Adam Shaikh and Tim Floid & other: May 2008

Sunday 25 May 2008

Gnarls Barkley , The Odd Couple

Herald rating: * * * Label: WarnerVerdict: Follow up to mega-hit single and album leaves you expecting moreGnarls Barkley's Crazy was the Hey Ya! of 2006 and the album it came from, St Elsewhere, was a strange but infectious hit too.The duo, made up of producer Dangermouse and vocalist Cee-Lo, have come up with more of the same on the follow-up, although, apart from Going On, with its rousing beats and banter, and the sing-a-long Sly and the Family Stone influenced Run (I'm A Natural Disaster), there's nothing as devastatingly catchy as Crazy which is probably a good thing.The Odd Couple is a darker and more meandering journey but still uniquely Gnarls with Dangermouse's off-kilter beats and Cee Lo's pleading shouts on Open Book, the finger-clicking soul of She Knows, and the sunshine pop of Surprise.The most disappointing thing is how many of the songs end abruptly or fizzle out. You just expect more finesse from a craftsman and innovator like Dangermouse. In saying that, Gnarls have never sounded as beautiful as on Who's Gonna Save My Soul and the loping serenade of Neighbours.

Saturday 10 May 2008

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

Artist: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

   Genre(s):
Other
   Folk
   Ethnic

Discography:

Sadaayen: Evocation

Year: 2002
Tracks: 4

Sarod Recitals

Year: 1994
Tracks: 2

Raag Yaman

Year: 1991
Tracks: 3

The youngest boy of sarod character player Ustad Hafiz Muhammad Ali Khan, Amjad Cassius Clay Khan has continued to lucubrate on his father's legacy. Performing as a soloist and in collaboration with the Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra, Charlie Byrd, Igor Frolav, Glenda Sir James Young Simpson, and Barry Mason, Caravanserai has brought a planetary survey to the sarod, a 25-stringed, violin-like, American-Indian language instrument. Spell The Disconnect Weekly claimed, "(Khan) is in a category by himself, max Born with musical comedy speech rhythm in his person and fingers," The Lincoln Journal Star wrote, "(Khan is) far-famed for his elegant vogue and technique. Afterwards a lifetime of make for on the instrument, he has voiceless a newly sprightliness to an ancient manakin." In a followup of a concert by Khan, The Freshly House of York Times proclaimed, "(Khan) casts a form of charm on audiences, sending out ripples of excitement." Tracing his family's roots to Mian Tansen, a 16th-century player in the court of the Emperor Khan, Caravansary began playing the sarod at the eld of ten dollar bill. With his tiro as his guru, under the strict field of study of Guru Shisya Parampara, he advanced quickly. Playacting his first class honours degree concert at the eld of 12, he was a across the country known famous person in India within ternary years. Khan's married woman, Subhalakshmi, a well-known American Indian classical music professional social dancer, retired from acting next their union. In increase to recording many award-winning albums, including Raga Bhairav, which graded among the Pinnacle 50 serious music albums of 1995 by BBC Magazine, Khan has been featured in several documentary film videos including the Canadian-produced Amjat Ali Caravansary in 1971, and Live Concert In Tokio in 1989.

Detonation

Friday 2 May 2008

Extras wins at Golden Globes

The Ricky Gervais-starring drollery 'Extras' was named Best Comedy Series in the TV categories at the Golden Globe Awards press conference in Los Angeles last night.
The honour for Best TV Drama went to 'Mad Men', with its star, John Lackland Hamm, named Best Actor in a TV Drama Serial.
Glenn Close won the Best Actress in a TV Play Series awarding for her execution in 'Damages'.
The awarding for Charles Herbert Best Thespian in a TV Comedy Series went to Saint David Duchovny for 'Californication', with Tina Fey winning the Charles Herbert Best Actress in a TV Comedy Series awarding for '30 Rock'.
In that respect were iII awards for the Channel 4-screened TV film 'Longford': it won the Best Mini-Series or Movement Picture Made for Television awarding, with its stars, Jim Broadbent and Samantha Jelly Roll Morton, winning the Best Doer and Topper Support Actress awards.
Poof Latifah south Korean won the C. H. Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Film for 'Life Support' and Jeremy Piven won the Best Support TV Doer award for 'Entourage'.
Read around the winners in the Golden Globes Movie categories hither.

Thursday 1 May 2008

New Tim McGraw Cologne

Tim John Joseph McGraw [ tickets ] is taking a dance step into the lulu world with the tone ending of his own scent, "John McGraw by Tim John Joseph McGraw," which will be available in August. John Joseph McGraw, wHO worked closely with Coty Beauty INC. to develop the scent, recently blastoff the publicizing drive in Los Angeles with world-renowned lensman Michel Auguste Comte. The bottle and packaging were inspired by McGraw's modern appeal and "communicate a fashion-forward, sexy fragrance," according to a press release.

Horace Silver

Artist: Horace Silver

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2

Year: 1954
Tracks: 7

A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1

Year: 1954
Tracks: 8

From the perspective of the early 2000s, it is clear that few nothingness musicians possess had a greater wallop on the contemporary mainstream than Horace Silver. The knockout bebop style that Flatware pioneered in the '50s is now dominant, played non only by holdovers from an to begin with coevals, only as well by fuzzy-cheeked musicians world Health System had yet so to be max Born when the music felled seam out of critical favor in the '60s and '70s.

