tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48054978385997385222024-03-05T03:42:54.462-08:00Beyond Musicology and FurtherCarloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.comBlogger1585125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-30679534115637188272022-12-22T14:23:00.000-08:002022-12-22T14:23:12.996-08:00Robin Trower - Where You Are Going To 2016<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwM7bEZgGpkw3HNDZOHGDETc6CI8v6T_bGCAEsYw-mhLd1cwdRZnRYUfN3RbOnbMeU5caZydYw3ylsX-wG520msNXkUYZ68ZklRDNf8fo9a7ZuC4BjOiusvBKXyw7cSdbyLxFCRFIuVxyjRpl4nY1wA5IR1C8F1Kq-AF3jwMaAScrYbxWqGykMMZm/s500/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwM7bEZgGpkw3HNDZOHGDETc6CI8v6T_bGCAEsYw-mhLd1cwdRZnRYUfN3RbOnbMeU5caZydYw3ylsX-wG520msNXkUYZ68ZklRDNf8fo9a7ZuC4BjOiusvBKXyw7cSdbyLxFCRFIuVxyjRpl4nY1wA5IR1C8F1Kq-AF3jwMaAScrYbxWqGykMMZm/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Throughout a long, winding career, English blues-rock guitarist and songwriter Robin Trower has built a dedicated global fan base while being endlessly (and unfairly) compared by critics to his peer </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimi-hendrix-mn0000354105" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Jimi Hendrix</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. While Trower's phrasing and harmonic approach are his own, he readily admits that his custom-built Fender Stratocaster, fluid effects, and Marshall stack directly follow </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hendrix-mn0000354105" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Hendrix</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'s psych-blues example. After leaving </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/procol-harum-mn0000304401" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Procol Harum</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, Trower's solo career began with 1973's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/twice-removed-from-yesterday-mw0000195194" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Twice Removed from Yesterday</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and exploded with the following year's Top Ten </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/bridge-of-sighs-mw0000192141" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Bridge of Sighs</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, kicking off a run of ten Top 200 outings. He and former </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cream-mn0000112462" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Cream</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> bassist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jack-bruce-mn0000152312" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Bruce</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> teamed for 1981's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/blt-mw0000691414" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">BLT</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and 1982's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/truce-mw0000313153" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Truce</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. During the '90s, he worked with </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bryan-ferry-mn0000524050" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Bryan Ferry</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> on 1993's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/taxi-mw0000618627" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Taxi</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and 1994's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/mamouna-mw0000121016" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Mamouna</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. Trower formed the V-12 label, self-issuing acclaimed records including 2003's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/living-out-of-time-mw0000324897" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Living Out of Time</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. In 2007, Trower and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bruce-mn0000152312" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Bruce</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> released </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/seven-moons-mw0000780856" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Seven Moons</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. In 2020, he collaborated with reggae singer </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/maxi-priest-mn0000866417" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Maxi Priest</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and bassist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/livingstone-brown-mn0000225552" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Livingstone Brown</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> on </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/united-state-of-mind-mw0003471978" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">United State of Mind</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. Trower returned in 2022 with </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-more-worlds-to-conquer-mw0003674613" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">No More Worlds to Conquer</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/bXvgC" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-5827949432431452972022-12-22T14:16:00.000-08:002022-12-22T14:16:02.496-08:00Kevin Brown - Tin Church 2005<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7o8SAsWQGOM9p3swDKFV5vbrTohXGdH0NtXuUyZSUGoltCnuz3BTDvseRP70FdvMTTqTPKy3eGZyiGYiFNmJcbb2HgtvTpzbcf_6t6QZTHa8zdEnzkrDOhqxJvSXxJ-PdjGXck9rKvJJadOli7nJAkwdxIbarRRizWqaj6IhtNhmVA7MlkhFu2qh/s700/folder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7o8SAsWQGOM9p3swDKFV5vbrTohXGdH0NtXuUyZSUGoltCnuz3BTDvseRP70FdvMTTqTPKy3eGZyiGYiFNmJcbb2HgtvTpzbcf_6t6QZTHa8zdEnzkrDOhqxJvSXxJ-PdjGXck9rKvJJadOli7nJAkwdxIbarRRizWqaj6IhtNhmVA7MlkhFu2qh/s320/folder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Growing up in Preston, England, </span><a class="name-link" href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kevin-brown-mn0000766750" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;">Kevin Brown</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> was influenced by American R&B and British blues guitarists. He was working as a teacher in 1979 when he decided to pursue a career playing slide and blues guitar. It was five years before he caught a break through Hannibal Records. The label issued his demos as </span><a class="album-link" href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/road-dreams-mw0000654461" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;">Road Dreams</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">; that album and the follow-up, </span><a class="album-link" href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/rust-mw0000308810" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;">Rust</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">, were also released on Rykodisc. Thanks B. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/gZici" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-80700884804505380232022-12-22T12:51:00.001-08:002022-12-22T12:51:20.844-08:00Fad Gadget - Gag 1984<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh095nNTqLom0iCYcaxA_-PLk--6ikHgTxWc6XelDmG7trht-E5jfs5hIeoPFdkS-2LtGi5kZ-EqaA2Ch7hBu3rwfX9GvY5pJBA2Hh-4Sejf1TEZ9RfeYCKSTk30hv1IAJwz6kswSg_AyeQ76p6v_0p_pNzMG_TFlXzO_879oINauSjfmeLBNWuSO9t/s600/front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh095nNTqLom0iCYcaxA_-PLk--6ikHgTxWc6XelDmG7trht-E5jfs5hIeoPFdkS-2LtGi5kZ-EqaA2Ch7hBu3rwfX9GvY5pJBA2Hh-4Sejf1TEZ9RfeYCKSTk30hv1IAJwz6kswSg_AyeQ76p6v_0p_pNzMG_TFlXzO_879oINauSjfmeLBNWuSO9t/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 1em 0px;">For all intents and purposes, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/frank-tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Frank Tovey</a> was best known as the man behind Fad Gadget, one of the most significant cult acts of the post-punk boom. As Fad Gadget, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a> and his revolving door of conspirators released several singles and four full-length albums that stretched the boundaries of pop music during the late '70s and early '80s. And after <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a> started making records under his own name in the mid-'80s, he continued to remain as unpredictable as ever, working within the realms of Cajun, blues, and folk, in addition to furthering his journey into experimental electronics. Humorous, dark, strange, puzzling, wild, honest, confrontational -- these adjectives exemplify <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a>'s lengthy body of work and his legacy of daringly physical performances. (<a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a>'s stage antics included numerous acrobatic feats and a penchant for shaving his copiously foamed body.) While Fad Gadget's contemporaries included the likes of <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cabaret-voltaire-mn0000635413" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Cabaret Voltaire</a>, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-human-league-mn0000895443" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Human League</a>, Wire, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-normal-mn0000892586" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Normal</a>, and <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/soft-cell-mn0000038579" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Soft Cell</a>, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a> and company's records never quite achieved the underground notoriety or the chart success enjoyed by his peers. Regardless of the level of recognition, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a>'s unique contribution to electronic music is undeniable, and so is his influence upon it. As the years go on, the recognition continues to gather steam. <br />As a youngster, the London, England-born <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a> became a fan of <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/iggy-pop-mn0000926548" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Iggy Pop</a>, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/marc-bolan-mn0000673517" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Marc Bolan</a>, and <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lou-reed-mn0000233066" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Lou Reed</a>. He knew from an early stage that he wanted to become involved with music and eventually earned a degree in fine arts from Leeds Polytechnic in 1975. After finishing his schooling, he returned to London and put together some songs made with an electric piano, a drum machine, and a tape recorder. Through the help of a flatmate, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a> met up with <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daniel-miller-mn0000954744" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Daniel Miller</a> at the local Rough Trade shop and gave the man behind <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-normal-mn0000892586" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Normal</a>'s "Warm Leatherette" his primitive recordings. <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/miller-mn0000954744" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Miller</a> loved what he heard and signed <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a> to his Mute label, a groundbreaking pro-electronic label that was just lifting off the ground. <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a> made his first public appearance as Fad Gadget in July of 1979. Two months after that, the first Fad Gadget single, The Box, was issued. Just as funny as it was frightening, the predominantly electronic single featured two songs that remain touchstones of <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a>'s lengthy career. Another key single, Ricky's Hand, was out in shops the following March. The sleeve boldly claimed that, save for an electric drill and the vocals, the two songs on it were made entirely from synthetic sources. A third single was released just prior to the first full-length, <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/fireside-favourites-mw0000347068" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Fireside Favourites</a>, which was released by the end of 1980. While <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a> did the lion's share of synth work on the album, percussionist <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-fryer-mn0000188481" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">John Fryer</a>, bassist/guitarist <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-radcliffe-mn0000185942" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric Radcliffe</a>, drummer <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/nick-cash-mn0000866173" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Nick Cash</a>, and synthesist <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/miller-mn0000954744" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Miller</a> chipped in with contributions. <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/incontinent-mw0000267866" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Incontinent</a>, the second Fad Gadget LP, was issued almost exactly a year after the debut. Aside from the return of most of the usual suspects, Wire's <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-gotobed-mn0000241396" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Gotobed</a> played some drums, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/peter-bahner-mn0001212903" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Peter Bahner</a> played some bass and guitar, and <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-simmonds-mn0001195273" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">David Simmonds</a> provided extra synth and percussion work. Slightly darker than its predecessor, a decrease in the reliance upon electronics made for a wide-eyed, if unfocused, sophomore album.