New Pop-Jazz Artist Who Is Going To Participate To Sanremo After A Long Live Experience. Her Sanremo Single Features A Guest Performance By Jazz Trumpetist Fabrizio Bosso. The Album Also Features The Participation Of Stefano Di Battista, Gio’ Di Tonno. The Album Also Contains Songs Intepreted In French And English...
For Sheryl Crow, the title of her seventh album isn’t just a location; it’s a state of mind. “I grew up in a small town 100 miles from Memphis, and that informed not only my musical taste, but how I look at life,” she says. “The drive to Memphis is all farmland, and everyone is community-oriented, God-fearing people, connected to the earth. The music that came out of that part of the world is a part of who I am, and it’s the biggest inspiration for what I do and why I do it.”...
For someone whose style changes as often as Cher’s does, her style always seems just as sincere and just as much Cher as the previous change. Her personality is set in stone and shines through — shines brighter than whatever she is dressed in or however many times she has her cheekbones drilled into. How many music artists, even if they lasted in the industry as long as Cher has, would sound just as recognizable on a 1999 synthetically vocalized song called &”Believe” as on her 1974 grimly comedic folk song &”Dark Lady”? She was more wholesome and organic in the early ’70s, but the music is entertaining and hip in its own way. Those who like Cher’s ’90s material will probably like Cher back then, even though the music is completely different. Released the year following Half Breed, Dark Lady is very similar, like an extension of that album, though more upbeat. &”Train of Thought” is raw and fast-moving rock (hence “train”) and gave her another American hit. &”Miss Subway of 1952″ is reminiscent of the acts Cher performed on Sonny and Cher, the kind of song Bette Midler likes to sneak into her albums: clever and fun, sort of breaks the mood and yet seems perfectly placed. &”Make the Man Love Me” is not as blatantly comedic, but its prayer to God, as if he was a genie with a deck of cards, comes close. &”Rescue Me” is a good cover choice; Cher may not have transformed the song the way she did &”Walking in Memphis,” but transformation did not used to be the point of covering songs. The point was hearing someone else’s voice and it is always fun to hear Cher’s renditions of the classics. The sweet and sentimental &”What’ll I Do” (theme song from The Great Gatsby) softens the mood, and then &”Apples Don’t Fall Far From the Tree” — written by Bob Stone, who penned &”Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves” — brings the album to a very fine, very spirited finish. Peter Fawthrop, All Music Guide...
The Savage Rose was a danish psychedelic rock group, founded in 1967 by Thomas Koppel, Anders Koppel, Alex Riel, Jens Rugsted, Flemming Ostermann, and Annisette. Ilse Marie Koppel also participated. Their debut album was recently selected to be part of the Danish national “cultural canon”. The first two albums have cult status in the U.S....
After a seven-year gap between their first and second albums, Pink Martini have brought forth their third long-player just over two and a half years later. Based in Portland, Oregon, this dazzling 12-piece ensemble are led by pianist Thomas Lauderdale and fronted by vocalist China Forbes. Their rich musical journeys carry listeners everywhere from a ballroom in Havana to a cabaret in Paris. This set even includes a number in Japanese and another in Arabic. With their strings, horns, and sultry rhythms, Pink Martini find the common denominators in these musics from around the globe. ...
Jasmine marks Keith Jarrett’s first recorded collaboration in decades other than with his standards trio, and reunites him with the great bassist Charlie Haden, a close partner until the mid-seventies. Intimate, spontaneous and warm, this album of love songs recorded at Jarrett’s home, has affinities, in its unaffected directness, with his solo collection The Melody At Night With You. These deeply felt performances should inspire any listener “to call your wife or husband or lover in late at night,” as Jarrett says in his liner notes, “These are great love songs played by players who are trying, mostly, to keep the message intact.” ...
Camp is endemic to the British sense of humour, a national tic that unaccountably sees fit to mine even children’s pantomimes with double entendres. Hence the wild success of Scissor Sisters, a 5-person gay’n'straight New York performance troupe with a useful mastery of the songbook of 70s Elton John. Pre-Gaga, they reintroduced outrageousness and a whiff of amyl nitrate into pop with their hit debut, Scissor Sisters, only to find themselves flying off the shelves at Asda....
Alexander Rybak has released a new album called No Boundaries. The album features eleven songs: First Kiss, Europe’s Skies, I’m In Love, Oah, Kaja’s Letter, 5000 Letters, Dare I Say, Suomi, Why Not Me?, Barndance and Disney Girls. Listen to Oah, the first single from the album, in the video below....
