Move Away- the Killers Pleased to Meet you- Wolfmother It’s so Easy- Willy DeVille Beat on the Brat- U2 Do it for the Kids- Velvet Revolver Sonic Reducer- Dead Boys
————————————————————————- Take it off- the Donnas Assassins- Whore Du Jour That Great Love Sound- the Ravenettes Form a Straight line- Sugar Shack Summer (in B)- Buck-o-Nine 60 Revolutions- Gogol Bordello
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The Small Hours- Metallica
Hey Joe- Body Count
Testify- Rage Against the Machine
Mic Check- Rage Against the Machine Horny in a Hearse- Nekromantix Flowers are Slow- Nekromantix
Flaming Cheese- Red Elvises (live)
————————————————————————— Tummy Tum Tum- the Dollyrots Sybil Vane was ill- Girl in a Coma Cold War- the Charms The Wolf- the Charms
Baby Blue- Joan Jett & the Blackhearts I Drink- Southern Crush
This is the title of the new release by guitarist Richard Leo Johnson and percussionist Gregg Bendian (known as the leader of The Mahavishnu Project and Interzone. Off the mind bending CUNEIFORM RECORDS label, these artists work with “junk” percussion, cheap guitars purchased off eBay, field recordings and simple tape effects to make a down home, psychedelic good time listen. Not only are the instruments odd and varied, but the genres are explored from jazz, blues, folk and a dab of classical at times are compellingly maneuvered within and around one another. You can here so many of Johnson’s influences in this release, from Ralph Towner, Burt Ives, Robert Fripp, Delta and Piedmont blues, American and Japanese folk and minimalism all get a chance to shine through the notes. This album is filled with eccentric tunings, awesome sound manipulations and the great presence of the guitar have you lifted out of your shoes and flexing your ears to get a complete listen, it is one to listen to over and over. This album could seriously have you pushing your favorite records aside and bring emotional connections to Jimi Hendrix and John McLaughlin back with a simple push on the play button.
“In the future, there will be so much going on that no one will be able to keep track of it,” David Byrne says during the final song from The Knee Plays, a series of vignettes backed by brass band orchestrations composed in 1985 for Robert Wilson’s opera the CIVIL warS. Perhaps this prediction is best applied to the “Rennaisance Man of Rock” himself, who – in the span of a single week – will soon host an event dedicated to New York Bikers (Oct 6) and contribute to a public discussion with evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller (Oct. 10). And on Oct. 30, the very Knee Plays that doubt us will be available on CD, courtesy of Nonesuch, for the first time. Originally conceived as interludes for a multinational, six-part work inspired by Matthew Brady’s American Civil War photography, intended for use during 1984 Olympic Games, featuring music from Philip Glass and other composers, Music For The Knee Plays was eventually released on vinyl after Wilson’s opus failed to transpire in its entirety. However, Byrne performed the largely instrumental pieces a handful of times, with one London concert recorded by the BBC and — happily yet probably illegally — available almost in full on YouTube. Here’s play four, titled “Social Studies,” in which he considers the effects of stealing other people’s groceries.
According to Talking-Heads.net, the liner notes for Knee Plays states “This music was inspired by the Dirty Dozen Jazz Band of New Orleans” — a claim more apparent on songs like “In the Upper Room.” The upcoming CD will include eight unreleased cuts and a DVD with 400 black & white photographs of the production by JoAnn Verburg.
