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Listed: Tomten

Photo: Tony Kay

Tomten are a baroque pop quartet based out of Seattle, Washington. Brian Noyes (vocals, keys, guitar) and Lena Simon (bass, vocals) (Kairos Creature Club, formerly of La Luz) met in 2008 and began demoing each other's songs at Cornish College of The Arts. Their latest album, Artichoke, is less prickly than the name suggests, drawing influence from the acid folk of the Incredible String Band, Bridget St. John and John Martyn, the lushly arranged soul of the Delfonics and the country pop of Gene Clark. Jennifer Kelly wrote about the disc in the last Dust, noting that “Tomten’s songs billow and swell in that frictionless, effortless way that often indicates great care and craft.”

Here Brian Noyes digs deep into the archives via two compilation series. He writes, “There are two compilation labels that have meant a lot to me over the past few years, Grapefruit Records is a subsidiary of Cherry Red and issue primarily British Psych and Folk, and Cairo releases incredible 1960s-1970s soul comps. I decided to pick five of my favorite tracks that Grapefruit and Cairo turned me onto.”

Jackie McAuley — “Turning Green”

I was familiar with Jackie McAuley being the former keyboard player of Them and the other half of the amazing and underappreciated folk pop duo Trader Horne with Judy Dyble (Fairport Convention.) But I wasn’t familiar with any solo work he had done. This song instantly stuck with me. I love the string arrangements and stately piano. In an alternate universe it could’ve been at the end of a 1970s Hal Ashby or Robert Altman movie.

Carolanne Pegg — “Open The Door”

I could listen to this song over and over, it’s so fun. I love Carolanne’s vocals on it, kind of shrill and mystical, like proto-Kate Bush. I also love the cosmic banjo rush during the later chorus and the throaty guitars.

Matching Mole — “O Caroline”

I’ve always loved Robert Wyatt, but I’d missed out on his earlier group Matching Mole. This is such a sweet and touching song. I love the mellotron and wah guitar and the line — “if you call this sentimental crap, you’ll make me mad.” Gotta love Robert Wyatt’s wooly little voice.

Robin Williamson — Strings In The Earth and Air

This is the opening track off his 1972 solo record “Myrrh.” Strangely enough, I first heard Dr. Strangely Strange’s cover of it — I love both but prefer Robin’s. Such a haunting and beautiful song. I believe the first half is part of a James Joyce poem. I want it played at my funeral… I also love Mike Heron’s solo record from a year or so earlier, Smiling Men with Bad Reputations. Two over-looked solo efforts from the Incredible String Band.

Heron — “Take Me Back Home”

Tomten has loved Heron for a long time, so much so that we covered their tune “Yellow Roses.” They are all over Grapefruit Comps, so I wanted to include them for that reason. This song is off their second record Twice as Nice & Half the Price and it is my absolute favorite. It’s such a loose and lovely performance. Makes you wish you’d been hanging out in the house with them having some frothy ales.

Bettye Swann — “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye”

Bettye Swann has so many killer songs, this one really sticks with me. Great morning song. Love the production and backups too. John Holt has a cool version on A Love I Can Feel as well, but Bettye is best.

Diamonettes — “Don’t Be Surprised”

Great tune from a somewhat obscure Miami group. Classy strings. They also have another tune I love called “Rules Were Made to Be Broken.”

The Raelettes — “Many Rivers To Cross”

A fantastic song and so many good versions, Jimmy Cliff and Nilsson… But I hadn’t heard this version until semi-recently and I love the mood of it — somber smokey horns. The Raelettes were backup singers with Ray Charles for a time, and later changed their name to The Cookies.

Eddie & Ernie — “I’m A Young Man”

I LOVE EDDIE & ERNIE! Their voices together are fabulous, this is one of my favorites. There is an awesome comp called “Time Waits For No One” everyone should go out and buy now!

The Ordells — “Sippin’ a Cup of Coffee”

A good song for ruminating… Eerie, dreamy and gorgeous.

Various Artists — Strange World

On a final note, there is a compilation by a partner label of Cairo, Pyramid Records that did a release called Strange World described as “Cosmic and Earthly Doo Wop and R&B from America and Jamaica” that if you come across you should absolutely purchase. I probably play it at home once a week, hehe.

