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Wolfgang Voigt- Gas Some of you might be familiar with the electronic work by Gas. This is the same thing, except just some unreleased material not found on their other CDs. I have not heard his other releases under his own name, only the stuff released under Gas. It's hard to review this album, but to sum it up it's just an excellent dark ambient album that really draws you into the music. The downside is it isn't very long, under an hour and every time it comes to a close I'm wanting to hear more.

I decided to expand on my mid-year report card for my end-of-year ranking. Any one of the albums receiving an A could be considered my Album of the Year, but if forced to choose one it would have to be Rasputina's Oh Perilous World. The rest of my ramblings are as follows... A | Catherine Anne Davies - The Piano EP Another haunting collection of songs from Ms. Davies. Nothing groundbreaking here, but the simple and straight-forward songs and her voice create a haunting atmosphere that's difficult to describe but not easily forgotten. Samples available here. A | Epica - The Divine Conspiracy Since picking this up, I've explored their back catalog and came away unim…

I have received this letter from Maria Schneider, for being a newsletter subscriber at Artistshare: Dear Antonio J., It's with great sadness that I share news of Bob Brookmeyer's death. I've loved Bob's compositions and arrangements and his playing since the moment I first heard his music in the '70s. It turned my life around. Bob became a wonderful teacher, mentor and dear friend. And he was enormously generous to those lucky enough to be his friend. Oddly, Bob's newest recording came out last week--an astoundingly beautiful vocal album of arrangements where every cut is a perfect gem. It's one of those that you just want to listen to again and again. I've r…

I've been finding myself more and more unsatisfied by the post-rock scene, which seems to be the one area keeping the space-rock flag raised, what with both Riverside's and Antimatter's recent changes in direction. So make me some suggestions. What I'm looking for is that patient approach to music that songs like "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (starting at part one), "Echoes", Talk Talk's "The Rainbow", etc.

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We have enough fans, that I thought I'd start a thread. New song: Blue Lips. Jeff Lynne on production, pretty sweet. (See the comment about the echo, for example.)

What's wrong with him?! That's a lot of money!

In case anyone's interested, I've posted a recording of myself performing on violin... Lovers' Waltz by Jay Ungar.

So... I subscribe to several BBC podcasts, most are from the output of BBC Radio 4 such as Thinking Allowed, Material World and In Our Time. I downsized the number to which I subscribed at the start of the year after I realised that I had no hope whatsoever of managing to get through an unheard backlog of over 4000 podcasts with an average running time of between 30 and 45 minutes. Some of them I'd never even listened to once and it was just the hoarder archivist in me which kept them. I now have a couple hundred unheard, but the number is decreasing steadily. Fast forward to yesterday when I decided to expand my subscription list with something new and, it would se…

So where does this kind of talent come from?

Damn, I had missed this (April 15, 2013). In my opinion, the best trumpet player to ever live. A huge musical influence on me even though I was a percussionist/timpanist (my twin brother was a very good trumpet player, with the Northbrook Sym. for a number of years). I met him probably around 1980 or so when he was guest artist with the regional symphony orchestra I played with when I was in school. Since my brother was 2nd trumpet in the orchestra, I was also invited to the reception/party afterwards hosted by the brass faculty. He indelibly impressed me with his graciousness and humility. I can't remember what he played, maybe the Hummel, but when I congratulate…

I'm going through the process of ripping my music collection in ALAC and I'm having a hard time finding a right way to tag classical files. I'm quite anal about tagging my music and keeping it clean, but with classical music, it seems like there's no proper way. How do you manage your collection?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/arts/music/poly-styrene-brash-frontwoman-of-x-ray-spex-dies-at-53.html?_r=1&hpw “Poly Styrene’s voice on ‘Oh Bondage! Up Yours!’ was the most exhilarating voice I ever heard — it was all body,” said Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth.

http://www.ubu.com/sound/komar.html i must have horrible taste, because the worst song ever is great. way better than the kenny g shit on the 'most wanted song'. Yom Kippur! Yom Kippur! Do all your shopping... AT WAL-MART! 20 minute epic with lots of tuba funk and opera rap.

Introducing Google Music: Discover, buy, and share music, wherever you want, whenever you want. Google Music lets you store your personal music library (up to 20,000 songs) in the cloud for free, and starting today, you can buy millions more in Android Market and share free plays of them with your friends on Google+. http://music.google.com/about/ http://gizmodo.com/5...rything-we-know Google Music Store Chases Apple’s ITunes 8 Years Too Late http://en.wikipedia...._Beta_by_Google http://googleblog.bl...r-business.html Exclusively on Google Music We’re celebrating our launch with a variety of music that you won’t find anywhere else, much of …

I am a big fan of Christian McBride, Steve Gadd, Everette Harp and consider Hajime the owner of East Winds Imports a good friend. I am sadden by the huge devastation that Japan has experienced with the tsunami and thought I would just pass this along. Jazz for Japan.

All taken from another forum I frequent: All from Reznor's blog (access for paying subscribers): And the website released: http://yearzero.nin.com/ New album is called Year Zero.

this awesome japanese jazz-spazz-blaghblaghblagh album is practically a religious experience. and hungrych liked it a whole fucking lot http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=T5M2WDUE it's supposed to be capitalized how i had it in the topic... recommended to all.

This may be old news for some of you, but I just listened to this guy for the first time, Jeebus! He sounds like an orchestra. Enjoy http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=829401773913198414

With all the great analysis videos out there is it time for a separate thread?

I got to know "Tiny Desk Concerts" here so I thought some of you guys might enjoy this. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495104578314663257286662.html

Just a reminder for those yourmusic members for whom the price increase didn't take effect on the first of the year: today is the last day to place an order at the $5.99 per cd price. I just got through wading through the entire rock/pop section A-Z, and have got myself a mighty full cart of music. And I haven't even thought about which Miles Davis boxed sets to get yet.

I know I'll be picking up a select few of these. I'm crazy, but not crazy enough to purchase a full subscription. Six upcoming titles Complete 63 Title Release Schedule Anyone have any suggestions on which titles are real gooduns? The only one I'm 100% that I'll be purchasing is Johnny Griffin - The Congregation. moderator suggestion: make you links work!

I was watching a TV show in a scene a guy was giving a rare, collectible vinyl album to another. The album cover was brown or very dark orange with regularly distributed, about 5x5 or 6x6, white circles. In four of the circles, in the same line, starting next to the left rim, the word JAZZ spelled one single letter into one single circle. That's all, no names, no label, no artist mentioned or music sounding. I've tried looking for that cover on Discogs, Google, etc, but nothing came out. Any cues?

To ensure people are in the know here as well this is the latest and greatest from CanJam 09 speakers. We hope to have a few more but this was the one that I know we needed to have based on the work he and Joe have done with the Blue Note series. Now I just have to make sure I can get a seat. Well hats off to Voltron for setting this up for CanJam 2009. Steve Hoffman and Joe Harley (Music Matters) have graciously agreed to speak at Can Jam Saturday 5/30/2009. The talk is going to center around their recent ground breaking work with the Music Matters Blue Note reissue series. For those that have not seen Steve talk, the hour or so is filled with amazing music and anecd…