Recording News

David Rhodes is USA Today Pick of the Week, "Bittersweet" CD Earns Raves

Source: Seth Cohen PR
July 18, 2010

USA TODAY 'PICK OF THE WEEK' FOR INDIE DAVID RHODES: “A graceful intensity" “A flair for weaving finespun world-music textures into muscular rock arrangements" USA TODAY--The Playlist: David Rhodes' 'If It Could Only Be That Easy' By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY, 7/13/10 The guitarist/singer/songwriter leads the charge this week... Rock and roll meets world music on David Rhodes' If It Could Only Be That Easy, from his Bittersweet album. PICK OF THE WEEK--If It Could Only Be That Easy, ...

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Gate - "Iterations" - Free Jazz / Noise / Japanese Trad. - CD Release

Source: Michael Ricci
July 18, 2010

On August 6, the new album by Gate* called 'iterations' will be released. After last year's 'no exit' and 'discomfort,' both recordings of solo improvisations, this is the first album of the project as a duo. Gate's music is somewhere in between free music (or free jazz) and noise, with important influences from industrial, drone, and Japanese and other traditional music. All releases by the project are unaltered (except for fade in/out) recordings of free improvisation sessions without ...

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Dave Wilson Quartet Releases "Spiral" on Summit Records

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
July 17, 2010

The CD is out! Spiral by the Dave Wilson Quartet, featuring Dave on tenor and soprano saxophones, was released officially on June 15th, courtesy of Summit Records, a nationally based label, located in Phoenix, Arizona. This features 6 original compositions in a contemporary mode including “Spiral," “Ocean Blue," “Movin' On," “Remembering," “Summer Breezes," and “Like GS 2"; plus unique arrangements of three contemporary pop classics including “Friend of the Devil" by the psychedelic jam band icons the Grateful Dead; “(You're ...

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Richard Barone (the Bongos) is Back with Tony Visconti-Produced Album 'Glow'

Source: conqueroo
July 17, 2010

Bongos frontman, author and Tiny Tim producer features co-writes with Paul Williams (yes, that Paul Williams) and Jill Sobule

NEW YORK, N.Y.--Glow, the new album from Richard Barone, frontman of cult faves the Bongos, is a sonic delight, like a lost solo Beatle album from a glam-rock future-world. After taking a break from performing to produce others and write a book Barone is back, working with producer Tony Visconti (along with Steve Addabbo, Jill Sobule and others). Glow indeed glows ...

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Mojo" (CD Review)

Source: Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
July 17, 2010

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, who remain one of my favorite American rock bands, are back with new material. My review of the CD was published recently in Las Vegas City Life--Click here to read or see the full text below.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Mojo (Reprise)

That old appealing Heartbreakers sound is all there on Tom Petty's first official studio recording with his reliable bandmates in eight years. It's a durable blend of rootsy garage rock and Americana--Petty's ...

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Mose Allison, "The Way of the World" (CD Review)

Source: Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
July 17, 2010

Click here to read my review of veteran jazz and blues talent Mose Allison's latest, as published in Relix mag. Or see the full text below.

Mose Allison, The Way of the World (Anti-)

Mose Allison, at 82, remains a gifted pianist, a laidback singer whose songs are often too clever for their own good--an artist caught in the cracks between jazz and blues. For his first studio recording since 1997, Allison leads a trio augmented by tenor saxophonist Walter ...

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The Transgress signed to an American label: ROPEADOPE! Their debut album to be available worldwide.

Source: Daniel Naborowski
July 17, 2010

The Transgress have just signed a contract with the American label: ROPEADOPE and have become the only Polish band so far to have signed to the label known to have released music by famous acts like Medeski, Martin & Wood, Tin Hat Trio, Sex Mob, Critters Buggin or Jazzanova. The digital version of THE TRANSGRESS's debut album is set for release by ROPEADOPE in November 2010 and it will be available worldwide. In the meantime, the band are in talks ...

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Terje Rypdal - Crime Scene (2010)

Source: Something Else!
July 16, 2010

By PicoIf you're a big ECM Records fan like I am, then you'd probably even remember your first ECM record. For a lot of those types, this one is most likely their first ECM. For me, though, it was Terje's Rypdal's Waves, which I picked up just a few years after its 1977 release because I once caught the opening tune “Per Ulv" on college radio and became entranced by it's hypnotic rhythms and suspended melodies. Since then, ...

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