Recording News

Further Than You've Gone Before - Explore the Outer Realms of Music with Random Touch

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
October 14, 2007

Experimental Music Troupe Random Touch Release A True Conductor Wears A Man Algonquin, IL - Last year's pioneering effort from American experimental ensemble Random Touch, aptly titled Alchemy, was a journey inward to that place where the music controls the artist. Now Random Touch has gone further than they've gone before with the release of A True Conductor Wears A Man - a comprehensive study in improvisational composition and arrangement. Once again, the music controls the conductor. “We start off ...

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Composer/Guitarist Torben Waldorff Launches Second Artistshare Project

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
October 14, 2007

Scandinavian guitarist/composer Torben Waldorff announces the launch of his second ArtistShare project Afterburn. Through his website www.waldorff.com, fans and guitar aficionados can follow and support the creative process behind the making of the music and the recording of the studio album. The recording will take place in the last days of December 2007 in New York City and be released in March 2008, but the ArtistShare model allows for fans of this music to get involved right away by logging ...

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Sylvia Rae Tracey CD Release "Up From The Skies"

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2007

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Bernie Kenerson's New CD Released "Just You & Me" (The Art of The EWI)

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2007

I've recently released my new CD Just You & Me The Art of The EWI with 10 tracks of original jazz tunes and all songs feature the Akai EWI 4000s as the main lead and solo instrument and a wonderful live rhythm section. The tracks are instrumentals and cover a variety of jazz styles. I'm really pleased with how this project turned out and I think you'll like it too. Clips and more info are available on my website. Reviews ...

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Natasha Miller Releases First Holiday Recording, the Season, on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
October 12, 2007

Poignant Records recording artist Natasha Miller will release her first holiday recording, The Season, on Tuesday, November 20, 2007. The Season is vocalist Natasha Miller's first album of holiday music. Recorded live at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA, with additional studio tracks, it features both Christmas “standards," as well as non-holiday-specific songs that fit “the season." Natasha says, “I wanted to pull together a fun, unique, and beautifully arranged collection of songs for people to enjoy, not only during the holidays, ...

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Joni Mitchell's Muse Returns on "Shine"

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) -- A few years ago, Joni Mitchell had rejected her musical muse, refusing to write or even play music as she devoted her life to painting, watching old movies on TV and reconnecting to the daughter she had given up for adoption in 1965. Now, at age 63, newly inspired by family, nature and anger at today's politics, Mitchell is enjoying an outburst of creativity. The iconic Canadian singer-songwriter, whose poetic verses on songs like “Both Sides, ...

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New Live CD by Vocalist Andy Bey Due for October 30 Release

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
October 11, 2007

Since Andy Bey's return to recording in 1996, after an absence of more than two decades, he has emerged as a preeminent interpreter of the Great American Songbook and one of jazz's vocal masters. Ain't Necessarily So, scheduled for release on October 30 by 12th Street Records, is his newest CD, the fifth in the indispensable series of recordings he has created with producer Herb Jordan, and his first since 2004. The disc was recorded at Birdland in May 1997 ...

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Bassist Robert Sabin Releases "Romero" on Ranula Music

Source: All About Jazz
October 10, 2007

This recording represents a year of watching and re-watching exclusively the films of George A. Romero.

Having been familiar with most of his work from an early age (a local video store let me rent Creepshow when I was 9), I became re-obsessed with Romero's work in 2005 when I discovered the director's commentary track to Day of the Dead. The insights provided by Mr. Romero and Mr. Savini illuminated central characteristics of Mr. Romero's work; the appetite necessary when ...

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