Recording News

WD-41+2 Free Downloads from the album "Temi Per Cinema"

Source: Willie Oteri
March 31, 2011

Enjoy three free download tracks BB-2, W-5 and U-5 from the album WD-41+2 Temi Per Cinema. The track BB-2 features Willie Oteri (guitar and live loops), Scott Amendola (drums) and Dave Laczko (trumpet and effects). W-5 and U-5 are performed by Oteri and Lazkco with laptop beatjocky Dino JA Deane who is also performing slide on a fretless dulcimer. All of the tracks on Temi Per Cinema were improvised by Oteri and Laczko live to a 2 track recorder in ...

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Mojoflo - Neo Funk from Columbus Ohio Releases 7" Single "Home To You/Dance"

Source: George Barrie
March 31, 2011

In a digital world of mp3s, iPods, and online listening services the Columbus based neo-funk band Mojoflo is going old-school. The band's first release of 2011 will be a 45rpm vinyl single due out on April 1st. The A side “Home To You" is a mojo-fan favorite. It's an up-tempo James Brown inspired groove that details a musician's long trip home after a gig. The song features a heavy drum break, a scorching performance from lead vocalist Amber Knicole, and ...

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P.J. Pacifico's 'Outlet' Set for 6/7 on Viper Records; CD Evokes Gin Blossoms, James Taylor

Source: Seth Cohen PR
March 30, 2011

A New Marriage Sparks Songs of Hopefulness, as Radio-Friendly Rock/Pop CD Evokes Gin Blossoms, Matthew Sweet and a Bit of Simon and Garfunkel P.J. Pacifico's Outlet is Set for June 7th on Viper Records—Features Tracks Produced by Grammy Award Winner Dave O'Donnell (John Mayer, James Taylor) Singer-songwriter P.J. Pacifico delivers a confident, upbeat collection of road-tested rock/pop music, on his June 7th Viper Records release, 'Outlet.' With a radio-friendly sound that evokes Gin Blossoms and Matthew Sweet, and a storyteller's ...

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Richard Danielpour's Preludes for Piano: The Enchanted Garden

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
March 30, 2011

Composer Richard Danielpour writes solo piano music that evokes the magic of Debussy's pastoral eloquence in one breath and the drive of a Scott Joplin piano rag in another, yet transposes it all with a very considerable ear and pen, channeled by a man living in the world of 1992, or 2009. Danielpour's two books of preludes, written in the years just mentioned, have an up-to-the-minute contemporary quality, yet also a timelessness that transcends all time. The Naxos recording of ...

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Something Else! Sneak Peek: Nicholas Payton - Bitches (2011)

Source: Something Else!
March 30, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Forgive me if I thought this was going to be trumpeter Nicholas Payton's further ruminations on the turbulent brilliance of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. Instead, Payton really means it. Of course, any experimental trumpet record—and this one, combining elements of soul, funk, street sounds and jazz, is certainly one of them—can't help but reference Miles Davis. There's “Freesia," which takes a page out of the hip-hop amalgams Davis was just beginning to explore when he passed in ...

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Philadelphia-based guitarist Ray Ferretti stirs together progressive rock and jazz on new CD

Source: Lauren Rogers
March 30, 2011

Guitarist Ray Ferretti stirs together the sonic experimentation of progressive rock and the rhythm-oriented structure of jazz so effortlessly well on his latest CD Leaf Juice it's almost like those two styles were parts of the same genre. Even more impressive is that Ferretti, for the most part, flies solo on this project, jamming by himself on the guitar, bass, and much of the keyboards; he was responsible for all of the drum programming, too. What happens often during one-man ...

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Marshall Crenshaw Announces 30th Year in Music with Weekend of Special Shows in New York

Source: conqueroo
March 30, 2011

In 1981, Crenshaw released single “Something's Gonna Happen" on Shake Records followed by mythic debut album. He'll be joined in its celebration by Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo), Graham Maby and brother Robert Crenshaw No more CDs—music subscription and vinyl series announced NEW YORK, N.Y.—"His intelligence, integrity, and passion for the great song always show up in his music," wrote Robert Christgau in his Consumer Guide of Marshall Crenshaw. Over a span of 30 years, Crenshaw has released 13 albums, ...

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"JAZZ ROOTS: Music of the Americas" Out April 5th!

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 29, 2011

Sony MASTERWORKS Jazz in partnership with producer Larry Rosen will release JAZZ ROOTS: The Music of the Americas, the first compilation of this new branded series which traces the story of Jazz starting with the “Drums from Africa" and their effect on the musical DNA of the Americas. The historical descriptions for the package have been created in association the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium. The 2-CD 37 track compilation will be available on April 5, 2011.

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