Do you like downbeat music, chill out and downtempo grooves? I’ve released over 4 albums of downbeat and chill out music under the artist name Ganga, while touring, performing internationally and collaborating regularly with other artists in electronic, funk and world music genres. I am blogging regularly on the free chill out music blog, reviewing, recommending and showcasing new chilled beats and tracks from around the world. So make sure you’re signed up to my email list to receive ongoing updates on new chill, world, funk and electronic music as well as free chill out music downloads – including instant access to the track “Light” from my 4th album “Gaia” and the bonus track “Chioolin”.
(ONLY music that is already free is given away at this blog – please let us know if you think we are violating anyones rights)
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This weeks special treat is a mellow singer song writer track from Ireland. Original written by Willow Smith and here covered by James Vincent Mc Morrow.
Download here:
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/James_Vincent_McMorrow/track/Whip_My_Hair_Willow_Smith_Cover
Here is what they write about his release.
James Vincent Mc Morrow released his debut, Early in the Morning, in Ireland to widespread critical acclaim February 2010.
It is a collection of songs recorded over 5 months in an isolated house by the sea and the album is a completely self recorded affair, filled with beguiling and vivid stories, fables that move from a whisper in your ear to a huge crescendo in the space of a song, all the while retaining the environment and sentiment in which they were created.
The record was borne out of James Vincents desire to create something singular, take the simplest of chords, wrap them in washes of melody, so lines come in, they drop out, everything ebbs and flows as the songs move towards their inevitable end. He doesn´t sit down with an agenda when he writes. He usually has a first line, and a vague sense in his head of where the song is going, but no real solid structure. Music tends to reveal itself to him over the course of weeks and months. It’s probably quite like sculpting, he says. “You have a chisel, you know what’s waiting for you inside the stone, and all that’s left is to chip away the pieces and the finally reveal it.”
From the very first lines of the album, that singularity is there for everybody to hear. A 5 part harmony cascades in, followed by a good old growling organ and a slide guitar line of the eeriest and spectral kind. ‘If I had a boat’ is not only a great opener, but also a song that perfectly encapsulates the dense lyricism and compelling melody of the next 40 minutes of the album. Its words intense but never over wrought, a vocal line that pulls you along into a truly epic ending, an arrangement of swirling vocal lines and inventive thought, it is a song to build upon for sure.
“I always knew when I wrote this song that it should open the album” acknowledges James, “the lyric is about change. That is the underlying theme that ties it all together. The last 2 years that preceded this record being made involved the greatest change I’d ever experienced, physical, emotional, and spiritual. When I write lyrics they come together in a very uncoordinated way, lines get written and slowly link up until a story reveals itself. It was only when I was finished that I looked back and saw the words for what they were and slowly realized what they meant.”
Over the course of the 10 songs that follow, Early in the morning is a clear winner. From the simple beauty of “hear the noise that moves so soft and low”, to the pastoral thump of “sparrow and the wolf’, and the grace of ‘follow you down to the red oak tree”, the change and movement that James speaks of in his lyrics is perfectly reflected in the structure and pacing of the record. There is also a deliberate sense to the tracklisting. When the lone kick and two pianos of ‘we dont eat’ give way to the 1960’s west coast folk of ‘this old dark machine’, its just the way James intends it to be.
Towards the latter half of the record a darker tone creeps in, or as James puts it, “the closest I’ll ever get to proper mythical fantasy writing!” These songs is just where we will find him at his most literate and ornate, creating ominous figures, and a tangible sense of tension and foreboding. Drawing on his childhood love of Roald Dahl, and his fascination with American novelists such as John Steinbeck and F Scott Fitzgerald, James draws life from their writings because “they all examine the darker less spoken about aspects of life, solitudeand also disillusionment. I’m not one for defining a lyric, or what it really means, but songs like ‘follow you down to the red oak tree’, ‘from the woods’, and ‘down the burning ropes’ are me exorcising the dark side of my personality. The characters I create in these songs, the ones existing in the shadows, they are all elements of my personality of me for sure”
And then the album endsthe title track of the record, which James describes as a “simple ode to the love that I have”. It is backed by a banjo and a piano, a folk round that fades out as quietly as it arrives, the squeak of the piano stool and a final reminder of the homespun nature of what just happened.
