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Bill Frisell + Joey Baron @ Jazz Bakery (1.13.08)
02.16.08 | PermalinkBill Frisell is a unique voice in American jazz guitar, and for that reason alone he deserves to be listened to. His rhythmic counterpart and longtime collaborator Joey Baron is a musician of startling facility, equally capable tossing out be-bop fills or smashing in eardrums by playing blast beats, as he did with Frisell in […]
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Omid- Beneath The Surface
08.06.07 | PermalinkThe last iPod I had was possessed by Beneath the Surface. The opening flute lines of the title track would creep out of the miniature jukebox even when turned off. Phoenix Orion’s voice would then bleed out from the speakers with an announcement of the genius/genus to follow.
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Max Tundra- Mastered By Guy at the Exchange (2004)
05.17.07 | PermalinkThe analog to most contemporary music can be found in the music of the not-so-distant past. If looked for with enough vigor it’s not hard to hear Selling England By The Pound-era Genesis in Blonde Redhead’s Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons or Jaco Pastorious’ liquid bass articulation in Tom Jenkinson’s writing throughout Hard Normal Daddy. […]
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Joni Mitchell- The Hissing of Summer Lawns (2003)
04.02.07 | PermalinkPost-Court and Spark Joni Mitchell isn’t easy. While some say she peaked with the emotionally gut wrenching Blue, others say that the former album was her commercial and artistic apex. While both albums hold in them some of Mitchell’s most personal lyrics (especially the fragile songs on Blue, which chronicle her divorce, decision to put […]
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Anthony Shadduck Quartet @ Finger Prints (03.19.07)
03.20.07 | PermalinkIn the last ten years I’ve either played at or attended thousands of shows. I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy about a performance in which I didn’t actually perform. In that same decade I’ve been shopping at Fingerprints in Long Beach: I bought my first Squarepusher and Steve Reich records there and with […]
