A good massage, aromatherapy, sipping on a glass of chardonnay as you sit by the fireplace reading a book by your favorite author, and
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REVIEW: Triptych: Alexander Shulgin’s Songbook Part 1
REVIEW: Triptych: Alexander Shulgin’s Songbook Part 1
Below is a review of the first in a 3 album compilation of Russian composer Alexander Shulgin’s music, featuring jazz performers such as Paul Drew, Simon Rushby and Chris ‘Beebe’ Aldridge to name a few.Read More
REVIEW: 12 The Band – Streets And Avenues
Unjustness, the struggle for equality, the journey between two lovers searching for something real, the deceitfulness of those in power, and the unwillingness of those who are not in power to continue to be oppressed…
Every now and then, you come across a song that is completely in touch with what’s going on in the world. Today, I found not just one song, but a CD full of songs addressing these issues in such a deep and profound way that it touched my very soul.Read More
REVIEW: Triptych: Alexander Shulgin’s Songbook Part 1
A good massage, aromatherapy, sipping on a glass of chardonnay as you sit by the fireplace reading a book by your favorite author, and
REVIEW: Chewy is Chewy Good
Funk and jazz. Smoothed out but meaty, pungent beats made from an organ, Fender Rhodes piano, bass, and fat back drums. A woman’s soulful voice; doin’ it like Tina Turner said back in the day when she and Ike took the gentle, country, rock song “Proud Mary” and dowsed it with grease and lit it on fire: nice and easy then nice and rough. Yeah, we’ve been hearing this sound from Chaka Khan, representing the funky soul side of the sound to Norman Connors and vocalist Jean Carn playing their unique brand of multi-cultural, freedom jazz. For those opening your ears for the first time in the 1990′s, there was the Brand New Heavies, whose live action British-born acid jazz (the funk breaks from ’60′s and ’70′s artists like Horace Silver, drummer Idris Muhammad,! and electric saxophonist Eddie Harris) injected a hip hop flava, which was the main seasoning on the neo funk and soul souffle of that time.Read More
