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Issued a couple months prior to the full-length Creature Comforts, Miles of Smiles is a two-track release that clocks in just short of half-an-hour. Both tracks act as a bridge between prior album Beaches and Canyons and Creature Comforts (the four-four-based "Cone Toaster" from 2003 seems now, more than ever, something of a stylistic one-off), with each moving through several sections before reaching completion. Wilderness recordings, discombobulated marching bands, displaced percussion jams, and minimal electronics both calm and harsh, factor in. Although "Miles of Smiles" itself is quite a wild ride -- whether or not you're heavily drugged -- "Trip Dude Delay" is significant for the manner in which it begins, with several minutes of low-volume piercing and ghostly voices before being gobbled up in a monsoon of noise. ~ Andy Kellman
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Purchase Miles Of Smiles CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Terry Evans Fire In The Feeling CD (2005)
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After marking time with a live release, Terry Evans returns after four years with a studio collection that, while it doesn't explore new territory, revels in the gospel-laced rocking R&B that has always been his forte. Old friend Ry Cooder sits this one out again (he does contribute a terrific if slightly off-kilter love song in "My Baby Joined the Army"), but his influence is never far from the proceedings when Mark Shark, Joe Colombo, or especially ex-Cooder cohort David Lindley picks up a slide guitar. Evans plays some rhythm guitar and penned or co-wrote six of these 11 songs, including the stirring "Walkin' Chains," the album's longest and most intense piece. Here the swamp, religious, blues, R&B, and folk strains that appear throughout the disc collide in an explosive, moving ballad that builds to a shattering climax with Colombo's Cooder-ish guitar wailing away. There's plenty of party music, too, with the self-explanatory double entendre "I Got a Pony (She Likes to Ride)," the funky "Let's Get Gone," ...
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In 2006, with little advance word, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke unveiled his first solo album, THE ERASER, much to the surprise of many of the band's fans. Given that Yorke ...
| | Philip Jeck Songs For Europe (Piosenki Dla Europy) CD (2004)
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Philip Jeck and Janek Schaefer have shared the same stage -- with and without performing together -- numerous times as part of avant-garde music events, namely the Martin Tétreault-curated turntablist ensemble that toured England in the early 2000s. Songs for Europe is their first full-length collaboration and certainly deserves more than a footnote in their respective discographies. In fact, this album is one of Jeck's best efforts since Vinyl Coda IV, as it eschews facile ambient textures in favor of a harsher discourse, and Schaefer's most "accessible" album in recent times, after a string of very strong yet much more demanding releases (Cold Storage and Black Immure, in particular). The main theme, found in the album title, the artwork, and most of all in the sound sources, is Turkey. Jeck and Schaefer are spinning and sampling a wide ...
| | Rosanne Cash List CD (2009)
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After the dark and chilling themes of 2006's BLACK CADILLAC, which saw Rosanne Cash dealing with the deaths of her mother, Vivian Liberto, her father, Johnny Cash, and her stepmother, June Carter Cash -- all of whom passed within a two-year span -- one might assume that her next project would move into an even deeper level of bleakness, but with THE LIST, it's immediately clear that she has instead found a more measured place to stand. It's a lovely and redemptive outing that looks back to go forward. When Cash turned 18, her father, alarmed that his daughter only knew the songs that were getting played on the radio, gave her a list of what he considered 100 essential American songs; Cash kept that list, and now she's drawn on it for this wonderfully nuanced outing that brims with a kind of redemptive timelessness. THE LIST is a renewal and a testament to life, and it belongs to her father as much as it belongs to her, a beautiful restatement of her father's passions, only now, they've become his daughter's treasures, as well. It's an affirming story, but that's all it would be if Cash didn't sing her ...
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Cabaret performer Charles Cermele got high marks with this his debut album as it won the 1996 Bistro Award for Outstanding Record of the Year. A selection of standards, near standards, and tunes from the Broadway musical stage, Cermele is accompanied by Christopher Marlowe, who served as musical director for the late Nancy LaMott. Like all good cabaret singers, Cermele is first and foremost a storyteller. This means that he has to put his unique stamp on the lyrics, applying the appropriate emotional touch to each word for each tune. He/she also must be able to take average material and raise it a notch or two. This earns his/her spurts in the cabaret game. For Cermele, it's the rendition of "A Ship Without a Sail," a Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart melody from one of their earliest collaborations, Heads Up, a 1929 musical. He makes the song sound better than it has any right to. The piano is set aside for Ken Sebesky's acoustic guitar on "The Nearness of You" for a heartfelt interpretation oozing with anticipation. "All the Things You Are" is enhanced by a mellifluous Glenn Drewes trumpet. Not that everything ...
| | Taj Mahal Hanapepe Dream CD (2003)
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Recorded in the year 2000 in Bremen and in Hawaii, Hanapepe Dream is ethnomusicologist, guitarist, and composer Taj Mahal's own gumbo of Caribbean, Polynesian, African, and American folk roots styles done up in the glorious dress of "song," for anyone who has ears to hear, feet to shuffle, and an ass to shake. Featuring a large band replete with three ukuleles (little, baritone, and tenor), Hawaiian steel guitars, slack key guitars, horns, steel drums, and standard bass, drums, and guitars, Mahal reveals why he's a master of combining traditions and musics from different histories and regions. In fact, Mahal can prove, via his very fine performance here, that all forms of soul and blues, reggae, jazz, and rock & roll music come from one source and that source lies in the African Diaspora. Mahal's own songs here are fine offerings: There's "Great Big Boat," the opener full of celebratory drums and choral singing and loping winds and horns, and "Baby You're My Destiny," a slippery swing tune that borders on Hawaiian folk music and could have been recorded by Django Reinhardt with Louis Prima, Gabby Pahinui, and Ike Quebec sitting in. But it is in the traditional folk tunes such as "Blackjack Davey," "King Edward's Throne," and the most unique and gorgeous reading of "Stagger Lee" ever that Mahal pulls out the stops and showcases his entire ...
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