Fresh Air…new songs for your ears

detail of an original photo by fensterbme

What a month. Fresh Air has drawn to a close and I’m finding it hard to keep up my shopping list of new tracks I’ve heard over the month.  Here’s a list of most of the picks (roughly in order of how they were played from oldest to newest) with links to where you can find them online.

The link for the Artist will either go to their myspace, their own official site or a wikipedia page if they are older artists.  The link for the song will go to a youTube or streamed blog if I can find one…. Leave a comment if you’ve more info on any of them or you know where a missing link can be found

………………………………………………………………Hulk

Svarte Greiner (feat Kristin Evensen Giæver) -Raggsokk

Grouper - Giving it to You

Joanna Newsom – Esame (live)

………………………………………………………..Stefan Galt

Django Reinhardt

Chet Atkins &  Jerry Reid

Tommy Emmanuel – I’ve Always Thought of You

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

…………………………………………………………Katie Kim

Sibylle Baier – I Lost Something in the Hills

John Haggis - Bitter Root Hill

Mote/ The Bear People (aka Dave Grimes) – Static

…………………………………………………………..Deaf Joe

Susumu Yokota – Grinning Cat

Clogs - Pencil Stick

…………………………………………………….Spilly Walker

Washed Out - Feel it All Around

Madvillan - Accordion,

Dam-Funk - 10 West & Galactic Fun

CFCF - Summerlong

Feist & Grizzly Bear -  Service Bell

Nas- The World is Yours

Orbital - Impact (The Earth is Burning)

…………………………………………………..Goodtime John

Mount Eerie – Between Two Mysteries

Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones

…………………………………………………..Patrick Kelleher

Jackson C. Franck – October (played live by Patrick Kelleher)

Ariel Pink –

Ixchel – Clockwork Castles

Robert Rental – Double Heart

Terry Reid

Catscars - Dried

Patrick Kelleher -Wonder (Jape Remix)

…………………………………………………………..3epkano

Tindersticks – Kathleen

Karen Dalton – Something’s on your mind

Rachel Grimes – Mossgrove

Robert Wyatt – Sunday in Madrid (Donal)

Linda Perhacs – Chimacum Rain (Donal)

Cat Power – Colors & the Kids

Belljar – Swift to the Kill

…………………………………………………I am the Cosmos

Bill Fay - Maudy la Lune

Deadboy- U Cheated

Son Green (aka Matty Bulger from The Redneck Manifesto) The Soon Future

………………………………………………….Valerie Francis

Gal Costa - Baby

Wildbirds & Peacedrums – I Can’t Tell his Eyes

Biff Rose – Molly

The Roches – Hammond Song

Little Dragon – Twice

………………………………………………………Kevin Blake

Loops Haunt- Dusk Mechanics (Dusk Machines?)

Slugabed- Let’s go Swimming

Boxcutter – Arecibo Message

……………………………………………….Dark Room Notes

Phoenix - Love Like a Sunset part 1

Phantogram - When I’m Small

Depeche Mode - Wrong

Dark Room Notes remixes Treetops (Frenchie) & Elm (I Am The Cosmos) both avail on DRN myspace

………………………………………………………Si Schroeder

from Paul Lansky Idle Chatter (excerpt here or buy on iTunes)

Kraftwerk- Ruckzuck

Joe Meek - I hear a new world

Passengers - United Colours

Matmos- Supreme Balloon(incredibly detailed song-by-song explanation of the album of the same title here)

David Bowie - V2 schnieder

Somadrone - Cinders

Clark - Outside Plume

Chris Corsano (courtesy of Bryan O’Connell)

Silver Apples - Program

Sterolab

The Beatles – Strawberry Fields

Talk Talk -I Believe in You

The Unthanks - Sea Song (a Robert Wyatt song)

Bob Dylan -I Threw it all Away

Paul Simon - The Only Living Boy in New York

REM - We Walk

………………………………………………………..Sunken Foal

Leafcutter John - In the Morning

Oscar Sala on (the second new instrument Fresh Air has introduced me to) the trautonium

D’Arcangelo – Sinclair

Ceephax – Tranzbonse

………………………………………………………..Chequerboard

Bibio and Pierre Bastien for Relay

Bibio – Carosello Ellitico

Bark Psychosis - Bloodrush

………………………………………………………..Thread Pulls

Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed

Eyebrow -Desire Line

No Age - Genie

Antifamily - Work Cheap

Rainfear

Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns

Pianocircus (featuring Bill Bruford)

