Published
Thu, Feb 16, 2006, 23:00
- The Late Night Tales CD series (formerly Another Late Night) is one to kick back to while you expand your horizons. The latest is compiled by Belle & Sebastian.
The Late Night Tales CD series (formerly Another Late Night) is one to kick back to while you expand your horizons. The latest is compiled by Belle & Sebastian, and follows on from compilations by The Flaming Lips, Fourtet, Jamiroquai, Nightmares on Wax, Turin Brakes, Sly & Robbie, Groove Armada and more.
Better than just being a "chill out" downtempo dance album, the Late Night Tales series is a chance for acclaimed artists to share their personal music collection with the world. Belle And Sebastian’s Late Night Tales has to be one of the best compilations of its kind ever put together. It’s fresh and varied and effortlessly hip without ever succumbing to the tedious obscurist one-upmanship that so often dogs these affairs. This is all just great, great music.
Plenty of bands talk about going their own sweet way, but it’s hard to think of any working band or artist who opens themselves up as resolutely as Belle And Sebastian. Never tied to any scene in the first place (and still further out on a limb ten years later), these Glaswegians seem to have developed as a band that can draw influence from just about anywhere. And when there are seven distinctly individual personalities feeding the creative fire within the results are multifarious and often surprising.
Pure pop, Sixties psyche, Seventies rock, West Coast harmonies, beat groups, folk balladering, punk, indie, girl groups and bossanova, are just a few of the slants to crop up without musical contradiction within the Belle’s own work. So it is perhaps less than surprising that their choices for Late Night Tales comprehensively cover the waterfront. The album brings together a treasure trove of musical nuggets. It will be out on February 27 on Azuli Records.
Tracklisting
1. Rehash- Gratuitous Theft In The Rain
2. Jimmy And Mama Yancey- How Long Blues
3. Rjd2- Here's What's Left
4. Lootpack- Questions
5. Demis Roussos- O My Friends You've Been Untrue To Me
6. Stereolab- French Disko
7. The Peddlers- On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
8. Butch Cassidy Sound System- Cissy Strut
9. Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
10. Ethiopians- Freeman
11. Elsie Mae- Do You Really Want To Rescue Me
12. Walter Jackson- It's An Uphill Climb To The Bottom
13. Mary Love- I'm In Your Hands
14. Novi Singers- Cos Specjalnego
15. Gal Costa- Lost In The Paradise
16. Paperclip People- People Make The World Go Round
17. Ramsey Lewis- Uhuru
18. Steve Miller Band- Fly Like An Eagle
19. Donovan- Get Thy Bearings
20. Mùm- Green Grass Of Tunnel
21. Belle And Sebastian- Cassaco Marron
22. Eric And Mondrek Muchena- Taireva
23. Space Jam- Let Your Conscience Be Your Guidance
24. Big Star- Watch The Sunrise
25. Boston Baroque- Bedinerie From Bach's Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Min
26. Spoken Word Track : David Shrigley - When I Was A Little Girl