Recording News

Les Mouches Gives Lupone Billboard Milestone

Source: Seth Cohen PR
November 26, 2008

#25 HEATSEEKER ON BILLBOARD! Patti LuPone Has First-Ever Billboard Chart Appearance Under Her Own Name, With Ghostlight's Acclaimed 'PATTI LUPONE AT LES MOUCHES' Holiday Gift Guide Inclusions Coming, as Major Coverage Greets Historic CD Patti LuPone reaches #25 on this week's BILLBOARD HEATSEEKERS CHART, with the Ghostlight release of 'Patti LuPone at Les Mouches'. This marks the first time in Ms. LuPone's storied career that she's charted on Billboard under her own name, and it marks Ghostlight's highest Heatseeker chart ...

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Wu Fei's New Record "Yuan" (Tzadik Records) Released on November 25th

Source: All About Jazz
November 25, 2008

Wu Fei has composed music for solo instruments, string quartets, choirs, orchestras, modern and traditional dance, film and chamber ensembles. Performing on guzheng since the age of six, she studied composition at the China Conservatory and with Fred Frith at Mills College. She has since collaborated with Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Joelle Leandre, Meredith Monk, Ikue Mori, Pauline Oliveros, Kazue Sawai, Elliott Sharp, Cecil Taylor and many others. Her first CD for Tzadik presents a variety of pieces ...

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Loquat:Secrets of the Sea

Source: JamBase
November 25, 2008

By: Greg Gargiulo

If for Kylee Swenson's comforting voice alone, Loquat's Secrets of the Sea (released October 14 on Talking House Records) warrants a listen or two. Nailing high notes with ease, no hint of even the slightest strain evident, and delivering mid-rangers with a sustaining expressionistic flair, Swenson's natural, passion-filled vocals carry an otherwise fairly decent release. For the San Francisco-based quintet, named after a tangy fruit indigenous to China, the music seems to take a backseat to the ...

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Dave Brogan:thunderbird Sun Transformation

Source: JamBase
November 25, 2008

By: Dennis Cook

There's a lot of different kinds of pop music, and you'll find many of them intermingling and coagulating into interesting new shapes on Dave Brogan's solo debut, Thunderbird Sun Transformation (self-released). Given free rein, the ALO drummer-singer-songwriter scoops up the past 40 years of so of radio fare and drinks deep. Thus, he can jump from late '70s Rod Stewart-esque slink ("Stony Fields") to '90s coffeehouse rock ("Broken Record") to “The Infinite Eye," which suggests a pop ...

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N.E.E.T./Interscope Records to Release A.R. Rahman's Soundtrack

Source: All About Jazz
November 24, 2008

N.e.e.t./interscope Records To Release Renowned Composer A.r. Rahman's Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack Available Online Everywhere November 25 And In Stores December 23. In composing the music for acclaimed director Danny Boyle's intoxicating new film Slumdog Millionaire, now playing in select theaters, A.R. Rahman has conjured the sound of a city, fusing the frenetic scramble of daily life in Mumbai, India into beautiful fugues that ride upon the dust clouds kicked up by its everyday people. From the movie's first frames - ...

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The James Moody and Hank Jones Quartet Release Our Delight

Source: All About Jazz
November 24, 2008

With two amazing careers traveling alongside one another but never intersecting, it only seemed natural that James Moody and Hank Jones would finally find each other on the same road. With their new release on the IPO imprint, Our Delight, the two veteran jazz stars make an obvious statement with the title of CD but that is just the beginning, as the recording is quickly becoming every jazz aficionados delight. With Moody s trademark saxophone and beautiful flute playing and ...

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Soft Machine "Drop" (Recorded Live in 1971) - Moonjune Records's New Release

Source: All About Jazz
November 24, 2008

MOONJUNE RECORDS NEW RELEASE: SOFT MACHINE “DROP"

MIKE RATLEDGE Lowrey organ, Fender Rhodes electric piano ELTON DEAN saxello, alto sax, Fender Rhodes electric piano HUGH HOPPER bass guitar PHIL HOWARD drums

Recorded live during the German tour in the Fall of 1971. Original recordings edited and remastered by Mike King in October of 2008, with thanks to Aymeric Leroy for pitch correction.

Liner notes by Steve Lake.

Dedicated to the memory of Elton Dean ...

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The New Minneapolis Genius Has Arrived with JP Delaire's "In My Life"

Source: Creativity in Music
November 24, 2008

"This is one of the best R&B records I have heard in a very long time. It ranks right there with Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On, Stevie Wonder's Innervisions and Prince's Purple Rain. - Corey Burrington Hailing from the First Family of Minneapolis Music, The Petersons, and having worked with Prince, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Alexander O'Neal, J.P. DeLaire (Jason Peterson DeLaire) is ready to carry the Twin Cities next generation's musical torch with his new CD ...

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