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Exil is a danish band with internation line-up and is now ready with their new release ”Porntip”
Four young musicians with a strong personality is here being united through original material and collectively they succeed in making both the minimastic as well as the complex music an interesting experience for the listener. Besides winning the danish jazzunion’s “Young Jazz Competition” 2007 Exil has received much positive notice in the national media.
With their constant search for new ways, they make both the minimalistic and the more complex music an intense and interesting experience for the listener. With as different sources of inspiration as a.o. Radiohead, Kurt Rosenwinkel and John Coltrane, they succeed in creating their own unique sound. The groups members have roots in Luxembourg, Sweden, America and Denmark and hooked up in 2006 in the Copenhagen music-environment.
”Porntip” is recorded by Thomas Vang i Studio Menudio and contains 9 original compositions all written by the members of EXIL.
"Exil - Excels! Without a doubt this is a group worth following; individually and collectively, "Exil" is a winner!" (Ed Thigpen)
Mikko Etienne, sax / Bo Thymann, guitar / Petter Eldh, double bass / Marc Lohr, drums
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The Cuban Cowboys' Racy Exile Rock
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rock paper scissors, inc.
Spanglish Superheroes of Degeneracy: The Cuban Cowboys' Racy Exile Rock
On stage, I'm The Cuban Cowboy, a superhero of exile and degeneracy!" exclaims singer and songwriter Jorge Navarro. Spitfire Spanglish blazing, Navarro sends the perfect American icon colliding with a whole family's worth of émigré tension, exile, tenderness and lust. I turn on the accent, I come out of it; switching back and forth. 'Is it real; is it parody?' It takes people a minute to decide."
But The Cuban ...
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The Rolling Stones Shine a Light on 'Exile on Main St.' Reissue
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Michael Ricci
Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and recent producer Don Was discuss the band's 1972 album and the rerelease's previously unheard material.
Keith Richards remembers the period in the early 1970s when the Rolling Stones were working on Exile on Main St." as a fairly down time. The parts he remembers at all, that is. That's partly due to the fact that the recording sessions took place as the Stones guitarist and songwriter's heroin habit took hold in a big way, a ...
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Out of Exile, Back in Soulsville
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Michael Ricci
Al Bell, who led Stax Records in Memphis during the labels 1960s and 70s heyday, has returned to the city as chairman of the Memphis Music Foundation to resuscitate its entertainment stature.
AS the peacock-blue Cadillac with the gold trim and fur lining spun on a giant turntable in the Stax Museum of American Soul Music here, Al Bell, the final owner of the late, great record label, chuckled. Decades before 50 Cent with his customized Rolls-Royce and Akon with ...
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"Exiled" Jewish Cabaret Songs Find a Home on CD
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Nathan J. Silverman Company
The New Budapest Orpheum Society brings forth more treasures from the archives of 20th-century Jewish popular music on a new CD, Jewish Cabaret in Exile (Cedille Records CDR 90000 110), its second recording for Cedille Records. On the new CD, the University of Chicago-based troupe, known for its “engaging zest” (Fanfare), offers the fruits of its latest research into the widely influential Jewish cabaret music of the early-to-mid-20th century — repertoire that is “often funny and always fascinating,” as Audiophile ...
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Freedonia Music Releases Exiles "KalimbaMania" CD
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Multi-instrumentalist and Freedonia Music proprietor Jay Zelenka emails with word of the St. Louis-based label's first release of 2009: KalimbaMania, a CD reissue of a 1989 session by Exiles, Zelenka's long-running duo with keyboardist Greg Mills.KalimbaMania was issued originally on LP by Esfoma Music; this new version is digitally remastered from the original studio tapes and includes 21 minutes of additional recording from the same time period. In all, the session features 10 duet improvisations, with both Zelenka ...
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