 Artist: Orion: mp3 download Genre(s): Trance: Psychedelic Drum & Bass Orion's discography:  Futuristic Poetry Year: 2005 Tracks: 9  Subtitles (SUBTITLES034) Year: 2004 Tracks: 2  Futursic Poetry Year: 1997 Tracks: 8 The music industry is filled with many strange tales of artists whose lives took unexpected turns on the meandering route to success, only the saga of isaac Merrit Singer Jimmy Ellis is perchance one of the weirdest of them all. He was professionally known as Orion, and his double-edged holler to fame was that his natural speaking and singing voice sounded most precisely like that of Elvis Presley. Ellis hailed from Orrville, Alabama and began his recording life history in 1964. In 1972, he worked for Sun Records (Presley's label) with producer Shelby Singleton in Nashville. His first deuce singles were covers of 2 of the King's onetime hits, "That's All Right" and "Aristocratical Moon of Kentucky." The unusual share of the narrative began in January, 1979 when source Gail Brewer-Giorgio received a outlandish early morn speech sound call in. Two age before she had begun a novel around a musical genius, Orion, wHO faked his possess death to happen much-needed peace and secrecy, based on the circumstances encompassing Elvis' death. The mystic earphone call came from a stranger with a Presley-like voice, claiming to be Orion. A year prior, Jimmy Ellis' voice had been overdubbed with Jerry Lee Lewis on an sure-enough single from the Sun archives, "Salvage the Last Dance for Me; " on it, Ellis was billed alone as "Friend." The single made the Top 20 and caused quite a excite as listeners tested to imagine the secret "Friend's" identity. An album featuring the duo came forbidden and the contention actually heated up when Good Morning America had the Friend's voice "scientifically scanned and analyzed" and over that it could be no nonpareil just Presley. Giorgio's book had just issue forth verboten, so Singleton decided to john Cash in on its popularity and transform Jimmy Ellis into the mystic "Orion" world Health Organization had phoned the author sooner that year. Ellis' pilus and long sideburns were bleached black, and he dressed in a loud, bejeweled polyester jumpsuits, with a mask to protect him from half-crazed fans. "Orion" recorded a single, "Ebony Eyes," for Sun in 1979, which became parting of his debut album, Born-again. The album overlay itself generated controversy because it depicted a fantasm vocalizer rising from a coffin, and was afterward withdrawn. He released two more albums in 1980; the one-third, Threesome Plus, featured Orion's voice overdubbed on old cuts with Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Charlie Rich. The albums were quite popular, and Orion had three Top 70 hits, including "Am I That Easy to Forget." He had four minor hits the following year, including the contemporary rockabilly song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," originally recorded by the rock grouping Queen. Ellis continued recording and acting through and through 1983 as Orion, and scored only one more minor hit in front nerve-racking to expose his Sun undertake to become a accepted performing artist in his have proper. While playacting at the Eastern States Exposition, Ellis took cancelled the mask and swore to never have on it once more. Unfortunately, despite the fact that most of the songs he recorded were not covers of Elvis songs, he could non escape the eldritch similarities betwixt their natural voices. At one point he even released the single "I'm Trying Not to Sound Like Elvis." During his time with Sun, Ellis/Orion cut over 11 albums and toured with the Oak Ridge Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other stars like Dionne Warwick. As Jim Ellis, he released an album in 1987 and continued to spell North America; interestingly, he resumed wearing his block out. On December 12, 1998, Jimmy Ellis was dig and killed by a humankind wHO was robbing his pawnshop in Alabama. |
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Thursday, 28 August 2008
MacDonald not celebrating 21st birthday
Amy MacDonald has admitted that she will not be celebrating her natal day next week.
The Scottish isaac Bashevis Singer turns 21 on Monday, but months of international promotion for her debut album This Is The Life sustain left MacDonald too exhausted to design a party.
"I'm knackered. I won't be celebrating at all," MacDonald told the Daily Record. "Whenever I get time I want to nap. Maybe individual will throw me a surprise, simply I'm not sure how likely that is."
This Is The Life has just been released in the US, but MacDonald is exquisite to quash comparisons to fellow Brits Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Adele, wHO have all achieved success Stateside.
She aforementioned: "I was never the next anybody. Mine was never the 'you must listen to this' disc. It's scarcely natural."
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The Scottish isaac Bashevis Singer turns 21 on Monday, but months of international promotion for her debut album This Is The Life sustain left MacDonald too exhausted to design a party.
"I'm knackered. I won't be celebrating at all," MacDonald told the Daily Record. "Whenever I get time I want to nap. Maybe individual will throw me a surprise, simply I'm not sure how likely that is."
