The Underground of Happiness

A bunch of great British music on the show this week, in two main camps. In the folk department The Nightjar , stirring haunted atmospherics The Bevis Frond , enduring drones with sitar Alasdair Roberts & Gordon Ferries , from the wonderful Shakespeare songs Food of Love project, getting courtly. And more of a post punk buzz Shaking Chains , compelling spoken word delivery Animals That Swim , fierce guitar tune with brilliant narrative drive Warm Digits feat. Field Music on vocals, banging electro. And Francois & the Atlas Mountains , slippery woozy psych pop from France. More on these pages. The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 438 Tues Mar 14 2017 11.00am-12.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) UCC 98.3FM listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm *listen back to this show here goo.gl/...

There was a mini-binge of orchestral music in this week's show (I might spread that out over a whole show some time) consisting of some classic 70s despairing Harry Nilsson , with something new from Natalie Prass , a gorgeous white soul orchestral from her debut album. At a stretch, you might even add Adrian Crowley into that set, more on the chamber folk side perhaps, and Stephen Steinbrink with some kind of cosmic lounge hybrid, beautiful. Also this week, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith with lovely playful synth patterns from her new album which features the Buchla Music Easel instrument (look that up), glorious 70s kosmische from Harmonia , the haunting/uplifting Voix Bulgares , and widescreen sounds from Michael Price & Roll the Dice . Plus The Drink , with another off-kilter guitar gem, this one with a little flavour of African hi-life. More on these pages as ever. Jan 20 2015 w/ Adrian Crowley,Joan Shelley,Natalie Prass,Kaitlyn Smith,Harmonia,Roll The Dice++ by The...

I've been on a bit of a Bob Lind buzz lately. He's often unfairly thought of as a one-hit wonder ('Elusive butterfly'), but there's much more to him than that. I managed to get my hands on his debut album - embedded within a Best of collection full of psych pop nuggets, from which we heard the beautiful 'Truly Julie's Blues'. Somehow this lead me to Harry Nilsson , one of pop music's true mavericks. From 1977, the gorgeous and unsettling 'All I think about is you', a piece of work so at odds with the currents of that year, it boggles the mind. Part Ennio Morricone, part Serge Gainsbourg, it's just genius. Also new White Fence , lovely garage pop with an early Kinks flavour; new Trans Am with a krautrock flavour; new Groom , literate lo-fi guitar pop; new Ultimate Painting , a tasty slice of alt rock, in a good way. And Life Without Buildings from 2001, taking a post punk template and time-travelling it with very C86 female voca...