Monday, May 28, 2007

New Songs Added - 5/28/07

This week I have added new tunes from this year's American Idol winner Jordin Sparks (I Who Have Nothing) and finalist Blake Lewis (You Give Love A Bad Name). I have also switched out Ayla Brown's Know You Better with Thanks To You.

Did you know that Julianne Hough, the winner of this season's Dancing With The Stars, also sings? She has a country single available on iTunes called Will You Dance With Me? It is quite good and I have added it to the playlist this week along with Paul McCartney's new single, Ever Present Past; Embrace's single, Gravity, from their 2005 album "Embrace"; and I Wish I Wasn't by Heather Headley.

Home by Great Northern was available as a free download on iTunes and rather like it a lot. Here is an excerpt from their bio:
Great Northern songs are genuinely, memorably melodic, and it’s the several coatings of so many melodies within each track that makes them something to return to again and again. “It’s important to Solon and me that the songs have a lot to offer,” says Stolte. “The songs on my mind are the ones that you hear over and over and you hear something new every time.” The very moody “lOw IS a hEIghT” is inarguably a gorgeous song, but what’s it about? A crucial ambiguity raises its pointy head when the band embarks on an extended instrumental coda that brings variation to the main theme, as if crystalizing the essence of the mood the song seeks to convey. Building to a caterwauling intensity, “Telling Lies” flirts with the epic (in short form, of course) by fusing tremeloed multiple guitars and voices as drummer Davey thrashes artfully. Exhilarating dervishes of high whining keyboard strings and guitars lure you to the bridge, where you might find yourself utterly addicted when they snow this glorious mountain of sound with spine-tingling counterpoint backing “aaah”s. “There isn’t any specific formula for crafting a song – the song will just tell you what it has to be. It can stem from an emotion, which then evolves lyrically or otherwise. Ultimately, when you listen to a song in your bedroom with headphones, it should be able to take you away, maybe on a little journey.” And for Great Northern, that journey has just begun – and the horizon has never looked so magnificent. ...read more here.

I had been playing Chasing Rainbows by Steve Larkman and decided that I would change it out with a new selection, All I Wanna Do Is Dance, from his first album.
After many successful years helping great acts to achieve quality recordings Steve released his first solo album TEARJERKER in July 2003. This record received extensive radio play and very fine reviews and was followed by a truly brilliant second album THE START OF THE END OF THE WORLD in mid 2004. From these two critically well received and popular albums and the singles Chasing Rainbows (released April 2004) and Saved By Rain (released January 2005) Steve was noticed by Jeffrey Kruger MBE, the CEO of TKO Records, who has now helped Steve to produce another album WORD GAMES to be released in 2006.

During a series of acoustic dates from October 2005-May 2006 Steve recorded ACOUSTIC TAKES a 13 track album of his songs stripped down to guitar and vocals from which the acoustic version of Chasing Rainbows was selected for inclusion on the Mi5 Recordings Q Sheet CD. Steve's most recent single Rockin' Up The World (July 2006) has achieved widespread radio playlistings and his next album WORD GAMES will be released later this year followed by his fifth album STELLA AND JOE in 2007. ...read more here.
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