NEW NOISE show 57 : the most comprehensive music (Featuring The Walking Trees, Dot Allison, Devo, Elvis Costello, Nerina Pallot and Sparks)

Coming this FRIDAY July 30 / 3pm PST

NEW NOISE w/ Alexander Laurence (The Portable Infinite) 

ONE HOUR ALL NEW MUSIC SHOW

ALWAYS NEW MUSIC KEEP YOUR DISTANCE

This coming Friday at 3pm Pacific Time, Alexander Laurence’s 

cutting edge 1-hour radio show, 

New Noise will broadcast live on RadioKAJW on Live365.

July 30 2021, Friday at 3pm PST. All new music and some old favorites 

for a great electronic disco party.

Live Streaming: https://live365. com/station/RadioKAJW-a51134

Listen to previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infinitealexander/

Featuring The Walking Trees, Dot Allison, Devo, Elvis Costello, Nerina Pallot and Sparks

NEW NOISE show 57 playlist

Friday July 30th 2021 3pm

RADIO KAJW + PORTABLE INFINITE

part one
1. APTBS "Playing The Part"
2. THE WALKING TREES "Don't Ask Me Why"
3. DEVO "Be Stiff"
4. DOT ALLISON "Love Died In Our Arms"
5. WILLOW + AVRIL LAVIGNE "GROW" (feat Travis Barker)
6. ELVIS COSTELLO "Pump It Up" (feat Juanes)
7. ULTRASOUND "Aire & Calder"

part two
8. SPARKS "So May We Start"
9. NERINA PALLOT "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (cover)
10. NINA KRAVIZ "Skyscrapers"
11. NILUFER YANYA "The Florist"
12. GONE TO COLOR "Illusions" (Feat Ade Blackburn)
13. DESERTA "Save Me"
14. ALLISON RUSSELL "Joyful Motherfucker"

PORTABLE INFINITE LINKS:

Website: http://portable- infinite.blogspot.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ portinfinite

Instagram: https://www. instagram.com/portable_ infinite/

RADIO KAJW Twitter: https://twitter.com/ radiokajw

unreleased George Harrison outtake "Isn't It Such A Pity" (Take 27) from legendary 'All Things Must Pass'

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED GEORGE HARRISON OUTTAKE “ISN’T IT A PITY” (TAKE 27) FROM LEGENDARY ALL THINGS MUST PASS SESSIONS OUT TODAY   TRACK FEATURED ON UPCOMING ALL THINGS MUST PASS 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION DUE AUGUST 6 VIA CAPITOL/UMe   WATCH/SHARE VIDEO FOR “ISN’T IT A PITY” (TAKE 27)   ANNIVERSARY EDITION RECEIVES PERFECT SCORES IN BOTH MOJO AND UNCUT

