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Episode 79
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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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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.
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The Postal Service
CD: We Will Become Silhouettes
Song: "Be Still My Heart"
Label: Sub Pop
Listen to "Be Still My Heart"
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The Radar Brothers sound a lot like Pink Floyd from the early 1970s with angelic harmonies and drifting, synthesizer textures.
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The Radar Brothers
CD: The Fallen Leaf Pages
Song: "Show Yourself"
Label:
Merge
Listen to "Show Yourself"
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Eluvium is the performance name for Matthew Cooper, an electronic artist from Portland, Oregon
with a fondness for ambient landscapes.
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Eluvium
CD: Talk Amongst the Trees
Song: "Show Us Our Homes"
Label: Temporary Residence
Listen to "Show Us Our Homes"
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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.
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Andrew Morgan
CD: Misadventures in Radiology
Song: "Plight of an Exile"
Label: Sonic Boom
Listen to "Plight of an Exile"
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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.
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Savina Yannatou
CD: Sumiglia
Song: "Evga Mana Mou"
Label:
ECM
Listen to "Evga Mana Mou"
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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.
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Keren Ann
CD: Nolita
Song: "Nolita"
Label:
Blue Note
Listen to "Nolita"
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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.
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Art Tatum performing Harold Arlen
CD: Harold Arlen Centennial Celebration
Song: "I've Got the World On a String"
Label:
Concord Jazz
Listen to "I've Got the World On a String"
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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.
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Michael Gulezian
CD: Concert at St. Olaf College
Song: "Slugbug"
Label: Self-Released
Listen to "Slugbug"
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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.
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Redbird
CD: Redbird
Song: "Ships"
Label: Signature Sounds
Listen to "Ships"
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