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New Music Releases for Autumn 2019

Compiled by Dr. Steve Blomerth, Music Editor

Big Big Train: Grand Tour

https://bigbigtrain.bandcamp.com/album/grand-tour
https://www.bigbigtrain.com/
Also available on Amazon

Music Editor Dr. Steve Blomerth recommends the British/Swedish/American Progressive Rock band ‘Big Big Train’ for their latest album Grand Tour. Big Big Train is a progressive rock band that covers a lot of ground musically, and thematically. With 7 core members, 4 members with lead vocal capacity and an auxiliary 5 piece brass band, Big Big Train has a full live and studio sound. They are also superbly recorded ; from Celtic flavored violin and flute passages, to jazz piano sections, to twin electric guitar rock’n’roll.

Their latest album is called ‘Grand Tour’ and may have the strongest compositions of any of their previous albums, and that is saying a lot because Big Big Train have always had an excellent balance of uplifting melody, strong rhythms, thoughtful lyrics and great solos and sectional work. The melodies, songs, stories, and ideas on Grand Tour show great variety and they are by turns uplifting, moving, and rocking as well as a sonic delight to hear on your hi-fi system.

Inspired by the 17th and 18th century custom of the Grand Tour, where young men and women travelled to broaden the mind, Big Big Train have made an album of songs set in distant lands and beyond to voyage deep into space before returning back home to the sweet river banks of home.

Swimming The Horses – Gerry O’Beirne

Your Editors in Chief’s Pick!

Singer-songwriter Gerry O’Beirne performs a new collection of songs and guitar pieces written in Dingle in West Kerry where he lives. He plays 6 and 12 string guitars, slide guitar, ukuleles, tiple, U-Bass, 5-string banjo and National steel guitar. More information at www.gerryobeirne.com
Samples: https://gerryobeirne.bandcamp.com/album/swimming-the-horses
Also available on Amazon

Review in this issue by Leslie Fish, here.

Telesterion – Eidolorous

https://eidolorous.bandcamp.com/album/telesterion
released May 20, 2019

Tim Rayborn presents a recording of dark orchestral themes, and ambient and electronic sounds. A descent into the darkest depths, whether literal or figurative, mythological or tangible, external or internal, but from which there may well be no hope of escape and return.

Review in this issue by Jon de Cles here.

Pagania – Jan J. Močnik

released May 8, 2019

The album was created as an experiment of playing with various old instruments and sounds. The purpose is to bring the listener to the time of our forefathers.

Samples: https://janjmocnik.bandcamp.com/album/pagania

The Hu Band: Gereg

Release Date: 13/09/2019

Your Editor in Chief has become a fan of Mongolian Rock —

https://www.thehuofficial.com/ Debut album of The Hu.

Founded in 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by their producer Dashka. The Hu is a Mongolian heavy metal band formed in 2016. With traditional Mongolian instrumentation, including the Morin khuur, and Mongolian throat singing, the band calls their style of music “hunnu rock”, hu being a Mongolian root word for “human”. Their producer’s name is Dashka. (Wikipedia) Since the formation of the band, they’ve been working on their first album, The Gereg. The word Gereg was used as the first Diplomatic “Passport” by the Mongol empire during the time of Genghis Khan. The album contains nine songs including the recently released “Yuve Yuve Yu” and “Wolf Totem”, and is slated for release in 2019 on Eleven Seven Music.

Gala / Lead Throat Singer and Morin Khuur Enkush / Lead Morin Khuur and Throat Singer Jaya / Jaw Harp, Tsuur, Flute, and Throat Singer emka / Tovshuur. Here is a sample of their music: https://youtu.be/jM8dCGIm6yc

Also available on Amazon

Heilung: Futha

Editor’s Choice!
released June 28, 2019
Recording line-up
– Kai Uwe Faust, Maria Franz, Christopher Juul
https://heilung.bandcamp.com/

Also available on Amazon

Futha is an entrancing masterstroke of profound otherworldly music.

New video from Omnia:

Kokopelli Hoka Hey! Live Video (March 2019)

https://youtu.be/T_QnQf1djNM
Directed and produced by OMNIA Music/ Pagan Scum Records
Camera and editing by Daphyd Sens
Music & lyrics by Steve Sic & Jenny Evans-van der Harten
Kokopelli written in 2014
All music, video & publishing rights ©PaganScum Records 2019
Purchase track: https://www.worldofomnia.com/webshop/digital-single-kokopelli-hoka-hey

Diluvio – Santa Muerte

Santa Muerte’s debut album

Label: Majía, August, 2019
Author Liaison Denise Dumars’ pick!
Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/somosmajia/sin-lagrimas-intro

Also available on Amazon

On Diluvio, which means “flood” in Spanish, the duo borrows elements of reggaeton, grime and baile funk, while also embracing the darkness of their namesake, the Mexican “Saint Of Holy Death.”

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/44148

Just Discovered

…. and, we really like these!

Bonjour Batfrog – Frenchy and the Punk

https://frenchyandthepunk.bandcamp.com/album/bonjour-batfrog
released August 5, 2014
Imagine Siouxsie Sioux and Dee Dee Ramone had a duo that was inspired by Django Reinhardt, Toulouse Lautrec and Deepak Chopra, this is what it would sound like. One part Dresden Dolls, Sonny and Cher and one part White Stripes. A spirited flexitarian band of tree hugging, gothic, folk punks by way of Paris and New York. Doused in red wine, kale and granola, raised on punk rock and ballet, eclectic and uplifting…fun with a capital F!

Wēoh by Wēoh

released April 19, 2016
https://weoh.bandcamp.com/releases

Espen Myklebust: Great atmosphere throughout the entire release. The strings and the plucked guitar compliment each other greatly. The mix of both male and female vocals also adds vastly to the atmosphere. Favorite track: Ne Sorga.

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