This Is The Life has just been released in the US, but MacDonald is exquisite to quash comparisons to fellow Brits Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Adele, wHO have all achieved success Stateside.
She aforementioned: "I was never the next anybody. Mine was never the 'you must listen to this' disc. It's scarcely natural."
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Monday, 18 August 2008
Daddy Yankee
Daddy Yankee's studio is located in a modest house that looks just like whatever other in Carolina, a town on the outskirts of San Juan, Puerto Rico that is home to the reggaeton movement. Inside, it's a dissimilar story. There's an expensive, design-conscious look to the floors, walls, soundproofed cream-colored wood and the glass-enclosed booth equipped with the latest sound technology. Construction materials ar still gap around the building as the restoration continues merely Yankee (whose real make is Ramon Ayala) has recently absorbed up another major contrive: "Talento de Barrio."
"Barrio," which he produced and stars in and which tells a story of the Puerto Rican barrio, had its premier at last month's New York Latino Film Festival and is slated for release in theaters in September. The soundtrack, which includes Yankee's hit single, "Pose", dropped August 12 on Machete Records.
"What can your fans expect to hear on the "Talento de Barrio soundtrack"?
This album reflects my personal taste. I don't limit myself as an artist, and I have no musical limits whatsoever, I explore every kind of music. There are artists who remain faithful to one sound. Not me. In essence, this is a musical trip through reggaeton, hip hop, vallenato, merengue, rock, soca, bachata and bounce, combined with the electro pop and dance on "Pose". All of the songs are new and I think that they will be equally well received by purists and the most cutting edge fans.
The sound of "Pose" is a surprise for people who still identify you with pure reggaeton, what's in the mix?
It's difficult to classify that song, and the proof is that it's already being played on thousands of radio stations, whether they're pop, hip hop or reggaeton.
We made a fusion using latin music, hip hop, electro, and dance, we used so many things in that song that it came out as something really innovative, totally new.
Every time I release a new single, it's always the same phenomenon -- it happened with "La Gasolina" "Rompe, "Impacto." People say, "But what is this? What is Yankee up to now? This is a musical revolution." Then they get it and understand the message, that it is an innovation and that I'm an artist who doesn't just stick to any one genre.
As the principal ambassador of reggaeton in Puerto Rico and the whole world, where do you think reggaeton is going?
I think the urban genre is in its best moment in terms of its internationalization. We're moving into a world that's more complex and sophisticated, because as you get in to other markets you have to assume that there are fans from different cultures and so you have to pay attention to their tastes as well. That means when I'm putting a song together I can't just be thinking about what Puerto Ricans. Now I have to be aware of the varied tastes of the international public.
I think big and you can see that in my videos, hear it in my lyrics and in my musical fusions. You can see it in the people I work with and at my shows. When you're carrying the torch you have to be out ahead all the time, and everyone follows your lead. If I stop, the movement stops. I'm not saying that in an egocentric way. In this genre, let's suppose that the first name that's going to be mentioned is mine. So you have a responsibility that comes with that, to represent the genre all the time, not one hundred percent, but one thousand percent, because you're the international face [of reggaeton].
You play the central character, Edgar Dinero, in the movie "Talento de Barrio." How was your experience acting in a film for the first time?
There's no one as happy as me in the world right now. The truth is, I lost sleep during the filming of the movie because it was my first time acting and I was worried about doing it right. We spent about seven months filming in the Gautier de Caguas projects and we were really suported by the people who live there. The production took a long time because of my commitments outside of Puerto Rico. There were no known actors. We used the artists who are in the movie because they took the roles where they need to be: real. Among the actors were Maestro, Voltio, Eddie D, Pedro Prez, Gringo, Glory, and my back-up singer Cochy.
What is the movie about?
It's about a guy who moves in the streets, who doesnt know that he has a talent that is going to help him out of the low life. What he really likes is music and one day he starts singing and his friend thinks he really has talent. Little by little, he starts taking his singing career seriously but his past won't let him go. Drugs, crime, life in the barrio and hope are all themes in the movie.
What is the principal message that you'd like people to take away from this film?
There are poor, marginalized negihborhoods around the world where there are problems with drugs, and people in different cultures will be able to idenitfy with it. What I want them to remember from "Talento de Barrio" is that there is a way out and they should never lose hope.
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"Barrio," which he produced and stars in and which tells a story of the Puerto Rican barrio, had its premier at last month's New York Latino Film Festival and is slated for release in theaters in September. The soundtrack, which includes Yankee's hit single, "Pose", dropped August 12 on Machete Records.