Pre-Order All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary Edition Watch/Share Album Trailer Watch/Share Lyric Video For “Cosmic Empire” Watch/Share “Run Of The Mill” (Take 36) Video Listen/Share “All Things Must Pass” (2020 Mix)   Recorded and released in the wake of The Beatles’ April 1970 dissolution, George Harrison’s landmark solo album, All Things Must Pass, is a fully realized statement by a bold and audacious artist. Co-produced by Harrison and Phil Spector, the 23-track All Things Must Pass stands tall a half-century later as an epic, ambitious expression of Harrison’s remarkable gift for sheer songcraft, powerful spirituality, and a celebration of both his inimitable individuality and unique camaraderie with his fellow musicians.   One of Harrison’s most beloved songs, “Isn’t It A Pity,” which features twice on the original 1970 triple album with two uniquely different versions, is presented on the upcoming 50th-anniversary edition of the album in three additional incarnations, which have never been released – the original studio demo and two outtakes. While the demo allows listeners to hear how fully developed the song was melodically in its earliest form, Take 27 provides an exciting insight into Harrison’s creative process and the different arrangements and instrumentation attempted in pursuit of the perfect take. Released today and accompanied by a surrealistic, painterly, animated video, directed by Alan Bibby and Jonny Kofoed of New Zealand-based creative house, Assembly, “Isn’t It A Pity (Take 27)” is more akin in spirit to Version 2 on the original album with a slightly slower tempo and a simple, but exquisite, arrangement.   WATCH/SHARE VIDEO FOR “ISN’T IT A PITY” (TAKE 27)   “Isn’t It A Pity” (Take 27) is one of 17 outtakes included alongside the two days worth of studio demos being released for the first time in honor of five decades of All Things Must Pass on the new 50th anniversary Super Deluxe Edition box set, due August 6 via Capitol/UMe.   Decades in the making and lovingly crafted by the Harrison family, All Things Must Pass has now been completely remixed from the original tapes for a stunning suite of 50th-anniversary releases that fulfills Harrison’s longtime desire. Executive produced by Dhani Harrison and mixed by triple GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Paul Hicks (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, John Lennon), with the product produced by David Zonshine, the new mix transforms the album by sonically upgrading it - making it sound brighter, fuller and better than ever before. In their perfect 10/10 review, Uncut wrote, “This new mix updates his finest work for today, in greater detail than ever before, while still managing to retain the atmosphere that binds these 106 minutes together.” Mojo’s equally perfect review raved, “The original mix’s misty distance has gone, replaced with clarity and definition that Harrison and Spector didn’t achieve (or seek) the first time around. Previously, one had to, like Spector during the playbacks, turn it up very loud to get the full effect. Not anymore. These mixes come to you.”   All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary Edition will be available in a variety of formats:   SUPER DELUXE EDITION The Super Deluxe Edition box set, presented on 8LP (180g) or 5CD + 1 Blu-ray audio disc, explores the 1970 album sessions through 47 (42 previously unreleased) demos and outtakes. The Blu-ray allows fans to experience the main album in a high-res stereo, enveloping 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Atmos mixes. The collection contains a beautiful 60-page scrapbook curated by Olivia Harrison, with unseen imagery and memorabilia from the era, handwritten lyrics, diary entries, studio notes, tape box images, a comprehensive track-by-track, and more. It also includes a replica of the original album poster.   All Things Must Pass will be released in multiple physical and digital configurations, including as a 5LP or 3CD Deluxe Edition that pairs the main album with the session's outtakes and jams. The main album will be available on its own as 2CD, 3LP, or limited edition 3LP color vinyl. All versions are available for pre-order now. UBER DELUXE EDITION Exclusive to GeorgeHarrison.com, uDiscover, and Sound of Vinyl, All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary Edition will be available as a very limited Uber Deluxe Edition box set, which includes the album on 8LP (180g) and 5CD + 1 Blu-ray audio disc housed in an artisan designed wooden crate (approx. 12.4” X 12.4” X 17.5”). The collection explores the 1970 album sessions through 47 (42 previously unreleased) demos and outtakes, offering an inside look into the creative process. The Blu-ray allows fans to experience the main album in a high-res stereo, enveloping 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Atmos mixes.   The crate contains two books, an elaborate and expanded 96-page scrapbook curated by Olivia Harrison, with unseen imagery and memorabilia from the era, handwritten lyrics, diary entries, studio notes, tape box images, a comprehensive track-by-track, and more; while a second 44-page book, curated by Harrison archivists Don Fleming and Richard Radford, chronicles the making of All Things Must Pass through extensive archival interviews with notes is also contained herein. The elegantly designed book pays homage to Harrison’s love of gardening and nature. The book also contains a wooden bookmark made from a felled Oak tree (Quercus Robur) in George’s Friar Park. This truly unique box will also contain 1/6 scale replica figurines of Harrison and the gnomes featured on the iconic album cover, a limited edition illustration by musician and artist Klaus Voormann, as well as a copy of Paramahansa Yogananda’s “Light from the Great Ones” and Rudraksha beads, contained in individual custom-made boxes.    "Since the 50th-anniversary stereo mix release of the title track to my father’s legendary All Things Must Pass album in 2020, my dear pal Paul Hicks and I have continued to dig through mountains of tapes to restore and present the rest of this newly remixed and expanded edition of the album you now see and hear before you,” says Dhani Harrison. “Bringing greater sonic clarity to this record was always one of my father’s wishes and it was something we were working on together right up until he passed in 2001. Now, 20 years later, with the help of new technology and the extensive work of Paul Hicks we have realized this wish and present to you this very special 50th Anniversary release of perhaps his greatest work of art. Every wish will be fulfilled."   Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the War and Peace of rock and roll” and “an intensely personal statement and a grandiose gesture,” All Things Must Pass was met by unanimous critical acclaim and spectacular commercial success, spending seven weeks at #1 on Billboard’s “Top LPs” chart and eight weeks atop the UK’s official albums chart (though chart records until 2006 mistakenly stated that it had peaked at #4). Currently certified 6x platinum by the RIAA, All Things Must Pass later received a 1972 GRAMMY® Award nomination for “Album of the Year,” while “My Sweet Lord” earned a GRAMMY® nod for “Record of the Year.” “What Is Life,” the album’s second single, also became an international hit, reaching the top 10 in the US and Canada as well as #1 in Australia and Switzerland.   All Things Must Pass has only grown in influence and stature in the half-century since its initial release, including induction in the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame and inclusion on The Times of London’s “The 100 Best Albums of All Time” and Rolling Stone’s 2020 listing of “The Top 500 Albums of All Time.” Pitchfork declared it to have “changed the terms of what an album could be.”   GEORGE HARRISON ALL THINGS MUST PASS SUPER DELUXE EDITION (Capitol/UMe) RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 6, 2021

