Focus Music Notes. "Out of the Blues". Popular music through the decades

Disclosure are back. Returning on March 17 with new single ‘White Noise’, featuring vocals from one half of another of the UK’s most exciting new acts Aluna Francis of AlunaGeorge. Within one week of launching the new track as Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record on Radio 1, ‘White Noise’ has racked up over 750,000 plays online - topping both the Hype Machine and Elbo.ws music charts, has been playlisted at Kiss Radio and enjoyed over 30 plays between Radio 1 and 1Xtra, had support from 6Music and XFM, as well as landing Zane’s ROTW this week – all 8 weeks upfront of impact. This incredible and instant reaction to this young duo’s latest offering prove that Disclosure are well on their way to owning 2013. ‘White Noise’ follows the amazing success of Disclosure’s last single ‘Latch’, which was a-list at Radio 1, 1Xtra and Kiss, peaking at number 11 in the UK charts, staying in the top 30 for 15 weeks and going silver (sales in excess of 330,000 worldwide). ‘Latch’ also notched up several numbe

Cherished Canadian crooner Ron Sexsmith will release his new album Forever Endeavour on Feb 4, 2013 on the Cooking Vinyl label. Forever Endeavour features another batch of deftly poetic, gently affecting songs that perfectly distil the pitfalls of being human. This record pairs Sexsmith again with producer Mitchell Froom, who, on numerous records over two decades, has framed Sexsmith's music in its most sympathetic surroundings. Noted for his production work with everyone from Los Lobos to Crowded House, Richard Thompson to American Music Club, Froom produced Ron's first three albums and 2006's ‘Time Being’. The heart of ‘Forever Endeavour’ is a batch of songs sparked by an unexpected health scare in the summer of 2011, and it's these tracks that give the album its sorrowful gravitas. "In the middle of a tour last year, they detected a lump in my throat, so I had this period of a few months where I was freaking out about everything,” says Ron, “and that prob

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