Monday's Long Song

 

Yesterday I featured the new song by Coyote and I mentioned that this song was inspired by Peaking Lights, a band I never heard before. Some research revealed that they are an American husband-and-wife duo who have been releasing music regularly for more than a decade. A few years ago they said goodbye to the West Coast to live in Amsterdam.

Each of the members, Indra Dunis and Aaron Coyes, started their career in various post-punk, goth and psychedelic bands before they decided to make music together. Their sound could be described as a lo-fi melange of dub, psychedelic pop and krautrock. In 2012 they released their opus magnum Lucifer and in the same year they released  Lucifer In Dub with edits of their former album.

And yes, although they are not from Jamaica, they have a feel for how to make a good dub version.

Since Lucifer they still creates free-flowing, repetitive to narcotic dub designs with drums, Hammond, synths and voice.

New Song On Sunday

 

I've to admit that I am a huge fan of Coyote, a long time running project by Nottingham DJ's and producers Timm Sure and Richard Hampson since I bought their album The Mystery Light back in 2021. Since then they released several albums, singles and remixes all refined with their own Balearic vibes.

Now they released a new song inspired by Peaking Lights, an American couple releasing dub inspired songs since more than a decade. Coyote thought that it would be a nice idea to combine their Balearic sounds with dub and some reggae borrowings. And this experiment works well. Some dubbed synths, spoken words over a steady flowing rhythm should be the soundtrack for a sunny Sunday. 

Magik

The godfather of dub Lee Scratch Perry released a new EP in collaboration with Peaking Lights and Argentina musician Ivan Lee and like the most of his output is well worth to listen. I have a only a few records by him but everyone is timeless and always worth to listen. And so it is Life of the Plants another dub album that makes me feel happy listening to it and I suppose I will come back to him for the rest of my life.