JosieJo's Great Big Pair
of Tips
The JosieJo Show 28
Are you listening up? Right
I'll get straight down to it. Two tracks by two very different
artists. I want to sum them up succinctly, but I've really no idea
how to do that this week. Let's just say that they are quite
different. Remember to listen right to the end for a bonus third
track and a meluferious ending to the show.
First up is something down
right delightful. This is Worsted headed up by the irresistable Paul
Gunn, who trained in Paris, but has a suave seduction and a
qunitiessentaly English quality to his delivery and charm. On drums
there is David Rohonan from Guyana, South Africa who honed his jazz
improvisations when Ian Dury talked him into joining The Kilburns.
There is also Madras born Leslee Booth who studied music in Los
Angles and is rooted in American jazz with Indian influences. Adrian
Northover who adds sax, studied at St. Martin's School of Art, played
with Billy Bragg in the Sonicphonics and, along with Vladimir Miller
and Helen Macdonald, toured Russia with a project celebrating the
poet Alexandra Pushkin. Vladimir Miller whom I just mentioned
actually composes for Worsted and this track is one of his. It is
wonderfully titled “The Arts of Seduction of Hat Doffing” and is
available along with two other tracks on their EP “Chapology”
Such a selection of talented, experienced and educated musicians has
got to intrigue you surely? This track really is a sort of English
gentleman's handbook on “getting the girl” with the correct
amount of hat doffing, in the correct manner and with style and
grace. The track is obviously witty, but it is so much more than
that. It starts like tango and then swishs into indian influences
with improvised jazz sounds, English ballroom beats and percussion to
tap your toe to. It's gin and tonic with a slice of lime, a fine
crafted brolly with a hook handle, a sophisticated “hello”. It's
just brilliant and I know that friends Dave Milligan and Tony
Dickson, both dapper hat wearers will just adore this track. Twirl
your mustache, straighten your tie and assume a quirky, wry
expression. This is Paul Gunn and Worsted with “The Arts of
Seduction and Hat Doffing”
bombombom. Wonderful.
From that to American surf
rock inspired instrumental. Keep up at the back there's no lagging
behind on this show. This is a project that John Maloney from the
Rotary Prophets is involved in. I played the Rotary prophets back on
show 13 and all the archived shows can be found by going to the
mothership of the JosieJo Show www.josiejoshow.com
and click “Listen To The Show” they are all there clamouring for
your attention. Pick one you fancy and give it a play, but back to
show 28. Here we have Space Gramps with Hang ten Toby on guitars,
Johnny Red Rocket on bass and Anti-Matter Frank on drums and guitars
with some of their other mates chipping in on other tracks on their
debut album Space Cramp. Are you still with me? The project is
called Space Gramps, the album is called Space Cramp and this track
is called “Cracker Sniffer” It's sort of a sound track to a
cowboy surf eighties silent film. I know that doesn't make any
sense, but why should it? With guitar gymnastics, belting drums and
good time rolling sounds this track kicks butt, or something. Wait
for the pace change and howling solitary calls at the end as if the
guitar just doesn't want to stop the party. Saddle up your surf
boards this is “Cracker Sniffer” by Space Gramps.
You see two different tracks
by two different bands. You can't get simpler than that. Well I
suppose you could just have one track by one artist, that would be
simpler. I hope that you enjoyed it anyway. Don't forget to follow
me on twitter josiejoshow for news events, gigs and releases and on
mixcloud so you never miss a show. Please leave feedback in the
comment sections and tell your friends. The more people that listen,
the more the good stuff gets heard. To play us out I'll hand over to
John Maloney's other band The Rotary Prophets from Somerville
Massechuttes and listen right to the end for a little message in
English and Welsh. Cosmopolitan or what? Take it away the Rotary
Prophets and “Rose Coloured Glasses” from their album “Faith
Lost Love”
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