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Download: Shout Timber: Rich Man/East India Trading Company

It’s cold, it’s dark, it’s the end of November. One way to get out of the winter blues is to press play on ‘Rich Man’, the new single from Shout Timber. It’s upbeat full of African vibes and more than enough to blow the cobwebs away, put them somewhere between Little Comets and Vampire Weekend. The track is officially being released on December 10th but you get get a free download alongside ‘East India Trading Company’ now.

Shout Timber are a four piece from London and worked with Tarek Musa who has also been working with Eye Emma Jedi, who previously featured on Tune of the Week with ‘Sin’.

The two tracks released this way compliment each other quite well. ‘Rich Man’ is upbeat and going on the lyrics just a tad extravagant. The rhythm for “East India Trading Company’ comes from a train bell and gives the impression of just enjoying a journey through India. Interesting combination.

Shout Timber are playing a couple of gigs in the UK before Christmas, on December 3rd they play The Water Rats, London supporting Animal Kingdom and on December 4, you’ll find them in Birmingham at the Actress & Bishop, supporting Jaws.

You can download the tracks from Soundcloud here vvvv

Here’s the videos for the two tracks. In less than a week, the video for Rich Man has managed to get over twelve thousand views.

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November 22, 2012
Civil Twilight: River (Video and Remix)

Civil Twilight are a band based in Nashville and are one quarter Nashville, three quarters from Cape Town South Africa. ‘River’ is their debut on this part of the planet but I’ve been listening to some more of their stuff on Soundcloud and I’m liking what I’m hearing.

‘River’ is taken from their second album ‘Holy Weather’, it follows the 2010 self titled debut release. They’ve previously played at Bonaroo and opened for Florence + The Machine and The Smashing Pumpkins.

While I’m here, I’m not entirely sure when the album ‘Holy Weather’ is going to get a release here but according to their website there’s a remix EP on the way which includes a Ra Ra Riot Remix of River and an amazing Audien remix of ‘Fire Escape’.

‘River’ is out now on Wind Up Records.

November 22, 2012
Villagers: Nothing Arrived (Video)

Seems Conor Villagers was very clever with ‘The Waves’. It kinda made people go ‘Hmm, what’s he doing?’ Allowing for a new, blank slate. Whether or not it’s been a hard task to follow up ‘Becoming a Jackal’ isn’t clear just yet, but going on ‘Nothing Arrived’, it doesn’t look like we’re going to be disappointed.

The video was directed by Alden Volney who also did the video for The ‘Waves’ and is taken from the album ‘{Awayland}’ which will be released on January 13th 2013. {Awayland} can be pre-ordered HERE.

You can catch Villagers on tour in Ireland in March:

Thursday 14th March – GALWAY – Seapoint
Friday 15th March – LIMERICK – Dolans
Saturday 16th March – BELFAST, NI
Mon 18th March – KILLARNEY – INEC
Tues 19th March – CORK -The Savoy
Thursday 21st March – DUBLIN – Olympia Theatre

{Awayland} can be pre-ordered HERE.

November 21, 2012
Culture Cafe on RTE 2XM Show 70 21/11/2012

So this week was show 70 on 2XM, time flies eh? Thanks to this week’s guests, musician Willy Moon and Mark O’Brien from axis in Ballymun. Here’s the running order of what happened:

1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Crossroads
2. Stereophonics: In A Moment
3. Avec Sans: The Answer
4. Julie Feeney: Cold Water
5. Liz Lawrence: Bedroom Hero
6. Chat with Mark O’Brien, director of axis in Ballymun about Playground, arts mentoring initative
7. Solar Taxi: Saturday’s Children
8. The 1975: Sex
9. Willy Moon: I Wanna Be Your Man
10. Chat with Willy Moon (Part 1)
11. Willy Moon: Railroad Track
12. Chat with Willy Moon (Part 2)
13. Willy Moon: Yeah Yeah
14. Dutch Uncles: Fester
15. Everything Everything: Cough Cough
16. Walter Murphy: John & Lori at Work/A Walk in The Park

Thanks for listening, don’t forget you can listen to the full show again on the RTE Player. The show is broadcast every Wednesday at 1400 GMT and is repeated every Sunday at 2100 GMT. You can also subscribe to the Culture Cafe podcast on iTunes.

November 21, 2012