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The albums </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/under-the-flag-mw0000263580" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Under the Flag</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/gag-mw0000674798" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gag</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> were released in 1982 and 1984, respectively. The move into dance and soul-influenced territories -- along with relatively traditional production values for the time -- resulted in lighter and less urgent music, but </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'s lyrics steadfastly refused to approach anything resembling mundane or fantasy-based. </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> was more likely to be compared to </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-dylan-mn0000066915" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Bob Dylan</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> than </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gary-numan-mn0000183858" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gary Numan</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, as his lyrics favored the everyman over machines and aliens. Personnel-wise, </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/under-the-flag-mw0000263580" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Under the Flag</a>,<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> featured guest vocal turns and saxophone blurts from </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/alison-moyet-mn0000010458" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Alison Moyet</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (</span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/yaz-mn0000958839" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Yaz</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">), and </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/gag-mw0000674798" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gag</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> included some guitar work from Rowland S. Howard (</span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-birthday-party-mn0000044906" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Birthday Party</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">). </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">After </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/gag-mw0000674798" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gag</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> decided to start recording under his own name and released six albums on Mute between 1985 and 1992. Just prior to that phase, he also paired up with </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/non-mn0000454066" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Non</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'s </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/boyd-rice-mn0000082992" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Boyd Rice</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> for 1984's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/easy-listening-for-the-hard-of-hearing-mw0000190636" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. These records were frequently more challenging than the ones released as Fad Gadget, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'s switch in names allowed him to expand his creativity. He decided to learn how to play instruments properly, a move that was prompted by his daughter. Asked by his daughter to play one of her songs, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> realized he couldn't really play anything, so he took up the guitar and made a conscious decision to write and record with more traditional instrumentation. 1989's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/tyranny-the-hired-hand-mw0000653735" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tyranny & the Hired Hand</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> witnessed </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> at his most organic. The labor-inspired album featured covers of modern and traditional protest songs. And for his following two albums, 1991's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/grand-union-mw0000263852" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Grand Union</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and 1992's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/worried-men-in-second-hand-suits-mw0000365906" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Worried Men in Second Hand Suits</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> continued his folk streak with a trio of Irish musicians dubbed the Pyros. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In 2001, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> dusted off Fad Gadget and began performing again under the name. In addition to an appearance at London's Elektrofest, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> opened for </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/depeche-mode-mn0000239921" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Depeche Mode</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> on his labelmates' </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/exciter-mw0000000268" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Exciter</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> tour. Mute released </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-best-of-fad-gadget-mw0000210850" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">The Best of Fad Gadget</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, a two-disc set of ace material, B-sides, and remixes. New material had been written and plans for new recordings were laid, but </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tovey-mn0000163084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tovey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> unexpectedly passed away in his home on April 3, 2002. AMG.</span><br /> </p>
<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/jPjQH" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-27053420501920530602022-12-22T12:44:00.006-08:002022-12-22T12:44:58.073-08:00Rory Gallagher - The Bullfrog Interlude 1990<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV20Ganu9VcmMk5_JOvzevbmI8HVfatncXih4qgMqov40XTxSOKUiRR3g9JvhoKMnM-6NRxy9kF-S-TLyLR7tXq7NBLxwNEP36_nBtIqaV1Et7PxJgvSHmdMRJL8o9PrCDLXPzAogesbziVbrV4peQDL5K3Bfmf_AFeWjzKJVKZkVZmalQ7XISdClj/s703/front.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="703" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV20Ganu9VcmMk5_JOvzevbmI8HVfatncXih4qgMqov40XTxSOKUiRR3g9JvhoKMnM-6NRxy9kF-S-TLyLR7tXq7NBLxwNEP36_nBtIqaV1Et7PxJgvSHmdMRJL8o9PrCDLXPzAogesbziVbrV4peQDL5K3Bfmf_AFeWjzKJVKZkVZmalQ7XISdClj/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><p>Even with a career cut short by illness and a premature death, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Rory Gallagher left his mark in the blues and rock worlds. His hard-charging, intensely rhythmic playing style on his 1961 Stratocaster still casts a long shadow over rock & roll: <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/queen-mn0000858827" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Queen</a>'s <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brian-may-mn0000007230" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Brian May</a> imitated not only his playing but his gear early on; he credits Gallagher with the root of his sound. <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-clapton-mn0000187478" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric Clapton</a> said it was Gallagher who got him "back into the blues." <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-marr-mn0000202899" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Johnny Marr</a> acknowledges a great debt as well: After learning how to play the guitarist's classic <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/deuce-mw0000241913" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Deuce</a> album track-for-track at 13, he revealed Gallagher's influence throughout his career. <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/marr-mn0000202899" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Marr</a> also said that he received mentorship and advice on his conduct on-stage and off. Even <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/u2-mn0000219203" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">U2</a>'s <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-edge-mn0000178549" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Edge</a> and <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/slash-mn0000021009" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Slash</a> sing his praises and credit his influence. While Gallagher didn't tour the U.S. very often, he lived on the stages of Europe. But he was well-known on Yankee shores for his marathon-length, no-holds-barred live shows at clubs and theaters across North America. While never a major presence on radio in the United States, Gallagher nonetheless racked up a handful of semi-hit singles with "Laundromat," "I Walk on Hot Coals," "Shadow Play," and "Philby," as well as a slew of acclaimed albums from 1971's <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/deuce-mw0000241913" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Deuce</a> and the remarkable <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/irish-tour-mw0000196302" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Irish Tour</a> in 1974, through <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/calling-card-mw0000268509" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Calling Card</a> in 1976 and <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/top-priority-mw0000652341" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Top Priority</a> in 1979. Even after the hits, Gallagher continued to pump out high-quality albums including 1982's <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/jinx-mw0000196559" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Jinx</a> and 1990's <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/fresh-evidence-mw0000314965" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Fresh Evidence</a>. And following his accidental death on an operating table in 1995, Gallagher continued to win over new fans and influence artists of many stripes, including the mystery writer <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ian-rankin-mn0002162471" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Ian Rankin</a>, who created a posthumous compilation called The Continental Op in 2013 featuring the guitarist's many songs about spies and suspense. Gallagher was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Irish Republic, on March 2, 1948. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Cork City in the south, and at age nine he became fascinated with American blues and folk singers he heard on the radio. An avid record collector, he had a wide range of influences, including <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/leadbelly-mn0000124390" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Leadbelly</a>, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/buddy-guy-mn0000942529" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Buddy Guy</a>, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/freddie-king-mn0000186734" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Freddie King</a>, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/albert-king-mn0000617844" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Albert King</a>, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/muddy-waters-mn0000608701" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Muddy Waters</a>, and <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-lee-hooker-mn0000815039" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">John Lee Hooker</a>. Gallagher would always try to mix some simple country blues songs into his recordings. He began his recording career after moving to London when he formed a trio called <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/taste-mn0000014959" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Taste</a>. The group's self-titled debut album was released in 1969 in England and later picked up for U.S. distribution by Atco/Atlantic. Between 1969 and 1971, with producer <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tony-colton-mn0000010450" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tony Colton</a> behind the board, Gallagher recorded three albums with <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/taste-mn0000014959" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Taste</a> before they split up. He began performing under his own name in 1971, releasing his 1970 debut, <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/rory-gallagher-mw0000201804" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Rory Gallagher</a>, for Polydor Records in the U.K. The album was picked up for U.S. distribution by Atlantic, and later that year he recorded <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/deuce-mw0000241913" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Deuce</a>, also released by Atlantic in the U.S. His prolific output continued, as he followed up <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/deuce-mw0000241913" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Deuce</a> with <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-in-europe-mw0000205113" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Live in Europe</a> (1972) and <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/blueprint-mw0000647253" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Blueprint</a> and <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/tattoo-mw0000205118" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tattoo</a>, both in 1973. <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/irish-tour-1974-mw0000196302" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Irish Tour 1974</a>, like <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-in-europe-mw0000205113" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Live in Europe</a>, did a good job of capturing the excitement of his live shows on tape, and he followed that with <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/calling-card-mw0000268509" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Calling Card</a> for Chrysalis in 1976, and <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/photo-finish-mw0000245599" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Photo Finish</a> and <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/jinx-mw0000196559" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Jinx</a> for the same label in 1978 and 1982. By this point, Gallagher had made several world tours, and he took a few years of rest from the road. He got back into recording and performing live again with the 1987 release (in the U.K.) of <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/defender-mw0000193016" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Defender</a>. His last album, <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/fresh-evidence-mw0000314965" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Fresh Evidence</a>, was released in 1991 on the Capo/I.R.S. label. Capo was his own record and publishing company that he set up in the hopes of eventually exposing other great blues talents.</p></span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Some of Gallagher's best work on record wasn't under his own name; it's the music he recorded with </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/muddy-waters-mn0000608701" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Muddy Waters</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> on </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-london-sessions-mw0000200615" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">The London Sessions</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (Chess, 1972) and with </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/albert-king-mn0000617844" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Albert King</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> on </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-mw0000272162" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Live</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (RCA/Utopia, 1977). Gallagher made his last U.S. tours in 1985 and 1991, and admitted in interviews that he'd always been a guitarist who fed off the instant reaction and feedbacks a live audience can provide. In a 1991 interview, he said: "I try to sit down and write a Rory Gallagher song, which generally happens to be quite bluesy. I try to find different issues, different themes, and different topics that haven't been covered before...I've done songs in all the different styles...train blues, drinking blues, and economic blues. But I try to find a slightly different angle on all these things. The music can be very traditional, but you can sort of creep into the future with the lyrics." </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Gallagher passed away from complications after a liver transplant on June 14, 1995, at age 47. In 2019, to mark what would have been Gallagher's 50th year of recording, his estate released the four-disc anthology </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/blues-mw0003268913" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Blues</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, featuring rare and unreleased recordings from the '70s to the '90s.</span><p></p>
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<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/kQYc6" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-85033102884955867772022-12-22T05:04:00.006-08:002022-12-22T05:04:53.539-08:00A Giant Dog - Pile 2016<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKcFVi-fQs92o0vTLpwGqv-MFvwDKm-lG1HcTSTJn_--_rEyn1unEanAFOHyndVXkJE25CI9pRQCLXn2iD-EZM8K-CEElRX5fh838BXf5oi154nR9sA4NUSMlZAOSr70PBky9bPSxsjhqD5yHBNXxde72fHZ93FDZQQJZ7xBHJX2uMUfJncUKYKqw/s600/front.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKcFVi-fQs92o0vTLpwGqv-MFvwDKm-lG1HcTSTJn_--_rEyn1unEanAFOHyndVXkJE25CI9pRQCLXn2iD-EZM8K-CEElRX5fh838BXf5oi154nR9sA4NUSMlZAOSr70PBky9bPSxsjhqD5yHBNXxde72fHZ93FDZQQJZ7xBHJX2uMUfJncUKYKqw/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Following a pair of spirited self-released outings, Austin punk outfit A Giant Dog make their Merge Records debut with Pile. With </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/spoon-mn0000131038" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Spoon</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> producer </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mike-mccarthy-mn0001765272" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike McCarthy</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> at the helm, the band's boozy, glammy garage punk gets a subtle studio makeover, though it would be a stretch to call the overblown crunch ripping through the speakers polished. Fronted by co-singers/songwriters and Houston natives </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sabrina-ellis-mn0002705642" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Sabrina Ellis</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/andrew-cashen-mn0002705584" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Andrew Cashen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, A Giant Dog retains their knack for pairing relatable melodies with sweaty, full-bore intensity, avoiding the more predictable leather-panted rock swagger in favor of weirdo party-rock inclusiveness. Their targets are the freaks, geeks, and general outsiders, much like themselves. Pile's press release name-drops a host of colorful '70s characters like </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/slade-mn0000749734" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Slade</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sparks-mn0000009084" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Sparks</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/marc-bolan-mn0000673517" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Marc Bolan</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/alice-cooper-mn0000005953" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Alice Cooper</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and as far as comparisons -- or more likely influences -- go, they're more or less on the money, albeit with more of a punk approach. Freewheeling standouts like lead single "Jizzney" and the especially glammy "& Rock & Roll" are equal parts sugar and grime and 100 percent fun. Likewise, the sizzling brass-adorned boogie rock of "King Queen" and the defiant punk of "Too Much Makeup" have hooks for days and the kind of energy that can only be summoned from the heart of the beer-soaked club scene. The album's only real dynamic shift comes near the end with the acoustic psych of the </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tyrannosaurus-rex-esque-mn0000206464" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tyrannosaurus Rex-esque</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> "Get with You and Get High." It's a nice breather on an album that, in spite of its highlights, sticks around about three or four songs too long. A Giant Dog isn't necessarily offering anything that hasn't been done before, but Pile is definitely a fun listen with enough bright spots and kinetic energy to sustain it. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/jdv42" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-80027977858077366062022-12-22T04:59:00.007-08:002022-12-22T04:59:46.220-08:00Verma - Sunrunner 2014<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJmquIn9R3r4neUzxskuEjW8gBtgNS2roion1zrheWAOXvZ4bihp5q_En4Ab6h0i2kVCAFfMaNDIJdtQWUsydEO-sbrjY8V6Nkyz-2fQA7R14YKtnhBbt-FuBy_9OaH525ThxbJ8ldtPjCC0Qvj8Cxm49wuPPHZgbprys_PupDVFaV8aasm4b8mX_/s1200/ver-su.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJmquIn9R3r4neUzxskuEjW8gBtgNS2roion1zrheWAOXvZ4bihp5q_En4Ab6h0i2kVCAFfMaNDIJdtQWUsydEO-sbrjY8V6Nkyz-2fQA7R14YKtnhBbt-FuBy_9OaH525ThxbJ8ldtPjCC0Qvj8Cxm49wuPPHZgbprys_PupDVFaV8aasm4b8mX_/s320/ver-su.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Sunrunner seems like a curious name for the third album from Chicago prog/psych ensemble Verma since this is music that seems perfectly suited for late in the evening. The band's loving homage to vintage prog and psychedelic sounds accurate enough that one can imagine a crowd of stoned college students listening to this as they stare at a laser light show at the campus planetarium in 1974, and if there was an album of the last 20 years that really should be accompanied by clouds of colored light, this is it. This is not to sound dismissive; the insistent rhythms, the atmospheric keyboard lines, and the sheets of electric guitar thundering in the distance certainly look to the past, but the fire and imagination behind Verma's music are fresh and compelling, and Sunrunner somehow manages to sound languid and physically powerful at the same time. Verma often drifts off into electronic space, with Whitney Johnson and TJ Tambellini giving the tunes a suitably spacy tone with their keyboards, but bassist Rob Goerke and drummer Zach Corn keep this music rooted like a pulsebeat, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-caluya-mn0000926275" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Johnny Caluya</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">'s guitar solos add an organic touch that fits the songs well, as do Johnson's vocals, which are often wordless sounds but feel eloquent in the context of this music. Sunrunner is more about atmosphere and sound than songs, but Verma does know how to create beautiful frameworks for their music, from the joyous drift through the spaceways of the title track to the noisy thunder of "Regolith" and the futuristic rock of "The Traveller" (well, it would have sounded futuristic at that planetarium show). As electric music for the mind and body goes, Verma is creating a rich, satisfying catalog of work, and Sunrunner is a trippy, fully formed-triumph. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/iYjJJ" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-45080257930368992762022-09-30T12:46:00.003-07:002022-09-30T12:46:46.849-07:00David Crosby & Graham Nash - Another Stoney Evening 2003<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgupkvZDIF0c1HrCvtv-WIxVhoQr3fJ_pM6UJAstUdGumazO9XfniocJI-BN0X-dB1pdcuIEnfB-plId7g-OG6XUXYMoFi2mSF-aa9dzRsnp6lHEbdb5c7J6L_NjgmbppNs1YNE2qOJkNOzZHVbf4UhcJiZpATnK8cN0sJaunCbTdrkMrawtu5LeNvV/s500/front.