Ladytron

ARTIST / BAND: Ladytron

SONG (MP3): Black Cat

ALBUM: Velocifero

FILE UNDER: Electro / New Wave / Other

LABEL: Nettwerk

INFO: The band famous for their super popular 'Seventeen' (from 2002) are set to release their new album Velocifero in June this year.
The first single from it will apparently be 'Black Cat' – it's dark, commanding, synth-smothered, bolshi, and the lyrics are in Bulgarian. It pretty much sounds like vocalist Mira Aroyo is punishing you. In one of those really good ways.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Playlist MUZORAMA 30 March

RADIO MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI, GEORGIA) PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

LISTEN TO THE SHOW’S ARCHIVE

PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

The B-52s - Hot Corner

The Sound of Arrows - Danger!

Sissy Wish - Dwts

Die Türen - Im Norden Ist Der Süden Am Schönsten

Bad Dudes - Eat Drugs

Brad Breeck - One Too Many Mornings Anthem

Alamo Race Track - The Northern Territory

The Breeders - Bang On

AA Bondy - There's A Reason

We Were The States - Up Your Sleeve

Peter Moren - Social Competence

The Miserable Rich - Over and Over

Shearwater - Rooks

DeVotchKa - Along the Way

Joshua Morrison - Alabaster

Alaska in Winter -

Horsey Horse (Extended Remix - Quiet)

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Adam Green

ARTIST / BAND: Adam Green

SONG (MP3): Morning After Midnight

ALBUM: Sixes & Sevens

FILE UNDER: Rock / Folk / Alternative

LABEL: Rough Trade Records

INFO: Green is formerly one half of Moldy Peaches (with Kimya Dawson). This is his fifth solo album. His music is reminiscent of Bacharach and Brel, and he's created his own brand of playful pop while refining it with each release. He's toured with the likes of The Libertines, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Kweller, and The Strokes. "A queasy mix of super-sharp realism, clammy surrealism, and elegant melody" - Mojo. "It always amazes me how he can express such deep meaning with such twisted humor. Adam is eccentric and down to earth, with newfound technical proficiency over a wider spectrum of styles.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Playlist Musichall 27 March

Groove Armada

MUSICHALL IS BROADCAST WEEKLY (Thursdays, 23:00) ON: RADIO FORTUNA+ (FM103.4, TBILISI, GEORGIA) & RADIO DANCE.GE

PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

LISTEN TO THE SHOW

Dj Dlaqqstar - Superstar (intro)
Alex Metric - In your machine
Siriusmo - Allthegirls (yuksek remix)
Splitloop -Release Remove
Dopamine - Brave New World
Bass Kleph & Anthony Paul - Helium
Dj Deekline and Ed Solo - Handz up
Blatta And Inesha - I was a punk
Groove Armada - Girls Say (atomic hooligan remix)
Napt ft. Skibadee - The rollers
Radioplastic - Modern Age (Napt Remix_)
Superstyle Deluxe vs Sonny Wharton - Meat cake
Elite Force - Melodik Hypnotik (Miles Dyson mix)

Alaska in Winter

ARTIST / BAND: Alaska in Winter

SONG (MP3): Horsey Horse (Extended Remix - Quiet)

FILE UNDER: Indie / Electronica / Visual

LABEL: Regular Beat

INFO: Alaska In Winter came about when art student, Brandon Bethancourt spent a semester recording music in an isolated cabin on the south coast of Alaska. Upon arrival back in New Mexico, he teamed up with Zach Condon of Beirut, Heather Trost of A Hack And A Hacksaw (a Neutral Milk Hotel side-project), and Rosina Roybal (who played viola in the Kanye West symphony) and thus finished the album 'Dance Party In The Balkans'.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Joshua Morrison

ARTIST / BAND: Joshua Morrison

SONG (MP3): Alabaster

ALBUM: Home

FILE UNDER: Indie / Acoustic / Other

LABEL: Expanding Brooklyn

INFO: Growing up in a small town between Seattle and the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, Monroe, music always provided a comfort to Joshua Morrison. Exposed to a broad musical spectrum as a child, Morrison gained an appreciation for all styles. His mother first introduced him to the symphony, a family event where seven year-old Joshua was forced into his Sunday’s finest: a dress shirt and a clip-on tie. His father (who worked at the local prison as a guard) imposed his musical influence differently: Joshua, as a passenger in his father’s flat black 1981 Chevy pickup, listened to his father’s musings (which include where his father first heard the given song, when the song had been released, who recorded, etc) about such artists as the Moody Blues, Glenn Campbell and everything in between.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

