Her Natural Accent, Cut Soft By Sandy Gloucestershire Limestone

Katy J Pearson releases her third album, Someday, Now, on 20th September. Lead single and album opener Those Goodbyes has been joined by this week's reveal of the tenth and final song, Sky. 

 

I didn't discover Katy's music until album #2, Sound Of The Morning, from there going back to debut album Return and snapping up everything else that's been available, including her awesome reworks of songs from cult film The Wicker Man.

 

Oh, and having seen Katy in concert in November 2022*, I can also say with confidence that she's a formidable live artist too, so I'd highly recommend getting to see her on the upcoming tour to accompany the album.

 

Someday, Now is produced by Bullion aka Nathan Jenkins. Back in 2007, Bullion's debut offering was Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee, primarily a 25-minute blend (not a mash-up) of The Beach Boys and J. Dilla, with other samples, bells and whistles thrown in for good measure. I think it first appeared on MySpace but, like I did when 'researching' this post, you can hear it for the first time on YouTube

 

There's been a fair few Bullion releases since, most recently the album Affection, out in April. Here are a couple of songs, both with Nathan on lead vocals, the first featuring Canadian singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepson, who I'm only familiar with from this one song, but is currently on album #6.

  

 

  

 * I've also restored the links to the accompanying Katy J Peason selection, for your further listening pleasure.

Django Django In Dub

My shopping spree on Friday increased my existing collection of three Django Django songs (two are remixes of the same song) by 1,800%.

I belated got their debut self-titled album in it's 10th anniversary deluxe edition, the big draw being Django Django Meets Mad Professor: A Dub Rework, the entire album recycled and dubbed up a la Massive Attack's No Protection. It was probably in a review of the latter that someone opined that all albums should have a Mad Professor dub companion and I can see their point.

A few days in and I'll confess that I haven't yet listened to the parent album but the dub rework is all that I could have hoped for and then some. 

Not content with that, I also bought the remix album Hi Djinx! which accompanied the original debut, a mix of styles and genres but with a few dub inflected excursions from the likes of Adrian Sherwood and Bullion aka Nathan Taylor. 

I also  picked up a few EPs, released around the time of their second and third albums, featuring Wrongtom aka Tom Robinson and Peaking Lights aka husband and wife duo Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis. The former is firmly rooted in dub, the latter influenced maybe but taking a more psychedelic path to close out this half hour selection.

Today's photo is The Knife Angel, which has been touring nationally since 2018 and is in Gloucester this month, in the grounds of the cathedral. Created by sculptor Alfie Bradley, it's an awe-inspiring, thought-provoking artwork that stands as a national monument against violence and aggression. You can read the story of The Knife Angel and the victims of knife crime that inspired it here and here.

1) Hand Of Man (Mad Professor Dub) (2022)

2) Fountains (The Incredible Shrinking Dub) (Remix By Wrongtom) (2018)

3) Skies Over Cairo (Mad Professor Dub) (2022)

4) Skies Over Cairo (Bullion Version) (2012)

5) WOR (Adrian Sherwood's Hey Gringo Remix) (2012)

6) First Light (Wrongtom Dub) (2015)

7) Love's Dart (Mad Professor Dub) (2022)

8) Love's Dart (Peaking Lights Remix) (2016)

Django Django In Dub (29:45) (Box) (Mega)