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The Attic: Love Ghosts

by Troy Dostert
Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado maintains a busy recording schedule, involving dates with heavy-hitters like Joe McPhee, Alexander von Schlippenbach and Peter Evans, in addition to his own lineups, which do not always generate the same kind of buzz. One of his relatively under-recognized groups is The Attic, an outfit which includes bassist Gonçalo Almeida and drummer Onno Govaert. Their Summer Bummer (NoBusiness, 2019) was a superb live recording, putting the focus squarely on Amado, who is an excellent colleague ...
Continue ReadingHANDS ON: Indie Label Light In The Attic Records Keeps Organized Using Evernote

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HypeBot
Here Patrick McCarthy, Reissue Producer and Project Manager for Light in the Attic Records, an independent company which works to bring deluxe vinyl music to the listening public, discusses how his use of Evernote has allowed him to make the company a success. Guest Post by Pamela Rosen on Evernote For a generation that never experienced music as anything but ethereal, vinyl records are irresistible. Seattle and Los Angeles-based Light in the Attic Records is an independent record label dedicated ...
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Richard Thompson - Dream Attic (Shout Factory, 2010)

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Music and More by Tim Niland
Recording an album full of new material in front of a live audience is something of a gamble, but it has paid off handsomely for veteran guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson, his new album captures the energy of his always potent live performance and combines it was an excellent set of new songs to very good effect. He has a tight backing band consisting of Pete Zorn on guitars, flute, saxophone and mandolin, Michael Jerome on drums, Taras Prodaniuk bass, ...
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Maude Maggart Loving Climb up to the Musical Attic

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Michael Ricci
Maude Maggart performing at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel on Wednesday night.
As Maude Maggart rummages through several decades of popular music in Parents and Children, her bewitching new show at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, you have the eerie sensation that a precocious young girl is leading you by the hand into an attic where forgotten family secrets are stored.
Unlocking a dust-covered trunk with a tiny golden key, this curious, modern-day American Alice in ...
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Rhino Recommends - Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different (Just Sunshine/Light in the Attic)

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All About Jazz
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Among '70s Funk aficionados, Betty Davis is something of a Fakahatchee Orchid: truly rare, exquisite, and without peer. That so little has been known about her for so long only adds to the mystique of this former wife of Miles Davis, who produced a series of albums so radical and, indescribable that they still have the power to tingle today, some thirty years hence. Sly Stone? Tina Turner? Funkadelic? Chaka Khan? Rick James? ...
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