new website @ http://kokomo.fr

« Red River Hustle » is a song taken from the album « Thickets & Stitches »

  Red River Hustle

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http://www.themumlers.com

http://www.myspace.com/themumlers

« To Be Still » is the next Alela Diane’s album (available Feb 17 2009) in which you’ll find « White As Diamonds »  …

White As Diamonds

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http://www.aleladiane.com

http://www.aleladiane.com

http://www.myspace.com/alelamusic

This song is taken from Lex Land’s album « Orange Days On Lemon Street ».

As Much As You Lead

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http://lexland.net

http://www.myspace.com/lexacousticrock

 This wonderful song called « Illuminated Red » is taken from The Accidental debut album « There Were Wolves ».

(it is a recommendation send by Fred from Norway, a KOKOMO’s listeners)

Illuminated Red

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http://www.theaccidental.co.uk

http://www.myspace.com/theaccidental

[youtube width="425" height="344"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvODYPu0pmM[/youtube]

Walk Through A Cloud
Nice Train

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http://www.donkeysongs.com

http://www.myspace.com/thedonkeys

This is one of the bands I just discovered reading Slowcoustic’s year end list.

« Small Sur’s debut full-length, We Live in Houses Made of Wood, finds the band at their most nostalgic, meandering patiently among lush, reverb-drenched harmonies, and delicate, spare arrangements »

If you enjoy Dolorean or Great Lake Swimmers this album is for you !

 

 Tones by Small Sur: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

http://www.myspace.com/smallsur

Small Sur @ Tender Loving Empire

If you’d like to read an interview that Bob Keal gave and download a free copy of the EP released in 2006 on the Beechfields Record Label, go to http://www.thesecretstereo.com and have at it!

Dear listeners, 

The Fleet Foxes are the big winners of this BEST OF 2008 according to KOKOMO WebRadio : best album and best song !!! a luminous record made of wonderful harmonies.

If you want to discover and listen our ranking in its entirety, click on « best of 2008″ in the right menu.

Don’t forget to leave a comment and give us your Best Of 2008…

You can of course listen to all those artists on KOKOMO WebRadio ! (((happy listening)))

2008 is almost over, we are looking forward to 2009 with the upcoming albums of Marissa Nadler, Great Lake Swimmers, Bonnie « Prince » Billy, Antony and the Johnsons, Camera Obscura, Cats On Fire, Midlake, Ed Laurie …

I discovered Gregory Alan Isakov reading a post about him in You Crazy Dreamer. He released last year a L.P « That Sea, A Gambler » in witch you can find this wonderful song …

All There Is

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Early December, Adjustable Productions, release the film of a concert of Daniel Johnston at Union Chapel (London). 

The Angel & Daniel Johnston website

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also here’s a video from the 2005 documentary « The Devil and Daniel Johnston »

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Videos of Lambchop are scarces, this one is a live session in VH1 studios. The song is « The Saturday Option »  from the album « What Another Man Spills »

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[youtube width="425" height="344"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6WFMJGxE8[/youtube]

http://www.myspace.com/littlejoymusic

 » The new Beach House single is now available.  It features a new song « Used To Be » and a 4 track demo version of « Apple Orchard » from 2005.  Together it’s the newest and oldest pieces of music Beach House have recorded « .

http://beachhousemusic.net

« The Silence Of Love » is a themed album of covers produced by Eddie Bezalel and Hugo Nicolson. Alela Diane sings on it.

The opening track « True Love Will Find You At The End » is a song written by Daniel Johnston.
Live at the Mercy Lounge in Nashville on June 25, 2008 backed by the Hymns. Fascinating and captivating performance.

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Tyler Ramsey performed « No One Goes Out Anymore » from the album « A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea »

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you can download this song from his Daytrotter Session : «  There was a nice old upright piano there so I ended up doing this song.  It’s one of the few songs on the record that was written on piano.  I played piano before I ever picked up guitar and lately have been writing more songs on it « .

Belay On

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http://www.myspace.com/avaandian

Brett Barton is leader of Chicago based band Mean Sea Level who just released a wonderful E.P.

Brett answers a few quetions for KOKOMO WebRadio :

How could you discribe your music to somebody who never heard you ?
Familiar and unsettling, maybe like your subconcious.

If your music was a landscape ?
The marsh opposite my grandfathers dock, in charleston. It’s always green and yellow, all times of the year. It seems to be waking and sleeping all at once.