Jubilee Allstars- Please Don’t Give up on Me

Highlife - F Kenya RIP

………………………………………………………..Jimmy Behan

Molly Berg & Stephen Vitiello -  Variation 3 (from The Gorilla Variations)

Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek , Christopher (for Suzanne)

His Name is Alive- Send My face to Your Funeral

Autistici- Resonating Wire

Off the Sky (with Darren McClure)- Once, When we Used To

………………………………………………………..R.S.A.G

Howlin’ Wolf - Smokestack Lightening

Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy

Tom Waits- Lie to Me

The Clash, Bank Robber

And a few more tracks that’s Donal’s been playing a lot all month that I’m loving:

Wave Machines - Keep the Lights On

Joe Goddard – Harvest Festival including this great Four Tet Remix

Gold Panda

D.M. Stith- Be My Baby (cover)

lots of Joy Orbison tracks especially his remix of Jose James’ Blackmagic and his Four Tet remix:

-aoife

If you want to buy any of the above try Road Records (great delivery service in Ireland and great at sourcing things if they don’t have it in stock) or City Discs or if you need a quick fix lots (even the old ones) are on iTunes. Most artist sites have buying info on them too.

To listen back to any of the shows that featured the above tracks go HERE>

Limerick here we come

We’ve had a hell of a month with this Fresh Air Festival thing, and we are rolling into Limerick on Sunday 6th to end it all with great aplomb. We’re working with one of our MOST favourite promoters 8Ball, who have hooked us up with an incredible space for the gig, in the shape of Daghdha’s Dance Space at St. John’s.  We are going to end in real style, with venue visuals, and live visuals, from Donal Dineen (and some disc spinning too of course) and live performances from Katie Kim, Deaf Joe Harney and James Yorkston.  Could we be happier? No, no we could not.

Katie Kim has been artist in residence for the whole live tour and has given a different gig in each venue, each one surpassing the last. Never have I seen an audiences so transfixed by a group of musicians than I have with this lot; it’s like a spell has been cast and people are afraid even to clap to break the spell. Deaf Joe Harney is one of that stellar crew, but also records his own work and we’re delighted to have him take to the stage with some solo numbers to open the evening.  You can get a preview of his work through his Fresh Air Radio Session here>

We are privileged to welcome our only oversees artist to Fresh Air in the shape of the outstanding James Yorkston.  A guitar player/singer from the east neuk of fife James Yorkston is signed to domino records and makes outstanding music. This is a rare solo performance from James ( Read our previous blog post on James’ to get more info )and we’ve seen him many times before but he never fails to impress- and then some.  Really, we cannot recommend this bill highly enough.

It kicks off early though- it being a Sunday and all, so doors are 7pm.  Tickets are €12 if you buy them in advance (€15 on the door so it’s smart to get in early) which you can do from the uch box office here.

sculpting the sound – R.S.A.G

Jeremy Hickey- aka R.S.A.G (Rarely Seen Above Ground) dropped in to conclude Fresh Air on Nov 30th, chatting to Donal about making music, and making his new album in particular.  He’s had a great year, with his Choice Music Prize nominated double album Organic Sampler taking him to some top live gigs up and down the country.

Fresh Air got an exclusive first listen to four of the album tracks, with Jeremy bringing in the lead single Be it Right or Wrong to get the night started. Heavily swing influenced it’s likely to be the title track for the new album which is due in the new year.  He talked about working with Leo Pearson in his Thomastown studio, teaching kids the drums and some of his earliest rock and blues influences.

We were treated to three more new R.S.A.G tracks, all played live, including The Bitter Swing, Make and Time on Trial (with N.C.Lawlor on pedal steel duties on the album track)

Jeremy brought in The Clash - Bank Robber , a relatively new discovery, and some cracking tracks that point to some clear blues, rock and vocal influences for R.S.A.G’s sound: Howlin’ Wolf with Smokestack Lightening, Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy, and Tom Waits- Lie to Me.

LISTEN BACK to the full Fresh Air show here> (or if that page isn’t updated yet head on over here and look for Tuesdays show- part one and two)

Listen to R.S.A.G on myspace>