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgupkvZDIF0c1HrCvtv-WIxVhoQr3fJ_pM6UJAstUdGumazO9XfniocJI-BN0X-dB1pdcuIEnfB-plId7g-OG6XUXYMoFi2mSF-aa9dzRsnp6lHEbdb5c7J6L_NjgmbppNs1YNE2qOJkNOzZHVbf4UhcJiZpATnK8cN0sJaunCbTdrkMrawtu5LeNvV/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">The </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/crosby-nash-mn0000846357" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Crosby-Nash</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> subset of </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/csny-mn0000130036" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">CSNY</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> carried with it much of the charm and harmony of the larger group, and together and apart the two singers mined that appeal for several gold albums, especially in the first couple of years after the breakup of </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/csny-mn0000130036" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">CSNY</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> in 1970. They even inspired bootleggers, who released Another Stoney Evening, drawn from one of their 1971 shows. Hence the title of this belated official release, is drawn from a different show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on October 10. Working with acoustic guitars and piano, they sang some of their more popular </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/csny-mn0000130036" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">CSNY</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> songs ("Déjà Vu," "Teach Your Children"), as well as tunes from their solo albums and songs that would turn up on their duo album the following year. Boasting of having "the loosest show on earth" and making cryptic drug references, they nevertheless sang and played well, overcoming with enthusiasm and craft the relative weaknesses of some of the material -- Crosby's formlessness, Nash's preciousness. And the camaraderie they shared with each other and their audience even allowed them a certain imperiousness, such as when the drugged performers lectured the drugged audience on how to clap on the right beat. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/RNdh3TrJ#WNiAdxXDA9RnMw1MkuxrM4JpiuMOGeFv6MnUPm9iWaU" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/X80Aeiys/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-43874072181797398912022-09-30T12:43:00.001-07:002022-09-30T12:43:07.765-07:00Gary Duncan Quicksilver - Live at Fieldstone 1997<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3JHBN0FiVfxJK28jwg1aeHbADAXG7AED3m1Zpq-gLcK93w-rZpOth7pc_1iJrltyF2YuaVpetluu4dEp4w1U26c74QcVyURPOlgUaydrjYXqj6JrYqxI-LvVB1lYTED2bb4Qh2BS51FouK3ZWpPK7dYrqsTWpYYzpzQbaKouE8tli0GC_sw7Q8Z6N/s1431/Front.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1403" data-original-width="1431" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3JHBN0FiVfxJK28jwg1aeHbADAXG7AED3m1Zpq-gLcK93w-rZpOth7pc_1iJrltyF2YuaVpetluu4dEp4w1U26c74QcVyURPOlgUaydrjYXqj6JrYqxI-LvVB1lYTED2bb4Qh2BS51FouK3ZWpPK7dYrqsTWpYYzpzQbaKouE8tli0GC_sw7Q8Z6N/s320/Front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Beating the bootleggers at their own game, Live at Field Stone was recorded on Memorial Day 1997 at the Field Stone Winery in Healdsburg, CA by the simple expedient of attaching two lapel microphones to a DAT tape machine. The result could have been a mass of high-tech mud, but digitally remastered and tweaked for release, the seven songs here capture </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gary-duncan-mn0000741062" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gary Duncan</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">'s recycled </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quicksilver-mn0000317417" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Quicksilver</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> sounding phenomenal, with lengthy explorations of "Voodoo Boogie #1" and "Bubba Jeans" and seething romps through "Senor Blues" and "Gator Bait." There are moments, to be sure when you could wish for better separation between the instruments, but the disc still relays all the excitement and energy of the night, with the crowning glory arriving via a 15-minute frenzy through </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/herbie-hancock-mn0000957296" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Herbie Hancock</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">'s "Maiden Voyage." A companion volume can be found in the form of Live at Sweetwater. Infuriatingly, it was pressed without any hard recording data beyond the track listing and lineup, but beyond noting the replacement of bassist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bobby-vega-mn0000766038" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Bobby Vega</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> with </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-guyette-mn0000582358" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Jimmy Guyette</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, this could be a continuation of the simultaneously released Live at Field Stone CD, with "Wide Laig," </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-lee-hooker-mn0000815039" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">John Lee Hooker</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">'s "Bottle Up and Go," and a wonderful revision of </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/marvin-gaye-mn0000316834" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Marvin Gaye</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">'s "Inner City Blues" joining regular </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quicksilver-mn0000317417" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Quicksilver</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> favorites "Close Enuff 4 Jazz," "Senor Blues," and "Maiden Voyage" in the repertoire. The recording quality is a little scratchy, as seems to be the case with a lot of these releases, but the energy levels never falter, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gary-duncan-mn0000741062" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gary Duncan</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> remains the visionary hero behind some of the most exquisitely realized jamming of the age. This may not be the sound of classic '60s </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quicksilver-mn0000317417" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Quicksilver</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, but every band has to grow up sometime. AMG.</span><br /> <p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/JUUGkCDT#QRDfD6vVD3CvU9YTce80IkB_XwEW2ty1cM_1XcqMxfA" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/t2ml2ZQD/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-28396139878497999242022-09-30T12:39:00.000-07:002022-09-30T12:39:08.734-07:00Gong - The Universe Also Collapses 2019<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PTgX0vxr2aZxSSihmez4ANKaazeOSOVROEaoGS0KQ0SM7p2B81OWmg1sEFAhETo5UdFXdRJFE-pt6rEH714Tfv0kJ0ZmI4GtKeL9aRRKGQii_x3ZbPqENK7TGhYmoCuD_08N1x-gNP4l1XR9-QwdMNzsH2hQFHSq8b66tbLkkOzd9ODnVPPcsVRn/s1400/folder.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PTgX0vxr2aZxSSihmez4ANKaazeOSOVROEaoGS0KQ0SM7p2B81OWmg1sEFAhETo5UdFXdRJFE-pt6rEH714Tfv0kJ0ZmI4GtKeL9aRRKGQii_x3ZbPqENK7TGhYmoCuD_08N1x-gNP4l1XR9-QwdMNzsH2hQFHSq8b66tbLkkOzd9ODnVPPcsVRn/s320/folder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Unlike their European contemporaries </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hawkwind-mn0000672011" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Hawkwind</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/neu%21-mn0000387815" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Neu!</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/can-mn0000645612" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Can</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/amon-d%C3%BC%C3%BCl-ii-mn0003807643" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Amon Düül II</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, the ever-evolving collective known as Gong were not nearly as well-known for their pioneering brand of psychedelic space rock with conceptual ideas that involved aliens and alternative realities. They were also among the first of these bands to embrace -- and welcome -- improvisation during the late '60s and '70s. Gong was so influential, several of its one- (or two-) time members enjoyed careers leading their own projects, including </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gilli-smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gilli Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-hillage-mn0000038672" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Hillage</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/didier-malherbe-mn0000265121" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Didier Malherbe</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allan-holdsworth-mn0000002252" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allan Holdsworth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pip-pyle-mn0000350404" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pip Pyle</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. Founded in France by </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daevid-allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Daevid Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (a founding member of </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/soft-machine-mn0000753685" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Soft Machine</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">) and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> in 1967, their trippy music was full of humor and Dadaist passages drenched in labyrinthine grooves, sophisticated charts, and a healthy dose of improvisation. </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/magick-brother-mw0000193951" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Magick Brother</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, the band's 1969 debut was released by France's BYG label and included vanguard jazz bassist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/barre-phillips-mn0000115985" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Barre Phillips</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> as a guest. 1971's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/camembert-electrique-mw0000056433" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Camembert Electrique</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> is widely considered a classic and reveals the boundary-less frontiers of their sound. Though members came and went over the decades -- including </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> -- and the band spawned several offshoots -- they seemed to regroup with a startling array of new collaborators. They also inspired offshoot bands such as </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pierre-moerlins-gong-mn0001896955" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pierre Moerlin's Gong</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mother-gong-mn0000601041" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Mother Gong</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-gong-mn0001178829" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Planet Gong</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, Gongmaison, etc. In 1973 and 1974, their </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/flying-teapot-mw0000047195" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Flying Teapot</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/angels-egg-mw0000184905" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Angel's Egg</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/you-mw0000308743" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">You</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> albums were conceptually linked as the "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy, all are considered Avant-prog classics. By 2009 the concept encompassed six albums including </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/shapeshifter-mw0000026144" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Shapeshifter</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (1992), </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/zero-to-infinity-mw0000055834" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Zero to Infinity</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (2000), and </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/2032-mw0001782721" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">2032</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (2009). The original group reunited for tours between 1996-2001. </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> passed away in 2015 and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> a year later, but Gong remains an ongoing concern as a quintet. </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Gong came together in the late '60s when Australian guitarist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/daevid-allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Daevid Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (ex-</span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/soft-machine-mn0000753685" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Soft Machine</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">) began making music with his wife, singer </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gilli-smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gilli Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, along