SIVUCA - SIVUCA
Adeus Maria Fulo
[3:28]4.9 Mb
Tunnel
[4:56]7 Mb
Amor Verdadeiro
[2:14]3.1 Mb
Ponteio
[3:09]4.5 Mb
Arrasta Pe
[4:20]6.2 Mb
Voce Abusou
[2:53]4.1 Mb
Inquietaco
[3:54]5.6 Mb
Ain't No Sunshine
[4:43]6.8 Mb
Lament of Berimbau
[4:01]5.8 Mb
Rosa Na Favela
[3:16]4.7 Mb
Sivuca "Sivuca" Album Review
Vintage 1961 to 1962 Bossa Nova or Samba Nouvelle
These are vintage 1961 to 1962 recordings, a reissue of two complete original 10 inch LPs from the Barclay label, plus a bonus unreleased track. Sivuca is all over, taking the vocals, playing accordian, piano, and guitar, also including seven other players (3 wind instruments, another guitar, bass and two percussion. Excellent remastering. This is classic Brasil!!
Video Sivuca
Swedish television broadcast from 1969
MONDAY MICHIRU - EPISODES IN COLOR
Prologue
[1:08]1.6 Mb
Talk
[6:07]8.8 Mb
Generations
[5:59]8.6 Mb
The Road Less
[5:26]7.7 Mb
Send One Your Love
[4:14]6.1 Mb
Interesting Times
[4:30]6.4 Mb
So Close Yet So Far
[6:28]9.3 Mb
First Steps
[5:58]8.6 Mb
Mysteries of Life
[7:22]10.6 Mb
Heal
[7:23]10.6 Mb
If I Knew Then
[3:48]5.4 Mb
Yokan
[5:14]7.5 Mb
Epilogue
[1:48]2.5 Mb
Monday Michiru "Episodes in Color" Album Review
More five-star results from an outstanding artist...
I have to admit, I've heard all of Monday Michiru's albums, and just about every studio album she's issued to me deserves five stars. That is because she has an unerring knack for finding the right balance of musical ingredients, no matter what style she is loosely working in (e.g., acid jazz, Latin-flavored jazz, etc.). That trend boldly continues with EPISODES IN COLOR.<p>I agree with most of what a previous reviewer wrote. However, I would say she isn't so much in transition, but rather is continuing a phase of her career that began with 1999's OPTIMISTA and carried through FOUR SEASONS. Although occasionally pop-culture elements surface in her recent music (such as a drums'n'bass rhythm pattern on one track and some scattered electric instrumentation throughout EPISODES), since OPTIMISTA Monday has opted for a live, acoustic-based Latin-flavored jazz sound. This album continues in that vein, with outstanding songs, Monday's always-remarkable vocals, and interesting solo work by the likes of Monday's spouse Alex Sipiagin (who has fresh ideas, doesn't overplay, and even takes sonic chances by using a wah-wah pedal on one track). EPISODES even has several instrumental tracks which allow the musicians to step into the foreground. Certainly my admiration for this artist may have left me biased. However, in my mind EPISODES IN COLOR defines the future of vocal jazz with as much invention and soul as that of any other singer on the scene today, even Cassandra Wilson. Highly recommended! <p>P.S., By the way, if you miss Monday's mid-1990s eclectic, more pop-culture influenced musical approach, you might try albums by Japanese artists Bird and UA, who have forged their own artistic identities with music that to me loosely carries on in the tradition set by Monday's groundbreaking efforts (albeit Monday sings in English, while the other two sing in their native language).
OREGON - THE ESSENTIAL OREGON
Aurora
[7:48]11.2 Mb
Grazing Dreams
[3:38]5.2 Mb
Cry of the Peacock
[6:27]9.2 Mb
Tide Pool
[7:24]10.6 Mb
Naiads
[2:02]2.9 Mb
Margueritte
[4:08]6 Mb
Canyon Song
[5:04]7.2 Mb
Violin
[15:31]22.3 Mb
The Silence of A Candle
[1:49]2.6 Mb
Person-to-Person
[3:10]4.5 Mb
Dust Devil
[3:07]4.5 Mb
Ghost Beads
[6:39]9.5 Mb
Sail
[4:31]6.5 Mb
Oregon "The Essential Oregon" Album Review
autumnal equinox by campfire
Blending instruments such as twelve string acoustic guitar, tabla, string bass, and oboe in this 1970s collection, the original members of Oregon simultaneously embrace jazz and classical harmonies and global folk rhythms. And mind you, none of this was overly fashionable when these veterans of the Paul Winter Consort struck out on their own and started cutting records for the Vanguard label some three decades past.<p>Standout songs such as "Aurora" and "Silence of a Candle" have been rerecorded on subsequent Oregon albums, but never with the same inventive innocence that infused their early work. Even so, since the Essential Oregon period, the group has continued to fashion a gentle, energetic, intricately woven music that defies the limitations of any given particularist genre. All their releases are worth checking out; this is the best place to start.
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