adarsh.me

Played 2609 times

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

tuneage:

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse feat. Suzanne Vega - “The Man Who Played God”

It’s that age-old story again: artist(s) record great album, label decides to get it’s underwear in a wad and refuses to release the album, artist finds a loophole and releases the album anyway. Sunrise…sunset, just another day in our ridiculous music industry.

Thanks to this all-too-typical tale (read the Wikipedia entry if you’re interested in what happened this time), one of the best albums half-released last year was the Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch collaboration known as Dark Night of the Soul—if the base cast isn’t enough to get you interested, the project also features collaborations with artists like James Mercer, Jason Lytle, Julian Casablancas, the Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop, and a few other notables. And if you’re still not interested, then you and I probably won’t agree on much.

Overall, the album carries somber tone (as you might expect from the title), but there’s enough variety from all the different guest artists to make this a non-issue. This simple song about how anyone can play God in their own imagination is one of two songs on the album featuring a female guest vocal, and is one of my favorites from the record.

Thankfully, EMI has come to its senses, and Dark Night of the Soul will finally see a proper release tomorrow, July 13th. And if you just can’t wait until tomorrow to hear it, you can still stream the entire album over at NPR.

pakistani:

The Derek Trucks Band (feat Rahat Fateh Ali Khan) - Maki Madni (Album: Joyful Noise - 2002)

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan collaborates with Derek Trucks Band to sing the famous Naat (poetry/song in praise of Prophet Muhammad) once sung by the maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Thanks for that post. I don’t know a lot about Rahat before Mann Ki Lagan.

Beirut’s Nantes covered by Les Gens de Lafontaine

Here’s a glimpse of what you could hear at my place last Saturday. For a year now, we’ve been meeting once a week (almost) in my living room to play just for fun, discovering each other’s musical backgrounds. We’ve just been doing covers so far. Let’s hope we get to create our own stuff next year.

By ‘we’ I mean Les Gens de Lafontaine, which comprises

Gaëtan (Guitar)
Fadil (Guitar)
Me, Adarsh (Vocals)
Vincent (Drums)
Akshaye (Vocals, Piano, Melodica)

So before we all set sail for summer holidays, we decided to do our first ever live show. It’s been full of glitches here and there, but on the whole, we had a positive reaction from our friends. You have here our rendition of Beirut’s Nantes taken from The Flying Club Cup (2007).

Setlist des Gens de Lafontaine (July 3, 2010 Concert - The first ever!)

1. Jerk it out - Caesars Palace
2. Deux Pieds - Thomas Fersen
3. Letter to Bowie Knife - Calexico
4. Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
5. Where is My Mind ? - Pixies
6. Ballad of Cable Hogue - Calexico
7. Violet Hill - Coldplay
8. Stray - Calexico
9. You Don’t Understand Me - The Raconters
10. Mr Writer - Stereophonics
11. Nantes - Beirut
12. Heavy Cross - Gossip
13. Jimmy - Moriarty
14. Days of Fire - Nitin Sawhney (ft Natty)
15. Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
16. Santeria - Sublime
17. Rich Girls - The Virgins
18. Zephyr Song - Red Hot Chili Peppers
19. Don’t Panic - Coldplay
20. Killing in The Name - Rage Against the Machine

What’s your verdict?