Soufflé Pop was coined during a radio interview on The Time Machine, a daily broadcast on the island of Maui, between host Michael McCartney and singer-songwriter Michael Oliver. In discussing the musical influences and songwriting craft behind the 2011 album "Yin & Yanxiety" by Michael Oliver & The Sacred Band, Oliver mentioned the word soufflé when describing putting a song together. This resulted in McCartney suggesting to create yet another musical niche genre called "Soufflé Pop".


Soufflé Pop would bring a number of influences to the musical table including; Baroque Pop (The Left Banke, The Zombies, The Moody Blues, Sagittarius, The Bee Gees [late sixties/early seventies]), MOR Pop (Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Lee Hazelwood, Harry Nilsson, The Carpenters), Power Pop (Raspberries, Badfinger, The Knack, Mike Viola & Candy Butchers), Singer-Songwriter (Laura Nyro, Carole King, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Aimee Mann, Rachael Yamagata, Billy Joel, Rupert Holmes), Bubblegum (Archies, Josie & The Pussycats, Bay City Rollers, Tommy Roe, The Lemon Pipers), Rockabilly (Robert Gordon, Stray Cats, Marshall Crenshaw), Sunshine Pop (The Cowsills, The Association, Small Circle of Friends, Curt Boettcher, Millennium), Classic Sixties & Seventies Pop, "The Three B's" that Richard Carpenter cited as major influences (The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Burt Bacharach) and overall melodic rock and pop that can be a near whisper of raw emotion to a full blown orchestral arrangement or simply the loudest joyful jangle guitar and power chords that deliver the musical goods (The Who, The Kinks). Beatles inspired bands who continued the eclectic sounds of the Fab Four into their own stamp after the Beatles went their separate ways (Electric Light Orchestra, Klaatu, Cheap Trick, Pilot, Supertramp).




Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from Airwaves (1977)



We're not really sure why both albums from A&M Records act Airwaves have never been released on CD. Both "New Day" from 1977 and "Next Stop" from 1979 are well produced albums filled with extremely catchy songs. We get nervous in the studio playing these precious albums on the FM dial worried that they will get scratched and will be hard to replace. The trio was made up of talented guitarist Ray Martinez (from the early 70's band Spring), bassist and keyboardist John David (Love Sculpture, Dave Edmunds - yes...that's John on Dave Edmunds' monster hit "I Hear You Knockin') and drummer Dave Charles. John is considered the third most successful Welsh songwriter ever with his songs being covered by over two hundred artists worldwide. John sings lead on this song while Ray whips his guitar into a frenzy to the pounding skins of Dave's drums. Here for your listening pleasure is "Nobody Is" recorded in Wales and produced by Pat Moran with Dave Charles as assistant engineer.







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