podcast no 76 - above and below

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A mellow start to today's podcast, starting with a beautiful unaccompanied vocal, a first for the electrical language podcast. We end with another first, 2 different versions of the same song, by the same artist.

Jeni Melia - She Moved Through The Fair

She Moved Through The Fair is a traditional song, a beautiful song in the hands of a good singer. And Jeni Melia is a good singer. With The English Ayre she performs old English songs beautifully. At magnatune.com Jeni has two albums of Elizabethan songs performed to the lute accompaniment of Chris Goodwin. And did you know that a lute player is a lutenist?


Tim George - Love

Tim is an acoustic artist from Northampton, England. That's all I know. But what lovely songs. Listen to his music on his myspace page or at purevolume.





Glassacre - Swimming in Greece

Let Glassacre tell you about themselves: "Glassacre is a delayed conversation between it's collective members. A kind of handing over and giving in of the constituent elements in the hope that something larger will form. The sometimes skewed pop of their first ep, "Slow Attack" , is perhaps a misleading introduction to the process that belay it - something between an exquisite corpse and Frankenstein's bride. "

Buy Slow Attack on iTunes



The podcast closes with 2 different versions of Below by Lisa DeBenedictis:

Below, from the album Tigers

Unaffected (Below Sleepless Mix) by OakHonour, from the album Mixter One

Lisa's solo music is fresh, original, and gorgeous. Her songs have an ethereal quality that will take you to another world. A "one-woman operation," Lisa plays a variety of instruments including piano, guitar, keyboard, violin, oboe, and mandolin. She is the sole writer, performer, and producer of all her music.

Magnatune invited various producers to remix Below, and Mixter One is the product - 15 different versions of this song from the sleek, downtempo fare of Deutscheunschuld and CallMeYang to the savvy jazz doubletakes of OakHonour and Teru. And Lisa DeBenedictis's vocal works so well with them all. Check out the music at magnatune.

Honourable mentions given today to the following podcasts:

• It's a frog's life acoustic podcast
• The tartanpodcast
• Three From Leith
• Well Made Music
  

Soundbed music used in today's podcast was Victory by Jeff Wahl. The signature tune is by Tragic Shell Suit Disaster.