Hailing from Santiago, Chile, is this angsty sounding rock band with good fun energy named La Orquesta del Sol Naciente, or in English, Rising Sun Orchestra. The band intertwines both Spanish and English into the songs. Enjoy!
Here is a really great psychedelic rock band named Libido Fuzz. Their music is worthy of attention and the volume knob being turned up to 11. They are based out of Bordeaux, France. First up below is their lastest music video to their song titled Redemption of The Bison, followed by live take of the band performing I Was Made On A Desert Road, followed by two different studio tracks including The Last Psychedelic Blues and a song titled Sunset.
Libido Fuzz - Redemption Of The Bison
Libido Fuzz - I Was Made On A Desert Road (live @ home)
Cecilia Noel is looking younger and more vibrant as time has gone on. World travel and dancing with The Wild Clams does wonders! Her band travels and performs far and wide. For quite some time now, Cecilia has made Cuba a regular destination.
Her latest album is appropriately titled HAVANA ROCKS. Havana is where she recorded and filmed the entire project. She gives several pop classics a Cuban funk, jazz, salsa and soul flavor, a la Cecilia. She covers songs by David Bowie, Devo, Men At Work, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen, ACDC and Gary Numan. Below are the videos of Cecilia Noël's renditions to Gary Numan’s “Cars”, ACDC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long" and Devo's song titled "Whip It". Enjoy!
Cecilia Noël - Cars (Gary Numan Cover)
Cecilia Noël - You Shook Me All Night Long (ACDC Cover)
MusicLoad first featured the surfer/musician/singer/songwriter Kim Churchill here in October 2012 with his fantastic live take of an original song he wrote titled Tides - (click here to hear/view) -
It's a great pleasure to have been following his travels since that time, as he has worked his way around the globe working non-stop. The cool thing about Churchill is that he knows how to enjoy the perks of world travel, as evidenced on his Facebook page and stream of photos that he shares.
Below is the latest well done live take video installment from Kim that was shot by the the U.K. based Mahogany Session blog. Enjoy!
Kim Churchill - Canopy - (Live performance on Mahogany Sessions)
This first song below was recommended by one of our friends named Omu Gnom who was previously featured at this link here on MusicLoad. Omu is out of Bucharest, Romania and the artist he just turned us onto is also a Romanian known as Subcarpaţi. This is his song titled Codrule, mărite domn. Enjoy!
Subcarpaţi - Codrule, mărite domn
Digging a little yielded one more interesting song with music video from Subcarpati
MusicLoad regulars may remember Shauna Brittenham from a few years back. If you've ever had the chance to see in her person, you know how absolutely stunning, kind and understatedly humble she is. She has that intangible elusive "it" quality that you know is special. The fact that she really is special and acts like she is not, shows what great acting potential she has if she ever chose to go down that road.
She just released a video shot live with her band, which is a mashup of two songs: The Black Keys song titled Fever and Sweet Dreams by The Eurythmics. If you get a chance to catch her live, do it!
Shauna Brittenham - The latest mashup
and just below is a music video release from 2010...
Just below is a tasty full concert film with a great audio recording of Nneka performing at last years Sziget Festival, which since 1993 has been held each August on a island on the Danube in the northern part of Budapest, Hungary.
Nneka is one of the artists out on the international scene who has real deep roots of substance on humanitarian, political and other levels, right on up there with Bob Marley. There is no jive turkeyism in this worthy artist's repertoire.
Just below is the last music video from Sia to her song titled Chandelier. The dancer is not Sia, it is a very serious 11 year old dancer named Maddie Ziegler.
In 1973 when the songs below came out and I was a 10 years old, I asked for this record for a birthday or Christmas. My great grandmother, who we actually called Granny, went to the store to buy it and changed her mind. She told my mother that the album cover contained pornography. When I heard that I wasn't getting that record and nobody would tell me what pornography was, I really wanted to have that record even more. I collected enough pop bottles to trade in to buy that record, and became addicted to this obscure form of pornography known as Steely Dan. These songs are are just two of my favorites from the record. In fact I love them all and as a kid I could scat every riff of every song, and still can. The entire record went a long way toward shaping my love for music.
The personnel on the entire album consisted of the following musicians: Walter Becker (vocals, guitar, harmonica, bass guitar); Donald Fagen (vocals, piano, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion); David Palmer (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); Jim Hodder (vocals, drums, percussion); Sherlie Matthews, Patricia Hall, Royce Jones, Michael Fennelly, James Rolleston, Myrna Matthews (vocals, background vocals); Ben Benay (guitar, acoustic guitar); Rick Derringer (guitar, slide guitar); Jeff Baxter (guitar, steel guitar); Denny Diaz, Denny Dias (guitar); Ernie Watts, John Rotella, Lanny Morgan, Bill Perkins (saxophone); Victor Feldman (keyboards, vibraphone, marimba, percussion); David Palmer , Sherlie Mathews, Pam Hall (background vocals).
That classic 1930's jazz song that turned into the saying, "T'ain't What You Do, It's the Way That You Do It" sure does apply here. Here is a very soulful artist filled past the top with inspired funk, named Brushy One String.
This song/video below is the original, uncut, full version of Chicken In The Corn that gained notoriety in the the Jamaican music film titled RiseUp. Enjoy!
Brushy One String - Chicken in The Corn (Official Video)
This is the latest from JJ Grey & Mofro, an artist who might be under your radar so far. Generally known as super funky, JJ Grey also has a sensitive side and can croon out a nice ballad. The familiar face in the video is actor Danny Aiello.