'ALAN VEGA AFTER DARK' / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ALBUM AVAILABLE ON IN THE RED RECORDS

'ALAN VEGA AFTER DARK'

A LATE NIGHT ROCK 'N' ROLL SESSION WITH BEN VAUGHN, BARB DWYER & PALMYRA DELRAN

 

PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ALBUM OUT TODAY

ON CD, VINYL & ALL DSPS THROUGH IN THE RED RECORDS

 

LISTEN TO 'HI SPEED ROLLER'

 

 

 

Alan Vega After Dark

 

2021 is shaping up to be the year of Alan Vega. Every year should be but, this year is definitely it. The announcement of the opening of the Alan Vega archives, which will be unleashing an untold amount of unreleased material dating back to 1971 via Sacred Bones, the release of Mutator (a lost album from the mid 90’s) which has gained rave reviews, a massive feature in the New York Times…Alan has been celebrated everywhere of late. In The Red is over the moon to participate in this celebration with the release of Alan Vega After Dark - an album that captures a late night rock n’ roll session with Alan backed by Ben Vaughn, Barb Dwyer and Palmyra Delran (all members of the incredible Pink Slip Daddy as well as countless other cool projects). This album serves as a reminder that Alan Vega was an incredible rock n’ roll/blues/rockabilly vocalist. He was one of the best.

 

From the desk of Jason P. Woodbury:

 

I only spoke with Alan Vega once. It was over the phone and the topic of discussion was the 2015 reissue of Cubist Blues, the phenomenally out there album he’d originally released with collaborators Alex Chilton and Ben Vaughn in 1996. I was in a noisy stadium for reasons that no longer matter at all, on a cell phone, but even with all that extra noise considered, Alan was exceptionally difficult to understand. At first at least. He’d suffered a stroke a few years earlier, in 2012, which still had lingering effects on his speech. But even before that, his heavy East Coast accent had sometimes made him hard to decipher, lending his voice the character of “a cab driver describing fine art,” Vaughn says. If you weren’t from New York—specifically Alan’s New York, an older version of Gotham that may have died with him on July 16th, 2016, when he passed on his sleep—it could be hard to keep up. But after a few minutes, I adjusted to the rhythm. Suddenly, without warning, I found myself able to dance to the peculiar beat of Vega’s jutting back and forth, his Jewish mystic cadence, the kind you hear in gasps and yelps on the transgressively savagely conceptual records he made in the late ‘70s with Martin Rev as Suicide, or the solo records he made starting in the 80s and continuing through to his final studio album "IT" finished in early 2015 and released posthumously in 2017, collages of machoismo-powered rockabilly, space cadet hard rock, renegade cowboy soul, and neon-drenched pop art Americana. You acclimate and then boom: You’re immersed in the “one-man subculture,” to borrow Vaughn’s description, of Alan Vega. 