"What can your fans expect to hear on the "Talento de Barrio soundtrack"?
This album reflects my personal taste. I don't limit myself as an artist, and I have no musical limits whatsoever, I explore every kind of music. There are artists who remain faithful to one sound. Not me. In essence, this is a musical trip through reggaeton, hip hop, vallenato, merengue, rock, soca, bachata and bounce, combined with the electro pop and dance on "Pose". All of the songs are new and I think that they will be equally well received by purists and the most cutting edge fans.
The sound of "Pose" is a surprise for people who still identify you with pure reggaeton, what's in the mix?
It's difficult to classify that song, and the proof is that it's already being played on thousands of radio stations, whether they're pop, hip hop or reggaeton.
We made a fusion using latin music, hip hop, electro, and dance, we used so many things in that song that it came out as something really innovative, totally new.
Every time I release a new single, it's always the same phenomenon -- it happened with "La Gasolina" "Rompe, "Impacto." People say, "But what is this? What is Yankee up to now? This is a musical revolution." Then they get it and understand the message, that it is an innovation and that I'm an artist who doesn't just stick to any one genre.
As the principal ambassador of reggaeton in Puerto Rico and the whole world, where do you think reggaeton is going?
I think the urban genre is in its best moment in terms of its internationalization. We're moving into a world that's more complex and sophisticated, because as you get in to other markets you have to assume that there are fans from different cultures and so you have to pay attention to their tastes as well. That means when I'm putting a song together I can't just be thinking about what Puerto Ricans. Now I have to be aware of the varied tastes of the international public.
I think big and you can see that in my videos, hear it in my lyrics and in my musical fusions. You can see it in the people I work with and at my shows. When you're carrying the torch you have to be out ahead all the time, and everyone follows your lead. If I stop, the movement stops. I'm not saying that in an egocentric way. In this genre, let's suppose that the first name that's going to be mentioned is mine. So you have a responsibility that comes with that, to represent the genre all the time, not one hundred percent, but one thousand percent, because you're the international face [of reggaeton].
You play the central character, Edgar Dinero, in the movie "Talento de Barrio." How was your experience acting in a film for the first time?
There's no one as happy as me in the world right now. The truth is, I lost sleep during the filming of the movie because it was my first time acting and I was worried about doing it right. We spent about seven months filming in the Gautier de Caguas projects and we were really suported by the people who live there. The production took a long time because of my commitments outside of Puerto Rico. There were no known actors. We used the artists who are in the movie because they took the roles where they need to be: real. Among the actors were Maestro, Voltio, Eddie D, Pedro Prez, Gringo, Glory, and my back-up singer Cochy.
What is the movie about?
It's about a guy who moves in the streets, who doesnt know that he has a talent that is going to help him out of the low life. What he really likes is music and one day he starts singing and his friend thinks he really has talent. Little by little, he starts taking his singing career seriously but his past won't let him go. Drugs, crime, life in the barrio and hope are all themes in the movie.
What is the principal message that you'd like people to take away from this film?
There are poor, marginalized negihborhoods around the world where there are problems with drugs, and people in different cultures will be able to idenitfy with it. What I want them to remember from "Talento de Barrio" is that there is a way out and they should never lose hope.
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Friday, 8 August 2008
Table Mountain Casino Welcomes Grammy Award Winner Boz Scaggs
Catch the New Spirit at Table Mountain Casino!
FRIANT, Calif., Aug. 1 -- Table Mountain Casino, voted the
2008 People's Choice Award Winner for Best Local Casino, continues to
ravish guests with another exciting entertainment know by presenting
Grammy Award winner Boz Scaggs, for a special one-night-only performance on
Monday August 11, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Scaggs, born in Texas and raised with an abiding regard for a wide
spectrum of American roots music, has combined rock, wind, R & B and blues
to create his trademark Boz Scaggs sound. His encompassing and typical
career began in the 1970s with the Steve Miller Band. For over thirty
long time, Scaggs has continued to prove himself as ane of music's most
creative and original artists.
"My first erotic love was the sound of a guitar and my earliest influences
were things I heard in my household," emphasised Scaggs. "My songwriting
and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole
and put my music together." Much to the delight of his enthusiastic fans,
Scaggs' dedication to his musical instincts has culminated in what have at once
become all-time Boz favorites such as, Lido Shuffle, Look What You've Done
to Me, Lo Down, Harbor Lights and, of course, the passionate and
consuming lyrics of We're All Alone.
