Conceived and produced by guitarist Tim Weston, Wouldn't It Be Nice: A Jazz Portrait of Brian Wilson (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 33092 2 1; 65:39) is not your average tribute album. Employing an impressive array of musicians, from Jeffrey Osborne and the Yellowjackets to Dori Caymmi and Shelby Flint, the album is an eclectic and disarming exploration of Wilson's compositions, often bringing out shades of meaning bubbling below the well-traveled surfer anthems. The range of approaches alone is impressive: Don Grusin gives a swinging, semi-gospel read (with Tollack Olestad on harmonica) to "Surfer Girl," Eliane Elias takes a meditative solo piano look at both "Our Sweet Love" and "Friends," and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" is given a dark, emotional read with the combination of Osborne's deep vocals and Ralf Rickert's mute horn breaks.

Fight Like a Girl is the third studio album released by Emilie Autumn. It is based around her book The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls and her own personal experiences.

German heavy metallers WIZARD will release their 14-track digital compilation, Taste Of Wizard, on August 3rd via Massacre Records.

Spiegel is a cycle of seven orchestral works "Spiegel" and is mentioned in a few surveys as a key representative of a style known as "field music". (…) Not that moods or humour are excluded: near the middle of the cycle, horns break out into punctuated calls of fifths, which gradually morph into a sort of demented "oom-pah" band. Perhaps Ligeti was recalling ……

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Guitarist, singer, and songwriter W.C. Clark was one of Austin's original blues musicians, and he is considered the godfather of that city's blues scene. Wesley Curley Clark was born and raised in Austin and grew up surrounded by music, since his father was a guitar player and his mother and grandmother sang in the choir at St. John's College Baptist Church. By the time he was 16, he played his first show at Victory Grill and was introduced to local legends T.D. Bell and Erbie Bowser…..

Surf music is alive and well in 2012. It's not just a '60s thing, and we're not talking about the Beach Boys or Jan & Dean. This is instrumental rock and roll at its finest – instrumental rock and roll that conjures images of surfing.

Zupfgeigenhansel - Miteinander
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 258 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: pläne # 88901 | Country/Year: Germany 2004, 1982
Genre: Genre: Folk & World | Style: German Folk, Political Song

Zupfgeigenhansel was a German folk duo, one of the most successful groups to emerge on the German folk scene in the 1970s…