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Myra Melford's Be Bread - The Image of Your Body

2009-11-06T16:06:00.000-05:00

Excerpt from Myra Melford's official biography:

"...At the keyboard, Melford recasts the blues and boogie-woogie of her native Chicago, folds in elements of the music of Eastern Europe and India, and blends them with the rangy, percussive avant-garde approach she cultivated in studies with Don Pullen and Henry Threadgill. This personal musical vocabulary is further enriched by a lush lyricism and organized by an architectural sense of composition that she derived from classical training..."

And about her group Be Bread:

"...Myra Melford created the group to play music based on her harmonium studies in India, and the band’s book includes both pieces composed on the melodica – that use a wide range of timbres available through acoustic instruments like banjo and harmonium as well as electronically manipulated sound – and more recent compositions that that form the acoustic suite for sextet, The Whole Tree Gone, a work commissioned by Chamber Music America’s New Works Presentation..."

In spirit, if not exact style, I hear Sonny Sharrock, Santana, Shakti, Alice Coltrane, McCoy Tyner...a great contemporary take on spiritual jazz...

1. equal grace 8:29
2. luck shifts 9:18
3. fear slips behind 5:09
4. to the roof 11:37
5. yellow are crowds of flowers,ii 5:55
6. the image of your body 7:11
7. be bread 4:46
8. if you've not been fed 3:27
9. you face arrives in the redbud trees 9:27
10. made it out 0:46

Cuong Vu - (trumpet)
Ben Goldberg - (clarinet)
Brandon Ross - (guitar)
Stomu Takeishi - (electric bass)
Matt Wilson - (drums)
Myra Melford - (piano, harmonium)

Download: Myra Melford's Be Bread - The Image of Your Body

Bob Seger - Back in '72

2009-11-02T12:09:00.000-05:00

Here is one version of the story of this record, from All Music:

"Returning to independent status, Bob Seger recorded Back in '72, not only the finest of his early-'70s albums but one of the great lost hard rock albums of its era...he covers quite a few tunes, providing a balance to his own tunes..He makes "Midnight Rider" sound as if it were a Motor City raver instead of a sultry, late-afternoon Southern rocker, while casually tossing off "Rosalie," an irresistible ode to a local DJ that turned into a hard rock anthem when Thin Lizzy decided to record it later in the decade. That's the brilliance of Back in '72 -- there's no separation between the original and cover, it's all united in a celebration of rock and roll. That's why "Turn the Page," perhaps the weariest travelogue ever written, never feels self-pitying -- that's just the facts, according to a first-rate Midwestern band that never got a break. All the same, Back in '72 is a testament to great rock and roll, thanks to Seger's phenomenal songwriting and impassioned playing."

From the Seger File ("An unofficial web site about the music of Bob Seger"):

"Every legendary artist has a legendary album that's hard or impossible to find, and this is Seger's. Never released on CD, it's available only in used stores on vinyl (or possibly cassette). The album has even been bootlegged, under the title "15 Years Ago." (The bootleg appeared in 1987; hence 15 years ago would have been 'Back in '72.')...the whole album captures the energy of a young Seger just on the cusp of greatness. Seger has said he won't reissue the album in CD format because he feels many of the vocals are bad..."

Seger File also gives a nice track-by-track review of the record here.

It is a crime for this record to be out of print, though it is easy to see why an artist who went out to have such polished, well-produced hits my bit put off by some of his rough singing as recorded on this record. But still...this record is a five-star classic..."Rosalie", "Back in '72" and "Neon Sky" are my picks...even more so than the outrageous rave-up cover of "Midnight Rider" that opens the record...oh, and as a bonus? J.J. Cale on guitar...

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Bob Seger - Back in '72

Sunny Side of the Street

2009-10-30T15:39:00.001-04:00

If you have a jazz jonez this is the site for you...Sunny Side of the Street offers up a great mix of bop/post-bop downloads as well as some of the better stuff from the modern era. They don't post often enough, but when they do it's all dead on...

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I love the Flaming Lips...

2009-10-19T15:00:00.000-04:00

...and here are some reasons why...especially around the 31-minute mark...

