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Article: Album Review

Sons Of Hippies: Griffons At The Gates Of Heaven

Read "Griffons At The Gates Of Heaven" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

This trio merges remembrances of black-light rooms, bong pipes, and cries for peace with a modern psychedelic vibe, leaning heavily toward Indie-rock as a catalyst for its overall game-plan. They craft a massive but fluid sound via crunching chord developments, weighty backbeats and Kathleen Kelley's willowy vocal delivery, tinted with beatific overtones. Indeed, it's a transcendental ...

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Article: Album Review

Fort Knox Five: 10 Years of the Fort Knox Five

Read "10 Years of the Fort Knox Five" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

“All good things come in five, baby...You can't get around no prime number, you dig?" Some music just makes you feel good. You can't explain it but some music makes you feel like life's a party and you're invited. (It's that “can't explain it" part which drives writers crazy.) 10 Years of The Fort ...

News: Recording

Argentinian "Digital Folklore" Trio Tremor Returns with "Proa"

Argentinian "Digital Folklore" Trio Tremor Returns with "Proa"

Buenos Aires based “digital folklore” trio Tremor return to the forefront of modern South American music with a brand new album on Nickodemus’ Brooklyn based Wonderwheel Recordings. After playing some of the most important festivals and venues worldwide including Roskilde Festival in Denmark and an official WOMEX showcase, the new album entitled Proa continues Tremor’s use ...

News: Music Industry

Six Degrees Records Signs Meklit Hadero to World-Wide Record Deal

Six Degrees Records Signs Meklit Hadero to World-Wide Record Deal

Six Degrees Records is pleased and excited to announce the world-wide signing of singer/composer, TED Senior Fellow & cultural activist Meklit Hadero. Born in Ethiopia & based in San Francisco for the past nine years, Hadero became a sensation with the release of her debut On a Day Like This. A luminous album featuring original songs ...

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Article: Live Review

Phoenix at Barclays Center

Read "Phoenix at Barclays Center" reviewed by Christine Connallon

by Christine Connallon

Phoenix Barclays Center Brooklyn, NY October 2, 2013 On an early October evening that felt much more like summer than fall, the four man band from Versailles named Phoenix rolled into Brooklyn's upscale Barclays Center. An eclectic crowd milled around outside, soaking in the last rays of sunshine ...

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Article: Album Review

Aaron Parks: Arborescence

Read "Arborescence" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Slowly but surely, over the past several years, ECM Records has forged relationships with some of New York City's most impressive musicians--no mean feat given that, despite the Big Apple no longer being the jazz mecca it once was, it certainly remains a lightning rod for some of the world's most creative musicians, ranging from trumpeter ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Rob Garza: Being Open-minded

Read "Rob Garza: Being Open-minded" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

DJ and producer Rob Garza has been known as one half of the kaleidoscopic duo Thievery Corporation, along with Eric Hilton. Earlier this year Garza released a collection of 14 remixes that he has done for artists such as Gogol Bordello, Tycho and Miguel Migs. Remixes is a crisscross concoction that merges beats, ambient waves, low ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Jim Ferris

Read "Take Five With Jim Ferris" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Meet Jim Ferris: I play the sax and flute. Moved to Raleigh, NC from Rochester, NY in 1999. I have been leading my own jazz group since the late '80s in New York and North Carolina. In Rochester, I fronted the Jim Ferris Quartet for about a decade and have been performing for more ...

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Article: Album Review

Earl MacDonald and the Creative Opportunity Workshop: Mirror of the Mind

Read "Mirror of the Mind" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Not satisfied with the traditional jazz spectrum, pianist and educator Earl MacDonald explores new ways of expressing his progressive taste and with Mirror of the Mind deciding to challenge the boundaries of jazz with a unique instrumentation and sound forged by his new band, Creative Opportunity Workshop. As Director of Jazz Studies at the University of ...

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Article: Album Review

Ilaiyaraja: Soundtrack: Neethane En Ponvasantham

Read "Soundtrack: Neethane En Ponvasantham" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

In India, the 2012 film Neethane En Ponvasantham and its companion soundtrack proved to be quite the cultural event. Movie scenes were shot in three Indian languages (Tamil, Telugu and Hindi). The soundtrack was collaboratively written by the film's director, Gautham Menon, with lyricist Na. Muthakumar and Ilaiyaraaja, the composer globally known as “The Maestro" because ...


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