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cult records is an independent record label and online record store founded by julian casablancas .
malcolm middleton plays glasgow art school tonight and edinburgh electric circus tomorrow. summer of ’13 is out today on nude .
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saul galpern formed nude records in 1992, having moved to london from his native glasgow to work in a record shop. he was then involved with the fall, the slits and the mo - dettes on an indie before a spell with major label elektra, where he discovered simply red. nude’s first success was with suede, whose debut album broke sales records and kick - started the brit - pop movement, after which the label launched black box recorder and the solo career of billy mckenzie. galpern looks back with typical frankness on his successes and failures, explains why he put the label into abeyance and why he then relaunched nude with a genre - defining compilation album .
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saul owns the prestigious independent label ‘ nude ‘. famously known for starting britpop with signings amongst others ‘ suede’ who went onto sell over 5 million records worldwide. received 6 brit nominations won the inaugural mercury music prize had 4 no 1 albums in the uk and countless top 10 singles across the world as well as gracing the covers of about 75 magazines worldwide. nude had other top 30 successes with black box recorder, ultrasound, billy mackenzie, geneva and lowgold .
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currently many areas of the western world, including the united states, europe and australia tolerate, if not celebrate group expressions of public nudity. some such activities move to the realm of competition, with achievements for activities performed exclusively by naked participants receiving some type of formal recognition. a few, but not all, of the current naked records even receive a guinness book of records certification. these are ten of the most bizarre naked world records currently held .
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new jersey diy - punk luminaries screaming females have announced their seventh studio album all at once, due out february 23, 2018 on don giovanni records .
matthew herbert has announced a new project called a nude (the perfect body). it' s out july 1 on accidental records, and it' s comprised of recordings of a nude body as it makes... all kinds of sounds (
eats, sleeps, washes, wees, trims, wanks, moves, poos and so on ,
the press release notes). for the project, herbert recorded the sounds of a naked body in a room for 24 hours then condensed them to create
a musical nude in its purest form .
the compositions range from several minutes to an hour long; it' s split into eight parts. find the tracklist of movements (no pun intended) below .
it gets a bit chilly in the upper atmosphere. nonetheless, naked skydiving has reached a certain level of popularity among the crowd that enjoys freezing their bums off. different state and international organizations keep records for formal skydiving or parachute feats. the society for the advancement of naked skydiving keeps records for the united states .
paramount records: the label inadvertently crucial to the blues: the record a furniture company recorded all of the top african - american blues and jazz performers of the 1920s. despite its roster' s firepower, the label folded after just 15 years in business. a new reissue project tries to recapture some of the paramount records magic .
formed by conrad mewton, james hartnell and anthony neale, mainstream’s original line up was completed by peter mullaney and mark aviss. mainstream signed a record deal with nude records in the early months of 1995 and recorded one album – a self - titled debut released in 1998. despite being renowned for their live shows, the album failed to sell, and the band split .
came down from his native glasgow and first entered the music biz working in retail out of a record shop selling new wave / goth records for bonaparte in kings x .
nude steered ultrasound through the choppy waters of four single releases – including best wishes, top 30 hit stay young, i’ll show you mine, if you show me yours and floodlit world – before the band’s debut double album, everything picture peaked at no. 23 in april 1999. by the end of the year they’d split, disappearing as rapidly as they’d risen to prominence and nude licked its wounds and moved on .
currently the record for the largest nude wedding consists of twenty nine couples, married in jamaica. a valentine' s day spectacular that occurred in 2003, there' s no report on the number of couples still together .
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in july of 2008, the american association for nude recreation (aanr) coordinated the world' s largest skinny dipping event at multiple venues, getting the bathing suits off of 13, 674 people, and their buns into the pools of 103 resorts around the country .
in march of 2015, the guinness book of records announced a new skinny dipping record. this time a group of almost 790 participants in perth, australia participated in a sponsored event, just for the fun of it .
elcomsoft' s phone breaker tool showing your reporter' s google search history in safari from 2016. though cleared and marked deleted, the records remain viewable as icloud stores them, according to the hacking tool' s creator .
update shortly after publication, forbes was contacted by katalov and another source, who claimed that their old records were disappearing. it appears, they said, that apple is purging. there was no update from apple, however .
