Results for "MIRAGE"

Article: Album Review

Eskelin - Alcorn - Formanek: Mirage

Read "Mirage" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 10, 2013

The Rolling Stones, Yes, and other prominent bands have incorporated the pedal steel guitar into the rock vernacular. Here, pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn extends this instrument beyond customary Americana or Country & Western formats and becomes the link between modern jazz champions, tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and bassist Michael Formanek. She builds a bridge for ...

Album

Mirage

By Francesco Angiuli

Label: ADM Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Toll Road (Corrado Sgura) - 5:19; 02. April (Corrado Sgura) - 6:23; 03. Moonlight Waltz (Corrado Sgura) - 5:37; 04. Yesterdays (Jerome Kern) - 6:41; 05. Across the Funky (Corrado Sgura) - 4:49; 06. How Insensitive (A.C. Jobim) - 4:12; 07. Free the Noose (Corrado Sgura) - 1:53.

Article: Album Review

Corrado Sgura: Mirage

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2007

Un locale notturno con musicisti jazz all'azione... un tema piuttosto battuto ed un luogo comune forse, che su questo disco del chitarrista Corrado Sgura trova una - positiva, beninteso - conferma. Perché è proprio di notte che certe atmosfere funzionano meglio, che brani come “Moonlight Waltz", in quartetto con il sassofonista italo-canadese Sal Rosselli o i ...

Album

Mirage

By Geoff Leigh

Label: Kimchee Records
Released: 2006

Album

Ambient Origins

By Stephen Bacchus

Label: MIRAGE
Released: 2000

Album

True Stories

By Jeff Pearce

Label: MIRAGE
Released: 2000

Album

The Ambient Eclipse

By Various Artists

Label: MIRAGE
Released: 2000
Track listing: 1. Cosmic Wind

125

Article: Album Review

Stephen Bacchus: Ambient Origins

Read "Ambient Origins" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

Ambient Origins is a collection of “early works" (from the '80s) by Canadian electronic musician Stephen Bacchus. His work has recently been heard on compilation albums like The Ambient Expanse , which repeats a piece heard on this album, and The Ambient Eclipse. He doesn't belong to the “school of Steve Roach," and you won't find ...

190

Article: Album Review

Jeff Pearce and Vidna Obmana: True Stories

Read "True Stories" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

Vidna Obmana (the Belgian ambient electronic composer, whose real name is Dirk Serries) has been prolific in the last half of the '90s and into this new decade. I am happy to report that I like his new music more and more. This collaboration with ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce is a good sample of the newer ...

188

Article: Album Review

Various Artists: The Ambient Eclipse

by Michael Askounes
October 1, 2000

After listening to a few ambient recordings and reviewing them, I’ve noticed one glaring problem with the whole ambient genre. It’s not that the music isn’t relaxing – on the contrary, the feeling I have after listening to The Ambient Eclipse is one that I imagine would be akin to taking a bath in a pool ...