Browse by Label: MEGAPHONE UK (UK)

Artist:	KEINEG, KATELL
Title:	High July
Label:	MEGAPHONE UK (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MEGA 006CD

"'Her sly, allusive songs combine the world-weary romanticism of Leonard Cohen with Tim Buckley's slurred incantations.' -- Rolling Stone Part-time Dubliner, part-time New Yorker, Katell Keineg releases her much anticipated third studio on Megaphone Music (Michael Head & The Strands, Karen Dalton etc..). Following on from 1997's Jet, an album that was described 'as one of the greatest overlooked pop masterpieces of the decade' (Esquire), High July features ten stunning new songs including the apoplectic 'What's The Only Thing Worse Than The End Of Time' and the sublime, wonderfully crafted ballad 'Beautiful Day.' High July features a host of guest performers including Matt Johnson (The The), Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs) and Susan McKeown. From the early nineties Keineg has been active on both the Irish and American music scenes steadily emerging into one of the most inspiring and deeply moving performers around."

Artist:	DALTON, KAREN
Title:	It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You the Best
Label:	MEGAPHONE UK (UK)
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	MEGA 010CD

2006 UK version of this album, with an added 2nd disc of video material on DVD. This album is no longer in print on CD in the US on the Koch label anyway, but needless to day, some fanatics might need this archival promo film footage on the DVD. It's 4 tracks, apparently taken from a French documentary on Dalton (found in the INA archives) -- no details are provided. 2 black & white live tracks, 2 full color videos shot at her house & surroundings in Summerville, CO, around 1970. About 12 minutes long in total, somewhat mediocre quality, but pretty riveting for the Dalton fanbase. Format is European PAL only. "Major re-release of this absolutely essential all time classic folk/blues album. Re-released with new packaging, new booklet and for the first time ever a stunning DVD with archive footage...Discovered by Fred Neil, produced by Nik Venet, the man who signed the Beach Boys and took The Beatles to America; hugely influential over Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton is the lost girl of Greenwich Village. Bob Dylan in his best-selling book Chronicles (page 12).... 'My favourite singer in the place was Karen Dalton. She was a tall white blues singer and guitar player, funky, lanky and sultry. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday's and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed and went all the way with it. I sang with her a couple of times.' As well as Bob Dylan, the likes of Nick Cave, Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom are known celebrity fans."

Artist:	LECUBE
Title:	From Here To Now
Label:	MEGAPHONE UK (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MEGA 017CD

"Julien 'Lecube' Barbagallo was born to Sicilian immigrant parents in the pastoral landscape of Tarn in France's South-West, where he still lives. His first EP My Bungalow (Barbabungalow) marked the beginning of his solo project, Lecube, and lent him mythical status via the only French magazine which got hold of it, Magic (French equivalent of Mojo). With a simple 8-track machine and a few intimate songs, he began telling the stories he held close to his chest, a fragile combination of glances and breathes, collected randomly on local buses and unmade beds. In the spring of 2004 he began to record new material, on his friend Benjamin's staircase, a collection of songs which were to become From Here To Now' stories where women he'd love to love meet men he'd love to be, and vice versa. These recordings remained on the stairs until Julien played a local party Qwhere he met Stephane Bismuth, Megaphone Music (The Strands, Angil, Karen Dalton), who convinced him to release his new songs initially as a series of 7". Those tracks drew comparisons to amongst others, The Monochrome Set, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, The Byrds, Elliott Smith and Howe Gelb."

Artist:	BLIND BLAKE
Title:	Bahamian Songs
Label:	MEGAPHONE UK (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MEGA 022CD

"Summer starts here with this absolute gem of a release from Megaphone. Blind Blake's first ever CD including tracks that later went on to be covered by everyone from The Beach Boys to Johnny Cash!. As label owner Stephane Bismuth explains: 'I was introduced to Blind Blake's music by Joe Loop, the man who for almost five decades hung onto Karen Dalton's earliest known recordings (1962 private recordings now known as The Loop Tapes). Joe had a cassette made from his heavy vinyl Blind Blake LP that had broken in two halves. This broken LP is now bound by Scotch tape and gets played whenever Joe needs a new cassette. I am glad I can now offer Joe the first CD ever made out of Blind Blake's LPs, recorded in the 50s for the tiny ART label.' Blind Blake was from the 30s to the 60s the singer and leader of the house band at the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas. His music was a strange mix of old island classics, more recent calypso compositions and American ballads. His musicians combined jazz guitar licks with vocal harmonies and West Indian rhythms, with the result that his recordings have an easy humor and swing that few musicians from any continent can match. This CD is drawn from a series of recordings made in the early 1950s. His band The Royal Victoria Hotel Calypsos featured Dudley Butter (guitar, maracas), Chatfield Ward (guitar), Freddie Lewis (lead guitar), George Wilson (bass fiddle), and at times Lou Adams on trumpet. Its popularity with tourists led to them being widely heard in the US, and they became an inspiration to many folk revival musicians. Josh White and Johnny Cash covered 'Delia,' Pete Seeger 'Foolish Frog,' Dave Van Ronk 'Yas, Yas, Yas,' and 'Run, Come See Jerusalem' was done by dozens of groups, not to mention Blake's influence on Harry Belafonte."

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