John Mayewski, President and CEO of Table Mountain Casino is pleased to
take yet another top-performing headliner to the stage at Table Mountain.
He explained, "Our guests cause come to expect only if the best from our
concerts and that's what we are delivering ... the very c. H. Best! We will
continue with our ongoing line-up of outstanding entertainers; providing
unpaired performances for our audiences to enjoy."
Scaggs' concert is the latest in a serial of sold-out Table Mountain
shows that get recently included Heart, Ronnie Milsap, Liza Minelli, Huey
Lewis and the News and Blues Legend Bonnie Raitt.
As an added bonus for Boz Scaggs' concertgoers, the crowd will be
treated to an extra-special show-stopping event-ticketholders can win their
parcel of $4000 just for walking through the concert doors! As concertgoers
enter the show, they'll be given a beaded necklace with a number on the
front. Winning numbers game will be announced after the show and each number
called will gain $500*.
"Having earned the distinction of being named Number One Local Casino
truly sets us apart. We will continue to work hard to maintain Table
Mountain as the premier Entertainment Destination for our guests," promised
Mayewski.
Tickets for Scaggs' August 11, 2008 usher are useable at the Main
Casino Cage or at tmcasino.com. Prices ar $45 VIP, $35 Reserved, $25
General Admission. Members of The Club save $5, Platinum Members save $10.
No refunds, cameras or video recording. Must be 18 years or sr. to advert.
*Must be present to win.
About Table Mountain:
Table Mountain Casino is owned and operated by the Table Mountain
Rancheria Band of Indians who actively support many community-based
agencies and not-for-profit organizations serving residents of the Greater
Fresno area and the regional San Joaquin Valley community.
To instruct more around Table Mountain Casino, its community service
programs and current promotions, please inflict tmcasino.com.
More information
FRIANT, Calif., Aug. 1 -- Table Mountain Casino, voted the
2008 People's Choice Award Winner for Best Local Casino, continues to
ravish guests with another exciting entertainment know by presenting
Grammy Award winner Boz Scaggs, for a special one-night-only performance on
Monday August 11, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Scaggs, born in Texas and raised with an abiding regard for a wide
spectrum of American roots music, has combined rock, wind, R & B and blues
to create his trademark Boz Scaggs sound. His encompassing and typical
career began in the 1970s with the Steve Miller Band. For over thirty
long time, Scaggs has continued to prove himself as ane of music's most
creative and original artists.
"My first erotic love was the sound of a guitar and my earliest influences
were things I heard in my household," emphasised Scaggs. "My songwriting
and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole
and put my music together." Much to the delight of his enthusiastic fans,
Scaggs' dedication to his musical instincts has culminated in what have at once
become all-time Boz favorites such as, Lido Shuffle, Look What You've Done
to Me, Lo Down, Harbor Lights and, of course, the passionate and
consuming lyrics of We're All Alone.
John Mayewski, President and CEO of Table Mountain Casino is pleased to
take yet another top-performing headliner to the stage at Table Mountain.
He explained, "Our guests cause come to expect only if the best from our
concerts and that's what we are delivering ... the very c. H. Best! We will
continue with our ongoing line-up of outstanding entertainers; providing
unpaired performances for our audiences to enjoy."
Scaggs' concert is the latest in a serial of sold-out Table Mountain
shows that get recently included Heart, Ronnie Milsap, Liza Minelli, Huey
Lewis and the News and Blues Legend Bonnie Raitt.
As an added bonus for Boz Scaggs' concertgoers, the crowd will be
treated to an extra-special show-stopping event-ticketholders can win their
parcel of $4000 just for walking through the concert doors! As concertgoers
enter the show, they'll be given a beaded necklace with a number on the
front. Winning numbers game will be announced after the show and each number
called will gain $500*.
"Having earned the distinction of being named Number One Local Casino
truly sets us apart. We will continue to work hard to maintain Table
Mountain as the premier Entertainment Destination for our guests," promised
Mayewski.
Tickets for Scaggs' August 11, 2008 usher are useable at the Main
Casino Cage or at tmcasino.com. Prices ar $45 VIP, $35 Reserved, $25
General Admission. Members of The Club save $5, Platinum Members save $10.
No refunds, cameras or video recording. Must be 18 years or sr. to advert.
*Must be present to win.
About Table Mountain:
Table Mountain Casino is owned and operated by the Table Mountain
Rancheria Band of Indians who actively support many community-based
agencies and not-for-profit organizations serving residents of the Greater
Fresno area and the regional San Joaquin Valley community.
To instruct more around Table Mountain Casino, its community service
programs and current promotions, please inflict tmcasino.com.
