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Article: Live Review

Gent Jazz Festival 2011: Days 5-8

Read "Gent Jazz Festival 2011: Days 5-8" reviewed by Martin Longley


Days 1-4 | Days 5-8 Gent Jazz Festival Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 14-17, 2011 The festival's second chunk customarily embraced music that was sympathetic to jazz, but moved into the territories of roots, rock, pop, soul, electronica, R&B and African music. All of these forms ...

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Article: Album Review

Marc Ribot: Silent Movies

Read "Silent Movies" reviewed by Enrique Turpin


Este trabajo debería haberse titulado Blind Movies (Películas ciegas), según confiesa el propio guitarrista en el texto de presentación del disco. Hubiese sido un gran acierto, a pesar del oxímoron al que remite. Y es que el recorrido por estas piezas --todos de la autoría de Marc Ribot, salvo el estándar Sous le Ciel de Paris-- ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Lanois: Black Dub

Read "Black Dub" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Not even a heavy motorcycle crash accident can prevent Daniel Lanois from doing what he does best, and better than most--making music or helping other people make music. He is simply bulletproof to whatever circumstances slap his face, be they bad or good. During his recovery period, after the intensive care following the accident, he produced ...

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Article: Album Review

Mercury Falls: Quadrangle

Read "Quadrangle" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


It begins with a stark electric drone, an eerie, throbbing repetition from which the familiar cry of a saxophone emerges. The tune is “Spring Pools," and it sounds like music that swells out of the quiet after the Apocalypse. The group is Mercury Falls, a saxophone/guitar/bass/drums ensemble with some deft electronic embellishments. The music could be ...

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Article: Live Review

Brian Blade & Friends at Highline Ballroom

Read "Brian Blade & Friends at Highline Ballroom" reviewed by David Miller


Brian Blade & FriendsHighline BallroomNew York, New YorkJune 24, 2009Brian Blade took the Highline Ballroom stage on a humid Wednesday night to mark the release of his singer-songwriter album, Mama Rosa (Verve Music Group, 2009). There was relatively little fanfare, appropriate given Blade's humble disposition and the no-frills content of Mama ...

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Article: Interview

Jon Hassell: Fourth World and Balancing the North and South of You

Read "Jon Hassell: Fourth World and Balancing the North and South of You" reviewed by John Kelman


He may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker Jon Hassell may not have the same name recognition as, say, Miles Davis, but his unmistakable approach to music—he calls it Fourth World music—has affected musicians around the globe, ranging from now friend/co-conspirator Brian Eno, British post-rock crooner ...

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Article: Interview

Brian Blade: Songs From His Heart

Read "Brian Blade: Songs From His Heart" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...

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News: Recording

"Mama Rosa" Brian Blade Coming in April

"Mama Rosa" Brian Blade Coming in April

BRIAN BLADE * MAMA ROSA * The debut singer/songwriter recording On Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Brian Blade will release Mama Rosa, his first recording as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. The album is a revealing journey through a thirteen-song cycle about family, loved ones, travels and a sense that these things have to be ...

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Acadie Goldtop Edition

Label: Diverse Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Still Water; The Maker; O Marie; Jolie Louise; Fisherman's Daughter; White Mustang II; Under A Stormy Sky; Where The Hawkwind Kills; Silium's Hill; Ice; St. Ann's Gold; Amazing Grace; The Maker (early bass and lyrics); The Maker (calypso demo); Still Water (from Eno's house); Jolie Louise (before Dublin); Early Dourado Sketch; The Source Of Fisherman's Daughter.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Acadie Goldtop Edition

Read "Acadie Goldtop Edition" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Although Daniel Lanois' production and engineering wizardry have secured his place in the musical hall of fame, his own debut album Acadie (Warner Bros., 1989) revealed another talent—songwriting. The album is about as perfect a debut as an artist could hope for, containing every single aspect of what makes Lanois so special, presenting him as both ...


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