Thalia Zedek

This is Boston-based singer-songwriter Thalia Zedek playing live for The Deepend on ABC Radio National in mid-2005. It was filmed for DIG TV i think, and if you look quickly between 1:11 and 1:15 you see the back of my head as i reach for the reverb send on the mixing console. I'd reckon i must be turning the reverb down, since she's drowning in it! haha. Thanks to Rob for sending me this, I'd forgotten this was ever filmed.

Thalia Zedek is on tour in the UK and Europe, full details on myspace. Her latest album is Liars and Prayers and its out now on the ever excellent Thrill Jockey.

Thalia played in an incredible band in the 90s called Come. If you dig the song above but want something a bit more energetic check out their '94 release Don't Ask Don't Tell.

School of Language

I've spent the morning discovering SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE from Sunderland, UK - the solo project for Field Music's David Brewis. The debut release Sea From Shore came out exactly a month ago through Memphis Industries here, and through the most logical aesthetic home in the rest of the world, Thrill Jockey. On "Rockist Pt 1" Brewis comes across all Sam Prekop-ish over cutup vowel loops, and elsewhere he brings on the angular-muscle rock, even featuring some Futurehead types on the dark and thumpy "Disappointment 99". Its altogether less electro-pop than Field Music, but just as engaging and just experimental enough.

As usual, check out myspace for tunes and details of the current US tour... Drowned in Sound have a review of Sea and Shore... and the Rockist video is below...