Avishai Cohen - At Home

2009-10-05T15:34:00.000-04:00

I like this record, but I have to say it's the back half, or what used to be called, "side two", that I really dig. The final two tracks in particular, 'Saba' and 'Toledo' are the ones for me.

The players: Avishai Cohen: acoustic & electric bass; Mark Guiliana: drums, percussion; Sam Barsh: piano, organ, Fender Rhodes, melodica; Yosvany Terry: saxophones, chekere; Anne Drummond: flutes; Diego Urcola: flugelhorn; Jeff Ballard: percussion; Tomer Tzur: hand drum

The songs:

1. Feediop

2. Madrid

3. Leh-Lah

4. Remembering

5. Renouf's Last Tooth

6. Gershon Beat

7. No Words

8. Punk (DJN)

9. Meditteranean [sic] Sun

10. Saba

11. Toledo

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Avishai Cohen - At Home

Shellac - At Action Park

2009-09-17T14:58:00.000-04:00

Any record that starts with a track called, "My Black Ass" has to be good. From Wikipedia:

"Shellac (sometimes referred to as Shellac of North America) is an American noise rock group composed of Steve Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston (bass guitar and vocals) and Todd Trainer (drums and vocals). Although they have been classified as noise rock and math rock, they describe themselves as a "minimalist rock trio.""

I gave up trying to find something original to say about this record when I saw this customer review on AMAZON:

"Meant to be listened to on vinyl,and the cd says just that. For those who do not appreciate Steve Albini's disdain for digital, I reprint here what it says on the cd:"This was not mastered directly to metal or pressed into 165 grams of virgin dye blackened vinyl. There is, in fact, nothing at all special about the manufacturing of this compact disc." Regardless, the music on the cd is indeed special. Like a marauding dirge descending slowly from the sky to land on your car, "My Black Ass" menaces and mesmerizes you into realizing this will be no ordinary aural trip. Shellac is about repetition until a particular riff or measure is perfect, and then throwing little variations into it to muss you up. They, of course, never lose their timing or include inappropriate noise-all moves are planned, all things are considered. Not to say that this record don't have no noise-check out "Crow" and "Song of The Minerals", for monstrous, vicious rock. "The Idea Of North" develops like sunrise, and "Boche's Dick" is a tight, methodical near closer that is waay too short and way to good to be short. All in all, no misses here. Best tune: "Song Of the Minerals", featuring sustained, forearm destroying Albini harmonic guitar scrape, and a sad story about a girl who uses heroin and sleeps around, possibly the same protagonist of "Trouser Minnow"?"WHY? Cuz it makes you feel better-its your arms, its none of my business", he growls.Don't expect many messages here, though; this is not a record of syntax, its all about the music.Normally rock sounds stupid when it takes itself seriously; not here."

Furthermore, in poking around online I learned that

"Action Park was an infamous theme park in New Jersey, which closed in 1996 due to numerous fatalities....Its popularity went hand in hand with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, underaged, underpaid and sometimes under-the-influence employees; equally intoxicated and underprepared visitors — and the poor safety record that followed from this perfect storm of circumstances..."

Wikipedia goes on to describe five "Factors contributing to the park's safety record":

"Ride design

Action Park and its defenders often pointed out that it was one of the first water parks in the nation and thus pioneered ideas that were later widely copied. This meant that visitors were using rides that had not been tested through practical use for very long. Ride designers may have had insufficient training in physics or engineering. "They seemed to build rides," one attendee recalls, "not knowing how they would work, and [then let] people on them."...

Employees

The vast majority of workers at Action Park, at least the ones regularly seen by visitors, were teenagers...Most were area residents making minimum wage or just barely above that, given little training (other than lifeguards) for their jobs, and who consequently often cared little for enforcing park rules and safety requirements. Height- and weight-based restrictions were often ignored...

Visitors

Since it was closer and slightly cheaper than Six Flags Great Adventure, Action Park attracted many visitors from the urban areas of the New York metropolitan area, particularly northeastern New Jersey. Many of them were often from lower-income neighborhoods where they had few, if any, opportunities to swim, much less learn how. At the park they greatly overestimated these abilities, and this was a factor in many accidents as well as the drownings, according to park officials....Since many rides routed their lines so that those waiting could see every previous rider, many played to the audience with risky and bawdy behavior when it did finally come to be their turn. The Tarzan Swing in particular was known for outbursts of foul language (not always planned) and exhibitionism as people jumped off the swing in full view of the whole line behind them.

