Travis Bretzer Archive - Golden Glades

Wider den Weltschmerz

Die Welt ist ein einziger Problemfall, und resignative Gefühlslagen wären auch unter Musikschaffenden mehr als verständlich. Für die heutige Ausgabe haben wir aber ein paar Positionen versammelt, die den Krisen ohne Trübsal begegnen: Die Songwriterin Fran thematisiert den Klimawandel, das internationale Kollektiv The Go! Team reagiert auf politische Missstände und das Art Pop-Duo Abracadabra bereitet sich auf den Untergang vor. Aber sie tun dies betont optimistisch, kämpferisch – und ganz nach dem Motto: Wider den Weltschmerz!

Wider den Weltschmerz war zu hören am Mittwoch, den 08.02.23 – 17:00-19:00 Uhr. Wdh.: Donnerstag, 09.02. von 7:00-9:00 Uhr und Samstag, 11.02. von 15:00-17:00 Uhr

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Artist	Track	Label
Fantastic Mister Zguy	Dream Baby Dreamer	SPINNUP
Bonny Doon	Crooked Creek	Anti- Records
Abracadabra	Shapes & Colors	Melodic
Futo	Public Art	Marching Banana
Fran	Palm Trees	Fire Talk
Jana Horn	Changing Lives	No Quarter
Blew the Veils	Blush	Blackford Hill
Laure Briard	The Smell Of Your Hair	Third Eye Stimuli
Franoise Hardy	Mon Amie La Rose	G Records
Lazy Smoke	Sarah Saturday	Arf! Arf!
Mt. Misery	Sunday Song	Prefect Records
The Go! Team	But We Keep On Trying	Memphis Industries
The Go! Team	Divebomb	Memphis Industries
Ghost Woman	Anne, If	Full Time Hobby
Soft on Crime	Conditioned Reaction	Eats It Records
Alvvays	Tom Verlaine	Transgressive Records
Television	Venus	Elektra
Spice World	Friend of Mine	Meritorio
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Josephine Odhil	Loose Ends	Unexpected Records
Mozart Estate	Relative Poverty	Ultra-Vybe
David Brewis	Surface Noise	Memphis Industries
Slug	Casual Cruelty	Daylight Saving Records
Beauty Pill	The Mule on the Plane	Ernest Jenning
Beauty Pill	Such Large Portions!	Ernest Jenning
Whitney's Playland	Sunset Sea Breeze	Meritorio / Paisley Shirt
The Golden Rail	Float like a Feather	Cheersquad Records & Tapes
Chris Bell	Better Save Yourself	Rhino
By The Sea	Harry and Stevie	Dell'Orso Records
Bill Ryder-Jones	Daniel	Domino
Brook Terrace	Same Difference	brookterrace.bandcamp.com
The Musical Chairs	Something to Feel Good About	Requested Records
The Convenience	Don't Play With Magic	Winspear
Travis Bretzer	Too Fast	Human Nature Records
Shirley Hurt	Charioteer	Telephone Explosion

Best of 2017

Here I am, doing it all wrong again by releasing my Best of 2017 list way before Xmas. Every year it shows, that I discover fabulous artists with some delay and I feel sorry these albums are missing the list, only because I wasn’t quick enough! Like in 2016, I failed to mention these excellent records:

Merk: Swordfish (self-released)
Snails: Safe in Silence (Fearl Child Records)
Minta & The Brook Trout: Slow (NorteSul)
CaStLeS: Foresteering (Hafod Mastering)
Ben Reed: Station Masters (Gare Du Nord)

If you haven’t heard of any of those artists, please check them out!

And here they are, the winners of the 2017 Golden Glades award:

Corridor: Supermercado (Requiem Pour Un Twister)
Mauno: Tuning (Tin Angel)
This Is the Kit: Moonshine Freeze (Rough Trade)
Brent Cash: The New High (Marina Records)
Raoul Vignal: The Silver Veil (Talitres)
The Parson Red Heads: Blurred Harmony (Fluff and Gravy)
Crepes: Channel Four (Deaf Ambition)
Sweet Baboo: Wild Imagination (Moshi Moshi)
Andrew Taylor: From The Outside Looking In (Rock Indiana)
Hand Habits: Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) (Woodsist)
Omni: Multi-Task (Trouble In Mind)
Faith Healer: Try (Mint Records)
Balduin: Bohemian Garden (self-released)
The Proper Ornaments: Foxhole (Tough Love)
Travis Bretzer: Bubble Gum (Human Sounds)
Baby Island: Break the Lease (Hello Records)
Human Heat: All Is Too Much (Offline Records)
Midnight Sister: Saturn Over Sunset (Jagjaguwar)

Of course this list is a purely subjective affair, but if you feel like I missed a highlight, please let me know!!

Also worth checking out: the voting of my ByteFM colleagues
best songs & best album

Troubled Times

Der Weltgeist lässt keinen Zweifel: Wir leben in beunruhigenden Zeiten. Wie gut, dass Golden Glades eine Sendung ist, die sich dem Antizyklischen verschrieben hat. Gönnen wir uns zwischendurch ein paar affirmative Klänge, die runtergehen wie Milch und Honig. Mit dabei against all odds: Die Regierung, Elf Power und The Sound Of Money.

