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InRadio 2: Roller Skate Here are some of the groundbreaking artists you will hear on InRadio's second disc. To hear these and other great artists, order now.
With her jazz-steeped, acoustic punk stylings, and seven recordings under her belt on her own independent Few'll Ignite Sound label, Ember Swift continues to solidify her reputation as one of Canada's finest independent artists. A genuinely compelling and uncompromising performer, Ember and her band have toured extensively throughout North America and Australia, averaging nearly 200 shows per year. Her shows promise a rockin' good time, with sheer fun as important an ingredient as her extraordinary voice and unflinching lyrics. InRadio 2 features a humorous track from Ember's most recent release, Stiltwalking.
Zell Miller III is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary theater artist and spoken word performance poet. He is also an accomplished playwright/director/educator and mentor. Recently, his spoken word collective, Xenogia, was selected to perform at the 2002 Singers of Daybreak Spoken Word Conference, along with such luminaries as The Last Poets and Slam poetry founder Marc Smith. As an educator, Zell created an interactive arts program focusing on how writing can serve as a powerful medium for self-esteem. The program has served more than 10,000 junior high and high school students. InRadio listeners will have an exclusive listen to a track from The Evidence of Silence Broken, Zell's upcoming release on TruRuts Endeavors/Speakeasy Records.
Bobi Cespedes possesses one of the most powerful, poised, and elegant voices in the world, and Rezos, her solo debut on Six Degrees Records celebrates her arrival. The Cuban-born singer, percussionist, and Yoruba-Lucumi priestess carries on a centuries-old tradition of Afro-Cuban singing and drumming. Her deep, rich voice and her ear for contemporary Latin, jazz, and dance music, combine to make Rezos a new record with an old soul. Now living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Céspedes maintains a rigorous schedule of concerts, religious rituals, and travels lecturing at the university level. InRadio is excited to bring listeners a selection from Cespedes' amazing solo debut.
"(Calexico), who got its handle from the California-Mexico border town of the same name, is a lively, sometimes moody brew of Latin-fused sounds and Southwestern flair. Still brimming with the band's unique union of mariachi flamboyance and laid-back country, Calexico's newest release, Feast Of Wire, also finds the Tuscon-based band forging new territory, both musically and lyrically." - Mar Yvette, Mean Street "…Feast of Wire is a loosely assembled gumbo of the band's Tucson-rooted boogies, dusty whiskey waltzes, and the occasional Tabasco-seasoned pop song. At times the album saunters lazily between the three like a drunken coyote, but the music itself--especially when flushed out in a live setting--has the power to transport even a horn-rimmed hipster…to the parched, turquoise- and tumbleweed-strewn landscapes of mariachis and margaritas." - Village Voice
Midlake Myshkin's Ruby Warblers Out Hud Kinnie Starr M. Ward J. Otis Powell! Bettie Serveert Madgesdiq Happy
Apple Kathleen Edwards The Lascivious Biddies Even Little Sue You can also read about the artists featured on: |
"May the few who ignite sound fuel a change in the night. May the few who fuel change ignite sound into light." - Few'll Ignite Sound label motto
"There is no choice but to bear witness to his lyrical gymnastics. I thought I was going to detonate listening and watching him turn phrases and words into atom bombs of truth." - The Villager Newspaper
"(Her) album is a tapestry of electro-acoustic colors. Fusing digital with traditional, she uses these colors to propel her soulful voice to intriguing heights." -Jesse Varela, Latin Beat Magazine
InRadio 2 features a track from Calexico's newest release, Feast of Wire. Here's what people are saying:
One of InRadio's favorite young bands, Midlake's four founding
members met while in the College of Music at the University of North Texas
in the fall of 1997. Their first collaboration, an acid jazz quartet called
The Cornbread All-Stars, didn't fulfill their musical cravings though
Midlake's chemistry was apparent from the start. Influenced by the Beatles,
Radiohead, Bjork and David Bowie, Midlake recently released Grand Milkmaid
Army, their debut EP. The self-released album blends a gritty, low-fi
sophistication with richly textured melodies and carries InRadio 2's title
track: Rollerskate.
"
A marriage of punk's irreverence with the refinement and emotion
of the jazz torch singers of old...an exhilarating musical ride." -
New Orleans Times-Picayunne
"
Out Hud can express more in one elegant passage than a week's worth
of Derrida, and all without saying a word...(Their) sprawling works short-circuit
traditional neural pathways, wire the brain directly to the feet, and actively
stimulate both." - 
"
... an artist with vision and something really important to say...
[she is] hypnotic and entrancing, with serious rhyming skills, boundless
amounts of creativity, intellect, originality and powerful poetry." -
Rock 'N Roll Reporter.
"
M. Ward's (new record) is a house filled with ghosts, from the
spirits of friends who have passed away to the departed legends of American
roots music." - popmatters.com
J. Otis Powell! is a poet, philosopher, performance artist, curator,
arts administrator, and media producer. He is currently a producer
of Write On Radio!, a literary radio show at KFAI-FM, a community radio
station
in Minneapolis. J. Otis also works as Communities' Liaison at
The Loft, the nation's most comprehensive literary center. InRadio brings
listeners "Amnesiacs",
a poem that J. Otis contributed to Words Will Heal the Wound,
a spoken word anthology series.
"
...Everyone is talking about the White Stripes' "Elephant" as
the early frontrunner for album of the year. But, to my ears, nothing has
sounded better so far than Log 22..." - Jim Harrington, Oakland Tribune
Says the Portland, Oregon-based hip-hop visionary: "In these days and
times, rappers have become bogged down in a quagmire of wackery, selling
the culture short in order to make the dollars offered by the mainstream.
Being original is no longer important as cats have become content to be
like the next man, repeating the same ol' tales of jewels, cars and street
life." InRadio is proud to bring listeners a track from Madgesdiq's
newest self-release, 
"
...playful, rebellious spirit and enterprising methodologies...
[Happy Apple's] unique sound has already spawned a rash of imitators within
the modern jazz circuit." - All Music Guide
"
Debut albums this impressive make you wonder where the artist has
been hiding." - Buzz McClain, Washington Post
"
Gliding effortlessly over genres of jazz, pop and cabaret, the
four Biddie girls show their voices are as luscious as their talents are
curious." - The Pittsburgh City Paper
One of Australia's premiere independent rock bands contribute a
humorous indictment of mainstream commercial radio to InRadio 2. Their
reputation as one of the country's best live acts is well deserved, though
they've toured extensively worldwide. Even is part of a diverse group
of artists that call Australian indie label Rubber Records home. 
InRadio 2 brings listeners the title track from Little Sue's most
recent, self-released masterpiece, The Long Goodbye. Here's what critics
are saying about it: "
One of the most beautiful albums that great community (Portland,
Oregon) has ever been proud to call its own." - Jeff Rosenberg, Willamette
Week