Music for the Knee Plays track list:
1. “Tree (Today Is An Important Occasion)”
2. “In the Upper Room”
3. “The Sound of Business”
4. “Social Studies”
5. “(The Gift of Sound) Where the Sun Never Goes Down”
6. “Theadora Is Dozing”
7. “Admiral Perry”
8. “I Big You Goodnight”
9. “Things To Do (I’ve Tried)”
10. “Winter”
11. “Jungle Book”
12. “In the Future”
13. “Tree (Reprise)” (previously unreleased)
14. “I’ve Tried (Things To Do)” (previously unreleased)
15. “Tic Toc 2 (In the Future)” (previously unreleased)
16. “Whisper” (previously unreleased)
17. “Misterias” (previously unreleased)
18. “Faust Dance” (previously unreleased)
19. “Ghost” (previously unreleased)
20. “Super Natural” (previously unreleased)
Zona Mona- Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Shuba Yatra- Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Ralph’s Banjo Special- D. Grisman/S. Bush
From the Bottom up- Dayna Kurtz
Midnight Man- the Allman Brothers Christy Leigh- Pedro Arevalo & Friends Nebula- Intergalactic Transmitter No Better Way- Donna Jean & the Tricksters (live) High Guy- David Gans
————————————————————————– Good Luck Chuck- the Dandy Warhols Bela Lugosi’s Dead- Bauhaus Crystallize It- Strings of Consciousness In a Hole- Brazz Tree
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Envy no Good- Mercury Dana Band
Sweeper Soul- Super Mambo 69 Baba- Global Drum Project Bamana Niya- Toubab Krewe (live) 7 Seconds- Youssou N’Dour/Neneh Cherry
————————————————————————— Softly as in a Morning Sunrise- Bring Back Pluto
Golden Isles Groove- Skeebo Knight
Technicolor Nightmare- Christian McBride
NY:Insane Inside the City- Stan Harrison Baby Elephants n’ Thangs- Baby Elephants w/George Clinton Ghetto Street- DumpstaPhunk (live) Don’t Mess With Mr. T- James Taylor Quartet
What can be said that hasn’t been….for me, the show usually begins when Victor Wooten gets his bass some “alone time” on stage. Not to disappoint, this bass space was far-reaching, oft-exploratory and bone-a-fide funky at times. Jeff Coffin kept reminding me why sax is so damn good. Just imagine the Flecktones without it. Yeah, I agree. Where o’ Where are you tonight….Futureman is one cool cat (check out my past interview with Roy Wooten) with his unique blending of percussive magic from this world and beyond I found myself happily lost from thoughts other than “the moment” while he worked his art in front of our eyes. Speaking of right in front of our eyes, Bela Fleck can make his fingers appear like they wiggle and jive right in front of you, wherever you sit or stand at a show. He not only uses those banjo strings to play to us, but thankfully has found a way to use those strings to bring us to the music…with so much to take out of a Flecktones show, I really got a kick out of the rendition of the Beatles “Come Together“, just so perfectly true on that night.
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In September of 2007 Central Control International will be unveiling Strings of Consciousness onto the wider-world. The first breath for this being started as a small group of musicians from Marseilles, France, the ensemble expanded by recruiting like-minded musicians from across the Globe. Their unique sound has been likened to latter-day Talk Talk, Angelo Badalamenti, Do Make Say Think, Tortoise and Arab Strap ñ often in the same sentence. Our Moon Is Full features vocal collaborations from J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus), Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Lisa Smith-Klossner, Pete Simonelli (Enablers), Black Sifichi and BA. There are minutes during this album where I consumed more than I was ready for and had to start over, it made for an interesting listen, like when your teacher was taken with a cold and lead class with a whisper. You were compelled to listen MORE. This is an album to let yourself swim inside of, go towards the deep end and float away.
Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha has completed his debut solo album, which was seven years in the making. De La Rocha collaborated closely with The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore, and Billboard.com quotes a source that says it sounds like “Led Zeppelin meets Dr. Dre.” Since leaving the band in 2000, De La Rocha has worked with several artists including DJ Shadow and Trent Reznor, but it is not yet known if these artists will feature on the album. The report also reveals that some of the album was recorded at an eco-friendly studio in Los Angeles, owned by Jack Johnson. Since De La Rocha is currently unsigned, a release date is unconfirmed.
Meanwhile, reunited Rage Against The Machine play the following shows this fall:
New Orleans, LA City Park (Voodoo Music Experience) (October 27)
Las Vegas, NV Sam Boyd Stadium (Vegoose Festival) (28)
West Africa never felt so close as it did on Sunday night when Toubab Krewe took the stage at the High Noon Saloon in Madison. There is some kind of wonderful happening when the cultures of a roots-centric West Africa and the rockin’ of the rolling hills in North Carolina collide in a rhythmic force so powerful you can feel the earth take a breath of contentment. The soles of people bare feet were in step with the beats of a sound so “in the now” that you could almost see people embark as if they stepped foot in the transporter room on Star Trek. The band sweats out exploration and expansion, and the music that follows them on the stage beams with excitement and demands that you move along whichever way you choose. They have been features at venues such as the Bonnaroo and Vegoose festivals to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Their live shows and self-titled debut album have won international acclaim from the New York Times, Global Rhythm, fRoots, NPR and more. The members of Toubab Krewe developed their unique sound over the course of numerous extended trips to Mali, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, where they immersed themselves in the local culture and studied and performed with luminaries such as Lamine Soumano, Vieux Kante, Madou Dembele and Koungbanan Conde.
