This week(extract from the latest Later email):
There can be no doubt that the mod father of cool
PAUL WELLER has got
his ‘mojo’ back with his new album ‘As Is Now’. Weller will be
performing tracks from this critically acclaimed album.
From Mexico,
Carlos SANTANA has sold over 90 million albums worldwide
in a career that has so far spanned four decades. His signature guitar
sound – fusing rock, jazz, blues, soul and latin styles is as unique as
it is instantly identifiable.
Former Velvet Underground member and one of the coolest Welsh men in
music,
JOHN CALE returns with a new album, ‘blackAcetate’ which has been
described as containing songs of “fervour, distortion and atmosphere”.
Who else do I have for your televisual delight?
BETTYE LAVETTE is one of the supreme voices in soul music and a hero to
the UK’s 1970’s Northern Soul kids. Having recorded for four decades,
Bettye has remained criminally unknown. With a new record deal under her
hat, Bettye returns with a new album, ‘I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise’
and a mission to finally make her mark.
Icelandic natives
SIGUR ROS deliver another dose of their uniquely
atmospheric, orchestral and layered sound from their new album ‘Takk’.
Finally, nine time Grammy winner,
SHERYL CROW has released her first
studio album in three years, ‘Wildflower’. It has been described as “a
collection of intimate, introspective compositions”.
Next week, I’ll have TEXAS, BABYSHAMBLES, SALIF KEITA, TEDDY THOMPSON &
SEAN PAUL.
(sounds very bizarre, I know, but it works.)