Availability of alcohol on grounds

The park also sold beer in many kiosks on the grounds, with similarly lax enforcement of the drinking age as with other restrictions in the park. Doctors treating the injured often reported that many of them had alcohol on their breath.

Lax regulatory climate

Despite many citations for safety violations between 1979 and 1986, including allowing minors to operate some rides and failing to report accidents, which was unique among New Jersey's amusement parks, an investigation by the New Jersey Herald, Sussex County's main daily newspaper, later found that the park was fined only once. It was also unique in that department in that all the other amusement parks were fined for first offenses — except Action Park...Some of the state's regulations failed to adequately address the situation, too. After the 1987 drowning, it was reported that the Tidal Wave Pool was considered a pool by the state, not a ride. Under state regulations at the time, that meant that all the company had to do was keep the water clean and make sure that certified lifeguards were on duty, and nothing else."

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Shellac - At Action Park

dub.com dublog

2009-09-13T17:56:00.000-04:00

Mixes, dubcasts, reviews, news, videos, links, etc...

If you are a dubhead this is your spot.

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Bill Laswell / Asana: OHM Shanti

2009-09-10T10:48:00.000-04:00

From All Music:

"Bassist and producer Bill Laswell's 30-year musical journey has taken him through the wilds of rock, hip-hop, funk, electronica, ethnic fusion, and hellacious noise, but in recent years it seems like he keeps gravitating back to the ethno realm. There's always been a thick vein of dark mysticism winding like a black rope through his various musical projects. The degree to which he buys into the reality of any of the transcendence he peddles is an open question, but one thing is certain: no one writes a prettier bassline, or delivers it with more elephantine authority, or brings together more beautifully matched singers and players. His latest under the group moniker Asana (the core of which is a duo consisting of Laswell and percussionist Karsh Kale, joined by a variety of South Asian collaborators) finds him exploring Indian classical and devotional themes as expressed by singers Kiran Ahluwalia, Ustad Sultan Khan, Asha Puthli, and others. The pattern is set early on: Kale builds a tasteful but generally restrained rhythmic bed on which Laswell lays down a bassline of dark, rich suppleness, and then someone starts singing. When that someone is Ahluwalia, the resulting sound is joyful and soaring; when it's Khan, the sound is grittier and more earthbound. And when it's Vidya Shah, it's a sharp, keening wail offset brilliantly by Laswell's meaty bass and a juddering jungle breakbeat. Every track is brilliant, each one in a different way. Highly recommended."

Warning: Highlight: track four, "Mukti"...Low point: the last track...that's all the warning I'll give you...otherwise, enjoy!

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Bill Laswell / Asana: OHM Shanti

Black is for after Labour Day...

2009-09-07T03:01:00.001-04:00

The bootleg formerly known as "Shock Waves Over Texas": Black Sabbath, live at the Taylor County Coliseum, Abilene, TX, December 7, 1978.

01 - Symptom of the Universe
02 - Snowblind
03 - War Pigs
04 - Never Say Die
05 - Black Sabbath
06 - Shock Waves
07 - Dirty Women
08 - Rock'n'Roll Doctor

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Black Sabbath, Taylor County Coliseum, Abilene, TX, December 7, 1978

McCoy Tyner - Afro Blue

2009-09-04T14:57:00.002-04:00

McCoy Tyner recorded five albums for Telarc, beginning with 1999's McCoy Tyner & the Latin All-Stars and ending with 2004's Illuminations....Afro Blue is an eight-song compendium that draws material from all five of those releases, providing a neat summation of Tyner's output for the label...The 12-and-a-half-minute title track, from the Latin set, sports an easy groove within which tidy but inventive solos from pianist Tyner and flutist Dave Valentin are propelled by an insistent battery of percussion. "If I Were a Bell," the Frank Loesser standard, is a showcase for the always intoxicating vibes of Bobby Hutcherson, and the rhythm section of Stanley Clarke on bass and Al Foster on drums kicks "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" into high gear and keeps it there. George Gershwin's "Summertime," a song so overdone it never needs to be done again, nonetheless finds new life in Tyner's solo reading...as a sampler of this period of his work, it's representative and highly enjoyable.

