The Real Tuesday Weld were formed by Stephen Coates in 1999 inspired by dreams of crooner Al Bowlly and the American actress Tuesday Weld. They're influenced by 1930s jazz, Serge Gainsbourg, Ennio Morricone and minimalist electronica and are known for a series of critically acclaimed albums, arts projects and award winning collaborations with film makers. We started spotting them on Paris DJs way back in 2005… and fast forward to 2012 we were glad to be able to interview Stephen last week (read it in english or in french), and managed to get a mix from him cooked especialy for Paris DJs. The...

The Real Tuesday Weld - Songs for The Last Werewolf
(CD/Digital) Six Degrees Records, 2011-07-12 (US and digitally everywhere)
(Special Edition CD) Crammed Discs, 2012-01-16 (Europe)

A widescreen cinematic emotional cabaret, Soundtrack for the Last Werewolf is the sixth The Real Tuesday Weld album and follows the Sunday Times and The Independent album of the week The London Book of the Dead. It' been released by Six Degrees in the US on July 12th and internationally thereafter. It features a range of special guests including Glen Duncan, The Puppini Sisters, Pinkie Maclure and Joe Coles of Lazarus Plane Crash. A very special edition of the album with written pieces by Glen, artwork by Catherine Anyango and exclusive tracks will be released by Crammed discs in Europe in October. We've been fans of The Real Tuesday Weld's swinging chamber orchestral sunshine bitterpop for years and can't wait to see this released over here!!
Read the Paris DJs interview with The Real Tuesday Weld : in english or in french.

Stephen Coates (The Real Tuesday Weld)
(Interview by Nicolas Ragonneau for Paris Djs, january 2012)

Stephen Coates is a man of many masks, illusions and smoke-and-mirrors. Under his weird female pseudonym The Real Tuesday Weld he’s released impossible-to-classify records since the end of the Twentieth Century. I, Lucifer (2004), The London Book Of the Dead (2007) and The End of The World (2008) were major achievements. Stephen's baroque and romantic world is tinged with bittersweet melancholy. London is its sole setting, and the Clerkenwell Kid (one of his other aliases) a recurring character. Long before the electro-swing fashion, blending early jazz, cabaret, easy-listening and electro, he invented a genre of his own called ‘antique beat’. His new album Songs for The Last Werewolf (Crammed Records/Europe, Six Degrees Records/USA) is released on Tuesday (coincidence?) 16th of January and it’s the OST of the eponymous - and critically acclaimed - book by Glen Duncan (The Last Werewolf, Canongate Books, 2011). His side-project, the psychedelic garage-blues band Lazarus and The Crash Plane (read the review here), has also released its first record on his Antique Beat label. Stephen talks about the beginning of The Real Tuesday Weld, the way he uses dreams in his life, his love for London… just before releasing the nice mix he’s cooked for us, scheduled for January 17th on Paris DJs.

Stephen Coates (The Real Tuesday Weld)
(Interview de Nicolas Ragonneau pour Paris Djs, janvier 2012)

Stephen Coates est un homme de masques, d'illusions et de faux-semblants. Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, et sous le pseudonyme étrange et féminin de The Real Tuesday Weld (l'actrice blonde d'Il était une fois en Amérique), il a signé des albums inclassables et mémorables comme I, Lucifer (2004), The London Book of The Dead (2007) ou The End Of The World (2008). C'est un monde baroque et romantique à la mélancolie douce-amère, dont Londres est le théâtre exclusif, et The Clerkenwell Kid (un autre de ses pseudonymes) le héros récurrent.
Bien avant la mode de l'électro-swing, Stephen avait créé son propre genre musical (l'antique beat) mêlant le jazz de l'entre-deux guerres, le cabaret, l'easy-listening et l'électro. Son nouvel album, Songs for The Last Werewolf (x.php/tag/SIX%20DEGREES">Six Degrees Records/USA), sort le 16 janvier. Présenté comme la bande originale du livre The Last Werewolf de Glen Duncan (Canongate Books, 2011), ce disque est commercialisé sous la forme d'un petit livre de format carré. Son autre projet, un groupe garage-blues psychédélique formé avec le chanteur Joe Coles, Lazarus and The Plane Crash (lire la chronique de l'album Horseplay ici), vient de sortir sur son label Antique Beat. Avec une grande sincérité et son ironie coutumière, Stephen Coates revient sur la formation de The Real Tuesday Weld, la façon dont il utilise ses rêves dans sa vie, son amour pour Londres, avant le mix exclusif qu'il a préparé pour Paris DJs, prévu le 17 janvier.

