Jadiid – Music For Winter (Free Download)

Something To Follow 

Jadiid (pronounced: jah-deed) has never been content staying in one place. The project was started on Martha’s Vineyard in 2006, then moved to Greenville, IL with a short stay in Guatemala in 2007. In its short tenure as a band its members and instruments have seen more than quite a few changes. Most of 2008 found the band in the midwestern city of Chicago, IL, a home and a place to explore what they hear and create. A multicultural/multigenerational band, Jadiid mixes a little folk with a little soul, but also looks to the constant shift and change in their world to make something new Jadiid has released an EP entitled “Movement” and a Chritmas EP called “Music For Winter”. They are on the verge of completing their first full-length album which they have self-produced in a home studio. They share in a musical community in their city with a rich and complex network of artists and musicians.

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http://jadiidmusic.com/

Steve Scott – Who Among the Angels?

Who Among the Angels?- Steve Scott

 

 

Dear Mother, for you the rainbow has ended

And what you thought was gold, was only the beam of light from your own heart

Playing over the broken surfaces of unsaid things, unfinished stories

You have walked this beach for a thousand years, looking back only at the solitary line of footprints woven like a dark thread along the sea’s dark edge

Everything you have said to the bright empty sky comes back to you, on the wind and the murmuring tide

 

Who Among the Angels has not looked down and wept with you, as you pulled on the bright threads of what you feared would never come undone?

Nothing can change this, nothing, nothing, nothing can change this, nothing

 

But as for you my little one, in that cold jagged moment when all things suddenly stopped, did you notice the star as it broke from the high constellation and fell towards you until it filled your night?

 

As its soft light washed over you, gathered you up, who can say when your frail heart went under, surrounded by the thunder of His wings

Did your eyes open like flowers, swimming into the bright depths of His burning gaze as He bore you ever higher to where the rainbow starts?

 

Who has not rejoiced with you, looking on as you become like gold, pure gold in the furnace of His heart?

Here, a story has begun in which nothing can hurt you, nothing

Nothing can hurt you, nothing

Nothing can hurt you, nothing

Nothing

Nothing

 

Papercuts – A Sting of Consciousness

Highly anticipated 2009 album from Jason Quever’s cosmic Dream-Pop project, their third album overall. Quever is a guest member of numerous bands including Vetiver, Beach House, and Skygreen Leopards, and the living room/recording studio wizard behind numerous others (Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Cass McCombs, Donkeys, and more). – Amazon.com

 

This dreamScape Rock will not disappoint.  It is a soothing sound that if one lacks caution, will suck you into its lyrical backdrop and deposit you convincingly into a truer world. 

Consider these lines:

“we are born to this world out on loan from the beyond when its time to return I won’t be looking in the mirror” and “what you wanted was your life but you’ll get something more”  - Future Primitive

“where you are now will be shadow of the world you will have known”  – The Machine Will Tell Us So

The author is grasping for meaning; a deeper truth in an otherwise deceptive and self-deluded world.  Next stop will be truer, richer and fuller, while we look back at a faded image that spoke of possibilities, but never fulfilled the promises we deeply aspired to.  Come along for the ride, the air is clearer further up.     

Future Primitive

Some downloadables and review at:  http://www.thecitizeninsane.com/2009/11/papercuts-hurt-but-not-your-ears.html

http://www.myspace.com/thepapercuts

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The Decade Defined – Past 10 Years

 

November 9, 2009 – It’s hard to believe, but the first decade of the new millennium is rapidly drawing to a close — and it’s been a remarkable one for music. AllSongs Considered, which launched on Jan. 1, 2000, has had a front-row seat for all the amazing artists, albums and songs released in the past 10 years, from the klezmer music of Kaila Flexer (featured on our first episode) to the noise-rock of the New Zealand band The Dead C (featured last week).

In this edition of All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen looks back at some of the defining trends, sounds and historic moments that made the ’00s stand out, in a roundtable discussion with Monitor Mix blogger Carrie Brownstein, All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson.

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Maria Padilla (Donizetti) – O padre, tu l’odi, sua sposa mi chiama

Maria Padilla by Gaetano Donizetti

Power relations: family honour and tragedy. Written as a season-opener for La Scala, this is one of the neglected gems of Donizetti’s mature period, showing the composer at his most dramatic. First performed at the Teatro alla Scala Milan on December 26th 1841.

You will never guess which performer I am related to?

I told you I had diverse taste in music!

Click Review Below from http://www.thestage.co.uk

Tinariwen named UNCUT Album of the Year!

See my band / Album review here: http://castleqwayr.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/tinariwen-companions/

TINARIWEN WINS UNCUT MAGAZINE’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR

“Most inspirational and rewarding album in 2009″

Competition included Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Animal Collective, The Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear and The Low Anthem

“This makes us really really happy, all of us and I’m glad that this important magazine should recognise our music. It gives us the strength to carry on working and spreading the message about the peace of our desert home, and I’m glad that our music can cross the frontiers and talk to people around the world. Thanks very very much.” – Ibrahim Ag Alhabib of Tinariwen, on winning the 2009 Uncut Music Award

Uncut just announced that Tinariwen have won this year’s coveted Uncut Music Award.

