Amazing Radio listen again with Vuvuvultures

On this week’s show we have our most riotous interview yet. Vuvuvultures are four musicians who make the kind of hip swaggeringly fine music that you wish you were them, just a little bit. Turns out I went to school with Paul’s (the producer and techie brains behind the band) girlfriend. He’s South African and so are Matt and Nicole, they’re joined by the achingly cool Harmony Boucher on vocals, she’s Australian but now firmly ensconced in London as are they all. Their recent EP is achingly cool, but not in that overdone east London type hipster way - these are four really strong tracks with great melodies and a soccer-punch of a beat. 

Latest listening: Supertalented/ Jane Joyd

Supertalented is Noa Kurzweil and friends: they make short, weird, lo-fi pop tunes about, well, cheesecake and potatoes and things... Weight Watchers and Plus Size are the two albums she's released on netlabel Birdsong and every song is shorter and sweeter than the next. The tag line is: "Supertalented are super Lo-Fi for Superpeople." High five! Thanks to Greg Healey for the tip.

Amazing Radio listen again with She Makes War and Zara McFarlane

This week on the show jazz-soul singer Zara McFarlane drops in for a chat about her debut album released last year on Brownswood Recordings. Turns out sorta-stalking label boss and DJ Gilles Peterson on Twitter paid off!

There's new music from Brighton band Us Baby Bear Bones, Cardiff via the west country Laurence Made Me Cry who has just announced her album fundraiser (sponsume link), a track from Ellen and the Escapades brilliant Amazing Session, some doom-folk from 23 year old Ethiopian born Finland bred songstree Mirel Wagner and Dimbleby & Capper’s Laura Bettinson’s latest project Eckoclick. Also a remix from London electro-threesome Nedry’s new remix album out soon. 

Latest listening: Janine and the Mixtape/ Colour Me Wednesday

Janine And The Mixtape - Bullets

WARNING: THIS WILL GET STUCK IN YOUR HEAD FOR DAYS. It's the voice (take note The Voice tv show fans - this is how it's done) and one hell of a hook. Janine Foster fronts Janine and the Mixtape: she sings, writes the songs, produces, plays synths, sorts out the beats - the works. A New Zealander who has spent time in New York and evidently immersed herself in the global electro hip-hop scene, there's a buzz building... watch this space!

Amazing Radio listen again with Cate Le Bon and Pins

Cate Le Bon

We kicked off the show this week with a stunning session track courtesy of Simon Raymonde’s excellent show, which soundtracked a night in on Monday making the world’s biggest shepherd’s pie. Dark Dark Dark are a Minneapolis band fronted by Nona Marie Invie who has one of the best voices I’ve heard in years.  

Latest listening: Sophie Jamieson/ Mensch

 
Sophie Jamieson - The Harbour Wall

The best thing about being part of a network of new music fanatics, is getting tips from your mates. Skopje puts on acoustic nights in Watford, north London, and always nabs himself the best of line ups. Sophie Jamieson is one such tip he sent over to me, and this song The Harbour Wall is just beautiful. And we're not biased that she's singing about Dublin at all - but being married to a Dubliner, I like to think I've stood at that very spot on Dublin harbour wall, tasted the salt and felt that breeze...

Amazing Radio listen again with Saint Saviour

This week TOW speaks to Saint Saviour, the angel-voiced singer who made her name writing and fronting Groove Armada’s latest album Black Light. Now she’s about to unleash her debut solo album on the world, Union. Becky Jones has a voice in a million and is a fantastic song-writer. She reckons she’s managed to please all her fans on this record, those who like her in die-hard electroclash mode and those who prefer her voice soaring over a piano ballad. It’s been a long road and now with a fresh signing to AEG Live, Saint Saviour cannot wait to get her music into the public domain.