Sunday Afternoon Session: Big Maybelle – Candy (1958)

A wonderful, soulful ballad "Candy" by Big Maybelle suits a lazy afternoon perfectly. What a powerful voice!

Arrivals: Melody’s Echo Chamber – I Follow You

Melody's Echo Chamber's debut single, I follow you, echoes the sonic adventures of Stereolab and Broadcast in the past (the first two obvious connotations). Connecting two distant places on the globe, le cool Paris and capital of neopsychodelia, Perth, the Parisian siren Melody Protchet together with Tame Impala's main man, Kevin Parker filling the producer's seat,…

Sunday Afternoon Sessions: Kate Bush with Larry Adler – The man I love

In 1994 Kate Bush donated her hushed, sensual vocal onto the George & Ira Gershwin tribute album, entitled The glory of Gershwin, published in celebration of Larry Adler's 80th birthday, a harmonica virtuoso and lifelong friend of the Gershwins. The man I love gives a rare glimpse of a smoky jazz bar with Kate as a…