Singer-songwriter Madi Diaz released her album "Plastic Moon" at the beginning of 2012. Here is the song that opens her album - "Gimme A Kiss".
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from Madi Diaz (2012)
Singer-songwriter Madi Diaz released her album "Plastic Moon" at the beginning of 2012. Here is the song that opens her album - "Gimme A Kiss".
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from Rumer (2012)
Rumer has released her cover of John B. Sebastian's number one hit single "Welcome Back" from 1976.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from Bill Lloyd (2012)
Bill Lloyd's 2012 album "Boy King Of Tokyo" has the multi-talented singer-songwriter taking the recording route that some of rock's finest have tackled early on in their careers like Paul McCartney, Emitt Rhodes and Todd Rundgren by performing every instrument on his record. The lyrical content will most certainly pull you in if you consider yourself a music lover. Rocker Brian Ray sang about "Vinyl" on his debut solo album but Bill goes beyond the soundtrack of our youth and sets focus on that one song that to you was clearly "The Best Record Ever Made".
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from Dee Long (2012)
Klaatu founding member Dee Long recently collaborated with fellow Canadian songwriter Elizabeth Racz on the brand new single "Negative Muse". The talented artist delivers a musical performance that reminds Soufflé Pop of the mellow moments of 10cc and Supertramp at the peak of their creative success. Hearing this song on Maui radio every three to four hours on a few pop music stations clearly demonstrates that the song belongs on the air on other broadcast outlets across the country. This song would have easily fit on many radio playlists in 1979 when the airwaves still embraced a wide variety of musical styles on one radio station.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Welcome to Soufflé Pop. Serving Pop Soufflés For Your Listening Pleasure...
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 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).
We don't know if this term for a musical genre has already been thought up in the past since we couldn't find anything on the internet (aside from a title used by the band Muse) but we figured that since this began with a conversation between rocker Michael Oliver and radio host Michael McCartney, we might as well kick off this website with a song from Michael Oliver & The Sacred Band. Oliver confessed to having done his musical mining from The Archies, Fleetwood Mac and Marshal Crenshaw for "Tell Me What You're Dreaming", a song which includes the vocal talents of Alex Lynne making a beautiful harmony that is meant to be turned up and have you sing along.
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