W. H. Lung

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“We were raring to go,” says W. H. Lung’s Tom Sharkett of the band’s desire to keep the momentum going after the huge success of their debut album 2019’s Incidental Music, a vivacious concoction of krautrock, synth pop and infectious grooves, which topped end of year lists with the likes of Piccadilly Records and Resident. However, it quickly became apparent that a repeat performance was of no interest to the band. “We were 100% sure on it not being Incidental Music part 2.”

The resultant 'Vanities' is a bold electronic leap forward into the dance music they love. A record that is direct, punchy and potent - an ode to the dance floor that they had missed over the last year or so. “Another source of inspiration for the album was getting out into nature,” he reveals. The core songwriting duo had moved from Manchester to Todmorden before lockdown and enjoyed the Calder Valley scenery. “Sitting with and walking in the abundance of the natural world has fed into some of the playfulness and light spirit of the album.” Says singer Joseph Evans.

'Vanities' is a very rare beast of a record: an album created in solitude that feels bursting with vitality and the love, promise and transcendence of shared dance floor experiences. Just in time for when we crave those the most.

Singer-Songwriter Kenny Rankin Dead of Lung Cancer

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2009

Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has died of complications related to lung cancer, his record company announced Monday. He was 69. Rankin died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Mack Avenue Records spokesman Don Lucoff said. The musician, who first gained acclaim as one of the guitarists on Bob Dylan's landmark 1965 album, “Bringing it ...
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Recording

Talibam, I Heart Lung, Jeremiah Cymerman on Ecstatic Jazz Duos 12" Series

Source: All About Jazz
July 1, 2008

The Ecstatic Jazz Duos 12" Series collects six of the most innovative duos in the avant-jazz/free-noise realm. Each duo contributes a side of vinyl over three LPs (each in an edition of 500) to be released over 2008. The subscription (limited to just 100) includes all three 12"s plus stickers, buttons, and a CDr of exclusive content only available to subscribers. Pre-orders available now.

LP1: Talibam! (NYC synth/drums a la Sun Ra) Wasteland Jazz Unit (Borbetomagus-size reed-distortion)

LP2: ...
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Music Industry

Jazz Star, Nancy Wilson, Suffers Collapsed Lung

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2008

US jazz singer Nancy Wilson is being treated for a collapsed lung, a spokeswoman for the star has said. Her lung was being reinflated at Hi-Desert Medical Centre in California, where she was in good spirits, the musician's publicist added. She said the cause of Wilson's collapsed lung was not known, but that the 71-year-old suffered from respiratory problems. Last year, Wilson won the best jazz vocal album Grammy for Turned to Blue. Wilson, who has been singing professionally for ...
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