DeVotchKa

ARTIST / BAND: DEVOTCHKA

SONG (MP3): Along the Way

ALBUM: A Mad and Faithful Telling

FILE UNDER: Indie / Rock

LABEL: ANTI

INFO: The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place. They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Shearwater

ARTIST / BAND: Shearwater

SONG (MP3): Rooks

ALBUM: Rook

FILE UNDER: Indie / Experimental / Southern Rock

LABEL: Matador

INFO: Shearwater has transformed itself to the point of reinvention on Palo Santo, the band's fourth album. The first Shearwater release to be made up entirely of songs by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Meiburg, Palo Santo resembles previous Shearwater albums only incidentally. It's a thrilling, paradoxical record--icily warm, welcoming and threatening, sloppy and immaculate.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

The Miserable Rich

ARTIST / BAND: The Miserable Rich

SONG (MP3): Over and Over

FILE UNDER: Classical / Alternative / Acousmatic / Tape music

LABEL: hazelwood vinyl plastics (Europe) humble soul (UK)

INFO: 'Back in 2006, cellist and pianist Will Calderbank joined James de Malplaquet to form the Grape Authority, a live band playing the songs the latter had written under the name James Grape. De Malplaquet had a deal as a solo folk/electronica project, but while recording and developing a live band version, the two became frustrated with the traditions of indie, folk and electronica, and decided to turn what they had done on it's head.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Peter Moren

ARTIST / BAND: Peter Moren

SONG (MP3): Social Competence

ALBUM: The Last Tycoon

FILE UNDER: Folk Rock / Pop / Acoustic

LABEL: Quarterstick/Touch & Go, Wichita/Cooperative Music

INFO: On April 8, 2008, Quarterstick Records will release the highly anticipated solo album from Peter Morén, the lead singer of Swedish indie megastars Peter Bjorn and John. The Last Tycoon may be Peters first solo album, but it has been several years in the making. Throughout the hectic years of songwriting, recording and touring with Peter Bjorn and John in support of their infectious breakout album Writers Block, Peter never rested. What emerged from that period is an intimate 10-track collection of delicate and introspective songs from one of the most promising young storytellers of the decade. Recorded and mixed over two years in tiny apartments and rehearsal studios in Sweden and the U.S., The Last Tycoon is built around the basic foundation of Peter and his guitar. The album has a distinctly homemade feel that feeds from the folk singer-songwriter tradition but still incorporates strings, synthesizers, vibraphones, percussion, a musical saw, and even a drum machine or two.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

We Were The States

ARTIST / BAND: We Were The States

SONG (MP3): Up Your Sleeve

ALBUM: Believe The Thieves

FILE UNDER: Garage

LABEL: CHICKEN RANCH RECORDS

INFO: Believe The Thieves is the debut album by We Were The States, one of the most promising new bands of the exploding Nashville/Murfreesboro indie rock scene. Helping out with the album is producer Doug Lehmann, the engine behind renowned Nashville garage rockers The Clutters. Rollum Haas of the Features guests on drums and percussion on two tracks. (out March 11, 2008)

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

AA Bondy

ARTIST / BAND: AA Bondy

SONG (MP3): There's A Reason

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Fat Possum

INFO: I don’t know much about music, so I guess that makes me an expert. My name is Roman Moore. I was born just after the great war, and spent my baby years being what you might call a criminal. While keeping ahead of judgement I ran smack into a dark haired Irish girl who drew my crookedness from me like so much poison. Falling in love like falling in a well, we moved to, and settled in Palenville, NY, which is in the Catskill mountain range. We had one boy also named Roman.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Alamo Race Track

ARTIST / BAND: Alamo Race Track

SONG (MP3): The Northern Territory

ALBUM: Black Cat John Brown

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Excelsior Recordings / Fargo Records / Minty Fresh

