Sandie's Music Minute

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Trading Philadelphia for Los Angeles, RYAT’s transformation was juxtapositioned with a new awareness of her natural surroundings and unexpected visits from animals, whose dream partners give the album its name TOTEM.



Every track of TOTEM represents a different spirit animal, each with a message translated through RYAT’s experimentation with unusual sound signatures.A serious oeuvre, TOTEM blends classical elements and cinematic sounds with experimental time changes. Twisting through the gritty, disheveled beats like an elegant ribbon, RYAT’s gracefully processed vocals merge with electronic surprises to create a work of intense abstract art.

References:
http://ninjatune.net/artist/ryat
http://ryat.info/RYAT/RYAT.html
http://www.myspace.com/ryat
http://www.facebook.com/RYATmusic
http://ryat.bandcamp.com/




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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=407710342600977&set=a.376114795760532.80184.137643089607705&type=3&theater

Jupiter are from Paris and they are delivering vintage-flavored lazer-disco songs. Their music will be on heavy rotation on every radio station in a better world. The two members of Jupiter met on a dancefloor cleared by a slightly too retro hit. 

Marissa Nadler is an American dream-folk musician and singer/songwriter. She plays six string guitar, 12 string guitar, piano, ukelele, banjo, and voice. Nadler studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she began her performing career after writing songs for many years. Her most recent record was self-released on June 14th, 2011. A new record, entitled “The Sister,” will be released in April of 2012.


References:
http://marissanadler.com/
https://twitter.com/#!/marissanadler
http://www.last.fm/music/Marissa+Nadler
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marissa-Nadler/300932499775
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Marissamoon6
http://marissanadler.bandcamp.com/


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http://marissanadler.com/photos.html

Struggle as a metaphor is something every human can relate to. One of the most prolific and challenging forms of struggle in the world today is the plight of ethnic and religious minorities, which is the topic of Niyaz’s third album, Sumud (pronounced soomood) forthcoming on Six Degrees Records. Translating from Arabic as ‘steadfastness,’ lead singer Azam Ali chose this philosophical term as a symbolic reminder that, as she explains, ‘every human being should inherit the right to live with dignity and freedom upon the land on which they are born.’ With a heavier emphasis on the electronic side of their sound and a special guest vocal appearance from Oscar-winning Indian composer, musician and singer AR Rahman, Sumud is the most powerful release yet from one of global fusion's most popular bands. 

Light Asylum are Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello from Brooklyn, New York, USA.


Having spent years touring and performing as synth pop project The Dreamies, Coviello channels a different strand of influence and completes the LIGHT ASYLUM sound alongside Funchess. The result is an uncompromising, rugged mixture of coldwave, EBM and electro-industrial structured through pop of the toughest sensibilities. A LIGHT ASYLUM production straddles underground electronic club music and radio song culture – part introverted, aggressive vehicles, part bright, jubilant fanfares – passages of carefully devised harmony and melody bloom between stabs of driving keyboards and drum machines.


They released their first EP “In Tension” in 2010. The four track EP was re-released in 2011 through Mexican Summer and licensed to Cooperative Music


The self-titled debut album is scheduled for release in May 1, 2012.


References:
http://www.lightasylum.com/
http://www.mexicansummer.com/tag/light-asylum/
http://www.mexicansummer.com/shop/light-asylum-light-asylum/
http://www.myspace.com/lightasylum
http://www.facebook.com/pages/LIGHT-ASYLUM/104655556635
http://twitter.com/#!/LightAsylum
http://www.last.fm/music/Light+Asylum


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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=383927476635&set=a.383927171635.168565.104655556635&type=3&theater

HIGHASAKITE by Riot Factory



HighasaKite make songs unlike most things yet to come out of Norway. Keyboards, zither, pounding drums and the occasional noise guitar together with Ingrid Helene’s distinctive voice makes a delicious blend of exciting indie pop inspired by artists such as Lykke Li and the movie Where The Wild Things Are. 



