Members Weekly Music Recommendations-Oct. 6

[thebes]

Sorry folks,been traveling again, and I will be next Monday too, so somebody put something up.

Fun traveling, though. I was off to the sunny climes of Nags Head, North Carolina for a week of wine, sun, seafood, surf and frivolity.

Even got a little fishin in.

Speaking of fishin, I hit a thrift store down there and came away with a keeper:

Tab Benuit, "Best of The Bayou Blues", cd, blues

This is not zydeco, but a mix of Chicago blues meets Jambayala all through the workings of a talent on the Fender Telecaster. a super cd, very well recorded and will get you up an going when you need a little foot stompin, gator thrashin, down home blues. also includes a cameo by none other than Wilie Nelson, and he don't sing with the trash bands.

So what do you have to share this week?

[seti]

Resistance is useless.

The unassuming look only lures you into a false sense of security.

Haven't met anyone who can resist Hi-Posi. From the first listen people just smile. If you could accuse an artist of distributing drugs via music she could be guilty. There are those that say they hate pop but then they hear Hi-Posi and their eyes gloss over. I just checked iTunes and there are a couple of her songs there.

Samples here http://www.last.fm/music/Hi-Posi

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.21.00/hiposi-0051.html

Singer-songwriter Miho Moribayashi's weird and wonderful Hi-Posi has
been churning out sweet pop confections for almost two decades.
Inspired by a wide array of influences, including new wave, techno-pop,
ska, and lounge, Hi-Posi is one in a long list of Japanese artists able
to distill seemingly disparate influences into something uniquely
Japanese. Hi-Posi was formed in 1988 as a two-member unit centering on
Moribayashi, where the confessional, often sex-centered style that she
retains today was soon defined. The following year saw the addition of
guitarist Kenji Kondo and bassist Naomi Araki, and the band appeared in
the TBS music contest Ikaten, where they performed the song "Sakasama no sekai chizu". Unfortunately, they were not victorious. Despite the Ikaten
setback, Hi-Posi made their major label debut on Toshiba-EMI in 1991,
where they released two records, including the theme song to the Tokyo
Television program 2x3 ga roppo, on which Moribayashi had
become a regular. The group soon returned to the indie world, however,
where they released a wide range of records over the next several
years, including an album filled with cover songs of cuts from other
Japanese bands. In 1995 Hi-Posi dropped two members and returned to the
majors as a two-person unit featuring just Moribayashi and Kondo. The
unit released a rash of records from this time through the late 1990s,
collaborating with the likes of Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius), Hiroshi Kawanabe (Tokyo No.1 Soul Set), Towa Tei, and Tomoyuki Tanaka (Fantastic Plastic Machine). Kondo left the unit in 1999, and Hi-Posi's 2000 record Seizensetsu
was largely a Moribayashi solo affair. 2000 was also the year that
Moribayashi came up with the Hi-Posi's present sound - which blends
breathy vocals with a twisted, electronic-influenced pop sensibility -
a mix that inevitably invites comparisons to Kahimi Karie, Takako Minekawa, and Pizzicato Five. Hi-Posi's 1997 record 4n5
was released in the United States on the Tokyopop Pictures label.
Moribayashi also works as a contract songwriter and voice actress, with
over 30 credited works including work for NTT DoCoMo, NHK, Bennesse,
Meiji Milk, Wacoal, Toshiba, Pentax, and others.