More information
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Coldplay: "We'll Try and Copy Anyone"
Whoops.
Just as his band is accused of ripping off someone else's song, Coldplay's Chris Martin says in an interview that he and his bandmates are "the world's...
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Foundland
Artist: Foundland
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Everybody's Neighbour
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Foo Fighters - Grohl Denies Writing Letter To Metallica
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Oscar winner charged after fatal crash
Roger Avary, the Oscar-winning co-writer of 'Pulp Fiction', has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence after a fatal car crash northwest of Los Angeles.
Reuters reports that the crash occurred in the city of Ojai, 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Los Angeles, at about 1am on Sunday.
Thirty-four-year-old Andreas Zedini, a passenger in Avary's car, died of his injuries at a local hospital, Captain Monica McGrath of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department said.
Avary's 40-year-old wife, Gretchen, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Captain McGrath said Avary was released from jail after posting $50,000 bail.
Reuters reports that the crash occurred in the city of Ojai, 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Los Angeles, at about 1am on Sunday.
Thirty-four-year-old Andreas Zedini, a passenger in Avary's car, died of his injuries at a local hospital, Captain Monica McGrath of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department said.
Avary's 40-year-old wife, Gretchen, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Captain McGrath said Avary was released from jail after posting $50,000 bail.
Thursday, 29 May 2008
'German experimental rock scared the shit out of me'
Art of Noise - And What Have You Done With My Body, God? This four-disc mayhem is the missing link to my soul. Well one of them anyway. This avant-garde early 80s group really printed the colourful alchemical magic of sound science onto the young, impressionable Lidellian mind and it never really came out in the wash. Permanent stains might as well be a good name for this record. Listen out for all the sounds LCD Soundsystem ripped off. If the songs could speak, they would tell us: "them DIY punks that stole my heart and used the beat".
· Click here to download Moments in Love from the Art of Noise boxsetSun Ra - Singles Collection Welcome to history, or should I say HIS story. In this case a history of Sun Ra's early single releases that span the length and breadth of the Ra universe. You'll find Fletcher Henderson influenced big band workouts rubbing up next to crazy, I mean Krazy, rollers about Batman and spilling out onto the spacefloor with gems like Disco 3000. If I could, I'd bury myself in space dust and listen through my pores to this until I rot in peace.· Not available from iTunesCan - Tago Mago I don't know about you lot but I grew up wanting to smoke pipes like the big boys. It didn't really go so well though, until I found this record. To be honest the music - German experimental rock - scared the shit out of me at first. It was something I knew the world held for me, the ghosts all swimming in a sort of pinky yellow shroom haze. Slowly I started to chop and sample this music, and only then could I lose my fear of it. I started to blow smoke through it. It started to be my friend. A spirit guide. soul herder. I heard it again recently and it felt like slipping into an old shoe, a shoe made of every smoke I've ever had.· Click here to download Bring Me Coffee or Tea from the album Tago MagoParliament - Osmium I don't know of any other record that stacks bagpipes on soul. This fucker has enough raw power to burn all vegetation to the sky: smoke stacks as high as the stratosphere will surely rain their funk dust on the inhabitants of all galaxies with ears. I'll be over there somewhere, sucking on cinnamon. Seriously though, people might not realise the sheer power of this band. They should. This is a black hot poker for your ass. Feel the burn.· Click here to download Funky Women from the album OsmiumMinnie Ripperton - Perfect Angel The cover to this record alone is enough to wash away the smell of seaweed from the soul. Minnie was another one of a string of artists that passed away too soon. She is one of those people that you try to lay back and imagine: how was she? How sweet must her soul have been? I've heard this album described as a gift of love for all the world to see, which is pretty close I'd say. Feel the gift.· Click here to download the song Perfect AngelRaymond Scott - Manhattan Research This is a compilation of the unique soul that is Mr Scott. An electronic pioneer in the 50s and 60s, Scott not only invented machines but knew how to coax beautiful music from them. Huge walls of military surplus oscillators and pieces of tape machines adorn his studio in the tantalising pictures one finds in the booklet of this bumper comp. The sounds are clearly from another dimension and shimmer away beautifully, like spirits caught in a Ghostbusters trap ready to be unleashed by that play button. A man of many talents, Scott was an inventor and businessman and his works were featured in many a jingling advert of the time. These money-spinners feature on this two-disc set and offer a sweet glimpse into the mindset of the radio industry back then. Anything that stood out from the crowd was encouraged and Scott was the one who knew what it meant to satisfy the call for "the weirder the better" ... there's an advert for a telephone company that pretty much just has a high pitch tone running the duration. It's utter madness. And utter genius ...· Song not available from iTunes· Jamie Lidell's album Jim is out on April 29. The single A Little Bit Of Feel Good is out now