 

Though his relationship to the mainstream was flirtatious but never a fully committed one, Vega’s sub rosa influence on a disparate but extensive list of punks, new wavers, industrial deconstructionists, garage rockers, and pop stars is clear. His admirers included Ric Ocasek of the Cars, a frequent collaborator, and Bruce Springsteen, whose 1982 album Nebraska, particularly the creeping song “State Trooper,” explored the same haunted backroads Vega sang about. “The bravery and passion he showed throughout his career was deeply influential to me,” Springsteen noted on his Facebook page, memorializing Vega. “There was simply no one else remotely like him.” 

 

No one else like him. That was certainly the case in 2015, when Vega decamped to Renegade Studio in New York City’s West Village with Vaughn on guitar, bassist and keyboardist Barb Dwyer, drummer (and Sirius XM DJ) Palmyra Delran, and engineer Geoff Sanoff. Sporting sunglasses, a knit cap and long rider coat, Vega looked tough as nails in his 78th year, and as always he was dedicated to the moment, to capturing the ghosts for what would prove to be his final live band recording.  

 

Years before, the stroke had slowed Vega down, but he’d recovered and continued making music, often remotely, vocalizing over pre-recorded tracks by electronic musicians. He wanted a different feel for this project, wanted “to feel connected,” Vaughn says, to the musicians in the room, the way it had worked when they made Cubist Blues with Chilton, a music industry rebel in his own right. That record had taken two frenzied, off-the-cuff nights, this album required only one. “We got better at it,” Vaughn says with a chuckle, his velvet voice—the one I’ve so often heard on his essential and always joyous radio program and podcast The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn —underserved by my cellular telephone (once again). 

 

Vega was obsessed with the enormity of any given moment, and to that end, he insisted the band be assembled with absolutely no preparation. They would be responsible for creating, ears tuned to each other and Vega’s incantations, a spontaneous space for his magical recitations. “It’s the only way I’ve ever worked with him,” Vaughn says. “We would start playing, and Alan would wait a little bit,” drawing in a notepad the entire time, working on his “zillions of sketches” — potential self-portraits, though he’d be loathe to indulge you asking if they were — or reading his copy of the New York Post. Eventually he’d rise to the microphone. “Some of the stuff he comes up with, it’s really unbelievable,” Vaughn says, citing the elementally profound lyrics for “River of No Shame,” delivered for the first time as the band churned on. “The animals are hunting, the animals are hunting/Making a break for the river/Making a break for the river/The river of no shame,” Vega riffs, over a motorik groove that’s somehow equal parts Neu! and John Lee Hooker. 

 

Vega didn’t consider the marketplace at all, never considered what would become of his art after he made it, living like the embodiment of what visionary director David Lynch would describe as “the art life.” For Vega creating was the sacred act. Creations? He could take them or leave them. “Liz, Alan’s wife, has told me that when he would finish a painting, he’d immediately paint over the canvas — she’d have to snatch them away from him,” Vaughn says. 

 

Luckily, Vaughn and company have been able to do something like that with Alan Vega After Dark, a set of songs that exist fully in their genesis, realized and recorded one night in New York City. They snatched one away from Alan, so we can pore over it. Listening to it, Vega’s words sometimes slip past me, like they did early in our single phone call. Wait, what was that he just said? It might have been the secret of the world! But I have the luxury of knowing that even as I can return to the LP over and over again, I’ll never hear the same thing twice. “Alan was writing from the future,” Vaughn says. I think back to 2015 when, during my interview for Aquarium Drunkard, Vega swatted away my inquiries about where his visions originated: “I don’t know where it comes from. People ask, ‘Why?’...There is no why. Who gives a shit? It’s not supposed to be why. It’s supposed to be the world. The mystery.”

 

TRACKLISTING:

NOTHING LEFT

HI SPEED ROLLER

OUT OF TOWN

RIVER OF NO SHAME

WINGS OF GLORY

THE RECORD SPEED

 

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MØ debuts new Ariel Rechtshaid-produced track "Kindness"

MØ UNVEILS NEW TRACK “KINDNESS”

photo credit: Fryd Frydendahl

July 30, 2021—Danish superstar MØ shares a new track, “Kindness,” today—listen here. Co-written with MØ alongside Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Vampire Weekend, Adele), Jam City (Olivia Rodrigo, Troye Sivan) and Yangze, the new track serves as thanks to MØ’s fans for years of love and support.

