I have wanted to review MBD (aka Shara Worden) I am the Workhorse since I picked it up a few years ago (I still have not heard its follow up, and so far my only exposure is this one album). A decidedly focused but eclectic bit of chamber pop with a lot of almost kitschy cabaret touches. It’s orchestral post-folk pop…how about that for...
Only a retro styled soul-jazz band oriented for dancing from Japan would name themselves Soil+Pimp Sessions. They have such varied album names as Pimpin, Pimp Master, Pimp of the Year, Pimpoint, and…6.This energetic cut is from 6 and it’s a decently bouncy bit of funny groove that is somewhere between James Bond themes and the opening...
Went looking for some restocking of the wine rack, and ended up picking up mostly some unusual beers:J.W. Lee’s Harvest (matured in Lagavulin Whiskey casks)North Coast’s Old Rasputin XII Russian Imperial Stout (aged in Bourbon casks)Russian River Brewing’s Pliny the Elder, which Mr. Guntharp swears by and to my knowledge is not...
It sounds a bit more developed but otherwise as equally ascetic in direction as his previous full-length, Blemish. But in the case of tracks like Small Metal Gods from new album Manafon, the spartan instrumentation and the cadences of the melodic fragments reminds me of some abstract marriage between a folky blues and the spare melancholic...
So the structures are yurts (or rather upscale versions of true yurts, which are what nomadic peoples of Central Asia/Mongolia live in) and the missus and I spent a few days in one out in the expanse of Big Sur, at a place called Treebones Resort. These yurts are sturdy, with small skydomes to see the stars and moon at night and wake up to a...
Both are Miles Davis alumni. both are known for radical sonic constructions that range from the very standard setting to the very avant-garde. Both show a great level of tasteful playing when dealing with material from Bill Evans, whose own work was both complex and demanding on the one hand, yet utterly accessible and emotive on the other....
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