INFO: Black Cat John Brown combines familiar sounds in unfamiliar ways, like several radio stations playing all at once. Some tracks have an identifiable post punk syncopation (most notably the absolutely scorching "Northern Territory"), others are more like echoy, countrified blues ("Black Cat John Brown"), and still more are fairly difficult to classify: a quieter Pixies, early Radiohead with pizzicato strings, Soft Bulletin-era Flaming Lips with The Strokes, and more. At all times, the tracks are aggressively melodic, frenetic, and driving.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Brad Breeck

ARTIST / BAND: Brad Breeck

SONG (MP3): One Too Many Mornings Anthem

ALBUM: One Two Many Mornings

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

INFO: The song was made by Brad Breeck from The Mae Shi. Brad’s working as the composer and writing songs for this film I’m making on nights and weekends called “One Too Many Mornings“. Brad wrote the song as a kind of title song for the movie.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Bad Dudes

ARTIST / BAND: Bad Dudes

SONG (MP3): Eat Drugs

ALBUM: Eat Drugs

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: RetardDisco/KillShaman/OneCell

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Die Türen

ARTIST / BAND: Die Türen

SONG (MP3): Im Norden Ist Der Süden Am Schönsten

ALBUM: Popo

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: staatsakt

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Sissy Wish

ARTIST / BAND: Sissy Wish

SONG (MP3): Dwts

ALBUM: Beauties Never Die

FILE UNDER: Pop / Alternative / Rock

LABEL: Green Room Music Source

INFO: In the Norwegian artist flora, Sissy Wish can be seen as pretty weird flower; not only does she refuse to play the piano and write joni Mitchell-ish ballads, but she´s also something as unique as an artist constantly trying to challenge herself, her music, her live-shows; the keywords are humor, an extraordinary talent for pop-melody, for catchy tunes and breathtaking arrangements, but always (remember!), always on the strange part of town, around streets and alleys full of people covered in glitter dust.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

The Sound of Arrows

ARTIST / BAND: The Sound of Arrows

SONG (MP3): Danger!

ALBUM: Danger!

FILE UNDER: Indie Pop

LABEL: Labrador

INFO: Their story began as most others does. They came from the same town, met through mutual friends, had similar interests and musical preferences, made a web-based christmas calender, dabbled with electro-pop. And so on, your ususal fodder for biographies. But it was after trying to make a Christmas song by sampling a Children’s choir from Youtube they’re mutual musical project really started to evolve. This was in the end of 2006. Due to the lack of computer, and recording, knowledge it took several months to complete it. The final version missed it’s deadline, Christmas, with half a year. But the song suggested what they wanted to do musically together and marked the start of The Sound of Arrows. After this they started playing around with a couple of samplers, a harp, some strings, technicolors and huge crescendos. Their inital intention was to record a song or two and then move on. But that changed once their first song ’Narrow Escape’ garnered some apprectiation.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

The B-52s

ARTIST / BAND: The B-52s

SONG (MP3): Hot Corner

ALBUM: Funplex

FILE UNDER: Rock / Pop / Electronica

LABEL: Astralwerks Records

INFO:"It's loud, sexy rock and roll, with the beat pumped up to hot pink," says guitarist Keith Strickland. Eleven fresh new songs, crafted by the groundbreaking band that put Athens, GA on the musical map in the late '70s, and conquered the world with its savvy hooks, unconventional approach to music-making and original style. “Funplex sounds like us, updated," adds Fred Schneider. "It's the B-52s now – or fifteen years from now."

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

The Breeders

ARTIST / BAND: The Breeders

SONG (MP3): Bang On

ALBUM: Mountain Battles

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Indie / Rock

LABEL: 4AD

INFO:The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Throwing Muses' Tanya Donelly. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal (vocals and guitar), her twin sister Kelley Deal (guitar and vocals), Jose Medeles (drums and percussion) and Mando Lopez (bass guitar); Kim Deal has been the band's sole continual member. Their first album, Pod (1990), received critical acclaim but was not commercially successful. The Breeders' most successful album, 1993's Last Splash, produced the hit single "Cannonball". In 2007, the band announced their forthcoming album, Mountain Battles, due in 2008.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