Highasakite’s debut album “All That Floats Will Rain” has received rave reviews throughout the Norwegian press, some even calling it album of the year (Dagbladet) and saying that “No song on this album is redundant, it’s all brilliantly brought to life. This, ladies and gentlemen, is pop music!”


Highasakite is playing many of Norways biggest and most important festivals this summer, amonst them Øya and Hove, in support of their debut album ‘All That Floats Will Rain’, out February 3rd 2012, on Norwegian indie label Riot Factory.

Emika was born in the UK, of Czech heritage. As a young woman she studied classical piano and composition. She waitresses to save up for her first Apple Mac and copy of Logic while living in Bristol, as the city transitioned from d&b to dubstep. (Last FM)

Has it really been 4 years since this song came out... time goes by quick! Either way I just needed to hear this song.

The Good Natured are an electropop trio from Berkshire, United Kingdom. The band consists of singer-songwriter Sarah McIntosh, her brother Hamish McIntosh on bass and George Hinton on drums.


The Good Natured, recently signed to Regal/Parlophone Records, offer a catchy gothic twist on electropop with their new EP titled Skeleton, released on 20 June 2011. In the songs featured on the Skeleton EP, Sarah displays her compellingly mature command of the nuances of serious pop music, combined with the darker, and often more sensual, emotional and lyrical content of the gothic. Both “Skeleton” and “Wolves” are produced by Patrik Berger, known for his work with Robyn. Facebook

I saw EMA in Madison, WI and it was a great show. EMA is Erika Anderson of the recently broken up long running American west-coast band Gowns.

Alabama Shakes is an American rock band formed in Athens, Alabama, United States in 2009. The lead singer,Brittany Howard, did a lot of that as a kid, spending weekends in her room experimenting with instruments and a tape recorder, making up lyrics and layering sounds, unconsciously preparing herself for a life now consumed by music.


Her taste in music was considerably more esoteric than the typical teen in a small-town northern Alabama high school. “I spent a lot of time with my grandmother’s music: Dion, the Platters, the Drifters, the Temptations – I grew up on that,” she says. Later she discovered T. Rex and David Bowie, and got her education in roots music from Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones albums.


Band Members:
Brittany Howard - Lead Singer
Heath Fogg - Guitarist
Zac Cockrell - Bassist
Steve Johnson - Drummer


References:
http://www.last.fm/music/Alabama+Shakes
http://www.npr.org/artists/145926696/alabama-shakes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/26/alabama-shakes-brittany-howard-review
http://www.alabamashakes.com/
http://www.alabamashakes.bandcamp.com


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http://www.nme.com/reviews/alabama-shakes/12693

Former Dum Dum Girl, Katie Serbian-Brouillette is releasing her new project Cheap Curls' debut 7" on Art Fag Recordings this spring. 


References:
http://soundcloud.com/art-fag-recordings/jackie-oh
http://artfagrecordings.blogspot.com/2012/03/cheap-curls-jackie-oh-preorder.html


Image Source:
http://artfagrecordings.blogspot.com/2012/03/cheap-curls-jackie-oh-preorder.html

Listen to the new album
University Heights (Available 2/22/2012) by Teeel

Teeel aka Jim Smith credits his sound to marathon movie watching and being an obsessive gear head. Creating music in a 10×10 teal painted room, stacked with synthesizers and guitars with walls covered with vintage Moog ads, Jim creates music that ranges from hypnotic synthpop to dreamy disco and dark electronica.




References:
http://teeelmusic.com/
http://moodgadget.com/
http://www.last.fm/music/Teeel
http://www.facebook.com/Teeelmusic
http://soundcloud.com/teeel
http://www.youtube.com/Teeelmusic


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http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/pittsburgh/critics-picks-january-5-7/Content?oid=1478199

Listen to the whole album from Bandcamp.


