SONIC MASALA: Bob Dylan

Saturday, 4 December 2010

Friday Cover Up - Snow bound

We've been a bit slow on the posts this week, somewhat of an unintentional freeze on productivity, much like the weather in London. I swear my street looks more like an ice rink than a stretch of tarmac.

So this week the Friday Cover Up is a little rushed to be honest. I have a saying though - 'if you're stuck for a cover version then you can always really on Mr Bradford Cox'. Yep, yet another Atlas Sound number, in this case Atlas Sound's version of Bob Dylan's 'This Wheel’s on Fire'. Vague connection I know, but flaming wheels wouldn't go amiss around here right now. The posts will flow, as per usual , next week I'm sure.

Atlas Sound – This Wheel’s on Fire (Bob Dylan cover)

Friday, 17 September 2010

Tundra Acoustics

Three more cuts from Bad Panda - not bad eh?

First up are Argentinian-born, Paris-raised and London-dwelling Ezequiel Ezequiel. This bedroom wielder of musical magicry has crafted a glacial pop effort with his EP Winter Rise, from which I gleaned 'Dear Permafrost', a slow tramping number that you can imagine fur-lined scavengers listening to as they drag themselves through the frozen grasses of a frigid bleached white plain... You can grab the whole thing over at his site, here.

Louis Aguilar is one of those talented and prolific so-and-so's that are scaling heights hitherto unknown by the likes of you and me at tender ages, which sees either Doogie Howser-esque idolatry or barely concealed resentment and rage. Now 20 years of age, France-born Aguilar started playing music at 7 years of age, self producing his first album Hairy Tales at the much more sage age of 16. He's supported Micah P Hinson (himself a spring chicken), Scout Niblett and Devendra Banhart...bastard... But seriously, newish LP Old Man Poems (out through French label Noize Maker Records) is a cracker, of which the epic folk leanings of 'Six Feet Under' can be found.

Leonard Mynx rounds out this triumvirate of troubadours. 'Song With No Name' comes across as an amalgam of Dylan whimsy and sighs from a Beck Sea Change perspective. Its a nice wistful whisky moonlight kinda song... The Portland songsmith is proving a dextrous lyricist too, if his album from earlier this year Le Petit Mort is anything to go by (its a nice sounding album too, gathering in help from members of the likes of Horse Feathers - who played the Luminaire last night - and Loch Lomond). He is also giving away digital copies of first LP Vesper - not by bandcamp either but by straight up one to one emailing (leonardmynx@gmail.com).

A great way to end off this post of songwriters.

FIN.

Ezequiel Ezequiel - Dear Permafrost
Louis Aguilar - Six Feet Under
Leonard Mynx - Song With No Name

About

It was early on a Sunday morning at ATP - A Nightmare Before Christmas 2009. After downing a fair few, at 4am we decided to cook a curry. It was during the consumption of this drunkenly delicious breakfast treat that we decided to actually do something about the music we talk about all the time.

So we started a blog – and Sonic Masala was born. Now into its seventh year, the blog has spread out to call both Australia and the UK its home (and the rest of the world), and has expanded to include gigs, festivals and a record label under its black umbrella. Come on, eat the noize.

If an mp3 is up here, it's because we have been talking about it, and think the whole world needs to know more. It's there to give you a little taste. Then, if you like, check out the band live and spend all your hard earned cash on their records. If we've posted up an mp3 of your stuff and you're not too keen on the idea, let us know and we'll happily take it down pronto.