A new single from The Postal Service; The Pink Floyd-inspired Radar Brothers; Ambient electronica from Oregon's Eluvium; Misadventures with Andrew Morgan; Mediterranean music: Savina Yannatou; Dutch Javanese Russian Israeli Keren Ann; Remembering the music of Harold Arlen; Guitar wonder Michael Gulezian; The American music project Redbird.
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Keren Ann, Art Tatum on Harold Arlen, The Postal Service
Be Still My Heart
Fans of the Postal Service's debut Give Up, featured on All Songs Considered episode 47, have been waiting eagerly for a new full-length album from the electronic-pop duo. Though there's no word on another LP coming out anytime soon, the band has just released a new single along with several remixed versions of tunes from their debut.
Show Yourself
The Radar Brothers sound a lot like Pink Floyd from the early 1970s with angelic harmonies and drifting, synthesizer textures.
Show Us Our Homes
Eluvium is the performance name for Matthew Cooper, an electronic artist from Portland, Oregon with a fondness for ambient landscapes.
Plight in an Exile
Andrew Morgan recorded most of this album in Elliott Smith's New Monkey studios before running out of money. Morgan later finished the CD with the help of friends and a group of undergraduate students at the University of Kansas.
Evga Mana Mou
Savina Yannatou is a singer from Greece with a stunning voice. She got her start as a classically trained vocalist, singing Baroque, renaissance and early music. On this album she sings music from the Mediterranean in twelve different languages.
Nolita
Keren Ann Zeidel's mother is Dutch-Javanese; her father Russian-Israeli. The family lived in Holland and Israel before settling in Paris where Keren Ann currently writes and records her artful, folk pop tunes.
I've Got the World on a String
Harold Arlen was of America's most beloved songwriters. He wrote "Over the Rainbow," "That Old Black Magic," "It's Only a Paper Moon" and many more classic tunes collected on this new CD marking the centennial of his birth.
Slugbug
Michael Gulezian is an All Songs Considered great unknown. On this self-released CD he slaps, pulls and picks the strings of his guitar to craft exquisite tales in song.
Ships
Redbird is a musical collective of sorts featuring solo folk artists Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault and Peter Mulvey performing great American music by artist like Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits. This tune, "Ships" was originally written and performed by Greg Brown.