(Blues\Acoustic Jazz\Swing\New Orleans Jazz\Female Vocal) The Soaked Lamb - Hats and Chairs - 2010, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

20th century. The Soaked Lamb don't ignore
what's going on around them - contemporary
life - but prefer to play sitting down. Basically,
they compose at a slow speed that is not at
all modern. The Soaked Lamb have no
time for hurrying, crafting their songs as
was done 70 or 80 years ago, with the care
of people producing a melody to last rather
than a rhythm to top the charts. At concerts,
both audience and band remain seated. The
music is in colour, but sounds as if it's in
black and white. All the musicians wear hats,
although one of them did also once play -
six band members in all, but more than a
dozen instruments: Miguel Lima plays drums
and percussion, Tiago Albuquerque switches
between trumpet, clarinet saxophones,
guitar, concertina and ukelele, Mariana Lima
sings and plays saxophone and ukelele, Vasco
Condessa is on piano and other keyboards,
Afonso Cruz sings and plays guitar, banjo,
ukelele, harmonica and lap steel guitar, and
Gito is on double bass. And a megaphone is
also involved.
Given their dress and performance, the name
of the band's second disc came naturally:

Lima (drums) decided to record a CD.
Another future band member (Afonso Cruz)
had an apartment ideal for music of the kind
they had imagined. It was in Lisbon's Avenida
Almirante Reis, right next to a soup kitchen,
and was a huge space divided into nine or
ten rooms, its balcony boasting a superb
view of one of the city's seediest squares,
Largo Intendente. It was here the base was
recorded, with other musicians arriving one
by one and recording their contributions.
The musicians never all played together
(some didn't even know each other at the
time) but recording went on; its completion
was the cue for rehearsals to begin for live
shows. In other words, the band emerged
from the disc rather than the other way
around. Because all band members have day
jobs (two are in advertising, one is a designer,
one a sound engineer, one an illustrator and

director, and another a writer, illustrator
and director) recording all took place on
Sundays. Sometimes the lady of the house
would make ensopado de borrego, lamb
stew; but ensopado also means 'soaked' and
so that's how the band got its name, thanks
to Sunday's menu. If if you listen carefully
to the first CD, you can make out the cloves,
coriander and red wine in the mix. Since the
disc was all recorded at home, it was dubbed
Homemade Blues - real handcrafted music,
recorded over a period of almost a year.
After a few rehearsals, the band set off
to perform live around the country. The
Soaked Lamb have also contributed to the
soundtracks of films, including one featurelength
movie by Leonel Vieira, 'A Arte de
Roubar' (Art of Stealing) and adverts. About
a year and a half ago, they started recording
for their second disc, which was to be more
eclectic than the first. It is exclusively made up
of original tracks, recorded in a professional
studio (Índigo), but is still handmade, just like
the first.

Over a period of a year, The Soaked Lamb recorded 13 tracks, all original. Though above all inspired by the music of the 1920s to 40s, especially jazz and blues, they also drew on more modern sources and ethnic sounds. The tracks emerged slowly, but exhibit a panoply of rhythms, from waltz to swing.

- Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band - Demo
- Meschiya Lake and Tom McDermott - Live At Chickie Wah Wah
- New Orleans Jazz Vipers with Linnzi Zaorski - New Orleans Jazz Vipers
- The Soaked Lamb - Hats and Chairs
- Sarah Quintana - The World Has Changed
- Jessy Carolina and The Hot Mess - Bootlegs:January 2012
- Smoking Time Jazz Club - Lina's Blues
- Jessy Carolina and The Hot Mess - Bootleg
- The Bill Murray Experience - T'aint No Sin
- Tuba Skinny - Six Feet Down
- Linnzi Zaorski - Naughty Sweetie
- Smoking Time Jazz Club - The Smoking Time Jazz Club
- Miss Sophie Lee - Tallulah Moon
- Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns - Lucky Devil
- Ingrid Lucia & the Flying Neutrinos - I'd Rather Be In New Orleans
- Ingrid Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos - Hotel Child
- Ingrid Lucia - Almost Blue
- Ingrid Lucia - Midnight Rendezvous
- Linnzi Zaorski - 4 albums - 2002 - 2011 (mp3)
- Linnzi Zaorski - Linnzi Zaorski and Delta Royale
- Linnzi Zaorski - Hot Wax and Whiskey
- Tumbledown House - Fables and Falsehoods
- Tumbledown House - Tumbledown House
- Tuba Skinny (voice of Erika Lewis) - Tuba Skinny
- Kristin Diable and The City - Kristin Diable and The City
- Tuba Skinny (voice of Erika Lewis) - Rag Band