It’s the 49th year of Jazz Fest, almost 50 - next year is 50. So I was at a festival and recorded on my phone, at Jazz Fest, it’s in New Orleans. It’s really where my heart is, so, yeah, I’ve found some really cool stuff. Into the bands, from the history of the bands to the modern bands that are there. Phil Cook: I’m a really big New Orleans music buff and historian and have visited the city many times. Justin Barney: What’s one song right now that you have been listening to a lot, or one song that you can’t stop listening to? We had this conversation backstage at Eaux Claires Music Festival. He just released a new album called “People Are My Drug.” We are playing “Miles Away,” a song featuring Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath on 88Nine. He used to be in some groups with Bon Iver, Field Report and Nick Sanborn from Sylvan Esso. Phil Cook is a musician who now resides in the Raleigh, Durham area. Phil Cook picks “I’ll Fly Away” by Topsy Chapman Listen if you like: moody vibes while cleaning your house, music to grow plants to, your next tiki partyģ. Nobody even knows who the Five Glow Tones even were, but they released this and this song became the template for what was the short-lived genre that came to be exotica. This song “Quiet Village” was released by Five Glow Tones in 1951. That is just the allure of Exotica, is it’s perfect banal there-ness. It’s not too much, it’s not too little, it’s just in the back. The thing that I love about this genre and this release is the music’s pure “there-ness.” It’s hardly anything at all, and for me it’s perfect to just have on. Waronker called it exotica-“the soundtrack for a mythical air-conditioned Eden, packaged for mid-century, tiki torch-blazing armchair safariers.” Serve garnished with an alluring woman on the album jacket for best results.” Liberty Record co-founder Simon C. “It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. So I saw this one up on the wall, and it was Numero Group Number 65, Technicolor Paradise: “Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights.” And there was a description of the record in the corner, and it read as such: They’re a re-issue group, and they do really, really well-crafted, well-researched compilations of specific genres, specific times or places, and everything is just super, super well-done. The Numero Group is a record label out of Chicago that I absolutely love. The other day I was in Rush Mor Records in Bay View, and on the wall they had a new release from the Numero Group. One song I can’t stop listening to this week is “Quiet Village” by Five Glow Tones. Listen if you like: progressive, electronic pop, Sweeds.“Say My Name” was the first single on Tove Styrke’s album “Sway” released on April 28, 2017.Nick Sanborn: Yeah, but she goes for it and does in a way that feels real. You know, it’s good.Īmelia Meath: She’s also figured out that the subject matter is always like: I have a crush on you. Nick Sanborn: -that talk about complex - like trying to figure out if you like somebody. She writes legit stadium-sounding pop songs. Nick Sanborn: I think she does a pretty amazing job of that. Nick Sanborn: Yeah, I think something me and Amelia talk about all the time is making pop music that doesn’t dumb down the human experience. Wear it out like a sweater that you love because I can’t get enough of you.” Nick Sanborn: Maybe “Say My Name?” Just a classic.Īmelia Meath: I’ll just say, “Say My Name.” The economy of the words in the song is just incredible. Nick Sanborn: Which one are you going to pick?Īmelia Meath: I don’t know, dude. Justin Barney: -not pronounced, but I’ve read it.Īmelia Meath: She just put out this EP called “Sway.” Each song on it is incredible, but I think. And people are starting to pay attention to her. And she is an actual pop queen from Sweden who is writing.just, bangers. Justin Barney: Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath, what is one song you can’t stop listening to?Īmelia Meath: I’m really into this woman named Tove Styrke.Īmelia Meath: I know, because she has a phonetic spelling of it on her instagram. In between those two shows, they stopped by to talk to me. They’ve released two fantastic albums and just last week they played two sold-out shows at the Pabst Theatre. Nick Sanborn was born in Madison and spent 11 years in Milwaukee where he met Amelia Meath at the Cactus Club. Sylvan Esso are one of our favorite bands. My guest today is Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath, who are Sylvan Esso. Sylvan Esso picks “Say My Name” by Tove Styrke
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