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Jack White praises "electric" Keys

2008-08-26T19:02:00.001-07:00

Jack White has spoken out about his James Bond collaboration with Alicia Keys.

The White Stripes frontman and Keys recently recorded the trail 'Another Way To Die', which will be the theme to latest 007 movie Quantum Of Solace.

In a statement, White said: "After a couple of years of wanting to collaborate with Alicia Keys, it took James Bond himself to finally draw it happen.

"Alicia put some electric vigor into her breath that cemented itself into the magnetic tape. Very inspiring to watch."

He continued: "I drummed for her vocalisation and she mimicked the guitar tones, then we joined our voices and screamed and moaned around these characters in the film and their isolation, having no-one to confidence, not even themselves. Maybe we became them for a few minutes."

White terminated: "It power be the first analog Bond composition in 20 years. We wanted to push soul into those tapes and join the family of Barry, Bassey, Connery and Craig."

Quantum Of Solace is released in the UK on October 31.

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Don Sugarcane Harris

2008-08-07T19:01:00.001-07:00

Artist: Don Sugarcane Harris

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Fiddler on the Rock

Year: 2007
Tracks: 6

Beginning his calling as the guitar playing half of the fifties lucy Stone twain, Don & Dewey, Don "Sugar cane" Harris, set

Unn

2008-06-27T23:13:00.001-07:00

Artist: Unn

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:


Electronic Music

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 18


Delay

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 16

Sarah Vaughan and Milton Nascimento

2008-06-24T12:46:00.001-07:00

Artist: Sarah Vaughan and Milton Nascimento

   Genre(s):
Vocal

Discography:

Brazilian Romance

Year: 1987
Tracks: 10

Matthew McConaughey -- Back to L-I-V-I-N

Bill Charlap

2008-06-21T23:44:00.001-07:00

Artist: Bill Charlap

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Hieroglyphica

Year: 2001
Tracks: 8

Bill Charlap is i of the strongest mainstream jazz pianists on the scene and i of the to the highest degree gifted interpreters of standards. He grew up in a musical house, as the word of Broadway songster Moose Charlap and singer Sandy Stewart. Taking to the piano at a young years, he went on to work at New York's High School of Performing Arts. He then entered college, simply rather than finishing, opted to practice and gig on his own. Pianist Bill Mays before long took up Charlap's grounds, recommending the young homo as his successor in the Gerry Mulligan Quartet. During this time, Charlap as well worked with Benny Carter, Clark Terry, and Frank Wess, and was sought subsequently as an accompanist for singers such as Tony Bennett, Carol Sloane, and Sheila Jordan. In 1995, he secured ane of the most coveted piano chairs in jazz, with the Phil Woods Quintet.

All the spell, Charlap showed steady exploitation as a leader. His debut came in 1994 with Along with Me, followed by Relic in 1995 and Distant Star in 1996. His 1997 release, All Through the Night, was the number one to feature of speech his current three, with the unnerving (and unrelated) Washingtons, Peter and Kenny, on bass and drums respectively. In 2000, this lineup had its major-label breakthrough with the highly acclaimed Blue Note platter Written in the Stars. Two albums appeared in 2001: 2Gether with Warren VachÃ© and Contrasts with Jon Gordon. 'S Wonderful pip the shelves in 2002, as did Stardust, which began a serial publication of albums that focused on a individual composer. Stardust featured the music of Hoagy Carmichael, 2004's Somewhere was an all-Leonard Bernstein thing, spell 2005's Plays George Gershwin featured ten songs by the homo Charlap considers "the American soul." 2005 saw the release of an album with Sandy Stewart, Love Is Here to Stay. Two geezerhood by and by, Charlap released Live at the Village Vanguard.

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'Things make sense again'

2008-06-21T22:12:00.001-07:00

SFTW MEETS BRIAN WILSON
TODAY is Brian Wilson’s 66th birthday and it’s a safe bet he won’t be setting
aside a new aspect of his daily routine.

"I walk every day for exercise so I can keep alive," says the Beach
Boys icon.

His manner is brusque but polite. You sense he only says things he believes
worth saying.