“‘Kindness’ is a love letter to my fans,” MØ says. “I wrote it at a time when I was feeling, like a lot of people, disconnected from the physical world. Despite being isolated, there was this beautiful connection and support from my fans and from our little online community, which I was so thankful for. I wrote the first demo in Copenhagen on a beat by my friend Yangze. Ariel Rechtshaid then joined the process and, working online and across time zones, we made this song take shape.”

“Kindness” is MØ’s second piece of new music this year, following her return in May with “Live To Survive,” produced with rising Brit SG Lewis (Dua Lipa, Robyn, Victoria Monet) and co-written with Caroline Ailin (Dua Lipa, Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding).

MØ, born Karen Marie Ørsted, is a Danish vocalist, songwriter and producer. She has released two widely acclaimed albums, 2014’s No Mythologies to Follow and 2018’s Forever Neverland, praised for their unique perspective and rich songwriting. She has toured the world over, played every major festival and collaborated with Charli XCX, Jack Antonoff, Cashmere Cat, Noah Cyrus, Major Lazer (on “Lean On,” one of the most successful songs of all time) and a number of others.

More music from MØ is imminent.

Billie Eilish Releases Sophomore Album 'Happier Than Ever.' Reveals Official Music Video For Latest Single

BILLIE EILISH RELEASES HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SOPHOMORE ALBUM, ‘HAPPIER THAN EVER,’ OUT NOW [DARKROOM / INTERSCOPE RECORDS]   OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘HAPPIER THAN EVER’  DIRECTED BY BILLIE EILISH   SOLD-OUT HAPPIER THAN EVER, THE WORLD TOUR COMMENCES FEBRUARY 3, 2022

WATCH ‘HAPPIER THAN EVER” (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)   LISTEN ‘HAPPIER THAN EVER’ (ALBUM) Getting Older Billie Bossa Nova Oxytocin Lost Cause Not My Responsibility Everybody Dies NDA Happier Than Ever I Didn’t Change My Number my future GOLDWING Halley’s Comet OverHeated Your Power Therefore I Am Male Fantasy     Today, Billie Eilish released her highly anticipated sophomore studio album, ‘Happier Than Ever’ on Darkroom/Interscope Records. The 16-track full-length proves to be another welcomed triumph for popular music. A combination of non-fiction and fantasy, Eilish steps out into the limelight as one of the most treasured, talented and intricate songwriters of her generation. Weaving razor-sharp wit, everyday observations, secrets and escapades, all-the-while exploring what it is to be a complex human being, navigating the modern world. Listeners will be left enchanted and captivated by this new chapter, as she delivers her rawest, most confessionary work to date.   The album’s essence, artwork and color palette was inspired by some of her all-time favorite recording artists Julie London, Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, and the 1950’s and 60’s “golden era" that they reigned. Produced by her brother FINNEAS at his home studio in Los Angeles, ‘Happier Than Ever’ solidifies Billie Eilish once again, as one of the most crucial pop artists of our time. Listen to ‘Happier Than Ever’ HERE.   Accompanying the release of ‘Happier Than Ever,’ is the goose-bump-inducing music video for her latest single and album namesake. The video was directed by Eilish and perfectly captures the spirit of the track. Watch the official music video for ‘Happier Than Ever’ HERE.   In other news, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning Billie Eilish will make her Disney+ debut with "Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles," a cinematic concert experience, premiering globally on Friday, September 3. Fresh off the heels of her brand-new album, "Happier than Ever," the Disney+ original will feature an intimate performance of every song in the album's sequential order – for the first and only time – from the stage of the legendary Hollywood Bowl.   Directed by Robert Rodriguez and by Oscar-winner Patrick Osborne the special will also include animated elements, taking viewers on a dreamlike journey through Billie’s hometown of Los Angeles and its most iconic backdrops. “Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles” features FINNEAS, the Los Angeles Children's Chorus, the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, and world renowned Brazilian guitarist, Romero Lubambo, with Orchestra Arrangements by David Campbell. “Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles” was produced by Interscope Films and Darkroom Productions, in associate with Nexus Studios and Aron Levine Productions, with Kerry Asmussen as the Live Concert Director and Pablo Berron as Director of Photography.   Starting February 3 in New Orleans, Billie Eilish’s sold-out HAPPIER THAN EVER, THE WORLD TOUR commences. The arena run will be making 32 stops across North America, before heading over the Atlantic for an 18-date arena tour through Europe and the United Kingdom, starting June 3. For merchandise and more details go to: www.billieeilish.com/   The official music video for ‘Happier Than Ever’ made its broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU and on the ViacomCBS Times Square billboard.   ‘Happier Than Ever’ the album is out everywhere now.

