Thoughts are strange birds.
I guess I wasn't even aware that I had recently heard Télépopmusik - "Breathe" (with Angela McCluskey) but then this bird flew in my brain squawking: "I wonder what she's done since then."
Here's what's left of that bird...
I remember back in early 00s when the song "Breathe" was getting some heavy airplay. To me it was kinda...well...cringe-worthy. But I remember that I liked the vocalist & a few other songs from the CD that she sang on. That's about it.
Flashing forward twenty-some years to today, I'm thinking I wonder what ever happened to Angela McCluskey (didn't even think once as to whatever happened to Télépopmusik...don't really care).
Angela McCluskey is from Glasgow, Scotland, UK. I find her voice to be intriguing. What she's been doing since Breathing is quite obviously singing. Her name pops up on multiple bands & numerous visionary unions. First off, a smattering of Angela McCluskey (I included the other three tracks featuring Angela off the Genetic World release but thoughtfully skipped the culprit of this crime, "Breathe").
Angela McCluskey - A View, NØ Comps, 2022.
Télépopmusik featuring Angela McCluskey - Smile
Angela McCluskey with Shudder to Think - Day Ditty
Maor Levi with Angela McCluskey - Pick up the Pieces
Angela McCluskey - The Little Things (Kasbo remix)
Télépopmusik featuring Angela McCluskey - Yesterday was a Lie
Angela McCluskey - It’s Been Done
Paul Oakenfold with Angela McCluskey - You Could be Happy (Future House mix)
Angela McCluskey - Believing
BT featuring Angela McCluskey - In the Air (Mord Fustang remix)
Angela McCluskey - I Adore You
Télépopmusik fearturing Angela McCluskey - Love’s Almighty
Just before her work on Genetic World surfaced, Angela released an album of covers working with Triyptych that included Lili Haydn, Martin Tillman, Paul Cantelon (Angela's husband & The Citizen's Band / Wild Colonials band-mate) . Give it a listen, you'll know what I was hearing.
Famous Blue Raincoat (written by Leonard Cohen)
Lady Grinning Soul (written by David Bowie)
My Funny Valentine (written by Richard Rogers/Lorenz Hart)
Nature Boy (written by Eden Ahbez
God Bless the Child (written by Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday)
Soldier's Things (written by Tom Waits)
Solitude (written by Ellington, DeLange, Mills)
Don't Explain (written by Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday)
Then I took to wing & flitted around in the labyrinth of mind like the flight of the bumblebird, drifting from one high perch to another...which led me to this branch...
Once Upon a Past
The Way We Lived featuring Sharon Jones
The Games You Play featuring Voice
The Tune
The Man with no Soul featuring Charlotte Savary
Radio Broadcast
Positively Inclined featuring Maina Quaisse & A.S.M
Sometimes
House of Wax featuring The Others
Beyond Words
To Dry Up featuring Charlotte Savary
We Be featuring Ursula Rucker
That Case
There is Danger
Alien in My Belly featuring Charlotte Savary
Let me know the scoop on Wax Tailor, anyone, please.
I was digging the above tracks featuring Charlotte Savary so decided to try some of her other offerings.
In 2016 Charlotte released her debut solo album Seasons. Less electro/trip-hop than Wax Tailor, more French pop/folk. Great vocals.
Charlotte Savary - Seasons, Wing It WING002, 2016.
A Movie (intro)
Bye Bye (Summer)
Under Your Skin
Coming Home
The Fall
A While
Oh Rose
Winter (What You See Below the Ice)
Your Love Means Nothing
Faster, Further
Spring Time (Is Here for Love Making)
What Do You Do ?
The Stereo
Recently Charlotte has been performing with Marine Thibault, doing French electro/poptrip-hop under the moniker SEYES. Charlotte wrote the lyrics & sings, Marine plays piano, flute, drum machine, provides the chorus, most everything else. Drum machine, then flute slides in, the piano picks up the melody, then...wait for it...the angelic vocals join the song. "Peace" has it in spades.
SEYES - Beauty Dies, Music Box Publishing, 2020.
Dream In Blue
The Valley of Unrest
Au Son Des Armes
Beauty Dies
Arrest Him
Peace
Dans l'Arène
Alan in September
Sans Titre
Then the birds were in flight again, feeling the pull of migratory conditioning...
SET US FREE, the birdsongs called.
