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Yesterday is now Today in Samoa and therefore messes with the lyrics to our song Island Time!
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- Created on Friday, 30 December 2011 03:19
Oh No! Our brilliant Metaphor in Island TIme will make no sense now that Samoa has brought their calendar into line with New Zealand and Australia.
The Chorus Lyric 'she's on Island Time, three hours ahead and I'm one day behind'...and the verse 'I can just go back to Yesterday' were all super-meaningful; when the Calendars were out by 1 day, but now that Australia and Samoa are in the same date zone, Yesterday is Today!
Talofa to all our Samoan friends, and in case you haven't heard the song or listened to it in a while: Island Time
Nuevo Retro back in the charts again for July
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Go figure!
Nuevo Retro reviewed on Trad & Now
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Stormcellar - Nuevo Retro
CD review by Chris Spencer
I was surprised, but pleasantly so, when I began listening to this CD.
This is the 2nd album from
While the band cite influences from rock, country, folk, blues, jazz and pop, (was there a genre they omitted to mention?) this album is more country blues influenced.
The first track, “Can't Tax Love” is a great introduction to the band.
Bluesy, slide guitar, a bit of boogie, a tasty guitar solo and a vocalist who has a reedy voice compared to say the vocalist from Canned Heat, rather than a deep, black blues voice.
Another surprise was the sentiments of track 3, “Don't Get Around Much” which has an environmental theme, with harmonica and slide guitar assisting.
Perhaps the centre piece of the album is “Roscoe' Boogie” which is a driving boogie, told from the point of view of a friend commenting on his mate going to war.
While it's not an obvious anti-war song, there are sentiments that make the listener question the “excitement” of being in the army, parachuting out of planes and being where the action is!
Another strong song follows - “7 Days” - that has a powerful riff and is fat and bluesy.
It's a love song of sorts as the singer grapples with his love of gambling and that of his girl!
“Last Drinks at Glenrowan” is the band's foray into folk while “Swamp Monster” is appropriately swampy.
The jaunty, bluesy last song, “Drink You Off My Mind” is a male drinking song, which shows the band's sense of humour – vis “ I just need a little time at the bar to drink you off my mind!'
On the strength of this album, I'll be more than tempted to try and have a listen to their first album.
Much more blues than folk, though and there’s nothing wrong with that
Stormcellar 'Nuevo Retro' OUT NOW!
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- Created on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 06:46
It will still be a few weeks before it's on itunes or on sale outside Australia, but if ya cant wait, click on the Buy Stuff link or then again, just click here:
Remember, all the gory details on the 'making of' (those fit to publish) are in the Album Blog section - note the album was called 'SC2' during production, just to keep it all nice and simple.
BTW for those not down with their Spanish homework, the title is pronounced N-way-vo.
Next time you're getting Stick Figures! Artwork for Nuevo Retro finally complete
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- Created on Thursday, 18 March 2010 16:27
Sample component from the Artwork inside Nuevo Retro - I've gone 3D Mad!! MADDDDD!!!
Ok whose idea was it to get all fancy-shmancy with the CD booklet artwork? HMM?? Oh. Mine, Right.
Ay-yi-yi - This took a while. To create a booklet that captured the ideas that went into Nuevo Retro involved CB Modeler Pro, 3DXML viewer, Photoshop and a bunch of hacking and tweaking.
Lyrics for Nuevo Retro now online
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- Created on Monday, 08 March 2010 04:45
Of course, if you come to our gigs and hear the New New Stuff, that's not up there yet. Soz. LOL. You'll have to wait a tad longer for Hollow Tree and the others that will be on the recording we're getting ready to make (as distinct from the one we're releasing now)
We're submitting the master for pressing tomorrow so we are hoping to have the final version (retail pressing) back in our hands...um...whenever they're ready (time is variable...just ask einstein!)
MJEB
That's it, we're done! Nuevo Retro out of mastering~
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- Created on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:45
We've just finished the QA testing n the mastered version of Nuevo Retro.
Big ups to Michael Lynch at Shoehorse sound!
We're done. Thats it. El Finito. No more!
Except...artwork..proofing....pressing..packing..
Ok. So maybe we're not entirely there yet...Should be available for release in two weeks! Famous last words?
We can be optimistic.
:-)