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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Tom Waits (2011) -Bad As Me
Artist: Tom Waits
Album: Bad As Me
Date of release: October 24, 2011
Quality: mp3 CBR 192
Size: 63 MB
A new Tom Waits album is an event and his seventeenth outing released after a few years is no let down. It starts with the gravel voiced troubadour yelling ‘all aboard’ and instantly you are transported into his fantastically surreal world of strange characters, pounding rhythms and clanking sounds as Waits hollers about a magically seedy underbelly of a long lost America of tattooed tear brawlers, snake oil charmers, broken hearted losers and faded grandeur, a world of seedy dance halls and long lost smoky bars.
The songs are, as ever, of the highest standard- squeezing melody from the stoniest of terrains, finding heart breaking tunes in the most clanking of soundscapes, there is dark humour and hollering blues, heart breaking ballads and zig zag wandering blues madness. Waits is king of all he surveys, every song is 3D, a movie on it’s own, close your eyes and you’re on a trip. FULL REVIEW
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Esmerelda Strange -2 albums
Artist: Esmerelda Strange
Album: Introducing / Strange Encounters
Released: 2005 / 2007
Quality: mp3 VBR ~ 200 / CBR 160
Size: 105 MB
Ms. Strange would describe herself as a punk rock band, but her musical influences and the resulting product contain elements of urban folk, cumbia, circus music, Norteno/ranchero, and an Eastern European gypsy sound. She sings both in English and Spanish. She is known for her saucy sense of humor and salty lyrics. Her music has been described as "acoustic electro-clash goes to the punk rock circus in Mexico." ©
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Weyes Blood And The Dark Juices (2011) -The Outside Room
Artist: Weyes Blood And The Dark Juices
Albums: The Outside Room
Release date: 2011
Quality: mp3 VBR ~224
Size: 71 MB
The record has shadows of The Shadow Ring in the oddly creaking ambient sounds and stark, nuanced production, which lend the eerily beautiful neo-Nico death-folk laments a more modern, art-skewed sheen. There’s still echoes of her old drone/tape-ghost-clouds moods on tracks like “In The Isle Of Agnitio” and the long, bells-laden outro to “Romneydale,” but the bulk of the LP is swooning and sweeping, with Natalie’s gorgeous, quasi-Teutonic vox leading the way. A subtly mesmerizing long-player, very “out of time,” and strangely untouched by contempo influences. MORE INFO
Monday, May 16, 2011
Man Man (2011) -Life Fantastic
Artist: Man Man
Albums: Life Fantastic
Release date: 2011
Quality: mp3 CBR 320
Size: 100 MB
Man Man are full of contradictions: They make great studio records that can't compare to the intensity of their physically demanding live show. Oh, but you really gotta pay attention to the lyrics. And their best songs are the slow ones. Their facepaint, percussion, and piano-pounding portray them as wild men, but Honus Honus' junkyard-dog howl is the projection of an old soul. This duality is more pronounced than ever on their fourth LP, Life Fantastic. On one end, it's by far their most tasteful and well-produced record to date. But it contains the darkest, most frightening lyrics Honus has written-- which is really saying something.
It makes sense that the band brought in Saddle Creek house producer Mike Mogis, not just for his mastery of reining in orchestral bric-a-brac but also for his experience with the most caustic emotional bloodletting. But not even early Bright Eyes can hold a candle to the absolutely scorching self-immolation of Life Fantastic. Leadoff "Knuckle Down" casts Honus as an all-too-willing supplicant in an emotionally and sexually draining relationship. But at least someone's getting their rocks off there-- more typical is the atomic "Dark Arts", which details an accident Honus suffered before the Life Fantastic sessions.
The autobiographical details are a bit stifling at times, but Honus' other lyrical subjects are no better off: Within the subtly hooky vocals of the title track, children find a corpse at a picnic and are informed by their parents that "the world is dying." If there's a better marimba-led tango about a killer who turns his victims into household items ("The fireman is an ashtray/ The DJ spins as fan blades"), I haven't heard it. And in the tradition of OutKast's "Toilet Tisha", don't let a silly title ("Spooky Jookie") distract you from a harrowing and grotesque account of a life slipping away to drugs ("She broke her teeth/ On an unsheathed piece of hard-tasting candy").
While Honus continues to prove himself one of rock's best working lyricists, Life Fantastic contains as many musically compelling moments as Rabbit Habits and Six Demon Bag. They've dialed down the wacky factor-- not as many cartoon voices, no kazoos-- though it's not a simple matter of having a "real producer" for the first time. Clearly, Mogis cleans them up nicely, importing lovely string sections for the title track and "Oh, La Brea". But for every song such as "Knuckle Down" that packs a sturdy, forceful melody, others struggle to fit the contours of Honus' syntax. Pay too much attention to the words and the songs can bleed into each other, or recall older Man Man material.
