Debuted on The Curveball last night (WCR-FM Tuesday nights 10-12pm GMT), here’s a demo of a new song by Louise Le May – Angry Birds & Uncle Sam for your listening pleasure:
“Wim Oudijk is a 69 year old Dutch musician, arranger and producer who found commercial success with bands The Navel Orange Choir (1976 -80) and Trespassers W (1984- 2000) and he has since collaborated widely and released a number of solo works.
“Tree” is an ecological conceptual work telling the story of the birth, aging, death and many possible afterlives of a tree. It takes its lead both stylistically and thematically from the works of Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks (think “Day in the Life of a Tree” from “Surf’s Up” and the psychedelic genre juxtapositions found on “Smile”).
Oudijk’s chapters pass from stoned wonderment and amazement at the miracle of the tree – and its self-perpetuation – through the trees felling and then on to marvel at the human race’s immense reliance on wood as a resource, commodity and religious icon. He takes into account the progressive Canterbury Scene, baroque-pop, Latin, classical, folk, psychedelic affectation and a tinge of Zappa to navigate through the episodes – or seasons – musically.
Perhaps “Tree” is a little out of time, hippy-dippy and nostalgic for times passed, but then again aren’t most of the best things?” - Willsk, Leicester Bangs
“There can’t be many albums that reference the Beach Boys and the baroque, but then there aren’t many artists quite like Wim Oudijk. Over here he’s probably best known as a producer/arranger, but in his native Netherlands he’s best known as a former member of the likes of The Navel Orange Choir and as a solo performer. “Tree” is a 46 minute exploration of a tree from germination to termination and the uses it might find when dead. It’s a very individual album, you won’t find much that’s like it. This really is music as art, but without the pretention.” - Neil King, FATEA
Nimming Ned simply do what they know best – playing rowdy folk and telling their colourful tales in a highly infectious and distinctive style. Rising folk festival favourites, the band have now committed 8 of their songs to their debut album, Summon The Crows.
Summon The Crows – Nimming Ned – £7.99 + P&P CD packaged in a gatefold card pocket sleeve with a unique Nimming Ned beer mat.
The Hermit
Glass Half Full
Tom Ferris
Into The Ether
Farewell
Elsie Mo
Mr Blood
Crowman
“Distinctive English folk rock. The songs deliver a cry of freedom with their ‘way of life’ statements, biting lyrics and memorable, engaging melodies.” - Tim Caroll, Folkwords
“It’s infectious high energy folk” - Iain Hazlewood, Spiral Earth
“Things seem to have been really happening for Nimming Ned since we last caught up with them. For a start they’ve doubled in size, now a four piece and signed to Nottingham avent garde folk indie, Folkwit and it’s from there that they released full blown album “Summon The Crows”. The fuller sound makes the band more accessible, gives more depth to the hobo folk blues, which bizarrely and mainly through Chris Woods vocal styly and Jim Walker’s fiddle seems to take on an almost Nivarnaesque quality. “Summon The Crows” atmosphere, it’s good honest fun and great value.” -Neil King, FATEA
“Top band, one of the highlights of the Festival” - The Big Session Organisers
“Nimming Ned are just great! Great fun, great music & a great atmosphere.” - Edinburgh Fringe Review
“Folkwit flexes its fine wings and allows some proper rowdiness…Farewell is outstanding – an exciting taste of what this band is capable of.” - John Shaw, BBC Radio Nottingham
“I love the guys big rootsy sound” -Mick Smith, BBC Radio Nottingham
“…delighted everyone with their genuine warmth and gentle humour.” - Candlelit Acoustic
“The Neds were great…really bright and funny.” -Burnham Folk Festival
“If there was an award for jumpy, exciting, gutsy acoustic folk rock…these guys would win it!” - Tim Carroll, Folkwords
Nimming Ned simply do what they know best – playing rowdy folk and telling their colourful tales in a highly infectious and distinctive style. Rising folk festival favourites, the band have now committed 8 of their songs to their debut album, Summon The Crows.
Join us at 8pm on Thursday 26 January 2011 at the historic Salutation Inn on Houndsgate, Nottingham to celebrate the release of Summon The Crows – expect raucous folk and real ale…
More about Nimming Ned and their debut album Summon The Crowshere.
No Thee No Ess is a collaboration between two established figures in the South Wales arts and indie music scene – Andy Fung (Dererro, Cymbient) and Paul Battenbough (King of Despair). Writing and recording together in a free-form way, the songs have grown organically through a process similar to that used by the pair when creating their psychedelic paintings.
Lights Over The Lake is the bands third album and builds on an approach to music first heard in their self-released Winter EP (2011) – Folk-rock with densely layered sounds, intricate backing vocals, harmonies and soaring strings alongside guitar feedback, ambient noise and electronica. It’s a wonderfully complex and engaging album with great songs, catchy tunes and a definite nod towards 60s psychedelia!
Lights Over The Lake – No Thee No Ess – £8.99 + P&P CD packaged in a beautifully designed limited edition hand-printed sleeve created by the artists themselves.
Space Instrumental
Waiting For A King
Let’s Get Away
Distant Songs
Birds
Devastated City
Leaving The City
The Sponsor’s Song
Flying In Dreams
Really Miss
Loop Tape
Good For Me
Siamese Fighter
Deep Dark Wood
Reviews:
“Lights Over The Lake brings to mind some esteemed comparisons – Pavement and Flaming Lips to name two – and its opening trio succeeds in living up to them. Instrumental intro, Space Instrumental drives through a haze of ambience, while lush harmonies and instrumental soundscapes emphasise the melancholy of Waiting For A King. Meanwhile, Let’s Get Away For A While wouldn’t sound out of place on The Soft Bulletin…perhaps repeated listens will reveal a Pet Sounds in waiting.” - JOC, The Miniature Music Press – themmp.tv
“Although they hail from Nottingham, The Phil Langran Band’s new album has its origins in Harlem, New York City, the neighbourhood of the African-American poet Langston Hughes who was a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century.
By combining Hughes’s celebrated words with his band’s gentle bluesy folk, Langran has created something both musically astute and lyrically absorbing.
But though Hughes led a politically engaged life, the record is very much a stroll through the more romantic side of his work. The liltingly beautiful opener Juke Box Love Song sets the tone with the affecting lyric: “I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you.”
Slightly more up-tempo, Lament Over Love comes close to the old time vision Bob Dylan mined so brilliantly on 2001′s Love and Theft.
A warm, intelligent set of songs for folkies.” - Ian Sinclair, Morning Star, 22 January 2012
Pulco recorded a session for Bethan Elfyn’s BBC Radio Wales show on Saturday 21 January 2012 – Bethan also interviews Ash Cooke (the man behind Pulco)and says a few kind words about Folkwit – you can listen to the full show here:
As it happens it turned out to be a big weekend for Pulco on BBC Radio Wales with Rhod Gilbert playing a track on his show and the legendary Adam Walton playing a specially recorded track on his show.
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