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Yes, we do take a day off on February 29thWed, 08 Sep 2010 11:44:37 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1Day 59: Tujiko Noriko – Blurred In My Mirror (2005)
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by Saku
Everyone feels sad once in a while. It's a fairly basic human emotion and completely normal. Musicians also feel sad from time to time and try to reflect their emotions through their music. Some emphasize on making you feel better and others on dragging you deeper to the depths of depression. Those are the most common approaches to sadness, nothing wrong with them, but wouldn't you really like an album that is apathetic towards your sadness, an album that doesn't call your girlfriend a cunt for you, but just sits down next to you and says "yep, you're pretty depressed" and lets you solve your own emotional baggage?
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by Saku
A man and his piano in a dark room. All you can see of the man is a dark silhouette; you can't see his face, nor his clothing. His fingers touch the keyboard, and you can feel how every moment is dedicated to you alone. You look around you and there doesn't seem to be anyone else in the audience; just you, the man and his piano.
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by Saku
I'm a lazy person and Hawaii sounds like such a perfect place for me; a tropical paradise, full of love. Even thinking about it makes me want to give someone a hug. I have never been to Hawaii and I have no idea if my idea of the place is factual at all, but if the music of Israel 'IZ' Kamakawiwo'ole reflects truth at all, I'm right on the money.
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by Saku
I have a huge amount of respect towards John Zorn. He is one of those musicians who you can tell are in it for the love of music and not money and fame. Even though he's currently busy running his own not-for-profit record label, Tzadik, he still has found the time to release 5 albums this year and play gigs regularly. Like I said, this man loves music. Though the majority of his work is geared toward avant-garde and "radical jewish culture", his cartoon music recordings and the “Filmworks” series are a great entry level introduction to the world of instrumental music, and show that Zorn isn't just a pretentious one trick pony.
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by Saku
Ikue Mori is a Japanese born drummer known (I'm using the term loosely) for her crazy wild rhythms and avant-garde jazz sounds. "Painted Desert" is a hard, but soft instrumental album about the desert.
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by Saku
I apologize in advance for not representing this album in as good a light as it deserves. For you see, I promised to review “Speak Like a Child” a month ago, in an attempt to recommend a few albums for the beautiful Autumn season. By now the season is long gone. Instead of shades of beautiful orange, red and yellow, everything is brown. And muddy. And cold. And dark. A season much better suited for sonic alternate-rock or something, but oh well. I have no one but myself to blame for my own short-sightedness.
I know some of you want to get your hands on every single album we recommend so what I'm going to do is be a wanker and review an album that people hardly know exists. Gabor Szabo was a hungarian jazz guitarist who once upon a time recorded a song called “Gypsy Queen”, a song that was later made famous by a small hippie band called Santana. That's it. That's pretty much his entire solo career in a nutshell.
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by Saku
During the autumn time I feel very fancy pants. I love walking around the city streets wearing a stylish coat, smoking a cigarette and acting very sophisticated inside my head. But what music to listen to? AC/DC? Insane Clown Posse? How about some jazz...
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by Saku
When talking about the great 20th century composer, Frank Zappa, it's impossible to not mention his second solo release. Nowadays considered a classic, "Hot Rats (1969)" is one of the 3 straight up classic Jazz fusion records (other 2 being "Waka/Jawaka(1972)" and "The Grand Wazoo (1972)") that he released and one of the high points of his career.
