Interactive Poll: It's a Family Affair

Ian:  Freaks “Tchou tchou”  Fast paced electronic, jazzy piece, with lots of shifts and surprises.  There is a melody which repeats from time to time, then it all goes whirling off in several different directions.  Can’t let your ears off of it, or you’ll miss something.  Fun little bits of vocals in there, too.  Admirals Hard “Whip Jamboree/Let The Bulgine Run”  I actually have heard this before, Raff brought it in to one of the polls last March, had to look it up to be sure, but I thought I recognized the picture.  Which by no means means you should pull it, lots of new people in here since then.  Janel and Anthony “Big Sur”  Whangly guitars, thudding bass and really cool electric guitar, this one also going off in different directions, with some dididididididis happening now and again.  And this one wins my favourite of yours award, you know how I love those Middle Eastern-y slippy-slidey violins and cellos.  And great, great lead guitar, also in a Kaleidoscopic-psych (here I mean the US Kaleidscope with their “Taxim,” and other like pieces of music) style.  Far and away my favourite of yours here. 

Kees:  Bolland & Bolland “The Last Apache”  Very 60’s pop, highly produced as it should be, with their credentials.  Love the oboe sound and the vocal harmonies.  There is full orchestral production as well as a sort of cowboys and Indians bass line.  Horn section as well around halfway in.  Sounds like it should be on a soundtrack to me. 

Mila-13 Oesch's die Dritten “Ku-Ku Jodel”  Full on Swiss approach, yodeling away, with accordion, love the St Bernard.  Guess these folks will never get lost in the mountains, and if they do, the dog will oblige with the whiskey.  Fun! 

Logan:  Boards of Canada “Dayvan Cowboy”  Some effected guitar at the start here, very promising for the piece.  This stays in the shimmering slightly subtly shifting for quite some time, with some sonic whirlies gradually appearing.  Then strummed guitars come more to the fore.  Strings and some clapping-type percussion adds to the slow build, then lots of cymbals and some keys.  Great space stuff.  The Unthanks “Mount the Air”  Nice harp-y start, then lovely solo horn with some shimmers underneath, of chorded keys and soft bass.  Pretty-voiced female vocalist, lyrics are very similar to “So Early In The Spring,” a traditional tune, the chorus is in several similar tunes and even a Coleridge poem.  Beautiful arrangement, with the soft horns and violin, very different from other renditions of this, in all of their incarnations.   Just lovely.