Classic Album Sundays

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Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Goldfrapp 'Felt Mountain' Mar 13, 2022

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Featuring influences from a variety of music styles such as 1960s pop, cabaret, folk and electronica, Felt Mountain was described as "simultaneously smarmy and seductive, yet elegant and graceful" upon its release in 2001. While certainly not "poppy," it never has a truly weak moment. And while the songs aren't all that different from one another, the flow from track to track makes perfect sense. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com.

Horse Meat Disco's Luke Howard and Princess Julia on Grace Jones 'Warm Leatherette' Feb 27, 2022

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We were lucky enough to be joined by Horse Meat Disco's Luke Howard and Princess Julia for our Grace Jones Warm Leatherette album launch party at the all new Eagle London. Grace Jones teamed with the great reggae production duo of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare on this 1980 album, and made the transition from straight dance and club act into quasi-pop star with reggae and urban contemporary leanings. The single "Private Life" was one of her best, and the overall album had more energy and production gloss than previous LPs that had been aimed completely at the club market. It helped that Jones seemed enthused about the session and really put herself into the songs. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com

Black Midi’s Morgan Simpson on D’Angelo ‘Black Messiah’ Feb 13, 2022

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Black Midi’s Morgan Simpson joins Classic Album Sundays’ Raj Chaudhury at The Room Studios to dig deep into D’Angelo’s Black Messiah. Formed in 2018, Black Midi made an immediate mark on the scene with their blend of experimental rock, math rock, noise rock and post-punk, culminating in a Mercury Music Prize nomination in 2019. Read more about your favourite albums here: https://classicalbumsundays.com/

Classic Album Sundays: The Zombies on ‘Odessey and Oracle’ Jan 30, 2022

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The latest Classic Album Sundays podcast is taken from our series of events at Royal Albert Hall when we were delighted to be joined by The Zombies Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Chris White and Hugh Grundy to discuss their 1968 classic album Odessey and Oracle. The album is considered to be one of the most significant British psychedelic records, and including the iconic hit song Time of the Season.

Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Lisa Stansfield on ‘Affection’ Jan 09, 2022

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Lisa Stansfield joins Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy to celebrate the 30th anniversary release of her debut solo album ‘Affection’ as part of the ‘Venus Unwrapped’ series at Kings Place in London. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com

Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Mark Leckey on ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Dec 19, 2021

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Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey joins Classic Album Sundays’ DEBONAIR for a deep dive into the ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ album musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, on which the 1971 rock opera of the same name was based.

Mark Leckey is a British contemporary artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found object art and video pieces, which incorporate themes of nostalgia and anxiety, and draw on elements of pop culture, span several videos including Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Industrial Light and Magic (2008), for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize.

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Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Vince Guaraldi ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ with Neil Cowley Dec 12, 2021

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Vince Guaraldi’s music brought the Peanuts to life. He scored 17 animated Peanuts television specials and the first was this Christmas classic, the evocative ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’. Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy and her special guest Guaraldi fan and pianist Neil Cowley tell Vince Guaraldi’s story and his relationship with Charles Schulz’s gang of children who see life through the world-weary eyes of adults in this edition of the Classic Album Sundays Podcast. And of course, there is amazing music to get you in the holiday spirit! Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com

Classic Album Sundays Podcast: Max Richter & André de Ridder on Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi ‘Four Seasons’ Nov 29, 2021

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The post-minimalist composer and the world renowned conductor discuss the blurring of boundaries between electronic and classical music in conversation with Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy at Spitalfields Music Festival. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com/

Classic Album Sundays: Ego Ella May on Sade ‘Diamond Life’ Nov 22, 2021

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Ego Ella May joins Classic Album Sundays’ Tina Edwards as part of our new series ‘My Classic Album’ for a deep dive into Sade’s Diamond Life. Ego is a songwriter and vocalist. Hailing from South London, she has an all-encompassing love of music, which she channels into her own neo-soul and contemporary jazz compositions. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com/

Classic Album Sundays Podcast: DJ Yoda on De La Soul ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ Nov 14, 2021

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Check out the full interview as Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy and DJ Yoda dig deep into the most inventive, assured, and playful debut in hip-hop history De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising which not only proved that rappers didn’t have to talk about the streets to succeed, but also expanded the palette of sampling material with a kaleidoscope of sounds and references culled from pop, soul, disco, and even country music. Read more about your favourite albums here: https://classicalbumsundays.com/

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