Ani DiFranco - To The Teeth (1999)
Regina Spektor – Remember Us to Life [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
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On September 30th, Regina Spektor will return with a new album entitled Remember Us to Life. For the Russian-born, New York City-bred singer-songwriter, it’s her seven full-length album to date following 2012’s What We Saw From the Cheap Seats.
Remember Us to Life boasts 11 songs, with three additional bonus tracks squeezed into the deluxe edition.
Tracklist:
01. Bleeding Heart
02. Older and Taller
03. Grand Hotel
04. Small Bill$
05. Black and White
06. The Light
07. The Trapper and the Furrier
08. Tornadoland
09. Obsolete
10. Sellers of Flowers
11. The Visit
12. New Year (Bonus Track)
13. The One Who Stayed and the One Who Left (Bonus Track)
14. End of Thought (Bonus Track)
Jon Lord – Windows (1974, Remastered 2017)
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Windows is a live album by Jon Lord and the German conductor and composer Eberhard Schoener. The music and the record are primarily credited to Lord. It was taped at a concert in Munich, (West) Germany on 1 June 1974 and the music is a mix between progressive rock and orchestral late romantic/modernist styles.
The piece on the first side, “Continuo on B-A-C-H” is a loose attempt to build on the unfinished triple fugue that closed Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Art of the Fugue”. The second side of the LP is a three-part composition called “Window”. In the liner notes of the LP album Lord makes a comparison between the rhapsodic structure here and the renga tradition of chain composition of poetry in medieval Japan. The music of the middle section was lifted from Lord’s earlier crossover effort Gemini Suite (1971).
Ray Fenwick, Tony Ashton, David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Lord himself perform as soloists along with the Munich Chamber Opera Orchestra conducted by Schoener.
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Mustt Mustt (1990, Reissue 2017)
The late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is today acknowledged as the great master of Qawwali who popularised this beautiful and inspirational music beyond Muslim peoples to a worldwide audience and into a whole new musical territory. Mustt Mustt shows Nusrat’s willingness to experiment with his music – to strive for new ideas and to listen to new styles – and to create more contemporary albums that could sit alongside the traditional collection.
In their Qawwali performances, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party had begun to modify their style to suit the audience. Around the time this album was released, 1990, the Asian younger generation didn’t bother with Qawwali – it bored them and was too slow. They wanted faster beats. ‘I made my own style.’ said Nusrat, ‘We update Qawwali…
…with the times.’
Nusrat was happy to experiment on this album – he was always striving for new ideas, just as he was always listening to new styles of music. This, however, didn’t mean Nusrat would stick entirely to modern techniques – traditional albums like Shahen-Shah (RW3) and those recorded in Pakistan would continue to be made.
The opening song, ‘Mustt Mustt’, draws upon various devotional lyrics about a particular Sufi saint, upon which Nusrat has then improvised. While ‘Tery Bina’ is a romantic song, based upon the Qawwali style, in which a lover claims: ‘I cannot live peacefully without you for even a moment. I miss you terribly when you are away.’
These are the only two songs with actual lyrics; the rest are classical vocal exercises in which the words have no meaning but are used for the quality of their sound. These notations are selected to fit particular ragas. The generic term for them is tarana, of which there are many different kinds.
Producer Michael Brook emphasised that they had no real communication difficulties. ‘You have language problems, but in fact you need a very simple vocabulary to talk about music if you’re playing it.’ He was surprised by ‘the mutual enthusiasm of Nusrat and all the musicians. Everyone was excited there really was a collaboration and that’s all we could have hoped for…’
Instruments from different continents were used, like the big Brazilian drum – the surdu, and the Senegalese djembe, alongside Indian tabla and harmonium, plus bass, keyboards and Michael’s invention, the ‘infinite guitar’. The project also mixed musicians from different cultures. Michael from Canada, Nusrat, Farrukh and Dildar from Pakistan, Robert Ahwai culturally West Indian, Darryl Johnson from New Orleans, James Pinker from New Zealand.
Different tracks came about in different ways. ‘Fault Lines’ was changed a lot after it was recorded, with the basic pattern becoming a small part of the track. ‘Sea of Vapours’, like other tracks, had the ‘infinite guitar’ added afterwards because of time constraints. By contrast ‘Avenue’ has everyone playing live. ‘The Game’ started from a drum pattern donated by Peter Gabriel. ‘Tracery’ has nine beats in one cycle and eleven in another cycle.
Son Volt – Ballymena (2017)
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Special 10″ EP for Black Friday release accompanying the successful Notes Of Blue album released early 2017. “Jay Farrar’s voice is a unique instrument, one that winds its way around the syllables he writes for his alt-country band Son Volt in ways that are surprising and affecting.” – American Songwriter
Allan Taylor - Hotels & Dreamers (2003)
Allan Taylor - Leaving at Dawn (2009)
Allan Taylor - There Was A Time (2016)
Allan Taylor - Behind The Mix (2017)
Oonagh - Oonagh - Second Edition (2014)
Oonagh - Aeria (2015)
Oonagh - Aeria - Sartoranta - Fan Edition (2015)
Oonagh - Marchen Enden Gut - Deluxe Edition (2016)
Oonagh - Marchen Enden Gut - Nyare Ranta - Marchenedition [2CD] (2017)
Earth Rhythms - Didjeridu And World Percussion (1999)
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Chen Xiaoping - An All Night Don't Sleep Vol.6 (2017)[NRG]
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Hamad Kalkaba Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974-1975
Hamad Kalkaba
Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974-1975
(Analog Africa, 2017)
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