Stan Ridgway The Best Of Stan Ridgway: Songs That Made This Country Great Songs That Made This Country Great recaps Stan Ridgway's career with and without Wall of Voodoo, with a few rarities thrown in to make the package appealing to collectors. The essential tracks are here, from Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" and "Ring of Fire" to solo singles like "Drive, She Said" and "Goin' Southbound." The compilers went to a lot of work licensing recordings from several labels, including "Don't Box Me In" from the Rumblefish soundtrack and "Cannon Song" from a Kurt Weill tribute album. This is an excellent collection in terms of providing Ridgway's handful of best-known recordings in one place, but a lot of excellent album tracks were omitted, making this an inadequate replacement for the original albums. Greg Adams - AllMusic.com http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-b...ngs-that-made-this-country-great-mw0000678193
Harry Bertoia Continuum / Near And Far [Sonambient 1029] (From Archive.org) "Harry Bertoia first gained fame as an industrial designer, creating the wireframe “diamond chair” for Knoll in 1952. Its success enabled Bertoia to pursue his passion as an artist, which took an immediate turn with his creation of sound sculptures, which he named Sonambient. Sonambient is the name of a series of vinyl LP albums recorded, designed, produced and released by mid-century modern sculptor Harry Bertoia himself. Known for his architectural design as well as his sculptural-style art work. In the later period of his career, he began to focus on sculpture that interacted with viewers and/or the elements, like the wind and weather, and as he built smaller pieces in his studio, he began to explore the ways in which the metal and other materials could be manipulated by hand to produce sound. By stretching, bending, striking, and in other ways moving the materials, he made them respond to wind and/or to touch to create different sounds or tones, which he then taught himself to "play", and recorded a series of pieces which he later released as this series of LPs. He also performed with the pieces in a number of concerts. The LPs are very minimalist in design and very similar to (and perhaps even an influence on) the album design work of famous obscurantist musician Jandek. Each had a B &W cover of a photograph of one or more pieces of Bertoia's sculpture, often the one(s) used in the recording itself, or in one or two cases that of Bertoia "playing" one of the sculptures. The backside of each LP was very simple and all followed exactly the same design, obviously influenced by mid-century modernism: a circle, positioned near the bottom left side, similar in style to a vinyl LP itself, including the spindle hole in the middle, with "SONAM" on the left and "BIENT" on the right (hence "SONAMBIENT") in a black background band, and "Side 1" above with the title of that side below, and "Side 2" below with the title of that side." I wish I had the vinyl. I'm listening to an mp3.
This morning the soundtrack of Tron Legacy (by Daft Punk), now the soundtrack of Blade Runner (by Vangelis). We've got a lot of soundtracks, so we listen to them a lot.
The Re-stoned: Orient of Doom Discovered this Russian band a few days ago and it's constanly playing from then
My favorite Jimi Hendrix song ever. Had to find something to drown out the Beyonce Super Bowl halftime show.
The man used to be called the balkan Bob Dylan , no similaarities except for the folkey sound maybe (not the same folkey as Dylan ofcourse )
RIP Donald Byrd Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor. Byrd (t), Mobley (ts), Best (vib), Burrrell (g), Hancock (p), Warren (b), Humphries (d), Perkinson (vcl). Jazz, R&B and funk pioneer Donald Byrd has died at the age of 80. A Detroit native, Byrd gained fame as a trumpeter who helped pioneer the amalgamation of funk and soul into the jazz genre. He became a legend as both a solo artist and a bandleader. His biggest hits were with the vocal group he produced, the Blackbyrds (some former student of his), who topped the charts with the terrific early 70s hits “Walking In Rhythm” and “Happy Music.” While growing up in Detroit, Byrd attended the famed Cass Technical High School and he performed with Lionel Hampton before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force, he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from Wayne State University and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music. While still at the Manhattan School, he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, as replacement for Clifford Brown. In 1955, he recorded with Jackie McLean and Mal Waldron. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956, he performed with many leading jazz musicians of the day, including John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and later Herbie Hancock. Byrd's first regular group was a quintet that he co-led from 1958-61 with baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, an ensemble whose hard-driving performances are captured "live" on At the Half Note Cafe. In June 1964, Byrd jammed with jazz legend Eric Dolphy in Paris just two weeks before Dolphy's death from insulin shock. In the 1970s, Byrd moved away from the hard-bop jazz idiom and began to record jazz fusion and rhythm and blues. He teamed up with the Mizell Brothers (producer-writers Larry and Fonce) for Black Byrd in 1973. It was highly successful and became Blue Note Records' highest-ever selling album. The title track climbed to No. 19 on Billboard?s R&B chart and reached the Hot 100 pop chart, peaking at No. 88. The Mizell brothers' follow-up albums for Byrd, Street Lady, Places and Spaces and Stepping into Tomorrow, were also big sellers, and have subsequently provided a rich source of samples for acid jazz artists such as Us3. Most of the material for the albums was written by Larry Mizell. In 1973, Byrd created The Blackbyrds, a fusion group consisting of his best students. They scored several major hits including "Happy Music" (No. 3 R&B, No. 19 pop), "Walking In Rhythm" (No. 4 R&B, No. 6 pop) and "Rock Creek Park". In 1994, Byrd appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African-American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by Time Magazine. He taught music at Rutgers University, the Hampton Institute, New York University, Howard University, Queens College, Oberlin College, Cornell University and Delaware State University. In addition to his master's from Manhattan School of Music, Byrd earned two master's degrees from Columbia University. He received a law degree in 1976, and his doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College in 1982. In September 2009, he was named an artist-in-residence at Delaware State University. He will be missed. http://www.soultracks.com/donald-byrd-dies More from his group The Blackbyrds
Frank Sinatra - The World We Knew Frank Sinatra - vocals Gordon Jenkins - arranger, conductor Billy Strange - vocals, guitars H. B. Barnum - piano, producer, arranger Ernie Freeman - piano Claus Ogerman - arrangements, orchestration "The World We Knew" has an odd, winding melody supported by the toughest approximated rock arrangement Sinatra ever used ..." Quote by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Allmusic.com http://www.allmusic.com/album/frank-sinatra-reprise-mw0000312632
In anticipation of the new Son Volt album to be released in March, I've been listening a lot to the previous one. One of my favorite songs from my favorite band.
