Purpleblues Webcast: Maceo's Coming to Reading

 

Purpleblues Webcast: Maceo's Coming to Reading Pts 1 & 2

"Webcast fever... or what to do whilst between Dad taxi jobs"

Purpleblues says:

"OK, here's the deal.
Maceo is hoping to be in my part of the world, we are going to try to meet up.. as per previous EMC member meet ups....
but, being sad and with time on my hands between Dad taxi jobs this week, I started putting together a podcast with some of the artists I've been listening too..
however. My headset is at work so I can't record the mic breaks, so it exists as 2 x 80 minute mix casts, seamless and ready to go.
Then I had a Eureka moment., just a short piece of writing in which all the song titles appear, in the same order as on the Podcasts."

'Maceo's coming to Reading, we're gonna do Lunch, he wants to discuss his fear of meat, ah, Lunchmeatophobia I tell him. I know just the cure...
so will we end up Stoned, Drunk & Naked...

As Record Collectors we share the distinction of being born in a hurricane of people doing their personal thing, but being Gentle Spirits Under a stormy sky, but suffering from those  Ash wednesday blues, I am constantly forced to get it outta my stystem, all because I witnessed a crime  comitted by the  riders on the storm when it rains, which makes me a Doo Doo Heartbreaker out in the Purple Rain, but as M says, it's all one world...

Post lunch, we hopped onto Public Transport "Oh, here, it's No Spitting on the bus" I said. Maceo looked at me. "Pass the Peas, and pay the man.”

We get to The Spanish Moon” here, Maceo gets cornered by a local, who was telling him “now that we've found love, Blues Ain't nothin, but a  little bubble”.

As we stepped away, this ghostly figure continued…

"Hollywood has ended; it's the End Days of the Computer Age .

It's time for us to stop Sleeping in the ground and say Welcome to the jungle!"

Taken aback by this, I stumbled and fell way down in a hole... “Get up outta that Wishing Well” Maceo shouted. Otherwise you'll catch those Buenos Aires Blues.'

"Decided to do a Part 2 - no talking, just music as I left my headset microphone at work :(

So who's next ?
Welcome to Reading... A city in the making

oh, Mrs PB was convinced that we would both be disappointed when we met as the standing joke in this house is that we are all pretending to be 15 year old school girls .. One up to us as Maceo is , as expected, an urbane ambassador of the funk."

    Enjoy,

Purpleblues

Listen to Purpleblues' Maceo's coming to Reading, Part 1  later here

Listen to Purpleblues' Maceo's coming to Reading, Part 2  later here

Jfrost, CKJ & Kramor2K - Tipple Threat Paddy Cast

  

Tipple Threat Paddy Cast

 

 After hours of converting, chopping , slicing , splicing and dicing.....and fighting with a useless microphone - (any excuse will do!)
Here we give you....

 A special St Patrick's Day Triple Threat Broadcast from the Irish contingent of Entropy MC and EMF Radio - J Frost, CKJ 505 and Kramor2K!  Featuring the finest in Irish music...or a least a thin Irish connection!

Listen to later here and here

Maxim's EMC Audio #5 - NPG Vandals: The ONA Tour

 More "Ear candy dipped in a deep shade of purple" from Maxim!  EMC Audio # 5 is a special webcast of unreleased NPG Vandals projects, with the focus here on live music.

This features the purple one's fantastic One Night Alone tour but - as Ymaginitif said -

"here like you've never heard it before!!  Maxim has made a really cool selection of the crazy and the unexpected: instrumental versions, unique versions, unique song choices - all thrown together in a breathtaking hour of music!"

Enjoy later here

More EMC Audio can be found here

 

Maceo Webcast #29 - Artist Spotlight

Maceo Musicology Webcast #29

Maceo Musicology Webcast #29 (Lewis Taylor) by Mace2theo on Mixcloud

is a British multi-instrumentalist musician, born in north London, UK, in the late 1960s. He started in the music business touring with a progrock band. In 1986 he began performing as Sh*riff J*ck, releasing two albums of psychedelia music. As LT, he released his self-titled album in 1996. This album showcases a departure from psychedelia towards Neo soul.

In June 2006, LT retired from music. However, as Andrew T, he remains active in the music industry. LT has since been musical director and bass player for Gnarls Barkley, and guitarist/backing vocalist for [several UK bands].

That is essentially all that is on wiki.

It leaves out much of his recording career as LT has did "one the most amazing disappearing act known to man", took down his old website, closed the fansite, removed all videos from youtube and most of his music from the internet.    

What happened?

"On the release of his 1996 debut album, LT was lauded as, among other things, the lastest inheritor of the blue-eyed soul savoir mantle. Most singers would have been flattered, but LT kicked hard against it.  His label (Island) did not seem to know how to handle or properly promote the music of their "precociously talented" new artist, and an album that was "an unprecedented amalgamation of soul, groove-based psychedelica and rock".  LT retreated to his bedroom to craft his meticulously overdubbed solo masterworks, releasing three albums on his own label. The results "blended prog rock and soft soul in dense, wedding-cake arrangements iced with layer upon layer of falsetto harmonies."  After the US release of one of his cds and an aborted tour, he publicly announced his 'retirement' in 2006 via his now shut-down website, and has not released anything since."

(wiki/cinemablend/independent/chrispickering)

However, he reappeared on a Deborah Bond single in 2011, and that sent me back to his cds.  

To describe his music, I refer to a review by Rolling Stone and New York Times music critic Jon Pareles from a 2006 show:

"LT is a throwback to the one-man studio bands of the analog 1970's: songwriters like Todd Rundgren, Stevie Wonder, Prince and Paul McCartney. He skews half a dozen once-disparate 1970's styles to his own whims. Among them are smooth soul, psychedelia, progressive rock and blues-rock, any of which might show up in the course of songs that can change drastically between beginning and end.

As a pop craftsman, LT has reverse-engineered the music he loves: not just to emulate it, but also to graft unlikely combinations. A pounding, zigzagging prog-rock riff gave way to an aching ballad and a spiraling wah-wah guitar solo; a pop love song detoured into chromatic chords or started hopping upward, repeatedly changing key."

I hope this webcast interest you enough to find out more and go buy his cds, which you can find on itunes and amazon 

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