The Underground of Happiness

New music for the spring. Enjoy. x Playlist 1. Modern Cosmology – A time to blossom (Duophonic UHF Disk) 2. The Telescopes – Butterfly (Tapete) 3. Arborist – Matisse (Kirkinriola Records) 4. Audioweb – Remember that Monday (Nowhere) 5. Naima Bock – Lines (Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction) ( playing Wide Awake Festival, London, May 27 ) 6. Nation of Language – Sole obsession (Play It Again Sam) ( playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona/Madrid, June 2/9 ) 7. Okay Kaya – Jazzercise (Jagjaguwar) ( playing The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, Apr 3 ) 8. POZI – Pest control (Prah Recordings) ( playing 100 Club, London, June 14 ) 9. Rozi Plain – Painted the room (Memphis Industries) ( playing Brighten the Corners Festival, Ipswich, June 10 ) 10. Sara Wolff – Don’t feed the birds 11. Tony Njoku – Lost forever (Moshi Moshi Records) ( playing Wanderfal Festival, Falmouth, Apr 8 ) 12. Henrik Lindstrand – Hvid (One Little Independent) 13. Cormac O Caoimh – Didn’t we 14. MD

A mix of some of my favourite instrumental music. There are some vocals involved here, I hear you say, but voices used in an instrumental way, I would say. Non lyrical voices, let's say. What strikes me listening back is the range of emotions in these tunes. Romantic. Melancholy. Reverie. Delirious. Stoic. Noirish. Beauty and strangeness. Electronic. Stringed. Ambient. Gothenburg. Tokyo. Dublin. Down. Philadelphia. Berlin. Tucson. Toronto. Enjoy. x Playlist Ennio Morricone – Come Maddalena (EMI) Moondog – Theme (Columbia) Áine O’Dwyer – For the souls of our fleas (Fort Evil Fruit) Faten Kanaan – Ebla (Fire Records) ( playing Union Chapel, London, Apr 28, w/ Colin Stetson ) Silver Servants – Spailing farrows (Second Language) Pieter Nooten – Lo-fi lullaby (Rocket Girl) Maggie Bjorklund – Flow (Tompkins Square) ( Luke Schneider presents Imaginational Anthem Vol XI: Chrome Universal – A survey of modern pedal steel ) Edward Williams – Japanese m

In this episode, there's a couple of edits from an interview I did with Marina Allen in Dublin last week, as she was on her European tour. I'll post the full interview shortly - she's an interesting and charming character. Aswell as some Marina Allen music, I've also included a few tracks by artists mentioned by Marina as influences - Joanna Newsom, Meredith Monk and Linda Perhacs. Also new music from Spencer Cullum, Núria Graham, Robert Forster, Marlody and Dana Gavanski. Enjoy. x Playlist 1. Saeko Killy – Sun shower (bureau b) 2. Chalk – Static (Dutch Tilt) 3. Ghost Woman – Three weeks straight (Full Time Hobby) 4. Núria Graham – Fire Mountain Oh Sacred Ancient Fountain (Verve Forecast/New Deal/Primavera Labels/Universal Music) ( playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona/Madrid, June 3/10 ) 5. Dana Gavanski – My thoughts (Full Time Hobby) ( playing Point Ephemere, Paris, Apr 16 ) 6. Marlody – Summer (Skep Wax) 7. Terry – Centuries (Upset The

new music for the new year enjoy x Playlist 1. BMX Bandits – Long forgotten summer (Tapete Records) 2. Arborist – Dreaming in another language (Kirkinriola Records) 3. Danny Carroll – Affection (bandcamp) 4. David Brewis – Surface noise (Daylight Saving Records) 5. Hiro Ama – Ultramarine (Silent Way) 6. POZI – Failing (PRAH Recordings) ( playing Shacklewell Arms, London, Feb 3 ) 7. The Notwist – Sans soleil (Morr Music) 8. Death and Vanilla – Looking glass (Fire Records) ( playing The White Hotel, Manchester, Apr 22 ) 9. Amber Arcades – Odd to even (Fire Records) ( playing The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, Feb 5 ) 10. Decisive Pink – Haffmilch holiday (Fire Records) 11. Faten Kanaan – Florin Court (Fire Records) 12. Gemma Rogers – The great escape (Tiny Global Productions) 13. Ghost Woman – The end of a gun (Full Time Hobby) ( playing The Lexington, London, March 8 ) 14. Boa Morte – Hard to know (Gare du Nord) 15. Josephine Foster – Pendulum (Fire Records) 16.

Final instalment of my favourite music of 2022. Cork. Limerick. Waterford. Kerry. Glasgow. Dublin. New Orleans. Melbourne. Leipzig. Nottingham. Copenhagen. Tokyo. Harrogate. Brussels. Enjoy. x Playlist 1. Fuxa feat Britta Phillips – Help me please (Rocket Girl) 2. Henrik Lindstrand – Gammafly (One Little Independent) 3. Julie Odell – Cardinal feather (Frenchkiss Records) 4. Keeley Forsyth – I stand alone (The Leaf Label) 5. Bróna McVittie – Living without you (Company of Corkbots) 6. Miss Grit – Follow the cyborg (Mute) 7. Mitski – The only heartbreaker (Dead Oceans) 8. Monolithe Noir feat Jawhar & Mirabelle Gilis – Barra bouge (Capitane Records) 9. Mt. Misery – The time it takes (bandcamp) 10. Naima Bock – Every morning (Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction) 11. Núria Graham – The catalyst (Primavera Labels/New Deal/Verve Forecast/Universal) 12. Oh No Noh – Drift (Teleskop) 13. Robert Sotelo – Above (Upset The Rhythm) 14. Sinéad O’Brien – Holy c

Another batch from end of year compiling. Some you may have heard of. Some you probably haven't. Enjoy them all. x Playlist 1. BJ Cole – Ely revisited (Tompkins Square) ( Luke Schneider Presents Imaginational Anthem vol. XI : Chrome Universal - A Survey of Modern Pedal Steel ) 2. Yuko Kono – Ginger (Morr Music) ( Minna Miteru 2 ) 3. Jimi Tenor – Lifehugger (bureau b) 4. L.A. Salami – Desperate times, mediocre measures (Sunday Best Recordings) 5. Shake Chain – RU (Upset The Rhythm) 6. The Umlauts – Sweat (PRAH Recordings) 7. Etienne Jaumet & Fabrizio Rat – Visione pop (bureau b) 8. Aoife Nessa Frances – Emptiness follows (Partisan Records) 9. Marina Allen – Or else (Fire Records) 10. Telefís feat Sean O’Hagan – Space is us (Dimple Discs) 11. Yosa Peit – Anthy (Fire Records) 12. The Burning Hell – Dirty Microphones (BB*Island) 13. Modern Studies – Geese (Fire Records) 14. Bjork – Sorrowful soil (One Little Independent) 15. The Orchids – This boy is