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'Naked Animals,' A 1990 Recording By Saxophonist/Flutist Mark Lewis & His Long-Lived Rotterdam-Based Quartet, Set For First Release On April 2
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Alto saxophonist/flutist Mark Lewis revisits a chapter from his own musical history on Naked Animals, set for an April 2 release on the Audio Daddio label. Recorded in 1990, the album features eight original compositions performed by Lewis’s Dutch quartet, the working unit he maintained through most of his 14-year residency in jny: Rotterdam: pianist Willem Kühne, bassist James Long, and drummer Frans van Grinsven. A native of Washington State, Lewis was all of 20 years old when he settled ...
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Yelena Eckemoff Presents An Exploration Of The Nighttime Animal Kingdom On "Nocturnal Animals," Set For January 24 Release By Her L&H Production Label
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff adds another link to her chain of thoughtful concept albums with Nocturnal Animals, which her own L&H Production imprint will release on January 24. True to its title, the double album features 14 musical impressions of the creatures that rule the night. The pieces are brought to life by a quartet that places Eckemoff alongside bassist Arild Andersen and drummers Jon Christensen and Thomas Strønen. Eckemoff is fond of creating these sorts of sonic portrait galleries. Prior ...
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Iconic Singer-Songwriter Michael Franks Returns With Sublime New Album Of Penetrating Poetry And Worldly Grooves, Celebrating His Love of Animals, Travel, Literature, Humanity And Life
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1888 Media
Time Together, Franks' First New CD in Five Years, Unites Him With An All-Star Cast of Friends Including Gil Goldstein, Chuck Loeb, Till Bronner, Mike Mainieri, Eric Marienthal & Others Michael Franks, the ever-artful singer-songwriter and harvester of the most delectable musical passion fruit known to distingué lovers, has returned with his 18th offering, Time Together, his first for Shanachie, to be released June 14, 2011, and his first since 2006's Rendezvous in Rio. Like James Taylor, Carole King, Joni ...
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William Elliott Whitmore:animals in the Dark
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JamBase
By: Sarah Hagerman
The arresting opening track on William Elliott Whitmore's latest offering Animals in the Dark (released February 27 on Anti- Records) snaps your ass awake like a teacher slapping your fingers with a ruler. So, no dreams about being a Viking for you - sit up straight and pay attention. The martial snare drum beat that ushers in Mutiny" in the midst of a sick, sick wind that's blowing 'round," calls for a tough staff change, with fists ...
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Plants and Animals:parc Avenue
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JamBase
By: Sarah Moore
Plants and Animals' lush pop orchestrations and psychedelic rock and roll leanings make their February release, Parc Avenue (Secret City Records), one of the more intriguing discs of the year. High school bandmates Warren C. Spicer (lead vocals, guitar) and Matthew Woodley ("The Woodman" on drums) met Nicolas Basque (vocals, guitar, piano, bass) in the music department at Montreal's Concordia University, and the core of Plants and Animals formed. They got together with neighbors, jamming ...
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Girl Talk Feed the Animals Pay-What-You-Want
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Michael Ricci
Mash up Model Pay-What-You-Want Download
When the Pittsburgh-based musician who calls himself Girl Talk announced that his new collection of songs, Feed the Animals, would be released on a pay-what-you- want download basis, it didn't get quite the same level of attention that Radiohead got when that band did the same thing last October. That makes sense: Aside from being first, Radiohead also happened to be a chart-topping critics' darling that had sold millions of records over the course of ...
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