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Pilgrimage of Blood album for sale The idea of colliding Romany music with punk may at first seem bizarre, but there's more common ground to be found than one might first suspect, not the least of which involves the rejection of authority and dominant cultural norms. Musically, the Romanies' exuberant celebration of life may appear the antithesis of punk's original nihilism, but both are kindled by a sense of immediacy, a "no future, let's play for today" atmosphere that fires every song. ...

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Pilgrimage of Blood buy CD music The King and the Father features a dozen of Bill Monroe's early-'50s Decca recordings on which Jimmy Martin provided lead or duet vocals. Although these performances were originally billed only to Monroe, the anthology cleverly gives joint credit to Monroe, the "Father of Bluegrass," and Martin, the "King of Bluegrass," to emphasize Martin's contribution and to target his audience. Many bluegrass devotees regard Martin as the finest bluegrass vocalist of all time, and at the very least, his high lonesome tenor is a model for the genre. He harmonizes sublimely with Monroe, and the two join together in a heartsick cry that matches their penchant for unvarnished, sorrowful bluegrass songs about tragedy and suffering. Many of Monroe's classic recordings are included, such as "Uncle Pen," "The Little Girl ...

Pilgrimage of Blood CD music Recorded live in London, England. Includes liner notes by Mark Humphrey. An excellent live album recorded, from the sound of it, in the late '80s, although no date is given in the CD booklet. Glen Campbell, backed by a hot and surprisingly bluesy little band, is in especially fine form here vocally, particularly on "Crying," where he achieves the nearly impossible feat of making you temporarily forget the Roy Orbison original. The obligatory pop hits are well-represented, but the album really picks up with a down and dirty version of "Milk Cow Blues" (derived, Campbell notes, from the pre-Elvis version by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) and an impassioned, rootsy take on Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." All tracks have been digitally remastered. Personnel: Glen Campbell (vocals, guitar, banjo). Liner Note Authors: Mark A. Humphrey; Mark Humphrey.

Pilgrimage of Blood album for sale Ital is the latest alias of Daniel Martin-McCormick, a San Francisco-based deep thinker and genre iconoclast whose résumé includes punk/noise/experimental mayhem with the groups Black Eyes and Mi Ami, and weird, murky solo electronic pop excursions as Sex Worker. Ital represents, at least in theory, Martin-McCormick's take on "straightforward" electronic dance music, but there's little that's straightforward about Hive Mind (Ital's first full-length following a trio of 12"s) --ÿand while you could probably dance to much of it, that feels fairly low down on the list of priorities here. The album's few lengthy tracks aren't far removed in their ultimate effect from the kind of spacey, psychedelic, low-impact quasi-house music that's been emanating from plenty of corners lately, but there's something decidedly unconventional -- loose and intuitive, haphazard even -- about the way they're constructed. Which isn't to say this is an amateurish affair -- even working with deliberately crude technology (the tracks were constructed using the basic freeware program Audacity), Martin-McCormick's clearly got strong production chops, ample attention to detail, and an intrinsic understanding of how to put together a credible dance track. But he wields his eclectic musical background and border-crossing "outsider" status with smirking pride, playfully muddying up the margins of what dance music is "supposed" to do. The most striking thing here is opener "Doesn't Matter (If You Love Him)," which jabs listeners with a numbingly incessant sample of Lady Gaga speaking the title phrase (evoking the stutter-cuts of Chicago footwork music -- especially considering the album's appearance on Planet Mu -- but also inevitably recalling the Chemical Brothers' similarly tickish, arrhythmic use of a nearly identical phrase to similarly demented effect on "It Doesn't Matter") atop a limber, two-note punk-funky bassline punctuated by cosmic laser swoops and unexpected detours (Whitney Houston makes a memorable appearance.) It's a thrilling, if jarring and rather exhausting ride. The rest of the album, though, takes a gentler tack: colorful, certainly, but less overtly demanding of attention. Setting aside the brief, unsettling lurch of "Privacy Settings" (complete with wolf howls!), the other three tracks (each ten minutes long) are fluid, groove-oriented excursions: wet, woozy, and synth-drenched, with plenty of percussion and occasional, largely indecipherable speech samples (contributing to a vague sense of political/philosophical subtext.) There are plenty of musical reference points that might surface at various moments throughout Hive Mind -- the wormy left-field electro-pop of Schneider TM, the lazy Balearic grooves of Sweden's Studio, the dubbed-out disco-house of Motorbass, the seasick swoon of Teengirl Fantasy, the brainiac irreverence of Mouse on Mars -- but ultimately, Martin-McCormick has cobbled together something that can't quite be compared to anything. ~ K. Ross Hoffman

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