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Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:25:18 +1300

Discussion from blog post.

peter mclennan

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:25:19 +1300

Brand new music from Bobby Womack, last seen in NZ with Damon Albarn's outfit The Gorillaz. Produced by Albarn and Richard Russell, off his new album, out June. Free DL, gorgeous tune.

http://dubdotdash.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/new-bobby-womack.html

Paul Williams

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:08:21 +1300

Loving First Aid Kit, but agree, would never have thought them Swedish. They're touring Sydney and am seeing them later this month... try the track Emmylou

Richard Stewart

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:18:18 +1300

"Would you have guessed that they are Swedish?"

Are they actually trying to sound American?

Paul Williams

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:08:17 +1300

In my very limited experience, Scandanavian people tend to have an oddily American accent. I assumed it was a function of whatever language resources they use in their schools.

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:11:14 +1300

Love First Aid Kit. No, I wouldn?t have guessed that they are Swedish, but since I knew I didn?t have to. What I can?t get over is that they are only 19 and 21. And sisters. They are currently at No 1 in the Swedish charts.

ETA: I would assume?

3410

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:28:35 +1300

The style they're doing is close harmony singing, which is essentially an American style.

That said, the area where that sort of American country music developed largely corresponds with the areas of greatest Swedish settlement in USA in late the 19th / early 20th centuries (Minnesota, Nebraska, the Dakotas...), so?

Paul Williams

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:33:34 +1300

I've missed PA for all the reasons evident in 3410's post above.

Mark Thomas

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:53:37 +1300

The latest White Rabbits album came out this week. "Temporary" is probably the catchiest song, but the whole album is full of subtle and interesting tunes. Similar to Spoon/Radiohead/Beatles

http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/5

Chris Bowden

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:02:13 +1300

My understanding is that most Scandanavians sound American because movies and TV programmes over there are not dubbed, but subtitled. Therefore, kids grow up on a diet of American English.

Marcus Turner

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:41:47 +1300

This might not be your sort of music, but it?s a pretty impressive audience/performer interaction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoZ6P6ihzCU

Marcus Turner

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:44:35 +1300

And I just discovered the sabretoothed vampire. Where have I been?

http://culturepulp.typepad.com/culturepulp/the-sabretooth-vampire/

Danielle

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:58:49 +1300

I like the way the mix of Yoko's vocals makes her sound even more delightfully unhinged.

Lilith __

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:32:42 +1300

Love First Aid Kit

We all need one of those in the cupboard ;-)

Lilith __

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:39:00 +1300

Would you have guessed that they are Swedish?

Well?.they?ve clearly been using Norsica shampoo!

[Edit: which the internet hasn't heard of! But we all remember the blonde on the white horse, right?!]

Richard Stewart

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:40:58 +1300

My experience of Swedes through dealing with them regularly at work is that they speak exceptionally good English, but i have never noticed an American accent as such.
I believe though that this First Aid Kit album was recorded in the US – and this is more likely to have?

Hebe

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:46:14 +1300

Ok, so I haven't got a link to a video or picture or anything, but I will ask you to use your imagining to conjure up an ordinary, but somehow special thing today...In the Cashel Street container mall, in a courtyard area off to one side, sunny and warm because?

BenWilson

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:02:31 +1300

It's kind of odd to me how virtually every good vocalist sings with an American accent. Is it an especially musical accent? Perhaps it's because singers are expected to be capable of high volume, and the American accent is especially appropriate for that? It's quite high pitched and clear. Words?

George Darroch

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:15:32 +1300

Thanks Russel. What a spread of wonderful music? on such a delightful early autumn Auckland day.

Loving the new Bobby Womack tracks. His voice is still golden, and the Albarn production is a lively counterpart. I?m so glad Womack?s still around.

Dropping this here, because this album is blowing up?

Marcus Turner

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:26:40 +1300

I think it's how we learn to sing. We hear American accents (which have long been prominent in popular music) and, consciously or otherwise, copy them. It's no longer "American", necessarily; simply part of the genre. I remember a series about popular music on TV years ago, in which one?

BenWilson

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:59:59 +1300

It does seem to be easy to sell to the "world market" by comparison to other accents.

Mind you, Hip hop, whilst predominantly American in origin, has accents all of its own and seems to have little trouble selling. Similarly with one really obvious non-American one, the Jamaican. But when?

Russell Brown

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:06:38 +1300

A snapshot hour I will carry with me.

When music meets the moment. I get you.

Richard Stewart

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:04:13 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYPltK_msVQ

More Swedish gold – but with a more natural accent

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:33:11 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfU-4Y4_akY

Since we?re on Swedish music, I thought I?d share this from a few years ago. It won the best music video award and is kinda cool. This one?s in Swedish (or more accurately, in Sk�nska).

ETA: Forgot to say, it's Familjen – Det snurrar i min skalle

Peter Darlington

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:38:11 +1300

What you need right now is Four Tet to hook up with Burial and create, well, this: Nova (Hat-tip Charles @DocRaccoon).

http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/burial-four-tet-nova

Hebe

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:37:41 +1300

That's good. Sounds like some of the Gram Parsons-Emmylou Harris songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLNFDvSYhB8

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:37:53 +1300

In my very limited experience, Scandanavian people tend to have an oddily American accent.

In my equally limited experience, they don't have "American" accented English but the cut-glass diction is delightful. (A major reason why I know all the lyrics to a disturbing number of Abba songs.)

Sacha

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:11:30 +1300

yes, I'm sure that's the reason :)

Hebe

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:38:37 +1300

I learned every single breath and stomp of Abba in the suburbs of Christchurch as a teenager. It came in useful a decade later when I was required to sing along at Patches and other cultural epicentres :-)

Rob Stowell

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:40:47 +1300

virtually every good vocalist sings with an American accent.
Don?t tell David :) (From the Bridle Path manifesto)
2. VOCALS

2.1. All vocals to be sung in a New Zealand accent (not necessarily a strong New Zealand accent, but definitely not a British or American accent).

Pete

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:23:11 +1300

I'm still trying to get over this
http://www1.rollingstone.com/hearitnow/player/susanboyle.html
Wait, what?

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:24:54 +1300

Play misty...
Grace, in the rain
then Yoko on thin ice
we need a Wet Wet Wet
or Puddle song next...
...or even Peter Gabriel's Steam
to go for the Tri State blues...

andin

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:10:26 +1300

infer statistically what they might be thinking. So if the innovation in the last 20 years of brain imaging is anything to go by, before we know it we may well have mind reading apps on our phones, and scanning tests on daytime TV!

So can we now infer statistically?

Nat

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:30:39 +1300

Loving First Aid Kit, but agree, would never have thought them Swedish. They're touring Sydney and am seeing them later this month... try the track Emmylou

I'm not really into altish.country either but could get tempted by First Aid Kit. I love this line from Emmylou Paul: "Now so much?