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WERU's ORIGINAL NEW MUSIC REVIEW:

Artist: Lightning Bolt

Album: "Earthly Delights"

Released: 10/13/09

 
For fans of the Boredoms, the Jesus Lizard, the Fuck Buttons, Mastadon, Isis .

A challenging and sublime album from start to finish, earthly delights is like a Bosch painting coming alive before your very ears. Full of lush jagged ascents into storm clouds of guitar distortion not unlike Fugazi's Red Medicine or Botch's We Are the Romans. The compositions are layered with vocals like I imagine schizophrenia to be; fading in and out, hard to discern, and urgently attractive. Lightning Bolt has made an album that reflects the sensory overload of the information age unflinchingly. Uninhibited and driven, from the opening churning punk anti-anthem "Sound guardians" ,to the seething chuggernaught "colossus", to my personal favorite, "Transmissionary". Like an ecstatic recharge at the end of the race, "Transmissionary" hits a catchy groove after nearly exhausting the listener, pushed to the edge and then thrown off the cliff only to find the soaring ride down exhilarating, trying to take in as much of the beauty as possible before the inevitable impact like a lightning strike, at the bottom.

By: Corey Paradise, volunteer host of

Jet Stream (Fri. 2-4 PM)

The Featured ARTIST of the Week:

WERU invites you to tune in every weekday morning during our Morning Maine's eclectic mix of Americana at 7:45 to catch The Featured Artist of the Week. This segment is intended to help promote and highlight the wonderful gigs and performances of local, obscure & world renown artists. Morning hosts will discuss the artist and announce CD & ticket giveaways.

February 8th - February 12th: SOLAS...

Since its birth in 1996, Solas has been loudly proclaimed as the most popular, influential, and exciting Celtic band to ever emerge from the United States. Even before the release of its first Shanachie CD, the Boston Herald trumpeted the quartet as “the first truly great Irish band to arise from America,” and the Irish Echo ranked Solas among the “most exciting bands anywhere in the world.” Since then, the praise has only grown louder. The Philadelphia Inquirer said they make “mind-blowing Irish folk music, maybe the world’s best.” The New York Times praised their “unbridled vitality“, the Washington Post dubbed them one of the “world’s finest Celtic-folk ensembles” and the Austin American-Statesman called them “the standard by which contemporary Celtic groups are judged.”

Solas is virtually unique in the new territory it has opened up for Celtic music. It has performed at all the major Celtic and folk festivals, including Philadelphia, Edmonton, the legendary National Folk Festival, and Milwaukee’s Irish fest; but also at Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and the chamber music summer series at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It has performed at Symphony Hall, Wolf Trap, the Ford Amphitheater, and Queens Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland. In New York City, where the band was based in its early years, it has played at the legendary Bottom Line folk club, but also at vaunted classical venues Town Hall and Symphony Space.

The Solas sound today is anchored by founders Seamus Egan, who plays flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, whistle, guitar and bodhran, and fiddler Winifred Horan. They are two of the most respected—and imitated—musicians anywhere in acoustic music. Mick McAuley from Kilkenny plays accordion and concertina; Eamon McElholm from Tyrone plays guitar and keyboards. Solas has emerged as the most exciting band in traditional Irish music. The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine says, “Seamus Egan and Solas make mind-blowing Irish folk music, maybe the world’s best,” while the Los Angeles Times says, “Solas offers a compellingly original, strikingly contemporary view of traditional Celtic sounds.” Although Solas can play undiluted traditional Irish music as well as anyone alive or departed, they are always varying the mix of fire tested tradition and contemporary sensibility with an ease and naturalness that is as astonishing as their overwhelming musicianship.

The band transcends musical genres into the realm of pure musical expression that only a relative handful of musicians attain. The internationally acclaimed supergroup has not only captured the hearts and ears of Irish music fans, but fans all around the globe with their blend of Celtic traditional, folk and country melodies, bluesy sometimes jazz-inspired improvisations and global rhythms. Solas has built a fanbase that includes the likes of Bela Fleck, Emmylou Harris and the much sought-after rap producer Timbaland who surprisingly sampled the band on his radio hit “All Yall.” Their latest release is a live CD and DVD called “Reunion” which celebrates the bands tenth anniversary. Ten years and still going strong!!!

Check out the website:

www.solasmusic.com/

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FEATURED Local Public Affairs Roundup for 2/1/10 - 2/6/10:

This is WERU's News and Public Affairs Manager Amy Browne with a look ahead to our featured locally produced news and public affairs you can hear this week on YOUR community radio station:

Monday morning, February 8th at 10, join us for a “Going and Doing” Special hosted by John Greenman, and featuring local people who are doing relief work in Haiti.

 

Tuesday morning, February 9th at 10, join rusty anchors Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce for BoatTalk.  They’ll be talking with Jo Royce of Plastiki—a new sailboat made from recycled materials, that is about to sail from San Francisco to Sydney, and with Larissa Curlik of MERI, the Marine Environmental Research Institute, and they’ll also have some ice-boating poetry, or as Alan says “BoatTalk will be on the skids”.

 

Tuesday afternoon at 4, it’s time for Voices the community audio magazine produced at WERU.   This week we’ll be talking with Frank Donnelly and Larry Dansinger about War Tax Resistance.

 

Thursday morning, February 11th, at 10, local writers Ellie O'Leary and Sarah Smiley will read from their work on the   Writers Forum, hosted by Joan Clemons.  Ellie O'Leary's work has appeared in Northern New England Review, Narrimissic Notebook, and Wolf Moon Journal.   Sarah Smiley is the author of a syndicated newspaper column, and has published two books, Going Overboard:The Misadventures of a Military Wife and I'm Just Saying, a collection of essays.

 

Join us Thursday afternoon at 4 for RadioActive, a grassroots environmental and social justice news journal produced by Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco.  Jonathan Carter from the Forest Ecology Network will give us an update on the windpower controversy in the western Maine mountains

 

On Friday morning, February 12th at 10, we’ll have another call in show, Talk of the Towns.  The topic will be “Reflections After Copenhagen: Next Steps for Climate Negotiations”, and host Ron Beard’s guests will include Copenhagen Climate Summit attendees from the College of the Atlantic.       

 

Saturday from 10-11am join us for Weekend Voices, the community audio magazine weekend edition.    

  

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