MGMT

ARTIST / BAND: MGMT

SONG (MP3): Weekend Wars

ALBUM: Oraculat Spectacular

FILE UNDER: Psychedelic-Weirdo-Pop

LABEL: Columbia Records

INFO:

MGMT (formerly known as The Management) is an American musical group based in Brooklyn, New York consisting of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. Originally with New York-based Cantora Records, they signed on with Columbia Records/Red Ink/Sony in 2006. On October 5, 2007, Spin.com named MGMT "Artist of the Day".^[1] On November 14, 2007 Rolling Stone pegged MGMT as a top 10 "Artist to Watch" in 2008.^[2] The band was recently named 9th in the BBC's Sound of 2008 top 10 poll.^[3]

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

The Notwist

ARTIST / BAND: The Notwist

SONG (MP3): Good Lies

ALBUM: The Devil, You + Me

FILE UNDER: Ambient / Indie / Punk

LABEL: City Slang

INFO: It's taken two years to make, it has just been finished and it is simply incredible: The Notwist have a new album lined up. It's called "The Devil, You + Me" and will see the light of day in May!

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

13 ghosts

ARTIST / BAND: 13 ghosts

SONG (MP3): Beyond The Door

ALBUM: The Strangest Colored Lights

FILE UNDER: Indie

LABEL: Skybucket Records

INFO: The core of 13ghosts is duo Brad Armstrong and Buzz Russell, who trade off vocal and songwriting duties throughout the album and whose voices and influences often contrast dramatically. Russell's songs, including "Trodden Way" and "The Trouble With Actual Organs", pair strong pop melodies with spacey atmospherics, recalling bands like the Comas and Modest Mouse. Armstrong has a slightly wider range; in fact, I thought he was two different people at first. He alternates between a low-key, world-weary voice on tracks like "Just Got Dead" and "Song from Down Here" and a louder, brasher rasp on "The Storm" and "Worldshaker". His "Robert J." is the album's centerpiece; perhaps the most straightforward melody and arrangement on Cicada, it's a cautionary tale about a local singer scared of being swallowed up by his music, and it sounds like it could have been written by or about The Band. Armstrong doesn't romanticize or sentimentalize Robert J., but he and Russell clearly identify with him and certainly sympathize with his predicament, especially when 13ghosts' own music threatens to swallow them up.

read more from the source...

The Black & White Years

ARTIST / BAND: The Black & White Years

SONG (MP3): Power to Change

FILE UNDER: Electro / Experimental / Post punk

INFO: The Black & White Years have been making music together (known as The Trees, Paper Tiger, The Leavers and other names too embarrassing to mention,) for almost four years. Fame and fortune have come slowly (actually, not at all) for The Years, who are (at the moment) John Aldridge, Scott Butler, and Landon Thompson. Scott thinks he's God's gift to songwriting, but his true talent is making others miserable. John builds things out of balloons and wires. Landon is like your step-mom on steroids, but hotter. According to rumor, The Years gave up very profitable underwear-modeling careers to focus on making music. They are so sexy and hot. They also are masters of jigsaw puzzles and quilting. Indeed, the Years have been known to make some kick-ass, almost revolutionary, quilts. Now, B&WY are biding time, waiting for the global takeover that is surely to come. Therefore, all of you mortals, sitting couched in your complacency, prepare yourselves for the days ahead, when Black and White will cover the earth, blocking out the sun and rocking the planet with them mad ass dope skillz.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Drew Danburry

ARTIST / BAND: Drew Danburry

SONG (MP3): I'm Pretty Sure This Is Someone Else's Song, But I Couldn't Figure Out Whose So I'm Keeping It!

ALBUM: The Mother EP

FILE UNDER: Indie / Pop / Folk

INFO: Having emerged in 2004 with the promising “An Introduction to Sex Rock,” Danburry nearly made his first release obsolete the following year when he released “Besides: Are We Just Playing Around Out Here or Do We Mean What We Say?”

It was, I kid you not, leaps and bounds more sonically advanced than his first stab at megastardom — and, to boot, the tunes were as expertly crafted as the batch on his debut.