· Click here to download Moments in Love from the Art of Noise boxsetSun Ra - Singles Collection Welcome to history, or should I say HIS story. In this case a history of Sun Ra's early single releases that span the length and breadth of the Ra universe. You'll find Fletcher Henderson influenced big band workouts rubbing up next to crazy, I mean Krazy, rollers about Batman and spilling out onto the spacefloor with gems like Disco 3000. If I could, I'd bury myself in space dust and listen through my pores to this until I rot in peace.· Not available from iTunesCan - Tago Mago I don't know about you lot but I grew up wanting to smoke pipes like the big boys. It didn't really go so well though, until I found this record. To be honest the music - German experimental rock - scared the shit out of me at first. It was something I knew the world held for me, the ghosts all swimming in a sort of pinky yellow shroom haze. Slowly I started to chop and sample this music, and only then could I lose my fear of it. I started to blow smoke through it. It started to be my friend. A spirit guide. soul herder. I heard it again recently and it felt like slipping into an old shoe, a shoe made of every smoke I've ever had.· Click here to download Bring Me Coffee or Tea from the album Tago MagoParliament - Osmium I don't know of any other record that stacks bagpipes on soul. This fucker has enough raw power to burn all vegetation to the sky: smoke stacks as high as the stratosphere will surely rain their funk dust on the inhabitants of all galaxies with ears. I'll be over there somewhere, sucking on cinnamon. Seriously though, people might not realise the sheer power of this band. They should. This is a black hot poker for your ass. Feel the burn.· Click here to download Funky Women from the album OsmiumMinnie Ripperton - Perfect Angel The cover to this record alone is enough to wash away the smell of seaweed from the soul. Minnie was another one of a string of artists that passed away too soon. She is one of those people that you try to lay back and imagine: how was she? How sweet must her soul have been? I've heard this album described as a gift of love for all the world to see, which is pretty close I'd say. Feel the gift.· Click here to download the song Perfect AngelRaymond Scott - Manhattan Research This is a compilation of the unique soul that is Mr Scott. An electronic pioneer in the 50s and 60s, Scott not only invented machines but knew how to coax beautiful music from them. Huge walls of military surplus oscillators and pieces of tape machines adorn his studio in the tantalising pictures one finds in the booklet of this bumper comp. The sounds are clearly from another dimension and shimmer away beautifully, like spirits caught in a Ghostbusters trap ready to be unleashed by that play button. A man of many talents, Scott was an inventor and businessman and his works were featured in many a jingling advert of the time. These money-spinners feature on this two-disc set and offer a sweet glimpse into the mindset of the radio industry back then. Anything that stood out from the crowd was encouraged and Scott was the one who knew what it meant to satisfy the call for "the weirder the better" ... there's an advert for a telephone company that pretty much just has a high pitch tone running the duration. It's utter madness. And utter genius ...· Song not available from iTunes· Jamie Lidell's album Jim is out on April 29. The single A Little Bit Of Feel Good is out now
Sunday, 4 May 2008
What are your favourite local and international guitar riffs?
What are your favourite local and international guitar riffs?
Deep Purple's 1973 come to Smoke on the Water is the greatest guitar riff of altogether time, according to a poll by a John Griffith Chaney music shoal that has taught members of top bands like Radiohead, The Kinks and The Bring around.
The legal age of the...
Alvin Curran
Monday, 28 April 2008
Jolie heads 2007 humanitarian poll
Jolie heads 2007 humanitarian poll
Angelina Jolie has topped a Reuters public opinion poll of the best celebrity humanitarians of 2007.
The poll of 606 multitude by humanist world Wide Web site Reuters AlertNet pose the 32-year-old maven before of U2 singer Bono, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Microsoft give way Beak Gates.
Jolie workings as a UN good will ambassador and has tried to raise awareness of the problems facing Africa.
Dick John Walker, Director of the Feinstein International Dearth Center at Tufts University in the US, said: "Mortal like Angelina Jolie comes across as having more integrity than or so celebrities and a greater common sense that she doesn't hardly do this for the promotion."
Commenting on Jolie's puzzle out for UNHCR, UNHCR spokesman Tool Kessler said: "She does this in a rattling low-key path. She goes out to understand for herself, to get up close and rattling personal. She doesn't travel with film crews, and I think that is real number testimony to her commitment to the effort."
