Various Artists - no99 - No Music Festival 1999 [5CD] {Entartete Kunst}
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© 2000 Entartete Kunst | EK2120
Jazz / Free Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Noise / Experimental

The second edition of the No Music Festival was held in London, Ontario (home of the Nihilist Spasm Band), from April 8 to 10, 1999. The three-day noise extravaganza was recorded and the label Entartete Kunst Recordings released a five-CD document of the event. That's over six hours of material, accompanied by a 16-page booklet filled with photos and comments from the organizers and some of the participating players, which included that year Ken Vandermark, Fred Van Hove, Borbetomagus, Alan Licht, Michael Snow, Jim O'Rourke, and many more, along with the Nihilist Spasm Band (Bill Exley, Art Pratten, John Boyle, John Clement, Hugh McIntyre, and Murray Favro), of course.

German thrashers ACCUSER are streaming the title track of their new album, Diabolic, due out April 12th via Red Shift Music/HART. Diabolic was recorded and produced by Martin Buchwalter at Gernhart Studio.According to a press release, "Accuser is more focused and punchy than ever and Diabolic is brimming with riffs and solos, aggressive shouting and catchy choruses. From the straight opener 'Apocalyptic Decay' across the 'Beyond The Blackness' with its hit-chorus up to the final long track 'World Wide Violence', the band displays the fireworks in terms of thrash metal, rife with aggression and playfulness alike. Ultra-precise rhythms and an obvious sense for melodies lay the foundations for Frank Thoms' brutal vocals. He's in top form here, pissed off like a young Max Cavalera with lyrics typical for this band, pointing at social injustice and processing personal conflicts. Fans of Arise-period SEPULTURA should risk an ear."

Mystic Prophecy has entered the studio to record an eighth full-length album, but in the mean time the band will be releasing a new compilation. Massacre Records comments:»After the successful album ‘Ravenlord, the five prophets accept the challenge to create another piece of precious metal.This is a compilation of Mystic Prophecy's 4 latest albums

Miles Davis - Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud. Complete Recordings (1958) {1988 Fontana Remaster}
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© 1988 Fontana / PolyGram | 836 305-2
Jazz / Hard Bop / Modal Jazz / Trumpet

Jazz and film noir are perfect bedfellows, as evidenced by the soundtrack of Louis Malle's Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold). This dark and seductive tale is wonderfully accentuated by the late-'50s cool or bop music of Miles Davis, played with French jazzmen – bassist Pierre Michelot, pianist René Urtreger, and tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen – and American expatriate drummer Kenny Clarke. These complete recordings, including multiple alternate takes, evoke the sensual nature of a mysterious chanteuse and the contrasting scurrying rat race lifestyle of the times, when the popularity of the automobile, cigarettes, and the late-night bar scene were central figures.

For over a decade Walla Walla’s Rob Barrett and his Coyote Kings have been a driving force in the Eastern Washington blues scene and now are the proud hosts of the 2nd Walla Walla Guitar Festival. In 2010 the Kings teamed up with power house vocalist Michelle “Mush” Morgan, releasing the critically acclaimed album Move, in 2011. Their follow up, Nasty Habits and Dirty Little Secrets, features eleven new songs immaculately produced and penned by Barrett who tag teams lead vocals duties with Morgan equally and offers a bonus instrumental track for good measure…

Scotty Bratcher began playing guitar at an age that it became second nature to him, he was two. By this time, Stevie Ray Vaughan had impressed the world. When the 1989 release of his Austin City Limits performance was aired, Scotty was spellbound in front of the television. Eventually Scotty's father had acquired a few electric guitars that he let Scotty play as long as he was careful with them.
When he was eleven, Scotty was going to open mike nights at clubs in the greater Cincinnati area. This was where he began getting on-stage experience and eventually found band members to support him. Over the next several years, Scotty sat in with various bands and had the opportunity to open for hero Lonnie Mack…

Floratone with Bill Frisell - Floratone (2007) {Blue Note} + Floratone II (2012) {Savoy Jazz}
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© 2007, 2012 Blue Note / Savoy Jazz | 0946 3 93879 2 2 / SVY17855
Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Creative

A casual listen might suggest that Floratone is a new Bill Frisell project (and that would be mostly correct), except every indication is that this is a fully collaborative project between Frisell, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend. Composition credits are all shared and they all appear on the front cover. Why is that notable? Because while Frisell and Chamberlain are both credited with "loops" along with their respective instruments, Martine and Townsend receive only "production" credits – no instruments. That's because on Floratone, the pure elements of sound and space are given as much attention as the music itself.

Sam Cooke - One Night Stand: Live At The Harlem Square Club
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Label/Cat#: Legacy Recordings # 82876 69552 2 | Country/Year: Europe 2005, 1963
Genre: R'n'B, Rock | Style: Soul

…The mix used here seems to more or less split the difference, but the crucial key is and was always Cooke's vocals, and while he was a marvelously smooth, versatile, and urbane singer on his official pop recordings, here he explodes into one of the finest sets of raw secular gospel ever captured on tape. It is essential listening in any version.