And, since the new album is not yet complete, “Live in France!” (recorded with a makeshift “band” dubbed “Fatal Fury and the Lasercats!”) more or less serves as a reminder of how this beloved singer/songwriter built such a devoted fan base.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Cadence Weapon

ARTIST / BAND: Cadence Weapon

SONG (MP3): Real Estate

ALBUM: Afterparty Babies

FILE UNDER: Hip Hop / IDM / Disco House

LABEL: Upper Class Recordings/Epitaph Records

INFO:Pemberton is back and he is firmly establishing his legacy as a pioneer in a passionate crusade to push the rap and electronic music envelope. His new offering, a 14 track, 58 minute dance rap party epic is dedicated to ‘all the accidents out there’ as a testimony to Rollie Pemberton’s first influence, his father, Teddy Pemberton. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Mr. Pemberton created The Black Sound Experience radio show on the University of Alberta's CSJR station in 1980, and is credited for introducing hip-hop to Rollie’s hometown of Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

The Grey Race

ARTIST / BAND: The Grey Race

SONG (MP3): Abboan Fat Tracks

ALBUM: Tricky (cover)

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Healing & EasyListening / Rock

LABEL: Unfiltered / World's Fair

INFO: “We wanted to see what that voice could do if you put it right up front and arranged all the other musical elements strictly to complement it.” That entailed letting Jon’s acoustic playing take the lead and not relying on electric guitar to carry the songs. Confides Jon, who taught himself to play bar chords with a distortion pedal via Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Sepultura, “I have to admit that at first the production freaked me out. It wasn’t heavy. It was a brand new sound for me. But Ethan and Jeff’s instincts were right on, and now I can’t imagine these songs any other way.” Jon’s own musical instincts were developed as a lad growing up in New Plymouth, New Zealand. He stumbled onto songwriting after learning The Cure’s “10:15 on a Saturday Night.” “I figured out how to play it, and I was blown away,” he recalls.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

SISTERS 3

ARTIST / BAND: SISTERS 3

SONG (MP3): Gremlins

ALBUM: Star Spangled

FILE UNDER: Indie / Minimalist / Experimental

LABEL: Vibewrangler Records

INFO: So we've been singing together since we were very small people! Originally known as the "Sapphires" to the family tree, we debuted our first song "Living in a Dreamworld" live from our bedroom closet at ages 5, 7 and 10 for which we prepared a full repertoire, intermission snacks, backstage passes and autographs after the show. At first Beatrice was deemed the groups interpretive dancer as Anna and Cas had declared that at 5, her voice had "not yet developed". Clearly, these were matters of utmost seriousness. In the beginning the songs were mused from hours or lulling younger siblings to sleep. Years passed and our passion for writing and performing flourished. Together we discovered William Butler Yeats, Edger Allen Poe, Shakespeare, our fathers rythm and blues record collection and acting. Homeschooling gave us all the time in the world to write and do improv to our hearts content. We made recordings of our first demos.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Nathan Moomaw

ARTIST / BAND: Nathan Moomaw

SONG (MP3): March

ALBUM: 26

FILE UNDER: Folk / Psychedelic / Country

LABEL: Gazebo Music

INFO: my name is nathan moomaw and now i live in san francisco and i play music there alone and sometime with other people which is great and the reason i play music is because my father plays beautiful folk music and did so when i was young and that was when i was growing up in the woods of western massachussetts near an apple orchard and some other farms and stuff and after that i moved to boston for a number of years and then to new york for a number more and now i'm here trying to have fun and play music and art that makes me and hopefully other people happy.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Graham MacRae

ARTIST / BAND: Graham MacRae

SONG (MP3): Who Will You Be Talking To?

