Hear Four Tet’s remix of Neneh Cherry & The Thing
Check out this great remix that Four Tet has done of Neneh Cherry & The Thing’s Suicide cover Dream Baby Dream
Neneh Cherry & The Thing tour dates
Here is a list of new live dates for Neneh Cherry & The Thing. The album The Cherry Thing is out the 18th of June 2012 on LP, CD and digital.
May 17 Buckminsterfullers Dome Stockholm, Sweden
May 17 Bar Brooklyn Stockholm, Sweden
Jun 30 Ljubjana Jazz Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jul 01 Porgy & Bess Bezirk Innere Stadt, Austria
Jul 02 Lucerna Music bar Prague, Czech Republic
Jul 05 Traena Festival Træna, Norway
Jul 10 Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen, Denmark
Jul 15 Village Underground London, United Kingdom
Jul 16 Mlekweg Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jul 18 Radialsystem Berlin, Germany
Jul 20 Teatret VĂĄrt Molde, Norway
Jul 23 San Sebastian Jazz Festival Donostia San Sebastian, Spain
Neneh Cherry & The Thing – Accordion video
Check out this great video for the MF Doom/Madvillain track Accordion. The track is taken from the album The Cherry Thing to be released on LP, CD and download the 18th of June 2012.
Neneh Cherry & The Thing named Best New Music on Pitchfork
April 11, 2012Comments Off
Check out this great track review of Neneh Cherry & The Thing’s Dream Baby Dream on Pitchfork here. And here is the whole review:
When Bruce Springsteen covered Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream” to close out shows in the Devils and Dust tour, he burrowed deep into the song and discovered something essential about it. By stretching it out, stripping it down, and putting the focus on a series of lyrical mantras (some of which were his own), Springsteen made a case for dreaming as the only rational response to the absurdity and ultimate futility of life. Gotta keep that fire burning– what choice do we have? Neneh Cherry, the eccentric singer whom you may or may not remember from 1980s dance pop hits like “Buffalo Stance”, comes at the song from another angle while teaming with the Norwegian/Swedish avant-jazz ensemble the Thing. Where Springsteen imagined the dream as a Sisyphean rage against death, Cherry and co. hear it as a path to ecstasy. The rhythm, beaten out on toms, mimics the dinky Latinized drum machine patter of Suicide’s original but makes it a little slower and a couple of fathoms deeper. Cherry’s voice begins as more of a late-Billie Holiday croak but ascends along with the song, one step leading to the next as it grows in intensity and feeling. For their part, the Thing treat the song’s simple melody the way Albert Ayler did European folk ditties, mixing breezily sentimental yearning with a rush of emotion so torrential it borders on violence and terror. “Dream baby dream baby dream baby dream baby dream baby dream… keep those dreams burning… forever.” They’ll never last that long, and neither will the people dreaming them, but that’s the beautiful thing about music: When the song reaches its peak about six minutes in, I start to believe.
Listen to Neneh Cherry & The Thing’s Dream Baby Dream
April 11, 2012Comments Off
You can listen to Neneh Cherry & The Thing’s beautiful version of Suicide’s Dream Baby Dream here
New t-shirts: Corporate Sucks Still Rock
March 30, 2012Comments Off
Smalltown Supersound & Robotee presents:
“Corporate Sucks Still Rock” Tees in 3 different colors. The design is printed on American Apparel unisex t-shirts. Girls may prefer to order one size smaller, or the Jersey model. Design: Kim Hiorthøy. Click here to order and see sizes and colours.
Neneh Cherry & The Thing – The Cherry Thing album in June
March 21, 2012Comments Off
Neneh Cherry & The Thing “The Cherry Thing” out 18th of June on CD, LP and download
Neneh Cherry and jazz trio The Thing met for the first time at a recording session in London in the fall of 2010. It clicked right away as they all shared an open, free approach to the music. The high energy of The Thing’s playing found a fitting counterpart in Neneh’s intense style. After a performance at Strand, Stockholm in March 2011, they decided to continue the collaboration resulting in their forthcoming, self-titled album, The Cherry Thing, out June 19 on Smalltown Supersound. Apart from their own compositions, the album features the music of such diverse artists as Ornette Coleman, Suicide, Don Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, The Stooges, and MF Doom.
The Thing took its name from a piece by world/free jazz trumpet great Don Cherry: when they first got together it was to play his music. So it makes sense that they should eventually team up with Don Cherry’s daughter.