mayo williams was a graduate of brown university and had worked for other labels selling their records. like the men who ran the wisconsin chair co. , he had no real experience in the music industry. but he did have a vision .
they sling the records into the dark, toward the river. they can hear some of them smash on the rocks along the river bank. others make it to the water, drift downstream, they imagine, or settle to the clay bottom .
your reporter tried clearing his safari (version 10. 0. 2 on mac os x) history and then ran the phone breaker tool on his icloud account. it returned nearly 7, 000
deleted
records going back to 27 november 2015 .
in 2002 one little indian acquired parts of the nude catalogue after the label went into voluntary liquidation. included in the roster are black box recorder’s subversive pop masterpiece ‘the facts of life’, ultrasound’s one and only album ‘everything picture’ as well as debuts from geneva (‘future’) and lowgold (‘just backward of square’) .
in 1996, nude signed seminal scottish electro - pop chanteur billy mackenzie (whose top 30 album beyond the sun was released posthumously on nude in 1997 after he’d tragically passed away at the start of that year) and fellow scottish dark - indie darlings geneva whose top 20 debut album, further (released in june 1997) spawned a headlining nme tour and four top 40 singles, including into the blue, no one speaks, tranquilizer and best regrets. geneva’s translucent presence on a rapidly dispersing indie scene proved something of a diversion, however, as whilst all this was going on, nude had entered a bidding war to sign one of the most extraordinary rock bands to appear for decades. ultrasound were that rare breed, a delicately nuanced progressive rock, punk, glam pop group – punk floyd anyone? – fronted by a male singer housed in velour who happened to be just the wrong side of twenty stone. the world tilted on its axis for several spine - tingling moments .
why did itunes start? itunes started because apple needed to have a supply of portable recordings to put on its ipods. itunes was started in order to sell ipods, just like paramount records was started to help sell paramount — or wisconsin chair co. phonograph machines .
meanwhile. honeyblood, a glasgow - based garage - rock / lo - fi duo comprising stina marie claire tweeddale (voice, guitars) and cat myers (voice, drums), have released two albums to date – debut, honeyblood and the critically acclaimed follow - up babes never die – both proving to be vital additions to the nude music stable .
back in february, herbert launched his
edible sound
series with a release pressed on a tortilla wrap. he continued the series in march, turning cheese, ham, aubergine, onions, potato, and brown sugar into edible records and showing off the collection at a show in london .
in 2000, geneva released their second album weather underground although the year was made all the more memorable by the arrival of black box recorder’s stunning second album the facts of life. black box recorder’s debut england made me, released on chrysalis in july 1998, had ruffled some feathers but it took nude’s unique vision and intervention to recognize the beauty of the facts of life, a record that spat out its title track as the band’s first hit single and spawned their first appearance on top of the pops. after this, nude released st albans - based band lowgold’s debut single the 108 (single of the week in both nme and melody maker) and their top 40 album just backward of square which sold over 40, 000 copies .
so if i’m making up the rules here, i say that if you are going to go all in with the biggest boob job of all time, you better have a good name to go along with them. meet maxi mounds, yep; you can check the “awesome name” box. mounds holds the guinness book of records for largest us size bra, coming in at 42m. you guessed it, that m is for mounds! sorry, no, unfortunately, the m is not for mounds. for those that are curious, mounds' official title is ‘american nude big bust model, stripper and occasional pornographic actress. ’ that’s quite a business card right there !
elcomsoft is best known not for aiding any law enforcement activity, but for a salacious episode in the history of apple hacks: reports alleged it was used by snoops who stole celebrities' nude pictures stored in the icloud. the so - called
fappening
attacks saw images belonging to the likes of jennifer lawrence and kate upton leaked online, and the perpetrators sentenced to prison .
in 2008 nude released the debut album by german multi instrumentalist konstantin gropper. under his alter ego, get well soon, the album – entitled rest now, weary head! you will get well soon – received huge critical support with comparisons to sigur ros, bright eyes, tom waits, beirut, and nick cave amongst others. rolling stone hailed the record as “an impressively superior debut – the arrangements are indeed breathtaking” and it was no doubt this acclaim that catapulted the record into the german, french, austrian and swiss album charts. despite the success of get well soon, however, the album proved to be the last nude release for some time as the label took another sabbatical before returning in 2016 with a whole host of innovative new signings and a new distribution deal with red / essential .
