New music: Vuk aka Emily Cheeger - The Archaeologist

Back in January 2010 when we kick-started this blog in a little kitchen in Clapton, east London one of the first posts absolutely had to be about Vuk. Read about it here... and then move your ears onto a brand new track!

A studio demo from the Finnish-American solo artist, called The Archaeologist, has reached our inbox... taken from the album that has a working titles of Year of the Gourd (how very Game of Thrones, we love it!). It's all written, arranged, played and sung by Vuk aka Emily Cheeger.

Vuk is also currently looking for any interested labels to release her record, and if this track is anything to go by it's going to be amazing. Last year's The Plains was one of our albums of the year.

   

6 Music Introducing - tracklist Monday 6 December

Ruth Barnes sat in for Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music this morning (Monday 6 December from 1am). Tom was stuck in the snow in Southampton, so producer Tom Whalley and I put our heads together to do him justice with these cracking tunes:

You can listen again here.

Museum of Bellas Artes — Watch The Glow (Force Majeure)

Bordeauxxx — Heartstrings (Unsigned)

Conquering Animal Sound — Bear (Gizeh Records)

Poppy Perezz — My Heart (Holmbush Records)

Kona Triangle — Long Mountain (Porter Records)

Polly and the Billets Doux — Back To Earth (Bleak Mouse Records)

Mean Lady — Rain (Unsigned)

Father Longlegs — Chinese R’n’R Cat (Unsigned)

Paper Dollhouse — Moon (Unsigned)

Fever Fever — Bloodless (Cherryade)

EXCLUSIVE LIVE SESSION: Vuk — My Darling, My Sister, My Dying Bride

Peepholes — Carnivore (Upset the Rhythm)

Nuphlo — 40 Thieves (Studio Rockers)

Former Ghosts — Chin Up (Upset The Rhythm)

Professor Ojo — Zebras (Unsigned)

Bellies — Bellies! Theme

Grande Duke — Circle Of Willis (Fight Me Records)

Wonder Bear — Solar Pond (Unsigned)

Selebrities — Time (Cascine)

Minnie Birch — Bicycle Song (Unsigned)

Sea of Bees — Gnomes (Heavenly)

A Gap Between — Bonfire (Nueva Forma)

EXCLUSIVE LIVE SESSION: Vuk — Nameless Bones (Unsigned)

Keep Shelly In Athens — Fokionos Negri Street (Forest Family/Transparent)

Martha! Mother — Indian Country

Listen again to the beautiful session from This Is The Kit here

Thanks again to the wonderful Kate Stables for coming on the show to play live, she is This Is The Kit and one half of Whalebone Polly too.


TOW has been dying to get her into the studio since hearing her John Parish produced album Krulle Bol last year, she did, and even played us a new song...

Thanks to Mark for making us Twitter-tastic too, check our tweets for pics from tonight's session - Otherwomanradio.


  TOW This Is The Kit 100210  by  ruthbarnes


Playlist:

*Caitlin Rose - Gorilla Man (Names)

*Lone Lady - Immaterial (Warp)

*Vuk -  The Plains (Pyramid)

*Green Blossoms - Hana Akari (Black Petal)

*Fists - Endlessly Dreaming (Hello Thor)

*Hila Baggio - Gush Forth My Tears (EnT-T)

THIS IS THE KIT LIVE SESSION

*Birchwood Beaker

*Turnip Turned

*Moon

*Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard (Trouble)

*Cate Le Bon - Shoeing The Bones (Irony Bored)

*BeaTricks - Contravention (Wagon Repair)

New music tip for 2010 1: Vuk

Vuk is a Finnish-American force of nature, who says "the pump organ is a very underrated instrument". But of course! Her second album Plains is out now and I missed her perform at Barden's Boudoir a few months ago. Darn it. 


Vuk, is mainly the lady in the picture with the fox on her head. Ah-hem. She writes everything and plays what you hear on her albums, but live she enlists friends Loupine and Janne Lastumäki to form a trio. 


Vuk are genre-busting, if there was an impromptu rap on one of the tracks I'd say that would pretty much do it. What album is complete without an impromptu rap? Now that's a whole other topic for another time. Dark, mysterious, funny and completely melodramatic - TOW loves Vuk.