Recording News

Pink Martini Serves Up 'Splendor'

Source: Billboard Magazine
June 20, 2009

With three successful records under their belt, eclectic lounge-pop act Pink Martini will return October 13 with “Splendor in the Grass" on the band's own label, Heinz Records. Pink Martini's founder and director Thomas Lauderdale tells Billboard.com the album is “all over the map, but hopefully more cohesive than the last one ['Hey Eugene!']." A final track listing is currently being worked on as Lauderdale hopes to get back into the studio and record guest vocals from 90 year old ...

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Fleck, Hussain and Meyer: New Album and Fall Tour

Source: JamBase
June 20, 2009

Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer Conjure A New Sound Steeped In Indian Tradition, Chamber Music and American Roots With An Unprecedented Collaboration The Melody of Rhythm North American Fall Tour Dates Confirmed

Bela Fleck On August 25, E1 Music will release The Melody of Rhythm, an impressive collaboration between banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck, composer and double-bass master Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain, arguably the world's greatest tabla player, followed by a 19-city ...

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Rod Stewart 2-Disc Collector's Editions Releasing 6/30

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2009

IN ROD WE TRUST Warner Bros. Reissues ATLANTIC CROSSING And A NIGHT ON THE TOWN As Limited-Edition Two-Disc Sets With Remastered Original Album, Plus Unreleased Versions Of Each Album Track and Outtakes To Be Released June 30, Collectors Editions Are Only Available This Summer LOS ANGELES -- For Rod Stewart, 1975 was a year of profound personal and professional change. Because of Britain's high tax rate, he moved from London to Los Angeles, where he signed with Warner Bros. Records, ...

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Danny Thompson, Allan Holdsworth, John Stevens: "Propensity" Art of Life CD Release

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2009

Art of Life Records is pleased to present a previously unreleased recording by three legendary British musicians. Bassist Danny Thompson (Pentangle, John Martyn, Tubby Hayes, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson), guitarist Allan Holdsworth (Igginbottom, Nucleus, Tempest, Soft Machine, Gong, Bruford, U.K., Tony Williams New Lifetime) and drummer John Stevens (Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Tubby Hayes, Derek Bailey). Recorded at Island Studios, St. Peter's Square, in London, England on September 4th & 5th, 1978, Propensity includes two extended length group improvised tracks which ...

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Tortoise Album and Tour

Source: JamBase
June 19, 2009

TORTOISE ANNOUNCE FALL TOUR DATES IN SUPPORT OF BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP

“Tortoise, an instrumental five-piece band from Chicago, makes music of elaborate detail, rarely settling for a broad stroke when a sharp inflection might suffice." -Nate Chinen, The New York Times

Tortoise The new album and first full-length release of new material in over five years by Chicago based post-rockers Tortoise will be out June 23 on Thrill Jockey. With the release of

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Air New Album: Love 2

Source: JamBase
June 19, 2009

AIR ANNOUNCE THEIR FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM LOVE 2 RELEASED OCTOBER 6

Air The de facto ambassadors of modern French pop Air, Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, will release their fifth studio album Love 2 on October 6, the follow-up to the duo's 2007's down-tempo classic Pocket Symphony and the first production to spring to life from their very own state-of-the-art recording facility Atlas Studio.

Nestled in the leafy backstreets of northern Paris, Atlas provided a creative idealized European safe-haven for ...

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela: Album/Tour

Source: JamBase
June 19, 2009

RODRIGO y GABRIELA ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND TOUR DATES

Rodrigo y Gabriela ATO Records is excited to announce that Rodrigo y Gabriela will release their new studio album, entitled 11:11 on Tuesday September 8. The album was recorded in Ixtapa, Mexico and produced by Rodrigo y Gabriela, with John Leckie co-producing two of the tracks. The album was mixed in Wales and London by Colin Richardson, best known for his work with metal heavyweights Slipknot and Trivium.

Comprising 11 new ...

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Astronauts of Antiquity Release "Rocket Science for Dummies"

Source: Miles High Productions
June 18, 2009

Hollywood, CA--June 15, 2009- The Astronauts of Antiquity sport a very unique name and to their credit the music they produce is fitting and true to their moniker.

The sound of AOA has been described as urban-electro-organica to a jazzy, neo-soulful, electronic exploration. Think of it as musical Art Nouveau in constant motion.

The meeting of India on vocals and B. Rhyan on guitars was a chance encounter at an airport one ...

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