{"id":3184,"date":"2023-08-18T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2023-08-17T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:04:06","slug":"new-releases-25aug2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/new-releases-25aug2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New releases for 25 August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of our six scorchers for this week is Jo\u00e3o<\/em><\/strong>, a collection of songs made famous by Bebel Gilberto<\/strong>\u2019s father. Jo\u00e3o Gilberto, widely regarded as the father of bossa nova music, passed away in 2019 after a 70-year career in music. Bebel began singing with him as a small child and the songs she sings on this new album have been with her all her life. Says Bebel: \u201cJo\u00e3o is a love letter to my father. Since my first album I\u2019ve never really covered any of my Dad\u2019s music. Now it\u2019s time to present to the public the songs from Jo\u00e3o Gilberto that have influenced me since I was born \u2013 and even before.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Haunted Mountain<\/em><\/strong> is the new album from Texas-bred singer\/songwriter and Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek<\/strong>, following his beloved 2021 album, Two Saviors<\/em>. Haunted Mountain<\/em> is about love and \u2026 something other. Something bigger than love, something that doesn\u2019t challenge love exactly but stands in contrast to it. A soulfulness, or a soul-seeking fullness. Meek says that loves songs are the hardest write. \u201cNot break-up songs, but an actual love song written in earnest? That is taboo now,<\/em>\u201d he says. \u201cSometimes it can feel like all the great love songs have already been written.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s spring 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor, leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger<\/strong>, is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal, he might say. For the Grammy-nominated musician, whose albums have traced an internal path through adulthood, fatherhood, spirituality, and depression for well over a decade, this is something new. \u201cThe tunes on Jump for Joy<\/strong> were composed in free moments throughout 2022, a year during which Hiss was on the road more or less constantly,<\/em>\u201d explains Taylor. \u201cAnd perhaps because the post-pandemic energy out in the world felt so chaotic and uncertain, I found myself thinking a lot about the role that music has played in my life and how exactly I ended up in the rarefied position of leading a band and crew all over the globe through dingy graffiti-scrawled green rooms, venerated music halls, dust-blown roadside motels. It\u2019s an outlaw life but one, I\u2019m coming to realize, that makes me happy.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

More Than a Whisper<\/em><\/strong> is an all-star celebration of the life and legacy of the Grammy-award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter Nanci Griffith<\/strong> (1953\u20132021). Born in Seguin, Texas and raised in Austin, Griffith began writing and performing songs as a teenager, drawing inspiration from Loretta Lynn and Townes Van Zandt, as well as from Southern literary heroes like Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams. Featured artists on this tribute include Brandy Clark, Shawn Colvin, Iris Dement, Steve Earle, Mary Gauthier, Emmylou Harris, Sarah Jarosz, Lyle Lovett and Kathy Mattea, Ida Mae, John Prine and Kelsey Waldon, Todd Snider, Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and The War And Treaty covering some of Griffith\u2019s most notable releases.<\/p>\n

Zero to Infinity<\/em><\/strong> is the tenth album from Gong<\/strong>, and the fifth instalment in the evolving saga of Zero the Hero. Unavailable as a standalone album for almost 20 years, it is now being released on vinyl on the original commissioning record label for the first time and features re-purposed album artwork by Daevid Allen. The album\u2019s concept is based on Zero the Hero, the character introduced on the famous Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy: Flying Teapot<\/em>, Angel\u2019s Egg<\/em> and You<\/em>, in which the protagonist was seemingly trapped in the ever-repeating cycle of life and death. Zero is then shown a path to possible liberation through love where he evolves to exist on a non-physical plane, leading us to Zero to Infinity<\/em>, where our hero discovers the advantages of a body-free, virtual existence.<\/p>\n

Our release of the week comes from the now 28-year-old Morgan Wade<\/strong> \u2013 the same person who not long ago felt as if she \u201cdidn\u2019t have anything\u201d \u2013 who now finds herself eager and ready to reveal herself to her ever-growing legion of dedicated fans like never before. To hear Wade tell it, it\u2019s time to peel back layers of her psyche and let people in. \u201cI realised the more authentic you are and the more you pour yourself into your songs, and most importantly if you\u2019re being honest, people will connect to that,<\/em>\u201d Wade explains of her highly personal motivation when crafting Psychopath<\/em><\/strong>. Her second full-length studio album is a no-holds-barred meditation of an LP that dives deep into life\u2019s oft-twisted path to the present. \u201cI want every song to get the credit it deserves.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Morgan<\/a>\"Bebel<\/a>\"Buck<\/a>\"Hiss<\/a>\"Various<\/a>\"Gong<\/a><\/div>\n

Click on an image to order your copy.<\/p>\n

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