After Eight Show - New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!

More fabulous inventive, creative, extraordinary new music in this week's show.
In our LUVVA COVER feature, we played a 'hard rocking' version of one of Björk's best known songs. It's by Chuck Wright - bass player with Quiet Riot. He has assembled a stellar band including the magnificent vocalist Whitney Tai who is the singer on another of tonight's tracks which could not be more different , in mood, to this one!

New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else!
Playlist:
The Great Hope Design – Sevdaliza

De Parade (Weval remix) – Eefje de Visser, Weval

Tears on Your Heart – Bev Lee Harling

Light Years – Georgi Krastev

LONDON’S BURNING – Poppy Ajudha

Heron – Scrimshire, Miryam Solomon

Must Be a Cop – Husbands

Hypernormal – Gdansk81

Fingertips (SKL Heartbeat remix) – Flunk, SKL

You’re My Home (Thrupence remix) – Appleby, Thrupence

Army Of Me - Björk

Army Of Me – Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky, Whitney Tai (Luvva Cover feature)

Grow (Submotion Orchestra remix) – Kidnap, Leo Stannard, Submotion Orchestra

Out Of Clock – Fifi Rong

Warriors (remix) – mAncient

Holy Holy – Indigo Maya

Stökigt hjärta – Moto Boy, MIA

Sióg (Todchaí) – Micko Roche

Creation – B’licious

Soar – Indi Faulkner

Call It Fate – Water’s Edge

Chaos - Axel Flóvent, Plàsi

Flowers by the Roadside – Whitney Tai, Michael Trainor

More New Music You Just Don't Hear Anywhere Else in this week's show!
Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK, this week, is 'Half Mirror' by Chorusing.
"From his home in the hills of North Carolina, recording as Chorusing, Matthew O’Connell has created a piece of music that manages to create new language and meaning by meticulously crafting the sounds and lyrics that make Half Mirror something totally unique." Folk Radio UK
In our LUVVA COVER feature, we will be playing a cover of a massive Tik Tok viral hit by Beach Bunny in 2020. The cover version, by Paravi, is a complete transformation of the song and became a Tik Tok viral hit earlier this year!
"Paravi’s version of the song opens with her her softly stating, “I hate all men, but...” She then begins to sing in a deeply rich lower register transforming the upbeat garage song into one filled with loss and longing." Give it a listen and see what you think!
Playlist:
In the Morning (The Battersea Sessions) – Eliza Shaddad

‘Til This Pain Goes Away – Jackie Venson

Cosmic Dust – Kasia Konstance

I Feel Something – Ego Ella May

Watching The Beams – Chorusing (Album of the Week)

Kelso (Blue Sky) – Grouper

Handsome Man- Wednesday

Close Your Eyes – Dahlia Sleeps

We Don’t Know – 3 Little Wolves

Seasons Change – noelle

Cloud 9 – Beach Bunny

Cloud 9 – Paravi (Luvva Cover feature)

What If We Could Fly – Moseqar

Rain – Stoneygate, Fake Filmscore

Cold – Chorusing

Crow – Cooza

TRIPPING OVER MYSELF – COLLAR

You Know The Mayor – Full Flower Moon Band

Sweet & Dandy – Tash Sultana

Get A Rocket – Melpo Mene

No Rush – The Northern Belle, Siv Jakobsen, Louien

Bright New World – Darling West, The Small Glories

Blue Ridge - Chorusing

Lots more innovative, melodic, fascinating new music in this week's show!
Our ALBUM OF THE WEEK is the amazing debut album of Gal Musette. She is a musical prodigy who began writing piano based lyrical compositions and performing at open mics in her home city of San Clemente, CA at the age of 10. 'Backwards Lullaby' explores the pangs of hopeless romances and unrequited love, what it’s like to move beyond idealized love into the acceptance of what is real and constant, as well as the cyclical nature of life and love in relationships.
"baroque pop songs inspired by lost love, yearning & hopelessness"
"breathtakingly beautiful layered vocals ... heartfelt & vibrant mix of indie pop & folk laced confessions"

In our LUVVA COVER feature, we will be playing a cover of a gorgeous song by Big Thief. The cover is by 'bedroom pop sensation' Cavetown.
"The tenderness in the cover is on display from the jump. The vocals are doubled to give a bit of an Elliott Smith feel here as things roll out with a beautiful tone. The song takes on a bit of a new life without steering from the original. The guitar and vocals together drive home the softness in the cover. There's a harmonic note deliver on the song that takes hold as the vocals are the driving factor. It's a simple cover but it works with earnest and sincere intentions." closedcap

We are also incredibly proud to be raising awareness of the #v4velindre fundraising project in aid of the NHS Velindre Cancer Centre. The great Kevin McGrath has compiled a brilliant album of 50 songs by artists from the UK, Italy, USA and elsewhere and all proceeds will be donated to a great cause. We will be playing Apathy by Little Rêd - please visit https://v4velindre.bandcamp.com/album/v4velindre and show your support by downloading the album which is stacked full of great music!