That's not a sin, considering Man Man have created a niche that's wholly theirs. It's natural for them to embrace this established identiy, most clearly expressed on closer "Oh, La Brea". Settling in Los Angeles after a few itinerant years, Honus finds himself disenfranchised by the west side ("Sepulveda and Pico, what the hell do they know about me?") as well as the artsier east side. He finds comfort in the thoroughfare sharing its name with a tar pit-- fitting for a pitch-black record that reveals as many skeletons as you're willing to dig for. ~ Ian Cohen
Friday, May 6, 2011
17 Hippies (2011) -Phantom Songs
Artist: 17 Hippies
Albums: Phantom Songs
Release date: May 2011
Quality: mp3 VBR ~224
Size: 89 MB
Based in Berlin, Germany, the 17 Hippies started off in 1995 as a trio playing the otherwise unlikely mix of Cajun and Baroque music. Gradually, they expanded their line-up and eventually ended up as an orchestra consisting of twenty, sometimes even thirty musicians. Coming from different backgrounds like rock, jazz and classical music, the band members assimilated virtually any musical style available and blended all of this into their own unique sound. Thus, they feel equally at home whether playing at boisterous wedding parties or in the chamber music room. Appearances at the renown SXSW festival in Austin, Texas in 1998 or the simultaneous release of CDs in French, German and Italian in the respective countries in 1999 all contributed to the growing global reputation of this ensemble of world citizens. The band also pursued other projects such as the release of a book of music for children (1999) and the soundtrack for the Andreas Dresen movie Halbe Treppe (English title: Grillpoint) (2002) which won a prize at the 2002 Berlinale, the renown Berlin film festival, and is one of the highlights of post-reunification German cinema. ~ Frank Eisenhuth, Allmusic.com
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Movie Star Junkies & Vermillion Sands (2009) -LP + 7"
Artist: Movie Star Junkies & Vermillion Sands
Album: Junkyears: Rarities And Farm Recordings 2005-2007 + 7” split with Vermillion Sands
Released: 2009
Quality: mp3 VBR
Size: 38 MB
Born in 2005 the Movie Star Junkies were originally a duo. Their main influences had always been the Birthday Party and the Gun Club and in the early years they start to play a couple of shows in Italy with just a drum and an organ. In 2006 a guitarist join the band for the recordings of the first 7 inch, recorded in a refrigerate cell with a 4 tracks and released the same year. After several compilations and gigs in France Croatia and U.K the trio put out a new 7 inch. In 2007 they record 5 songs in the same refrigerate cell and the italian label No-fi records releases them for a limited cassette series. In the same year another guitarist and a saxophone player join the band, and after the second european tour (in France Germany Belgium and Holland) the band is ready to record 10 new songs, 4 of them will be released the year after on a 10 inch split The feeling of love.In early 2008 the band is formed by 2 guitars 1 bass drums organ and voice, and starts to perform some acoustic shows too. . more info
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Kan Mikami (2008) -Barking Practice///White Lines
Artist: Kan Mikami
Albums: Barking Practice///White Lines
Released: 2007
Quality: mp3 VBR 224
Size: 46 MB
Kan Mikami (1972) -Hiraku Yume Nado Arujanashi
Artist: Kan Mikami
Albums: Hiraku Yume Nado Arujanashi
Released: 1972
Quality: mp3 CBR 192
Size: 71 MB
Monday, November 15, 2010
Bornand Music Box Collection -Old Music Box Waltz Melodies
Bornand Music Box Collection
Album: Old Music Box Waltz Melodies
Quality: mp3 CBR 320 (vinyl rip)
Size: 103 MB
This record celebrates the 10th anniversary of "OLD MUSIC BOX MELODIES" with 26 familiar, always popular, old and new world waltzes. It is recorded from two large fine Swiss cylinder music boxes and four of the various size disc music boxes, among them the "King of Music Boxes" the 27" disc Regina.
As time cures many ills, it began to right this injustice; one after another, music boxes came back - museums became interested - collections were started, and the services of Joseph Bornand, one of the last surviving factory trained experts in this field, were again in demand. It was a great joy for Mr. Bornand to open his music box shop again and he in turn taught his son Adrian V. all the secrets of this long lost art, a Bornand family business in Switzerland since 1825.
The Bornand music box collection containing many rare one of a kind instruments from all parts of the world, has long been recognized as one of the foremost in existence. To share this beauty and give the world this music which will probably never be produced in its original form again, the Bornands have recorded it for the modern record players. Thus the phonograph, which ended the music box business so long ago, is now the means of bringing this music into thousands of homes, which would otherwise not know of its existence or enjoy its nostalgic beauty. (from the liner notes)
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