TubularBelle
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Posted: Feb. 15 2009, 18:53 |
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| Quote (TOBY @ April 08 2005, 07:05) | I tried to introduce some of you guys to Lemon Jelly a few years back but no one seemed to listen, glad you've finaly found them though. I saw them live here in Edinburgh a few weekends back, they were pretty good, and I saw them DJing here last summer. Have you heard the first album? It's arguably better than the second and I must confess I've not heard the third properly so I won't pass judgement on it. I wouldn't say they were consistantly brilliant though, both the albums I've got have some moments of real melodic wonder but there's a lot of very non descript tracks that don't seem to go anywhere. My favourite three Lemon Jelly tracks would have to be The Staunton Lick, Space Walk and Ramblin Man. I bet you didn't know this but both the guys in LJ used to be session musicians and one of them used to be in the backing band for the Spice Girls.
Whilst we're on the subject of discovering new bands I would have to point you all in the direction of an artist called Kieron Hebdon who goes under the name Fourtet. I would say he's as close to a new Mike Oldfileld as we're likely to get. He's a young (early 20's I think) multi instrumentalist working out of his own bedroom studio. He's got two albums out, one called Pause and the other called Rounds. Both got rave reviews here in the UK and Q magazine called Rounds one of the best chill out albums ever released. If any of you are downloading music try to get hold of a Fourtet track called 'My angel gently rocks back and forth' its a stunningly simple yet amazingly beautiful piece of instrumental music.
And for all you Mac owners out there i read recently that Fourtet are one of Jonathan Ive's favourite bands. So you can put Fourtet on and look at your computer/ipod and say to yourself ' I'm listening to the music that helped inspire the design of this' (probably) |
Oh my Gosh, Yeh, I am going backwards reading this thread, how silly of me, but 'The Staunton Lick', that was the name of the Lemon Jelly track I spoke off in my previous post. Thanks again Toby. Which album is that on? I don't have the name of it.
Oh oh oh, and Four Tet. My ONLY knowledge of them is a collaboration he/they did with SIA on the most beautiful song in the world called 'Breathe Me' which was used in the final scene of the series '6 Feet Under' (the original version, not the Four Tet version). It was already my favourite song, but when they used it on this show which in the space of about 6 minutes showed every loved member of the series that I had been devotely watching for 5 years, drop dead, I bawled my bloody eyes out and now cannot listen to it without shedding a tear. Before I watched this final episode, the Four Tet version of this track was actually my favourite. I'll be checking him out too.
Gosh darn it, only yesterday I went to the Shopping Mall to spend a $150 voucher we got for Xmas, I couldn't think of any cds I wanted to buy, so I spent it all on dvd sets of fave TV series.
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]. I don't know if that guy posts here, and I don't even remember his nick (he signed himself with hundreds of 'em, in the room). However, I started listening to them thanks to him, and I liked what I heard a lot. They use a similar technique to the one used by Moby in his "Play" album, i.e. taking samples from old records, playing with them and on them. 
The main difference from Moby's use of samples is that Lemon Jelly's ones are shorter and they often consist of short musical phrases which they use as a sort of springboard to build their own stuff.
Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones plays bass and guitar on it.