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Playlist:
The First Time – LYR

I Don’t Want to See You Cry (Dr R.e.y’s Melodica Dub) – Ghetto Priest, Dr REY

Like Me – Caveman

Athens, France – Black Country, New Road

Oliver – Gal Musette (Album of the Week)

Something / Anything – Zach James Douglas

Apathy – Little Rêd

Spider – Dallas Tamaira

Fall In To You – Tusks

Hasta la Vista (Alternate version) – Allie Crow Buckley, Nailah Hunter

Paul – Big Thief

Paul – Cavetown (Luvva Cover feature)

haze – [.que]

Thick_flowy_glowy_sparkly_stingy_pain.mpeg – Fire-Toolz

Julia – Gal Musette

Hegemony – chalk horse music

better – Joy Orbison, Léa Sen

My Bones – Hannah Jadagu

Complicated By Both – Maliki

Illuminate – Slowly Rolling Camera, Sachal Vasandani

Summertime – Gal Musette

Kindness – Samuel Organ, BABii

A festival of new music again this week. With, perhaps, a bit of an electronic / nu jazz feel about it.
This week, our ALBUM OF THE WEEK is 'somewhere' by Sun June. Sun June is an American indie pop band from Austin, Texas.
"Somewhere showcases a gentle maturation of Sun June's sound, a second record full of quiet revelation, eleven songs that bristle with love and longing. It finds a band at the height of their collective potency, able to transport the listener into a fascinating new landscape, one that lies somewhere between the town and the city, between the head and the heart, neither here nor there, but certainly somewhere."

In our LUVVA COVER feature, we will be playing a cover of a Beatles standard by a bedroom pop duo, Memoryhouse. They are from Toronto and have released an EP of Beatles covers called 'Mania'.
"Mania is a lush and bold exploration of The Beatles that reflects the chaos and longing of the year - and our desperate need to cling to whatever joy we can find. It has that trademark Memoryhouse feeling of melancholy, taking that familiar Beatles classic and giving it a whole new spin, and meaning along the way."
#newmusicyoujustdonthearanywhereelse
Playlist:
Latter Days – Big Red Machine, Anaïs Mitchell

Meet Ya – Full Flower Moon Band

Hall of Mirrors – Let’s Eat Grandma

Precious Drop – Sulcus

Bad with time – Sun June (Album of the Week)

Typhoon – Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards

12:12 – Jack Murphy, jena keating

Red Moon – Lola BNF

Jawbone – Ruby Haunt

Pinetrees – Peter Sandberg, Henry Green

This Boy – The Beatles

This Boy – Memoryhouse (Luvva Cover feature)

Found Footage Of The Second Lost Mission To Titan – Benny Braun

Lullaby for the Distance – 1010 Ensemble

Karen O – Sun June

Whole Heart – Jessie Reid

This Year (Piano) – Beach Fossils

Summer in the City – Lyra

Pace (Moses Boyd remix) – Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd

Angel’s Flight – Biosphere

Bad Girl – Sun June

On My Mind – Daz Cadwallander

The After Eight Show is almost exclusively NEW music and is an eclectic mix of original, intelligent, melodic, grown-up songs - alt. indie, dreampop, rnb, electronic, blues/Americana, jazz, world and folk-inspired acoustic music. And mostly from artists who you have not heard of - yet! Think 'next series of Jools' - that's the kind of artists that we play.
Our Album of the Week was '' by Newburgh (New York) band Cold Heaven. They're a rock band formed in the late 2000's and they write and record original songs with punk roots that incorporate lush, expressive synths and haunting melodies. This is their second full length album - they've recorded an introduction for us and we'll be playing three tracks from the album during the course of the show.

Our Luvva Cover feature, this week, has two giants of the music scene over the last 30 years or more. In 1986, Paul Simon travelled to South Africa, collaborated with local musicians there, and recorded his seminal album Graceland. In 2010, Peter Gabriel launched a project called You Scratch My Back where he recorded cover versions of songs by well known artists and, in return, they covered one of his. Peter Gabriel did a magnificent cover of The Boy In The Bubble and, in return, Paul Simon recorded Gabriel's song Biko.
New music you just don't hear anywhere else!
On 19 radio stations in 5 countries!
Playlist:
Jour 3 – Hildegard, Helena Deland, Ouri

Boogie Woogie – One Rusty Band

Blame Me – L’Rain

Without You – Abimaro

Face Like the Sun – Cold Heaven (Album of the Week)

The Holding Hand – Iceage

Tea – Nneka

Paradise – You Thant

Midsummer (Single mix) – Flunk

Unstoppable – Loue Ghazi, Mirjam Keijnemans, Fabio Pullarra

The Boy In the Bubble – Paul Simon

The Boy In The Bubble – Peter Gabriel (Luvva Cover feature)

Anxiety (JFDR remix) – The Line, JFDR

Find Home – Green-House

Already Seen – Cold Heaven

Running Like That – Loraine James, Eden Samara

I Built You (Alaskalaska remix) – WOOM, ALASKALASKA

Ecouché – Amai Kuda Et Les Bois

Proud – Asha Jane

Funeral – Jessica Winter

Dreams – Cold Heaven