The Underground of Happiness

Centrepiece of this week’s show was a little piece of an interview with Kramies who has a new single out now on Hidden Shoal . He’s an interesting guy and has worked with plenty of other interesting people – Jason Lytle and Todd Tobias to name a couple. Also this week we had euphoric prog pop from Montero . Sumptuous lounge music from Howe Gelb with the brilliant Lonna Kelley . Bonkers and charming naive pop from Tenniscoats . And klezmer jazz from Berlin 1941 courtesy of the great Lift it up compilation on Gut Feeling . 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 467 Tues Nov 7 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/koM2Te Playlist Montero – Vibrations ( playing Vicar Stre...

A lovely piece of drifting dream pop from the Denver resident. This track features and was produced by Jason Lytle ex-Grandaddy and you can hear a little of the ache that was so apparent in that band's music in the hazy synths and swirling melody here. The Wooden Heart by Kramies

One of our favourite labels, the Perth-based Hidden Shoal , is 6 years old this month. I'm not sure if the term 'boutique' applies, but there's certainly a care and attention to detail about everything they do that is very satisfying. And as if to take this approach to a new level, label manager Cam Merton has post-produced and edited the new video for Inventors by Kramies . That's the centrepiece of Kramies' recent EP The European (full name Kramies Windt, he's Dutch originally, but domiciled in the US for some time), from which we featured several tracks on the show when it came out, and which was produced by regular Guided By Voices collaborator Todd Tobias - more about him later in the month. Inventors is a lovely, leisurely slice of dream-pop, blissed out and shimmering. Happy Birthday Hidden Shoal, keep doing what you're doing.