Artist: Wayne Horvitz | Album: The Snowghost Sessions | Released: 2018 | Genre: Jazz
Artist: Wayne Horvitz | Album: The Snowghost Sessions | Released: 2018 | Genre: Jazz
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Tracklist:
01. Intro / Them Changes
02. I Wonder Why
03. The Sky Is Crying
04. Matchbox Blues
05. Born Under a Bad Sign
06. Personal Manager
07. Cadillac Assembly Line
08. I Found Love in the Food Stamp Line
09. All the Time
10. I’ll Play the Blues for You
11. Down the Road I Go
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Speakers’ Corner by Nick Ellis is the artist’s third album release in as many years, and was conceived in the heat of the historic, explosive Spring and Summer of 2017. The narrative captures the uncertain and anxious atmosphere of a divided, disillusioned and broken Britain, caught in the zeitgeist of a major cultural, social and political shift.
The songs develop Ellis’ distinctive blend of streetscape noir; combining mercury-quick finger picking with a no-nonsense Tin-Pan Alley approach, evoking British song masters Nick Drake, Nick Jones, Billy Bragg, Labi Siffre, John Martyn, Bert Jansch and Davey Graham. Stylistically the songs bring to mind pre-Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan and Dubliners by James Joyce, and as the title suggests, the power of words is key to the concept and is what lies at the heart of Speakers’ Corner.
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James Van Cooper is an Australian. He’s young, stylish and cool. He summons the sounds of Alt/Country Rock with catchy hooks and twangy guitars. He’s a man for those that like their country gnarly and epic as well as nuanced and intimiate. James’ is a slick flamboyant performer and a heartfelt songwriter, he’s renowned as a wild and complete guitarist who can leave an audience in smoking ruins.
James’ new record “Coming Home” released September 2018 represents an edgy alternative to Nashville Country. “Coming Home” is an authentic slab of “New Country Rock”, 10 tracks played in a captivating style, presenting James as a polished performer but not contrived.
Moontribe, the first record by a mysterious artist who goes by the same moniker, opens with an insistent, high-pitched bleep, the pace of which steadily quickens until it reaches anxious alarm. Percussion quickly enters the mix, followed by distant, primal yelps and moans; the whole thing creates a sense of deep uneasiness. It’s a fitting start to Moontribe’s heady, psychedelic record, where African rhythms, meandering electric organs, and tribal chants immerse the listener in what feels like some sort of esoteric outer space ritual.
According to the group’s label, the Tel Aviv-based Fortuna Records, the album was submitted on an unmarked two-inch tape — no names, no dates — and one of the songs is “a snake-charming voodoo ritual, in which Moontribe is the Shaman.”
All that is known for sure is that the whole album was recorded in a single, unedited session by about a dozen musicians.
Perhaps that’s the reason for the record’s sense of spontaneity: melodies fade out and then reappear, distant voices weave their way in and out of the mix, and tracks are suddenly punctuated by skittering organs. But the album feels anything but haphazard; instead, it marches purposefully forward, as if everyone involved is under the same trance.
While the album could be filed comfortably next to releases from experimental labels like Canada’s Multi Culti, Brazil’s Voodoohop, or Argentina’s ZZK, its swirling melodies seem directly rooted in the sounds of the Middle East and North Africa. When “Bottles” picks up its pace, for example, it feels like a psychedelic take on the mesmerizing percussion grooves of Sudan’s Abu Obaida Hassan; album standout “Osmium” could be a futuristic interpretation of Abdel Gadir Salim’s desert blues. The seven tracks on Moontribe make for a captivating, trippy record—ethereal, yet firmly rooted in our world, and its timeless rituals.
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Drawing influence from old-time music, Americana,
bluegrass, and songs of labor and protest, Misty Mountain
String Band doesn’t stray far from their upbringings in
Kentucky and Virginia. Formed as a pickup group
for an old-time camp revival, MMSB has evolved into
a professional band that’s as at home playing with the
Louisville Philharmonia Orchestra as at bluegrass festivals
with Americana favorites. The group connects with fans
of folk music around the world, sharing unique string
band music written for today but informed by tradition.
MMSB has universal appeal, combining high energy
with charismatic storytelling and a warm, conversational
attitude.
Fiddle / Neal Green
Bass / Derek Harris
Banjo and Mandolin / Paul Martin
Guitar / Frankie Leo
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Live Paradise Theatre Broadcast,Boston 1991
Tracks:
01. Sen-Sa-Shun
02. You’re Humbuggin’ Me
03. Third Degree
04. Got to Find My Baby
05. You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
06. Mojo Boogie
07. Shake Your Money Maker
08. Let the Good Times Roll
09. Ain’t That Just Like a Woman
10. Rumble
11. Don’t Take Advantage of Me
12. Okie Dokie Stomp
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Presented here complete for the first time ever on CD is the fifth and final studio album by American pop duo Sonny & Cher, released in 1973 by MCA Records: Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs. As said before, this was the very last studio album Sonny and Cher released as a couple, for their marital situation had been clearly deteriorating. The duo finally separated in late 1974. The album is largely a collection of cover songs which include titles like I Can See Clearly Now (originally by Johnny Nash), Brother Loves Traveling Salvation Show (Neil Diamond), and Listen to the Music (The Doobie Brothers). The only song written by Bono is the title track, which clocks in at over nine minutes and was edited down to under four minutes for the single. The 9 minutes album version of that tune and You Darn Well have never been reissued on CD before.
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Live at the Berkeley Community Theatre on October 21, 1979.
Tracks:
01 – Kingdom Hall
02 – Bright Side Of The Road
03 – Here Comes The Night
04 – You Make Me Feel So Free
05 – Warm Love
06 – Angeliou
07 – Full Force Gale
08 – Moondance
09 – Tupelo Honey
10 – I’ve Been Working
11 – Brown Eyed Girl
12 – Wild Night