with a shifting lineup of supporting musicians. Albums from this period include </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/magick-brother-mystic-sister-mw0000193951" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Magick Brother, Mystic Sister</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (1969), and the impromptu jam session </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/bananamoon-mw0000116905" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Bananamoon</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (1971) featuring </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-wyatt-mn0000292915" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Wyatt</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> from </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/soft-machine-mn0000753685" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Soft Machine</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gary-wright-mn0000191006" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gary Wright</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> from </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/spooky-tooth-mn0000159052" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Spooky Tooth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/maggie-bell-mn0000226058" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Maggie Bell</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. A steady lineup featuring Frenchman </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/didier-malherbe-mn0000265121" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Didier Malherbe</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (sax and reeds), </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/christian-tritsch-mn0000123631" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Christian Tritsch</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (bass), and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pip-pyle-mn0000350404" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pip Pyle</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (drums) along with </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (glissando guitar, vocals) and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (space whisper vocals) was officially named Gong and released </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/camembert-electrique-mw0000056433" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Camembert Electrique</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> in late 1971, as well as providing the soundtrack to the film </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/continental-circus-mw0000376721" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Continental Circus</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and music for the album </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/obsolete-mw0000376058" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Obsolete</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> by French poet </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dashiel-hedayat-mn0000716350" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Dashiel Hedayat</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/camembert-electrique-mw0000056433" style="background-color: white; color: #0089c1; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Camembert Electrique</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> contained the first signs of the band's mythology of the peaceful Planet Gong populated by Radio Gnomes, Pothead Pixies, and Octave Doctors. These characters along with Zero the Hero were the focus of Gong's next three albums, the </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/radio-gnome-trilogy-mw0001002549" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Radio Gnome Trilogy</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, consisting of </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/flying-teapot-mw0000047195" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Flying Teapot</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (1973), </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/angels-egg-mw0000184905" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Angel's Egg</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (1974), and </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/you-mw0000308743" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">You</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (1975). In these albums, protagonist Zero the Hero is a space traveler from Earth who gets lost and finds the Planet Gong, is taught the ways of that world by the gnomes, pixies, and Octave Doctors, and is sent back to Earth to spread the word about this mystical planet. The bandmembers themselves adopted nicknames -- </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> was Bert Camembert or the Dingo Virgin, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> was Shakti Yoni, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/malherbe-mn0000265121" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Malherbe</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> was Bloomdido Bad de Grasse, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tritsch-mn0000123631" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tritsch</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> was the Submarine Captain, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pyle-mn0000350404" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pyle</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> the Heap. Over the course of the trilogy, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tritsch-mn0000123631" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tritsch</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pyle-mn0000350404" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pyle</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> left and were replaced by </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mike-howlett-mn0000485457" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike Howlett</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (bass) and Pierre Moerlen (drums). New members </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-hillage-mn0000038672" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Hillage</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (guitar) and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tim-blake-mn0000594932" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tim Blake</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (synthesizers) joined. </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">After </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/you-mw0000308743" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">You</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hillage-mn0000038672" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillage</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> left the group due to creative differences as well as fatigue. Guitarist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-holdsworth-mn0000002252" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen Holdsworth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> joined and the band drifted into virtuosic if unimaginative jazz fusion. </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hillage-mn0000038672" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillage</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> each released several solo albums and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> formed </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mothergong-mn0000601041" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Mothergong</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. Nevertheless, the trilogy lineup reunited for a few one-off concerts, including a 1977 French concert documented on the excellent </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/gong-est-mort-vive-gong-mw0000847807" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gong Est Mort, Vive Gong</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> album. </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> also reunited with </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/malherbe-mn0000265121" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Malherbe</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pyle-mn0000350404" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pyle</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> as well as other musicians he had collaborated with over the years for 1992's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/shapeshifter-mw0000026144" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Shapeshifter</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> album. </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hillage-mn0000038672" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillage</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> also worked as the ambient-techno alias </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/system-7-mn0000742295" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">System 7</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. A number of Gong-related bands have existed over the years, including </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mothergong-mn0000601041" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Mothergong</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gongzilla-mn0000949261" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gongzilla</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pierre-moerlins-gong-mn0001896955" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pierre Moerlin's Gong</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, NY Gong, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-gong-mn0001178829" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Planet Gong</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and Gongmaison. During the new millennium, Gong material continued to be released, including </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-2-infinitea-mw0000371877" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Live 2 Infinitea</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> issued in the fall of 2000, as well as numerous reissues.</span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-am-your-egg-mw0000405319" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;"> I Am Your Egg</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> appeared in 2006 in the United States of Distribution. Meanwhile, various lineups of the band featuring </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> continued to perform and record intermittently, up to the final album </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-see-you-mw0002749501" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">I See You</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, released in 2014 before </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allen-mn0000669876" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Allen</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> succumbed to cancer in Australia on March 13, 2015, at the age of 77. </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/smyth-mn0000549074" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Smyth</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> died in 2016 of pulmonary pneumonia. Gong remains a quintet comprising </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/fabio-golfetti-mn0001577023" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Fabio Golfetti</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, lead guitar; </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dave-sturt-mn0001358138" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Dave Sturt</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, bass; </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ian-east-mn0003342516" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Ian East</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, reed and woodwinds; </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/kavus-torabi-mn0001828915" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Kavus Torabi</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, guitar, vocals; and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cheb-nettles-mn0003562158" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Cheb Nettles</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> drums. In 2019 they released </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/universe-also-collapses-mw0003258239" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Universe Also Collapses</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> for K-Scope.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/4AsGACCK#K4WQNAP1_QKtFQOUCS9Y-4ZqmvxeFLaUfTCzSXEzkPU" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/a74hZyD1/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-33435591654307824402022-09-28T14:14:00.002-07:002022-09-28T14:14:16.433-07:00Jaco Pastorius - Curtain Call (Live) 1986<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmtULTI8HPN_dohvq76-ZgpxDFiGRSxW52BgEZbJO7COCRxwqRJ0GzBaJfkKeo4JETxiaB3AcAYOs1NbwYJAKMD9BC8vWWTn-TJbqP6Z2jVjmnNKrLabUqpk3H2ZJ6EsQnoqkTPGITt0dc9REIwG6tisKEUaVTAeZ75Pf5HESaLu6Bis_HkX5frKM/s497/front.