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APPLESEED
AL STEWART/Sparks of Ancient Light: Why bother with Cliff Notes when Stewart gives you a quick summation of the last 2,500 years in 12 songs? For those that like their pop way out in left field with something to say, clearly, this set isn’t for everyone, but it’s for anyone that ever got into collecting Classics Illustrated. It’s a long way from “Year of the Cat” and Britney won’t be using any of these songs for her comeback, but grown ups need something to listen to also. NPR to the max.
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CREATIVE SERVICE CO
IAN TESCEE/A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: Space music in ways Amon Duul never envisioned it, this is music from a planetarium exhibit that is not at all dusty in ways you might think, even if it sonically kicks up some of that red dirt. High minded stuff that flies over the radar but is fun for any of the legion of growing genre music fans that are into this new form of space music. One of the genre’s leading lights, Tescee is on the money in a delightful, ear opening experience that might actually make you want to visit a museum one day to see what’s going on in these places. Check it out.
21232 (musicphrenia.com)
FANATIC PROMOTIONS
SALME DAHLSTROM/Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade: Suppose DJ Miss Kitten had post feminist singer/songwriter tendencies–that’s the kind of package you get tn self contained writer producer Dahlstrom. Certainly a set of in your face club beats that pound it out relentlessly, she puts some message in the music as well. Sometimes serious, sometimes not, this is an underground pomo statement to the max.
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FRESH SOUND NEW TALENT
AARON IRWIN GROUP/Blood and Thunder: Downtown sax man likes to play as he feels and sometimes those feelings are on the money and sometimes they are outside the lines but the chops will always keep you listening. A young lion feeling his way in a new kind of landscape where the rules don’t exist for young lions anymore, he‘s a versatile cat that can work with the Dorsey and shift into downtown mode without grinding his gears. Jazz fans with an ear toward tomorrow need to keep an ear out for this cat, blowing fine on this outing.
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MASSIVE MUSIC
BLVD/Music For People: Genre bending electro hip hop for those who think young and have the energy to shake it all night long accordingly. Truth? The hot, young accountant or lawyer that’s bleary eyed at your morning meeting was out until 4 in the morning bopping to this, not looking at your file. Get her a Red Bull and an Urban Detox and make your move, with this as the soundtrack.
Blvdsource.com
NEW EARTH
LITTLE WOLF/Prayer to the Mystery: Grammy winner Jim Wilson affects Clint Eastwood’s high plains drifter look and brings electronics into native American music. Purists will have opinions, newbies won’t know the difference if they care, but the person this set is really aimed at is the woman that wants to recreate the Lake Austin Spa experience where ever it is she’s getting her next or regular massage. Smartly done native American music for tourists that could actually bring new fans for the genre into the tent.
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Volume 31/Number 309
September 4, 2008
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