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A little bit of cello, a little bit of electronica makes up Jeanrenaud's latest project, Pop-Pop. Many will recall her as the founding cellist of the inventive and absorbing Kronos Quartet, but she left in 1999 to pursue a solo career. It worked out well enough to be nominated for a Grammy Award in 2008 for her disc, Strange Toys. But Pop-Pop can hardly be considered a solo. She teamed up with the beat-maker and percussionist Muñoz to record an album in a rock fashion: go into the studio and see what happens. The resulting record includes modules of melody and texture from Jeanrenaud's celli (both an acoustic and electric), placed above grooving and swarming electronic sifts and even acoustic beats. Anna Reguero --Democrat and Chronicle
The Bird Ensemble started it's history when Michael Hix met Kyle Williams at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee in 2005. They recorded and self-released their 1st album entitled "Migration" in 2007. After their graduation of the university, some members left the band. However the band kept their activity and released download-only mini album called "The Last Songbook". Joined by Brandon Duncan and Cara Pollock, they started making their 2nd full length "Evensong". Evensong details a renaissance in The Bird Ensemble's lush instrumentation. Assembled with echoing guitars and dream-soaked organs, each phrase and thought is delicately pieced between thoughtful rhythms producing compositions that unite, churn and vibrate as a barrage of soft images. Evoking the moment as a reference point for memory, longing, and reflection, Evensong manifests itself as a product of minimalism and jazz, utilizing ambient tones and conventional rock instruments in a prose-less quest. It emerges as an effort; youthful in reach and mature in grasp, to behold the beautiful in context with the present.
That's a rarity--stumping the Pumkinman. They were a St. Louis band popular in the Missouri/Illinois area the mid-late 60's. They were a dance/party band and played at Mizzou in 1966 or 67. Other songs on the album are Midnight Hour and Harlem Shuffle. "The Cheater" reached the Billboard top 10 and landed Bob Kuban in the One Hit Wonder section of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
U2 - Rattle and Hum (1988)Live U2 and 17 tracks! Nice cover of All Along The Watchtower and fine duet with B.B. King on When Love Comes To Town.Samples
#1 thing on our to do list is "Rock n Roll Hall of Fame" this summer
Good selection Paul. I also love the version of I can't find what I'm looking for with the church choir in Harlem. I'm going to see them in concert twice this spring--Seattle & Denver. One of my 3 favorite bands.