Website: http://myspace.com/jamesvmcmorrow
<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>
http://www.ganga.dk
http://www.listn.to/ganga
http://www.flincmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/gangalounge
http://www.youtube.com/gangalounge
http://www.last.fm/music/Ganga
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Ganga
http://www.gangamusic.info
http://www.bandbase.dk/ganga
http://www.reverbnation.com/ganga
Are you a fan of downbeat music, chill out and downtempo grooves? I’ve released over 4 albums of downbeat and chill out music under the artist name Ganga, while touring, performing internationally and collaborating regularly with other artists in electronic, funk and world music genres. I am blogging regularly on the free chill out music blog, reviewing, recommending and showcasing new chilled beats and tracks from around the world. So make sure you’re signed up to my email list to receive ongoing updates on new chill, world, funk and electronic music as well as free chill out music downloads – including instant access to the track “Light” from my 4th album “Gaia” and another bonus track “Chioolin”.
(ONLY music that is already free is given away at this blog – please let us know if you think we are violating anyones rights)
_____________________________________________
This weeks special treat is a mellow singer song writer track from Ireland. Original written by Willow Smith and here covered by James Vincent Mc Morrow.
Download here:
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/James_Vincent_McMorrow/track/Whip_My_Hair_Willow_Smith_Cover
Here is what they write about his release.
James Vincent Mc Morrow released his debut, Early in the Morning, in Ireland to widespread critical acclaim February 2010.
It is a collection of songs recorded over 5 months in an isolated house by the sea and the album is a completely self recorded affair, filled with beguiling and vivid stories, fables that move from a whisper in your ear to a huge crescendo in the space of a song, all the while retaining the environment and sentiment in which they were created.
The record was borne out of James Vincents desire to create something singular, take the simplest of chords, wrap them in washes of melody, so lines come in, they drop out, everything ebbs and flows as the songs move towards their inevitable end. He doesn´t sit down with an agenda when he writes. He usually has a first line, and a vague sense in his head of where the song is going, but no real solid structure. Music tends to reveal itself to him over the course of weeks and months. It’s probably quite like sculpting, he says. “You have a chisel, you know what’s waiting for you inside the stone, and all that’s left is to chip away the pieces and the finally reveal it.”
From the very first lines of the album, that singularity is there for everybody to hear. A 5 part harmony cascades in, followed by a good old growling organ and a slide guitar line of the eeriest and spectral kind. ‘If I had a boat’ is not only a great opener, but also a song that perfectly encapsulates the dense lyricism and compelling melody of the next 40 minutes of the album. Its words intense but never over wrought, a vocal line that pulls you along into a truly epic ending, an arrangement of swirling vocal lines and inventive thought, it is a song to build upon for sure.
“I always knew when I wrote this song that it should open the album” acknowledges James, “the lyric is about change. That is the underlying theme that ties it all together. The last 2 years that preceded this record being made involved the greatest change I’d ever experienced, physical, emotional, and spiritual. When I write lyrics they come together in a very uncoordinated way, lines get written and slowly link up until a story reveals itself. It was only when I was finished that I looked back and saw the words for what they were and slowly realized what they meant.”
Over the course of the 10 songs that follow, Early in the morning is a clear winner. From the simple beauty of “hear the noise that moves so soft and low”, to the pastoral thump of “sparrow and the wolf’, and the grace of ‘follow you down to the red oak tree”, the change and movement that James speaks of in his lyrics is perfectly reflected in the structure and pacing of the record. There is also a deliberate sense to the tracklisting. When the lone kick and two pianos of ‘we dont eat’ give way to the 1960’s west coast folk of ‘this old dark machine’, its just the way James intends it to be.
Towards the latter half of the record a darker tone creeps in, or as James puts it, “the closest I’ll ever get to proper mythical fantasy writing!” These songs is just where we will find him at his most literate and ornate, creating ominous figures, and a tangible sense of tension and foreboding. Drawing on his childhood love of Roald Dahl, and his fascination with American novelists such as John Steinbeck and F Scott Fitzgerald, James draws life from their writings because “they all examine the darker less spoken about aspects of life, solitudeand also disillusionment. I’m not one for defining a lyric, or what it really means, but songs like ‘follow you down to the red oak tree’, ‘from the woods’, and ‘down the burning ropes’ are me exorcising the dark side of my personality. The characters I create in these songs, the ones existing in the shadows, they are all elements of my personality of me for sure”
And then the album endsthe title track of the record, which James describes as a “simple ode to the love that I have”. It is backed by a banjo and a piano, a folk round that fades out as quietly as it arrives, the squeak of the piano stool and a final reminder of the homespun nature of what just happened.
Website: http://myspace.com/jamesvmcmorrow
<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>
http://www.ganga.dk
http://www.listn.to/ganga
http://www.flincmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/gangalounge
http://www.youtube.com/gangalounge
http://www.last.fm/music/Ganga
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Ganga
http://www.gangamusic.info
http://www.bandbase.dk/ganga
http://www.reverbnation.com/ganga