I drifted back in time a few years to music that's been on stand-by more or less. I used to listen to, then lost track of Emancipator (Douglas Appling, NYC born musician). His downtempo / trip-hop style always went down well in my ears. I guess somewhere around the Dusk to Dawn / Dusk to Dawn remixes I forgot.
SET US FREE, the birdsongs called.
I drifted back in time a few years to music that's been on stand-by more or less. I used to listen to, then lost track of Emancipator (Douglas Appling, NYC born musician). His downtempo / trip-hop style always went down well in my ears. I guess somewhere around the Dusk to Dawn / Dusk to Dawn remixes I forgot.
If the music lingers long enough in my mind, I do something with it, whatever that becomes.
Be Here Now!
Here are a pair of releases that belong together just for the fantastic juxtaposition between the studio & the live.
Emancipator - Baralku, Loci Records LOCI 021, 2017
Baralku
Ghost Pong
Mako
Daffodil Pickels
Tree Hunt
Abracadabra
Goodness
Udon
Bat Country
Pancakes
Rappahannock
Winter Dub
Time For Space
Sands
Next is an Emancipator album recorded live on his 2018 tour. Baralku Tour Live embodies the progression from studio to live, fusing the bands organic electronic sound with the audience's energy & presence. Featuring the full Emancipator Ensemble - Doug Appling (Emancipator) backed by: Asher Fulero - keyboards; Ilya Goldberg - violin/viola); mub FRACTAL - bass; & Colby Buckler - drums.
Emancipator - Baralku Tour Live, Loci Records, 2019.
Baralku
Valhalla
Nevergreen
Dusk to Dawn
Diamonds
Bat Country
Water Temple
Lionheart (DnB remix)
Natural Cause
Ghost Pong
Eve
Greenland
1993
Wolfdrawn
Ares
Time for Space
Goodness
Kamakura
Anthem
Minor Cause
By now my fine feathered friends are seeking roost. They are worn of wing & frazzled of feather. What was supposed to be a scholarly treatise of a wise owl ends in a flight of fancy that is giving me goose bumps. I guess I’m crazy as a loon.
So Just Flunk Me.
I have been working on a Flunk post for a long time but I haven’t been happy with the results.
So just flunk me.
I decided for now I'll just post up a "Best of..." compilation (deluxe version, of course...I know you’re not chopped liver).
So just flunk me.
So Just Flunk Me.
I have been working on a Flunk post for a long time but I haven’t been happy with the results.
So just flunk me.
I decided for now I'll just post up a "Best of..." compilation (deluxe version, of course...I know you’re not chopped liver).
So just flunk me.
Or how about this...
Flunk - The Songs We Sing: Best of 2002-2012 deluxe version,
Beatservice Records BS136CD, 2012.
Disc 1 (the original mixes) -
Play
On My Balcony
Blue Monday (New Order cover)
Cigarette Burns
Six Seven Times
Personal Stereo
See Thru You
Sit Down
Probably
Morning Star
Miss World
Blind My Mind
If We Kiss
Spring to Kingdom Come
Common Sense
Diet of Water & Love
Disc 2 (the remixes) -
Blue Mondays (Blue States remix)
Morning Star (Parliavox remix)
Play (Slowpho Opp Av Godstolen remix)
Common Sense (Kohib remix)
Kebab Shop 3 AM (Rune Lindbæk Klubb Kebab Dub)
Personal Stereo (Sagevik remix)
If We Kiss (Astrojazz remix)
Magic Potion (Athome Project Nedi Garasjen remix)
All Day & All of the Night (Tronso & Nils Noa remix)
Diet of Water & Love (Manu remix)
See Thru You (Cinque Cento remix)
Personal Stereo (Wet Cookies remix)
Birds of a feather flock together.
Morning Star (Parliavox remix)
Play (Slowpho Opp Av Godstolen remix)
Common Sense (Kohib remix)
Kebab Shop 3 AM (Rune Lindbæk Klubb Kebab Dub)
Personal Stereo (Sagevik remix)
If We Kiss (Astrojazz remix)
Magic Potion (Athome Project Nedi Garasjen remix)
All Day & All of the Night (Tronso & Nils Noa remix)
Diet of Water & Love (Manu remix)
See Thru You (Cinque Cento remix)
Personal Stereo (Wet Cookies remix)
Birds of a feather flock together.
Enjoy,
NØ