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="497" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmtULTI8HPN_dohvq76-ZgpxDFiGRSxW52BgEZbJO7COCRxwqRJ0GzBaJfkKeo4JETxiaB3AcAYOs1NbwYJAKMD9BC8vWWTn-TJbqP6Z2jVjmnNKrLabUqpk3H2ZJ6EsQnoqkTPGITt0dc9REIwG6tisKEUaVTAeZ75Pf5HESaLu6Bis_HkX5frKM/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Dubbed "the last live American performance of Jaco Pastorius" (liner notes), the posthumously released Curtain Call is the most refreshing of Pastorius' post-big-band live recordings. Sparked by the superb sound quality and enthusiastic, energetic performances, the CD features the only available live recordings by Pastorius of "John and Mary," </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/herbie-hancocks-mn0000957296" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Herbie Hancock's</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> "Speak Like a Child," and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/miles-davis-mn0000423829" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Miles Davis'</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> "So What!," plus the often recorded favorites "Invitation," "Continuum," and "Teen Town." The refreshing aspect, aside from some rarely recorded live material, is the personnel and the absence of guitar. Brian "Whitey" Melvin (drums) and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jon-davis-mn0000631742" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Jon Davis</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> (keys) recorded with Pastorius on three of Melvin's studio dates, but never live. Pastorius is at his most lucid in years thanks to Melvin's spiritual guidance, and Davis and Melvin seem to be playing expressly for Pastorius here. Without having to compete with a guitarist, a rejuvenated Pastorius has center stage, start to finish, his prominence and clarity reaching new heights on the final three compositions, "Mercy, Mercy," "So What!" and "Teen Town." Truly awesome. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/UJUgSRTQ#SYnQXPoB7xes2i8pWUk7bRYK773wBDlXk-aNd2FsX20" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/sgC7upjr/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-81713872797313788542022-09-28T14:10:00.004-07:002022-09-28T14:10:46.020-07:00Houndmouth - Good For You 2021<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9UXPdy7VyY1giNC4N1sTwBxMTk_iMZuzFl-K8rBOxBfuQ813yqOyfwnw-cBL7tkXXaTrs-o7iBq8GBiccrtpy1L51feZ-eTqlKF-mvl1vjPTjnbXLAaGqNH9ZYEDEdYDLhLY3EJ_ugJQuS_gFeV80Hdj2iyc08x6aWl7iYgPq-46PEi5GPrGi9UeS/s1821/cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1821" data-original-width="1791" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9UXPdy7VyY1giNC4N1sTwBxMTk_iMZuzFl-K8rBOxBfuQ813yqOyfwnw-cBL7tkXXaTrs-o7iBq8GBiccrtpy1L51feZ-eTqlKF-mvl1vjPTjnbXLAaGqNH9ZYEDEdYDLhLY3EJ_ugJQuS_gFeV80Hdj2iyc08x6aWl7iYgPq-46PEi5GPrGi9UeS/s320/cover.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">Houndmouth was formed in 2011 in New Albany, Indiana, a town across the river from Louisville, Kentucky. Founding members included guitarist/vocalist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/matt-myers-mn0002084766" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Matt Myers</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, keyboardist/vocalist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/katie-toupin-mn0003122910" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Katie Toupin</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, bassist/vocalist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/zak-appleby-mn0003122913" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Zak Appleby</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, and drummer/vocalist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/shane-cody-mn0003122912" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Shane Cody</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. The driven group of musicians quickly built a loyal following based on its fervent live shows and was soon sharing stages with like-minded bands such as </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/drive-by-truckers-mn0000201668" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Drive-By Truckers</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-lumineers-mn0002873356" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Lumineers</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. In 2012, the group issued a self-titled four-song EP, and in 2013, Rough Trade released the band's full-length debut, </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/from-the-hills-below-the-city-mw0002542762" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">From the Hills Below the City</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, a hearty collection of ragged, country-informed rock & roll. After a lengthy bout of touring, including stops at major festivals like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Newport Folk Festival, Houndmouth returned in March 2015 with </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/little-neon-limelight-mw0002817587" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Little Neon Limelight</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, another set of lean country boogie and late-night laments. The following year, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/toupin-mn0003122910" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Toupin</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> left the band to pursue a solo career, leaving the remaining trio to quickly readjust their live act just before a major tour. Houndmouth carried on with a new set of touring members including keyboardist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/caleb-hickman-mn0000780104" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Caleb Hickman</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and saxophonists </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/graeme-gardiner-mn0003762241" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Graeme Gardiner</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/drew-miller-mn0003762215" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Drew Miller</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. A sleeker, more pop-forward sound emerged on 2018's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/golden-age-mw0003186626" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Golden Age</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, their third album and first without </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/toupin-mn0003122910" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Toupin</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. Following the release of the album, Houndmouth collected various </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/golden-age-mw0003186626" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Golden Age</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> demos as the four-song EP </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/california-voodoo-mw0003228701" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">California Voodoo</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. The next year, a two-song release, </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/california-voodoo-pt-ii-mw0003276227" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">California Voodoo, Pt. II</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, offered up two brand-new studio-recorded songs. In 2021, the band began releasing singles in anticipation of their fourth studio album. That album, </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/good-for-you-mw0003569514" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Good for You</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, arrived in November of that year, with production from </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brad-cook-mn0002841395" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Brad Cook</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">, who had previously worked on albums by Houndmouth peers </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/waxahatchee-mn0002845726" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Waxahatchee</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hiss-golden-messenger-mn0002049671" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Hiss Golden Messenger</a><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;">. AMG.</span><br /> <p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/8FMiGK5a#-qJNJ-qIMBNdrurN-HyBJr0x0Q6y8Fm_guNwfSpo4yM" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/6jfsjxiZ/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-75113763864832740112022-09-28T14:05:00.005-07:002022-09-28T14:05:58.856-07:00Hukwe Zawose - Bagamoyo 2008<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpv9A0Ofc0LeyyIw--LngCilxXMYGwS3FSLN9aXgZWKdipwIM_4w_U55FkvAZFgG0hGLf41XwDhO9YjdSWGrS0DDCF8VfkSshtEexBEE4BAaIizmcQdQjlIVBBnndlojJWOIf35Nq3-jkUAPs5Lm-9eI_rOyTRmKldhANVwhzIzgS03T_fnPozJaX_/s1200/Folder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpv9A0Ofc0LeyyIw--LngCilxXMYGwS3FSLN9aXgZWKdipwIM_4w_U55FkvAZFgG0hGLf41XwDhO9YjdSWGrS0DDCF8VfkSshtEexBEE4BAaIizmcQdQjlIVBBnndlojJWOIf35Nq3-jkUAPs5Lm-9eI_rOyTRmKldhANVwhzIzgS03T_fnPozJaX_/s320/Folder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hukwe Zawose, or Dr. Hukwe Zawose to give him his full title, is probably Tanzania's greatest musical treasure. Growing up in Doduma, he was a cattle herder with plenty of time to himself and a love of the countryside that's evident in his music and his championing of folk traditions. His initial instrument was the ilimba, or large thumb piano, which his older brother also played. He then added the stringed izeze, his father's instrument. His gifts were quickly evident and he began going around the villages as a musician. He recalls, "when I was a young man my voice was so sweet that people would often cry when I sang. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In fact, sometimes I would hear myself and even I would cry, wondering what I had done to deserve such a precious gift." Eventually, Julius Nyerere, the first president of the newly independent country, heard about him and summoned him to the capital, Dar Es Salaam. There, the young man found favor with his traditionally based music and became a founding member of the </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/master-musicians-of-tanzania-mn0001607007" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Master Musicians of Tanzania</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, a group also known as the National Music Ensemble of Tanzania. The band was based at the Bagayomo College of the Arts and even as he was playing with them, Zawose was developing his own wagogo style, mixing traditional stories with political lyrics in Swahili. By now he'd become a master of the thumb piano, with a huge sound to match his remarkable voice -- reportedly he has a five-octave vocal range. He'd also become prolific in areas beyond music, fathering a total of 15 children by four wives, and playing in a duo with one of his sons, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/charles-zawose-mn0001850018" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Charles Zawose</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. By the mid-'80s, Zawose and his son were touring outside Africa; at the end of the decade with the </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/master-musicians-mn0001607007" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Master Musicians</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">; he then released </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/art-of-hukwe-ubi-zawose-mw0000626658" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Art of Hukwe Ubi Zawose</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> in Japan, a record that brought him to the attention of world music enthusiasts for its stylish singing and playing. Folkloric and acoustic, it offered the kind of insight to Tanzanian music that none of the pop bands of the coast could match. It was followed by </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/tanzania-yetu-and-mateso-mw0000414222" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Tanzania Yetu and Mateso</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> on the English indie Triple Earth, and Zawose left his ensemble behind to make his home in London, becoming an established part of the WOMAD festival circuit, which he still regularly plays. That, in turn, led to his first solo disc, 1996's </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/chibite-mw0000613109" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Chibite</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, which one critic called "a startling music stripped down to raw elements." After that, Zawose returned to Tanzania, although he continued to tour regularly around the globe. He was in no hurry to release another album, and it wasn't until 2001 that </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/mkuki-wa-rocho-mw0000797299" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Mkuki Wa Rocho</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> appeared on the small Womad Select label in a limited pressing. Zawose, an honorary Doctor of Music, continued to play but spent his later years teaching music in his native land. He passed away in December of 2003 at the age of 65. