Artist: Keaton and Hive
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
VIO011
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Scarlett Johansson - Johansson Album Bombs With Critics
Actress-turned-singer SCARLETT JOHANSSON's debut album has received a series of scathing reviews from music critics, who have branded the star's recordings "fussy and forgettable".
The Lost In Translation star released her LP Anywhere I Lay My Head, a collection of Tom Waits covers, this week (begs19May08).
But several reviews of the 40-minute-long disc have been lukewarm, with commentators reserving their harshest criticism for Johansson's vocal abilities.
U.S. magazine Rolling Stone, which gave Johansson a mediocre 2.5 stars out of five, complains, "Johansson's voice is unremarkable and her pitch sometimes unsteady; she's a faintly goth Marilyn Manson lost in a sonic fog."
Entertainment Weekly were also less than complimentary, giving the project an average "C" grade and remarking that her "expressionless voice" was concealed "deeply in the druggy ambiance".
The album, released on Rhino Records, contains 10 Waits covers with the exception of one original composition co-written by 23-year-old Johansson and TV On The Radio guitarist/keyboardist David Andrew Sitek. Rocker David Bowie contributes backing vocals on two of the tracks.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Ralph Stanley and Friends
Artist: Ralph Stanley and Friends
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
Clinch Mountain Sweethearts
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
Sunday, 25 May 2008
Pat Metheney
Artist: Pat Metheney
Genre(s):
Instrumental
Discography:
Imaginary Day
Year:
Tracks: 9
One of the most original guitarists from the '80s onward (he is instantly recognizable), Pat Metheny is a chance-taking participant world Health Organization has gained great popularity simply also taken some wild left turns. His records with the Pat Metheny Group ar difficult to draw (folk-jazz? climate music?) just managed to be both accessible and original, stretch the boundaries of nothingness and making Metheny famed enough so he could perform whatever type of medicine he wants without losing his audience. Metheny (whose older pal is the trumpeter Mike Metheny) started on guitar when he was 13. He highly-developed speedily, taught at both the University of Miami and Berklee piece he was a adolescent, and made his recording debut with Paul Bley and Jaco Pastorius in 1974. He played out an crucial period (1974-1977) with Gary Burton's radical, met keyboardist Lyle Mays, and in 1978 formed his group, which originally featured Mays, bassist Mark Egan, and drummer Dan Gottlieb. Within a short period he was ECM's top artist and 1 of the most popular of all jazzmen, merchandising out stadiums. Metheny generally avoided playing predictable music, and his self-employed projects were always quite interesting. His 1980 album 80/81 featured Dewey Redman and Mike Brecker in a post-bop quintette; he teamed up with Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins on a triplet date in 1983; and 2 age later recorded the selfsame outside Strain X with Ornette Coleman. Among Metheny's other projects away from the grouping were a sideman recording with Sonny Rollins; a 1990 spell with Herbie Hancock in a 4; a trio record album with Dave Holland and Roy Haynes; and a collaborationism (and tour) with Joshua Redman. Although his Cypher Tolerance for Silence in 1994 was largely a waste (40 transactions of feedback), Metheny maintained his popularity and remained a consistently creative performing artist. He has recorded as a leader for ECM (starting in 1975), Geffen, Warner Brothers, and Nonesuch. Metheny remained combat-ready in the twenty-first century, cathartic Speech production of Now in 2002, the solo One Quiet Night in 2003, Agency Up in 2005, and Metheny Mehldau in 2006. Metheny and piano player Brad Mehldau returned to the studio the following year for Quartet.
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Paul Horn
Artist: Paul Horn
Genre(s):
New Age
Easy Listening
Folk
Ethnic
Other
Discography:
Inside the Taj Mahal I and II
Year: 2001
Tracks: 25
Brazilian Images Transparent
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Tibet
Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
Africa
Year: 1994
Tracks: 7
The Peace Album
Year: 1988
Tracks: 15
Traveler
Year: 1985
Tracks: 12
Paul Horn In Kashmir
Year: 1968
Tracks: 6
Riviera Concert (23-1-1980)
Year:
Tracks: 5
In India and Kashmir
Year:
Tracks: 13
When one evaluates Paul Horn's calling, it is as if he were dickens people, pre- and post-1967. In his early old age, Horn was an fantabulous cool-toned altoist and champagne flute player, piece later on he became a young age flautist whose humour music is often c. H. Topper used as background euphony for speculation. Trumpet started on piano when he was four and switched to alto at the eld of 12. Later on a erolia minutilla with the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra on tenor, Horn was Pal Collette's substitute with the popular Chico Hamilton Quintette (1956-1958), playing alto, transverse champagne flute, and clarinet. He became a studio apartment instrumentalist in Los Angeles, only if as well launch metre during 1957-1966 to record cool jazz albums for Dot (by and by reissued on Urge), Globe Pacific, Hi Fi Jazz, Columbia, and RCA, and he participated in a memorable live session with Cal Tjader in 1959. In addition, in 1964, Saddle horn recorded ace of the phone number ace Jazz Hoi polloi, utilizing an orchestra staged by Lalo Schifrin. In 1967, Alice Paul Horn studied transcendental speculation in India and became a instructor. The pursual yr, he recorded alone flute glass solos at the Taj Mahal (where he enjoyed interacting with the echoes), and would go on to record in the Great Pyramid, circuit China (1979) and the Soviet Union, record victimisation the sounds of slayer whales as "accompaniment," and launch his possess label Golden Flute. Most of Saint Paul Horn's ferment since the mid-'70s is focused on freshly age rather than jazz.
Christina Ricci returns to Hollywood blockbusters
Christina Ricci returns to Hollywood blockbusters
By Nichola Stableboy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Turns out Christina Ricci, world Health Organization has
become a favourite of free lance pic fans, isn't so 'indie'
after altogether.
The actress, world Health Organization gained fame as a child worker in "Mermaids"
and "The Addams Syndicate," says hoi polloi consume her totally wrong if they
think she intentionally shied away from blockbuster Hollywood
flicks in her grownup geezerhood. Her newest movie, Friday's big-budget
"Swiftness Racer," is Ricci's test copy.
"I wanted to do boastfully movies for a long time merely I haven't
necessarily been precondition the opportunity," she told Reuters. "I
just haven't gotten those kinds of parts."
Leaving films like "Casper" behind, Ricci took on
more and more to a greater extent complex roles as a stripling in homo dramas
such as theatre director Air National Guard Lee's "The Ice Storm" (1997) and as a
young adult in "The Laramie Project," (2002) which dealt with
the hatred offense off of a youth homophile man, Matthew Shepard.
Just this summer, the 28-year-old Ricci is starring as
Trixie, the title character's girlfriend in "Pep pill Racer."
Based on a popular 1960s sketch, the picture show tells of a youth
race car device driver, Focal ratio, wHO learns that wealthy corporations
ar using their profits to pay away drivers and fix races.
Velocity, along with Trixie, his fellowship and a match driver,
Racer X, vow to peril the dodge and save his honey variation.
The action-packed film promises to be Ricci's biggest pic
since 1999's "Sleepy Hollow," in which she starred antonym
Rebel Depp. And spell fans crataegus laevigata view "Speed" as a departure
from her indie reputation, Ricci doesn't agree.
"I know it seems incongruous ... of trend, the only thing
mass commode truly cogitate about you is what they realise in your
shape," she said. "Just I like big movies -- and I'm form of
silly -- and I care cheesy telecasting."
Carey sets date for her new album
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