Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Schnittke, Alfred
Artist: Schnittke, Alfred
Genre(s):
Classical
Soundtrack
Discography:
String Quartet N3 (Kronos Quartet)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 3
String Quartet N2 (Kronos Quartet)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
Cello Sonatas (Alexander Ivashkin, cello - I. Schnittke, piano)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Schnittke, Alfred - Film Music
Year: 1994
Tracks: 28
Symphony no.1
Year: 1992
Tracks: 5
Konzert Fur Viola Und Orcheste
Year: 1992
Tracks: 3
Schnittke - Concerto Grosso N1
Year: 1988
Tracks: 2
Symphony No. 4
Year:
Tracks: 1
Symphony No. 2 (Rozhdestvensky)
Year:
Tracks: 6
Symphony No 3
Year:
Tracks: 4
Kontsert Dlya Al'ta S Orkestro
Year:
Tracks: 1
Dedication To Igor Stravinsky, Sergej Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich
Year:
Tracks: 1
Concerto Grosso ¹2 Dlya Skripk
Year:
Tracks: 1
Concerto Grosso 1
Year:
Tracks: 1
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Sunday, 22 June 2008
Ana Popovic
Artist: Ana Popovic
Genre(s):
Blues
Other
Discography:
Comfort To The Soul
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Hush!
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
If you're non a vapors purist, you'll love the perfervid, passionate playing and singing of Yugoslavian blues-rock guitar player, vocalist, and songwriter Ana Popovic. Thanks to her father, the Belgrade-raised Popovic was introduced to the vapours at an early age, through his varied phonograph recording accumulation and throng sessions hosted at the Popovic abode. Born on May 13, 1976, Popovic took up guitar when she was a stripling and formed her low gear band, Hush, in 1995. Within a year, with the burst of Communism in Eastern Europe, she was playing vapors festivals in Greece and Hungary and on the job as an opening act for American vapours edgar Lee Masters, including Junior Wells.
Popovic recorded her debut album with Hush in 1999, when she as well affected to the Netherlands to subject field jazz guitar and mankind and pop music at the Conservatory of Music. She had the chance to take care blues guitarist Bernard Allison at a club in Germany. He asked her to come onstage and jam at the end of the show. While Allison invited Popovic to join him on a spell, she had to make back to the Jazz Academy in Holland. Allison asked for a copy of Popovic's record with Hush, and he sent it on to executives at Ruf Records in Germany, wHO were impressed with Popovic's powerful guitar playacting and telling. Ruf contacted her to be percentage of their Jimi Hendrix tribute compiling, and then signed her to a recording sell of her possess.
Various months after this, she was on her path to Memphis to record Hush! The album was well standard by vapors wireless programmers and the non-blues purist segments of the American, European, and Canadian vapours fete circuits. In the spring of 2001, she performed at the Memphis in May Festival alongside Bob Dylan, the Black Crowes, and Ike Turner. Within five age of going away Yugoslavia, Popovic, at present in her late twenties, had the probability to do at many of the major European vapours festivals, including Peer, Bishopstock, and Notodden. Along the room she's sabbatum in with the likes of Allison, Michael Hill, and Kenny Neal.
Popovic has two albums out on the New Jersey-based Ruf Records America label, Hush!, released in 2000, and Comfort to the Soul, her 2003 button. Jim Gaines and David Z., wHO have worked with early blues-rockers, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana, and Jonny Lang, had roles in recording and admixture both albums. Five of Popovic's sparkling originals polish on Comfort to the Soul, including her homage to the tragic life-time of jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius, divine by a book she read, as well as the album's opening track, "Don't Bear Down on Me (I'm Here to Steal the Show)." She too provides inspired, imaginative covers of Howlin' Wolf's "Seance on Top of the World" and Steely Dan's "Night by Night."
Popovic guests on Hill's 2003 two-disc Galvanic Storyland live album. In 2003, Popovic was nominative for a W.C. Handy Blues Award for Best New Artist of the Year and was the commencement European creative person to do at the Handy Awards. Two years later, Popovic released her commencement alive endeavour, Ana! Live in Amsterdam.
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Saturday, 21 June 2008
Acrimony
Artist: Acrimony
Genre(s):
Metal: Doom
Metal
Discography:
Tumuli Shroomaroom
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
Hymns to the stone
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Formed in Wales in 1991, Acrimony included vocaliser Dorian Walters, guitarists Stuart O'Hara and Lee Davies, bassist Paul 'Mead' Bidmead, and drummer Darren Ivey. Exponents of typical mid-'90s lapidator john Rock, they combined Black Sabbath's heavy metal riffery, Hawkwind's space stone excursions, and Blue Cheer's fuzzed-out psychedelic feedback with extreme doses of mass, and were peculiarly remindful of abandon alloy gods Kyuss. After circulating a few demo tapes, the band signed with independent Godhead Records for their debut record album, 1994's Hymns to the Stone, and its followup E.P., 1995's The Acid Elephant. Taking it to the succeeding point, they then joined leading doom mark Peaceville, and proceeded to record their minor masterpiece, 1996's critically acclaimed Tumuli Shroomaroom, which duly earned a perfect five "K's" from British metal book Kerrrang! magazine publisher. Album sales were unsatisfying, however, and Acrimony shortly became shocked by the label's lack of support and distinct to disband at the end of 1997. Rumors once in a while had them reuniting towards the end of the '90s, simply nil ever came of them.
