Shuji Inaba - Catching evening cicadas (3.93 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download) Shuji Inaba continues to do no wrong here on Foxy D. This stunning track is my favourite from his recent Last Visible Dog CD Yoenzange (reviewed here).

The Stumps - That with the greatest mass (will be indicated) (7.90 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download) Antony Milton, he of the Nether Dawn, for example, is a terrific blues guitar-player and singer. Don't take my word for it, though, hear him play his stratospheric guitar and launch into a plaintive, bellowing lament midway through a spontaneous improvised jam. And James Kirk plays a monstrous session on drums. In the picture it looks like I am trying to kiss Antony; I am really trying to yell something into his ear, mid-flight. Frankly, I might as well try to holler into a hurricane. This track is taken from The Stumps LP Split Fleet Dodge, on Palindrone.

Tindersticks - Can our love (8.10 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download) Tindersticks don't write many songs in 4/4 time. They have a tendency to play slowly. If you sometimes have to strain to hear the words, what you do hear repays the effort. Can our love, can our love.. grow any further? That's the big question right there, man. How the hell else we gonna survive this mess? And a lot of people disagree, but for me 2001's Can Our Love is far-and-away the band's best album.

LSD March - I have been saving my love for you (4.82 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download) Back to Japan. The album from which this track comes -- Empty Rubious Red -- has recently been reissued by Tequila Sunrise on a red-vinyl LP. It's one of their more placid affairs -- the kinder, gentler side of LSD March, with Shinsuke Michishita handling vocals and guitar and bass and percussion and whistling all by himself, joined by drummer Ikuro Takahashi on just two of the tracks. It's quite intimate. It's quite perfect. It's so good, in fact, that this here's gonna be an Blues Onna Sunday double-play: LSD March - I only have hands for hold you (9.93 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

blogpost :: by Stephen Clover   comments (2)

at 29 April, 2007 06:55,  Valerio Cosi said...

The Stumps is one of the most psyched things ever seen in the NZ's huge treasure bag! Just wonderful...

"Empty Rubious Red" is a fucking masterpiece...

Alright! I'm running for a cup of coffee with mr. Orsi now!  

at 30 April, 2007 07:09,  brad rose said...

god that LSD-March stuff is so incredible. i love you, japan.  

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