Showing posts with label Glenn Cardier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glenn Cardier. Show all posts

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Glenn Cardier - Wild At Heart

Size: 85,0 MB
Time: 36:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues Rock, Folk Rock
Art: Front

01. Restless One (3:08)
02. Love Come Callin' (2:38)
03. Wild At Heart (3:10)
04. Just Dropped In (2:58)
05. Ain’t Love The Sweetest Thing? (3:29)
06. Take Me Home (3:28)
07. Roxy Baby (4:16)
08. I'll Make It Up To You (3:32)
09. Bring It On (3:10)
10. Are You Beatles, Are You Stones? (3:26)
11. Party Time (2:58)

In the 70’s, Australian singer-songwriter/guitarist Glenn Cardier produced three albums of highly original folk/rock songs. He played the first two Sunbury festivals and worked with the likes of Frank Zappa, Spike Milligan, and Fairport Convention. He wrote songs for Olivia Newton-John. He broke through in the tough UK folk circuit.

Glenn - BasementHis hard-strumming, quirky onstage persona was always at odds with his recorded work and through the 80’s and 90’s Cardier’s recording career stalled and he became increasingly reclusive. He surfaced occasionally – as front man for the Sydney pub band The Bel-Aires as well as playing rockabilly on his ’59 Gretsch around the Central Coast of New South Wales.

Post 2000, Glenn Cardier’s re-emergence as a songwriter / performer of real distinction has been nothing short of extraordinary. In typical single-minded fashion, he writes, performs and produces his music from his adobe home studio on the Hawksbury River, north of Sydney. Cardier usually plays all the instruments on his CDs.

Onstage, there are the trademark flashes of dark humour in his songs of stark beauty and thumping rockabilly/blues. There’s a touch of Beefheart in his voice, a hint of Cohen in the lyrics, a pinch of Elvis here and there.

But underlying it all are the songs. Happy/sad songs. Sweet/crazy songs. Cardier songs.

Wild At Heart

Sunday, February 7, 2016

Glenn Cardier - The Essential Collection (2002-2012)

Size: 195,2 MB
Time: 83:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues Folk, Folk Rock
Art: Front

01. Signs And Wonders (4:55)
02. The Best Of It (3:40)
03. She Flew Away (3:51)
04. Cold Out There (3:51)
05. Asylum Blues (3:36)
06. As If By Magic (3:54)
07. Exiles From Eden (5:05)
08. Jump Jump (3:16)
09. Rust In The Tailfin (3:52)
10. Dancing The Years Away (3:59)
11. Wouldn't Wanna Change A Thing (3:39)
12. Hollywood (4:25)
13. Come Back To Me (5:04)
14. She's The One For Me (3:06)
15. Ringmaster Blues (3:42)
16. Life Of The Party (4:24)
17. Invisible Ink (3:36)
18. Angelica (Live) (5:12)
19. Sideshow Alley (Live) (5:13)
20. Shing-A-Ling (Live) (4:55)

In ten prolific years, the reclusive Cardier bounced back from his self-imposed exile to produce a string of critically acclaimed CDs Rattle The Cage, House Of Mirrors, Exiles From Eden, Live At Lizottes and Stranger Than Fiction.

'Touring with Spike Milligan and opening for the likes of Harry Chapin, Frank Zappa, Sherbet, Cheech & Chong and Manfred Mann's Earth Band is not the CV of your average musician, but then Glenn Cardier is not your average troubadour.
Without any doubt the most articulate and creatively insightful singer-songwriter in contemporary Australian music, Cardier has always done things on his own terms. He gave it his best shot throughout the '70s, completely hung up his six-string for over twenty-five years before a 'comeback' in 2002 that has thus far spawned four outstanding albums...' (Trevor Leeden, Rhythms Magazine 2013)

Rattle The Cage (2002) '...his trademark combination of incisive observation and skewed wit is still intact here, wrapped in a blues-infused rock that shows off his seasoned voice. The years have made his voice gruffer and occasionally craggier but he hasn't lost his knack of juggling a genuinely sensitive moment with one that raises a wry smile…'

House Of Mirrors (2004) '...a national treasure...' (Glenn A Baker, rock historian)

'...Cardier is our finest contemporary singer-songwriter BAR NONE...' (Keith Glass, Rhythms)

Exiles From Eden (2008) ' ...Cardier can get gruff with the blues but hasn't lost his silken acoustic touch. Four Stars!' (Weekend Australian)

Live At Lizottes(2009) '...some of the finest songwriting this country has produced' (Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald)

Stranger Than Fiction (2012) ’…There’s no-one else on the Australian music scene quite like Glenn Cardier; from the finely chiselled storylines, and the razor sharp observations to the off- kilter delivery of his cryptic vignettes, he is a genuine one-off, a maverick, and you wouldn't want it any other way.' (Rhythms)

The Essential Collection