Adam Walton playlist and show info: Sunday 12 June 2011
This week's show is now available via the BBC iPlayer. Please visit the link any time between now and the start of the next programme.
The show features an exclusive live session from The Lowland Hundred. Tim & Paul, as they're known to their folks, marry bruised, pastoral folk(ish) songs with hissing field recordings and unsettling ambient soundscapes. Paul's plaintive voice can breach the most impervious heart. There is no one in Wales making music like The Lowland Hundred. There's no one anywhere making music quite like this, and we're honoured to have them in session.
Their debut album, Under Cambrian Sky, is very highly recommended. It earned excellent reviews in publications as august and respected as Mojo, the Quietus and The Line of Best Fit. So, it's not just me who thinks so.
Elsewhere Huw Williams reminds us of Christine Evans, one of Wales' answers to Dusty Springfield. A blue-eyed, pop soul chanteuse who released a small handful of perky, orchestrated singles in the mid-'60s, then promptly disappeared. We'd love to know more about her. Please email adam.walton@bbc.co.uk if you have any information as to Christine's whereabouts and musical-doings after her spell at Philips Records.
Ben Hayes comes in to pay a considered tribute to the legendary - and recently deceased - producer, Martin Rushent.
And I have oodles of the finest music I could get my grubby hands on over the last week, including debut plays for John Stammers, The Deaf Club, Tiny Skitz, Harry Keyworth and Jessica Lee Morgan.
Please send new releases/demos/gig info/recommendations/thoughts & anagrams to themysterytour@gmail.com (as a download link or high quality .mp3), or via the BBC Introducing Uploader.
My preference is to receive your music via e-mail, but whatever suits you best will suit me too.
If you're submitting your music for the 1st time, I recommend checking out the blogs linked to below first.
Submitting Music to the Show Dos & Don'ts #1
Submitting Music to the Show Dos & Don'ts #2
Submitting Music to the Show Dos & Don'ts #3
Submitting Music to the Show Dos & Don'ts #4
Thank you/diolch yn fawr iawn.
RICHARD JAMES - 'When You See Me ( In The Pouring Rain )'
Croes - Y - Ceiliog
JOHN STAMMERS - 'Idle I'm ( Colorama Coloured In Remix )'
Manchester
BASTIONS - 'In The Shadow Of A Mountain'
Angelsey
METABEATS - 'The Snap Featuring Mudmowth, Rtkal & Ruffstylz ( Radio Edit )'
Cardiff
VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB, THE - 'Bag Of Meat'
Cardiff
VVOLVES - 'People'
Monmouth/Cardiff
DEAF CLUB, THE - 'It, She'
Unknown.
LOWLAND HUNDRED, THE - 'Rest Harrow ( Live )'
Aberystwyth
KATELL KEINEG - 'St. Martin'
Penpedairheol
HOUDINI DAX - 'Texas Export'
Cardiff
METHOD, THE - 'Whip Around'
Cardiff
STAGGA FEATURING SKAMMA & JOE BLOW - 'Genik Riddim'
Barry
TINY SKITZ - 'Grime Is The One'
Newport
JON LANGFORD & SKULL ORCHARD - 'Getting Used To Uselessness'
Newport
HUW WILLIAMS - 'Spoken Contribution'
Swansea
CHRISTINE EVANS - 'Somewhere There's Love'
Cardiff
MARY HOPKIN - 'People Say'
Pontardawe
TARAN - 'Hotel Rex'
Barry
CHRISTOPHER REES - 'In The Middle Of The Night'
Cardiff
RHIAN BENSON - 'Be ( Featuring Jonas )'
Bridgend
MR PHORMULA - 'I Thought You Knew'
Llanfrothen
ORCOP - 'Trecco'
Cardiff
HOWL GRIFF - 'Sunrise'
Aberystwyth
CUBA CUBA - 'Building Blocks'
Cardiff
PLYCI - 'Impetigo'
Rhyl
LOWLAND HUNDRED, THE - 'Gentleman's Walk ( Live )'
Aberystwyth
HARRY KEYWORTH - 'We Knew That Day'
Hebron, Pembrokeshire
FRIENDS ELECTRIC - 'Fireworks'
Neath
JAMIE ANDERSON & OWAIN K - 'Prescription'
Cardiff
BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT - 'Disco Moment'
Neath
BROKEN VINYL CLUB, THE - 'One Way Street'
Cardiff
FENNEL SEEDS - 'I'm A Traitor'
Bethel/Anglesey
WE ARE ANIMAL - 'Luminous Lights'
Bethel/Caernarfon
TACSI - 'Reggae Funeral'
Bangor
I-DE-ATE - 'Negative Cycles'
Cardiff
FERNANDO REY - 'Architects'
Swansea
GERAINT JARMAN - 'Nos Sadwrn Bach'
Denbigh
LOWLAND HUNDRED, THE - 'Dog's Mercury ( Live )'
Aberystwyth
WINTER VILLAINS - 'Icebergs'
Cardiff
FUTURE OF THE LEFT - 'Stand By Your Manatee'
Cardiff
BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin
JEFF BRITTON & THE SPITFIRES - 'Rub Out'
Unknown
BLATNOVA - 'Dark Horse'
Pembrokeshire
JESSICA LEE MORGAN - 'Leave The Light On'
Cardiff
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