Music Recommedation – davidbruceblog #2

“LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE was recorded at the same time as her albums with Louis Armstrong and in the midst of her epic ‘Songbooks’ project, celebrating the composers of the ‘Great American Songbook’ and Broadway. The album features only four songs written by the composers featured in her ‘Songbooks’, instead concentrating on very famous ballads by lesser known writers. Some songs on the album were also recorded with Louis Armstrong on the albums that they collaborated on. Stan Getz is featured on tenor sax on four tracks, including ‘Midnight Sun’ and ‘You’re Blasé.’ Ted Nash plays the alto sax and solos. Cover photos are by the great Phil Stern. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE was targeted at ‘people in love.’ But its real audience, then as now, was anyone who loves timeless songs impeccably sung. What was timeless in 1957 still is.”

Aaoka Ai, a fan, wrote, “‘Jazz is everything,’ I’ve heard said. I have no argument. Just listen to this perfectly sung and performed contemporary perfection.”

Price: £1 (GBP) for track; £5 (GBP) for 16-track album

Genre: Jazz.

Links:

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE

https://moochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com/album/like-someone-in-love

Moochin’ About

https://moochinaboutltd.bandcamp.com

Music Recommendation: Charlie Megira and The Bet She’an Valley Hillbillies — “Jack the Ripper” [Link Wray Cover]

BRUCE’S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC

Music: “Jack the Ripper” [Link Wray Cover]

Album: THE END OF TEENAGE

Artist: Charlie Megira and The Bet She’an Valley Hillbillies

Artist Location: Israel

Info: “The bastard love child of Elvis and Lux Interior, Israeli guitarist Charlie Megira brewed a heady amalgam of ’50s trash rock, surf tremolo, and reverb-drenched goth […]. Armed with only an Eko guitar, a black tuxedo, and his signature wrap-around shades, Charlie Megira was a mold-breaking artist who disintegrated while we were all staring at our phones.”

“Megira recorded and released several versions of THE END OF TEENAGE, all with his backing duo the Beth She’an Valley Hillbillies. Tracked between 2013-2015, Teenage finds bassist The Dead Girl and percussionist Corso locked into the same wave, with Megira tube riding between them with his sinewy guitar style. The surf eventually crumbles into madness. Teenage ends.”

“His was a music both familiar and entirely alien at once. It touches on corners of darkness, an isolation both lonely and sweet, all wrapped in a cold glow that draws the listener into each note, each melancholy melody triggering unrecorded experiences. His various projects put out music which began as a junction point between Link Wray’s surf guitar and the theatrical psychobilly of The Cramps, took a turn towards goth-inflected post-punk, and towards the end of his career would sojourn back into his earlier musical fascination with late 1950s and early 1960s rock ‘n’ roll.

“The Israeli guitarist recorded seven albums worth of material in 15 years during his all-too-brief 44 trips around the sun.”

Price: $1 (USD) for track; $5 (USD) for five-track album.”

Genre: Surf Instrumental

Links:

THE END OF TEENAGE

https://charliemegiranumero.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-of-teenage

Charlie Megira on Bandcamp

https://charliemegiranumero.bandcamp.com

Mudic Recommendation: The Courettes — “I Wanna to be Your Yoko Ono”

BRUCE’S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC

Music: “I Wanna to be Your Yoko Ono”

Album: MALOS MÚSICOS, PEORES PERSONAS [BAD MUSICIANS, WORST PEOPLE]

Artist: The Courettes

Artist Location: Aalborg, Denmark

Record Company: Bilardo Records

Record Company Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Info:

“BAD MUSICIANS, WORST PEOPLE is the first compilation of the Uruguayan independent label Bilardo Records. A two-sided seal that seeks to unify scenes. We are close and nothing better than being united so that everything grows.”

“MALOS MÚSICOS, PEORES PERSONAS is definitely a punk rock title, but this is garage music (and some punk). I can’t call the Courettes either bad musicians or bad people.” — Bruce