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Rhys tells all about solo album number seven
All photos: Mark James
It was, as they say, a different time. Back in October 2018,
Gruff Rhystook his band on a three week tour of California. Their mission was to knock a series of songs that Rhys – sometime
Super Furry Animals frontman, sometime solo artist – had penned into shape before heading into the studio.
“We had three weeks before recording when we were doing gigs every night and trying out the sounds live and rehearsing them in soundchecks and things,” he recalls, looking back on this time from his front room back in Wales towards the end of lockdown number three. “It’s something that would be difficult to get into that kind of shape during lockdown.“
Nick Page obituary Robin Denselow
Nick Page, who has died aged 60 of cancer, was a musician, producer, composer, bandleader and one of the most inventive, enthusiastic exponents of the British global fusion scene.
As co-founder in 1990 of the musical collective Transglobal Underground, blending live and programmed music with influences from Asia, Jamaica, and Africa, Nick set out, he said, “to attract an audience who wanted to dance – but not to techno”.
Also known as Count Dubulah, or simply Dubulah, he produced or performed with an array of experimental bands, mixing contemporary styles with influences from around the world. He told me he had worked on “about 250 albums and singles”, and that his aim was to “constantly surprise”. In 2008 he launched Dub Colossus, a bravely original band that mixed Ethiopian styles (and musicians) with dub and reggae. Further projects involved reworking and updating music from the Middle East and Greece.
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She Drew The Gun Post New Track Cut Me Down Friday, 07 May 2021
She Drew The Gun have dropped a new single, Cut Me Down.
The furious track is lifted from Louisa Roach and band s upcoming Ross Orton-produced album, Behave Myself , due out on September 24 via Submarine Cat Records. Speaking about the creative energy behind the dark, pop-rock offering, Roach said: Resisterhood continued. Inspired by the Las Tesis protests in Chile which brought a new level to the idea of a protest song, where hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets and sang The Rapist is You . The police, the government, the judges, the system was not designed to look after womens rights and it still does not, so I will have to fight Deeper, faster, harder, cheaper, stronger, further smarter just to get even with you.