Recording News

P'taah - "Perfumed Silence" - Street King - King Street Sounds

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
November 16, 2011

Notable producer Chris Brann, responsible for the ground breaking king-of-their-time productions of Wamdue Project, Wamdue Kids, and Ananda Project, comes to the electronic front line once again with another album by his brain stepchild, P'Taah. Already with three P'Taah artist albums under his belt on Ubiquity Records, the last one was released in 2004. It gained wide acceptance in many different crossover Jazz scenes, with his albums maintaining the consistency to sell through over long periods of time.

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Chet Williamson releases "Chromatic Noir"

Source: Chet Williamson
November 16, 2011

An electronic version of the new CD by the “Chromatic" Chet Williamson is now available at: bandcamp.com. The 13-track, all-original album (with hidden material), features Williamson on harmonicas, pianist Joe Mazzarella, and special guest Jimmy Morrell on guitar and bass. Chromatic Noir is what the title implies. It is about both lightness and darkness. It is the black and white keys of the piano. It is music inspired by film noir. In addition to co-authoring the material, I play the ...

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Anthony Wilson - Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011) CD/DVD

Source: Something Else!
November 16, 2011

This album is credited to Anthony Wilson and rightfully so, as this master guitarist/composer/arranger wrote the four-part “Seasons" suite and led a quartet of virtuosic plectrists to perform it before a live audience. But perhaps the real leader of this session isn't a person but rather, the exquisitely handcrafted guitars of John Monteleone. Monteleone has been making mandolins and guitars since the 1970s, and while his products have never become household name, many of the world's best guitarists—like Mark Knopfler—know ...

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Taj Mahal, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Others - 30th Annual John Lennon Tribute (2011)

Source: Something Else!
November 16, 2011

Taj Mahal, recording as part of the 30th annual John Lennon Tribute at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, finds the chest-bursting peril, the nakedly emotional plea, inside “Come Together"—giving it such a thunderously heartfelt makeover that you'd swear this old Beatles tune had been a blues shout first. And that's just one of what becomes a stirring series of remakes on this Lennon memorial project, to be issued today. Shelby Lynne ("Mother"), Me'shell Ndegeocello ("God"), Alejandro Escovedo ("Help!) ...

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Morgan Agren/ Trey Gunn/ Henry Kaiser - Invisible Rays (2011)

Source: Something Else!
November 16, 2011

If there is any musician today who embodies the musical spirit of Robert Fripp, it must be his former King Crimson band mate, Warr Guitarist Trey Gunn. There are certain musical sensibilities that set Robert Fripp apart from other guitarists out there—mostly a serpent-like determination to strike at, and only at, the exact right moment, but also heavily dependent on a zen-like honor for space and silence that few other musicians in rock really grasp. Gunn has studied all of ...

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Katalyst Entertainment Releases New CD "Cosmic" By Vocalist Dwight Trible!

Source: Michael Ricci
November 16, 2011

On November 15th 2011 Kataltst Entertainment releases Cosmic the long awaited new CD from vocalist Dwight Trible. With Cosmic the theme is love and from the opening track “Speak To Us Of Love" which Dwight says “was inspired by the text on love from the famous Kahlil Gibran book The Prophet right through the closing track, Dwight's own treatment of the 60's soul classic “Ooh Child" sung here “because it is a song of hope" the spirit of love is ...

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Autobiographical storytelling and subtle prettiness characterize new EP from singer/songwriter Kerri Lowe

Source: Graham Taylor
November 16, 2011

Singer/songwriter Kerri Lowe is a promising young talent in the Americana scene, one with a gift for reinterpreting diary passages into catchy folk songs. On her debut EP, Move Free, Lowe's storytelling has an autobiographical perspective, and instead of hiding her emotions in ironic wordplay or consciously vague poetry she lets them bleed. Nowhere is this more evident than on “Please Don't Take Me to Kentucky." Set to a spare acoustic guitar, Lowe's fragile voice details how she discovered the ...

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Glen Campbell, Bill Medley, Roches, Grateful Dead Headline Real Gone's January Releases

Source: conqueroo
November 15, 2011

Glen Campbell's 1975 Live in Japan was never released in the U.S., while Bill Medley twofer chronicles his late '60s post-Righteous Brothers solo career LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A never-before-released Glen Campbell live album, Bill Medley's post-Righteous Brothers solo albums for MGM, a 1975 album by Maggie & Terre Roche of the Roches, a retrospective of country singer Jody Miller's Epic Records years and two new Dick's Picks volumes from the Grateful Dead headline the January 2012 lineup for Real Gone Music ...

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