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MUSIC GigNews


Tour brings the blues to arts house


MARY


Coughlan is bringing her international The Whole Affair Tour to Barnabas Arts House later this month. The bluesy Irish singer- songwriter,will grace the altar of our former Pillgwenlly church on Friday, October 19 putting the building’s marvellous natural acoustics to good use. Mary’s emotional and heartfelt jazzy musical renditions make her aone-offperformer who has been everything fromamodel to a street-sweeper. There is alimited supplyoftick-


NEWPORT DATE:


Mary Coughlan


ets availablepriced at £17 eachand can be obtained directlyfrom Barnabas Arts House,orbyphon- ing 01633 673739.


CONTACTUS


EDITOR:NicoleGarnon 01633777203 nicole.garnon@sgwent-wales.co.uk


EDITORIAL&DESIGN:AndyHowells 01633777221 andrew.howells@gwent-wales.co.uk


ADVERTISING:Andrea Hall 01633777145 andrea.hall@gwent-wales.co.uk


ONLINE: www.southwalesargus.co.uk/leisure www.twitter.com/argus_theguide


Friday, October 5, 2012 MEET Mari


of all vocals inamusic school of Rome,after afew years Icontinued to studywith an opera teacher, fullydiscovering the potential of myvoice.


Do youcome fromamusical background? I’ve always been immersed in music,sinceIwas very young. Istarted to studypiano butmost


ent bands and musicians,sowork- ing with them and meeting people has been very important forme. This gavemethe chance to have more exposure and opportunities.


Howdid youget into the music business? Istarted to sing forfun in asoul band andImet some important artists who introducedmein the music business. Idid alot of concerts with differ-


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Howdid youcome to work with Mozez? Ihavealwaysbeenahuge fanof him and Zero7,since their very first albumSimple Things.Imet Mozezduring one of his gigs in Italy.Onthatoccasion we started to talk and later Isent him some ofmy demos .


Whatare your musical inspira- tions? Ilisten all type of music,but artists suchasZero7,Goldfrapp,Air, Thievery Corporations and bands like Massive Attackand Portishead aremyfavourite ones.AndMozez of course !


aboutmyvision of life whichItried to deliver withmymusic.


Howdid the album Gentle Beauty come about? Gentle Beauty ismymanifesto. Icouldn’t livemylife without searching forthe beauty in all the things thatsurroundmeand every- one.And kindness and respect between people,even if sometimes is hard to see those things among all life’s difficulties. This albumspeaks profoundly


in touch with Marionline:


mariofficial.com


twitter.com/mari_official myspace.com/marikonti


I


felt the need to covermy emotions and myfeeling inmy songs.


youtube.com/user/ marimusicofficial


Some of the tracks have lots of wonderful instrumentation supplemented by your superb vocals –how long did Free forinstance take to put together? Well, Free and the rest of the songs in general took alot of time to put together.Ithas beenahard and long job,about twoyears.


Blue is my Favourite Colour with Mozezisawonderfully strong collaboration wasthatgreatfun to make? Blue IsmyFavourite Colour was written bymyself,Mozezand Vincenzo Incenzo who isawell


the character of this song ,who could be anyperson .


Mozezduring the con- struction of the song. Ilove howhedescribed the story of


been interesting seeing


known italian author and friend of mine. Iwould sayithas


Whatare youworking on now and whatplans have yougot for the future? I’m working with some remixers to get remixes of some ofmysongs. One song , Free,has alreadybeen remixed by the DJ and producer RayMang. At the moment Iamstarting to write downsome ideas formynext album. I’m also rehearsing withmy band to be readysoon and spread mymusic all around.


Exciting times for band


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SEPTEMBER wasan exciting month forThe Red Tears.Itmarked the online-launchofthe band’s first studio single Summer Set,whichhits all good online retail stores this month. Due to the different loca- tions of the band’s mem- bers at present, The Red Tears have used modern technology to write mate- rial fortheir upcoming EP. Jon‘Chocky’Cholakian


(vocals,guitar) and Michael Arkle (bass gui- tar) exchanged song con- cepts and lyric ideas via e- mail, voice-memo and ‘Smartphone’ message. “It’s been alot of fun get-


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ting to this point”, Cholakian said. “It’s cer- tainlybeen time-consum- ing and there have been manysleepless nights,but we’ve loved every stepof the process and personally Iwouldn’t have it any other way.”


FUN TIMES: The Red Tears “This has been along


time coming,” Arkle added. “We’ve always known thatthis is whatwe wanted to do,itjust didn’t come together until now. Chocky being thousands of miles away hasn’t been aproblem. “In fact, it’s pushed us to


work harder because we’ve had to make even more effort. It makes me sound old, buttechnology reallyisamazing.” Bridge,who joined the band in June,said: “It’s been areal pleasure work-


ing with the other guysto this point. Never have I seen suchcreativity and drive. “The songs just keep coming, eachone even bet- ter than the last.” The Red Tears will be recording their debut EP in December,whichisdue to be released in February. FollowThe Red Tears on


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ANDYHOWELLS chats with Italian singer/songwriter MARI whose newCD Gentle Beauty is produced by former Zero7 singer Mozez


Covering Ground ChuckRagan


ChuckRagan might have once been better knownforhis work withUSpunkoutfit HotWater Music butas CoveringGround dis- plays he ismoreathome


and edgier playing bluegrass soaked acoustic music. This collection is stripped down,


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YellowBrickRoad EP ToyPOP!


THREEoriginal tracks makeupafabulous debut fromNewport’s ownToyPOP! Reminiscent of early ’80spunky electrosound, the girls have pro- duced three neatlistenablenum- bers supplemented with melodic vocals and the strange noises emit- ted fromchildren’s toys. Delivered with punchy lyrics, songs suchas Simulated Imitation and Persistent Secrecy deserve repeated listening.


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Punk rockers go it alone


PUNK rockers Gallows are all getting readyfor avisit to Cardiff’sGlobe as part ofSWN Fest in October. This follows the release of their self-titled third album whichwas released earlier this week through the band’s ownlabel Venn Records . “We made this record self-titled


as it musicallydefines the band known as Gallows as we exist today,”explain the band. “This is the first of manyreleases to come from the house of Venn Records, our imprint, hijacked from PIAS those long standing backers of independent rock nroll.” “This our statement of intent,


our laugh in the face of those who said Gallows were done when in reality we’re just warming up,” they continue.“We couldn’t feel more vindicated and proud.” CatchGallows live at Cardiff Globe on October 18, visit globe- cardiffmusic.com forticket infor- mation.


Songwriter plays at Met


LEGENDARYsinger/songwriter Dean Friedman puts in an appear- ance at The Met, Abertillery in October.Hailed by critics and fans alike as aone of the finest song- writers of his generation, Dean Friedman has achieved pop-icon status forhis chart-topping hits. Dean Friedman will perform at


The Met, Abertillery on Saturday, October 27 at 8pm. Tickets are £16 and availablebycontacting the BoxOffice on 01495 355800 or visit ing blaenaugwentvenues.com


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