Posted by: mx on: September 29, 2008
Nine compositions of Henry Mancini, famous composer and arranger – you must’ve heard the Pink Panther theme, well that’s him. My favourite tracks here are the more “classical” sounding ones, the first five, whereas the rest sound like dated 70s movie and TV music. Anyway, I think that this man is an important composer with [...]
Posted by: mx on: September 28, 2008
Still collectin’ Miles. This one’s from the classic period, with a remarkable band – Vitous, DeJohnette, Corea and Shorter (the first four tunes are his compositions). The last two are not that good, more like an early experiment of what will later become the electric fusion style he developed, but still interesting to hear.
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Posted by: mx on: September 26, 2008
No matter what, Oasis will always be special to me. Fascinated by their albums from the 90s, I’ve spent, without exaggerating, thousands of hours listening to those songs in my teen years. So after awkwardly learning how to write songs sober (SOTSOG), a forgettable disaster, except for maybe two songs (Heathen Chemistry) and a solid [...]
Posted by: mx on: September 23, 2008
I was looking for a good concert torrent and look what I’ve found! The Mars Volta in the De-Loused era; I’ve never seen them perform so far and for me it was jaw-dropping to see with how much passion they play. A must see.
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Posted by: mx on: September 19, 2008
Dutch band Silence is Sexy have decided to distribute their album This Ain’t Hollywood, a score for an imaginary film, over the BitTorrent network. I am very happy to see more and more artists embracing the new ways of spreading their work. The idea of packaging and massively selling music via a physical medium sounds [...]
Posted by: mx on: September 18, 2008
Giant Sand have been making music for more than two decades without me ever noticing. Americana at it’s best, trasmitting sounds of human desires down the desert wind. All 13 songs deserve returning full attention.
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Posted by: mx on: September 14, 2008
Today is the first really bad rainy day, so is it a coincidence that I found and downloaded a new album by Mogwai? Scotland’s finest post-rock beasts have spit out another series of waves of brilliant instrumentalism. Just another or… no. It seems that they’ve combined all the dynamics, bass melody, sharp noise and dreadful [...]
Posted by: mx on: September 6, 2008
The Like Young broke up in 2006, and Last Secrets is their last album. The guy and the girl are otherwise happily married. The songs go between power-pop, My Bloody Valentine-like slow drone and passionate garage indie. It sounds like it but it’s not quite sunshine music, all the time there is a taste of [...]
Posted by: mx on: September 4, 2008
No matter how hard you try… Yeah so we now have Zach De La Rocha’s solo album where he’s in a duo with an ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. I don’t know, maybe we don’t need a RATM reunion after all?
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Posted by: mx on: September 3, 2008
Hey everybody! It’s been a long journey and now this blog is alive again.
A few textures deep hazy mix, perfect soundtrack to walking around a modern city in the night, when psychedelic is the escape and the means. He goes a lot further in experimentation than Massive Attack for instance. Largely instrumental, but there are [...]
