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Here's a HAIR band....Poison
Quote from: lonewolfny42 on 27 Oct 2009, 01:57 amHere's a HAIR band....PoisonOh Bret . . I love you! Can I be on your show? Oh, please . .
Apologies for the off-topic (or delayed response) nature, but it relates to the earlier post of Al Kooper's "ReKooperation." I hadn't heard of him, so I Googled him and came across his own listing of the 100 best recordings of all time. He's got some pretty interesting observations here. http://www.alkooper.com/hot100.html.
The quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, son Guilherme on cello, Carlos Santos on electronics and Andrew Drury on percussion in 4 extended tracks of engaging improv.
"Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur in a self-similar form an infinite number of times. [...] Time is viewed as being not linear but cyclical."-Wikipedia
The gritting high-pressured bowing of Ernesto Rodrigues (on viola) and tick-tock bow-on-wood playing of Guilherme Rodrigues (cello) provide the album's core, its soul, its vaguely haunted house-like atmosphere. Carlos Santos' electronics shake things up, introducing alien sounds, unpredictable swirls, and bits of noise that attach themselves to the other instrumentalists' work. Percussionist Andrew Drury adds scraping and brushing sounds, playing the ghost in an already ghostly machine. Eterno Retorno is a strong album with a clearly defined atmosphere and sharp interaction. It is also a very demanding record, because there is a lot happening at low volume, over long periods of time. The quartet may be a bit too faithful to their idea of what they should sound like, but "Street Food" and "Many Happy Returns" are powerfully disturbing pieces of quiet improvisation. The Rodrigueses have developed into a tightly fused string duo, something unique in the field of free improvisation. ~ Fran?ois Couture, All Music Guide
...unusual-sounding, enticing pieces halfway through intermittent absurdity and chamber-esque fanaticism...Both students of renowned music schools (that means ?indisputable instrumental preparation?) and influenced by a whole plethora of suggestions, with evident preference for bizarre operatic vocalism, strident eastern accents and microtonal extravagance, this Chicago-based duo meshes erratic melodrama and improvisational earnestness while caring less than zero to the recording quality (most of these tracks are probably dubbed from cassettes, bumps and everything)...
Chicago pianist Ben Neuman explores the realm of piano trio jazz for his debut release Introductions. A straight-ahead affair with clever re-harmonizations of familiar standards, as well as classics by John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver, the young pianist demonstrates an enlivened approach to hard-swinging improvisation. A pair of Chicago stalwarts, bassist Dennis Carroll and drummer George Fludas join Neuman.
Saxophonist Lee Konitz possesses a somewhat austere take on jazz improvisation and who has spent well over half a century finding new ways to express his unique viewpoint. Deep Lee finds him in a quartet with three musicians working together under the name Minsarah. Featuring German pianist Florian Weber, Israeli-born drummer Ziv Ravitz and American bassist Jeff Denson, Minsarah moves the piano trio forward by leaps and bounds, combining long-form composition, rich harmonic environments and deep melodic invention to express a type of drama that is both introspective and emphatic. All three bring a wide palette of experiences to draw upon when constructing their highly evolved music...The overall interaction between the four musicians in the group is amazing. They are so in tuned with each other that at some points it is as if one person is playing all four instruments. The group's intensity level climbs at a steady pace which results in many breath taking musical climaxes.
This collection of tribal, ambient, and folk music by Australia's aboriginal artists and tribes is an interesting snapshot of the various indigenous faces of Australia. Listeners will find much of the famed didgeridoo, sometimes as the cornerstone for tribal dreamtime rituals, sometimes leading the melodies in modern electronic pop music, sometimes setting the dark, ominous tone for ambient music.
a fascinating album at the crossroads between rock and progressive metal. Music that alternates between atmospherically dense and aggressively demanding elements, while effortlessly transcending barriers between different styles and genres.
Midnattsol has members hailing from both Norway and Germany, but their music sounds much more Scandinavian than Teutonic. ...Nordlys is bombastic and melodic, with more intensity than most bands of this genre. There are dark gothic songs with a lot of atmosphere and keyboards, and also tracks with more of a traditional folk metal feel. It's a very diverse effort, with the aforementioned mellower gothic and folk metal parts blending seamlessly with more intense symphonic metal.