For years, he’s struggled with mental illness but the life of Brian is most
definitely on the up in 2008. Simply being alive is something he cherishes.

He affirms: "My state of being has been elevated because I’ve been
exercising and writing songs. I’m in a better frame of mind these days. It
feels great . . . it’s like I see some light. Things make sense to me again."

Later this month, Brian and his ten-piece backing band will bring a selection
of Beach Boys and solo songs to the UK for three shows. He says these are "exciting
times".
But, to tell his story properly, we must return to 1961, when the girls
were pretty, the open-top cars were flashy, the surf was up, the sun rode
high in the California sky and the Beach Boys came out to play.
Throughout the ensuing decade, brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their
cousin Mike Love and schoolfriend Al Jardine, sent wave after wave of
singles crashing into the charts.

Dream

I ask Brian for his impression of those heady days. "I just think about
us all gathered around the microphone. It’s a nice memory."

The Beach Boys epitomised the American post-war dream, their music a
multi-coloured explosion of fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.

Sublime vocal harmonies, glorious tunes and feel-good lyrics turned songs like
Good Vibrations, Surfin’ USA, I Get Around, Barbara Ann and California Girls
into the timeless wonders we treasure today.

Their 1966 album Pet Sounds was the culmination of Brian’s songwriting
artistry and his recording mastery, a bona fide American equivalent of The
Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Paul McCartney has often said that one of the album’s classics, God Only
Knows, written by Brian and sung by voice-of-an-angel Carl, is the greatest
song ever written.

So, was Pet Sounds Brian’s proudest achievement? "Actually, I think
SMiLE was my best achievement," Brian replies.

"Pet Sounds was good too, though." (He’s a master of
understatement.)

It’s sad to think this genius chief architect of the band’s unique sunlit
sound went on to suffer years in the darkness in the Seventies and Eighties.

Mental illness allied to drug abuse left Brian lost in a world of his own from
which few believed he would return.

But his rehabilitation began in 1988 with his first solo album and continued
with I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times (1995), Orange Crate Art (1995 with
long-time collaborator Van Dyke Parks), Imagination (1998) and Gettin’ In
Over My Head (2004).

Also in 2004, he finally realised his lost masterpiece SMiLE.

"It was amazing," reflects Brian. "I never ever imagined it
coming out until about 2003/4 when my manager and my wife said: ‘You ought
to try to finish it."

He also released a Pet Sounds Live album, but would he consider playing the
album again in its entirety in concert? "I don’t think we’ll be doing
that again. We just thought we drove it into the ground."

Now, he looks forward to releasing a new album in September that again casts a
bit more sunshine into his life.

That Lucky Old Sun takes its name from a song written in 1949 and made famous
by, among others, Louis Armstrong. Brian’s interpretation is the opening
track and it begins like this:
Up in the mornin’/Out on the job/ Work like the devil for my pay/ But that
lucky old sun got nothin’ to do/ But roll around heaven all day.
It was the lyrics that inspired Brian to write the rest of the album. "It
all spawned from that," he says.

"I never knew the song but I wanted to hear it.
Hit singles ... The Beach Boys
"I went and bought Louis Armstrong’s version. I played it and learned it
and changed the chords round a little bit."

The album reunites Brian with Capitol Records, the label that released so many
of those Beach Boys’ hits in the Sixties.

Brian says on his website: "I’m thrilled to be back home with Capitol and
I’m looking forward to sharing That Lucky Old Sun with everyone. This music
is really special to me."

But he tells me that the day he signed was not such a happy event, the circus
surrounding his appearance at the label’s offices causing some distress. It
was an emotional experience for me. I got kinda sentimental about it.

"I had a tough time, though, because we were running around like chickens
with our heads cut off.

"It was a whole mess. The room was filled with people. There were so many
people in that room. You could hardly move around."

As for the music, Brian has used it to rekindle his love affair with Southern
California and the Pacific Ocean. Forever My Surfer Girl is a modern take on
The Beach Boys’ 1963 hit Surfer Girl.

Brian explains: "It was inspired by my original song but I just wanted to
change it around so it could be interesting."

Did it say something about him now rather than him in the Sixties? "Right,
exactly."