following the western art tradition of celebrating the human form, spencer tunick has built a storied career photographing groups of nude people in various places around the world. many of the photo shoots also address a larger topic. a recent naked photo shoot in israel, for example, was intended to bring attention to the water issues of the area generally, and water issues of the dead sea in particular .
for such a remarkable story, paramount' s end was fairly prosaic. the company always struggled — then the great depression hit. the label sold most of its metal masters for the copper in them. it gave employees records in lieu of a final paycheck. here' s how scott blackwood writes the end in his narrative :
she was lead singer and co - founder of the bags - - who were among the first wave of punk bands to emerge from that city during in the mid - 1970' s - - and also performed in castration squad, cholita, and las tres. in 2016, she released her self - titled debut solo album on don giovanni records .
suede went platinum, won the prestigious mercury music prize, the band receiving six brit award nominations and adorning over 60 front covers as they kick - started the britpop movement. nude records subsequently masterminded a further four top 3 suede albums – including dogmanstar (named in the top 100 albums of all time in the guardian and still regarded as one of the best albums of the 1990s) and in 1996 coming up, which featured five top ten singles including beautiful ones and trash. the following year came sci - fi lullabies a double album which made the top 10 and that was hailed as one of the finest b - side compilations in popular music. in 1999 suede released there 4th studio album head music another top 3 album which had a more electronic approach to the band’s sound .
christie’s made history tonight with amedeo modigliani ‘s nu couché (reclining nude) (1917–18), which is the the star lot of “the artist’s muse” sale. the painting, estimated in the region of $ 100 million, sold for $ 170 million on monday. the previous record for a work by the artist was held by tête (1911–12), a carved stone sculpture that sold for $ 70. 7 million at sotheby’s last november .
3. the artist had only one solo show in his lifetime…and the cops shut it down. the nude, which depicts an anonymous model, is one of a series that caused a scandal when they were first exhibited at the artist’s first and only solo show at galerie berthe weill in paris in 1917. a crowd formed outside the gallery window, where one of the nudes was openly on display and police demanded the immediate closure of the exhibition .
nobody knows who many of the musicians were either. paramount kept lousy ledgers, and those that the label did keep were mostly destroyed in scrap drives during world war ii. guitarist and singer jack white, formerly of the white stripes and founder of third man records, a label partner in the reissue project, says paramount hustled as many musicians in and out of the studio as fast as it could .
it' s unclear just how or why apple is storing cleared browsing history for such a long period. it would appear to be a design issue rather than anything suspicious, and is likely to do with the syncing mechanism between ios, mac os x and apple servers. consumer cloud services like icloud, by their nature, require records of delete requests to remain accessible for stretches of time, as users may have devices turned off that need to come alive again before they can sync and remove the browsing history. the fact that apple didn' t hide the deleted records indicates it wasn' t a purposeful data retention effort, but an oversight, according to the forensics expert. effective encryption and a different design would help hide the information from both apple and probing tools like elcomsoft' s phone breaker, the source added .
forbes also had an ios forensics expert validate katalov' s claims. the expert, who asked to remain anonymous, found the elcomsoft phone breaker tool recovered 125, 203 browsing history records going back to the same 2015 date, even though the safari cache had been cleared. the expert also found notes they' d supposedly deleted, but the notes went back only a short period, less than 30 days, indicating apple was purging them regularly .
amusement park roller coaster rides tend to challenge the courage of most clothed people. now think about naked roller coaster riding. a british tradition, if one can call a few competitive attempts a tradition, also boasts a world record. according to the guinness book of records, the current record for a group naked roller coaster ride was set in 2010 by a group of 102 riders at an amusement park in scotland. the proceeding of the event went to a local charity .
signed to nude on the strength of a three song demo were liverpool based sumptuous & wondrous pop band gloss. fronted by alluring icelandic singer heidrun anna and together with guitarist paul cavanagh the pair met in liverpool where heidrun had studied at the liverpool institute of the performing arts (lipa). via paul came martin lynch and paul maguire (former drummer with liverpool faves the stairs) – whilst jonas theis, a classically trained pianist, completed the line - up. they released two singles in the uk – “lonely in paris” and “new york boy” – but their album was only commercially released in japan in 2002 .
