Recording News

Beck: Modern Guilt Acoustic More Vu Covers and Waits Interview

Source: JamBase
July 15, 2009

Beck Does Modern Guilt Acoustic, Continues Record Club with More VU Covers And Launches “Irrelevant Topics" Interview Series with Tom Waits

Modern Guilt was released one year ago this week! For the occasion Beck is putting up acoustic versions of the entire album recorded earlier this year after returning from the Japan tour (under severe jet lag). Tracks will be released weekly starting with this rendition of “Orphans." There will be limited EP of four tracks from the ...

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New Work from Mark Knopfler

Source: JamBase
July 15, 2009

MARK KNOPFLER'S GET LUCKYTO BE RELEASED ON WARNER BROS. SEPTEMBER 15

Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straits fame, will release his sixth studio album Get Lucky on September 15.

Recorded at Knopfler's British Grove Studios in West London, the 11-track Get Lucky was co-produced with longtime collaborators, engineer Chuck Ainlay and keyboardist Guy Fletcher in addition to several other musicians.

The album explores a lifetime of musical roots. “The first itinerant person I ever met would sing in soul ...

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EMI Music Releases New iMix Compilations

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2009

EMI Music brings two new iMix compilations that celebrate the finest jazz in honor of Jazz Fest 2009 and the best of New Orleans jazz. The collection mixes include jazz classics by Buddy Guy, Tony Bennett, Aaron Neville, Wynton Marsalis and Fats Domino. You can now download the iMixes from iTunes: Jazz Fest 2009! -- http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=308739240&s=143441 Let The Good Times Roll: Best of New Orleans Jazz http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewIMix?id=309803099&s=143441 The digital collections offer jazz fans a unique mix of the old and ...

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Pianist/Composer Tony Foster 2009 Debut Trio Release "In Between Moods"

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2009

Canadian-born jazz pianist/composer Tony Foster puts all the jazz piano influences together to create a personal sound running the emotional gamut of explosive to soulful to melancholic. An equally gifted composer and arranger, his trio takes you on a trip.

May 2009 marks the release of jazz pianist and composer Tony Foster's debut trio recording entitled In Between Moods. The recording features Joe Poole on drums and Russell Botten on bass. The album showcases Foster's composing and arranging skills as ...

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Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo Collaboration Releases August 18

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
July 14, 2009

Stone Ancestors, Forest Spirits, and Pink Floyd Across Fifteen Time Zones: Huun Huur Tu and Carmen Rizzo Distill a New Sound for Tuva's Soul on Eternal

The songs that echo in boreal forests and bounce off primordial peaks have a blind date in the Hollywood hills. There, carefully crafted electronica meets the horse-hair spike fiddle and stone images of the ancestors are praised to the sound of lush strings. This is no remix-this is a sonic meeting of minds between ...

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Gong Announce New Studio Album "2032"

Source: Noble PR
July 14, 2009

GONG, the legendary psychedelic prog rockers, announced they will release their stunning new album 2032 on Monday 21st September.

Released on Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy's subsidiary G-Wave label, the album is officially released two months before Gong's highly anticipated nationwide UK tour which kicks off at the Brisol O2 Academy on Thursday 19th November.

Described as exhilarating, compelling and other worldly, 2032 represents the first time Hillage has recorded with original Gong founder, Daevid Allen, since 1974's You album. ...

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Dave Douglas and Brass Ecstasy:Spirit Moves

Source: JamBase
July 14, 2009

By: Dennis Cook

Tipsy, trippy and toodle-loo-y, veteran trumpeter Dave Douglas' latest dips New Orleans moves in something funky - no, not another groove band but so pleasantly off-kilter that one feels a lil' woozy after spending time in their company. Underpinned by drummer Nasheet Waits, Douglas brass sheen is joined by Luis Bonilla (trombone), Marcus Rojas (tuba) and Vincent Chancey (French horn). The ensemble swings but not too tightly, enjoying the rounded edges of their instruments and fat, overlapping ...

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Joel Vanderheyden Releases "Complete Life"

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2009

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