They succeed Fleet Foxes, who won the inaugural award for the most inspirational and rewarding album of the year in 2008.

Tinariwen’s fourth album, “Imidiwan: Companions”, triumphed over some very stiff competition on the shortlist from Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Animal Collective and The Dirty Projectors. Grizzly Bear were placed second and The Low Anthem third. One judge on the 11-member panel was Billy Bragg who said, “I think this band will be hugely influential. In the next couple of years we’ll be hearing young bands lifting the tensions and the rhythms of Tinariwen.

You find yourself reaching back to the blues to explain what they do, it’s like they’ve turned the whole bloody thing upside down. I really do think they are an Uncut band.”

For the rest of the story, go HERE: http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/tinariwen/news/13760

1000 Generations – Shining Brightly

I’ve listened to 1000 Generations today and have to give a few thoughts.  My first hearing was a Sunday morning as they led worship in our church.  As I go into work early and can enjoy headphones, I took a rare break from NPR to listen to this shiny music.

“Fail Us Not”

I have come up with some descriptions that the band/fans may or may not appreciate:

1. Not Your Parent’s Hymnal
2. Glorifying God in the Messy Stuff of Life
3. A Stronger Building from Broken Pieces
4. Rock & Worship for the Thinking Christian

If you join their Email list, you will receive a free unreleased download!

http://1000generations.com/

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Boban i Marko Markovic – “Devla – Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven”

Listen to Khelipe Cheasa while you read

Clad in a suave white suit, it’s not impossible to imagine why urban legends credit gypsy trumpet king Boban Marković with getting his homeland out of a recent jam: Marković’s spit-fire precision is rumored to have so seduced Bill Clinton that the saxophone playing president called off the further NATO bombing of Serbia.

True or not, one thing is clear: Marković and his son, prized protégé Marko, are the bomb in Balkan brass dance music, harnessing the absolute flexibility of Miles Davis and the cool funk of Herb Alpert in the ultimate expression of their Southern Serbian Rroma roots. Their latest album as the Boban and Marko Marković Orkestar, Devla: Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven (Piranha Musik, November 10, 2009), flies effortlessly between echoes of the Ottoman Empire and down-and-dirty grooves that would make P-Funk’s jaws drop.

CastleQwayR has been spinning this disc for the past week and loves the energy and vibe.  The sound kind of reminds me of Horn Heavy Mariachi Music on Red Bull.  Give it a try if you want to take a giant leap into a unique Serbian Gypsy mix.  Check out the song clip and the videos.  Explore on your own, this and the myriad of other sounds at  Piranha website below. 

Boban’s decades of experience are now fired by Marko’s youthful vibe—an energy sustained by marathon practice sessions and a lifetime spent with dad on stage. As a kid, Marko put in ten hours a day at home with his horn, a practice that drove Boban so crazy he finally insisted his son stand and deliver with the Orkestar. The determined, then fourteen-year-old Marko played so perfectly, he soon became a fixture in the group.

But Marko has done more than merely play along. Together, Boban and Marko Marković are expanding the idioms of gypsy brass, as Marko scats (“Devla”), raps in Serbian and English (“Benim Gecem”), and even flirts with flamenco (“Kazi Baba”). All while keeping true to tradition: the lightning-fast melodies, driving rhythms, and exuberant transcendence of the greatest Balkan brass bands.

A few recent CDs: www.Amazon.com

http://www.myspace.com/bobanimarko

Check out their Merch under Gypsy & Balkan: http://www.piranha.de/english/piranha_musik_verlag/boban_i_marko

Elizabeth and the Catapult – Nov 5, 2009

Elizabeth And The Catapult – Rainest Day of Summer 

Elizabeth Ziman’s singing voice is one that soothes you into a comfortable state, sinking you into a cushioned chair of which it’s a task to extract oneself from after a long enough sitting spell. It’s got a seasoned chanteuse’s smokiness and whiskey-ness rubbed into it, affecting its meanderings and tailings, trailing the words she chooses with a faint milkiness, a string of dreaminess that lingers in the air like a feathery cough. She oozes the teary-eyed qualities of a chronic melancholic soul, dripping with the kind of sadness that Karen Carpenter brought to all of her songs, though maybe it’s not as afflicting or destructive. It’s not so desperate and weepy, just observationally downcast and ready and waiting for the skies to just open up and dump again, cause that’s just the treatment that seems to come. It’s as if she walks around with an umbrella eternally pressed into a palm, popped open, indoors and outdoors, just waiting for the droplets to start streaking down over the nylon hood above her.  More at Daytrotter:

From: http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/elizabeth-and-the-catapult-concert/20030913-37382008.html?utm_source=DT&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS

http://www.elizabethandthecatapult.com

Sondre Lerche – Tiny Desk Concert

Tiny Desk Concert - Nov 2, 2009

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