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CROWS FEET PRODUCTIONS
DEERING & DOWN/Break This Record: The travelogue behind this record is the kind of thing you should just look up on the band’s website while you sit back and enjoy this wonderfully offbeat set that is a spiritual throwback to the free form 70’s without any of the baggage. The latest set from this free spirit vocalist, a hard playing guitar man and their new pals in Memphis adds up to the kind of thing that made FM so popular once upon a time. Anyone with an ear for lo fi looking for a sound that hits close to the heart and really shakes you up will dig this and spread the word. One of those sets you have to hear to believe. Hot stuff.
51752 (Diamond D)
GO MEDIA
AMY LONDON/When I Look In Your Eyes: One of the legion of behind the scenes talents in New York the rest of us hardly get to know. Trained in opera, in love with jazz, admired by Annie Ross and Mark Murphy, London finally steps away from a busy schedule and a busy life to give us our taste. Clearly a first class jazz vocalist that has the chops to show you something new on stuff you know too well, this is a fast ball right down the middle for jazz vocal fans. Tasty, tasty, tasty. Check it out.
11 (Motema)
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
SHAHRAM & HAFEZ NAZERI/Passion of Rumi: Touchy/feely girl friends everywhere are into the words of Rumi whether you know it or not, even and probably especially if one of them is your girl friend. Nazeri is one of the prime movers in the renaissance of Rumi and in celebration of his 800th birthday, the Nazeri family close ranks to create a special tribute to the words of the one that has brought them so much. Shahram is one of the greatest singers in contemporary Iran and he’s brought his son into the family business on the instrumental side. Freak your girl friend out, slip this on her for sweetest day and maybe she will lay some of those moves she’s been learning at bellydance class on you.
1010 (Quarter Tone)
DVD SUPPLEMENT
PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
FUNNY FACE: Spiffed up for it’s 50th anni edition, the best spiffing is the previously used washed out print being buffed up in grand digital splendor. So many nutty things going on here, so little time. You might know this from Target using it in a recent commercial but you might not know it has a great Gershwin score, an old guy romancing a young babe, Fred Astaire reprising the role he did on stage 30 years earlier, Audrey Hepburn repudiating being an egg head for a primordial version of Paris Hilton’s life and more. Held together by Stanley Donen, who really knew how to direct these kind of pics back in the 50’s, and made them to hold up as classics, this charming musical will have appeal today well beyond the pomo Audrey Hepburn cult. Another reminder of the time when movies were movies.
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Volume 30/Number 338
October 4, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
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Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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