I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision" - Kieren Hebden aka Four Tet. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. "A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we'd been making for the last few years. That's the only way to explain the specificity of Four Tet and Madlib's collaboration, in this special album that showcases a two-decade long friendship that has resulted in an album that follows Madlib's classics like Quasimoto's "The Unseen", "Madvillainy" and his "Pinata" and "Bandana" albums with Freddie Gibbs. Holger Czukay to the ensemble known as Can.Jean Claude Vannier to Serge Gainsbourg on "Histoire de Melody Nelson". Now signed to the tiny Mega label, she would record seven albums for them between 19, and the pick of them are the heart of this compilation. Her most successful moment came in 1971, when she scored the original hit version of Kris Kristofferson's ‘Help Me Make It Through The Night’, which peaked at #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 and earned Sammi a Grammy for "Best Country Vocal Performance by a Female". Compiled and annotated by Bob Stanley, "Looks Like Stormy Weather" is a collection built for winter nights. Her low, distinctively husky voice was built for sad songs, and she has been described as country music's Dusty Springfield. One of the highlights of Ace's acclaimed "Choctaw Ridge" compilation earlier this year was her ‘Saunders' Ferry Lane’, an eerie tale of doomed romance in a chilly backwater.
Sammi Smith sang soulful, melancholy country music. Her range swings from fluttering highs to earthen lows, with a distinctiveness that evokes the enduring quality of early Asylum Records.įebruary 4 street date. Recalling the everywoman quality of Judy Collins and the quiet mystery of Billie Holiday, Black largely sings over simple acoustic guitar strumming, her voice a beacon amid tales of fantasy and heartache. Co-produced by Cass McCombs and meticulously restored from the original tapes (including six of Howe's recordings), Karen Black's "Dreaming of You (1971-1976)" gathers for the first time the best of her recordings: 15 tracks that are a holistic depiction of her dreamy, introspective and earnest musical identity. Amid her meteoric rise, Black also wrote and recorded a host of original songs, many with two of the era's most prestigious producers, Bones Howe and Elliot Mazer. And in her best-suited and most vulnerable performances, she sang. Her ability to submerge herself in each role marked her as a skilled character actor, one that translated into a real and imperfect person, not a polished emblem of Hollywood. An actor, singer, screenwriter, poet, and unyielding creative spirit, she was a prominent figure in the American New Wave, portraying a host of tender and labyrinthine women on screen.
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