Posts tagged with Get The Blessing

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Get The Blessing - The Unnameable (feat. Tammy Payne)

The record has the “Unnameable” (a Beckett’s reference?) as a pure instrumental version, which works beautifully, but I think Payne’s haunting vocals serve this track rather well, giving it a little bit more of an edge.

Sidenote: they gave a great live rendition of this song during a recent gig at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, with Portishead’s Adrian Utley on the guitar.

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Get The Blessing - So It Goes / Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

Get The Blessing have been uplaoding a bunch of visual accompaniments to tracks from their freshly released sophomore album, Bugs In Amber. The album is great (not much of a departure from their first), the videos rather interesting. “So It Goes / Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes” is my favourite of the pack and the visuals fit the music perfectly. These are two consecutive tracks that work as one, “So It Goes” slowly building up to the explosive “Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes”. The transition happens 3.10 mins into the video, just when colours start appearing and things start heating up. 

Sidenote: I also like the visuals for The Word for Moonlight Is Moonlight and The Speed of Dark.

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I like when bands are being creative when they list their influences on theirspace. In Get The Blessing’s case, we’ve got Cake, Ornette Coleman, Kings of Leon, Albert Ayler, Esborn Svensson Trio, Acoustic Ladyland, Dick Dale, Tony Orrell, North African Cuisine, Lycanthropy, small motorcycles, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the sun, moon and stars, more cake, domestic cleaning products, beans, Ian Dury, always room for more cake.

I like when bands are being creative when they list their influences on theirspace.

In Get The Blessing’s case, we’ve got Cake, Ornette Coleman, Kings of Leon, Albert Ayler, Esborn Svensson Trio, Acoustic Ladyland, Dick Dale, Tony Orrell, North African Cuisine, Lycanthropy, small motorcycles, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the sun, moon and stars, more cake, domestic cleaning products, beans, Ian Dury, always room for more cake.

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Get The Blessing - Another Brother’s Mother

The album, All Is Yes, was playing in the music store I was shopping at a couple of days ago and the couple of tracks I heard totally wowed me. I bought the CD right there and then and I’ve been listening to it non-stop since. is this punk-jazz? post-jazz? nu-jazz? ah bah, whatever wonkey rock-jazz (to quote their myscpace) this is, it is definitely my kind of jazz.

Sidenote: Jim Barr (bass) and Clive Deamer (drums) used to play in Portishead

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