ALBUM: Graham MacRae

FILE UNDER: Acoustic / Folk

LABEL: A Man, A Plan, A Canal

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Camphor

ARTIST / BAND: Camphor

SONG (MP3): The Sweetest Tooth / Confidences Shattered

ALBUM: Drawn To Dust

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Indie / Flamenco

LABEL: friendly firerecordings

INFO: Camphor, a New York-based indie pop group, is built around the songwriting of Max Avery Lichtenstein. If Max's name rings a bell, you may recognize him from his unconventional instrumental music for critically-acclaimed independent movies including Tarnation, Jesus' Son and The King. As a film composer, Max has proven himself quite adept at pushing emotional buttons with his beguiling sense of melody and judicious use of creative production techniques.

read more from the source

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Fleet Foxes

ARTIST / BAND: Fleet Foxes

SONG (MP3): Drops In The River

ALBUM: Sun Giant

FILE UNDER: Zouk

LABEL: Subterranean Pop / Bella Union / Ponemaniacs

INFO: We're a group of five from Seattle that sing for the fun of it and are into all kinds of music. We'd call this stuff baroque harmonic pop jams. Our names are Skye, Robin, Nicholas, Casey, and Christian. We'll make some mistakes along the way but we hope you enjoy our little family business

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

The OaKs

ARTIST / BAND: The OaKs

SONG (MP3): The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

ALBUM: Songs For Waiting

FILE UNDER: Indie / Alternative / Folk

LABEL: none

INFO: In late 2003, just two years after 9/11, The OaKs's Ryan Costello sold everything he owned, joined a humanitarian organization and moved to Afghanistan. Costello lived there for two years, working in the Central Afghan mountains with returned refugees, teaching them creative agricultural techniques and becoming fluent in their native language, Farsi. Late at night, while the dust storms blocked out the stars and rattled the windows, he would sit and work out impressions of what he had seen and heard that day on his acoustic guitar.

read more from the source...

Peter Von Poehl

ARTIST / BAND: Peter Von Poehl

SONG (MP3): The Story Of The Impossible

ALBUM: Going to Where the Tea Trees Are

FILE UNDER: Folk / Acoustic / Pop

LABEL: Graefe Recordings

INFO: Going to Where the Tea Trees Are is the outstanding debut album by Peter von Poehl.

Recorded partially in the Swedish countryside and in Peter’s Berlin apartment, Going to where The Tee Trees Are shows no signs of the shiny shell or overblown workings of many pop productions. Instead, the music takes advantage of the basic surroundings it was recorded in, to emerge as a lively, vibrant recording, loaded with inspiration.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

The Autumns

ARTIST / BAND: The Autumns

SONG (MP3): Killer in Drag

ALBUM: Fake Noise From A Box Of Toys

FILE UNDER: Indie / Ambient

LABEL: Bella Union

INFO:Cinematic and evocative, listening to The Autumns is an intoxicating experience, taking the listener on magical flights of musical fancy. Their music soars, filled with majestic guitar lines and elegiac melodies. Vocalist Matt Kelly possesses a truly astonishing voice. His effortless, angelic falsetto and the power and range of his vocals share much common ground with those of Jeff Buckley. This is further enhanced by the beauty and romance of the poetic lyrics.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Dizzee Rascal

ARTIST / BAND: Dizzee Rascal

SONG (MP3): Where Da G's Featuring UGK

ALBUM: Dizzee 12"

FILE UNDER: Grime / Hip Hop

LABEL: XL Recordings/Dirtee Stank Recordings/Def Jux

INFO: “ABC,” as the Jackson Five once put it, “it’s easy as 1-2-3”: Dizzee
Rascal’s third album, “Maths & English,” is the most complete,
intense and thrilling British hip-hop record ever made. Bar none. From
the Korn-inspired metal guitars of the barnstorming first single
“Sirens,” to the vivacious Bugsy Malone-inspired backchat of Lily Allen
(on the irresistible “Wannabe”), every track on this album seems to
find a new way of grabbing the listener’s attention. But the amazing
thing about “Maths & English” is the way the huge number of
different styles and ideas that it showcases come together as the
perfect vehicle for one man’s voice. Whether Dizzee is going mano a
mano with American gangsta rap legends Bun B and Pimp C (“Where’s Da
G’s”) or paying his dues to his UK heritage by collaborating with drum
and bass legend Shy FX; whether he’s sampling Lyn Collins on the
straightest hip-hop track he’s ever done (“Pussy’ole”) or going way out
there to a Martial Arts film soundtrack of knives being sharpened
(“World Outside”), it never takes more than half a bar of his raw,
guttural, urgent rhyming to realise you’re in the presence of the
Rasket.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