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/xMdwnYIJ#N7Z6GJrrIFtn2t2exMFWBI4ppQwplNl_BH4ypd2_OrM" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/VSzZ0RYz/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-85187259992519677462022-09-28T14:01:00.003-07:002022-09-28T14:01:49.348-07:00Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits 2014<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7GvLeHR1OAHiH5Jk3_0IXiodNKpQfBZlRZeMMb7I0rS4IieTof8-WQ6nDI615VHNYENhpo1GoeSKhS6AT0Iup7nWqXXJXyJBViCNaAH-1ko1fErrDzpXk0TtjzhsWrWwCa5JGdg_bqpQn35NE9W6FPHSTAGznJUakBLKn09mi8FRTtJxe8vV9Gb0I/s600/front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7GvLeHR1OAHiH5Jk3_0IXiodNKpQfBZlRZeMMb7I0rS4IieTof8-WQ6nDI615VHNYENhpo1GoeSKhS6AT0Iup7nWqXXJXyJBViCNaAH-1ko1fErrDzpXk0TtjzhsWrWwCa5JGdg_bqpQn35NE9W6FPHSTAGznJUakBLKn09mi8FRTtJxe8vV9Gb0I/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Bad Self Portraits is eclectic Boston band Lake Street Dive's third studio album and the group's sixth release overall. Produced by </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sam-kassirer-mn0000983148" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Sam Kassirer</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (</span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/josh-ritter-mn0000233136" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Josh Ritter</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/erin-mckeown-mn0000199954" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Erin McKeown</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">), the album comes two years after the group's cover EP, </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/fun-machine-mw0002405036" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Fun Machine</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. Rather than revisit that album's neat gimmick of a jazz-soul band covering contemporary pop songs, Lake Street Dive instead delve into a substantial batch of their own blue-eyed-soul and Southern rock-inflected originals. Once again, the album showcases lead singer </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rachel-price-mn0002611350" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Rachel Price</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">'s resonant, old-school singing, which is still the main reason to listen to Lake Street Dive. Of course, with her band backing her at various times with harmony vocals, jazzy trumpets, crunchy tube guitar riffs, and woody jazz basslines, there's always something rootsy and unexpected happening around her on Bad Self Portraits. There is buoyant creativity to many of Lake Street Dive's arrangements, and cuts like "Bobby Tanqueray" and "Seventeen" reveal such time-tested influences as late-'60s Muscle Shoals-influenced soul and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dusty-springfield-esque-mn0000159214" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Dusty Springfield-esque</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> pop. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/MRES3YZQ#BVWthGi_Do4qoxryyROe4c3PTl7LRPIYzLTiqV180DA" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/9HSrqJZM/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-36283202948995350222022-09-28T13:05:00.000-07:002022-09-28T13:05:18.854-07:00Hallelujah the Hills - I'm You 2019<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUP7pdxvdKf6fDZPR8sJnSE19LfQvGgvMjuMVWz7E_hini42rMFfF2hbKv7ZfVpPUG47KJLb0jNii7QDr3QPib6JiAQT-gOuG76_FvnzmFZ06k9LPdqPG9SCuezIlmgSB8Pd7V3pps-pDE4Uler8-3-gXB7x3dBc15Jv-3Ue1kZBW9h2gsEL-lqgY/s2000/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUP7pdxvdKf6fDZPR8sJnSE19LfQvGgvMjuMVWz7E_hini42rMFfF2hbKv7ZfVpPUG47KJLb0jNii7QDr3QPib6JiAQT-gOuG76_FvnzmFZ06k9LPdqPG9SCuezIlmgSB8Pd7V3pps-pDE4Uler8-3-gXB7x3dBc15Jv-3Ue1kZBW9h2gsEL-lqgY/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hallelujah the Hills arose from the ashes of Boston's late lamented </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-stairs-mn0002150178" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Stairs</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. When </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-stairs-mn0002150178" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Stairs</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> collapsed at the end of 2005, lead singer/songwriter </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ryan-walsh-mn0000863268" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Walsh</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and drummer </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-meyer-mn0001535351" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric Meyer</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> announced the formation of their new band. Named after Adolphus Mekas' 1963 cult comedy, Hallelujah the Hills settled on an initial lineup of </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/walsh-mn0000863268" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Walsh</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/meyer-mn0001535351" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Meyer</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-bentley-mn0000941371" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">David Bentley</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (cello, guitar), </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/joe-marrett-mn0000932230" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Marrett</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (bass), and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/matt-brown-mn0002179509" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Matt Brown</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> (synth, samples, guitar, melodica). Trumpeter </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brian-rutledge-mn0001561909" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Brian Rutledge</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> joined a few months later, and </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/elio-deluca-mn0001044843" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Elio DeLuca</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> replaced </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brown-mn0002179509" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Brown</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> on keyboards in early 2007. Incorporating elements of </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/guided-by-voices-mn0000545726" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Guided by Voices</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">' lo-fi power pop, the woozy marching band music of </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/neutral-milk-hotel-mn0000863102" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Neutral Milk Hotel</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, and the off-kilter warblings of </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-byrne-mn0000197364" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">David Byrne</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, Hallelujah the Hills' live shows quickly won accolades from The Boston Phoenix and Salon.com. That ramshackle democracy can be heard on the band's debut album, </span><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/collective-psychosis-begone-mw0000779525" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Collective Psychosis Begone</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, released on Misra Records in June 2007. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/BF8R3R4J#ztyW4oJJM-7C0E4rhMqdfdzhG4gkG-VmjxAnL2n4__M" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/1ThfdE3Z/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-38836781294456413922022-09-28T12:32:00.000-07:002022-09-28T12:32:30.962-07:00Gizmodrome - Gizmodrome 2017<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDP8yShiWNvrt7zB9LpxeZDUhrB4Y2u9-c_DR9xxlcVDe3KdNiy9jsRCT3oP0abtf_KlIpHb2jl08jTly1iu_mTxnlxOH_QTN7FXHmrjPHCVcuPi3ldNR7DbihfBbFTdxFPAnpP-lzryTQF4jrv9DJgw-cuiWhfzjG0ir_vTYz3iQDkhTtdD1OjPUm/s1200/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDP8yShiWNvrt7zB9LpxeZDUhrB4Y2u9-c_DR9xxlcVDe3KdNiy9jsRCT3oP0abtf_KlIpHb2jl08jTly1iu_mTxnlxOH_QTN7FXHmrjPHCVcuPi3ldNR7DbihfBbFTdxFPAnpP-lzryTQF4jrv9DJgw-cuiWhfzjG0ir_vTYz3iQDkhTtdD1OjPUm/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">A fun, rollocking album. This title is reminiscent of Stewart Copeland's early work as Klark Kent and contains some fleshed-out ideas from his previous solo work as well as his video game compositions. The other musicians help flesh out the ideas, making the music more engaging. The lyrics carry the stamp of Stewart Copeland's sense of humor, but the backing vocals add character to the songs, making them still interesting after the first listen and the joke is over. The musicianship is stellar but does not upstage the content of the songs themselves, a typically tough task for supergroups to accomplish. A fun album, showing off how fun it is to make interesting music with musicians who just want to include the listener in all the fun they had in making it. AMG.</span><p></p>
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Coleman - Too Much Weekend 1992<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHB3XffiqJ4aGVkrDX0OcbRDTRGnKlhpwQgKvFbMtzny6zXRzdIfp-V7HddtFb8J0TRuEraBoHVw8wyGh3MZIeNDZWOLDhYomySqTjNHhU-HuKg3LzfJ6jp0LKZ-vdWLhpnKUe07PVZkSjzWf-b5laOQyejzAVKp_CnfSYwM2V6kZtTv7lh78PgMj0/s500/folder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="500" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHB3XffiqJ4aGVkrDX0OcbRDTRGnKlhpwQgKvFbMtzny6zXRzdIfp-V7HddtFb8J0TRuEraBoHVw8wyGh3MZIeNDZWOLDhYomySqTjNHhU-HuKg3LzfJ6jp0LKZ-vdWLhpnKUe07PVZkSjzWf-b5laOQyejzAVKp_CnfSYwM2V6kZtTv7lh78PgMj0/s320/folder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 1em 0px;">After a career as a local bluesman and blues promoter in Texas and Oklahoma, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gary-coleman-mn0000762719" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Gary Coleman</a> found his niche when he signed over his first album, a self-produced outing originally issued on his own label, to the fledgling Ichiban company out of Atlanta in 1986. Since that time, both Coleman and Ichiban have made their marks in the blues field: not only did Coleman release half-a-dozen of his own albums, he also oversaw production of the bulk of Ichiban's hefty blues catalog, bringing to the studio a number of artists he'd booked or toured with in his previous career (<a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chick-willis-mn0000113216" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Chick Willis</a>, <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/buster-benton-mn0000640691" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Buster Benton</a>, and <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/blues-boy-willie-mn0000762393" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Blues Boy Willie</a>, among others). A singer/guitarist on-stage, Coleman often took on a multi-instrumentalist's role in the studio. His music remained true to the blues and to the<a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/king-mn0000059156" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;"> King</a> legacy saluted in his "B.B." moniker and in his acknowledged debt to fellow Texan <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/freddie-king-mn0000186734" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Freddie King</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 1em 0px;">Coleman began listening to the blues as a child and by the time he was 15, he was working with <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/freddie-king-mn0000186734" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Freddie King</a>. Following his association with <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/king-mn0000186734" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">King</a>, Coleman supported <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lightnin-hopkins-mn0000825208" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Lightnin' Hopkins</a> and formed his own band, which played around Texas. Gary also began booking blues musicians into clubs in Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. He continued to play gigs and book concerts for nearly two decades. In 1985, he formed Mr. B's Records, his own independent label. He released his debut album, <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/nothin-but-the-blues-mw0000275757" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Nothin' But the Blues</a>, the following year. The album was popular and gained the attention of Ichiban Records, who signed Coleman and re-released <a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/nothin-but-the-blues-mw0000275757" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Nothin' But the Blues</a> in 1987.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 1em 0px;"><a class="album-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/if-you-can-beat-me-rockin-mw0000200147" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">If You Can Beat Me Rockin'</a>, Coleman's second album, was released in 1988. That same year, he began producing albums for a number of other artists, as well as writing songs for other musicians and acting as an A&R scout for Ichiban. Between 1988 and 1992, he released six records and produced another 30, including albums for <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/little-johnny-taylor-mn0000262183" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Little Johnny Taylor</a> and <a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/buster-benton-mn0000640691" style="color: #0e76bc; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Buster Benton</a>. Coleman continued to be active until his untimely death in the mid-'90s, both as a performing and recording artist, as well as a producer. AMG.</p>
