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Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Minstral Show – (Episode 080)

Welcome to the Minstral Show, the podcast that spotlights the very best music from around the world, made exclusively in the 21^st century.

Another decade of Rock n Roll has come and gone as 2019 gives way to the evolving artistic freedoms of the 2020’s.

Although, once thought dead, Rock has flourished in the shadows over the last decade as millions of artists who once had the doors of opportunity closed to them, suddenly found a spotlight via the internet…The result of which has breathed new life into artistic freedom, collaboration, independence and the re-emergence of the small record Label.

Rock n Roll will never die…and what better way to prove it than to feature great new music by JD McPherson, Jeff Lynne, The Hanging Stars, The Who, ASA, and Alain Whyte…Also included are fantastic songs by United Ghosts, Peacefield, Alan Reed, Potter’s Daughter, Colin Devlin and Sonic Divide.

The new age of Rock n Roll is in full swing and you get that here, on the Minstral Show.

Be sure to support the artists by going to their official websites, buying their music and joining their email platforms. Details are below.

The Minstral Show Episode 80

Link to Episode 80 on Breaker

SONGS:

SET 01

JD McPherson – Red Bows (for a Blue Girl)

Jeff Lynne’s ELO – Time of Our Life

United Ghosts – Ever Closer

The Hanging Stars – Tom Petty

SET 02

The WHO – Ball and Chain

Peacefield – Daylight’s Coming Fast

ASA – Good Thing

Alain Whyte – A Higher Power

SET 03

Alan Reed – Turning Away

Potter’s Daughter – Movement IV

Colin Devlin – High Point

Sonic Divide – Horizon

ALSO:

Be sure to support the artists by going to their official websites, buying their music and joining their email platforms. (See Artist Links below.)

ARTIST Links:

JD McPherson

Jeff Lynne’s ELO

United Ghosts

The Hanging Stars

The WHO

Peacefield

Asa

Alain Whyte

Alan Reed

Potter’s Daughter

Colin Devlin

Sonic Divide

Special thanks to: Southbound Snake Charmers & John Palmer for their music contribution to this program.

Program Intro Song:

Southbound Snake Charmers - Cut My Time

3rd set Intro

John Palmer- Nyx

The World United Music Podcast was carried on 11 different platforms including Anchor FM, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public, Castbox, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Overcast, PodBean and of course on our World United Music Blog. You can still find the show on Breaker & PodBean linked below. Hey, “Catch the Wave!”

Breaker

PodBean

…and of course, here, on the World United Music Blog. 😊

Catch the Wave!

Friday, January 11, 2019

The Minstral Show – (Episode 063)

Welcome back to the Minstral show, the podcast that spotlights the best music made in the 21^st century. We’re here to feed your mind and soul with great rhythms that help you escape the geopolitical insanity of this planet, if only for an hour or two.

Today’s Music is filled with escapes, passion, and change, to help guide us on our journey’s through the forest of life; Music that makes our paths a little brighter; Featuring: Rhodês, Betty Moon, Cavalier Rose, The Preatures, David Arkenstone, In Continuum, IT, Robert Plant, Asa, and Peter Bradley Adams.

The Minstral Show Episode 63

Link to Podcast on Breaker

SONGS:

SET 01

Rhodês – It’s With You

Betty Moon – Drink Your Fears Away

Cavalier Rose – Sparrow

The Preatures – Pale Rider

SET 02

David Arkenstone – Secret on the Moors

In Continuum – Be the Light

IT – Revolution

SET 03

Robert Plant – A Way with Words

Asa – Awe

Peter Bradley Adams – Be Still My Heart

ALSO:

Be sure to support the artists by going to their official websites, buying their music and joining their email platforms. (See Artist Links below.)

ARTIST LINKS:

Rhodês

Betty Moon

Cavalier Rose

The Preatures

David Arkenstone

In Continuum

Robert Plant

Asa

Peter Bradley Adams

Breaker

PodBean

Catch the Wave!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Asa - (Asha)

About: Asa

“Never has Asa’s voice been so precise and emotionally pure.”

She still has all the melodic grace she’s always been known for, but this time, it’s more troubling than ever. The songs on her new album Bed of Stone say much more than the emotions of Bukola Elemide, known as Asa. Her songs say a lot about our melancholy, our dreams, our thoughts and our reflections. It almost feels like they’ve have been part of our lives even before Asa wrote and sang them.

Actually, they were born from her life and the shock she felt coming off the road in 2012, after an incredibly long tour. “I needed time to pull myself together. I toured for 2 years, gave everything I had every single night. I had been the girl that was full of life, force and energy that people looked at for 2 hours on stage, and then congratulated backstage after the show. But I was going home alone, never really realizing how exhausting all that actually is…”

The tour that followed the release of Beautiful Imperfection was grueling, but it was, it must be said, preceded by a well-received first album in 2007 and was awarded the Prix Constatntin. There were also well over 100 shows and the Live in Paris album…a dream-come-true journey for a spectacular new artist that keeps on breaking new ground.

Asa is Nigerian but was born in Paris. She became an artist in Lagos, fueled on old-school Soul, and was signed by a French label. She’s clearly one of the most exciting artists to have emerged in the last decade. She’s highly in-demand by festivals across the world and radios (with taste!) are giving her a special place on their playlists. She’s a whirlwind, she’s happiness, and she is a craze.

After her last tour, she just couldn’t stay home, so she traveled and she wrote. Lagos, Berlin, the USA, London, Paris… » I wanted to feel human again. Meet new people and do everything I always wanted to do before I hit 30. I wanted to learn to swim, rent a car and drive from Nashville to New York and from New York to Los Angeles and I wanted to learn to skateboard and drive a motorcycle ».

While doing this, she wrote new songs. The recording took place in various locations after the originally intended producer didn’t work out in Los Angeles. She left for Hastings in East Sussex to work with Blair MacKichan, a songwriter and producer who had worked with Will Young and Lilly Allen.

With a nearly finished album, she wanted to reconnect with Benjamin Constant who had arranged her first 2 studio albums and she wanted to meet new musicians and feel new emotions. » I wanted to be the « old lady » that falls from a skateboard with kids all around her, go full throttle on a motorcycle for the first time in my life. These experiences didn’t necessarily make it into my songs, but they served a purpose. It’s all there! »

Asa’s life is part of her songs as much as our life is part of her songs. The inexhaustible subject that is love, the spiritual calling, the need to party or to simply share a cup of tea with 2 friends…and there’s Dead Again, the first single, written in 2 hours with Blair MacKichan, based on a close friend’s treason that angered Asa. Love Found Me is a song about having to stop looking for love because it found you, a premonitory song written shortly before the start of the recording.

Grateful is a beautiful hymn of grace beyond any religious considerations that invites to look to the maker. Then there’s Satan Be Gone, based on a New Orleans rhythm, speaking of the battles against the horned one, alcohol and hate. Eyo, written in Paris and borrowing a melody for the Masks Parade in Lagos, a place where the streets know how to smile.

All that says the talented Asa, and the road that she traveled.

« I’ve matured,” says the soon to be 32 year-old artist, in total control of her art and her emotions.

The energy, the weakness, the jubilation, the despair…A glorious summit!

CONTACT: http://asa-official.com/contact/