A born pioneer, Neneh Cherry fits naturally into the forefront of musical and social change, whether it’s post-punk, rap, or giving the music world a new image of female pop stars. Starting out by joining key punk girl band The Slits, Neneh next became the voice of the renegade free-blowing post-punk Rip, Rig and Panic and their successor: Float Up, C.P. After attracting further attention with her vocals on The The’s classic “Slow Train To Dawn,” Neneh became part of Buffalo, the creative collective assembled by the late visionary Ray Petri, whose style so shaped the 1980s. Now a solo artist, Cherry hit it big straight away with the worldwide hit singles “Buffalo Stance,” “Manchild” and “Inna City Mamma” from her debut album Raw Like Sushi. More followed, like “Buddy X” from the Homebrew and Man albums, which also featured “Woman” and “7 Seconds.” After the Man album Neneh decided to step off the corporate music business tread mill preferring to collaborate with artists such as Tricky, Damon Albarn/Gorillaz and her own family collective, cirKus.
The Thing, established in the spring of 2000 when Mats Gustafsson (saxophones), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (double bass, electric bass), and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) met to play several concerts and to record their first album on the Crazy Wisdom label. The trio was a long wanted constellation where several musical styles meet in a very high energetic outlet. All members are influenced by different traditions of free music derived from Germany, England and the US, and these influences are to be felt, but not necessarily heard. The Thing has performed with guests like Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O’Rourke and Thurston Moore. It is now signed to Smalltown Superjazzz.
Mats Gustafsson is one of Europe’s biggest names on the free music scene. Through groups like Gush, AALY trio and Peter Brötzmann`s Chicago Tentet he has established himself as a very powerful saxophonist who has somewhat reinvented the way of playing the saxophone. In 2011 he received the Nordic Council Music Prize, the biggest price for a musician in the Nordic countries.
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love have become known as Norway`s heaviest rhythm-section. Since their long-time collaboration started in 1992, they have been working together in several groups like School Days with Ken Vandermark, Scorch Trio with Raoul Björkenheim, and the Swedish/Norwegian jazz-group Atomic.
The Cherry Thingtracklisting:
1. Cashback (Neneh Cherry)
2. Dream Baby Dream (Suicide)
3. Too Tough To Die (Martina Topley-Bird)
4. Sudden Movement (Mats Gustaffson)
5. Accordion (MF Doom)
6. Golden Heart (Don Cherry)
7. Dirt (The Stooges)
8. What Reason (Ornette Coleman)
Idjut Boys debut album on Smalltown Supersound
March 15, 2012Comments Off
We are extremely proud to announce that we will release the debut album of Idjut Boys! Cellar Door will be released the 24th of July. More info at Fact Magazine here.
From Fact:
Daniel Tyler and Conrad McConnell, a.k.a. the Idjut Boys, will release their debut album this July.
What’s remarkable about this is that the DJing and production duo have been working together for almost 20 years, from their early days throwing parties at North London’s The Cross, through their 1993 debut single on their own U-Star label – which in its time has also released music by Quakerman and Malcolm Joseph – to a steady succession of 12″s throughout the late ’90s and ’00s.
But despite such longevity, the Idjut Boys – until now – have never released an album. Cellar Door bucks that trend, and will be released through Smalltown Supersound on July 24. In the duo’s words, “What we’ve tried to do is make an LP, four tracks a side on vinyl. You stick it on your stereo, have a cup of coffee and read the paper. When it’s finished you stick the other side on. So we’ve made an LP in the traditional way.” What a surprise – they’re old school to the end.
You can stream a track from Cellar Door below; tracklist information follows.
Listen to Todd Rundgren’s remix of Lindstrøm!
February 2, 2012Comments Off
A dream come true for us! Listen to Todd Rundgren’s remix of Lindstrøm’s Quiet Place To Live at Rolling Stone Magazine! The track will be released on 12″ the 27th of February. It will be available digitally to buy Friday the 3rd of February.
Hear DJ Harvey’s remix of Bjørn Torske
January 13, 2012Comments Off
Check out DJ Harvey’s great remix of Bjørn Torske’s Nitten Nitti track. The remix is taken from the Bjørn Torske – Oppkok 12″ – that is out now. You can buy it from Phonica, Piccadilly and Juno among others.
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Langt Fra Afrika (Todd Terje’s Enda Lengre Miks) (Fra Afrika AltsĂĄ)
Side B
2. Nitten Nitti (Harvey’s Not Normal Mix)
3. Slitte Sko (Crimea X Remix)
Bjørn Torske – Nitten Nitti (Harvey´s Not Normal Mix) by smalltownsupersound
Hear Todd Terje’s Inspector Norse
January 11, 2012Comments Off
Todd Terje’s great new 12″ – Its The Arps – is out now digitally and on 12″. You can among others buy it from Phonica , Piccadilly and Juno. We have also made a Soundcloud stream for you to listen to the amazing Inspector Norse. Enjoy!
TODD TERJE – Inspector Norse by smalltownsupersound
