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Various Artists: Jazz on Film: French New Wave
by Enrico Bettinello
Dannazione faustiana, quella del cofanetto. Immortalità a prezzo conveniente, sfruttando la mortalità dei diritti d'autore e del concetto stesso di disco come entità autonoma, ma rilanciando in qualche caso abbinamenti di senso culturalmente stimolanti. È il caso della serie Jazz on Film, che pubblica degli ottimi box tematici dedicati al jazz usato nelle colonne sonore. Se i primi due volumi erano dedicati ai film noir e a quelli del periodo della beat generation, questo terzo ...
Continue ReadingVarious Artists: Peru Maravillloso
by Chris M. Slawecki
Peru Maravilloso: Vintage Latin, Tropical and Cumbia demonstrates what's best about the digital media revolution: It resurrects 15 singles released by homegrown Peruvian labels across the 1960s and '70s, two of the most vibrant musical decades in the history of Peru (and just about everywhere else). Compiled by label managers Duncan Ballantyne, Andres Tapia and Martin Morales, it presents the lively South American styles of cumbia and guaracha and more electric sounds of chicha with strains of music from the ...
Continue ReadingVarious Artists: Postcards From Italy
by Mark Corroto
Sound artists, like their brethren mail artists, adhere to the motto “sound art is not fine art, it is the artist who is fine." Born out of phonography, or the audio equivalent of photography, field recordings capture the native sounds of a place. For the Postcards From Italy project, the collective AIPS (the Archivio Italiano dei Paesaggi Sonori, or Italian Archive of Soundscapes) gathered the ambient sounds of a particular place, as designated by specific latitude and longitude coordinates, and ...
Continue ReadingGreek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music From Greece 1905-1956
by Skip Heller
A couple years back, Tompkins Square issued an unforgettable box set called To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929, which collected a type of Eastern music that had gone unanthologized, largely because it came from places long since gone from the world map, played on instruments to which most Westerners have never paid much attention. Name three oud players. I dare you.Greek Rhapsody (Dust-To-Digital) surveys rebetika, the international style prominent among Greeks throughout the ...
Continue ReadingVarious Artists: Rework_ Philip Glass Remixes
by Nenad Georgievski
In these modern times, remixing is seen as merely another way of reinterpreting someone's work. Just like jazz or rock artists reworking old standards or classics in their own way, so, too, do remixers apply a modern method of interpreting people's songs, compositions--or, their entire oeuvre.According to Wikipedia “the remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. A remixer uses audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or ...
Continue ReadingVarious Artists: Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard
by Skip Heller
There is always complaint that American contemporary musical life is at turns either too glitzy or overly-intellectualized. Either claim is overly simplistic, neither completely wrong. And in no area is it more true than country music. On one hand, there is the proud stupidity of Toby Keith and Gretchen Wilson. On the other, the self-consciously literate indulgences of the Americana movement. Great stuff still lives on in the margins, but it's hardly the norm.Early country music was healthy ...
Continue ReadingJazz on Film: Beat, Square & Cool
by Skip Heller
Again presenting eight film scores spread across five discs, packaged in a gorgeous box and enclosed with a beautifully illustrated and comprehensively notated booklet, the Moochin' About staff (who are also the force behind the excellent British magazine Jazzwise) have returned with their second installment of noir and near-noir jazz movie music. As with their previous five disc volume, Film Noir, Beat, Square, and Cool anthologizes dark, moody “crimejazz" film scores coming from composers from both outside and within the ...
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