Opening the show was Yawo. The set was an elaborate blend of afro-cuban beats and funky scales which took potions of his Togo, West African homeland and global rhythms which manage to combine luscious melodies with a get-up-and-groove music that won over the crowd easily.
Leugdeu Monhzeu- Gino Sitson feat. Ron Carter La Shea’s Walk- Carl Allen/Rodney Whitaker Cut & Paste- Ron Carter Footprints- Michael Wolfe Trio Smokin’ a Half Note- Mark Mosley
—————————————————————————- Experience in E- Weather Report Directions (take 1) Weather Report*
—————————————————————————- Cosmic Strut- the Mahavishnu Project
Vector Patrol- Projekct Two Hoarded Dreams (part1)- Graham Collier 12 Planets- Doctor Phibes Station 9- Nebelnest Not From Around Here- Far Corner Chinese Twilight Zone- the Microscopic Septet Mofongo Raincheck- Secretary
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Miller Time- Victor Wooton/Marcus Miller (live)
Tease- G.Howe/V.Wooten/D.Chambers Game is Rigged- Vernon Reid & Masque Floratone- Frisell/Chamberlain
Pemble’s Tremble- Mark Elf
Clinton Park- Melvin Sparks
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This is the solo project by Moist Paula Henderson, frontwoman and baritone sax player from New York’s all-instrumental trio Moisturizer. On the album, she plays all the instruments…she is the sound. Secret Life Of Secretary is improvisation, vocal layering, Garage Band loop manipulation, and total avant-electro. It is easy to relate to if you have a pulse that beats to a different drummer, or in this case a Baritone Sax. This album not only takes sounds and makes them fit into empty spots on a puzzle left behind when others could finds the pieces, but it provides the listeners with a collision of olfactory stimulations and a smash of unseen colors that I believe she created alone in her room with a “typing” effect that is true to herself. On this album, I feel that Paula has explored herself and found that not only can she play a saxophone that can knock your socks off and leave marks that you brag about to your friends, but also she is an exceptional writer that keeps perspective in her life. I had the chance to meet Paula when Burnt Sugar was in my neighborhood and we got to hang out a bit, and let me tell you this….the person is as keen as the sound is remarkable. Her aura swept me off my feet and her playing keeps me dancing with open thoughts about where music, THIS music, can take me.
You’d do yourself right by getting a copy of this album. It is available NOW via mail order and at cdbaby, itunes and all the regular outlets of your choosing.
Pioneering Austrian jazz pianist Joe Zawinul was one of the front runners in the development of jazz fusion along with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin and Miles Davis. Best known as the founder of the band Weather Report, with Miroslav Vitous and Wayne Shorter with whom he had previously recorded two albums as part of Davis’ studio band, in his final years he headed the ensemble called The Zawinul Syndicate.Mr. Zawinul is often credited with aiding revolutionary fretless bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius rise to popularity by giving him the position as bassist for Weather Report in the mid 1970s. Pastorus debuted on the track Cannonball, which is a tribute to Cannonball Adderley.Several artists have honoured Zawinul with songs, notably Brian Eno‘s instrumental “Zawinul/Lava”, McLaughlin’s instrumental “Jozy” and Warren Cuccurullo’s “Hey Zawinul“. Zawinul, along with Corea and Hancock, was one of the first to integrate electric pianos and early synthesizers like the ARP 2600 in 1973’s Sweetnighter. He was among the first to use a Fender-Rhodes with a Phasing effect and a Wah-Wah pedal. His creativity and attention to detail resulted in a very contemporary and modern sound. He also has played the kalimba on Weather Report’s Mysterious Traveller and Mr. Gone. Classically trained at the Vienna Conservatoire, Zawinul played in various broadcasting and studio bands before emigrating to the U.S. in 1959, where he played with Maynard Ferguson and Dinah Washington before joining the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1961. Zawinul’s biggest commercial success [citation needed] came from his composition “Birdland”, a 6-minute opus featured on Weather Report’s 1977 album Heavy Weather. “Birdland” is one of the most recognizable jazz pieces of the 1970s, covered by many prominent artists from The Manhattan Transfer to Maynard Ferguson. Even Weather Report’s version received significant mainstream radio airplay — unusual for them — and served to convert many new fans to music which they may never have heard otherwise.
Zawinul was hospitalized in his native Vienna on August 7, 2007, only one week after concluding a six-week tour in Hungary. He died of cancer on September 11, 2007.
I really dig this video. I always wished to have had the chance to see Tito Puente play live. That wish never quite came true. I have seen Sheila E. in a live setting and she is more talented than stunning. I hope this drumming sequence fills your Latin Jazz amazement fix for the day.
