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Drivel
Drivel - Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors: ab 7.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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I Murdered Mommy!
The Residents Soundtrack zu einem nie fertiggetellten CD ROM Spiel. In den 1990ern arbeiteten die Residents an einer Reihe von höchst innovativen CD ROMs. Freak Show kam zuerst, danach das interaktive Album Bad Day on the Midway. Sie alle waren viel von dem Ramsch, der damals auf den Markt kam, weit voraus. I murdered Mommy! Wäre keine Ausnahme gewesen. Aber wie es so kommt, hatte Inscape, die Firma, die die beiden anderen CD ROMs veröffentlicht hatte, keine Freude mit dem neuen Konzept, das sich um einen emotional missbrauchten 13jährigen Jungen drehte. Da die Vorgänger sich so gut verkauften, willigten sie trotzdem ein aber leider war das Format CD ROM bald uninteressant geworden und Inscape sperrte zu. Was von I Murdered Mommy! Blieb sind einige Soundsketche, die die Residents 2004 komplettierten und in einer Kleinauflage auf den Maerkt brachten. Die Klanggalerie freut sich nun, dieses Album wieder zugänglich zu machen - in remasterter Form.The Residents' soundtrack to a never completed CD ROM game. The 1990s saw The Residents release a series of groundbreaking CD-ROMs. Freak Show was followed up by interactive album Gingerbread Man and then role playing game Bad Day On The Midway. All of these stood head and shoulders above the drivel which increasingly clogged the CD-ROM market and all featured Residential music as an integral part. I Murdered Mommy would have been no exception. Inscape, the company which had released Bad Day, had some reservations with the proposed concept, "an interactive game based on the fantasy life of an emotionally abused 13 year old boy" but as the previous title had sold well they green lighted the project. Unfortunately, shortly after this the aforementioned mountain of inferior titles plus the limitations of the medium (poor capacity) caused the bottom to drop out of the market and Inscape went with it. Musically, all that was left of IMM were some "sketches". In 2004, The Residents took those sketches, fleshed them out and released them in a very limited edition on CD. This re-issue is the first time these music pieces have been made available again. Remastered.- Shop: odax
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Pow
Certain Failure: Comedy Satire, Rock, Reggae, Funk, Pop, Deep, not so Deep. "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly ?being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."  ,- George F. Will Taking this maxim to heart, Certain Failure present their debut CD - POW! An album full of alarmingly humorous snapshots of real life - on sale online now! Certain Failure will either achieve their stated objective, or fail at that and be wildly successful. If you like: intelligent, witty, satirical lyrics and great foot tapping tracks?- think Tenacious D, Weird Al Yankovic, Frank Zappa, TISM etc. ... If you hate: pretentious, angsty, inward looking drivel ... Then you'll love: Certain Failure and their debut album, POW! This album is an Australian collaboration between two old buddies, Paul Smart and Danny Bryan. Notable extras include Peter Robinson (Electric Mary) on Vegetarian and virtuoso guitar wizardry from the world famous Smokin' Joe Robinson (winner of Australia's got Talent at age 16 and now touring the world and working with the likes of BB King) who rips on many tracks! This is one cracker of an album - not a dud track on it! For you geeky types, POW! Has been mastered by the great Brian Gardener of Bernie Grundman mastering studios in Hollywood. Check out the artists he's mastered - it reads like a who's who of music and includes Madonna, Bob Marley, Prince, B52s, Beyonce, Beastie Boys, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Red Hot Chilli Peppers etc. - needless to say, the album sounds good! Further Inspiration: "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill" "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night ?and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan.- Shop: odax
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Black Powder Poetry & the Lemon Drop Bomb
