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Worldservice Project

 

Relentless

UK five piece jazz outfit Worldservice Project (WSP) have already graced the jazz frontier by winning the Peter Whittingham Jazz Award in 2010, contemporary jazz with glitches of jazz fusion styles describe such beast of an album the WSP have put together, nine songs that keep the mind and ears absorbing the flawless musical talent that you will hear on Relentless, we can go talking about influences or peers in the jazz world and I'm pretty sure WSP have stumbled upon Weather Report and some old Miles tapes on their journey creating such piece of musical art, superb stuff.

Review by T.Halpin

6/6

http://www.myspace.com/worldserviceproject

William Vandermade

 

William Vandermade is a young song writer and performer from Sydney Australia. He has just released his EP titled ‘’ A Spiritual Death of the Entire World’’. As the title suggests Vandermade’s music is quite emotional and dark. You can hear from the lyrics that this boy has a natural talent for lyric writing and his unique voice displays his talent even more. Beats on the songs are quite mellow with a dark and mystical feel to them. I almost feel that a monster is going to jump out during the three songs on the EP. Vandermade has shown his real talents with this EP and has impressed me very much.

Review by Jennifer Ormsby

4/6

http://www.myspace.com/williamvandermade

Will Nolan

 

GreaseKitten

Dublin singer songwriter Will Nolan has been on the scene a long time now strutting his guitar at singer songwriter nights and doing the support rounds at a number of Dublin venues, with the likes of Imelda May surfacing rockabilly music in today's charts this gives Will Nolan a window of opportunity with the release of his debut Single GreaseKitten, "GreaseKitten" surf styled guitar melody with a Mersey styled drum beat dominates this song with a very good catchy chorus this would make a good commercial tune. "Acting Like I'm Crazy" rock and roll... and how it should be played! this song has your vintage blues rhythm style groove and the rockabilly vocals from Will kicks this tune into mode. " Will Tomorrow (Ever Change Me)" The potential is here in this jazz/blues song with a little work on the vocals from Will this would be a great tune, I feel the vocal lets this song down,great attempt, but I'm sure we will be hearing more from this artist in the near future.

Review by T.Halpin

Rank: **** 4 out of 6

http://www.myspace.com/willnolanband

WISHBONE

"Butterfly Review"

Butterfly is the debut album from Wishbone, a Dublin based rock act who are together since 2008. The band blend classic rock sounds with some grunge-ier elements.

The album kicks odd with 'Waste' an up-tempo number, it's good clean recording but it would help if the vocals were higher in the mix. Drop/Open tuning feature in 'Tumbleweed'. A track that I think needs a little more direction instead of meandering along.

Nineties grunge is quite apparent in 'Blindman', three tracks in and I think maybe a slight change in distorted guitar sound is needed. The band know how to work their vocal harmonies, as on 'When Reality Becomes a Dream',it maybe something they need to bring to the fore of their music a little more.

The band have self produced their debut, perhaps an external producer would have added an extra sparkle. Putting an album out with the band is less than a year together is a bit of a gamble, although two have of the band have previously played together in other bands, it doesn't really give time to build a following.

The second half of the album pretty much follows as the first half did. The band are no doubt good musicians, I think the help of an outside producer on this album would have given the band an extra hand up the ladder.

Review by Nessy

RANK:**** 4 out of 6

Wishbone

CANDLE

Review

This Dublin based trio has got grunge oozing from their sound... Candle has a sweet intro with the vocals floating over the mix, at first it sounds a bit like Nirvana but Wishbone have juiced up this track with some trashing grooves that you could get your teeth into, not a bad little number thumbs up Wishbone.

Review by T.Halpin

RANK: **** 4 out of 6

http://www.myspace.com/wishboneband

WHY

 

RED Review

Four piece Canadian rock band causing a stir in the independent scene with the release of their album Red, creating some harmonic pop and rock melodies on this 12 track album with many critics finding their sound like U2 but I will have to agree to a certain point I think they have a great sound more progressive than most bands in this genre with some fantastic vocals and catchy radio tunes, the lyrics have a real deep poetic touch to them very close to Inxs and Simple minds this is one group with the potential of becoming a force to be reckoned with in the music scene …superb stuff

Review by T.Halpin

RANK: ****** 6 out of 6

http://www.myspace.com/whyy

WARM WAX

 

Back in the late 80's early 90's, there were several collaborators trying to fuse metal and rap music, with varying degrees of success. Anthrax teaming up with Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, Linkin Park, Beastie Boys and Faith No More but it was all very schizophrenic and often the results were mixed, either a car crash or brilliant. That was until one Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, almost single handedly killed the whole genre off by dragging its cedibility through the mud. More recently a new breed of (repackaged as rap-core) metal/rap fusionists have energed with impressive results. Gone are the crowbarred together bands and not-one-thing-or-the-other experiments. Look at artists like Korn, Kid Rock or P.O.D who straddle metal and urban rap with consummate ease and the popular re-emergences of Rage Against The Machine and the newly reborn Linkin Park.
Warm Wax from Dublin have embraced the genre and do it fantastically well. Blending metal riffing and guitars with funk bass lines and punk-rapped lyrics. Its a brave shout because its would be all too easy to get it horribly wrong, or sound dated, but they get it absolutely spot on. If their claim of only being together for one year is right then they must have worked incredibly hard to be as tight as they are. As a musician myself I know how hard it is to blend some of the styles that they make seem so easy. From the funk bass/back beat juiciness of 'Step Back' to the moshy 'Urban Legend Kid' or gritty 'Make my move', WW bring the noise while keeping the back door tight as a funky mermaids nether regions (special credit to bassist Mark Mockler who works his nuts off and doesn't drop a note). Michael Mead - vocalist/MC/lyricist never lets up and has clearly already mastered his art, even his use of an East Coast American accent - normally worthy of some stick for a European - works fine because its totally in keeping. Stripped to his gym-body waist, looking for all the world like a young Henry Rollins, Michael is a really great rapper who, I am sure, will get regular comparisons to Anthony Keidis of RHCP with his very similar, shirtless bouncing and machine-gun approach. The significant difference here is that Warm Warx has taken the bull by the horns and gone where the Chilli Peppers should have gone before they went all soft and stoned. The fact that Warm Wax already have some instrument endorsements confirms to me that the industry think they're as potentially massive as I do. Excellent stuff.

Review by Drumhead

RANK: ****** 6 out of 6

www.myspace.com/warmwaxx