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  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 57 featuring Adamski // Nov 26 2014

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 57 featuring Adamski // Nov 26 2014

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    Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with Adamski. Alongside Seal, he is responsible for one of the best tracks of the last 25 years.

    For the past number of years, Adamski has been working mainly as an underground club DJ. But, now he’s back with a brand new EP and a brand new sound, which he calls ‘Futurewaltz’, dance music in a 3/4 time signature.

    Adamski was very generous with his time and I really enjoyed our chat so it was only right and fair that today’s show was devoted to his music.

    Here’s today’s running order:

    1. The London Ear Intro
    2. Adamski: Belle of the Speedball
    3. Chat with Adamski (Part 1)
    4. Adamski featuring Harmony: Detonate my Luv
    5. Chat with Adamski (Part 2)
    6. Adamski: Cuckoo Blood
    7. Chat with Adamski (Part 3)
    8. Adamski and David McAlmont: The Last Waltz
    9. Chat with Adamski (Part 4)
    10. Adamski featuring Buck Dexter: Pump Up The Waltz
    11. Adamski: NRG
    12. Adamski featuring Seal: Killer

    Thanks for listening, You can listen live every Wednesday at 1400 and the repeat of show is aired on Sunday nights at 2100. You can listen to the show again on the RTE player.

    You can also listen to the show in its entirety on Mixcloud or in the widget below.

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 57 featuring Adamski // Nov 26 2014 by Nessy on Mixcloud

  • Interview with David McAlmont

    David McAlmont taken from MyspaceDavid McAlmont releases a new Live CD and DVD, Live From Leicester Square, next week. David took some time out of his schedule to answer a few questions.

    Where are you and how are you today?

    I’m in London. I’m stressed because a lot is going on. A new single ‘Isn’t It a Pity’ is released today, a new Live album/DVD is released next week and then we’re off on a short 10 date tour to promote them, so there’s a lot to do and think about.

    You are about to start a tour of the UK, what can people expect? Have you thought of an Irish visit?

    The tour is a celebration of my favourite songs of the last 18 years of songwriting and recording, so that’s what the audiences can look forward to. We will make it to Ireland later in the year, closer to the autumn I hope. Incidentally we were in County Sligo earlier this month writing new material and plan to do that twice again this year.

    Throughout your career you’ve always collaborated with other artists. On ‘Glare’ with Michael Nyman you chose from his compositions to write lyrics for. How long did it take, how easy/hard was it?

    The Nyman collaboration was reasonably long. I met him n Facebook in 2008 and we first discussed working together then. At first we were going to do something quite arty, based on a painting, ‘The Raft of the Medusa’ by Theodore Gericault, but I became fascinated by the artist’s methods and decided to adapt his approach to creating new material. I used Michael’s pieces as canvases and painted contemporary news stories on them, which was a reflection of Gericault’s approach. It was difficult at first because I made the mistake of thinking that I had to change what I did naturally to collaborate, but all the music I wrote sounded dull. Then I thought if Michael had wanted me to do something different he would have said to and so I reverted to my soul/pop approach which worked brilliantly. (more…)