PLAYLIST MUZORAMA 2 MARCH

RADIO MUZORAMA IS BROADCAST WEEKLY ON RADIO FORTUNA (FM106.9 , TBILISI, GEORGIA)
PRODUCED BY KOMUNIKATORI

LISTEN TO THE SHOW

HARRISONS- ALLEN GINSBERG SAID JAMES DEAN A TWOCKER

STEVE SMITH - COMEDOWN QUEEN

O! THE JOY - THIS FAULT IS NOT MINE

SCISSORS FOR LEFTY - LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS

FREDDIE STEVENSON - EASY NOW

MIKE DOUGHTY - 27 JENNIFERS

PIERRE ADERNE- MINA DO CONDOMINIO

MARTINHO DA SILVA - CLAUSTROFOBIA

EVANGELICALS - SKELETON MAN

65 DAYS OF STATIC- HOLE

KAKI KING- PULL ME OUT ALIVE

BRAZOS- MARY JO

THROW ME THE STATUE - ABOUT TO WALK

THE DIGGS - RECOVERY FOREVER

A FAULTY CHROMOSOME - THEM PLEASURES OF THE FLESH

TOBIAS FROBERG - JUST BEHIND A BRICKWALL

Tobias Froberg

ARTIST / BAND: Tobias Froberg

SONG (MP3): Just behind a brickwall

ALBUM: MASTER TURN HEADS

FILE UNDER: Alternative / Folk / Rock

LABEL: Cheap Lullaby (US), Poptones (UK), Playground (S)

INFO: Swedish artist Tobias Froberg has so far relased two albums. The first, For Elisabeth Wherever She Is (2004) was nominated for album of the year at the swedish indie grammies, and contains songs like "Grace", "So I" and "Don´t´worry bout a thing".
The second album, Somewhere In The City (2006) contains songs like "God´s Highway", "Love and misery – a duet with Ane Brun", "When the night turns cold" and "What a day" and is practically for sale over the whole globe. In the UK, it was released by legendary record boss Alan McGee on Poptones, in the US by Cheap Lullaby, in France by PIAS, in Scandinavia by Playground, in Australia by Shock, and so on.
Alongside with the music, Tobias is a writer. He is, amongst other things, one of the very, very few who got to meet and interview movie director Ingmar Bergman, for a book.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Ghislain Poirier

ARTIST / BAND: Ghislain Poirier

SONG (MP3): Dem Nah Like Me feat. Mr Lee G

ALBUM: Dem Nah Like Me 12" (Shockout)

FILE UNDER: Hip Hop / Grime / Electronica

LABEL: Ninja Tune

INFO: Ghislain Poirier, one of the most commanding artists around exploring new terrains of hip hop and electronic music fused with world riddim idioms twisted deep around bass. His obsession for the big, the dirty and the rhythmic laid the foundation for creating No Ground Under, his first album for Ninja Tune. No Ground Under is chock full of cosmopolitan bass & chunky digital dancehall. Quick-fast riddims with scattered snare chatting slap up against future electro funk, fat beat stabs, and sub bass switch-ups. Grimy digital soca (what you don’t know, this is the next level jump up, run the towel) gets lit up beside laser beams slicing through congas. Electro pop with right amount of fucked up double-up gets melodically crunked out. Bodyrocking meets necksnapping in all the right places.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM

Steve Smith

ARTIST / BAND: Steve Smith

SONG (MP3): Comedown Queen

ALBUM: This Town

FILE UNDER: Rock / Acoustic / Indie

LABEL: G.A.S. Records

INFO: I started my little musical life in 1992, when I auditioned for a local South London band called ‘Higher Ground’. I joined the band as a percussionist, but when the lead singer, a local respected DJ Andy Nichols, left the band I stepped up to the microphone for the very first time! We build up such a large following that it caught the attention of the legendary Paul Weller, who asked us to open up for him at his Crystal Palace Bowl concert in the summer of 1997. This was the highest point for the band, and shortly after we split. I had always kept up my percussion playing while in Higher Ground, and I played live gigs all over the world for famous club nights such as Ministry of Sound, Pacha and Manumission. I carried on my session playing and played for successful dance artists such as Evolution and Shiva.

read more from the source...

Sergi Gvarjaladze

MUZORAMA.COM