2022 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES* 02/03  - Smoothie King Center – New Orleans, LA 02/05 – State Farm Arena – Atlanta, GA 02/06 – Spectrum Center – Charlotte, NC 02/08 – PPG Paints Arena – Pittsburgh, PA 02/09 – Capital One Arena – Washington, DC 02/10 – Bryce Jordan Center – University Park, PA 02/12 – KeyBank Center – Buffalo, NY 02/13 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA 02/15 – Centre Bell – Montreal, QC 02/16 – Scotiabank Arena – Toronto, ON 02/18 – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 02/19 - Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 02/20 – TD Garden – Boston, MA 02/22 – Prudential Center – Newark, NJ 03/08 – Legacy Arena – Birmingham, AL 03/09 – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TN 03/11 – Yum! Center – Louisville, KY 03/12 – Little Caesars Arena – Detroit, MI 03/14 – United Center – Chicago, IL 03/15 – Xcel Center – St. Paul, MN 03/16 – CHI Health Center – Omaha, NE 03/19 – Ball Arena (formerly Pepsi Center) – Denver, CO 03/21 – Vivint Arena – Salt Lake City, UT 03/24 – Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC 03/25 – Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle, WA 03/29 – Chase Center – San Francisco – CA 03/30 – Golden 1 Center – Sacramento, CA 04/01 – T-Mobile Arena – Las Vegas, NV 04/02 – Gila River Arena – Glendale, AZ 04/06 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA 04/08 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA 04/09 – The Forum – Los Angeles, CA 2022 EU/UK TOUR DATES June 3 – SSE Arena – Belfast, UK June 4 – 3Arena – Dublin, IE June 5 – 3Arena – Dublin, IE June 7 – AO Arena – Manchester, UK June 8 –  AO Arena – Manchester, UK June 10 – The O2 – London, UK June 11 – The O2 – London, UK June 12 – The O2 – London, UK June 14 – The SSE Hydro – Glasgow, UK June 15 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham, UK June 16 – The O2 – London, UK June 18 – Ziggo Dome – Amsterdam, NL June 19 – Festhalle – Frankfurt, DE June 21 – Lanxess Arena – Cologne, DE June 22 – Accor Arena – Paris, FR June 28 – Sportpaleis – Antwerp, BE June 30 – Mercedes-Benz Arena – Berlin, DE July 2 – Hallenstadion – Zurich, CH

Dot Allison Releases Critically Acclaimed Intoxicating Sparse Folk Album "Heart-Shaped Scars" Out Today

SINGER, SONGWRITER, MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST DOT ALLISON 
 

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM  HEART-SHAPED SCARS

 

OUT TODAY ON ALL DSPS // SA RECORDINGS 

 

LISTEN//DOWNLOAD//STREAM HERE

 

Photo Credit: Maria Mochnacz 

 

 

 

"Verses feel like they’re emerging from then disappearing into mist as they pass by, instrumentation is so delicate as to feel like drops of water, and Allison’s voice – always tending to the pure, but occasionally on previous records rising to a haunting wail – is so soft as to feel almost textureless. And it is absolutely, rivetingly magical." -

-The Arts Desk ★★★★★

 

"The resulting album bears a tender, yet, eerie sound in the vein of Paul Giovanni and Magnet’s music for the 1973 film The Wicker Man."