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Audio & Playlist for June 22, 2020: Doors

Songs about doors! Special 3 hour version.

link to downloadable audio Playlist: Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening theme song) Jimmie & Vella - The Door is Open - Jimmie & Vella

DJ speaks over The Living Strings - When Love Comes Knockin' at Your Door

The Monkees - The Door into Summer - Pisces Aquarius Capricorn and Jones Ltd The Velvet Underground - Temptation Inside Your Heart - VU Jimmy Hughes - What Side of the Door - I Like Everything About You / What Side Of The Door Shopping - Knocking - Why Choose

DJ speaks over Wynder K. Frog - The Green Door

Can - Outside My Door - Monster Movie Mississippi John Hurt - Keep on Knockin' - The Immortal The Ramones - You Should Never Have Opened That Door - Leave Home Serge Gainsbourg - Un Violon un Jambon - Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garçon Gregory Isaacs - Front Door - More Gregory St. John Green - Help Me Close the Door - St. John Green The Fall - My Door Is Never - Reformation - Post TLC

DJ speaks over John Barry - Doors & Bikes & Things

The Fruit Eating Bears - Door in My Face - Door in My Face The Humane Society - Knock, Knock - Knock, Knock / Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips With Me Hank Locklin - Kiss on the Door - My Kind of Country Music Discharge - The Possibility of Life's Destruction - See Nothing Hear Nothing Say Nothing The Wolfgang Press - Shut That Door - Bird Wood Cage

Little Richard - Keep a Knockin' - Little Richard Lithics - Edible Door - Mating Surfaces Daddy Cleanhead & the Chuck Higgins Band - Something's Goin' on in My Room - Something's Goin' On In My Room / Let Me Come Back Home Alice Cooper - Don't Knock at My Door (live) - Demo Sons of the Pioneers - Hard Times Come Again No More - Hard Times Come Again No More Fugazi - Shut the Door - Repeater The Misunderstood - Find a Hidden Door - Before the Dream Faded

The Sisters of Mercy - Poison Door - Walk Away / Poison Door Fairport Convention - Close the Door Lightly When You Go - Heyday: The BBC Sessions Door Chain PSA Darrell Banks - Open the Door to Your Heart - Open the Door to Your Heart/Our Love (Is in the Pocket) Bee Gees - Close Another Door - Bee Gees 1st Jim Lowe - The Green Door - The Green Door

Patsy - The Red Door - LA Women The Primates - Knock on My Door - Knock On My Door / She Posies - Definite Door - Definite Door The Lollipop Shoppe (The Weeds) - Don't Close the Door on Me - Just Colour

Gil Scott-Heron - No Knock Jack McVea - Open the Door, Richard - Open The Door Richard! / Lonesome Blues Thee Hydrogen Terrors - The Enemy Mancini - Terror, Diplomacy and Public Relations Phil Ochs - Knock on the Door - All the News That's Fit to Sing The Clash - Jail Guitar Doors - Clash City Rockers/Jail Guitar Doors Doom - War on Our Doorstep - Bury The Debt Not The Dead / No Security The Romantics - Open Up Your Door - In Heat Derek - Back Door Man - Back Door Man / Sell Your Soul

Ford Eaglin - That Certain Door - That Certain Door/By the Water Alice Donut - The Chicken Door - Nadine Harry Nilsson - At My Front Door - Son of Schmilsson Richard and the Young Lions - Open Up Your Door - Open Up Your Door/Once Upon Your Smile Carolanne Pegg - Open the Door - Carolanne

Velvet Underground - After Hours - The Velvet Underground The Isley Brothers - I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door - Turn to Me/I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door  The Ex & Tom Cora - A Door - Scrabbling at the Lock The Carter Family - Are You Lonesome Tonight - The Original Carter Family From 1936 Radio Transcripts Otis Redding - Open the Door The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) / Open The Door 

Betty Davis - Shut Off the Light - Nasty Gal

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CAROLANNE PEGG Carolanne Pegg. Rare 1973 UK 11-track LP on Transatlantic with the colour logo design one side, a bewitching solo album with Psychedelic touches from half of the British Folk duo Mr. Fox, featuring Keith Nelson on Banjo, Dave Peacock on Bass, Michael Lavelle on Cello, Albert Lee on Guitar, Paul Rowan on Mouth Harp & Alan Eden on Percussion, front laminated gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics across the inner spread. The sleeve shows minimal age wear & the vinyl grades EX/EX- with just a few faint hairlines to show play. Available from https://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=599775 #eildotcom #eil #records #vinyl #rarerecords #rarelps #rock #folk #carolannepegg