- All Music Guide

My $0.02: Don't gloss over McCoy's take on "Summertime"...it's a gem.

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McCoy Tyner - Afro Blue

John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana - A Live Supreme Brothers Of The Spirit

2009-09-02T20:27:00.000-04:00

This recording has made the rounds online but why not post here, too..?

I find the first few tracks to be a little rough. The playing is sloppy, but at about the six-minute mark during "Afro Blue", certainly by the thirteen-minute mark, things change for the better...everyone gels. The remainder of "Afro Blue" smokes but it is "Naima" and "Flame Sky" that really do it for me.

Here are the details on this liberated boot:

John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana, Chicago Ampitheatre, Chicago, IL, September 1, 1973
"A Live Supreme Brothers Of The Spirit"

01 - Meditation
02 - The Life Divine
03 - A Love Supreme
04 - Afro Blue
05 - Introductions
06 - Naima
07 - Flame Sky
08 - Taurian Matador
09 - Armando Peraza Solo
10 - Billy Cobham Solo
11 - Taurian Matador Reprise
12 - Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord

Devadip Carlos Santana - Guitars
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Guitars
Doug Rauch - Electric Bass
Billy Cobham - Drums
Armando Peraza: Congas, Percussion
Khalid Young - Organ

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John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana - A Live Supreme Brothers Of The Spirit

Jakob Dinesen - Around

2009-08-28T14:24:00.002-04:00

Good jazz for a rainy Brooklyn day...

"Jakob Dinesen is one of Denmark’s shining young jazz stars, a tenor saxophonist with a playful, bouncy style that balances hard-swinging, quick rhythmic twists a la Joe Henderson and ever-unfolding, classical-leaning passages a la Joe Lovano..."

- jazz.com

Recorded at Sound On Sound Studio, New York, New York on May 13, 1999 and live at The Recreation Center, Copenhagen, Denmark on January 23, 1999.

The group:
Paul Motian Drums
Kurt Rosenwinkel Guitar
Jakob Dinesen Sax (Tenor)
Niles Davidsen Bass
Ben Besiakov Piano

The music:
1 Ask Me Now (7:32)
2 Once Around the Park (6:08)
3 Criss-Cross (5:22)
4 Work (4:34)
5 Very Early (7:29)
6 Cotton Tail (3:40)
7 Around (8:13)
8 In Walked Bud (8:58)

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Jakob Dinesen - Around

SoundRoots World Music and Global Culture

2009-08-22T16:36:00.001-04:00

SoundRoots provides information about and commentary on ethnic arts and world cultures, particularly what's known around here as "world music." Frequent mp3 postings too, so you can listen while you read. Live Locally, Groove Globally!

Nice collection of reviews, commentary and MP3 posts...

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Deerhoof - Apple O'

2009-08-20T15:42:00.000-04:00

I am operating under the assumption these Deerhoof people are no stranger to recreational drug use. Parts of this record sound like basement demos, others little noisy symphonies...from All Music:

"Crashing in at just over half an hour long, Apple O' brims over with as many vivid bursts of musical and lyrical inspiration as Deerhoof's other albums, but offers a little more conceptual structure for the band's outbursts and childlike melodies. As the title implies, Apple O' (my eye) revolves around the band's musings on love, sex, and creation, and in its own way, their freewheeling, spontaneous style captures the feeling of being head over heels perfectly....such a joyful noise that it's difficult not to be swept up in the band's quirky but potent happiness. This invigorating feel seeps into even the quieter tracks...Deerhoof doesn't neglect the crazier side of their music...providing a fix for the initiated and potentially irritating those unwilling to play along with the band's noisy naïveté...It doesn't matter that the parts of Deerhoof's music don't seem to go together at first -- their music aims directly at the right side of the brain, and is nearly successful as the Shaggs' work in making chaos sound cuddly and even kind of beautiful. Apple O' brings some order to Deerhoof's spontaneity, offering plenty of sweetness without forgetting their bite."

I can't even understand the review never mind the music itself. I kept getting up to turn it off but instead kept turning it up, so go figure...

