Psyence Fiction: 15 Years To Unkle Debut Album

Unkle debut album Psyence Fiction was a promising one from the lineup that it featured. Jason Newsted from Metallica, Thom Yorke from Radiohead, DJ Shadow as the producer, Ian Brown from the Stone Roses and Richard Ashcroft from The Verve. James Lavelle and DJ Shadow made a dark Electronica/Trip Hip album that was inspired from so many artists so I won't count it here... They mixed a lot of songs from different eras adding voices and lyrics of the artist above and together they made one of the most inspiring albums of this  genre. It was released 15 years ago, on 29th of September, 1998. So it's good time to remember some of its highlights

Be There (Feat. Ian Brown)

Chaos (Feat. Atlantique Khan)

Lonely Soul (Feat. Richard Ashcroft)

Bloodstain (Feat. Alice Temple)

Rabbit In Your Headlights (Feat. Thom Yorke)

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)

Chemistry (Pick Word #23)

When I was a student in high school, I liked Chemistry classes because of it always seems to me the closest  thing to innovation and entrepreneurship, which always interested me. Chemistry is a branch of Physics which explains the composition, properties and behaviour of the matter. As such it depends primly on the Periodic Table, first developed by Dmitri Mandeleev in 1869, and contains right now 118 Chemical elements. Chemistry is currently used in all fields of life from medical treatment to food industries and it's expanding its boundaries rapidly. As part of Lesson For Life series, I found five songs which deals with this magnificent science by Unkle, Donna Regina, Suede, Queens Of The Stone Age and Peter And The Wolf.

Unkle - Chemistry (Taken From War Stories, 2007)

 

Donna Regina - Bad Chemistry (Taken From Late, 2003)

 

Suede - The Chemistry Between Us (Taken From Coming Up, 1996)

 

Peter And The Wolf - Chemistry Set (Taken From Golden Stars, 2010)

 

Queens Of The Stone Age - Better Living Through Chemistry (Taken From Rates R, 2000)

Kingdom (Pick Word #10)

There are only few kingdoms left in our world today. What was once the common social structure became an institute that fades away slowly through the pages of History. In Medieval ages we could count a lot of kingdoms all over the world, but what was left is broken castles, historical tales and some paintings. But the kingdoms hadn't past away from lyrics as you could listen below in the first playlist of Fairies And Kingdoms series. So here are Soulsavers, Unkle, My Heart Belongs To Cecilia Winter, The Good, The Bad & The Queen and PJ Harvey. Enjoy...

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

 

The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Doom Kingdom (Taken From The Good, The Bad & The Queen, 2007)

 

My Heart Belongs To Cecilia Winter - Kingdom Oh Kingdom (Taken From Our Love Will Cut Through Everything, 2010)

 

Unkle - Keys To The Kingdom (Taken From War Stories, 2007)

PJ Harvey - The Desperate Kingdom Of Love (Taken From Uh Huh Her, 2004)