Mark Lanegan (Collaborations #1)

Mark Lanegan is kind of musical Chameleon. You can find him singing with one group on Sunday, Listen to another cooperation on Monday and then forget it all when you hear him with the third band on Tuesday. Some of the critiques compare him to legendary Tom Waits, with whom he shares the experimental standpoint and the cigarette-crooked voice. Staring with the Screaming Trees in the mid-80's, he joined Queens Of The Stone Age for three albums and then found new home in the arms of former Belle And Sebastian singer, Isobel Campbell. It seems that he's never get tired of creating music and continue to innovate every day by joining new collaboration. So for his new collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood, with whom he'll release on 15 of May their debut album Black Pudding, here are five collaborative songs which I like.

Mark Lanegan Featuring Unkle (Taken From Where Did The Night Fall, 2010)

Mark Lanegan Featuring Moby (Special Records Day 2013 Release)

Mark Lanegan And Soulsavers - Kingdom Of Rain (Taken From It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land, 2007)

Mark Lanegan And Isobel Campbell - Ballad Of The Broken Seas (Taken From Ballad Of The Broken Seas, 2006)

 

Mark Lanegan And The Twilight Singers - Number Nine (Taken From Blackberry Belle, 2003)

Martha (Pick Word #22)

Martha was a biblical figure who lived in Bethany near Jerusalem. She had one brother, Lazarus, and one sister named Mary. Her story in the Bible was written about her request of Jesus to come and heal dying Lazarus. Jesus has arrived to Bethany a few days after Lazarus died but he raised him from the dead in one of the famous miracle stories in the Bible. Later on, according to the Provencal Golden Legend, Martha came to Tarascon, helping the population there to fight a scary monster which threatened them for a long time. Finally, she died and buried there. Many songs where written about "The Mistress" (That's the Hebrew meaning of the name Martha), so I've collected five of them for you, as part of Name The Girl project, sung by Lisa Hannigan, The Innocence Mission, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jefferson Airplane and All About Eve...

Lisa Hannigan - Martha (Tom Waits cover version)

The Innocence Mission - Martha Avenue Love Song (Taken From Befriended, 2003)

The Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha (Taken From Adore, 1998)

Jefferson Airplane - Martha (Taken From After Bathing At Baxter's, 1967)

 

All About Eve - Martha's Harbour (Taken From All About Eve, 1988)

Weekend Candy: Songs For The Whole Week (15/3/2013)

This week was full of great music and a few interesting releases including David Bowie's album after over a 

decade. Since every media channel is dealing with The Next Day, I tried to find other tunes from new records and combine them together with some older songs. So on this weekend candy you can find Morrissey, M83, Jesse Quin, Suuns, Beatrice Eli, Olof Arnalds, Morcheeba, Daughter, GEMS, 

Glass Candy, Stereophonics, Foals, Nick Cave and Tom Waits, enjoy

Morrissey - Every Day Is Like Sun Taken From Viva Hate, 1988
25th Anniversary

 

 M83 - Starwaves Taken From Forthcoming Obvilion Soundtrack, 2013

 

Jesse Quin - Another Year 

 Suuns - Holocene City Taken From Images Du Futur, 2013

 

Beatrice Eli - Violent Silence Taken From Forthcoming EP It's Over, 2013

Olof Arnalds - German Fields Taken From Sudden Elevation, 2013

 

Morcheeba - Blindfold Taken From Big Calm, 1998
15th Anniversary

Daughter - Still Taken From Forthcoming If You Leave, 2013

GEMS - Pegasus

 

Glass Candy - The Possessed Taken From Forthcoming Body Work, 2013

 

Foals - Late Night Taken From Holy Fire, 2013

 

Stereophonics - Violins And Tambourines Taken From Graffiti On The Train, 2013

 

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues Taken From Push The Sky Away, 2013

Tom Waits - I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You Taken From Closing Time, 1973
40th Anniversary