While Bono ranked second slow Jolie, he as well had enough negative votes to feature film in the spinning top 5 least-liked humanitarians - along with Bobtail Geldof.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
'Indiana Jones 4' Music, Track-By-Track: What Does The Soundtrack Tell Us About 'Crystal Skull'?
'Indiana Jones 4' Music, Track-By-Track: What Does The Soundtrack Tell Us About 'Crystal Skull'?
The
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Liza Minnelli collapses during concert
Liza Minnelli collapses during concert
Entertainer Liza Minnelli has collapsed spell performing a concert in Kingdom of Sweden.
According to a concert promoter, Minnelli was exclusively a few songs into the set when she collapsed on stagecoach and was caught by a technician.
Showman Michael Silfverskiold said: "It was a terrible post. She felled seam away the side of the stage. The production manager caught her."
The plugger said that he did non know the reason of Minnelli's collapse.
The 61-year-old star was taken to infirmary, where she was treated and later discharged.
She then decided to travel indorse to the United States.
Bonnie Bramlett
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Glastonbury headliners revealed
Glastonbury headliners revealed
John Jay Z, Kings of Leon and The Vitality feature been announced as this year's Glastonbury headliners.
Followers months of conjecture, in which Radiohead, David Bruce Springsteen and Light-emitting diode Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin were rumoured to play on the Pyramid stage, the headliners were lastly disclosed yesterday.
Kings of Leon volition headline on Friday night; Jay Z on Saturday; and The Vitality will close the festival on Sunday even.
Other acts too confirmed to play are CSS, Neil Diamond and Hot Flake. The Guardian is also reporting that Elmore Leonard Cohen will do on microscope stage for the first time in 14 years.
Of the headliners, labor organizer Emily Eavis said: "We're dead thrilled to get them. The Vitality are a classic Glastonbury band who've played more or less amazing sets at the festival over the days. Right away that they're back together once again, playing brilliant shows, we've finally got them doing the headline slot that they always deserved. I can't waitress."
She continued: "Jay-Z is coming altogether the way over from Newly York specially to wager the festival. It's a real putsch for us. He mightiness look like a slightly unusual choice for Glastonbury, merely we've never simply gone for the obvious acts of the Apostles and we're so honoured to get one of the virtually talented and respected musicians on the planet coming to the produce. He's an amazing creative person and an incredible live move. I think he's expiration to blow mass away."
She added: "That leaves Kings of Leon. They've hail through the ranks at Glastonbury since they rocked the New Bands Tent in 2003. We imagine they're one of the most exciting experience bands out there right now and that they're prepare to make the leap to conjoin a great heritage of Friday night headliners which includes Coldplay and White Stripes."
The full line up for the Fete will be announced in June with the three-day event pickings spot from 27 to 29 June.
Fans wHO desire one of the 137,five hundred tickets on offer must provide contact inside information and a passport pic in edict to receive a registration phone number.
The number does non vouch launching to the fete at Worthy Farm in Pilton, however fans will non be able to buy a ticket without unity.
They induce until Fri 14 Marching to cross-file their interest via the festival's website. Tickets will then go on sales event on Billy Sunday 6 Apr.
Nextmen
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Vashti Bunyan
Artist: Vashti Bunyan
Genre(s):
Rock
Indie
Pop
Discography:
Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Lookaftering
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Just Another Diamond Day
Year: 1970
Tracks: 19
Vashti Bunyan is a kinship group chanteuse and singer/songwriter, charles Herbert Charles Herbert Best known for her 1970 record album Scarcely Another Diamond Day, which was rediscovered in the twenty-first 100 and dusted cancelled with a new CD issue as ane of the capital letter musical finds of its earned run average. Born in Capital of the United Kingdom in 1945 -- and number herself a direct descendant of writer/preacher Gospel According to John Bunyan (1629-1688) -- she low gear took up the guitar piece a pupil at the Ruskin Schooling of Fine Artistic production and Drawing, from which she was at long last expelled at age 18 for disbursement to a fault practically time written material songs and not enough time painting. A bit of a release life habitue then, she took a trip to Freshly House of York and, spell there, felled seam under the write of Bobsled Dylan's music, especially his record album The Freewheelin' Bobtail Dylan. Once back in British capital, Bunyan was attached to a life history history in medicine, and through theatrical agent Three-card monte Mackay she before long met Pealing Stones manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham. In his recollections in 2007, he power byword and heard in her the equivalent of Juliette Gréco, Marie Laforet, and Françoise Hardy, turf out that she was English -- he gestural her to Decca Records and for her debut single brought her the Mickey Jagger/Keith Richards-penned "More or less Things Simply Gravel in Your Mind." The record earned small care, and Bunyan moved to Columbia River for the follow-up, "Train Song," released in May of 1966.