Here is this weeks mock set list by request from overseas. Hopefully the weather where you are is conducive to smiling faces and a creative mind-flow….Maybe some of this will help:
Zitherbell- Natacha Atlas & Marc Eagleton Project
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Sexual Alchemy- LadyBug Mecca
Centre of Nowhere- LadyBug Mecca
Nickel Bags- Digable Planets Impossible & Overwhelming- Bassnectar What’s the Time- The Littlemen Cosmic Melody- Mark Farina
Make Love to Dub- Mad Professor/Ariwa Artists
So ma guisee- Mo’ Horizons
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Shakara- Fela Kuti Mali Sadjo- Toubab Krewe Late Night Call- The Pietasters Fozzy (part 1)- The Pietasters Papa- Angelique Kidjo
Maria Jose- Kinky
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Disciples of Funk(return of the Funkateers)-Bootsy’s Rubber Band Los Bandidos- Cameron Mizell The Whipper-Cameron Mizell Swimming Pool of Bliss- Green Light Something at my Feet- Davis Coen
Treat Yo Mama- the John Butler trio Slow Down Sugar- John Lisi & Delta Funk Bright Lights, Big City- Umphrey’s McGee* Atmosfarag- Umphrey’s McGee*
That Old Black Magic- Dr. John
——————————————————————— Moonchild- Cibo Matto Know Your Chicken- Cibo Matto Big Bang- Swati Believe in Love- Jacnique Little Bird- Sara Wasserman/Christian McBride Numb- Portishead
———————————————————————- The Pusher- Nina Simone (live)
The signature sound of The Chicken Chokers combines a string pounding 4-man rhythm section, ever-crazed fiddling, infamous ‘air-raid siren’ vocals, and the hallmark Chicken Choker Big Boy Chorus. Throughout the 80’s the Chokers entertained many, influenced a select few, and recorded 2 albums for Rounder Records before exploding in all musical directions. Recent twenty year reunions reveal that the Choker Drive survived the explosion. Combining the unvarnished, primitive energy of the early years with sound scrapbooks from 5 separate musical journeys, the band endures, still inspiring amateur dancers and professional revelers to higher states of consciousness. This album is kind to your ears and your feet at the same time. It is a blend of ten recognizable tracks with one original, yet with the Chokers’ twist to some of these ole favorites, you’ll be heading off on your own musical explosion. Be warned…this album comes complete with strings attached.
Talk about down-tempo tres chic pop that can chill out the warmest of listeners. This eclectic, multi-instrumental SoCal-based trio that likens their distinct sound to “an experiment in Latin, blues, trip-hop and soul.” UNA has left a mark with me by the Portishead/Morcheeba sound-a-like moments with just as much trip as hop and soul. If UNA is the focus at any local or near -enough-bye chillout club, get there and be ready to groove graciously, with slow rhythms and conscious beats…aware yet never over dominant. Who/What is UNA? Jazz/electronic explorers combining the sultry voice of Jennifer Cook with the inspired keyboards and guitar of The Mighty One (Richard Larsen), and the down-tempo turntables of Eddie Barajas. I have a good feeling and a sneaky suspicion that listening to this album, ONE by UNA, will make you the cool kid on the block.
Passion Dance- McCoy Tyner Quartet
Conductor 71- Fujiya & Miyagi Let There Be Light- Zohar
Tala Matrix- Tabla Beat Science (live in S.F) Funky in the Middle- Nickodemus Give the Drummer Some- Nickodemus
—————————————————————— Back in Black- Robot Goes Here Half Time- Mogwai My Brain is Hanging Upside Down- The Ramones Born Permanently Cool- The Key Party
Whichside- Leiana Kitten Next Door- A Brokenheart Pro Talk Dirty To Me- JUNIOR Totally Awesome- Honchie
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Easy Motion Tourist- King Sunny Ade E’mma- Toure Kunda Pata Pata- Miriam Makeba
Como soy Cubano- Habana Abierta Keep Your Culture- Corey Harris Let them Knock- Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
—————————————————————— Flesh Shapes the Day- the Nightwatchman Pray- the Book of Knots feat. Tom Waits Oh Georgey- Holmes Fire on the Ocean- Jesse Harris Anni Kookoo- Xavier Rudd The Sun is Shining Down- JJ Grey & Mofro
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The Myth- JazzHOPRevolution Everything’s Different- Zeph & Azeem Underground For Dummies- Sage Francis
