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Cave Paintings & Silent Movies
'Chicago-area singer/songwriter Louise Kelly distinguishes herself with her debut album Cave Paintings & Silent Movies. This bright, upbeat pop-jazz collection has an overall young sound with an old, jazzy soul. Louise sings straight from the heart telling a story of love and life with stylish accompaniment. From the catchy chorus of "Lonely In Love" to the smooth ballad of "What a Night, No Stars" listeners are engaged with smart musicality and original lyrics. Louise takes center stage with her vocal and piano performance in this album. Adding to the soulful mix, supplying additional head-bopping grooves are musicians Michael Krieglstein on bass, CJ Grandberry and Maxx Popp on drums, and Zach Biggus and Mark Domanico on guitar.' Recorded at Velvet Arts Studios, Glen Ellyn, Illinois and Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville, Illinois. Produced by MIchael Krieglstein. Tracks recorded in Wentz Concert Hall (all the solo piano/voice songs) are live performances in an acoustically incredible space. Listen for the reverb of a dimly-lit stage in a dark and gorgeous hall.- Shop: odax
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Meditations
What IS a Zendo Tavern?', everyone asks. The lyrics came first, imagining monks, AWOL from DBZ monastery, going into town to hit the local zen tavern for beer and some shots - or tea, if it really was the Zendo Tavern. On the website, zendotavern.com, & on the back of the CD is a stage set - an idea of the Zendo Tavern - sparsely furnished, cushions on scrubbed wood floor at low tables. Dimly outlined in the shadows above the patron, who has thrown his happi coat over the rice paper screen, is a painting: a nude reclines odalisk-like she holds a book of Rousseau, a feather quill pen, an Opossum lurks on the back of the couch... a variation on the paintings in all the bars in movie saloons of the old west. The patron could be Asian or Western - alone, meditating, deep in his cups of tea, or vodka - or sake. A different kind of zazen. As the CD developed, we looked for a name for such a mixed band of musicians playing such a mixed bag of songs. A zendo is a refuge from the every day world - a place to confront one's self through zazen, meditation, alone or with others on a similar quest. And in a western sense, pubs or taverns are also places we go to find refuge - to meditate, to confront ourselves and others also searching, asking questions. Zendo Tavern, is a meeting of East and West both in the diversity of musicians, the music, and in the idea of all creatures seeking a refuge - the songs are meditations in the sense of thinking about 'just what the hell are we doing here on this planet'? Someone said, 'Ah, the zendo is the high road, and the tavern is the low road.' But this is not so - they are both ways to a path. Playing music with yiming, Jan and Phil was a refuge filled with gratitude and pleasure. Biff cuthbert Jan kalinowski, lead guitar - comes from Gniezno, Poland and was a founding member of the 'Prowizorka Jazz Band'. Prowizorka has won awards all over Europe, notably the Golden Washboard many times in Warsaw, and first place at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, the band has recorded many CDs of early Dixieland Jazz, as well as many jazz standards, Yiming Gao, violin- Fortunately for Zendo Tavern she can't find enough outlets for her talents. She has played violin for twenty five of her twenty eight years, graduated with degrees in pre-med & German at Johns Hopkins, plus violin at Peabody Conservatory. While obtaining her masters in violin at yale, she held a chair in the New Haven Symphony, and played with Orchestra New England, and organized several Chamber groups. Her classical form was first corrupted by playing and recording fiddle tunes from Prince Edward Island. She has just finished four years of medical studies and is now beginning her residency work, but she still plays in chamber groups and with Zendo Tavern. Phil Rosenthal, mandolin - is known for his children's series of folk music CDs, CDs of his own compositions of music and lyrics, and some twenty years as singer/song writer with the Seldom Scene bluegrass band and Bluegrass Union and the many CDs the bands produced. Phil's American Melody Studio being ten minutes away, and Phil being an accomplished musician and engineer all factored into making this CD possible in a very restricted time frame of eight weeks. Biff Cuthbert, guitar/vocals - ended his classical piano career at age fifteen and played ukelele for a year in Europe, mostly in Italy. His father took him to Wolf's in New York, age sixteen, and bought him a Drake guitar, in 1971 shortly after college, he bought a Gallagher D-70. He counts Irving Berlin,Fats Waller,Tin Pan Alley, Roberto Murolo,Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson & Lucille Bogan, Mississippi John Hurt, Scott Joplin,Dave Van Ronk, Paul Siebel,Doc Watson, Leo Kottke, Lyle Lovett, Mickey MacConnell as influences. This CD is a resolution of forty years of musical narrative.- Shop: odax