formed at wheatley park school, the jennifers built up a live reputation on the oxford live music scene and recorded a demo at stargoat studios, banbury. comprised of gaz coombes (vocals), nic goffey (guitar), danny goffey (drums) and andy davies (bass), they released their debut single ‘just got back today’ on nude in 1992. a second single ‘tightrope’ was scheduled for release but never was due to disagreements between the label and the band. the jennifers split in the autumn of 1992 and coombes and danny goffey went on to form britpop group supergrass with their friend mick quinn .
elcomsoft chief vladimir katalov told forbes the iphone maker kept a separate icloud record, titled
tombstone ,
in which deleted web visits were stored, ostensibly for syncing across devices. katalov told me he came across the issue
by accident
when he was looking through the safari history on his own iphone. when he took elcomsoft' s phone breaker software to extract data from the linked icloud account, he found
deleted
records going back a year. (apple calls them
cleared
in safari, not
deleted
) .
at first, paramount didn' t even have its own studio. the label licensed recordings from other companies, releasing whatever was popular — mostly dance bands to start. neither the company' s records nor its phonographs were selling well. in 1920, another label — okeh — released mamie smith' s
crazy blues .
it was a smash, and suddenly record buyers went, well, crazy for the blues. paramount executives dived in, recording as many female blues singers as they could: ida cox, ma rainey, alberta hunter .
legendary pioneers of american grunge punk, l7 throw down menacing swagger against the powerful and greedy in their new single “i came back to bitch” unleashed with a video directed by bhc' s joel fernando today on don giovanni records. debuted with rolling stone today, this track follows their first single in 18 years “dispatch from mar - a - lago” – a sardonic yet joyous middle finger of a track. the band is bringing their explosive live show back on the road this spring, announcing dates in boston, philadelphia + more today with additional cities to be announced soon !
after a prolonged period of reflection, nude returned in 2005 with the thrillingly zeitgeist future’s burning, a compilation album featuring songs from soon - to - be - massive bands like franz ferdinand, bloc party, kaiser chiefs, the libertines, razorlight & the coral. the label then signed duels – an english indie band from leeds formed in 2005 – and released their debut album, the bright lights and what i should have learned in july 2006. described by the guardian as “one of britain’s most ambitious groups” [ 1 ] the album received an 8 / 10 review in the nme, whist also being rewarded with ‘album of the week’ plaudits in the sunday times, the guardian and on xfm .
by some estimates paramount made more than 100, 000 recordings. documenting the label' s accomplishments was one reason dean blackwood launched the current reissue project. he' s scott' s brother and the co - founder, with the late guitarist john fahey, of revenant records — the other label partner in the project. the reissue includes six lps, two books and a thumb drive containing 800 tunes and 200 ads and other images. all contained in an oak box designed to look like a portable phonograph case from the 1920s. it' s being sold in a limited edition of 5, 000 for a hefty $ 400 .
meet horst schultz, he can shoot his orgasm a long ways. schultz holds the record for furthest ejaculation at 18 feet, 9 inches. how does someone realize they are better at this than everyone else? i don’t want to know and just assume windows are washed often and wallpaper is a no - no in his household. if that’s not enough he also holds the records for height at 12 feet, 4 inches and also the speed of semen. schultz is like the (insert favorite multi - sport olympian here) of male orgasm. how he can apply these skills to anything useful is beyond even my deviant brain .
if you were trying to guess this record you would probably think 30, 40 or maybe even 50, right? definitely not a 100 – people would surely die if they were capable of such pleasure. at the center for sexual studies in california, a team of doctors monitored a woman who had 134 orgasms in an hour, yes that’s over two every minute. for men, the record is only 16. it’s too bad men and women couldn’t meet in the middle on this one. interested in more orgasm records? the longest official orgasm lasted for 45 seconds. this record - setting orgasm (set in 1966) had 25 contractions .
the discs they made came to be called
race records .
