a lot of different music from various places and spaces and perhaps the one thing that runs through my taste is that I like a lot of idiosyncratic stuff, and Edwyn's music is certainly that.Rocketnumbernine: Matthew & Toby (Four Tet mix)
Throughout the making of the record a few other band members and I could often be found on the dancefloor at Kieran Hebden's residency at Plastic People, my favourite club in London. I'd often go straight there from mixing in the studio and I always coming away brimming with enthusiasm and excitement about music and particularly about rhythm, a huge factor in Oh My Days. Tom Page, who along with his brother Ben makes up Rocketnumbernine, also plays drums on most of our album. Although I don't make electronic music it has a profound impact on the everything the Memory Band does.Hear the full playlist on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/knockknock/playlist/6LWZ2ODoYnwXLxbds7ymAf
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Readers recommend: songs about criminals
This week we'd like you to suggest tunes about law-breakers, real and imaginary. What villains get your vote?
Last week we asked you to recommend songs about the police. This week, let's consider the law-breakers, without whom there'd be no police.
Since the dawn of time, outlaws have been romanticised by songwriters and musicians, even when their villainy is acknowledged. Because their actions blight the lives of their victims, and there's no such thing as a victimless crime.
We're not looking for songs about crime (we've done that), but songs about the perpetrators, real and imaginary. And we want the criminals, not the criminal acts.
There's a wealth of songs out there to be plundered – let's find the best of them. Leave your suggestions below.
The toolbox:
* This week's collaborative Spotify playlist
* The RR archive
* The Marconium (blog containing a wealth of data on RR)
* The 'Spill (blog for the RR community)
Please do:
* Post your nominations before midday on Tuesday if you wish them to be considered.
* Write a few lines advocating the merits of your choices.
But please don't:
* Post more than one-third of the lyrics of any song.
* Dump lists of nominations. If you must post more than two or three at once, please attempt to justify your choices.
Cut-out-and-keep guide to the strange words used by regular RR posters:
* Dond: To second another reader's nomination. Here's how the word was coined.
* Zedded: The song has already been included in an A-list (and so convention dictates it cannot be included in another one).
* Assfairy: A song that I have repeatedly failed to include in RR playlists, no doubt due to poor taste and judgment. Here are definitions offered by RR stalwarts Shoegazer and Pairubu.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine: Exclusive album stream
Your chance to hear the collaboration between two of our favourite Domino artists – Fife crooner King Creosote and electronic whizz Jon Hopkins
We've loved King Creosote for a goodly long while now, so imagine our delight when we found out he was teaming up with electronic whizz Jon Hopkins to make Diamond Mine. Featuring old (but unheard) Kenny Anderson songs delivered atop Hopkins's Eno-esque classical backdrops, this is a project done for the love of it and nothing else. How could you explain a series of songs that have been seven years in the making?
Anderson calls the project a "soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life
lived in a Scottish coastal village", and the pair have interspersed the music with various found sounds – from clinking cups to the chatter of female shop assistants.We think the result is rather moving – let us know below whether or not you agree that Diamond Mine is a gem.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - New music: Friendly Fires - Live Those Days Tonight
The first taster from the band's second album Pala is funky, summery pop with a spot of hands-in-the-air rave action
Hailing from St Albans and looking like three Uniqlo-sponsored librarians, it was something of an incongruity to witness Friendly Fires' 2009 NME awards show appearance in which they lead some scantily clad Brazilian dancers around the stage with gusto. Yet there's always been more to Friendly Fires than three blokes in chinos, with their self-titled debut working both as an initial rush of pure joy and an album that revealed more on repeated listens. After some protracted sessions for the follow-up, the band will finally release a new album, Pala, on 16 May. As a taster, they've debuted a new song, Live Those Days Tonight, on their website. Built around thumping piano chords and vibrant synth squiggles, it's a typically funky, summer-infused pop confection. Halfway through the whole thing drops out, some handclaps arrive and we're suddenly in the middle of a big "hands in the air" rave up – something that more indie bands should think about incorporating into their material.
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