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Fleet Foxes Proverbs
Artists mentioned:Years ago… when I was a teenager…, I always enjoyed listening to the radio or to some vinyls while I was doing a puzzle. I could spend hours doing that and the more a puzzle had pieces the more I was happy. The puzzles I always choose were masterpiece paintings...(read full post)
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Tom Waits @ The Grand Rex, Paris
Artists mentioned:Tom Waits and band played the great Paris venue Le Grand Rex last night (July 24th) and I have to say I’ve mixed feelings about the evening. On the one hand Tom Waits is certainly an American original and has a songbook second to none in the business. The live...(read full post)
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Gene Clark - Live In 1975
Artists mentioned:When Gene Clark’s masterpiece, No Other, was released in 1974, critics disapproved the overproduced result. The ex-Byrds career was knocked down. Years later, in 2003, the CD was re-released in Europe by Warner Music, remastered and expanded; the album was elected as the best reissued CD of the year by...(read full post)
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Greg Laswell Third Flight
Artists mentioned:Another good cd from Vanguard Records that reached my mailbox few weeks ago done by a musician who was completely unknown to me before, Greg Laswell from San Diego, California. His new record, Three Flights From Alto Nido was just released at the beginning of July. Greg is not only...(read full post)
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The Watson Twins - Fire Songs
Artists mentioned:I finally got around to picking up the new Watson Twins album, entitled Fire Songs, and am quite pleased with it; this first album is very enjoyable - in 2006 Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley) and The Watson Twins released a huge hit called Rabbit Fur Coat.Chandra and Leigh Watson, identical...(read full post)
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Ad Vanderveen - Still Now
Artists mentioned:On the above picture, you have Ad Vanderveen on the left and Iain Matthews on the right. I took it right after a set where they played more or less together for about 2 hours - maybe that why Iain seems a little bit tired - a generous and intense...(read full post)
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Neon Neon - Stage Of The Art
Artists mentioned:Just came back from a very very refreshing show: Neon Neon. Thanks to Stage Of The Art and The Palais de Tokyo who already allowed me to attend last April to an amazing Aidan Moffat performance (LS/2008/03).In few words, Neon Neon is a neo Disco-Pop-Electro project created by two geniuses...(read full post)
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Vetiver Rising
Artists mentioned:It was good to be back after a while at the Café de la Danse last Friday evening. It’s one of my favorite venues in town; it’s a place where I saw great performances in the past from a large selection of bands.It was good also to see Vetiver playing...(read full post)
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Martha Wainwright - If I Could Only Remember
Artists mentioned:Dear Martha Wainwright, I know you’re talented but I’ve got feelings too… I wished I could open this post saying that three years after the amazing Martha Wainwright you returns with a CD that throbs into my life in a gentle manner like your first one.You know how to write...(read full post)
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Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue
Artists mentioned:“…Loneliness is a very special placeTo forget is something that I never done.Silently, silently you touch my face.”Thoughts Of You – Dennis Wilson, Pacific Ocean Blue (1977)There was a time, in the ‘70s, when records came from nowhere and knocked you down for ever. I mean records like Berlin (73)...(read full post)
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Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge
Artists mentioned:To quote directly from Steve Wynn’s self-written liner notes from Crossing Dragon Bridge: “…It’s a snapshot, a dream, an acid flashback, a tourist guide, a midnight snack, a morning cup of coffee…” and I couldn’t agree more. Bringing all of his considerable talents and 25-year history of record making to...(read full post)
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Head To Head - Radiohead vs. Portishead
Artists mentioned:We’re only in June and so far since the beginning of the year I listened to more attractive records that during 2007. Thanks to Sun Kil Moon, to Gregor Samsa, Shearwater, MGMT or to Tindersticks. Also, I discovered promising or confirmed talents like, to name but just a few, Emily...(read full post)
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Cat Power @ L'Olympia
Artists mentioned:Don’t expect a show review. Sorry. The man at the door said to me “Complet !” (sold out!). Cat Power at the Olympia four months after her performance at the Bataclan where she celebrated her birthday and the release of her last record, Jukebox, I thought I could wait the...(read full post)
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Shearwater - Rook
Artists mentioned:It’s difficult not to think about the Buckley family, Jeff and particularly Tim, when you listen to Jonathan Meiburg’s bold, soaring voice, occasionally falsetto.Shearwater from Austin, Texas, releases their new album, Rook, this June (3rd), a hugely ambitious follow-up to Palo Santo (2006, reissued by Matador in 2007).Essentially a prog-folk...(read full post)
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Tift Merritt & Will Hoge
Artists mentioned:Last night I had the good fortune to be able to check out 2 acts previously unknown to me. Grammy nominated artist Tift Merritt, who hails from North Carolina, brought her solo show to Paris. The singing, songwriting, guitar/piano woman playing musician is a gifted musician and a firecracker of...(read full post)
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Willard Grant Conspiracy - The Pilgrim Tour
Artists mentioned:Two chandeliers are hanging from the ceiling of the Nouveau Casino concert hall (Paris); Howe Gelb focused his attention on them while trying to connect in French with the Parisian audience… later on Willard Grant Conspiracy like a chamber orchestra filled the stage.Leaky Sparrow’s friend Chris Eckman was in town...(read full post)
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Harmonia - From 1974 To 2008
Artists mentioned:Harmonia? Who the hell are they? In the early ‘70s, I was completely aware of what was going on on German progressive rock music (at that time, not really much people called it Krautrock). I attended gigs from Tangerine Dream, Can, Guru Guru… I listened to Klaus Schulze and Kraftwerk,...(read full post)
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Gregor Samsa - Rest Is Peace
Artists mentioned:If you want to buy a Gregor Samsa album in your local record shop, you better have to go to the letter S instead of G, that’s how I could found Rest ten days ago. Maybe someone in the shop thought that Gregor Samsa is the name of a musician,...(read full post)
