Dorothy Ashby-Afro Harping
"Before she worked with the likes of Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind, and Fire, harpist Dorothy Ashby collaborated with arranger Richard Evans to create this album's lush blend of funk, soul, and jazz."-Verve Records
Monday, March 02, 2009
Marianne Faithfull-Come My Way
"When Marianne Faithfull released her first two albums for the U.K. market in the spring of 1965, she took the unusual step of issuing them simultaneously. One, simply titled Marianne Faithfull, was the pop-oriented collection that listeners of her hit singles would have expected. The other, Come My Way, by contrast was comprised solely of folk tunes, most of them traditional, the acoustic settings arranged by guitarist Jon Mark. Faithfull at this very early stage in her career still had the tremulous soprano common to many woman folk singers of the era. While her singing here is pleasant and competent, it's rather average when stacked against the emotional commitment and personality the best interpreters of such tunes brought to the material at the time. Indeed, Faithfull herself would do the same kind of repertoire, with considerably greater vocal imagination and more forceful musical backing, on her underrated third U.K. album, 1966's North Country Maid. Still, it's an OK record, Faithfull putting her pipes to reverent use on folk revival staples like "Portland Town," "House of the Rising Sun," "Once I Had a Sweetheart," and "Black Girl," taking on a contemporary writer with Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds." Her reading of "Lonesome Traveller" stands out for the propulsive backing, with hasty 12-string guitar strums and what sound like bongos. The CD reissue, available briefly in Britain in the early '90s and then in Japan in the early 2000s, adds four bonus tracks: the 1964 B-side "Blowin' in the Wind"; "Et Maintenant," from a 1965 EP; the poppy and bluesy 1966 B-side "That's Right Baby"; and her classic 1969 single "Sister Morphine," which predated the Rolling Stones' version by a couple of years."-Allmusic
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Crystal Antlers-Tentacles *link re-upped*
The group explodes through the unclaimed space between ’60s garage touchs like the Music Machine & the Misunderstood, red-eyed noiseniks like Guru Guru & Les Rallizes Denudes & the mechanized motor-soul of “Osmium”-era Parliament. Between the screamers come the scenery - the Pharoah Sanders-style sax snippets that confetti the end of “Glacier,” the gentle oceanic drone-poem “Vapor Trail,” the album intro that sounds like Blue Cheer chasing Terry Riley’s “Rainbow In Curved Air”-bolachas
Monday, February 23, 2009
Whitest Boy Alive-Rules
Erlend Øye's other other other band's new album sounds like one expects it to. Bubblegum pop and disco. Expect to hear this over the speakers at Urban Outfitters by the start of the summer.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs-It's Blitz
Webrip of the synth heavy new album from the YYY's produced by David Sitek is for the most along the lines of what Show Your Bones might have sounded like had it not been so scatterbrained. Get it while it's hot. Because this link will probably be dead relatively quickly.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Faust-C’est… Com… Com… Compliqué
Hannu-Harhailua
Finnish electronic group find a near perfect balance between left field experiments and humble, sweet pop music. one the of the best of '09 so far.
HIGHLY RECCOMMENDED!!!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Monday, February 02, 2009
Sunday, February 01, 2009
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