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Elton John self titled LPI had not listen to this album in at least 15 years. Brought back some nice memories
Chocolate Watch Band - One Step Beyond LP
I had a friend who bought that one when it came out. Ah the memories.
Imagine the love child of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Dusty Springfield, and you begin to get a feel for Joanne Shaw Taylor's mix of fiery guitar playing, sultry vocals, and 100% pure soul!
Geneva-based electronic producer D’Incise (real name Laurent Peter) is a member of that city’s Audioactivity music & visual collective and has spent the last eight years assembling an impressively large back catalogue of releases for a range of netlabels including Zymogen and Antisocial. This latest release Secheresse Plantee En Plein Ciel, his fourth album in total and his first for Gruenrekorder, sees Peter crafting a ‘blurred travel diary’ drawn from field recordings made in the Czech Republic and Poland, resulting in eleven sinister and atmospheric tracks veering from musique concrete through to dark ambient. Opening track ‘Le Fleau’ aptly sets the tone here, sending digitally-processed textures rippling out over a vast backdrop of rusty metallic sounds, what sounds like squealing wires of strings and distant snatches of sampled conversations, the entire tableau carrying a distinct sense of fear thanks to the addition of eerie, minor-key drones. ...http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2010/03/24/dincise-%E2%80%93-secheresse-plantee-en-plein-ciel-gruenrekorder/
Pakistani/American guitarist Rez Abbasi has been a part of the emerging growth of South Asian jazz musicians which includes the very noted names of pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and guitarist Fareed Haque, and celebrated recordings Apti (Innova Recordings, 2009) and Kinsmen (Pi Recordings, 2008).A brilliant technician, Abbasi is noted for blending shrewd chops with South Asian and Western concepts. Here he presents Things To Come , not just follow-up to 2006's Bazaar (Zoho Music) but the fruition of new exploration and cerebral composition. As stated in his liner notes, the goal was "to create a sound that forms its own identity," and this release emphatically accomplishes the task.The music is perfectly translated by a remarkable band that includes like-minded visionaries—Iyer and Mahanthappa, drummer Dan Weiss, bassist Johannes Weidenmueller, and guests Mike Block on cello and Abbasi's wife, award- winning Indian vocalist, Kiran Ahluwalia...http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=33828
Hailing from Seattle, the five members of speak have forged their musical approach in the fires of collective improvisation, subversive compositional techniques and the unrepentant wearing of flannel shirts. From the collaborative efforts of pianist Aaron Otheim, saxophonist Andrew Swanson, drummer Chris Icasiano, trumpeter Cuong Vu (of Pat Metheny Group/Cuong Vu Trio fame) and bassist Luke Bergman, this band constantly seeks to challenge the tenets of traditional jazz music. Brimming with distortion-laden trumpet solos, intricate contrapuntal piano playing, haunting bass lines, volatile reeds, and backbreaking drumbeats, it is evident that speak is no ordinary band. Citing such wide-ranging influences as György Ligeti, Meshuggah, Ben Monder and even Toto, speak has crafted a distinct sound that is certainly all their own...Origin Records
That there is still, in this jazz label-less era we currently live in, a place where experimental jazz can find a home and a means to release music that is not self-produced and –released is to be celebrated. Origin Records has almost singlehandedly taken on the mantel of being such a location. Their release of Speak, the eponymously self-titled first recording by the five member amalgam of musicians that was originally billed as trumpeter Cuong Vu’s University of Washington Student Ensemble, affirms that all is still right in the world. Vu, a faculty member at the university, was originally the faculty advisor for the band, but he has subsequently stepped into the ensemble and the results are spectacular....http://www.jazzreview.com/cd/review-21054.html
Tuesday's Blues is a standard jazz quartet recording of mostly Shner- adapted traditional Jewish nursery rhymes and pieces from the Hebrew liturgy. As such, Shner joins a growing community of Israeli jazz musicians that includes Avishai Cohen, Yitzhak Yedid and Judy Lewis. The result of Shner's efforts is a complex suspension of Old World melody in New World harmony. ...http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31526
The Buffalo Springfield Box Set Disc 1 1966