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Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-62245868732675753542022-09-28T05:24:00.002-07:002022-09-28T05:24:39.101-07:00Triptides - Alter Echoes 2021<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyqwgzLIyMX59dWG_3TMMI5NxtuLOBc76o08YxHksCizLV2n_WjzkPYYd-d9IyEtkuNDz6zAcIv5UxxWFmrH9HBhTrzqbPRfcWpdLD4ah2EKZtHTurjX2ALQ-VMPirVok4OVtpR_UR0LLkzLVVA-Z3jDg8rHmn91VBhBnSI2naPZ44cGXC7QZDJVJ/s1200/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyqwgzLIyMX59dWG_3TMMI5NxtuLOBc76o08YxHksCizLV2n_WjzkPYYd-d9IyEtkuNDz6zAcIv5UxxWFmrH9HBhTrzqbPRfcWpdLD4ah2EKZtHTurjX2ALQ-VMPirVok4OVtpR_UR0LLkzLVVA-Z3jDg8rHmn91VBhBnSI2naPZ44cGXC7QZDJVJ/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Alter Echoes is the second album Triptides have made since moving to L.A. from Indiana, and their first in a fancy studio, one that boasts a pedigree ranging from </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-standells-mn0000923618" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">the Standells</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> to </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pink-floyd-mn0000346336" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pink Floyd</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. It's also their first for Alive Naturalsound Records, and after all that, it's not a shock that it is their sunniest, most polished, and hardest rocking album to date. The band's leader </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/glenn-brigman-mn0003416632" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Glenn Brigman</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and the new lineup of bassist </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stephen-burns-mn0004031115" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Stephen Burns</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and drummer Brendan Peleo-Lazar decided to strip away any remaining vestiges of the lo-fi, reverb-heavy group they once were to become something bright, clean, and super jangly. The album is loaded with songs that have a tight rhythm section backing some seriously chiming 12-string guitar, edging away from psychedelia just a bit in favor of super-charged folk-rock with a kick. Tracks like "It Won't Hurt You" and "Let It Go" show off how the arrangements and sound have both tightened and expanded without losing any of the hooks in the process, "Hand of Time" displays some hard rock crunch, and on "Now and Then" the group bop along happily like they are auditioning for Where the Action Is. Even though they've cleaned up a bit, there is still plenty of psychedelia wafting around the edges of the arrangements, be it phased guitar strums, hazy shades of organ, or the occasional bit of purple prose in the lyrics. Along with changing up their overall sound, the band also try out some new things stylistically. The center of the album is anchored by a few straight-up ballads. "Elemental Chemistry" rolls along slowly like late-period </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rain-parade-mn0000864220" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Rain Parade</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> jamming with early-'70s </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pink-floyd-mn0000346336" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Pink Floyd</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, "Shining" is a soft rock-meets-prog rock adventure built on keening slide guitar and electric piano, and "Moonlight Reflection" comes across like a vintage </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/todd-rundgren-mn0000936425" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Todd Rundgren</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> song complete with lovely vocal harmonies and piano. The best of the batch is the very </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/zombies-mn0000582313" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Zombies</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">-sounding "She Doesn't Want to Know," with </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brigman-mn0003416632" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Brigman</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> doing his best </span><a class="name-link" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/colin-blunstone-mn0000776562" style="background-color: white; color: #0e76bc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Colin Blunstone</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> as the group vamps jazzily behind him. These stretches out of their comfort zone work well for the band, giving the record more depth than previous efforts. They may be slightly less retro now -- very slightly -- but any disappointment this alteration might bring is balanced out by the reliably good songs and performances. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/gYlXQCCA#1LhnpCLJiNkQsfgk2TSmTAfpgQpDVIRmVcb4JJt52dg" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/lFOtt5Iq/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-10275733509314763352022-09-28T04:02:00.002-07:002022-09-30T12:48:56.549-07:00Trio Curupira - Curupira 2000<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEw5I_SylRd0b9uD6eA-ORdIK57SUA_CSkUScETHWaOWCA4N81h6CcgaQ2-gRtaCTBmqcofL1IqOVp1dPqoD9F4EWA6H0IdNMOPhdhHnBC_3qT03uWSRYI6b93xdWcPx_ZPFZjt1u_WFfqaqxV1TuhhHvIDEIDkGgYysMiPtNVQxiqBC6GbbLU_qjm/s336/Trio%20Curupira%20%5BCurupira%5D%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEw5I_SylRd0b9uD6eA-ORdIK57SUA_CSkUScETHWaOWCA4N81h6CcgaQ2-gRtaCTBmqcofL1IqOVp1dPqoD9F4EWA6H0IdNMOPhdhHnBC_3qT03uWSRYI6b93xdWcPx_ZPFZjt1u_WFfqaqxV1TuhhHvIDEIDkGgYysMiPtNVQxiqBC6GbbLU_qjm/s320/Trio%20Curupira%20%5BCurupira%5D%20cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The Trio Curupira was formed in 1996 by young musicians and composers of the state of São Paulo. The pianist, André Marques has been member of Hermeto Pascoal's group since 1994. Determined to develop a unique work, the result of musical and cultural research based on the authentic music of Brazil, they go through all kind of rhythms and break down any stylistic borders. <p></p>
<a href="https://mega.nz/file/QQ9XxChI#-P1T5k-c6Cr-IuwDFnYgvU9KBbOzvmr3_Hlw-Rn0bZc" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www93.zippyshare.com/v/rxLVwoZs/file.html" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-38396429338928817322022-08-29T08:53:00.002-07:002022-08-29T08:54:11.691-07:00Live Wire - No Fright 1980<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEFr2NNccHG8KSRBXxzgh8ffqRzbVl9jIX_58MHZZrFbyuxvYKyEx_GQzGoR5FX-5L9_EmS6GvVcqOErLT0GAbQiXfW-Cf10zYlttqwmIT6pEbaiDbNKFjvGr3u7Cig3ZeDAGya_35IOuN1EJ1cA7CwrOJALp0Ptjnlu4SABIX5Wvel_0OgmAWPh3/s1438/front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="1438" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEFr2NNccHG8KSRBXxzgh8ffqRzbVl9jIX_58MHZZrFbyuxvYKyEx_GQzGoR5FX-5L9_EmS6GvVcqOErLT0GAbQiXfW-Cf10zYlttqwmIT6pEbaiDbNKFjvGr3u7Cig3ZeDAGya_35IOuN1EJ1cA7CwrOJALp0Ptjnlu4SABIX5Wvel_0OgmAWPh3/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>An excellent and sadly overlooked British pub rock band that came along with the renewal in English rock from punk to new wave.<br />The band released three albums of top-notch riffy rock from 1979 to 1981. This is the band's second from 1980. If you're into riffy English pub rock, Live Wire is highly recommended. The group's bassist also visited Sniff'n The Tears, which can sometimes be compared to Live Wire, but this band sounded much tougher. Guitar-based rock like Dire Straits at their rockiest, but with the pub rock attitude.</p><p><br /></p>
<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/2oni3h92rwxg76c/" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/gkLvC" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-17550339759798999802022-08-29T08:45:00.000-07:002022-08-29T08:45:02.908-07:00David Bowie - ChangesNowBowie 2020<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzRbRtfYLozp8TCO-T2RbXJRWmWCJwVK_H_a2h176JX4RU1SP1f_jX8k9GeyQ2zIXg2t93yaCktsb984PFjpoJzCKQn_v1HhcniPQ-Si9XNgTSVV2NnookgSnlYaFcPLJlYYU2kEmu47vNZlywc0MfvaQIbhIu14aiewXCCFUzqwp7UGMo2s_od_U/s599/front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="599" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzRbRtfYLozp8TCO-T2RbXJRWmWCJwVK_H_a2h176JX4RU1SP1f_jX8k9GeyQ2zIXg2t93yaCktsb984PFjpoJzCKQn_v1HhcniPQ-Si9XNgTSVV2NnookgSnlYaFcPLJlYYU2kEmu47vNZlywc0MfvaQIbhIu14aiewXCCFUzqwp7UGMo2s_od_U/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This is not a singles/hits album like the other ‘Changes’ releases.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Instead, these are 1996 alternate performances of classic Bowie tracks and very good ones at that. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">They aren't better than the originals but instead offer a really nice alternate approach to the songs. AMG.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/9xne7p4h8gg6hyw/" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/af3co" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805497838599738522.post-70298075722708423742022-08-29T08:38:00.004-07:002022-08-29T08:38:54.882-07:00The Weight Band - World Gone Mad 2018<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxwL9a1VyU1Liw6C4FTy-btRFxg5QmguQxgjfaWC1Nn3svuo8RMvhMA1SiF8piZaVzuudsti8z1EVSCj-FeT2fo6oFFT-T5Mbp0pjzAe11fVVGFcCLThHndMHmsumvi7HaUJFk4XOU2NPUE7w2vJ8o_tGhlbNbLIGdegIxfzLw4wlFVr3TqJ9zj-7R/s1280/front.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxwL9a1VyU1Liw6C4FTy-btRFxg5QmguQxgjfaWC1Nn3svuo8RMvhMA1SiF8piZaVzuudsti8z1EVSCj-FeT2fo6oFFT-T5Mbp0pjzAe11fVVGFcCLThHndMHmsumvi7HaUJFk4XOU2NPUE7w2vJ8o_tGhlbNbLIGdegIxfzLw4wlFVr3TqJ9zj-7R/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: small;">Keeping the spirit and the music alive that helped define an era, members of The Weight Band were either actual players in The Band or are directly and deeply connected to their legacy. Touring nationally for the past four years featuring members of The Band, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, and Levon Helm's band. The Woodstock-based Weight Band is not a tribute to The Band but rather a continuation of where The Band and its members left off. Members include Jim Weider, Marty Grebb, Brian Mitchell, Albert Rogers, and Michael Bram Songs were written by The Band, Levon Helm and Colin Linden. Summer 2018, The Weight Band releases its first full-length, 11-track studio album World Gone Mad in Europe. It features eight original tracks, guest vocals, and slide guitar from Jackie Greene on a cover of a Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter song, and writing contributions from the late Levon Helm on previously unreleased songs. The Weight Band originated in 2013 inside the famed Woodstock, New York barn of Levon Helm when Jim Weider and Randy Ciarlante both former members of The Band performed Songs of The Band with Band founder, Garth Hudson, alongside Jimmy Vivino and Byron Isaacs. Inspired to carry on the legacy of the unforgettable rock group, Weider, Ciarlante, and Isaacs began performing fan favorites from The Band catalog to audiences across the country, inviting Marty Grebb and Brian Mitchell to complete their sound. The Weight Band later added Albert Rogers and Michael Bram to make up their current lineup with Weider, Mitchell, and Grebb. Together, after four years of touring, The Weight Band has recorded a new album of original material, capturing The Band's musical tradition and packaged it for today's vibrant Americana base. Released in Europe in September 2018, World Gone Mad is an Americana/Roots Rock masterpiece of the Woodstock sound.</span><p></p>
<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/bonhvborpkcql9s/" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">listen here</a> or <a href="https://www.imagenetz.de/i83U3" style="color: #d6c2c2;" target="_blank">here</a>Carloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097463390588093509noreply@blogger.com0