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【今日の到着物件】 「Let The Electric Children Play: The Underground Story Of Transatlantic Records 1968-1976 - V.A.」が HMV より届く。大好きな「Transatlantic Label」のコンピレーション3枚組箱物行政。意外と知らない物も有ったりして良い買い物。内容は以下の通り。 DISC ONE: 1. WE CAN SWING TOGETHER – Alan Hull 2. II B.S. – Circus 3. MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S HAPPENING- The Sallyangie 4. LIGHT FLIGHT – Pentangle 5. BILLY THE MONSTER – The Deviants 6. PAINT IT BLACK – Jody Grind 7. NORWEGIAN WOOD – Circus 8. OBADIAH’S GRAVE – Alan Hull 9. LUCIFER’S CAGE – Gordon Giltrap 10. ONCE I HAD A SWEETHEART – Pentangle 11. METAMORPHOSIS EXPLOSION – The Deviants 12. SATURDAY ROUNDABOUT SUNDAY (SINGLE VERSION) – The Humblebums 13. MAKIN’ TIME – Little Free Rock 14. MONA (A FRAGMENT) – Mick Farren 15. PLASTIC SHIT – Jody Grind DISC TWO: 1. ALL IN YOUR MIND – Stray 2. BORN TO BE FREE – Marsupilami 3. WE’VE HAD IT – Jody Grind 4. MICE AND RATS IN THE LOFT – Jan Dukes De Grey 5. HOMAGE TO THE GOD OF LIGHT – Peter Bardens 6. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS – Stray 7. MENDLE – Mr. Fox 8. PRELUDE TO THE ARENA – Marsupilami 9. DON’T EVER GIVE UP TRYING – Unicorn 10. REFLECTION – Pentangle 11. SKIN VALLEY SERENADE – Skin Alley DISC THREE: 1. TEAR DOWN THE WALL – Peter Bardens 2. SON OF THE FATHER – Stray 3. DON’T COUNT ME OUT – Gerry Rafferty 4. NICK’S SEVEN – Skin Alley 5. SONG FROM THE 4th ERA – CMU 6. A DISTANT THOUGHT, A POINT OF LIGHT – CMU 7. THE UNGODLY – Decameron 8. FAIR FORTUNE’S STAR – Carolanne Pegg 9. MOVE IT (SINGLE VERSION) – Stray 10. SHELTER – Renia 11. OPENING MOVE – Gryphon 12. JOURNEY’S END – Decameron 13. CRIMINAL WORLD – Metro (Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

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HOUSE & LAND + CAROLE PEGG + DYLAN GOLDEN AYCOCK

Sun 8th Oct @ The Blue Moon, Norfolk St Doors 7:30, £6 adv from here

HOUSE & LAND

The duo of Sally Anne Morgan and Sarah Louise Henson hail from North Carolina. Both known in other contexts (Sally as fiddle player in The Black Twig Pickers, Sarah as 12-string guitarist whose debut was released on VDSQ Records), they started playing together after discovering a mutual interest in the same very specific forms of traditional and avant-garde music.

The material on their debut, released on Thrill Jockey, is drawn from traditional southern hymns and Appalachian ballads that originated in England and elsewhere hundreds of years ago. However, they choose to link that tradition’s startling microtonal harmonies and drone styles with the avant-garde minimalism of composers such as Tony Conrad, Éliane Radigue and Pauline Oliveros. In this context, repetition is linked to music from across the spectrum that evokes trance and other spiritual states.

Experiencing their sparse and unadorned use of close vocal harmony and acoustic instrumentation in a live setting will make for an eerie and uncanny evening, especially in the intimate surroundings of The Blue Moon.

http://www.sallyannemorgan.com/house--land.html

CAROLE PEGG

We are beyond thrilled to announce that Carole Pegg, fiddle-player and singer of early 70s acid-folk legends Mr. Fox, will be performing a rare solo set as part of this evening's bill. Her raw and wayward singing and playing style is an acknowledged influence on House & Land, and it's a privilege to be able to put them in the same room together for the first time. Between 1970 and 1972, Mr. Fox recorded two albums of dark electric folk, whose themes of witchcraft and the rural occult are discussed at length in Rob Young's 'Electric Eden'. After they disbanded, Carole recorded a single solo album 'Carolanne', before moving on to study ethnomusicology. She is currently Faculty Member at the University of Cambridge, specialising in the Tuvan music and shamanic culture of Inner Mongolia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Fox

DYLAN GOLDEN AYCOCK

Oklahoma native Dylan Golden Aycock plays solo guitar emerging from the traditions of the southern Midwest. His recordings weave ambient, experimental, and classical influences into the fabric of traditional American musical styles: flecks of country and blues appear, but they mutate into enveloping soundscapes that go far beyond those genres’ tropes. Aycock respectfully expands on his Takoma-school roots by moving towards the sort of chamber folk compositions and cinematic instrumentals that aligns him more with contemporaries such as Marisa Anderson, William Tyler and Chuck Johnson.

In addition to his musical activities, Aycock also runs the Scissor Tail Editions label, offering a distinctive brand of existential suburban Americana through recent word-of-mouth albums from the likes of Nadia Reid, Wes Tirey and Scott Hirsch. He was also instrumental in the re-release of Bruce Langhorne’s cult soundtrack to ‘The Hired Hand’ album, and oversaw an extraordinary tribute album to Bruce released earlier this year.

https://dylangoldenaycock.com/ http://www.scissortailrecords.com/

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