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Deerhoof - Apple O'

Jim Hall & Ron Carter - Alone Together

2009-08-18T14:57:00.001-04:00

From All Music:

"Long considered a classic and a revelation to listeners who had taken guitarist Jim Hall for granted, this set of duets with bassist Ron Carter (reissued on CD) has near-telepathic communication between the two musicians and quiet music full of inner tension and fire. Hall and Carter brought in an original apiece and also collaborated on six standards, including "St. Thomas," "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise," "Autumn Leaves," and "Alone Together." Introspective and thought-provoking music."

"St. Thomas" is the highlight for me...today's download includes a bonus track from this duo...

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Jim Hall & Ron Carter - Alone Together

Pronto - All is Golden + extras...

2009-08-16T14:03:00.003-04:00

Pronto is a side project from Wilco keyboard player/sonic madman Mikael Jorgensen. From Wikipedia:

"...Jorgensen, an ex-Chicago-based engineer and now full time musician initially came aboard to perform real-time sound manipulations on the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot tour, sitting just off stage left, triggering the samples and sonic flourishes required to bring the YHF material to life. As the tour rolled on, Jorgensen gradually moved onto the stage itself, manning his laptop as well as taking on more and more keyboard duties..."

From Pronto's website:

"...All Is Golden is a 70’s-inspired tome that serves as a record of action. It is the sound of waking up and moving on, cross-country trips to California, black days and blue nights giving way to better times and warmer promises. It’s AM-Radio songsmith filtered through the speakers of a modern-day prism.

Pronto now consists of Mikael Jorgensen, Greg O’Keeffe, Erik Paparazzi (Cat Power), and Tunde Oyewole (Childballads)..."

This is a great summertime record, bright and upbeat with hints of melancholy...and Wilco tones slip in, too. Nowhere more so than on the closing track, "I Think So" and the web-only bonus track (included here), "Buy Your Blues".

Today's download also includes the episode of the official Wilco podcast Mikael hosted earlier this year. He offered up some great material from himself, Wilco and his influences...

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Pronto - All is Golden + extras...

Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition - Album Album

2009-08-13T23:01:00.000-04:00

"At his best, Jack DeJohnette is one of the most consistently inventive jazz percussionists extant. DeJohnette's style is wide-ranging, yet while capable of playing convincingly in any modern idiom, he always maintains a well-defined voice. DeJohnette has a remarkably fluid relationship to pulse. His time is excellent; even as he pushes, pulls, and generally obscures the beat beyond recognition, a powerful sense of swing is ever-present. His tonal palette is huge as well; no drummer pays closer attention to the sounds that come out of his kit than DeJohnette. He possesses a comprehensive musicality rare among jazz drummers...DeJohnette's first band was Compost; his later, more successful bands were Directions and Special Edition...a more straightforwardly swinging unit that featured saxophonists David Murray and Arthur Blythe...Special Edition would eventually become the drummer's performance medium of choice. The band began life as an acoustic free jazz ensemble, featuring the drummer's esoteric takes on the mainstream. It evolved into something quite different, as DeJohnette's conception changed into something considerably more commercial; with the addition of electric guitars and keyboards, DeJohnette began playing what is essentially a very loud, backbeat-oriented -- though sophisticated -- instrumental pop music."

- from All Music Guide.

The release date (1984) for Album Album really surprises me...the record has a decidedly Mothers of Invention sound to it, especially the early tracks...DeJohnette is on drums and keys and the band is rounded out by John Purcell on alto and soprano, David Murray on tenor, Howard Johnson on tuba and baritone, and Rufus Reid on bass.

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Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition - Album Album

Portrait of Sonny Sharrock in Three Colors, All Incomplete | Insight Magazine

2009-08-10T11:48:00.003-04:00

A terrific piece about Sonny Sharrock...

"Sonny Sharrock played guitar like some people of unfortunate dispositions fire weapons: with a sort of controlled madness, where they may aim at clouds or at buildings or at other objects distinctly unmoved by bullets, but they aim regardless, certain of their intent to undermine physics. Most of the time, these people do end up leveling horizons. And there’s a distinct sense that wherever the shots landed was where they belonged.

To clarify: Sonny Sharrock was a free jazz guitarist of violent power..."

Read Portrait of Sonny Sharrock in Three Colors, All Incomplete...and watch the YouTube video embedded in the article as well...