-Audiofemme 

 

“…impeccably eerie and oddly familiar….Allison seems out on her own with her fragile voice.  While Heart-Shaped Scars might not be the first flowering of such wistful folk mysteries, it brings a good harvest.”  

-MOJO ★★★★ 

“Dot Allison reconnects with her pastoral folk-pop muse on this elegantly understated comeback.”

-UNCUT

 

“Gorgeous, bucolic folk."

-Brooklyn Vegan 

 

"Heart-Shaped Scars is an exercise in fragility, gently sculpted from sultry piano, plangent strings and siren vocals, with the self-comforting sway of Cue the Tears conveying a sense of scale and drama amid the intimacy."

-The Scotsman ★★★★ 

 

"Allison's emotions are clarified and delicately rise to the surface as she imbues a wistful longing to the versus ("hollowed seed/occasional thorn...") and a bittersweet wryness on the chorus secions."

-Big Takeover

 

"Dot Allison is a candid and sensitive artist who weaves little mini-stories that sound precious and beautiful but have intelligent, brave, and thoughtful lyrics. Allison’s intimate vocals are backed by a fuller orchestration with a thrilling chorus that’s achingly beautiful with a moving string section equal parts informal and epic."

-Pop Matters

 

 

 

(Edinburgh, Scotland) July 30, 2021 --  

 

Dot Allison will always be identified with the band that initially launched her, One Dove, whose Andy Weatherall-produced album Morning Dove White became a downbeat electronic landmark, but her own albums and collaborations amount to a much more significant body of work, with a commanding range across genres and narrative ambition. “The records that I have made were more like a window into my world,” she says.  None more so than her first album in 12 years, out today --- Heart-Shaped Scars. Tranquil in sound and passionate in spirit it's Allison’s most personal record yet.  Framed by a backdrop of exquisitely sparse and intoxicating dream-folk and Allison’s vocal at its most ethereal, the album is, she reveals about “Love, loss and a universal longing for union that seems to go with the human condition.”

 

Heart-Shaped Scars gathers many threads of Allison’s broad interests – not just musical but literary, philosophical & her interest in science and nature.  Allison’s father was a botanist, and her mother a musician; eventually, the DNA of music took this former bio-chemistry student in a very different direction – and with good reason too. 

 

Dot sees certain flowers almost like visual metaphors for certain organs that all species share.  Through out the album she references plants, the seasons, flowers, fertility, cyclical patterns and a haunting that may follow a decay & some dark visceral imagery, all evoking Dot’s vision for “a pure kind of album that musically imbues a return to nature.  I wanted it to be comforting like a familiar in-utero heartbeat.” 

 

Recorded at Castlesound Studios in Edinburgh - Dot’s home town, the album is produced by Allison alongside Fiona Cruickshank.  Recent Mercury Prize nominee Hannah Peel adds string arrangements to four songs that accompany Dot's imaginative lyrics, courtesy of a quintet of Scottish folk musicians. 

 

On the album Allison not only oversees all vocal arrangements and production, she plays ukulele, piano, 12 string guitar,  mellotron, keyboards, hubble kalimba & Phone-Home Xylophone, Treated Keys & Harmonium.  Field recordings of birdsong, rivers and the ambience of The Hebrides - where Dot has a cottage - also played their part.  A location for gatherings amongst folk musician pals (Sarah Campbell and Amy Bowman included on 'The Haunted'), “sharing ideas and passing instruments between us all, amongst friends and the island community,” says Allison. “It’s where I first sang the album's first single 'Long Exposure’ in public at a folk house-concert." It's the first song Dot wrote on a ukulele.  

The sessions also include a collaboration with singer, songwriter Zoë Bestel.   Dot wrote a poem about a love ending with the metaphor of autumn decaying into winter.  During that songwriting session she pulled the poem up and they harvested it very heavily for imagery and turned it into the albums' second single, ‘Can You Hear Nature Sing?’ 

 

The album's third single, 'One Love’ is a song about someone feeling unsure in a relationship, needing reassurance. "The flower metaphors are rare flowers used to signify a rare,  precious, all encompassing love.  Blood Camellia suggests flesh, veins and a pulse, Fire Lilies imbue a sense of passion and Juliette Rose seems to hint at Shakespeare,” she adds.  A video for this single  directed by PJ Harvey's longtime visual collaborator Maria Mochnacz will soon follow. 