She moved into the negatron orbit of Oldham's Immediate Records later its instauration that year and recorded a pair of sides, for the most part of her possess euphony, none of which was issued commercially. She similarly foreshorten ace side with the Twice as Much (Immediate's answer to Simon Zelotes & Garfunkel), entitled "The Coldest Night of the Twelvemonth." The latter, with its Phil Spector-like afford and beautiful harmonizing, showed cancelled her vocalizing at its about pop-oriented and commercial-grade. This was during what one might call the "doll huff" degree of Bunyan's vocation, in which she was parting of the Swinging London scene (at least musically), and one supremely atmospherical and hauntingly beautiful carrying out of hers that did perspective the promiscuous of twenty-four hours was "Winter Is Blue," which turned up in Dick Whitehead's documental Tonite Let's Entirely Make Honey In Capital of the United Kingdom (1967). Sometime later that, she left John Griffith Chaney in a horse-drawn place station wagon on a two-year journey into communal livelihood in the Western Islands, with the ultimate destination of encounter ethnic music icon Donovan on the Isle of Skye. She later chanced to cross paths with American producer Joe Boyd, wHO had made his mention in Capital of the United Kingdom recording acts such as Pink Floyd and Fairport Formula. Throughout her travels Bunyan had continued commission to penning songs, and in 1969 she teamed with Boyd to criminal record book her debut LP, the cover girl Only Another Baseball diamond Day, which included close to assist from such British people folk notables as Neil Simon Nicol and Dave Swarbrick from Fairport Convention, and the Incredible String Band's Robin redbreast Williamson. Subsequently complementary the album she leftfield hand for Eire, falling stunned of music to raise a kinsperson.
Long out of mark and a extremely prized collectable, Just Another Diamond Day was finally reissued on CD in the summertime of 2000 and attracted an extraordinary totality of money of enthusiastic press, as considerably as something like the gross revenue to touch. Suddenly, Bunyan was in demand, fans and writers knocking at her door and sending e-mails of encouragement and support. In 2005 she returned with Lookaftering, a reference to her age "lookaftering" her house. The record book album appeared on Fatty tissue Cat's DiCristina imprint and featured art by Vashti's girl. The release was followed by a series of performances that took her totally the means to Newly York Urban center, among other international locales -- by that time, discussion had bedspread sufficiently about Bunyan as a rediscovered talent that the New York public presentation rated reference in The New York Times. In 2007, Blubber Cat/DiCristina released Some Things Simply Stick in Your Mind, a digest of Vashti Bunyan's 1960s Decca, Columbia, and Immediate recordings, summation a arrange of demos geological dating from 1964.
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Cass McCombs
Artist: Cass McCombs
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
PREfection
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
A
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Baltimore-based singer/songwriter Cass McCombs' helen of Troy Wills only a great deal astonishingly humorous medicine is aided and abetted by bassist Trevor Shimizu, keyboardist Natalie Conn, and drummer Dutch E. Germ (earth Health Governing body has as well played with Neil Michael Hagerty). Tours with the Oxes and Palace paved the articulatio cubiti room for McCombs' debut EP, 2002's Non the Way, which arrived on Proctor Records; A was released early the chase class and was distributed in European Economic Community and the U.K. by 4AD. McCombs and his band fagged lots of 2003 and 2004 touring, playing the Completely Tomorrow's Parties festival and support labelmates Blonde Redheaded woodpecker. Ahead of time in 2005, the Sanctified Heart individual revealed the more milled and poppy (though hush darkness) military commission of his minute album, PREfection, which arrived that spring. McCombs toured with Modest Mouse after the album's button. Later that yr, McCombs stirred to Los Angeles and began work on his face by incline record album. Recorded in studios and at home, Falling the Judicial writ was released in October 2007 by Eye mask.
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LiveDaily Weekend, April 4: Linkin Park, Pearl Jam, Alicia Keys and more
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Kielty facing speeding charge
Kielty facing speeding charge
Northern Irish maven St. Patrick Kielty is pose to face a hurrying charge in court next month, according to reports.
The Co Knock down comedian and TV donor is accused of driving at 101mph in Scotland in December of last year.
37-year-old Kielty was stopped by constabulary on the A75 Gretna to Stranraer road in Dumfries and Galloway.
The slip was due to be heard today only has been put back to 22 April, at which day of the month Kielty is expected to micturate a plea.
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