We used to have bunch of stuff printed here to reveal the history and background of the band - as if anyone cared. If you hadn't read it before it's demise, you missed nothing but some convoluted babble that seemed just right a long time ago when I wrote it. Now, it seems as ignorant as we were way back when. In lieu of that drivel, here's the nits n' grits, nuts n' bolts, bacon n' eggs of Johnny Mundane & The Sweetspots: We are a damn good rock band that's kinda bluesy, kinda punky, kinda just-the-way-we-want-it. We are loud. We wear suits, vests, ties, and I always don a pork pie or bowler hat. For our attire, we sometimes get some shit, conveyed via awkward stares and buttery whispers behind our backs. We like that - it's good to have enemies. For our music, we get yells and screams so loud the whisperers have to pause and pretend they're thinking of something really important. I'm Chris - the big guy who plays guitar and who looks like the littler guy who plays bass. That's my brother, Nathan. We're six years apart and trade off on vocals. He sings better than I do, but I can yell louder. The mohawk is gone, so behind us is Andrew at the drums. He's been friends with the band for a while. He knows the songs, he rocks, he is loud and has no aversions to wearing some suit-like clothing. Things are about to change around here. There's going to be a lot of yellow and black.- Shop: odax
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Silver Guitar
Ernesto García de León and Martín Pedreira Ernesto García de León and Martín Pedreira are guitarists and composers who enjoy active concertizing and teaching careers in their mutual countries. They are great admirers of each other and have dedicated music to each other. García de León's Acere, Op. 27 (1988) is not only dedicated to Pedreira, but contains themes from Pedreira's own music. Likewise, Pedreira's Homenaje a Heitor Villa-Lobos (1994) is dedicated to his old friend, both composers are ardent aficionados of the great Brazilian composer. Yet, they have much more in common. Both hail from very tropical regions in which folk and popular music play an integral role in the everyday life of everyone. García de León comes from the state of Veracruz, the easternmost region of Mexico on the Gulf, a part of the country more akin musically and ethnically to Cuba than any other part of Mexico. Both have been guests in each other's country, giving recitals and master classes and acting as tour guides for the benefit of musical "a-nationalism". After a consummate analysis and integration of styles, each composer has filtered the folk and popular music of their country and applied it, newly conceived, in their own compositions. Thus we hear the logical result of the 20th century's music in their work. Their music is the subsequent product of Amadeo Roldán and Alejandro García Caturla, Stravinsky and Bartok, Villa-lobos and Brouwer, Ponce and Revueltas, or Chavez and Copland. But it could also easily be said that this is the result of the son-montuno, the son jarocho, the guajira, danzón, the rumba, of Pablo Milanés, of Guty Cárdenas, of Pérez Prado, Toña la negra, Agustín Lara, Silvio Rodríguez, Benny Moré, the Trio Matamoros, Los Panchos, the Beatles, and just about anything else either composer ever heard as a child. It is an important characteristic of the world in which they exist to appropriate, take apart, and reassemble - leaving and adding as they go. Martín Pedreira (b. 1952, Havana) Martín Pedreira (b. 1952, Havana) is a guitarist and composer who is continuing in the compositional tradition of his teacher Leo Brouwer. He has sought to create music that can successfully express a unique voice that is knowledgeable of the music of a post-modern world, while using his beloved traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms and music as the template within which to manipulate these ideals. Although his catalog of work is small, the quality is of a high standard which only bears witness to his meticulous craftsmanship. His Divertimentos (1987), for which he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Composición by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), is a collection of 25 studies intended to improve the technical abilities of the performer. However, these pieces go far beyond mere technical drivel, passing through many moods and sonorities which contradict the collection's humble intent. In an email, Pedreira comments about these pieces: "With strains of Cuban "country" and African music, the Divertimentos, at their essence, are short pedagogical studies inspired by traditional Cuban music. These references are sometimes direct and obvious, like the Oriki Iyá (ritualistic Lucumí chant), or indirect, as if from a dream, like the series of Islas or Preludios. In some cases, there is an emphasis on specific techniques, but these procedures are applied without