Feelin' Good?

There was quite a lot of new music on the show on Sunday. We featured Tina Harrod's award winning album Worksongs and had a good discussion on (and off) air about how hard it is to cover standards that Nina Simone made her own. Have a listen to the album and make up your own mind but I think that as an artist she has a sound that is distinctly her own and this allows her to more than take on songs like Feelin' Good. Aside from the Simone standards, my personal favourite is Glory Box (having always had a fondness for Portishead) which feels fresh and funky in the album. Listen to the show on the 25th of January for an interview with Tina and some ticket give-aways for her gigs at Bennetts Lane.
Another new album which I loved playing was from The Kristin Berardi Band. A very different kind of album from Tina Harrod's, this one is almost entirely composed and arranged by Kristin and features some great interplay between Berardi and her band (Mike Nock, James Muller, David Theak, Mike Majowski amd Tim Frith). The album sounds very immediate and that's probably a lot to do with the production of Chris Vallejo and his decision to record the whole session over two days straight to analog with no edits or overdubs. If you like the sound of the album, check out Kristin live on the 22nd February at Argyle Square (off Lygon Street) as part of Summer Fun in the City (free too!).


I'm also enjoying(and playing) amongst others...
Andrea Keller's Footprints, Mike Nock Trio's Andrew Klippel Compositions, Etype's Square Peg, Nichaud Fitzgibbon (who has an album due out soon), The Conglomerate (anything from them!) and an alarming amount of Herbie Hancock's back catalogue.