Baloji - Kinshasa Succursale
(CD/Digital) Crammed Discs CRAM183, 2011-11-21

Baloji, whose name means "sorcerer" in Swahili, was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1978. At the age of 4, he arrived in Belgium with his father and grew up in Liège. As a young adolescent, he discovered hip-hop, a passion for tagging, rap & dance. At 15 he joined the collective Starflam, a figurehead of Belgian hip-hop, who released a platinum selling disc Survivant (2001). Baloji quit the group in 2004 after a number of interpersonal disagreements and turned his back on music. It was a letter from his mother, whom he had not seen since 1981, and winning a poetry competition in Paris, that pushed him back to persue the muse of music. His first solo recording, Hotel Impala (2008), as much of a responce to the letter of his mother as it a quest to find his identity, is coloured with influences of soul, afrobeat, and hip-hop. A certified Gold Record, the album won two Octaves de la music (a Belgian equivalant to the Grammys) as well as the Rapsat-Lelièvre Prize and the Brassens prize for lyric writing. Baloji comes to Crammed Discs with his latest opus Kinshasa Succursale to be released November 2011. The album features contributions from some of the finest musicians from the capital of the DRC, including Konono N°1 & Zaïko Langa-Langa, as well as three brand-new remixes.

Paris DJs Soundsystem - Who Is Molesting Laura ? (Part 12) (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2009-11-15 With this selection of Latin covers it's seven new mixes that have been added to the site this weekend! Coming next is a Brazil mix by Paulo from Superfly Records, a Larry Blackmon/Cameo special by Psycut and some new Afro selections... [comment faire?/how to?] Tracklisting : 01. Rosemary Clooney and Perez Prado - Sway (from 'A Touch Of Tabasco' album, 1960 / RCA) 02. Zeep - Ghost Town (Isso Não Da) (from 'People & Things' album, 2009 / Crammed) 03. Quantic & His Combo Barbaro -...

Zeep - People & Things
(CD) Crammed CRAM148, 2009-10-09

Allow us to introduce you to People & Things - the wonderful new opus from Zeep, aka London-based musicians Nina Miranda and Chris Franck. Together they have crafted a fresh, immediate pop album that dips its elegant toes into every musical pool they have previously explored as Smoke City and Da Lata, as well as embarking into exciting new waters.

Shantel - Planet Paprika
(CD) Essay Recordings/Crammed AYCD23, 2009-08-28

Shantel's new album Planet Paprika has its own set of values: the pursuit of genuinely European pop music. This is where north meets south and east meets west and they are all equal in the mind of the musician. Shantel is driving on deeper into the creation of a truly Central European pop music. Its roots are in the past, in the popular music that has fired the imagination of generations for centuries - and yet it is something totally new and different. Planet Paprika is taking the concerts halls, clubs and festivals of Europe by storm. The first, long-awaited single will be released in July to blow the cobwebs out of your ears. At the same time, Shantel will be touring with his Bucovina Club Orkestar. And then, with a big brass fanfare comes the grand finale: Shantel releases his new album at the end of August!

Chicha Libre - iSonido Amazonico!
(CD) Barbes Records BR0017, 2008-07-07 / Crammed, 2009-03-30

Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop inspired by Peruvian music from the Amazon. The Brooklyn-based band mixes up covers of forgotten Chicha classics with French-tinged originals, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel.

Mocky - Saskamodie
(CD) Crammed/Wagram, 2009-03-23

Named after a song Mocky made up when he was seven using imaginary words, "Saskamodie" is a new future/retro classic: a return to pure musical expression by a cutting edge artist who is no longer bound by the electronic music scene. At different points you'll hear a vintage soundtrack suite, a debonair jazz record (minus the solos) or a golden era '60s soul ballad recording... yet, as if all these charming stylistic sorties weren't loveable enough, cut "Saskamodie" through the middle and you'll find that sweet, inescapably infectious melody is the lifeblood trickling through its core.  Featuring Taylor Savvy, Gonzales, Jamie Lidell, and Feist.