Jamie T sings, does video

Aren’t the things a blogger doesn’t say seem more compelling than the ones they do?

Thus I completely forgot to mention one of Jamie T‘s later offerings, Oh My Girl. Sounds like a gang of blokes returning from pubs, still clinging to their pints annd haunted by girls of the past, might belt this out between harmonic belching.

Jamie T – Oh My Girl mp3

I do not know when Jamie T’s album’s out, but that means they don’t either. Probably if it’s not mastered in time for Christmas it won’t be this year, and January is a stupid time to release music, so it’s spring then, by which time there’s going to be new material instead of reworked demos.

For now, there’s a single, If You Got The Money, and a darn good video to keep me happy for ay while.

If You Got The Money video link (stream on myspace – I suppose you have to log in to your account, especially because you don’t have one do you, at least that’s what you tell your friends – but get that Video Downloader Firefox extension and you can, as they say, download it to your computer)

And now, a request on my part. Does anybody know anything about the Lily Allen – Jamie T track they recorded together a couple of months back? What ever happened to leaking.

Tour dates after the jump.

Best things in life are..

I like people who leave this kind of comments on my posts – here. (The Cookshop’s Chef was feeling pretty link-generous and is taking us up the mountains and down to: Beirut, live, courtesy of Bradley’s Almanac).

Meanwhile, Prefixmag have a Ladyhawk mp3 available. Some Jamie T video interviews for the BBC and MTV2’s Gonzo are here (savefile project). There’s also an acoustic version of Sheila.

BBC Radio 1 hosts a great edition of One World – it’s a Transgressive Label special – it’s up there for streaming (and ripping, if you wish) till the next show airs on August the 14th. UK indie label Transgressive Records is home to the likes of The Young Knives, Battle, Polytechnic, burningpilot and Ladyfuzz so don’t miss out. Some Transgressive sounds right here:

The Mystery Jets – Lizzy’s Lion mp3

source: prefixmag.com

The Young Knives – Weekends & Bleak Days mp3

source: SXSW Showcasing 2006

Ladyfuzz – Oh Marie mp3

source: www.artrockeraudio.com

Jeremy Warmsley’s Dirty Blue Jeans vid – the kid’s approach to strings in the structure of a song is ingenious.

Link Complication

Fallen in love this week with perpetrators of the J Davey kind. Can’t find the album here in Bucharest, don’t have a credit card to PayPal myself through ebay, but wherever it is I’ll hunt it down. Meanwhile soul-electro-clashsters do have a myspace (a tab is permanently open in my browser – the J Davey tab as it’s going down for posterity) and a site all of their own where you can stream music. Unfortunately no downloads. If you don’t have time for this you should quit your job. Pretty mesmerizing stuff here, but I suppose it’s more chick-oriented.

Next up is that young gun that requires a deluge of clever epithets to properly state what he’s about in case you haven’t heard of him yet. Jamie T, this modern-age Socrates-slash-Petronius but with a bass guitar to prod at, I say, Jamie T is material for BBC Collective’s feature this issue. You can stream live footage of Jamie, and watch an interview. The album’s getting done, but after all the tracks are done there’s nasty marketing issues to think of; however I trust Virgin Music know when to milk the cow.

I’m very glad I received some good shit in the mail, finally, so here it is: a remix by Jim Noir for Sebastien Tellier’s La Ritournelle. It strikes me as a dance track with feeling. I can already picture the masses after an anthem, wondering what moves to pull on this one. A bit of drum and bass, a bit of strings and you’ve scored the sun rising while you’re sipping on that last cocktail or a strong cuppa green tea (Coffee is so last season). As for Tellier, his first recording ever, Fantino, can be found on the soundtrack to Lost In Translation by Sofia Coppola. As you do.

Sebastien Tellier – La ritournelle (Jim Noir Mix) mp3

Here’s the dude’s myspace.

 

 

I’m still in my Poland retrospective phase, here are some pics from the Open’er Festival in Gdynia.

Sheila

Goes out with her mate stella,
its gets poured all over her fella

Jamie to the T

UPDATE: if you’re looking for the Sheila lyrics, skedaddle on over here

I’m not one that generally listens to a full LP these days – like I can’t concentrate on films or books.
I’m on an ADD wave

Luckily Jamie T has EPs out. That sound like inebriated swee peas. Notoriously hard to come by, almost as soon as they were released they vanished into thin 7-inch air. It’s precisely this detail that made me gallop the internets like mad until a nice last.fm jamie fan clued me in. This made my day

Jamie T was a fortuitous discovery that makes me want to do things. I cannot keep still when I listen to this dude. Too much flow baby! A one-man Arctic Monkeys is what he’s been described as – I’m going to disagree, you know me. There’s just so much more to Jamie T. Playing with samples has been a tweak exploited mainly by leftfield electronica, from the coherent to the unintelligible, but I’ve never heard them dipped into indie rock- which by the way is not quite what he calls himself. He’s a player of bass guitar, and an adept of reggae, punk and rap.
Jamie T collages his visual art into sounds, in ways I’ve never heard before. Granted, alcohol-induced inspired moments will happen. But these songs aren’t flukes. Some artists take a long time to find their sound, Jamie just slides into his aural state with utter ease. This might be an acute, long process for the bloke – point being, it never feels like it.