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Two releases which are less than a month old this week. The “Polymood” album is an expansion on L’Eclair’s quest to channel and honor their Afro-Disco, Kosmische, and early House 70s influences. And what we end up with is a collection of timeless Swiss Groove™ music—inspired by William Onyeabor, French band AIR, Piero Picioni, Sly Stone and CAN’s ‘Future Days’—bringing euphoric dance to the human machine while it perseveres in its never-ending search for the soul. For those late nights, after several glasses of wine while lying down on the shaggy carpet drifting off into a state of bliss... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6OVzuABsb0&t=112s Apart from having the best album cover I've seen this year, Dunbarrow is one of those bands I liked within the first 10 seconds of listening to it. Beautiful sound, clean guitars mixing Blues with Doom metal aspects. There's a clear Black Sabbath heritage, but hey who cares when done this well?Enjoy this genre some actually lab

Julia Michaels - Issues Making pop music is an art...and a little bit of science.   Julia Michaels is 24 and has written songs for various artists since she was 16.  Here is a deceptively simple song and its deconstruction by a couple of songwriters of the little known podcast called Switched on Pop. The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ke4480MicU The podcast: http://www.switchedonpop.com/63-morgan-page-reveals-the-rule-of-3-julia-michaels-and-maroon-5/ http://i0.wp.com/www.switchedonpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/63-Rule-Of-Three-2.png?fit=800%2C800

As an internationally known hymn of freedom, it was sung at many historic and revolutionary events. Italian partisans fighting against German occupation troops had it in their repertoire. In this century the song stands for the inherent rights of all people to be liberated from tyranny. Hundreds of covers have been made, recently even by Tom Waits (he's getting a bit too old for these things imho). This year at Dranouter we've heard it twice.  Here's two versions:  Goran Bregovic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGY_htXtPI   Luca Bassanese version live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrR6mmL7MAE   New protest songs in 2018? You bet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ1r79OxGvk   One of the best moments of Dranouter, starting in an empty tent, by the end of this song it was packed...

Lead Belly, born poor, was a delta blues man who liked women and got in jail for murder. A hard life and talent mixes well, here are a couple of originals you probably only know the cover of: Where did you sleep last night?  Famous cover by Nirvana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6yCEsDsGx4 Black Betty.  Famous cover by Ram Jam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fii6PX0-VXs The house of the rising sun.  Famous cover by The Animals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs Goodnight Irene.  Famous cover by Frank Sinatra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doFJHXDwJ8 Midnight Special.  Famous cover by Van Morrison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrdioqIMtpY Cotton Fields. Covered by the Beach Boys, CCR and Johnny Cash... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnuMaA7duo BTW, Lead Belly discovered the then unkown Woodie Guthrie in New York shortly before he died. There's another history lesson due in our Music Tuesdays at some point.