The Underground of Happiness

A predominance of people playing live shows this week. Robert Forster is in Europe promoting his wonderful memoir Grant & I , giving public interviews and playing songs from his own and The Go Betweens legendary back catalogues. Amiina and Autre Monde are just two of the many bands playing the Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival in Cork this week. We also had haunting folk music from The Doomed Bird of Providence and The Nightjar . And sumptuous dream pop from The Saxophones , music to dream and yearn to. More on these pages. The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Twitter: UndergroundOfHappy Playlist 459 Tues Sept 12 2017 11.00am-12.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) UCC 98.3FM listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm *listen back to this show here goo.gl/j55QsQ Playlist Julie Byrne – Follow my voice ( playing Union Chapel,...

You might remember a couple of weeks ago, the Efterklang gig with Daniel Bjarnason & Their Messing Orchestra in Cork was mentioned in these pages. Playing guitar on stage that night was American Daniel James , whose own album Rumspringa comes out at the end of the month under his stage name Canon Blue , through Efterklang's label Rumraket and Temporary Residence in the U.S.. James has been a touring member of Efterklang for the last couple of years and the album was recorded with them at their Copenhagen studio. Those other great Efterklang acolytes, Amiina , are apparently heavily involved throughout the album, which is great news. The first song from the album to see the light of day is below - follow the link below for a free download. If you're looking for a genre tag, let's go with orchestral pop . Although I have to say there are intriguing hints of Ennio Morricone in the choral work in this tune, as well as some unexpected traces of Eastern music floating in ...