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.

Piers Faccini - My Wilderness
(CD/Digital) Six Degrees Records, 2011-10-11

Piers Faccini is a soulful and expressive singer/songwriter whose music fuses folk and West African textures. His debut album found critical acclaim in Europe and brought comparisons to classic artists like Nick Drake. His latest release, My Wilderness, adds even more colors to his musical palette with contributions from Six Degrees label-mate the French cellist Vincent Segal (whose beautiful Chamber Music release was one of last year's biggest world music hits). The record once again features Piers' completely unique mix of poetic ballads and hypnotic rhythms. Piers Faccini's world is cruel and sensuous, punctuated by drums and softened by strings and violin bows. This is a world which exists to be sung and danced to and travelled to. A wilderness of our own.

Vieux Farka Touré - The Secret
(CD/Digital) Six Degrees Records SDR11792, 2011-05-24

With his 2010 World Cup performance before a billion people in Johannesburg, South Africa, Vieux Farka Touré has become one of the most celebrated African guitarists in history. Unanimously hailed as one of the best contemporary African music releases of the year, his last studio album, Fondo saw Vieux emphatically emerging out of the famous shadow of his father, beloved African super star Ali Farka Touré - with excursions into jam-rock and electronic virtuosity, fused with the sublime elements of Malian and West African rhythms. Fondo largely made the boundaries between rock and world music immaterial. Vieux takes a dramatic next step with his new record, The Secret, produced by Soulive's Eric Krasno and featuring collaborations with guitar greats, Derek Trucks (Allman Brothers Band) & John Scofield as well as an inspired vocal contribution from Dave Matthews, and Vieux's final collaboration with his legendary father, Ali Farka Touré.

The Real Tuesday Weld - I Love The Rain EP
(Digital Single) Six Degrees Records, 2011-05-03

Now available by popular demand. Includes the 2011 Mix of I Love The Rain as heard on the Chevy Traverse car ad… originally available on the pop album of the year 2005 The Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid…

Paris DJs Soundsystem & Musiques Impures present Adrian Quesada's Spring Reverb (MP3 Podcast on ParisDJs.com and MusiquesImpures.com) 2011-04-13 The Echocentrics is a new project of psychedelic, cinematic and dusty soul produced by Adrian Quesada of Brownout/Ocote Soul Sounds/Grupo Fantasma fame. Loads of spring reverb, psyched out farfisa organs and heavy drums are accented by beautiful vocals sung in English, Spanish and Portuguese by Tita Lima from Brazil and Natalia Clavier from Argentina. The album is out on Ubiquity Records. Grant Phabao, without any doubt the greatest reggae...

Brownout - Aguilas and Cobras - Remixed and Regrooved
(Download/limited CD) Six Degrees Records, 2010-12-07

Brownout, the Psychedelic Latin Funk alter ego of Grupo Fantasma, heated up dance-floors and critic's lists around the world with last year's Aguilas & Cobras record. The group's trademark soulful beats, psychedelic guitar excursions, tough grooves and ultra-tight horn arrangements have now been handed over to a dream team of remixers from the electronic dance, funk, cumbia & nu-groove scene, resulting in Aguilas & Cobras Remixed & Re-Grooved. Remixers include J Boogie, The Mexican Dubwiser, Tal M. Klein, Kokolo's Ray Lugo, Second Sky & Thomas Blondet, Jeremy Sole, Senor Oz, Afrolicious, Anthony Mansfield, Grant Phabao & CaZ.

Limited Edition CD: The CD version of Brownout's Aguilas & Cobras Remixed and Regrooved is now available as a hand stamped and numbered limited edition release (100 copies only!), available at the Six Degrees Shop and at Brownout live shows.

Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Extravaganza (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) Colored-Inc., 2010-07-10 The Paris DJs extended family has among the most pro-active in spreading the good word about worldwide African music. Celebrating the recent releases by One Foot In Jail or Franck Biyong on our brand new Colored-Inc. label, and announcing the upcoming albums from Oghene Kologbo (thru Kraked) or Ebo Taylor (thru Strut), here's nearly 4 hours of 21st century afrojazz, afrobeat, ethio-jazz, afrofunk and afrolatin grooves - selected and mixed by Grant Phabao and Djouls who are...