Formed from the collaboration of DJ producer Jon Waters and songwriter Ann Yu. Ann has been in bands that have shared the stage with acts such as The Radio Dept, La Roux, Black Kids, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Mates of State, Jose Gonzales and many more. Jon has produced and DJ’d all over the world. But with all of the experience the duo decided to take a different route when it comes to creating music together. Silver Swans puts a special meaning to the idea of bedroom recordings. All tracks were recorded in late night sessions hidden under covers, in their bathrooms, and right before bed. The songs you hear are a reflection of the dreams they’ve uncovered and hope to discover.


References:
http://www.facebook.com/silverswans
http://www.myspace.com/silverswansofficial
http://www.reverbnation.com/silverswans
https://twitter.com/#!/silverswansband
http://soundcloud.com/silverswans
http://www.last.fm/music/Silver+Swans
http://silverswans.bandcamp.com/
http://www.tricycle-records.com/artist/silverswans/


Images Source:
http://obscuresound.com/2011/02/silver-swans-secret/

Armed with a rampant imagination, a plethora of dark, emotive pop songs, and backed by a growing army of top producers and worldwide fans, Charli is not like your run-of-the-mill musician. Playing in bands since the age of seven, Charli's long had music coursing through her veins. She recorded her first album at 14 with a loan from the bank of mum and dad and she’s only just paid them back. It did the trick though attracting attention from the right London scenesters and bagging her gigs at warehouse raves across Hackney. Earlier this summer she released ‘Stay Away’.


References:
http://www.last.fm/music/Charli+XCX
http://www.facebook.com/charlixcxmusic?sk=info
http://soundcloud.com/charlixcx
http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/charli-xcx
http://www.charlixcxmusic.com/


Image Source:
http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2012/02/20/mp3-charli-xcx-ill-never-know/

This  video is the third song from the album Honeymoon Punch.





Born and raised on Prince Edward Island, Halifax-based Jenn Grant is like no other Atlantic Canadian musician.
 
Her third album Honeymoon Punch embodies what Grant says is the sound of joy. As one of Nova Scotia’s most revered songwriters she teamed together with her new husband, member of the band In-Flight Safety, Daniel Ledwell to produce the record.


Discography:
Honeymoon Punch (2011 Six Shooter Records)
ECHOES (2009 Six Shooter Records)
Orchestra for the Moon (2006 Paris 1919)
Jenn Grant & Goodbye Twentieth Century (2005 independent)

References:
http://www.sixshooterrecords.com/six_site/roster/jenngrant.html
http://www.jenngrant.com/
http://www.thevanguard.ca/Arts/Entertainment/2011-11-04/article-2792217/Jenn-Grant%3A-changing-sounds-paying-off/1
http://www.last.fm/music/Jenn+Grant




Image Source:
http://www.last.fm/music/Jenn+Grant/+images/61237291

Keep up with her music:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/S-jenn-ghetto/233715690328
http://soundcloud.com/jennghetto

Cortney Tidwell was born in Nashville, TN, where her grandfather had been a successful recording artist and a guest on the Grand Ol’ Opry, her father was a veteran A&R man, her mother had landed several singles on the country charts in the 1970s.


Her mother was diagnosed with manic depression and Cortney's music ambition was derailed. Cortney's musical genes emerged again after the death of her mother many years later. Wikipedia 

Deaf Club, is a new band from Wales based in London. Their sound lies between shoegaze, and chillwave. The UK's online newspaper The Guardian has compared Polly Mackey's voice's to Siouxsie Sioux.




Band Members:
Polly Mackey - guitar, vocals
Paul Bates - bass
Jac Roberts - guitar
Tom Ryan - drums
Sian Rosier - synth


References:
http://deafclub.bandcamp.com/
http://www.justmusicthatilike.com/2011/08/deaf-club-new-music-introducing.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/06/new-band-deaf-club
http://www.last.fm/music/Deaf+Club
http://soundcloud.com/deafclub/tracks
http://www.facebook.com/deafclubmusic
http://www.last.fm/music/Deaf+Club


Images Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/06/new-band-deaf-club

Talk about lyrics! This song is amazing. These are the lyrics that caught me:

There is something I'm really liking here. I was not a big fan of her single "Big Mouth", but this song is on heavy rotation in Sandie's February Radio Station. Enjoy!

