Month: November 2016

Let’s go à la carte with Band Aparte

2 cracking tracks from LA’s Band Aparte – Their debut LP, Memory on Trial, is out now on Manifesto Records. Sensational, they certainly are a band apart (?????) Band Aparte – Cherry Chapstick & Into The Window

I was touched by your presence dear: Tasseomancy

Tasseomancy is the musical project of sisters Sari and Romy Lightman. The band have developed a unique sound that combines that crazy with this brilliance of melody and Roxy Music Sirens and actual real sirens and police sirens. They have released and are set to release and here are two releases. I think they’re Canadian…

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The word according to Midas The Cloud

Lucy from  Fame Throwa Records got in touch last week about their first release – New EP “Black Ice” by Midas The Cloud which is out today.  It’s a beautiful piece of work – we got Cloud Head Jed to talk about that and the passing time. What does “Midas The Cloud” mean to you?…

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What’s the word? Sharon Lazibyrd.

Here’s “What time is later?” – the new single from Somerset-based singer-songwriter Sharon Lazibyrd. The song that considers the meaning of time and its passing, it was inspired by Sharon’s daughter asking her the question at Purbeck Folk Festival. We also include here “Not Blue”. Sharon have a beautiful voice and is obviously a very…

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It was ΜΕΝΤΑ be

ΜΕΝΤΑ – I Saw Things I Shouldn’t Have Seen & Humans Have Become Cheap

I was feeling pretty SWITÉ when I clocked LE TON MITÉ

The SWIT is dead, long live The SWIT!  Belgium’s Le Ton Mité  are on  the verge of releasing a new 50-track album. Even more incredibly I hear they are going to produce a video for each song.  Ambitious, breath-taking and totally bonkers, yes, and probably brilliant if these first two tracks  are anything to go…

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The Week 27112016

Hi, welcome to SWIT’s Week, yes we’ve been to the cosy brown snows of the north, but we’ve also been to France, Catalonia, Minnesota, NYC, Australia, LA, Italy, Argentina and The Netherlands- yes we’re talking Tómas Jónsson, Sin Fang, N.O.Sonic, Luthea Salom, Gregg Garvey, Toby Martin, Yuzima, Super 1 Mundial, Bateleur, Bec Sandridge, Half Japanese,…

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Betwixt and between with Frank&Stein

Here’s elusive French person Frank&Stein with a new electro-pop classic in the form of “And The Sun Goes”, plus – run rings around another sci-fi hi-fi number “Jupiter” [Saturn has rings, not Jupiter. Ed.]. Echo Orange have done it again! Frank&Stein And The Sun Goes & Jupiter

Go on ya boy ya up the Eiger, listen to Sequoyah Tiger

Well, it’s 3 for 3 , here’s Sequoyah Tiger with “Five Chants” & “Hey Paul Anka” from super EP “Ta-Ta-Ta-Time”, which is out on Morr Music. Sequoyah (for it is she) hails from Verona, sweet Verona. The EP was released on April Fools Day. And guess what, you’d be a fool not to have a…

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