International music

Chris Bathgate is the greatest!

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Last year I fell in love with Chris Bathgate’s latest album Salt Year and during the recent months I’ve been working my way through his back catalogue. First A Cork Tale Wake took my breath away and now I’m forming a lifelong beautiful relationship with Throatsleep. Chris Bathgate has been the artist I’ve listened to the most during these early parts of 2012 and very often I start my work day by selecting artist Chris Bathgate from the iPod menu and hitting play all. Chris Bathgate is one amazing folk musician, brilliant songwriter and a true genius. If you don’t take my word for it, listen to these magnificent songs from A Cork Tale Wake and Throatsleep (Salt Year is equally wonderful, but I’ve posted songs from that one before).

Chris Bathgate Website
Chris Bathgate at Bandcamp

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The Explorers Club – Grand Hotel

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The long-waited new The Explorers Club album Grand Hotel comes out tomorrow on 14th of february. I’m confident this will be a harmony-filled pop treasure. Because one apparently can’t write about The Explorers Club without mentioning The Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach, I’ll get that out of the way now. The Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach. Before I send my application to the school of lazy journalism, I will spend some quality time with these smooth and beautiful pop sounds that admire the past, but aren’t completely stuck in it. The debut was already gorgeous and based on one listening session at Spinner, I know that this new album is also marvellous. Time to hit the buy button tomorrow.

This is Run, Run, Run from the new album.

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The Explorers Club Website

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Video of the Day #87: Simone Felice

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Simone Felice will release his new solo album in april 2012. I’m a long time fan and I’m really looking forward to the album. Especially because these first soundbites seem to be quite close to the material on the first The Duke & The King album, which was a five hearts album here at onechord.net and was also #3 on my top albums of the year 2009 list. These couple of videos have been out for a while and it’s criminal that I haven’t posted these yet. These marvellous songs are Hey Bobby Ray and New York Times, both from the upcoming album.

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Simone Felice Website

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Otis Gibbs – Harder Than Hammered Hell

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Twitter told me yesterday that there’s a new Otis Gibbs album coming out on 28th of february. I was excited because I was totally into the previous album Joe Hill’s Ashes back in 2010. After listening to the new album twice, I’m even more excited because now I know the new album Harder Than Hammered Hell is at least as amazing. Otis has again written an extremely convincing album that showes that he is a great folk/country singer-songwriter. You can pre-order the album from his website (which I’m gonna do early next week) and/or listen to it at bandcamp.

This is Don’t Worry Kid from the new album.

Otis Gibbs Website

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