Born in 1948, Bradley got to see James Brown at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 1962, and the experience was transformative. From then on, Bradley performed when and where he could while supporting himself with odd jobs (mainly as a cook) and groping for that main chance.


He got it when Gabriel Roth of the soul-driven Daptone Records - famous for bringing Sharon Jones, another struggling great, to our attention - heard him and guided him down the path that led to last year's "No Time for Dreaming," an album that not only packed a lifetime into 12 songs but also kicked another retro-soul dreamer into a reality he deserved.






References:
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/musicandnightlife/139443778.html

Front man Peter Liddle decribes Dry The River's music as "folky gospel music played by a post-punk band". Liddle formed Dry The River as a solo project to express music created from influences formed during Medicine and Anthropology studies at University, along with inspiration taken from the likes of Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and At The Drive In.


The Norwegian born songwriter ended a 2009 summer tour by enlisting the help of a collection of old friends from previous bands for the tour close in London. This decision proved fruitful as Transgressive soon signed up the nascent group, providing support for a further tour to sharpen their developing sound. Soon they were on the radar of BBC Introducing, who invited Dry The River to play their stage at Glastonbury 2010.


Now based in London's Stratford the quintet have enjoyed a prosperous 2011, awaits their new album on March 2, 2012 called "Shallow Bed"


Members
Peter Liddle: Guitar, Singing
Matthew: Guitar, Singing
Jon: Drums
Scott: Bass, Singing, Glockenspiel
Will: Violin, Mandolin, Viola


References:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/soundof/2012/artists/drytheriver/#p00m9nlz
http://www.facebook.com/drytheriver
http://www.last.fm/music/Dry+The+River
http://soundcloud.com/drytheriver
http://www.youtube.com/drytheriverofficial
http://twitter.com/drytheriver
http://www.drytheriver.net/gb/home/


Image Source:
http://www.last.fm/music/Dry+The+River/+images/67080016

Jesse Ruins is a mysterious electro-ambient act from Tokyo, Japan that debuted in 2011 with the dreamy electronica track, “Dream Analysis”. It is signed to Cuz Me Pain Records and Brooklyn label Captured Tracks. Last FM

Soda Stereo were an Argentine rock band that achieved fame and international success throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. They were a power trio made up of Gustavo Cerati on vocals and guitar, Héctor "Zeta" Bosio on bass, and drummer Charly Alberti. The band is widely considered as the forerunners of the Latin American / Ibero-America / Rock En Español movement that emerged during the mid-1980’s. Soda’s early sound was influenced by new wave bands such as The Police. The band gradually evolved into a heavier sounding alternative rock band, eventually drawing influences from classic rock, progressive rock, shoegaze, neo-psychedelia, britpop, and electronic music.
Soda played an important role in the development and diffusion of Latin American / Ibero-America rock. They were the first Latin rock group to achieve mainstream success in South and Central America and helped popularize the Rock En Español scene of the 1980’s.


The band established what would become the template for Spanish-speaking rock music groups and in the process broke numerous ticket and sales records, especially in their native Argentina. They are considered by critics to be one of the best Latin American /Ibero-America rock bands of all time. Soda has sold over 7 million of albums in Latin America and their back catalog continues to sell to this day. In 2002 Soda Stereo was awarded the "Legend Prize" by MTV Latin America, the first prize to be awarded of its kind.


References:
http://sodastereo.com/
http://www.last.fm/music/Soda+Stereo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Stereo


Image Source:
http://www.last.fm/music/Soda+Stereo/+images/25391051

Tennis is Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, a husband/wife duo. Last FM
Here is the track where you can hear her voice a lot better. From the new album out on February 14, 2011 called "Young and Old".

Tennis Petition by garrettsorrels

Frightened Rabbit are an indie rock band which formed in 2003 in Glasgow, Scotland. I saw this amazing band on May 9, 2010.  Last FM