the term was used in ads paramount placed in african - american newspapers like the chicago defender. alex van der tuuk, author of the 2003 book paramount' s rise and fall and a co - producer of the reissue, explains the term and how, once again, paramount' s white executives became unwitting industry leaders :
they were one of the first, if not the first, to even use the slogan' the popular race record,' and' race,' of course, [ was ] being used as a word of pride and that was what the chicago defender also said:' be proud of your race.'
imagine that all of your favorite music — from wynton marsalis to kanye west — was released by the same record label. well, if you were african - american back in the 1920s, odds are that was the case. what makes the story even more interesting is that this record label was launched by a company that made chairs. its name was paramount records and its roster eventually included ma rainey, king oliver, louis armstrong, jelly roll morton, ethel waters, blind lemon jefferson — most of the top african - american blues and jazz performers of the day. despite that firepower, the label folded after just 15 years in business. now, a new reissue project tries to recapture some of the paramount magic .
former arab strap member malcolm middleton releases his first solo record in nine years. louder than war’s dave beech reviews .
despite a complete unfamiliarity with the work of arab strap, malcolm middleton’s solo material is something that’s been on my periphery for almost a decade now. seemingly built around a deft balance of hope and hopelessness, middleton’s usual solo fare dealt in feelings of the downtrodden and the desperate, all offset by major key meanderings. it’s somewhat of a pleasant surprise then, that summer of ’13, his first solo outing in nine years, harbours a sunnier disposition than previous offerings, allowing optimism only previously hinted at, to flourish .
“when you reach rock bottom artistically, and i believe i have done on occasion. then the only way from there is up”. says middleton of the record. a seemingly obvious sentiment that may be, at least for those of us fortunate enough never to have been there. for middleton however, it’s more than that. it’s a statement of intent. an aphorism. not just a new direction, but arguably a new beginning also .
and it’s evident from the outset. opener steps is a wonky pop number replete with synth squelches and pitch bends, while you & i casts a romantic veil over feelings of anxiety, backboned by a pulsating bass, fleshed out by its glossy synth hooks. such emphasis on upbeat electronics might feel a little out of character, but coupled with middleton’s more optimistic outlook and the record’s sleek pop production, it makes perfect sense .
there are occasions where the more traditional indie is brought to the fore, but even then they’re subject to a certain degree of electronic noodling. halfway point and highlight like john lennon said for instance, builds innocuously until a wonky pitch bend becomes a pervasive drone. summer of ’13 is another such occasion. a rolling drumbeat works as an ever - present anchor as the track becomes progressively more fractured and fucked with. subject to fleeting changes of tempo, pitch, tone, sometimes focused on just a single instrument / track, it’s arguably the record’s most off - kilter moment, but still retains a tangible level of melody and pop polish .
in leaving behind the depression and neurosis, at least for the most part, middleton has created an album of shimmering pop proportions, not just retaining the nuance of his previous works, but transferring them to a more electronically ambitious medium. if earlier albums for pop for the downbeat and the despondent, then summer of ’13 is just ashamedly pop. and it couldn’t be better for it .
malcolm middleton can be found on his website: urltoken, facebook and he tweets as: @ m _ middleton _ uk .
dave beech is a music writer based out of manchester. links to his work can be found over at his blog, life’s a beech, as well as his louder than war author’s archive. he tweets as @ dave _ _ beech .
‘hazy and mellifluous’: lou rhodes. photograph: tabatha fireman / redferns via getty images
belongs to an earlier, kinder age when songs in praise of nature were crooned around a campfire and it was de rigueur to wear flowers in your hair. lyrically, then, her fourth album is hippy - dippy (“just as if the earth had spoken in a voice so real - ‘come to me, children, for we are all one’”), but the music, mostly played on piano, harp and cello, is quietly dramatic and never less than fresh. hazy and mellifluous ,
, which starts with the sound of seagulls, to the innocent, sinuous hope & glory. full marks, too, for the cover of the xx’s
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we join malcolm middleton as he autographs copies of his new album, summer of ’13. it’s the former arab strap guitarist’s first official solo lp since 2009' s waxing gibbous, and he’s marking its release with a biro frenzy. “i actually think it' s harder to get one of my albums unsigned these days, ” he deadpans, downing tools. “they’ve got to be rarer. and they probably have more value. ”
contrary to his assertion, many of us would pay over the odds to have middleton’s scrawl bedecking our vinyl, but you can’t blame him if he’s weary of writing: last time we met, the songwriter was engaged in a similar practice for the hand - signed music and words lp, his 2014 collaboration with artist david shrigley .
that album fell between two offerings from middleton’s (largely) instrumental 80s alter - ego, human don’t be angry, which saw him shortlisted for 2013’s scottish album of the year (say) award. the skewed - pop influences of music and words and human don’t be angry can be discerned throughout summer of ’13, (as can his 2009 ep, girl band pop song), but this is still vintage solo malcolm middleton, albeit with surprises .
