Battle Of New Orleans, Extended Play, out now on CD

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Title: The Battle Of New Orleans, Extended Play

Group: Cornershop

Label: Ample Play Records

Release date: 2/Nov/2010

To order a CD, as our shop is still being refurbished, please send £3.99 to ‘info@cornershop.com’ via Paypal and we will send you the CD anywhere in the world.

The battle continues afresh with The Battle of New Orleans EP out from November 2nd, 2010 through their Ample Play label, featuring four unreleased tracks including a new remix of Soul School from their current album, Judy Sucks a Lemon For Breakfast.

View the latest video:

Cornershop - Houston Hash

Click here to get to the Free Download of Soul School - School Dinners Track

Listen to Previews of the New EP:

1. Houston Hash 1. Houston Hash - PREVIEW

Houston Hash is the ultimate truck driving song, with a lighthearted description of the road as well as home life, put another way trucks & cooking.

The track was produced in cooperation with the United Association of Songleading Staff & was regularly used for instruction at all Devon & Cornwall Songleading Summer Camps.  It is recommended that you check with your Band Director before ordering music arrangements.

2. Soul School, School Dinners 2. Soul School: School Dinners - PREVIEW

The usual Soul School with an added dress-down Friday funk from Cambridge, Massachusetts…with more bits from Manchester & Liverpool to drive it home.

3. The Battle Of New Orleans 3. The Battle of New Orleans - PREVIEW

Just before he passed away legendary BBC Radio 1 Disc Jockey, John Peel asked his favourite groups to record a Lonnie Donegan track for him to play across his Christmas/New Year Special shows.  We chose The Battle Of New Orleans, which he took high in the charts, and also hit the number one spot in the US in 1959 performed by Johnny Horton.  They love the track for its attitude, spirit and for the fact that it was one of the earliest country tracks to top the charts.

4. Lynndie England 4. Lynndie England - PREVIEW

As the old reggae spirituals said “love is lovely and war is very, very ugly,” & this contemplates the end of all wars including New Orleans to more modern expeditions.

We are currently redesigning our Cornershop Shop, therefore, order a CD, please send £3.99 to ‘info@cornershop.com’ via Paypal and we will send you the CD anywhere in the world.

A free bonus track entitled As We Enter The Century’s Clit will also be available at certain outlets.

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Zombies, The Year Of The Infection – Cornershop Mix of Rodeo Massacre

Rodeo Massacre are a French Swedish band that have lost no time in building their world up, since residing in the Capital City of London.  They even have their own London night club Clap or Die in Camden.

Cornershop have always promoted Rodeo Massacre, from the first time that Tjinder saw them at Lucky 7 Record Shop

This was the first time he met Izzy, their lead singer, and since they live in the same quartier they have met regularly, and got to know each other more.  Pop fact pickers Izzy has even babysat Mr Singh’s two children.

Well now, all this has culminated into “Zombies, The Year Of The Infection” a Cornershop mix of Rodeo Massacre’sZombies Of Life” from their forthcoming album on Smoky Carrot Records.  People and Zombies are digging it – listen to the preview below, see what you think:

Zombies, The Year Of The Infection - Cornershop Mix of Rodeo Massacre

To Download this track, full length and for free, please click on the Down arrow on the right of this player below.

Rodeo Massacre – Zombies of Life (Cornershop Remix)

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the John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts

We at Cornershop would like to bring your attention to something worth supporting, but you’ll need to be quick…. forwarding this message from John Peel’s ex producer Louise…

Subject: John Peel Centre For Creative Arts – vote Thursday!

Sheila (Ravenscroft) asked me to mobilise the troops to vote for the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts in the ITV People’s Millions. Basically the charity that gets the most votes wineth:

See more about the John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts

When I Was Born For The 7th Time – USA overview

When I was born for the 7th Time“WHEN I WAS BORN FOR THE 7TH TIME, the third album by Cornershop, is like a smiling, sun-lit reprieve amidst the pre-millennium tensions of most cutting-edge, Western pop of the end of the century. While their post-modern bricolage mirrors Beck’s appropriation skills, Tjinder Singh and his mates craft an album of multi-cultural rhythms, textures and lyrical references. The one-world/one-groove outlook anticipates the 21st century with a glee born of spiritual and physical contentment, rather than Beck’s new-pollution dourness.

