Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Air - Air (1974)
Rare 1974 release from Australian group "AIR" Featuring Jenny McGregor, Pip Owen, Nicky Dunn, Patrick Conroy and Steve Nicholas, Gary Hyde, Tony Bolton, Bobby Gebbert.Homepage
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Ian Tamblyn - Ian Tamblyn (1976)
Born and raised in Fort William, Ontario, Ian Tamblyn studied at Trent University, graduating in 1971 and subsequently settling in Chelsea, Quebec. He released a demo cassette, Moose Tracks, the same year. In 1976 he released his full-length debut album, Ian Tamblyn, which won a Juno Award for Best Folk Music Recording that year. Since that time he has completed over 25 recording projects. He plays guitar, piano, hammered dulcimer, and synthesizer, as well as singing.Homepage
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Domenic Troiano - Tricky (1973)
Member of Legendary Toronto Group Mandala. Replaced Joe Walsh in the James Gang.Homepage
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Allison Run - God Was Completely Deaf (1989)
LP - Mantra Records - 1989Produced by: Allison Run
Line Up:
Amerigo Verardi: guitars and vocals
Alessandro Saviozzi: guitars, bass guitar, keyboards and vocals
Mimo Rash: drums, percussions, backing vocals and lead vocals on "Tangle Of Love"
Umberto Palazzo: bass guitar
Sado Sabbetta: keyboards
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
soon soon soon
Hi! My Dear Friends!
Autumn is pretty busy but pretty soon I'll be back with regular music life. Send your requests in the mean time.
Love,
Lisa
Autumn is pretty busy but pretty soon I'll be back with regular music life. Send your requests in the mean time.
Love,
Lisa
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Air - Air (1971)
Not to be confused with the French techno band or the R&B band from the late '80s. Air was one of the groups featured on Herbie Mann's Embryo label, a jazz/rock imprint of Atlantic from the early 1970s. It featured Googie Coppola on vocals.Air's sound was extremely jazz based with a slight pop influence. The main selling point was Googie Coppolla's vocals. Whether telling off an ex-lover in "Mr. Man" or telling a Lolita tale in "Man Is Free", her voice is strong and lovely at the same time. Unfortunately, not all the songs are up to the same level, and the album starts to fall apart toward the end.
Still, if you can find it, it is definitely worth picking up, as it is one of the lost gems of the early 1970s and probably the Embryo label's best release. Also, for jazz completists, it is produced by Herbie Mann. Written by Ezreal
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Princess Flower & the Moon Rays - Dreaming the Magic of Your Maya (1969)
A group of American freaks hanging out in Paris who joined up with an exiled Daevid Allen post-Soft Machine to form what has been referred to as Proto-Gong (aka Banana Moon #1), existing from late 1967 through 1968. They recorded this one LP in Paris in Spring 1968 before D.A. and Gilli Smyth did their Gong thing. The LP contains 6 tracks dominated by Standlee’s meandering flute and occasional vocals spewing out what appears to be free associative poetry. Daevid Allen is credited as being on only one track on Side 2; another guitarist, with the rather suspicious name of Fej Mornin, is credited with the guitar playing on Side 1, most of which does sound somewhat suspiciously like Allen’s style. The album opens with a short spurt of flute and laughter (male & female - could that be Daevid & Gilli?). It leads into the first song, “Lovin Spaceship”, a sort of Proto-Gong bluesy guitar strummer with Dylanesque stream of consciousness lyrics and a Booby D harmonica finale. Following is “Women of Moon”, another free association Dylanesque blues strum. Side 1 winds up with a long track listed as two songs on the label. First is “Vanishing Rama”, a long krishna jam led by Standlee’s flute, echoed guitar sounding very much like Allen’s glissando guitar playing and crude “tin pot” drumming. Midway, a Spoonfull rhythm intrudes, leading into proto-Gong space avant wanking. This flows directly into “Guharam Rock”, more free association/guitar strumming, though this time with a more rocking rhythm set by “shoe box” drumming. Standlee’s flute at its most meandering joins in toward the end. Side 2 opens with the one track that officially credits Daevid Allen, “Between Spirits”. This track is pure Gong; atonal flute over glissando guitar with nonsense vocals flitting in and out. The LP ends on the lengthy “Ancient Faces”. This is a raga-fueled flute and percussion instrumental with a female “chanter” Ziska Baum, described as Gilli Smyth’s “soul-sister”and sounds very much like her. The music is trancey, yet floating and a jew’s harp briefly floats into the mix about midway. As the harp fades away, the percussion intensifies, a male chanter is added and the now double-tracked flute engages in atonal sputtering until the LP ends as it began with a few seconds of laughter. Princess Flower and the Moon Rays dissolved in the spring of 1968 when Paris was enveloped by student riots. Loren Standlee and Ziska Baum returned to the U.S. after she was busted for marijuana possession. Standlee, Ziska and percussionist Raja Samyana were members through the late 60s of The Universal Mutant Repertory Company, which also included original Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise and his wife Hetty. Samyana is listed as guitarist, though. This LP is believed to have been released in New York City, where Standlee was very active as the 3 or 4 known copies have all been found there. This Akashic label does not appear to be related to any other by that name (Maitreya Kali, etc). [MA] Taken from hereRate Your Music
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Los Sonidos De Mi Mente
Hi Friends!
I'm out of the city for a week or so - all your requests will be answered on my return. But I can't leave you without good music - while I'm traveling please listen to the:
I'm out of the city for a week or so - all your requests will be answered on my return. But I can't leave you without good music - while I'm traveling please listen to the:
See you soon!
Lisa
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