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THE B COMPANY
DR. JAMES HOPKINS/Golden Ratios: Either you’re down with the touchy/feely program or you aren’t. An LA doctor created an instrument that you lie on and the vibrations from the strings perform their own healing arts on the patient. This cd is the next best thing to being there, even if you can’t lay on the disc to get similar results. Sworn to up and down by people that have been through the process, the record itself takes new age back to it’s core as the 117 strings on this puppy are only tuned to A and D. A trance record where no production expense was spared (seriously), if you are involved at any level with the healing arts and non-traditional medicine, this could be just what you have been looking for. And in the spirit of staying green, all sounds here are organically produced.
50926 (Art All Ways)
JAZZ PROMO SERVICES
TODD HERBERT/Tree of Life: Forward thinking sax man comes with a set of all original blowing with nary a standard cover in sight. Being up for the task of being an artist trying to break through and doing all on his own, Herbert has digested jazz tradition but he doesn’t spit it back when he serves it up, he fuses his vision into the tradition. With a obvious debt to Coltrane as his starting point, Herbert isn’t afraid to sure footedly break new ground and invite you along for the welcoming trip. Hot stuff contemporary jazz fans need to be on top of.
1128 (Metropolitan)
MRG
CRAIG GORE/Ten Years Sleep: Roots music by way of Leonard Cohen with the razor blade gargling replaced by Prozac, this singer/songwriter has been a long time gestating but these days, he pretty much knows what the contemporary college kid is thinking. A nice dose of melancholia lite, Gore is sure to reach out and touch sensitive college chicks in dorm rooms everywhere.
POUNCE MARKETING
JIM ABEL/Thunder: So here’s a cat that has pretty much been able to live the dream. Spending his professional time as a successful investor, which let him hang around the house and write songs, he’s been able to have one foot each in the real world and the fantasy world and do his own thing pretty much left to his own devices. Although 60 years old, he’s as alt as any young whippersnapper, probably because he feels a real kinship to cats like Tom Paxton as opposed to a spiritual one. Nicely different folkie stuff, because he didn’t have to play by the rules, he made up his own and it’s fun to hear the outcome.
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SIX DEGREES
NIYAZ/Nine Heavens: We’ve always been a fan of vocalist Ali Azam in her various guises and this second set from Niyaz finds us in the same pocket. Continuing to delve into a world fusion with this trio, the various things each member brings to the whole make for a very engaging world beat whole. Merging tradition with contemporary sonics, this is certainly something you’d love to hear in your fave hookah bar. Serving up an acoustic version of the main songs on a second disc, this party can keep rolling what ever your mood or mode. A lot of the stuff on here was meant to be spiritual but in these hands is generally comes off as pretty physical. Fun stuff that provides a grand diversion from the mainstream.
1150
Volume 31/Number 227
June 14, 2008
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CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
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