 

Heart-Shaped Scars may have the richness and metaphorical depth of poetry but it’s balanced out by classic tropes of singer-songwriters through the ages. The sentiments behind ‘Cue The Tears’, ‘Love Died In Our Arms’ and ‘Goodbye’ are direct appeals from the heart; melodically too, they chime with torch-singing and soul traditions. 

During the years Dot has collaborated with a variety of musicians including My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields,  The Bad Seeds, Scott Walker (Sunn O))), Richard Fearless,  Anton Newcombe of Brian Jonestown Massacre, Hal David, Paul Weller and 3D with Massive Attack who says Dot "Has a voice like honey."

On Heart-Shaped Scars Allison mines a deeply emotive seam.  "To me, music is a sort of tonic or an antidote to a kind of longing, for a while at least,” she concludes. 

 

 

 

 

 

Heart-Shaped Scars - Track List:

1. Long Exposure

2. The Haunted 

3. Constellations 

4. Can You Hear Nature Sing?

5. Ghost Orchid

6. Entanglement 

7. Forever’s Not Much Time

8. Cue The Tears 

9. One Love

10. Love Died In Our Arms 

11. Goodbye 

 

 

 

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Martha Wainwright shares new track "Hole In My Heart"; new album 'Love Will Be Reborn' out 8/20

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT SHARES NEW TRACK "HOLE IN MY HEART" NEW ALBUM LOVE WILL BE REBORN OUT AUGUST 20TH

(Photo Credit: Gaëlle Leroyer) Following the release of the title track from her forthcoming album and the single "Falaise De Malaise," Martha Wainwright today releases the uplifting ‘Hole In My Heart’ from Love Will Be Reborn, Martha’s first new album in five years, will be released August 20th on Pheromone Records/Cooking Vinyl.   Offering a sneak peek at the new album, “Hole In My Heart” is a playful song that’s brimming with joy. The song serves as the emotional flip side to the previous song “Falaise de Malaise”, a song steeped in despair and sadness, the storm to the sunshine that is “Hole In My Heart.” The video captures this joy – watch it here. A song of hope, Martha explains how the song came to be, “‘Hole In My Heart’ flew out of me when I was sitting in a sunny room trying to contend with this incredible feeling of joy and gladness. After feeling scared and lonely and unsure of everything, someone came along and changed my life. ‘We all live alone... but do you want to live alone together?’. It's about making a commitment to living as two, together, against the odds.”   Like most records this year, Love Will Be Reborn was made during the global pandemic and recorded in Martha’s hometown of Montreal, in the basement of her brand-new cafe, Ursa, which also served as a studio. Enlisting the help of Toronto musicians Thom Gill, Phil Melanson, Morgan Moore and Josh Cole and producer Pierre Marchand, best-known for his collaborations with Sarah McLachlan producing some of her iconic 90s songs. Marchand also has a familial connection to Martha, having produced her brother Rufus’s second album Poses as well as Martha’s Mother and Aunt’s record, Heartbeats Accelerating. It was a record made after some time, much like Martha’s gap since 2016’s Goodnight City, and McGarrigle was the same age that Martha is now. It seems like a musical synergy only the late McGarrigle and Martha could have.   Martha is doing a short run of dates in the Northeast. Full list of dates below. Tickets on sale now from HERE:   TOUR DATES August 23 - Boston, MA - City Winery August 24 - Vienna, VA - Jammin Java August 25 - New York, NY - City Winery

LOVE WILL BE REBORN AUGUST 20 COOKING VINYL TRACKLISTING 1.     Middle Of The Lake 2.    Getting Older 3.    Love Will be Reborn 4.    Being Right 5.    Report Card 6.    Body and Soul 7.    Hole in My Heart 8.    Justice 9.    Sometimes 10.  Ranbow 11.  Falaise de Malaise   CONNECT WITH MARTHA WAINWRIGHT: WEBSITE FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM TWITTER YOUTUBE