Friday, 20 June 2008
Billy Cobham & Asere, De Cuba Y De Panama
Born in 1944 in Panama, Billy Cobham first gained fame for his contributions to Miles Davis' electric jazz albums in the first half of the 1970s, most notably on A Tribute To Jack Johnson, Bitches Brew and Live Evil. From there he became the percussive powerhouse that drove the Mahavishnu Orchestra. His first solo album, Spectrum still stands as a brilliant meeting of jazz, funk and rock, part of it sampled very clearly by Massive Attack for the opening track of their debut, Blue Lines.
In recent years Cobham has focused increasingly on his own output as leader. De Cuba y De Panama is a collaboration between the drummer and Asere that was organised by Womad in Spain in 2002. Asere are a young group from Havana who are one of the leading lights of the Cuban Son movement. Son Cubano, originating in the eastern part of Cuba, can be traced back to the 16th century and combines Spanish canción, Spanish guitar with African percussive rhythms.
As its title implies, this music is a hybrid of Cuban, Latin and jazz music and in part represents Cobham's exploration of his roots - though born in Panama, he departed with his parents for New York at the tender age of three. The music throughout is a pleasure: melodic, clear-sighted and full of warmth. Panama and Hoja, Otono Y Flor are sustained pieces awash with languorous guitar, trumpet and percussion, while the likes of Decir Asere raise the temperature with impassioned vocals and faster tempos.
Cobham's performance on De Cuba y De Panama may surprise those familiar with his signature, muscular style. Here he's a tender and sensitive contributor who never dominates. Nevertheless he plays a key role in an ensemble that has produced a highly enjoyable debut.
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New Clear Sky
Artist: New Clear Sky
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Serenity MCD
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
Newer Clearer
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
 
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A Roundabout revival of 'Streamers' revisits the Vietnam War
NEW YORK - Off-Broadway revisits the Vietnam War with a Roundabout Theatre Company revival of David Rabe's "Streamers," which first rocked New York more than 30 years ago.
The play concerns four young recruits awaiting deployment to Vietnam and the tensions that explode as they confront what could happen to their lives. The Roundabout production, directed by Scott Ellis, will open Nov. 11 at its Laura Pels Theatre. Preview performances begin Oct. 17.
It is based on a production Ellis directed last year at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company and uses the same cast, which includes Hale Appleman, Larry Clarke, Ato Essandoh, Brad Fleischer, Charlie Hewson, John Sharian and J.D. Williams.
"Streamers" originally opened at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in 1976 and ran for more than 400 performances.
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On the Net: www.roundabouttheatre.org.
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Veneficum
Artist: Veneficum
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Enigma Prognosis
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
 
'Weird' Al hoping to catch a viral wave
DETROIT -- As a parodist, "Weird" Al Yankovic notes "timing is off the essence." So the accordion-playing artist, who has lampooned "Star Wars," Michael Jackson, Chamillionaire and Queen, is hoping to use viral tools in the near future to keep things even fresher.
"Certainly there is the possibility of me being a lot more topical," Yankovic said. "Before I would have to wait until I was getting ready to put an album out and hope I'd be able to latch onto something that was topical and timely -- and even then it would be a couple months before I'd be able to get an album in stores.
"Now, with iTunes and portals like that, ostensibly I could come up with an idea, record it and get it out in the marketplace within a week. That's exciting."
Yankovic said he's having "an ongoing discussion" with his label, the Zomba Music Group subsidiary Volcano, about ways to achieve that.
"I don't have a deal in place with my record label right now where that would make sense," Yankovic acknowledged, "but the technology is obviously there, and that's a direction I could certainly see my career going if we could figure out how to make that particular paradigm work."
Yankovic has plenty to keep him busy in the meantime. He launches a nine-week summer tour June 27 in Henderson, Nev., and has been taking time off for family and remodeling a home he recently bought in Hawaii.
He said he also "took a few minutes off to do a few projects which I can't really talk about yet, but they'll be coming out in the next year;" one of those, he said, "is a film which incorporates a little bit of music."
As for his next album, Yankovic -- whose 2006 release, "Straight Outta Lynwood," was his first top 10 album ever -- said "it's planned in a very broad sense, but I've given very little thought to it. I've kind of slowed down a bit as I've gotten older. I don't quite have the fire in my belly like I did when I was 23. I don't put out albums every year; now it's like every three or four years. But I'd like to do another album, and I'm sure my record label would like me to as well, and that certainly is the plan."