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Explicit Samouraï - Rap
Label: Toxic
Catalog#: 7243 5 63264 2 2
Format: Cd, Album
Country: France
Released: 2005
Explicit Samouraï is a french rap combo based in Bagneux (France) composed by Specta, Leeroy Kesiah and Dj Eddy Kent. Established in 1994, the combo also was part of the french collective/super-group Saian Supa Crew with OFX and Simple Spirit.
Specta left SSC in 2002 allowing Explicit Samouraï to focus on different projects (their label – Toxic – and a DVD series called “Toxic TV”) as well as creating a new 9-rappers-combo called “La Horde”, while Leeroy left SSC in 2007 to pursuit his solo career.
The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta
Label: A&M Records
Catalog#: AMLH 64831
Format: LP
Country: Uk
Released: 1980
The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting (lead vocals, bass), Andy Summers (guitars) and Stewart Copeland (drums). The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz. Their 1983 album, Synchronicity, was number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, and sold over 8,000,000 copies in the US.
The group disbanded in 1986, but reunited in early 2007 for a one-off world tour lasting until August 2008. The Police have sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and were the world’s highest-earning musicians in 2008, thanks to their reunion tour. >>>
Keith Jarrett & Gary Peacock & Jack Dejohnette – Changeless
Label: ECM
Catalog#: ECM 1392
Format: Cd
Country: Germany
Released: 1989
One of only a handful of Keith Jarrett “Standards” Trio records without a standard within earshot, this is a triumph, for Jarrett has successfully brought the organically evolving patterns of his solo concerts into the group format. Each of the first three selections is built upon a constant revolving ostinato, and each evolves from one stage to the next like a Jarrett solo piano improvisation.
“Dancing” has a swaying Latin beat in the percussion and bass; “Endless” is full of lyrical invention at a slower tempo; “Lifeline” is catchy and hypnotic; and the fourth number, “Ecstasy,” grows out of “Lifeline,” closing the album perhaps inevitably with a drawn-out, peaceful piano tremolo. Bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette are clearly listening hard, going with the flow. The recordings were taken from four separate concerts in Denver, Dallas, Lexington, KY., and Houston.
Jarrett may spout off about society’s self-centered soullessness in his querulous liner notes, but he and his trio have clearly backed his words by example, pulling off a genuine collective musical experience. [Review by Richard S. Ginnell] >>>
Herbert – Secondhand Sounds: Herbert Remixes
Label: Peacefrog Records
Catalog#: PFG021CD
Format: 2xCD, Compilation, Digipack
Country: UK
Released: 2002
Matthew Herbert (born 1972), also known as Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, and Wishmountain, is a British electronic musician. He has pioneered the use of so-called ‘real’, ‘ordinary’ or ‘found’ sounds in modern electronic music. ›››
How great is it to get into an artist at the exact moment when he’s at the top of his game? Mathew Herbert is pretty much unstoppable right now, a one-man juggernaut assaulting the world of electronic music on several fronts: high-profile experimental pop under his own name, underground releases as Doctor Rockit, Radioboy and Wishmountin (some of which are available free) and collaborations too numerous to mention– all packaged with biting anti-globalism dogma which you can pay attention to or ignore without affecting your appreciation of the music in the slightest. His beat programming is always on time, he’s writing vocal melodies to rival prime Stereolab, and he’s a sampling theorist on par with Matmos or DJ Shadow. This guy is firing on all cylinders.
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Flanger - Spirituals
Label: Nonplace
Catalog#: NON18
Format: Cd, Album, Digipack
Country: Germany
Released: 2005
The Flanger project was founded in 1998 by Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart aka Señor Coconut) and Bernd Friedmann (aka Burnt Friedman), who have both been active in the music business since the early 1990s.
Two of the most prolific producers in electronic music, Atom (aka Uwe Schmidt, Señor Coconut) and Burnt Friedman, team up as Flanger to create music that looks retrospectively to the past for its inspiration. With a group of marvelous musicians they swing back to the raw soul of the 1920s. Crafting jazz that blurs the lines between analog and electronics, this new Flanger album is all about re-imagining a period when music was still playful. Referencing a spiritual aesthetic when music was instantaneous and pure, they corralled material from their diverse live performances and guest musicians, much like the fin-de-siècle researchers who recorded the first spirituals. Infusing this release with a global bent, they sent their efforts back and forth electronically between their studios in Santiago, Chile and Cologne, Germany.
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