| | Juana Molina Son CD Juana Molina Discography of CDs
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Juana Molina is an unlikely indie music star, having risen to prominence in South America as an actress on TV sitcoms, but between 2000 and 2006 she released three albums of increasingly ambitious, distinctive, and beautifully constructed electronic folk-pop. The third of these releases is arguably the best: SON is as reverence-inducing as a country church (albeit a postmodern country church from the future!).
Molina's music is hushed and introspective, taking its dynamic cues from the likes of Nick Drake, yet it is boldly experimental. Electronic textures pulse around acoustic guitars, vocal lines are layered in lush and startling ways, and pitches bend gently like tired brain waves. Molina sings in Spanish, but a language barrier makes little difference in music as sensual, evocative, and thoroughly creative as this.
Editor: Diego Guerrero.
Personnel: Juana Molina (gong); Martín Ibarburu (drums); Alejandro Franov (gong, keyboard programming).
Audio Mixer: Juana Molina.
Q (p.117) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he results are enticingly hypnotic and reassuringly unhinged in places....Sailing above all of this is Molina's beautifully expressive voice..."
The Wire (p.58) - "[Molina] draws deeply on the Argentine blues tradition, demonstrating a beautiful facility for bending a simple melody, a subtle and irregular sense of rhythm and an advanced use of time delay and samples."
Global Rhythm (Publication) (p.50) - "[E]very sound on this quiet but insistent album is made by one person, her guitar and her computer. Molina is an intriguing performer."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's 'La Verdad' and 'Un Beso Llega' that venture farthest out to sea, with mutating synth eddies and a myriad of Molinas swaying like coral in an electronic current. Quite stunning." Purchase Son CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Juana Molina Tres Cosas CD (2004)
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Welcome to Juana Molina's world. It's a place of friendly funhouse mirrors, where reality stretches or contracts, where sounds whisper rather than assault, and melodies linger on the air. Sounding not a million miles from Lisa Germano fronting a muted Stereolab, it's also like a walk through a spring afternoon, where the sun is pleasant and not too strong -- just enough to refresh the spirit. The former actress has developed into a formidable artist, writing, performing, and producing this herself, and presenting her vision unedited. Her music might be low-key, and if you don't speak ...
| | Lucinda Williams Live @ The Fillmore CDs (2005) Digipak
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Never one to tread the expected path, Lucinda Williams followed her big breakthrough album, CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD, with a ...
| | Arcade Fire Funeral CD (2004)
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| | Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass CD (2006)
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| | Maya Beiser Almost Human CD (2007)
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| | Josh Groban CD (2001) (Import) CD & DVD; Smart Pak
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Josh Groban's meteoric rise to stardom began when hit producer David Foster selected him as a last-minute replacement at the dress rehearsal for the 1999 Grammy Awards, where the then-17-year-old singer stood in for Andrea Bocelli in a duet with Celine Dion. The rest, as they say, is history. But can the precocious baritone truly compete with the more seasoned powerhouses of the Classical Crossover scene?
Groban's self-titled debut album validates Foster's prescience and proves that the young vocalist is more than able to hold his own. He moves confidently through an eclectic program with a poise that belies his youth and relative inexperience. He uses his warm voice to great effect in a variety of settings provided by veteran songwriters such as Richard Marx, Albert Hammond, Carole Bayer Sager, and Linda Thompson, among others. Highlights include a poignant reading of Don McLean's "Vincent," a dramatic account of the Neapolitan song "Canto Alla Vita" (featuring the Corrs), and a rock-anthem version of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (with Lili Haydn on violin), as well as "The Prayer," a soaring duet with fellow wunderkind Charlotte Church. With this debut, Groban delivers a crowd-pleasing effort that marks the beginning of what will undoubtedly be a stellar career.
In the wake of Andrea Bocelli's successful opera-pop crossover, young Josh Groban came along and added a crucially marketable element to the mix; that of a college-age heartthrob type destined to enchant listeners of the female persuasion from pre-teen to senior citizen. For the follow-up to his highly profitable 2001 debut, Groban chose to release a live album, all the better to further the feeling of intimacy already inherent in his emotive style. As IN CONCERT makes plain, Groban sounds ...
| | Gamble Brothers Band Back To The Bottom CD (2003)
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On their second release, Memphis' Gamble Brothers Band solidify their sound, meshing jazz, funk, soul, and to a lesser extent blues into a bubbling, innovative concoction. Led by Al Gamble's Hammond B-3 washes and gutsy, soulful vocals, the guitar-free quartet slips and slides through nearly an hour of music that could only have originated in the South. The group lays down a swampy groove on the closing instrumental "Caddilactopus," an eight-minute showcase of near telepathic interplay that finds them jamming within the constraints of melody similar to their hometown heroes and clear influences Booker T. & the MG's. Loose when they need to be but tight enough to pull off rearranged covers of Gary Wright's '70s chestnut "Love Is Alive" and even a frisky version of Randy Newman's "Little Criminals," they expertly navigate the tightrope between jams and intricate arrangements. Finger-snapping riffs like the one used as an intro to the instrumental "Escape Alley" recall the Meters, but their jazzy side and Art Edmaiston's creative sax playing pull these tunes away from the obvious and into their own territory. The wiry funk of "Tiki Bar" and the throbbing pulse of the self-explanatory "Land of Soul" captures nuances and a free-flowing sense of mature exploration that few bands exhibit this early in their career. Not every song finds the pocket, and the occasional missteps like the slightly lumbering "Old New One" and the jittery, confused ska/funk of "Share" show that the group still need to bring their songwriting and arrangement skills up the level of their instrumental proficiency. But the Gamble Brothers Band are onto something here and this album is an indication that, if marketed correctly, they have the chops, intelligence, and drive to cross over to a wider audience. ~ Hal Horowitz
The Gamble Brothers Band has taken their special mixture of modern soul and bluesy funk to such noteworthy venues as New Orleans and Chicago's House of Blues, Memphis in May's Beale Street Music Festival, and New York City's Lincoln Center's Out of Doors series. They've shared stages with acclaimed artists including ...
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