The River
See more JJ Grey & Mofro music videos at the links below:
Just below is the latest new music video from SHEL, the amazing organic writing, singing and true instrumentalist group of four sisters from Fort Collins, Colorado. SHEL = Sarah (violin & vocals), Hannah (keys, squeezebox & vocals), Eva (mandolin and lead vocals) and Liza (drums, percussion and vocals).
Today, MusicLoad is happy to present the amazing and very organic Colorado based band of sisters known as SHEL and their free download offering of a song they wrote especially for Valentine's Day today. The song is titled Your Love Makes My Heart Sing.
Please download by clicking (Sorry - This Download Is No Longer Available - See Links Below for Other Songs)
SHEL (left to right Hannah, Liza, Sarah and Eva)
By the way.... SHEL is Sarah (Violin - Vocals) Hannah (Keyboards-Accordion-Vocals), Eva (Mandolin-Vocals) and Liza (Drums-Percussion-Vocals)
The soulful Allen Stone is no stranger to MusicLoad. For those who are not familiar with our earlier posts on Allen Stone, please visit the links at the bottom of this post because the songs and performances at those links are fabulous. Here, just below, Taylor Guitar company hosted a performance of Allen Stone at the Taylor Sessions where Stone covers Bob Marley's forever hit song titled Is This Love.
Allen Stone performs the Bob Marley classic hit song titled "Is This Love" at the Taylor Sessions
And, while on the subject of Bob Marley.....
The Original Bob Marley Version and Official Music Video to Is This Love
Awesome performances of Allen Stone at this link performing his song titled Unaware (performed live in his Mother's living room) and also an excellent 24 minute filmed live performance of Allen Stone on Seattle's KEXP-FM :) http://www.musicload.com/2012/06/allen-stone.html
Video montage of Allen Stone on the road, going town to town, working and singing hard and getting no sleep. Video edited to the studio recording of his very grooving soulful song titled Sleep His inner Stevie Wonder comes out in this song! http://www.musicload.com/2013/02/allen-stone-sleep.html
Four fabulously talented sisters named Sarah (violin), Hannah (keyboards and squeezebox), Eva (Mandolin) and Liza (Drums) make up the group known as SHEL. They all write, arrange sing and play with exceptional skill with amazing vocal harmonies that are very real without special effects or auto tuning. Their studio recordings sound much like their un-lipsynced live performances, because these girls are not manufactured or polished by producers. In my opinion, the producers the band has worked with have done little more than press the record button, which is all the band needs. They are organic, pure and real.
The girls grew up in a music family. Their father towed them along to his own gigs when they were all young. They grew up listening to a very diverse selection of music. They have so many influences including rock bands such as Jethro Tull and in this song in particular, there is a little Led Zeppelin influence. Stained reminds me of Led Zep's song titled The Battle of Evermore, which SHEL separately did a nice cover of as well. Enjoy!
SHEL wrote this about their self produced/directed video: "On what felt like the coldest day of winter, we shot this video along the Harpeth River in Franklin, TN. We've been told this trail is part of the original Natchez Trace, which is why the road is worn far below the tree roots. This same area was a camp site during the The Battle of Franklin - the bloodiest battle of Civil War and it's near an ancient Native American village now called "Old Town" that dates back to the year 900...now that's some history!"
Here is an artist with who delivers that "it" thing. She is a classically trained pianist with a strong voice and songwriting skills. This is Susan Calloway with her song Chasin' The Sun. In one take she lays down this raw track with pure passion, showing how much of the real deal she is. Enjoy!
Stumbled upon the music of a talented all around artist in photography, illustrations & visual arts, poetry and music. On the music side, William Michael John Carroll has a blog featuring multiple music projects he is and/or has been involved in featuring numerous free downloads of tasty alternative edgy surf punk funk that defies pigeonholing into any particular genre. Visitors to William's music archive blog at http://wmjcmusic.wordpress.com could easily download enough interesting (and free!) music to keep one tied up for several days. Enjoy!
Trixie Whitley has been featured on MusicLoad 10 times, and this is the third time we are featuring different tasty takes of her song titled Need Your Love. Call me biased, I can't help but love this girl's music. (Her song Breathe You In My Dreams is the MusicTelevision.Com Song of the Year for 2013) And, she's cool... really really cool. Every time she plays live, she cops a slightly differently feel & groove and it always is great to listen to, no matter what. Enjoy!
Trixie Whitley - Need Your Love (Live on DWDD Sessie/De Wereld Draait Door)
Trixie Whitley - Need Your Love (Live on One Take at the Liberty Room in NYC; Thomas Bartlett on Wurlitzer. One-Takes are live performances by artists you know, should know, or will know.)
Today, we revisit where she has gone since that time, with the official video to the opening track of her latest record titled Life of a Hologram, which seems to be going in a electronic and pop direction direction.
This is one of the most fantastic organic unmanufactured groups anywhere. SHEL is a group of four sisters named Sarah, Hannah, Eva and Liza. The first video below is one of their most recent music videos. Their songwriting, music arrangements, individual musicianship, sweet vocals and harmonies are the real deal!
SHEL - Lost at Sea
To illustrate how organic and unmanufactured SHEL really truely is, here is the same song again, performed live (in one take) on Second Story Garage with no special effects or overdubs. Bravo! :)
