JosieJo's Great Big Pair
of Tips
The JosieJo Show 25
What have we got for you
today? Well essentially this show is two great tracks by two
different bands or artists that I haven't played before and you may
not have encountered before. I think that they deserve more exposure
and I want to share them with you in that sort of Mixtape way that we
used to do. The third track I'll play is a bit of a bonus by a band
I've played on a previous show. This week we have an electronica
five piece from London, power-pop rockers from Canada and to play us
out a whimsical little track to cheer you up. It's The josieJo Show
let's give it a go.
Talk In Colour have been
steadily making their way through the notoriously difficult music
scene in London, England creating gentle waves of interest and
sparking a following. They are at the moment working on a soundtrack
for a British film, preparing for the festival season and recording
an album. They are about to release an single called “The Cell”
on 20th April 2014 and that's what I'm going to play you
in this show. It's soulful electronica with gentle, balmy vocals.
That's balmy in the fragrant evocative sense, not the mad crazy
sense. There are layers of sound including harp and keyboard
creations in every track they do, but this one really has a sense of
changing space. Even though it is “just music” it reminds me of
the work of the British artist, Anthony Gormley particulary his work
“Blind Light” If you're not familiar with this piece it is a
massive clear box full of fog that the spectator enters and
experiences the artwork from inside and out as you and others move
around in this fog. The colours, sound and sense of perspective
changes as you move around and that is what this track reminds me of.
I find that interesting from a band whose name itself plays with
the senses of sound and sight. This is Talk In Colour and “The
Cell”
That track “The Cell” by
Talk In Colour is available for download on the 20th April
2014, but you can stream it for free right now by going to their
soundcloud page. Find links to that on their facebook page and I'll
post a link to it in my blogger, facebook and tumblr pages. Go to
www.josiejoshow.tumblr.com
to get this and this whole review in link form.
Enough of that business
let's give you some unashamed, crafted and clever power-pop from
Toronto, Canada. Clockwise have been on the music scene for a very
long time now and the current line-up is formed from several vintage
bands. They love music and share and swap it constantly via their
facebook page. These guys know how to rock and yet, despite that
experience they have a freshness and young at heart attitude that
exudes from every guitar growl and drum beat. They take the art of
the three minute pop track and give a good old shake down. Although
they come from Canada I have seen them play the Cavern Club,
Liverpool several times now as part of David Bash's International Pop
overthrow and every time they rock the stage with youthful enthusiasm
and greet their fans, of which I am most definitely one, with charm
and unsophisticated fun. This track “Boomtown” comes from their
album “Faders On Stun”, which is, at the moment available for
“pay what you like” via their website www.clockwisecanada.com
This track is about what it's like to have it all in the city. Like
most of their music it has grown-up themes with innocent voom. Men
that have never quite grown up and are still playing guitars with
their mates and having a ball. This is the ever enthusiastic
Clockwise and “Boomtown”
Scroll down to Downloads
-Ear Candy where you can hear tasters and then “pay what you like”
to get the track.
Or go to www.josiejoshow.com
click listen to the show and choose show 25 to hear the track
streamed in full.
There you go Clockwise and
“Boomtown”
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releases about the bands I've played on the shows and those to come
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You can recommend bands for me to play, send me your very own outro
or just say hello. If you like what you heard please comment at the
bottom of the Mixcloud page. The bands do follow the show and really
do appreciate your encouragement and comments. Thank you for
listening and to play us out here's a whimiscal happy tune from the
mighty Misty's Big Adventure “Cheer Me Up”
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