There’s a free download for you this week from Richard Lewis McLane, an interesting art-rock / neo-progressive-rock artist from the United States. His first release Beyond Words contains five tracks of instrumental rock; he has sent us a Soundcloud link to S’allgood, the lead track: http://soundcloud.com/user-545898960/Sallgood. The track is also free to download from this Bandcamp link: http://richardlewismclane.bandcamp.com/. Happy listening, thanks to all contributors and please keep those worms coming to earworm@tincanland.com.
Miriam Makeba – Mbube – goneforeign: There was a popular group in the ’50’s called The Weavers, they had a hit called Wimoweh. I was so taken with it that I researched it and discovered that it was based on a South African song by Miriam Makeba, it was my introduction to African Music. Forty odd years later I met and photographed Miriam Makeba. Here’s Mbube.
Hari Prasad Chaurasia, John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain – Lotus Feet – Ravi Raman: Song-Bar noms reminded me of this old favourite of mine. I’ve had this for many years and never fails to bliss me out. A rare combination as Hari Prasad Chaurasia, the flautist, doesn’t do Fusion. Here he plays with John McLaughlin, with Zakir Hussain on tabla, in a superb album called Remember Shakti.
Jackson Browne – For A Dancer – tincanman: Things I dislike about Jackson Browne: a) his voice b) he’s often lazy. But he won’t leave a dry eye in all of The Spilldom with this eulogy for a friend.
English Country Blues Band – Rambling Boys Of Pleasure – tfd: sandy8491, junks and I recently attended a Hot Vultures gig down in sunny Peacehaven, and this was a song that Sandy and I specially liked. It wasn’t on the compilation CD which I bought at the gig though, and so when I got back home I looked it up and tracked it down. Hot Vultures are Maggie Holland and her ex, Ian A Anderson; ECBB are those two plus Ron Stradling on squeezebox.
Freda Payne – Welcome to the Human Race – severin: Great voice, great sentiments, great bass line. From 2007. I bought a compilation CD called “Luxury Soul” for somebody else and the MP3 downloaded to my computer. This is the track I’ve played the most.
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Lobby – AliM: This track is haunting me. TKDE formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies including Nosferatu and Metropolis. Apparently they split up in 2014. This is all I know.
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