Cousteau : Nova Scotia 2005 Flac & MP3

Nova Scotia is the third album by Cousteau, released in 2005 on the Endeavour record label. It was subsequently released in the U.S. under the band name "Moreau" due to legal reasons on the One Little Indian label with two additional tracks . The US release also featured new artwork.

Davey Ray Moor had previously left the band leaving the main song writing duties to be taken over by lead singer Liam McKahey.

Vocalist Liam McKahey dutifully takes over the main songwriting duties, employing his signature baritone over crisp nightclub dirges ("Highly"), open-road epics ("Black Heart of Mine"), and even a track with handclaps ("Sadness").

There's nothing here that's going to convert the band's detractors, but for longtime fans of Cousteau, "Moreau" may just be the beginning of a successful evolution, not a last grasp at past glory.

"We thought it was the end and we were all feeling really emotional," says McKahey of Moor's departure. "But after a few pints, we'd decided to carry on and do it (the songwriting) ourselves. It was sink or swim, and we decided to swim."

This is the European release

Members

Liam McKahey - Vocals
Joe Peet - Basses, Violin, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocal on "Sometime"
Robin Brown - Guitars, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals
Tom Clues - Acoustic Guitar on "Sadness" and "Echoes"
Dan Moore - Piano, Melodica, Solina Strings, Mini Moog and Backing Vocals
Craig Veer - Drums and Percussion
John Eato - Saxophones on "Sadness"
Kirsa Wilkenschildt - Vibraphone on "Black Heart of Mine"
Blair Jollands - Backing Vocals on "Black Heart of Mine"

TRACKS

1. Sadness 3:06
2. Sometime 4:39
3. She's Not Coming Back 5:00
4. There She Goes 3:11
5. To Sail Away 4:25
6. Echoes 4:13
7. Black Heart Of Mine 6:36
8. Highly 3:47
9. Pia 2:35
10. Happening 4:14

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Cousteau : Sirena 2002 Flac & MP3

Cousteau is a hopelessly romantic, refined act whose musical aesthetic comes from the territories where the most sensually enticing, emotionally wrenching elements of Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Jackie Leven, and even Tom Waits come together to reminisce, drink cognac, and weep.
On the band's debut, sheer pop invention and brash, over-the-top, emotive delivery carried the swagger to the masses, selling 150,000 copies aided by relentless touring.

Sirena stands the chance of moving past that mark on the strength of its pure musical craft and emotional commitment to the material, as well as relentless touring.
Sirena is a strange record, albeit a completely accessible one. As full of oceanic imagery as its title, songwriter, keyboardist, and producer Davey Ray Moor crafts hedonistically elegant pop songs that echo the lushness of Walker's early Phillips material with a more direct lyrical delivery, courtesy of frontman Liam McKahey's original and steamily passionate singing.

Songs like "Salome" feature a muted horn section that swirls around lilting strings in a breezy jazz and bossa nova cadence. McKahey sings without irony or affectation.

SALOME LYRICS

So this is not the place
And these are not the times
I hear my bell a-tollin'
Now the stars begin to shine
Salome, Salome I...
Salome the love we made
Between us
Has become the hunted kind

And I recall I surrendered
I saw you dancing barefoot
In the garbage and the leaves
And we were small, worn and tender
Salome the games we played
Woke the dogs
Who prey on me
Prey on me

'Cause Salome, Salome maybe
Salome maybe between you and me
We'd have made some history
Salome, Salome I...
Salome if it's all the same
Whatever did become of me, of me...

And I'll be there, I'll wait for you
I'm hearing in the distance
There's a bird that calls my name
'Cause Salome, I adored you
Salome the very flame
That licked us
Has become fair game
Fair game...

The horns swell, a harmonica enters winding around them in the dusty, dimly lit back corner of the mix, and the lyric wraps it's lithe arms around the listener's neck seductively, slipping down the back and into her or his pockets, only to vanish into the night with its contents -- the human heart.
Such romantic melancholy is not only a method for getting a lyric and musical arrangement across, it is a way of communicating directly in images and metaphors that are not the everyday tropes of Anglo-Brit love song fodder.

If Moor were a little less jaded, he might be Neil Finn; if he were a bit more ruined, he might be Nick Cave. As it stands, he's himself, using jazz, precisely elegant and luxurious pop, and the right amount of rock & roll swagger to craft his gloriously broken narratives of love, lust, spilt whiskey, and loss.

On "Please Don't Cry" McKahey croons in a near falsetto like a soul singer his intention to leave his beloved, feeling every bit of the pain the separation will exact.
Moor's keyboards engage Robin Brown's guitars, dropping the heartbreak like a dirty rain on the ears of the listener.

On the Steely Dan-tinged electric piano and snare drum riff in "Heavy Weather" McKahey begins in a falsetto and Rolling Stone (8/8/02, p.82) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...They're in top shape on this album....Cousteau are silky without being slick....they are in a class by themselves..."

Mojo (Publisher) (9/02, p.97) - - "[a] sumptuous and velveteen-cloaked venture...Subtle string and brass arrangements add to the brooding, stylish swing, evidence that some things never go out of fashion."

TRACKS

1 Nothing So Bad 4:17
2 (Damn These) Hungry Times 4:20
3 Talking To Myself 3:46
4 Peculiarly You 5:42
5 Salome 4:37
6 Please Don't Cry 4:45
7 No Medication 3:42
8 After The Fall 4:42
9 Last Secret Of The Sea 2:41
10 Heavy Weather 4:31
11 She Bruise Easy 4:33
12 Have You Seen Her 5:31


Arranged By – Cousteau

MEMBERS

Liam McKahey : Vocals, Percussion, Design [Sculptures & Logo]
Joe Peet : Bass, Violin, Piano, Vocals
Craig Vear : Drums, Percussion
Robin Brown : Guitar, Vocals
Chris Blair : Mastered By
Davey Ray Moor : Piano, Vocals, Flugelhorn, Organ, Harmonica, Accordion, ,Strings, Producer

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You can find the first Cousteau album (Flac & MP3) HERE

Cousteau : Cousteau 2000

Cousteau is a hopelessly romantic, refined act whose musical aesthetic comes from the territories where the most sensually enticing, emotionally wrenching elements of Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Jackie Leven, and even Tom Waits come together to reminisce, drink cognac, and weep.Cousteau are five british guys who adapt the sophisticated realms of edgy romantic pop into a hardy rock-band context. The quintet, the brainchild of Beirut-born songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Davey Ray Moor, debuted in 1999 with an eponymous EP. That release shot them into the spotlight, but the band wasn't happy with it and re-recorded most of the tracks for their self-titled 2000 LP on Palm.

DISCOGRAPHY
Cousteau 2000
Sirena 2002
Nova Scotia 2005

MESMER
Hey, hey what became of you

And change, had it changed your tune
How long you wade inside the swirling swirling pool
Just in your own way

For miles, miles now I've been led
These wild, wild things in your head
Lead me blindly down where angels fear to tread
Just in your own way

Now can you feel, can you feel a change
It's circled 'round, it's come back down again
But I'll no longer shower here in someone else's rain
Just in your own way

Now time gets the best of you
Of wine and celestial views
Keep me anchored, keep me sane
Keep me confused Just in your own way

Now you been lead, you been wildly spun
In rumours net, rumours I've become
Keep me shining in the artificial sun
Just in your own way....

TRACK LIST

1 Your day will come
2 The last good day of the year
3 Mesmer
4 Jump in the river
5 How will I know
6 (Shades of)Ruinous blue
7 You my Lunar queen
8 She don't hear your prayer
9 One good reason
10 Wish you were her
11 Of this goodbye


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