“if you hadn' t heard everything i’ve been doing since waxing gibbous – if you hadn’t heard human don’t be angry, or the stuff i did with david shrigley – then maybe this is a bit of a departure, ” middleton ventures. “but even on waxing gibbous, the song zero had a rap in it, and it was quite poppy. i think there are some people who’re not happy with that though, who still want to hear miserable, downbeat songs, the more kind of folky thing, ” he muses. “but i think that if you like what' s gone before, you should like this too – it' s not too far from the patch, it' s just a bit fresher. ”
it’s also pleasingly replete with middleton’s droll lyrical idiom, from the phonetic trickery of balearic synth anthem you and i (which sounds wryly akin to “you and die”), to the tentative 80s euphoria of steps (“i even regret having regrets”) .
steps opens the album, and barely draws breath before invoking sugababes, gary numan, moby and men without hats, and the rest of the record is similarly shot through with pop thrills – kraftwerk and jan hammer here (little hurricane); paul young and schneider tm there (big black hole). if this is testament to middleton’s insatiable drive - pop heart, then it’s also to the credit of electro livewire julian corrie, aka miaoux miaoux, who produced the album .
“julian’s got a tasteful pop sensibility, which helped, because he basically took a lot of my rubbish and tactfully said, this is a bit cheesy, ” middleton says of corrie’s pop alchemy. “but sometimes i had to put my foot down and say, it needs to be cheesy. that' s why i' m doing it. the production can be a bit ironic – sometimes, that' s what i' m aiming for. ”
at what stage did he recruit corrie for production duties? “i' d been working on the record for maybe five years, just in between doing human don’t be angry and the shrigley stuff – it wasn’t a rush, ” says middleton. “but at the beginning of last year, i realised i had a bunch of songs that were good, and when i compiled them i thought, i’ve got a record here. but i had no idea how to finish it. so i put it out there and asked julian. i was amazed when he said yes. ”
corrie and middleton make for an inspired tag - team, especially on gorgeous electro - pop reverie brackets, and kosmische lullaby little hurricane. “that was originally a live band song, and then julian made the first half into that driving thing, with the drum beat and all these synths, ” middleton offers. “and brackets used to be a full - band indie romp, but i said to him, look, i think there' s a good song in there, but it' s not there yet – so, what can you do? and he kept the vocals. that was it. everything else was changed – the music, the chords. that' s martin henry [ de rosa ] doing backing vocals on it, i think julian did some too. that' s the song he had most of his mark on. ”
the album also features the beta band’s gordon anderson (alias the lone pigeon), but there’s no doubting that this is a middleton solo album – even if you chance upon one of the rare copies he hasn’t signed; even though he tries to obscure his identity by pitching his vocals up and down throughout the album. “yeah, i’ve done that before, with into the woods – it’s like putting on a mask, ” he nods .
“sometimes i want to make a song, but i don' t want to be its focal point. especially on information in the voice – i wanted it to be bland; i wanted it to be a bit faceless. i was trying to sing without putting too much tone in the words. ”
summer of ’13 is similarly disorientating – a sublime, nostalgic trip, whose myriad disembodied voices circle each other and variously invoke the ghosts of bagpipes and big country. it’s an epic centre - piece for an album whose title conjures bryan adams, the second summer of love (acid house, danny wilson), and superstition. “yeah, that' s all in there, ” middleton concludes, getting back to his drawing board. “all those things must have been in my head somewhere, even unconsciously – from the summer of ’69, to friday the 13th. ” lucky for us .
