 A few of you will already have heard either the Hostess’s first wild American release or founder Jewlia Eisenberg’s ear-opening Tzadik CD of last year. The Hostesses here are an extraordinary 7 piece band, tight, a little rockish, comprising bass, drums, guitar, fiddle, various horns, accordion and other occasional instruments (singing saw, for instance) – but the work is distinguished by the amazing vocal arrangements (everyone sings, and exceptionally). Additive rhythms stretched harmonies, pinpoint playing; this is evolved material, executed with great skill – and great looseness. Some traditional pieces from Bulgaria, Palestine, Transylvania and Southern America appear in very personalised arrangements alongside original songs that go way beyond world music genres. DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: MP3 – £6.99 FLAC – £9.99 [wp_eStore:product_id:486:end]Buy album as CD(£12.50 POST FREE) [wp_eStore:product_id:2517:end] 
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CHARMING HOSTESS: Punch
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HAIL: Hello Debris
After a break of almost 15 years Susanne Lewis and Bob Drake have reconvened their classic partnership. In the meantime rock and post rock has mainly moved away from the song and its classic shapes, leaving commercial pop to straighten them out and endlessly repeat the same tropes and tricks. Hail is rare amongst bands in its adherence to the notion that what makes a song interesting is the application of imagination and skill to its arrangement, performance and recording. The plan is not to drag songs away into other domains by grafting on bits of jazz, classical or electronic vocabulary, but to make them more what they are; to concentrate and distill them. Susanne Lewis’s voice is extremely personal, never generic, Bob Drake’s signature rhythm section work always exemplary. The songs are real rather than clever, and the production constantly invents contrapuntal detail and colour. This is a virtuosic album that never shows off. For those who wish there were more good songs on the experimental side of transfigured popDOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. I Don’t Know listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/01 Hail - I Don't Know.mp3"]2. Street Life listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/02 Hail - Street Life.mp3"]3. Celestial listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/03 Hail - Celestial Heartbeat.mp3"]4. Eyes…Smile… listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/04 Hail - Eyes...Smile....mp3"]5. Debris listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/05 Hail - Debris.mp3"]6. Hello 2 listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/06 Hail - Hello 2.mp3"]7. Hello 1 listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/07 Hail - Hello 1.mp3"]8. Rio Cherry listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/08 Hail - Rio Cherry.mp3"]9. The Bridge Song listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/09 Hail - The Bridge Song.mp3"]10. The Poets listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/10 Hail - The Poets.mp3"]11. In Memory of an All-Girl-Band listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/11 Hail - In Memory of an All-Girl-Band 1925.mp3"]12. City Song listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/12 Hail - City Song.mp3"]13. Precarious listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/13 Hail - Precarious.mp3"]14. Honeybees listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/14 Hail - Honeybees.mp3"]15. Bailey Ice Stream listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/15 Hail - Bailey Ice Stream.mp3"]16. New Skyline listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/16 Hail - New Skyline.mp3"]17. House in San Mateo listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/17 Hail - House in San Mateo.mp3"]18. Come To Stay listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Hello Debris/18 Hail - Come To Stay.mp3"] -
FRED FRITH: Speechless
After Gravity, where he worked with The Muffins and Samla Mammas Manna, this was Fred’s second solo release for The Residents’ Ralph Records, this time working with French RIO band Etron Fou Leloublan – notably their drummer, Gigou Chenevier, who makes a major musical and aesthetic contribution to the character and atmosphere of these recordings. Here are clear, melodic, through composed pieces that both hold to the Folk/Rock vocabularies explored on Gravity and continue the exploration of territory opened up on Hopes and Fears, Moeris Dancing. These tracks drive and rock and swing; they are tense and dense and often dramatic. Environmental recordings of Fred’s New York environment also colour the mix. And listen out for Satie’s typewriter..DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. Kick the Can, Pt. 1 listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/01 Fred Frith - Kick the Can Pt. 1.mp3"]2. Carnival on Wall Street listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/02 Fred Frith - Carnival on Wall Street.mp3"]3. Ahead in the Sand listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/03 Fred Frith - Ahead in the Sand.mp3"]4. Laughing Matter-Esperanza listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/04 Fred Frith - Laughing Matter-Esperanza.mp3"]5. Woman Speak to Men; Men Speak to Woman listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/05 Fred Frith - Woman Speak to Men; Men Speak to Woman.mp3"]6. A Spit in the Ocean listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/06 Fred Frith - A Spit in the Ocean.mp3"]7. Navajo listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/07 Fred Frith - Navajo.mp3"]8. Balance listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/08 Fred Frith - Balance.mp3"]9. Saving Grace listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/09 Fred Frith - Saving Grace.mp3"]10. Speechless listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/10 Fred Frith - Speechless.mp3"]11. Conversations with White Arc listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/11 Fred Frith - Conversations with White Arc.mp3"]12. Domaine de Planousset listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/12 Fred Frith - Domaine de Planousset.mp3"]13. Kick the Can, Pt. 2 listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Speechless/13 Fred Frith - Kick the Can Pt. 2.mp3"] -
FRED FRITH: Cheap At Half The Price
Fred’s third LP for Ralph Records, back in 1983, was a collection of four-track home studio songs (and a couple of instrumental pieces) in which Fred played all the instruments (exceptions: two bass cameos from Tina Curran and Bill Laswell, and some great drum samples from Hans Bruinnsson. Causing raised eyebrows at the time (from, as Fred calls them ‘progressive music snobs’ – of which I guess I was one) for its apparent simplicity and departure from what was then thought of as Fred Style, this work has matured with age and perspective and no longer seems (to this former critic) to stand outside the oeuvre, but rather to exemplify a persistent strand within it. Echoes appear in many later works. In context it’s a record that makes sense – what was all the fuss about? – and it has become a record that’s refreshing to listen to. And political – political and personal. In fact, as well as being a very rewarding, darkish, toe-tapper of a record, it seems also to have tapped an important biographical moment. There are some great guitar sounds, production ideas and of course the expected exemplary playing of everything, all the time. A good argument for reissues. Very nicely re-mastered, and in a nice new package.
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MP3: £0.70p|FLAC: £1.001. Some Clouds Don’t listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/01 Fred Frith - Some Clouds Don't.mp3"]2. Cap the Knife listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/02 Fred Frith - Cap the Knife.mp3"]3. Evolution listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/03 Fred Frith - Evolution.mp3"]4. Too Much Too Little listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/04 Fred Frith - Too Much Too Little.mp3"]5. The Welcome listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/05 Fred Frith - The Welcome.mp3"]6. Same Old Me listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/06 Fred Frith - Same Old Me.mp3"]7. Come Clouds Do listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/07 Fred Frith - Some Clouds Do.mp3"]8. Instant Party listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/08 Fred Frith - Instant Party.mp3"]9. Walking Song listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/09 Fred Frith - Walking Song.mp3"]10. Flying in the Face listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/10 Fred Frith - Flying in the Face of Facts.mp3"]11. Heart Bares listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/11 Fred Frith - Heart Bares.mp3"]12. Absent Friends listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/12 Fred Frith - Absent Friends.mp3"]13. The Great Healer listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cheap at Half the Price/13 Fred Frith - The Great Healer.mp3"].