PlaylistGG_KW27

Artist	Track	Label
Matthew Sweet	Hello	Honeycomb Hideout
Travis Bretzer	Peace Love and Harmony	Human Sounds
Katie Von Schleicher	Life's A Lie	Full Time Hobby
Die Liga der gewöhnlichen Gentlemen	Die Welt braucht mehr Leute so wie dich	Tapete
Die Regierung	Immer mehr so wie du bist	Staatsakt
Elf Power	All Things Combined	Orange Twin
Minta & The Brook Trout	Bangles	minta.bandcamp.com
Ida	The Killers 1964	Polyvinyl
Linda Perhacs	Chimacum Rain	Sunbeam Records
Cory Hanson	Replica	Drag City
Ralegh Long	Take Your Mind Back	Make It New Records
The Parson Red Heads	In a Dream	You Are The Cosmos
Sassparilla	Cool Thing	fluffandgravy.bandcamp.com
Armstrong	Break It In Two (Acoustic)	Beautiful Music
S K Y T O N E	Second Hand Shops	Beautiful Music
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Sweet Baboo	Pink Rainbow	Moshi Moshi
The Sound Of Money	No - So Easy Declared	BB*Island
Bing Austria & Flippin Soul Stompers	Pisbol	Fun In The Church/Staatsakt
Jon Tabakin	It's Never Too Late to Smile	Tapete
VLIVM	Going Home	Discos de Kilrlian
Triptides	Rewind	Requiem Pour Un Twister
Duncan Browne	On The Bombsite	Immediate
CHIMNEY	Paintings Are the Only Place...	Dine Alone
Sea Pinks	Shock of the New	CF Records
Fesch	Always Fall	fesch.bandcamp.com
Palehound	Flowing Over	Sydvolio Records
Free Cake for Every Creature	All You Gotta Be When You're 23...	freecakeforeverycreature.bandcamp.com
The Man From Managra	In This Century	Inner Ear Records
She Keeps Bees	Head Of Steak	BB*Island
The John-Pauls	Oh Shit!	Aagoo Records
Jeff Özdemir & Tigerlily	Dada Nr. 1	Karaoke Kalk
Jake Xerxes Fussell	Jump for Joy	Paradise of Bachelors

Moderne Meister

Was zeichnet den so genannten Meister aus? In der Regel haben wir es mit jemandem zu tun, der sein Handwerk besonders gut versteht. Bei Golden Glades liegt der Fokus heute auf Musikschaffenden, die sich in einer selbst gewählten Disziplin an die Spitze des Feldes gesetzt haben: seien es flinke Finger, hellsichtige Harmonien oder historisch sauber hergeleitete Konzepte – das Meisterhafte findet sich auf ganz unterschiedlichen Ebenen. In dieser Sendung sorgt es vor allem für eines: gute Unterhaltung!

PlaylistGG_KW23

Artist	Track	Label
Travis Bretzer	Are You Ever Gonna Change?	Human Sounds
Sweet Baboo	Wild Imagination	Moshi Moshi
Robert Wyatt	The Age Of Self	Domino
Marker Starling	Perfect Day	Tin Angel Records
Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble	The Woman With The Invisible Necklace	Drag City
Omhouse	Nursery	omhouse.bandcamp.com
Big Thief	Mythological Beauty	Saddle Creek
(Sandy) Alex G	Proud	Domino
Tara Jane O'Neil	Sand	Gnomonsong
Will Stratton	Light Blue	Bella Union
Raoul Vignal	Side By Side	Talitres
Woodpigeon & Norman Blake	Brutish Birds	wiaiwya.bandcamp.com
BMX Bandits	My Girl Midge	Elefant
sir Was	In The Midst	City Slang
Japanese Breakfast	Boyish	Dead Oceans
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Richard Dawson	Ogre	Weird World
The Sound Of Money	You Got The Song From Rotten Syd	BB*Island
DIAGRAMS	I Tell Myself	Bookshop Records
Feltworth	Forget This Feeling	Dezman Productions
Balduin	A Song For The Moon	balduin.bandcamp.com
The Toms	I Wanna Get My Hands On That	thetomspowerpop.bandcamp.com
Oro Swimming Hour	Marshal Arts Washing Cars	Art Is Hard
Land of Talk	Yes You Were	Saddle Creek
Adult Mom	J Station	Tiny Engines
Soccer Mommy	Be Seeing You	sopharela.bandcamp.com
Couleur Dessin	Find Me Easily	Fixture Records
Friend Roulette	Joan	Pretty Purgatory
Trimdon Grange Explosion	Twenty-Four Hours	Borley Rectory
Lake Ruth	The Greenfield Industrialist	lakeruth.bandcamp.com
Current Swell	Marsha	Nettwerk
Jane Weaver	Modern Kosmology	Fire Records