Recording News

Sun Spin: Kruder and Dorfmeister

Source: JamBase
March 23, 2009

11TH ANNIVERSARY OF ELECTRONICA MILESTONE

Released in 1998, The K&D Sessions was both a concise snapshot of the emergent electronic music scene unfolding in the late '90s and a career defining calling card for Kruder & Dorfmeister. The Austrian duo were at the vanguard of producers creating their own musical identity as remixers, finding their own sound by rearranging and manipulating the music of others. While DJ culture was already well on its way to a global phenomenon in ...

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Beth Orton:Trailer Park: Legacy Edition

Source: JamBase
March 23, 2009

By: Ron Hart

Back when rave culture hit its mid-90s crescendo, Beth Orton was known as the ethereal voice who added a calm nuance to kinetic dance tracks by the Chemical Brothers and William Orbit. That is, however, until she released her second solo album, Trailer Park (1996), which is commonly mistaken as her debut due to the fact that her largely overlooked first album, Superpinkymandy (1993), was only released in Japan and since disregarded by Orton herself. By fusing ...

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Finding That Song

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2009

Back in 1998, I was driving down Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles when I spotted a man lying on his back smack dab in the middle of the street; one leg was splayed onto the westbound lane of Pico, the other onto the eastbound. I got out of my car, and as I approached I saw he was bleeding from his lower left side. I rushed to him, and before I could say anything, he said to me, “How you ...

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A South African Sound That Has Global Appeal

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2009

TOWNSHIP FUNK by the South African D.J. and producer Mujava, is one of the biggest global dance hits of the past year. Built from martial snare drums that invoke a local music called kwaito, an ominous synthetic bass drone and a melancholy melody fashioned from video-game-like sounds, the song has been played and endlessly remixed by D.J.s from an wide array of genres and supported by mainstream tastemakers like the British radio D.J. Pete Tong.

Such acclaim is striking for ...

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Changing Sounds of Africa

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2009

COOLLY elegant in a brown pinstripe pantsuit and a pageboy bob, the singer Mariam Doumbia, 50, sat in a lounge of a chic new hotel on the Bowery. She appeared slightly bored. She was on a publicity tour with her husband, Amadou Bagayoko, to promote the new Amadou & Mariam album, Welcome to Mali (Nonesuch), and as usual he was doing most of the talking. She applied hand cream, brushed her hair, twiddled her thumbs. But when an interviewer offered ...

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Saxman Boney James Tops Billboard Charts for 5th Consecutive Week

Source: Deborah Radel
March 20, 2009

James Kicks Off National Tour March 25th, 2009 Including Headline Show at Legendary Hollywood Bowl

Send One Your Love, the new CD from sax icon Boney James (released on Concord Records on February 3, 2009) has claimed the top spot on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart for the fifth week in a row with no slowdown in sight.

Showing Jamess crossover appeal, the record also debuted at #21 on the Billboard R&B Chart and entered the Billboard Top ...

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Lena Seikaly CD "Written in the Stars" Now Available Online!

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2009

Lena Seikaly debut album, Written in the Stars, is finally available for sale!

The album contains six re-created jazz standards, including “East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)," “When I Fall in Love," “The Very Thought of You," “You Go to My Head" and others, as well as four original compositions, including the title track, “Written in the Stars."

The featured musicians on the album are: Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis (piano), Tom Baldwin (bass), David McDonald (drums), Bobby Muncy (sax), ...

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ECM Releases Fly's "Sky & Country"

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2009

“Fly is a new thing. The trio has the intimacy of a close up conversation and the depth of three free minds exploring and expanding on each other's ideas. Uncluttered creativity." --Chick Corea Sky & Country is the ECM debut of the highly-regarded collective trio that drummer Jeff Ballard has memorably described as “an intimate band with teeth". It's a group that overturns expectations of its specific instrumentation. Modern jazz history is not short on highly charged sax/bass/drums ...

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