Results for "Amulet"

Heels Over Head

By Billy Martin

Label: Amulet
Released: 2013
Track listing: Ghumba Zumba; Theme One; Button to Button; Rendezvous; 99%; Muffaletta; Sugarfoot Stomp; Chaman's Interlude; Canta y No Llores; Mbwemofolo; Noctiluca.

Heels over Head

By Marcus Rojas

Label: Amulet
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. Ghumba Zumba (F. London) – 03:26; 2. Theme One (S. Bernstein) – 4:56; 3. Button to Button (J. White, B. Martin) – 4:47;4. Rendevouz (B. Martin) – 2:43; 5. 99% (B. Martin, S. Hirsch) – 3:53; 6. Muffaletta (B. Martin) – 4:49; 7. Sugarfoot Stomp (K. Oliver) – 3:42; 8. Chaman´s Interlude (B. Martin) – 4:35; 9. Canta y no Llores (canto tradizionale) – 6:37; 10. Mbwemofolo (B. Martin) – 2:54; 11. Noctiluca (B. Martin, S. Bernstein. M. Rojas, C. Fowlkes) – 6:23.

Billy Martin's Wicked Knee: Heels over Head

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 26, 2013

Fondato dal batterista co-leader dei Medeski, Martin & Wood, Billy Martin, Wicked Knee è un assortito quartetto che ha pubblicato da poco Heels over Head, un album ricco di ritmo, nato - come espressamente dichiarato da Billy Martin - per intrattenere ascoltatori capaci di lasciarsi andare al divertimento. In netta antitesi alla musica cervellotica di alcune ...

Billy Martin's Wicked Knee: Heels Over Head

by Doug Collette
March 20, 2013

After a long series of way under-the radar solo projects, drummer Billy Martin has chosen a more accessible route in the last couple of years, beginning with his duo collaboration with keyboardist Wil Blades, Shimmy (The Royal Potato Family, 2012).The followup to the eponymous seven-track EP, Heels Over Head is equally easy to digest, ...

Billy Martin's Wicked Knee: Heels Over Head

by Mark Corroto
March 15, 2013

What if drummer Billy Martin of the late-20th, now 21st-century band Medeski Martin and Wood had been born at the end of the 19th century in New Orleans? What kind of music would he play? Certainly, it would have a brass band setting and be inflected with blues feel. Invite Buddy Bolden over tonight, because we ...

Nassira

Label: Amulet
Released: 2008
Track listing: Earth Mover; Space Boy; Pop Goes The Weasel; Let's Funk; That's It; Area 51; What It Look Like.

Grant Calvin Weston: Nassira

by Martin Longley
December 16, 2008

The Amulet label is operated by Billy Martin and Grant Calvin Weston is one of that sticksman's key drumming influences. It's easy to believe, given this album's swirling blend of abstraction and groove. Nassira opens with an apocalyptic drumming statement, thundering toms and slashed cymbals raging against a building snowstorm drone. This “Earth ...

Mago

By Medeski Martin & Wood

Label: Amulet
Released: 2007
Track listing: Introducing Mago; Crustaceatron;; Mojet;; Apology; Bamboo Pants; Thundercloud; Bonfa; Safak; Miss Teardrop; Sycretism; L'Aventura; Bonus: Bamboo Pants(short and raw version).

Mago

By Billy Martin

Label: Amulet
Released: 2007
Track listing: Introducing Mago; Crusaceatron; Mojet; Apology; Bamboo Pants; Thundercloud; Bonfa; Safak; Miss Teardrop; Sycretism; L'Aventura.

Billy Martin / John Medeski: Mago

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
November 11, 2007

In their nearly twenty year history, drummer Billy Martin and organist John Medeski have developed an acute affinity built on a shared rhythmic feel and devotion to improvisation. On Mago, they return to the duo format, the seed that blossomed into the successful trio Medeski, Martin & Wood (MMW). The eleven tracks crackle with vitality, as ...