To drive home the point of the importance of rhythm for the soul, playful beat-driven tracks are strewn throughout the album. The groovy instrumental “Butter The Soul” pits slacker record-scratching against a sitar to the shouted delight of onlookers. A sampled voice on “What Is Happening” asks the titular question of the situation in the world’s capitals while the beat set up by tablas and handclaps suggests a midnight bonfire rally. Singh and the band focus on memories and emotions any listener could identify with, and then personalize and globalize them in one fell swoop.”

Live Recording

Producers: Tjinder Singh, Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Daddy Rappaport.

Personnel: Tjinder Singh (vocals, guitar, dholki, scratches); Lourdes Belart, Paula Frazer (vocals); Justin Warfield (rap vocals); Ben Ayres (guitar, tamboura, keyboards); Anthony Saffery (sitar, harmonium, keyboards); Grace Winder, Robert Buller, E. Johnson (strings); Ray ? (flute); Nick Simms (drums); Peter Bengry (percussion).

Recording information: 657 Holloway Road, London, England; Eastcote Studios, London, England; Sun Plantation, San Francisco, CA; West Organge Studios, Preston.

Illustrator: Thomas Bayrle.

Photographer: Catalina Gonzales.

Cornershop: Tjinder Singh (vocals, guitar, dholki, DJ); Ben Ayres (guitar, keyboards, tamboura); Anthony Saffery (sitar, harmonium, keyboards); Nick Simms (drums); Peter Bengry (percussion).

Additional personnel: Paula Frazer, Lourdes Belart (vocals); Justin Warfield (rap vocals); Allen Ginsberg (spoken vocals); Robert Buller, E. Johnson, Grace Winder (strings); Ray (flute).

Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.66) – Included in Rolling Stone’s “Essential Recordings of the 90’s.”

Rolling Stone (8/21/97, pp.106-108) – 4 Stars (out of 5) – “…a cohesive, finely crafted LP in which the last album’s low-fi funk expands into low, fat grooves, and Singh’s pancultural, anti-racist lyrics become more sophisticated but no less impassioned…”

Spin (9/99, p.136) – Ranked #34 in Spin Magazine’s “90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s.”

Spin (1/98, p.86) – Ranked #1 on Spin’s list of the “Top 20 Albums Of The Year [1998].”

Spin (9/97, p.153) – 9 (out of 10) – “…Turning away from the ragged indie rock that dominated Cornership’s previous music, Singh now lets the groove be his guide. A third of the tracks here are Mo’Wax–worthy instrumentals–melting pots of chunky beats, Asian drones, oddball samples, and Singh’s own turntable doodles…”

Entertainment Weekly (9/26/97, p.78) – “…Their third album mixes up hip-hop beats, rock guitar, sitars, scratching, alt-country, and Allen Ginsberg, and few bands make this musical Cuisinart so playful, accessible, and friendly…” – Rating: B

Q (6/00, p.65) – Ranked #68 in Q’s “100 Greatest British Albums” – “…[An] opus of sardonic neo-Asian disco/rock/hip hop, blending chugging guitars, lazy beats, sitars and lyrics about Bollywood and masturbation…”

Magnet (11-12/97, p.64) – “…The best music nowadays tends to be sound-inclusive, and Cornershop has ‘cornered’ the market with its percussive/sample-heavy, ethno-global-indie bag that’s as fresh as papadum dipped in mint chutney…”

Option (11-12/97, p.89) – “…a sprawling work that, with it’s laidback beats, ear-catching samples and pleasingly anachronistic synth squiggles, sounds more than a little like Beck’s ODELAY….a fun, funny and funky good time for all.”

Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67) – Ranked #11 on Melody Maker’s list of 1997’s “Albums Of The Year.”

Melody Maker (9/6/97, p.42) – “…The breadth of vision on WHEN I WAS BORN is astonishing. It’s a record you can listen to time and time again, one where you’ll forever be discovering hidden nuances, more delights.”

Village Voice (2/24/98) – Ranked #3 in the Village Voice’s 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll.

NME (Magazine) (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) – Ranked #6 in NME’s 1997 Critics’ Poll.