Nitro-Retro!

2009-08-08T05:46:00.001-04:00

The posts only come out intermittently but when they do they scorch...Nitro-Retro! is all about garage, r&b/soul, with some psych thrown in for good measure.

If you are having a party with some speed and cheap beer, make sure you stop by Nitro-Retro! to stock up your playlist...

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Fairuz - Alquds Fil Baal (Jerusalem in My Heart)

2009-07-29T13:30:00.004-04:00

From Wikipedia:

"...Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز‎, also spelled Fairouz or Fayrouz) is a distinguished Lebanese singer and one of the best known Arab singers of all time. Her songs are heard all over the Arab world and still spark Lebanese national pride...She was born in Jabal al Arz (Cedar Mountain) to a modest Syriac Catholic family and was married to Assi Rahbani, one of the two brothers who helped shaping her singing career. She is also the mother of the Lebanese singer and composer Ziad Rahbani and the Lebanese director and photographer Rima Rahbani.

Fairuz is sometimes referred to as Our (Lebanese) Ambassador to the Stars, Neighbour to the Moon, and the Poet of the Voice..."

This record, Alquds Fil Baal (Jerusalem in My Heart), is her "love letter" to the city of Jerusalem...Gorgeous and worthy of many plays...

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Fairuz - Alquds Fil Baal (Jerusalem in My Heart)

Versus - Afterglow

2009-07-26T13:20:00.000-04:00

From All Music:

"...Versus perfected the art of writing atmospheric songs that build and explode around the three-minute mark, revving up the hooks and drama into a compelling climax. Afterglow, however, seems to intentionally avoid the explosion -- it seems as if the band wants to write more composed, pop-oriented songs that can stand up even without the obvious power behind them. For the most part, this works -- "Raining" lays off on the fuzz in favor of complex, midtempo pop, and "Off the Hook" is gorgeous (in the vein of The Stars Are Insane's "Wind Me Up") -- but diehard fans of the band's early material may miss the crushing hooks."

Yes, it works...

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Versus - Afterglow

Perico Sambeat - Ademuz

2009-07-22T21:12:00.001-04:00

From AMG:

"Perico Sambeat, an overlooked Spanish altoist and composer, recorded this album in 1995 with the help of future superstars Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Mark Turner. Michael Leonhart, the underrated trumpeter, is the session's third horn. In the rhythm section are Joe Martin on bass, Jordi Rossy on drums, and both Guillermo McGill and Enric Canada on percussion. Enrique Morente contributes vocals on three tracks...Sambeat's Latin jazz compositions present the listener with an unusually dramatic sweep, a breathtaking landscape of beautiful melodies, striking harmonic colors, churning, multi-layered rhythms, subtle dynamics, and brilliant solos..."

This is a lovely record. Well worth the download time...

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Perico Sambeat - Ademuz

Achoo! An Asthmatic Kitty Sampler Vol. 2

2009-07-20T23:15:00.003-04:00

There is a lot more to this compilation than I expected. What little contact I had with the label led me to believe that if you were not a Sufjan Stevens clone you need not apply...The label's website lists him as "Minister of Aesthetics" and that seems very apt...but there's more than that going on...

The Welcome Wagon, in particular are a treat. Though Stevens produced their record their unique style holds its own against The Minister's Aesthetic...

In all there are 27 tracks. If you are up for a little adventure in sound, I invite you to...

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Achoo! An Asthmatic Kitty Sampler Vol. 2

Dig the revamped BurningDervish.com...

2009-07-14T13:26:00.004-04:00

I have been quietly adjusting the plumbing behind the scenes so I decided to put up some new sheet rock and paint, too. Whattya think?

The big things for me is that I think it is a little easier to access all three of my music blogs now, to share individual posts and to find Burning Dervish on Twitter and Facebook, which more and more people seem interested in doing. The number of subscribers to the site's RSS feed and email list has spiked since the re-launch, too, so I guess it's all going according to plan...buhahahaha

Anyway, would welcome your thoughts...

FORREALHEADZ

2009-07-11T21:49:00.000-04:00

Soul, funk, hip hop, jazz, reggae...yeah this joint has everything...some really, really sweet vinyl rips and scans...the Redd Foxx post alone is worth your while...

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