Citizen Cope – Hurricane Waters
Trouble The Water is an Oscar-nominated documentary made by a Black couple armed with a video camera struggling to survive during Hurricane Katrina – it’s a shocking and moving documentary which we would recommend to anybody.
Half way through, a montage of the flooded city and it’s stranded residents was shown and during that time a song by Citizen Cope was played.
Citizen Cope has released three albums to date. The most critically acclaimed is The Clarence Greenwood Recordings and although it touches on many of the problems in the United States, it also tries to find a solution.
Citizen Cope – Hurricane Waters
Citizen Cope – My Way Home
Coldplay – The Goldrush
Coldplay have received a lot of stick from a lot of people over the years – many people have some serious reserves about Chris Martin & Co but at Mahogany Blog we think Coldplay have regained credibility with their most recent album and the EP’s that followed soon after.
So do we have Brian Eno (Producer) to thank for taking the band in such a new direction and do we finally have a band that can handle their worldwide status properly?
The Goldrush from the Life In Technicolour ii single release is a previously unheard Coldplay song featuring lead vocals by drummer Will Champion – it’s a whole new (slightly risky) direction that we hope can stay.
Coldplay – The Goldrush
Black & Gold
The Ladies of the industry have come out of the wood-work recently to cover one of the biggest commercial songs of last year.
Sam Sparro’s Black & Gold was played to death on British radio during the Spring/Summer of 2008 and apart from it’s religious connotations it was actually a pretty good song.
Both Adele and Katy Perry have performed their own version of the song and they both bring something very different to the table.
Adele – Black & Gold
Katy Perry – Black & Gold
It’s not the first time Katy Perry’s covered a song – MGMT got the treatment during a Radio 1 Live Lounge Session.
Katy Perry – Electric Feel
Let’s not forget Russ Chimes’ remix…
Sam Sparro – Black & Gold (Russ Chimes mix)
The Bees – Listening Man
Talk about kicking it old school – I know little about The Bees but I love their 60′s hints and sprigs – there’s definitely sense of Sam Cooke in this track as well.
The Bees record all their music in Analogue form and recorded their debut release from the confines of a garden shed!
If you want a classic sound – go back to basics.
The Bees – Listening Man
Fever Ray – When I Grow Up
Sweden is now in the eyes of many a chief export for great music -- to add to it’s belt Fever Ray is on the brink of releasing her self-titled debut album.
For a taster she’s dropped her new single slightly early and it’s seriously eerie.
The video is reminiscent of ‘The Ring’ and features Fever Ray standing on the diving board of an isolated swimming pool whilst all sorts of ghostly madness happens under the water.
Her new album will surely be a (niche) hit and we can expect some serious remixes from the single.
The production on this track is unbelievable and you need to see the video.
