Re: Jams
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:54 pm
Arc Angels - Good Time
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One eskimO - Kandi
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One Eskimo is a four piece rock group from London formed by Kristian Leontiou. He says of their music, "I wanted to create a sound of my own: magical, ambient, filmic, acoustic, beautiful and meaningful. I wanted to write about how I felt about life, love, losses and failures, highs and lows, even heartbreaks. But also about how amazing human life is and how mind-blowing our very existence is."
Kandi isn't just a great song, it's great with a capital G for Genius. Start with incarnation number one: Patsy Cline's "He Called Me Baby", one of her last songs (it's a throwaway - catchy and good for gettin' 'em on the dance floor) which was then heard and reinvented (incarnation number 2) by Candi Staton as a buttery soul ballad in the 1970s. What a fabulous slice of rich Southern soul! I dare you to listen and not be moved by the authentic sound of heartache, and Staton's smoky pipes. Which brings us to the sample (incarnation number 3) that One Eskimo seamlessly builds the song Kandy around. It works for me.