Hello dear friends and strangers. Up now is my Purple Radio radio show from last night. You can download and listen at your leisure.

Thrill at descriptions of Bloc Weekend, swoon at the downtempo beauty, marvel at the sound of my percussion-filled youth with not just one but TWO pieces of music that made me who I am today and have a good old bounce around the room with a nice up finale.

You can download the entire show from here, or get just under an hour’s worth of music via the Spotify playlist.

1. Sam Amidon – Rain and Snow from ‘I See The Sign’ (Bedroom Community)
2. Ólöf Arnalds – Náttsöngur from ‘Við og við’ (12 Tónar)
3. Helios – Distance from ‘Unleft’ (Circle into Square)
4. Choir of Young Believers – Wintertime Love (Sain Alice Group Remix) from ‘Claustrophobia’ (single) (Ghostly)
5. Michael Askill – Fabian Theory (Composer: Nigel Westlake) from ‘Australian: Percussion’ (Celestial Harmonies)
6. The Magnetic Fields – Papa Was A Rodeo from ‘69 Love Songs’(Domino)
7. Sam Amidon – Relief from ‘I See The Sign’ (Bedroom Community)
8. Jónsi – Around Us from ‘Go’ (Parlophone)
9. Efterklang – Scandinavian Love from ‘Magic Chairs’ (4AD)
10. Daedelus – Stampede Me from ‘Righteous Fists of Harmony’ (Brainfeeder)
11. Gorillaz – Cloud of the Unknowing (feat Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVa) from ‘Plastic Beach’ (Parlophone)
12. Loops Haunt – Hurache from ‘Rubber Sun Grenade EP’ (Fortified Audio)
13. DJ Zinc – Wile Out (feat Ms Dynamite) from ‘Wile Out’ (single) (Zinc)
14. Supergrass – Strange Ones from ‘I Should Coco’ (EMI)
15. Half Man Half Biscuit – Joy Division Oven Gloves from ‘Achtung Bono’ (Probe Plus)
16. Three Trapped Tigers – 13 from ‘EP 3′ (Blood and Biscuits)
17. Maria Grochowska – Ionisation (Composer: Edgard Varese) from ‘VARESE: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 – Ameriques / Equatorial / Nocturnal / Ionisation’ (Naxos)
18. Laurent Garnier – Man With The Red Face (Live Recording With Bugge Wesseltoft) from ‘Retrospective 94-06′ (F Communications)
19. Fuck Buttons – Olympians from ‘Tarot Sport’ (ATP)

(Photo by Justin King)

I missed the release of Jeb Loy Nichol’s latest long player, ‘Parish Bar’, but I’m making up for lost time. You should too.

He’s one of those artists who just keep cropping up. It started with Country Got Soul, put out by Jeb & Ross Allen on Casual Records, their label. And then, in a field in a summer, I went to watch the Country Got Soul Revue which was unfortunately cancelled so we got an hour of Jeb and his guitar. Then someone told me he was in Underwolves too. A covermount CD included his incredible bouncy folky rootsy dubby cover of Johnny Cash’s ‘Worried Man’.

And then he DJed at my friends Calum & Anna’s wedding, becuase he lives near them in mid-Wales. As you’d least expect from someone born in Wyoming, brought up on jazz, country and punk in Texas and there for the birth of hip-hop in New York.

If this leaves you scratching your head as to what the music sounds like, then have a listen to the free MP3 he has posted on his site. The title is a clue, “Countrymusicdisco”, but if you really wanted to define his unique sound, you’d a lot more letters than that.

Jeb Loy Nichols – Countrymusicdisco

Buy the new album – Parish Bar