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publishing company bare tunes had neil davidge responsible for massive attack co production and co writes .
also released the futures burning compilation which was a snapshot of the new scene of bands in 2005 i. e, franz ferdinand, razorlight, kaiserchiefs, libertines, bloc party etc. .
also manages string, film and orchestral arranger adam peters who has worked with many bands in the past inc banshees, mercury rev, bunnymen, beth orton, duke spirit. currently working with oliver stone. (natch! )
saul also co managed with geoff travis - ‘the tears ‘ a project which brought together ex suede members bernard butler and brett anderson .
saul was involved with artists such as the triffids, the christians, and julian cope while at island but made his reputation at elektra where he was responsible unashamedly for discovering simply red who went to sell over 80 million albums worldwide .
a label was started human and later kamera and was involved in signings and working with artists such as the fall, the au pairs, the slits and modettes .
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on the evidence of her fourth solo album, lou rhodes would have fitted in pretty well with the laurel canyon crowd, hanging out on a verandah with her guitar, expounding on ecology, the life trip and universal love in the company of joni, judee and stephen stills .
trilling harp, cello and seductive 3d space notwithstanding, the call for ecological responsibility that is “sea organ” is the set’s least convincing moment, its message couched in ’60s hippy - speak: “all at once our eyes are open and our hearts can feel the weight of all the damage we have done; just as if the earth had spoken in a voice so real – ‘come to me, children, for we are all one. ’” still, it’s a personal expression and one clearly made in good faith. it follows the album’s unexpected punctum – a cover of the xx ’s “angels”. the original is hardly an in - your - face assault and so a difficult song to reinvent without destroying its emotional power, but rhodes and band have recalibrated its ghostliness via a finger - picked guitar opening and outro, delicate violin, ripples of harp and cavernous vocal reverb .
if it can’t claim to stretch the boundaries of contemporary alt. folk, then theyesandeye hits its own modest target – a quietly eloquent, simply persuasive record that chimes well with the current taste for bucolic abstraction, and moves rhodes forward .
q & a lou rhodes how do you see the lp in contemporary folk terms? in terms of influences, i guess what was firing me up was that spacious, 1970s californian sound and this was a big part of why i asked [ avant - folk sound architect ] noah georgeson to mix. so, the result is a kind of transatlantic feel with a few english folk roots showing. what made you cover the the xx’s “angels”? i guess you could say it’s a bold move! i just love the song. i rarely do covers, but i just had a yearning to do a version of this song in a totally stripped and acoustic way. i think if you’re going to cover a song, you have to turn it on its head a little. romy [ madley croft ] got in touch via mutual friends and said she loved it, so that made me happy .
what’s the idea behind “sea organ”? i randomly heard this sound that was made by an architectural structure under the sea in zadar, croatia, which makes these outlandish sounds when waves wash over it. i took a sample of it into the studio and that was the basis of the song. i don’t really pre - plan lyrics, but what came out was a bit of a homage to earth and the way we’ve messed around with her. in the end, the sample didn’t really work when we tried to vary its pitch, so we replaced it with layers of cello, harp and guitar – but it’s still there in essence. interview: sharon o’connell
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it’s hard not to read the cover shot of lou rhodes toting a ram’s head as a signal of how far she’s grown since her days as half of electro trip - hop duo lamb. certainly, theyesandeye bears scant relation to that earlier work, and represents a firm step forward from the basic folk style of her three previous solo albums. this is surely due in large part to co - producer simon byrt, an analogue fetishist whose antique reverb units lend theyesandeye a spacious, ghostly ambience which shifts rhodes’s songs into the psychedelically tinged “wyrd - folk” territory explored by natasha khan on the early bat for lashes albums – another irresistible connotation of that ram’s - head sleeve photo .
“all the birds” opens the album with rhodes “waiting for this song to come and fall into my heart”, her acoustic guitar and sparse percussion haunted by wordless backing - vocal moans. it establishes the “true adoration of sweet mother nature” subsequently hymned in “all i need”, with guitar, piano and more of those effusive, oceanic backing vocals marshalled in celebration of the simplicity and wonder of the natural world “that brought me you”. this alliance of love and nature recurs later in “sun & moon”, a brief exercise in romantic bucolicism where tiny guitar and piano notes are woven into a delicate web of sound carrying the planetary allegory of loving partners .