losing sight of the principal objective - that of maintaining the expressive character of the music. " In the present recording, Carlo Pezzimenti has chosen a selection of 13 from the Divertimentos, while the "Guajira" is taken from a separate work, Pedreira's Suite Simple. Ernesto García de León Ernesto García de León is represented on this recording by two different works. La Guitarra de Plata (The Silver Guitar), Op. 56 dates from 2001 and has a tragic story. One of García de León's students at the National Conservatory of of Music in Mexico City, Noé García Alcaraz, commissioned a set of twenty etudes that he would perform in his graduating recital. The commissioned work was written (20 Estudios, Op. 50, 1998) and the recital went off without a hitch. As a present for the occasion and for his professorial guidance, Noé presented García de León with a small silver guitar. This piece had been made by artisans in Alcaraz's home city of Taxco, famous for it's silver mines, silver jewelry and crafts, in whose traditional style this 'silver guitar' had been made. Later, García de León learned of the tragic and senseless death of his student in a botched surgery. García de León wrote The Silver Guitar as an elegy to his student that was fittingly premiered in 2001 by Juan Carlos Laguna at the annual guitar festival held in Noé García Alcaraz's home of Taxco. It's structure is in three parts (Introduction, Dance, Elegy) with a coda in the "Elegy". The composer uses free atonality and chance procedures, as well as an ethereal, sometimes sardonic, mood to evoke the melancholic essence from which the piece is born. The "Canción" and "Final" are the last two movements of García de León's Suite, Op. 35 (1992) for two guitars. The tone in these pieces is lighter and more nostalgic, focusing on rhythmic qualities so pervasive in his music, such as the habanera rhythm in his "Canción" and the son jarocho in his "Final". Interestingly, the composer urges a certain amount of improvisation from both performers in the "Final", yet another quality of his style that is representative of the post-modern world. Brian Clemént-Foreman (b. 1952) Lousiana native Brian Clemént-Foreman (b. 1952) has an extensive catalog of compositions featuring the guitar, his own instrument. His latest addition, the triptych Contes Normands (2006) is the product of a vacation the composer took to Normandy. Inspired by the same countryside and hamlets that were such fruitful muses for Guy de Maupassant, Clément-Foreman has produced three pieces for two guitars imbued with the colors and harmonies of what one can aptly call neo-impressionism. While never easily falling into a cliché, the composer weaves a luxuriant fabric of harmonic denseness clearly evoking the reminiscences of his visit. This recording features the first two movements, "Les Andelys" and "Honfleur", named after communities in Normandy. - Notes by Pedro A. Haley Ernesto Garcia De Leon's compositions are published by Michael Lorimer Editions. (ASCAP). Michael Lorimer Editions, 175 west 73rd street (10G) New York 10023 USA. Brian Clement is also a member of ASCAP Martin Pedreira's music is published by Editora Musical de Cuba (EMC) Carlo Pezzimenti Carlo Pezzimenti, who studied under the great Spanish Guitarist Andres Segovia, is the director of the guitar programs at Texas Woman's University in Denton Texas and Brookhaven College in Dallas Texas. He has given concerts around the world, and to date has released 18 recordings. His work has been reviewed by many publications including Gramophone Magazine and the New York Times, which stated, ' In his hands the music made it's effect with reserved eloquence' Brian Rowe Brian Rowe, born in Huston, Texas, studied classical guitar with Carlo Pezzimenti, and earned a bachelor's degree of music from Texas Women's University in 2009. Brian plans to continue studying with Carlo and obtain a master's degree in guitar pedagogy The Silver Guitar Again I am proud to present another in our series of recordings that feature the poetic beauty that can be realized on the classical guitar playing well composed contemporary music, music that is truly inspired, not hatched out based on a formula. The music recorded on this CD will invoke images of nature, of faraway lands, of anguish at a loss, joy of love and the bliss of surrender to life itself... Just listen and allow the silvery notes of Carlo's Fleta guitar and Brian's Rozas guitar take you on a magical ride to worlds that words cannot describe...enjoy. ---Austin Audu.- Shop: odax
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