Red Snapper - A Pale Blue Dot

You know what, I don't talk about music a lot on this anymore and it saddens me. For a very quick rundown of what I've been up to musically, I'm DJing at my favourite club again so the discovery of new music has been put on the back burner for the moment as I compile another set. And before that, I've been listening to Bloc Party. And a bit of this, a bit of that, nothing new that's grabbed my attention really since the stunner that is James Yuill's album.

But I heard this today and it grabbed me. And the worst part is, I haven't heard the album yet but I'm putting this out there now before I forget and while the incredible song I heard is still ringing in my ears. It's by a band called Red Snapper and is an instrumental piece of genius. As always, I tend to stick to things I like and no secret has been made of my lvoe for instrumental music, be it Mogwai, Explosions or Sigur Ros who despite having vocals, dont actually make any sense so it's still instrumental to me. So it should be no suprise that Red Snapper are of course, instrumental.

The song that has grabbed my attention is the spectacular Brickred. Red Snapper are a jazz/trip hop/electronic fusion tye of band, like many many others out there. But thankfully, this is just a simple framework in which they build a variety of songs around, veering wildly from jungle to psychedelic folk in an instant, with a Sax as the pilot. As all instrumental music should do, it takes you on a journey. It is about creating a theme and developing it, moving it somewhere, to a logical conclusion. I've actually been planning to do a little review of my favourite instrumental tunes as it's easy to lumber so many bands under such a small umbrella. But in the meantime, check out their most played tune on last.fm which is Don't Go Nowhere. I assume it's very good.

I honestly wish I could tell you more but I haven't heard anything else and I don't want to make any judgements until I've heard their new album but. I was excited by what I heard and I'm eagerly awaiting hearing the album.

And I'm going to try a lot harder with this blog so don't worry, things will improve...