Recording News

Rozanne Levine & Chakra Tuning New CD "Only Moment"

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2009

We at Acoustics are excited to announce the release of Only Moment, the debut CD from Rozanne Levine & Chakra Tuning... Scheduled for release on June 1, 2009, Only Moment is already garnering acclaim – called “gorgeous" and “amazing" by Massimo Ricci of Touching Extremes, and “completely sublime", “exquisite" and “quite magical" by Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery (more from Massimo and Bruce below). Only Moment features Rozanne Levine on alto clarinet, clarinet and compositions, with long-time band mate ...

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Jazz Vocalist, Janet Planet, Releases Album That Celebrates America

Source: Allen/James Design
June 1, 2009

Janet Planet, releases a collection of songs that commemorates the sites, cities and commerce across the United States. Her concept album, Of Thee I Sing celebrates the industrious spirit and natural beauty that made our country great. The inspiration for this collection came amidst the energy and excitement of the 2008 presidential campaign. Janet dedicates her effort to honest, hard-working Americans – “be they in the White House or the house next door” – in hopes the music and lyric ...

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Obscure Woody Shaw Jazz/Funk Project San Francisco Express Re-Issued

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2009

San Francisco Express – Getting It Together is a Jazz/Funk intergalactic space odyssey recorded in 1975. Woody Shaw is featured on the album blasting out Miles Davis inspired trumpet solos over spaced-out synthesizers infused with heavy drum breaks & a psychedelic horn section. The album masterfully blends Street-Corner Funk with Cosmic Soul Jazz. Also featured on the album is Moog/Synthesizer virtuoso Dr. Patrick Gleeson, the mastermind behind the 1970’s landmark albums by Herbie Hancock (Crossings, Sextant, Manchild) & Charles Earland ...

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Singer Teena Marie Pays Tribute to New Orleans Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2009

A recent fan post on YouTube about Teena Marie says it all: “She still sings like she did 30 years ago." Showing no sign of slowing down, the R&B funkstress displays her inimitable chops on her current single, “Can't Last a Day." Stationed at No. 55 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and No. 16 on Adult R&B, the song is the lead track from the June 9 release Congo Square, Marie's Stax Records/Concord Music Group debut and 13th studio ...

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As St. Vincent, Annie Clark Conjures Magic

Source: Michael Ricci
May 31, 2009

Annie Clark was due to finish her sound check around 7 p.m. Thirty minutes later, a nagging electronic hiss was complicating things and in the course of hunting down the source of the nuisance, Clark realized she had forgotten her recently purchased dress, which was still hanging in the closet of a downtown hotel.

Her early April Los Angeles show in support of her new album, Actor, was not going as planned, and doors to the Masonic Lodge at the ...

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Neil Young's Philosophy on Recording: Let's Roll

Source: Michael Ricci
May 31, 2009

From early on, Neil Young has operated on a document-everything, edit-later philosophy.

That became crystal clear when I sat down with the three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee last week in Santa Monica to talk about his long-gestating Archives box set that finally sees release on June 2.

The stockpile mentality has resulted in massive amounts of material in his own storehouses, both at his Broken Arrow Ranch in Woodside, in Northern California, and others in Redwood City ...

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Chicago, Earth, Wind and Fire Team up for New Music

Source: Billboard Magazine
May 30, 2009

After several years of touring together and a new joint charity single, Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire are contemplating a full-scale collaborative album project. “Both bands kind of separately and together said, 'Wouldn't it be great to do an album together, so that's something that's just kind of flying around," Chicago's Robert Lamm tells Billboard.com. “I think the guys that write (songs) are thinking that could possibly be the next project." Lamm predicts that a Chicago-EWF album “would sound ...

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N.A.S.A. Free MP3 Remix

Source: JamBase
May 30, 2009

N.A.S.A. Free MP3 Remix by Grant Phabao

N.A.S.A. N.A.S.A. and their worldwide debut The Spirit of Apollo, is an ongoing creative collaboration between two lifelong music aficionados, Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, and their friends, friends of friends and musical heroes.

While N.A.S.A. stands for North America/South America and contains a number of superstar artists from both coasts of the U.S., it is about as far from a tension-building geographical showdown as a record can get. Rather, The Spirit ...

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