Roll

Another new song, Midnight’s Another Day, is already being described as a
classic.

"It just came out of my head. Nothing inspired it or anything. It’s one
of my very favourites on the album."

And California Role alludes to the place Brian sees himself in right now. One
line goes: "You don’t have to climb the Capitol tower or play the
Hollywood Bowl/If there’s a roll in your heart and a rock in your soul".
It’s particularly resonant as Brian, his band and a firework show will light
up the famed Bowl for three nights in September.

The album features collaborations with band member Scott Bennett and his "sidekick"
Van Dyke Parks who he describes as one of the "great lyricists."

Brian explains that it’s an "interwoven series of rounds with
interspersed spoken word", a kind of autobiographical travelogue, a
chance to reflect on his life less ordinary.

It’s clear that these are "exciting times" indeed.

He got his first Grammy in 2005 for Mrs O’Leary’s Cow from SMiLE and last year

the Kennedy Center Honors committee recognised Brian’s cultural significance
alongside Diana Ross, Steve Martin and Martin Scorsese.

That Lucky Old Sun may be rolling around heaven all day, but it’s also shining
on Brian Douglas Wilson once more.

Brian Wilson plays Kenwood, Hampstead, London, on June 28 (picnicconcerts.com),
Ipswich Regent Theatre on June 29 (livenation.co.uk) and the Royal Albert
Hall, London, on July 1 (royalalberthall.com or ticketline.co.uk). The Beach
Boys’ US Singles Collection: The Capitol Years (1962-65) is out now.
That Lucky Old Sun by Brian Wilson is out on September 1.

Cyndi Lauper announces UK tour

2008-06-21T22:04:00.001-07:00

Cyndi Lauper has confirmed details of a UK tour.

The veteran popstar, 54, announced four autumn shows, which will kick off at Manchester Bridgewater Hall on October 10.

She will also visit Southampton, Birmingham and London on the jaunt.

The singer, who is currently promoting her Bring Ya To The Brink LP, had hits with 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun', 'True Colours' and 'Time After Time' in the 1980s.

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Mahler, Gustav

2008-06-21T22:03:00.001-07:00

Artist: Mahler, Gustav

   Genre(s):
Classical
   New Age

Discography:


Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor

   Year: 1995
Tracks: 5


Mahler - Symphonie No. 9 en re majeu

   Year: 1909
Tracks: 9


Titan

   Year:
Tracks: 4


Symphony No.1 In D-minor "Der Titan"

   Year:
Tracks: 4

Johnta Austin

2008-06-21T22:01:00.001-07:00

Artist: Johnta Austin

   Genre(s):
R&B: Soul

Discography:

Ocean Drive Sampler (EP)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 5

A ballad maker, organiser, producer, and vocalizer, Atlanta's Johnta Austin initially stepped out on SWV's Release Some Tension, bust out as the ballad maker of Tyrese's 1998 Top Ten tally "Sweet Lady," and, by 2004, tally a live bar that tangled collaborations with Mary J. Blige ("Be Without You"), Mariah Carey ("We Belong Together"), and Janet Jackson (much of 20 Y.O.). Signed to So So Def, the label founded by close associate and Virgin urban caput Jermaine Dupri, Austin released his debut solo album -- Ocean Blue -- in late 2006. At the fourth dimension, he was but in his mid-twenties.

Richard Pinhas

2008-06-21T22:00:00.003-07:00

Artist: Richard Pinhas

   Genre(s):
Electronic
   New Age

Discography:


Tranzition

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 5


Event and Repetitions

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 5


Rhizosphere

   Year: 1991
Tracks: 10


Iceland

   Year: 1978
Tracks: 8


Chronolyse

   Year: 1978
Tracks: 9

French guitar player Richard Pinhas lED the mathematical group Heldon from 1974-78, releasing seven albums with that grouping and six-spot solo LPs, oftentimes featuring members of Heldon. Born in 1951, Pinhas earned a Ph.D. in philosophical system at the Sorbonne and taught at that school. In 1972 he became a parting of Schizo, a grouping whose medicine contained a great deal of electronics. After Schizo's death, Pinhas formed Heldon, whose only constant was himself. Pinhas' solo work out covered a portion of run aground. His first solo LP, Rhizosphere, was performed solely on synthesizers, take out for drums on the squint-eyed title running. Chronolyse ranges from simple sequencer pieces to Paul Atreides, a 30-minute piece performed by Heldon. The Iceland LP successfully captures the feel of an ancient, frozen land. East-West was Pinhas' to the highest degree commercial-grade cultivate. L'Ethique, was a varied work with a more structured feel than some of his previous efforts. Pinhas retired from medicine until releasing DWW, which contained work from the full stop 1983-91. Pinhas released Cyborg Sally with John Livengood in 1994. Subsequent recordings include 1999's Fogey Culture and the following year's Schizotrope: The Life and Death of Marie Zorn. An album crafted from over 70 hours of guitar playing was set together over the adjacent few long time and was finally edited and released as Event and Repetitions in 2002.

Martha Argerich - Schumann

2008-06-21T22:00:00.001-07:00

Artist: Martha Argerich - Schumann

   Genre(s):
Classical

Discography:

Kinderszenen and Kreisleriana Azaro

Year:
Tracks: 1

A.R. Ramani

Armored Saint

2008-06-21T21:59:00.001-07:00

Artist: Armored Saint

   Genre(s):
Other
   Metal: Heavy
   Rock

Discography:


Nod To The Old School

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 18


Revelation

   Year: 2000
Tracks: 12


Symbol Of Salvation

   Year: 1991
Tracks: 13


Raising Fear

   Year: 1987
Tracks: 11


Delirious Nomad

   Year: 1985
Tracks: 10


March Of The Saint

   Year: 1984
Tracks: 10

Although many associate hard rock candy from Los Angeles in the early '80s as all glossed up and pop-based (MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e, Ratt, Quiet Riot, etc.), there were a select few true metallic element bands to emerge from the same locale, such as Armored Saint. Formed in 1982 and originally comprised of members John Bush (vocals), David Pritchard (guitar), Phil Sandoval (guitar), Joey Vera (bass part), and Gonzo (drums, comrade of Phil Sandoval), the grouping specialised in a style of straight-ahead metallic element that was compared to such New Wave of British Heavy Metal acts as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Saxon, among others. The quintuple issued a three-track self-titled EP on the Metal Blade label in 1983, before signing on with Chrysalis. They put out such underappreciated releases as 1984's Borderland of the Saint, 1985's Mad Nomad, and 1987's Elevation Fear and reinforced a fanatical next in their native region, but failed to break through to the big prison term elsewhere.

Curtly later on a substitution back to the Metal Blade label in the late '80s, Armored Saint issued their first live transcription, 1989's Saints Will Conquer, only risky news show was lurking right about the corner. Founding guitar player Pritchard was diagnosed with cancer of the blood and passed away in 1990. The grouping pressed on (with newcomer Jeff Duncan taking Pritchard's spot in the card), issuing Symbol of Salvation in 1991. But the band decided to promise it a day a year subsequently when Bush accepted an invitation to join New York thrash metallists Anthrax. By the late '90s, Armored Saint decided to reunite once more and Bush remained a member of Anthrax and Armored Saint at the same time (Vera was as well doing double duty, as he'd become a extremity of prog-metallists Fates Warning). The new re-formed turnout issued an all-new recording in 2000, Revelation, spell a double-disc anthology, Nod to the Old School, surfaced a year later.

Wright Calls Off Wedding To Pike

2008-06-21T21:58:00.001-07:00

Former Bond girl Rosamund Pike has been dumped by her director fiance Joe Wright. The pair met on the set of period drama Pride And Prejudice in 2005 and Wright proposed to the actress at Lake Como in Italy last September . But Atonement filmmaker Wright, 36, allegedly called off the nuptials after Pike, 29, sent out hundreds of wedding invitations - featuring a steamy shot of the couple in a bathtub - without his knowledge, according to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. A source says, "The invitations featured a picture of them together in a hot tub. "Joe dumped her for sending them without consulting him and she had to tell all the guests the wedding was off."

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