elsewhere, rhodes’ throwback hippie tendencies are evident in songs like “them”, a critique of simplistic finger - pointing attitudes (“one finger points away, the others point right back”) with spooky strings and piano borne along by military snare tattoo; and “sea organ”, where her pulsing guitar is joined by gentle harp glissandi for a rallying - cry to her “brothers and sisters of the sun” to repair the ecological damage of an era when life was judged by “what we had, rather than what we gave to it”. it’s an attractive, still beguiling attitude that courses through the album like ambrosia, offering a welcome, if unworldly, alternative to pop’s prevailing discourse of acquisitive antagonism and automated emotions .
look park is the solo project of fountains of wayne songwriter chris collingwood, eschewing that band’s power - pop guitars in favour of keyboard textures of piano and mellotron, sculpted into rolling, cyclical grooves by co - producer mitchell froom. alongside whimsical but barbed ruminations on matters such as travel and celebrity, collingwood can’t help employing musical analogies in songs such as “crash that piano” and “minor is the lonely key”. the deceptive geniality of his delivery, meanwhile, recalls gilbert o’sullivan, enabling him to bring darker undertones to apparently pleasant pieces like the lilting waltz “i’m gonna haunt this place”, an aim pursued, he claims, “like ghosts of old friends i have murdered in song” .
successful music documentaries are largely a matter of capturing an artist, or a scene, with their guard down. in the case of jim szalapski’s heartworn highways, the scene was the mid - seventies “outlaw country” movement centred around songwriter guy clark and his friends townes van zandt, rodney crowell and steve earle, which sowed the seeds for the genre’s reclamation. punctuated by snippets of revealing chatter, the simple, stripped - down performances on this reissued soundtrack emphasise the sheer songwriting talent involved, as the participants pass the guitar around the kitchen table, singing songs of dissipation, ignominy and dashed dreams such as clark’s “desperados waiting for a train” and van zandt’s “pancho and lefty”, wryly introduced as being “about two mexican bandits that i saw on the tv two weeks after i wrote the song” .
despite his surname, sam outlaw owes less to the “outlaw country” progenitors encountered in heartworn highways than california cowboys such as poco and the eagles, artistic origins admitted in his debut album’s title. he’s helped by the sleek production of ry and joachim cooder, the former lacing delicious guitar lines through outlaw’s songs while his son adds subtly illustrative percussive flourishes. the gently jogging “love her for a while” and “country love song” could be eagles outtakes, so peaceful and easy are their feelings, while echoes of gram parsons ooze through “jesus take the wheel (and drive me to a bar) ”, an all - purpose country song uniting barstool self - pity, cars and christianity. best of all, though, is “who do you think you are? ”, with outlaw’s genial drawl lent a refined mariachi backdrop by trumpets and strings .
redolent with the whiff of damp greatcoat and denim, this enjoyable 3cd box tracks the late - sixties moment when mod and psychedelia shifted into heavy rock. at its most successful, it saw fleetwood mac herald the terrifying “green manalishi”, deep purple chase a “fireball” and the move celebrate the dubious dance moves of the “brontosaurus”, while blues bands like the yardbirds, groundhogs and taste took on extra wattage and piledriver riffs. there’s unintended comedy and a few overlooked gems amongst the lesser lights unearthed here, but meanwhile, burrowing beneath the surface, underground bands like the ladbroke grove contingent – the deviants, pink fairies, edgar broughton band and hawkwind zoo – brought a hairier, politicised aspect into british prole - rock which would prepare the ground for punk.
nude records is an independent record label , established in august 1991 in london . the label was set up and operated by saul galpern , who had previously worked with artists such as simply red , the fall , julian cope , the triffids , the slits and au pairs . the label filed for voluntary liquidation in december 2001 , before it was re-established by galpern in 2016 . 
nude records is an independent record label, established in august 1991 in london. the label was set up and operated by saul galpern, who had previously worked with artists such as simply red, the fall, julian cope, the triffids, the slits and au pairs. the label filed for voluntary liquidation in december 2001, before it was re-established by galpern in 2016.
nude records is an independent record label, established in august 1991 in london. the label was set up and operated by saul galpern, who had previously worked with artists such as simply red, the fall, julian cope, the triffids, the slits and au pairs. the label filed for voluntary liquidation in december 2001, before it was re-established by galpern in 2016.