Kevin Barrett Discography of CDs

Kevin Barrett CD discography "Experiencing the music of Kevin Barrett and Julie Michels live in concert is something you won't forget. They might look like a duo but their music fills the room and commands attention." Jaymz Bee. JAZZ. FM91 "Michels sang entrancingly with her usual partner-in-music, Barrett. They definitely have their thing down, offering well-crafted but loosely executed gems !. tailor-made for Michels' winning sass and exuberance." Peter Hum. Ottawa Citizen / Jazzblog. ca "Julie Michels has soul, big-hearted soul" ...

Kevin Barrett discography A quarter century after flushing out their first two, oft-praised EPs, L.A.'s Urinals finally get around to dropping their first long-player, What Is Real and What Is Not. Now consisting of founding drummer Kevin Barrett, bassist John Talley-Jones, and new guitarist Roderick Barker, the resuscitated band sounds as fierce as ever on the freeway fantasy "I Make Love to Every Woman on the Freeway" and the energetic, pulsing opener "Teach Me to Crawl Again." ...

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Kevin Barrett CD discography Recording information: Lydian Sound; Media Fusion; Orbiter Recordings Studio, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Personnel: Kim Addison (background vocals); Kevin Barrett, John Bride, Mark Sepic (guitar); Hugh Marsh (violin); Joe Lagan (piano); Tamara Johnson (keyboards, background vocals); Luis Orbegoso (percussion). Audio Mixers: Jason Steidman; John "Beetle" Bailey.

Kevin Barrett music CDs Whoever persuaded Rhino to reissue the long-lost 100 Flowers album deserves high praise; but whoever persuaded them to add the subsequent Drawing Fire EP, plus tons of contemporaneous and hitherto-unreleased material, merits sainthood. Collecting everything the band did in one easy package, Pulchritude is a little over an hour's worth of proof as to why 100 Flowers may be the greatest lost band from L.A.'s early-'80s rock scene -- less revivalist than many of ...

Kevin Barrett songs Holy cow! L.A.'s seminal trio, the Urinals, only released 11 songs in their tenure from 1977-1980 (before changing their name to the less restricting 100 Flowers and becoming one of the most respected underground post-punk-pop acts in the U.S.), ten on their three 7" singles and one more on a 7" compilation, all on their own Happy Squid label (they were about the only L.A. band to do that back then). This overdue retrospective somehow triples their output, to 31 songs! Want to hear America's Wire (before Mission of Burma bettered them), only twice as primitive if that's possible, with one quarter the sound quality? Even when they are covering the Soft Machine's "Why Are We Sleeping?," they sound like a three-step primer on minimalism, in scratchy, fast, burping, nutso punk with clipped vocals. You can see why the Minutemen covered "Ack Ack Ack Ack" later, but it's the real solid, melodic stuff such as the Last-inspired harmonies of the great A-sides "Black Hole" and "Sex," and "Scholastic ...