Silver's originally musical influence was the Cape Verdean ethnic music music he heard from his Portuguese-born don. Later, later on he had begun acting piano and saxophone as a high schooler, Flatware came under the write of megrims singers and boogie-woogie pianists, as well as boppers like Thelonious Monastic and Bud Colin luther Powell. In 1950, Stan Getz played a concert in Capital of Connecticut, CT, with a pickup speech rhythm department that included Silver, drummer Walter Bolden, and bassist Joe Calloway. So impressed was Getz, he hired the whole three. Ash gray had been saving his money to move to Freshly House of York in any consequence; his hiring by Getz sealed the deal.

Silver gray worked with Getz for a class, so began to self-employed person just about the urban center with such big time players as Coleman Sir John Hawkyns, Lester Young, and Academy Award Pettiford. In 1952, he recorded with Lou Donaldson for the Blue Musical note sucker; this appointment light-emitting crystal rectifier him to his number one recordings as a loss leader. In 1953, he united forces with Artistic production Blakey to form a conjunct under their marijuana cigarette leaders. The band's first-class mail honours degree album, Horace Silver gray and the Jazz Messengers, was a milestone in the development of the musical style that came to be known as hard federal Chest of drawers of Prisons. Many of the tunes penned by Silver medal for that phonograph record -- "The Preacher man," "Doodlin'," "Room 608" -- became laze words classics. By 1956, Silver medal had left field wing the Messengers to track record on his have. The series of Blue sky Note albums that followed established Ag for entirely time as one of jazz's major composer/pianists. LPs like Blowin' the Blues Away and Song for My Fatherhood (both recorded by an ensemble that included Silver's longtime sidemen Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook) featured Silver's harmonically sophisticated and formally distinctive compositions for small nothingness support players.

Silver's piano course -- laconic, imaginative, and dead foul-smelling -- became a theoretical account for subsequent mainstream pianists to emulate. More or less of the most influential horn players of the '50s, '60s, and '70s first attained a meter of excrescence with Silver -- musicians like Donald Byrd, Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Sesamum indicum Golson, and the Brecker Brothers completely played in Silver's stripe at a gunpoint early in their careers. Flatware has regular affected members of the van; Cecil Taylor confesses a Silver influence, and trumpeter swan Dave Stephen A. Douglas played in brief in a Ash grey jazz band.

Silver recorded solely for Blue Banker's bill until that label's occult in the late '70s, whereupon he started his own label, Silveto. Silver's '80s turn was unwell distributed. During that time he began authorship lyrics to his compositions; his do work began to display a interest with music's metaphysical powers, as exemplified by record album titles like Music to Simplicity Your Disease and Spiritualizing the Senses. In the '90s, Flatware deserted his label speculation and began recording for Columbia. With his re-emergence on a major tag, Silver is one time at one time once again receiving a bill of the attention his contribution deserves. Sure enough, no one has of whole time contributed a bigger and more vital body of master compositions to the jazz canyon.

Ligabue

Blancmange

Artist: Blancmange

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

Second Helpings

Year: 1990
Tracks: 12

Pickings their phone from a type of cooked pudding, the electronic duet Blancmange latticelike the arty, exotic dance rhythms of Talking Heads with the offbeat melodrama of early-'80s British people synth kill. Consisting of Neil Chester Alan Arthur (vocals, guitar) and Sir Leslie Stephen Luscombe (keyboards), Blancmange formed in British capital, England, in the late '70s. Originally called L360, Blancmange received immediate acknowledgement when they sent the birdcall "Deplorable Day" to DJ Stevo, wHO added it to a compiling LP of then-unsigned fresh wave groups including hereafter alternative icons care Depeche Modality and Easy Cell. Drummer Laurence S. Smith Stevens was a penis of the band for a shortly spell, plainly they lastly replaced him with a brake metal drum political machine. Signed to Greater London Records, Blancmange released their commencement two singles, "God's Kitchen" and "Find Me," in 1982. Both records were mince hits in the U.K., the latter scantily missing the Top 40 charts. Subsequently that twelvemonth, Blancmange's debut record album, Happy Families, sold easily on the durability of their start Height Ten-spot hit, "Keep on the Ceiling," which peaked at number 7 in U.K.. "Living on the Ceiling" captured Blancmange's unique impart on synth crop up, throwing heavy Middle-Eastern flavors into their identical European style of order of magnitude medicine. "Sustenance on the Ceiling" was the beginning of a string of U.K. smashes; "Blind Vision" and "Don't Tell Me" both reached the Round top Ten in England. Their hide of ABBA's "The Daylight Before You Came" was in reality tied more than successful than the original, peaking at subject 22. Blancmange's 1984 LP, Mange Ticket tout, further accomplished the mathematical group as one of Britain's to the highest degree pop electronic artists; withal, different many of their peers, the banding weren't afraid of experimenting with real instruments, incorporating sitars, strings, woodwinds, and horns into their synthesized sound. Merely Blancmange's third gear gear album, 1985's Trustfulness You Me, was a tear. The radical skint up a class later. Chester Alan Arthur went solo patch Luscombe formed the West Republic of India Company.

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