Your music sounds like a mix of English folk, American Folk, pop ; tell us more about your musical influences.
I like folk music, but I don’t think of myself as a folk artist. The finger picking guitar and quiet vocals in my recordings are easily categorized as folk, but I write in a more pop fashion. I’m influenced by artists that have multiple melodic layers in their music: Cocteau Twins, Dungen, Kinks. And I am drawn to the lyrics of John Cale. He has a great way of building a story that is completely open to interpretation.

You really doesn’t sound like others indie folk pop bands, what is your secret ?
I try to write a song that has momentum–bringing in instruments and filling out the arrangement as the music progresses. A hook is important to me, although I don’t believe it has to be melodic. It can be a warped out keyboard, undefined texture in the background or a hard left turn 2/3rds of the way through.

When, how, did you know that a song is successfully completed.
It’s important that a song rarely plateaus. If it does, there is no reason to keep repeating what’s happening. So I often bring instruments in later in the song to present new melodies and widen the music. I stop filling out the song when I feel like there is just enough elements to pull the listener all the way through.

There is a very beautiful sound on this record, who is the sound engineer for this recording. Tell us more about the recording process.
This album is a collection of songs that had been sitting around on tapes or in my computer for a few years. I was listening through rough mixes of songs one day and chose these because of their similar lyrical themes. They had been recorded in my apartment [vocals, guitar] and I brought them to the Cardboard Sangria project studio to have friends lay down drums, electric guitar and keyboards. We all play together in various groups in Chicago and worked quite well together. Our space has many instruments sitting around and they show up all over the record. I would layer instruments like an out of tune piano with bells, or an organ with whistles. I mixed it myself and it was mastered by Blaise Barton.

What’s your story with music ?
My house was full of music from Neil Diamonds great early albums to the Motown my mother would listen too. No one in my family was a musician, but we did have an over-sized organ in the family room and I started playing it when I was in grade school. It was big enough for a church and my feet couldn’t touch the pedals, so I would sit on the ground and push the pedals with my hands—almost blowing out my ear drums [Ironically, this new album includes hand-played organ bass]. Eventually I picked up the guitar and joined a band where we humiliated every song from Iron Maiden and Def Leopard. I quickly learned that I didn’t ‘rock!’ and moved on to what I’m doing now.

Where did you find your inspiration ?
Inspirations comes from others creations. books, music, paintings……all of it.

What are your projects for the up coming months ?
I’ll be working on some videos for this record and I am already working up new songs for a single.

Did you have side musical projects ?
I often play bass with a band called Singleman Affair that is fronted by Dan Schneider. His first album [“Let’s Kill the Summer”] is beautiful and very haunting and he is about to put out a new album that sounds fantastic. I am recording and mixing a new album for Tiger Trio [on Cardboard Sangria]. The guitar player, Gary Pyskacek, played on a few of my songs.

Is there a song you wish you had written ?
I’m glad that I never wrote the songs I love, or I might not love them. I like writing songs–but the music I enjoy is always someone else’s, never my own.

What are you currently listening to, any recommended records ?
Dungen – 4, Chico Buraque’s “Construcao” and anything from Nina Simone

http://www.myspace.com/meansealevel

 » the EP and single offer up a few more goodies from the « Thing Of The Past » sessions and release earlier in the year. The CD has versions of The Wizards « See You Tonight », Grin’s « Just To Have You », the Everly Brothers’ « Hey Doll Baby », Banana & The Bunch’s « Before The Sun Goes Down » and Jody Stecher’s « Hills of Isle au Haute », and the 7″ contains « Hey Doll Baby » along with a version of A.R.Kane’s « Miles Apart » on the flip « .

Miles Apart

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http://www.vetiverse.com/

http://www.myspace.com/vetiverse

http://www.gnomonsong.com/vetiver/

« It’s one of the lost classics of the ’60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion, and, of course, « jumpers, coke, sweet mary jane ». The album is Cold Fact, and what’s more intriguing is that its maker – a shadowy figure known as Rodriguez – was, for many years, lost too ».

Sugar Man

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http://www.sugarman.org/

http://www.myspace.com/sixtorodriguezzz

http://www.lightintheattic.net/

« Family, Family, Family Meets the Magic Christian » is their brand new album.

http://www.myspace.com/matthewandthearrogantsea

« Pretty Purple Top Hat »

« Mock Origami »

listen his music @ http://www.myspace.com/andybobmartin