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Bratz
Director Sean McNamara (RAISE YOUR VOICE) tackles teenage cliques, the power of friendship, and the importance of individuality with characters based on the Bratz dolls. Sasha (Logan Browning), Jade (Janel Parrish), Yasmin (Nathalia Ramos), and Cloe (Skyler Shaye) are four free-spirited teens who are thick as thieves as they start their freshman year at Carry Nation High School. But soon, everything changes. Principal Dimlys (Jon Voight) daughter, Meredith Baxter Dimly (Chelsea Staub), rules the school with an iron fist, ensuring that all the students stay where they belong in their respective cliques. Although these four best friends try to buck the schools trend and remain close, their academic and extracurricular interests pull them in different directions until they realize that staying friends, being true to themselves, and following their dreams are more important than anything else. Director Sean McNamara Star Skyler Shaye, Anneliese Van Der Pol, Jon Voight, Nathalia Ramos, Janel Parrish, Special Features: Widescreen Audio: 5.1 - English Subtitled - Spanish Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary Sean McNamara - Director Deleted Scenes Featurettes (12) Music Videos (2) Runtime: 102 minutes Year of Release: 2007.- Shop: odax
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Laugh Little Girl
At the urging of audience members at two recent shows at the Boston and Arlington Centers for the Arts, Phil Rectra is pleased to bring you 'Laugh Little Girl,' a collection of classic pop songs which marks his first CD release. Many of these songs were discovered on old vinyl records that were found stored in boxes in a friend's basement... The lead track, 'Go On Laugh Little Girl,' was written and performed by Charles Aznavour. Sad and amusing, the singer laments as the 'girl' laughs. Listen to find out why. 'Torero,' an audience favorite - even though the refrain is sung in Italian. It's the story of the Spanish bullfighter who struts with confidence and has adoring fans. But the writers of the song - sarcastic by nature - make fun of the Torero: [translated] 'You wear little shoes that curl your toes, tight pants and a pink baby jacket.' Phil found the song too good to pass up after hearing original versions by Pier Angeli and Claudio Villa. Probably the most well-known song on this CD is 'Words,' written by the Gibb brothers (Bee Gees). One option was to croon this one in Engelbert-Humperdinck style, but Phil chose to strip 'Words' down to it's bare essentials. Fans of Classic American Pop are bound to know Perry Como, the one-time barber who carved his own niche as the humble, smooth-voiced crooner. His rendition of 'Father of Girls' is rife with lyrics that are a sign of the 50's times: 'boys come 'round when they want a date/ girls may only stay home and wait.' But at the core of this tune is the struggle that a dad goes through as he watches his daughter grow up... Horace Silver's 'Psychedelic Sally' is a funky go-go-like song. Up-beat and catchy, Doug Hammer - piano accompanist - rips through a psychedelic organ solo on this one! 'My Work/Back and Forth' combines two songs from the American opera 'Bed and Sofa,' written by Polly Pen and Laurence Klavan. It's the story about a love triangle in turn-of-the-20th-Century Russia, and zings us with a surprise ending. Phil couldn't resist the urge to add this to the 'Laugh Little Girl' recording, harkening back to his forays into musical theater. His sister, Theresa Rectra, traveled from New York City to add her voice as the independent Ludmilla. Phil dares to mess with perfection by singing Billy Strayhorn's 'Lush Life.' It's a narrative song, written with very little rhythm, and found on a classic Nat King Cole record. But on one magical night in the studio, fate strikes: after the first phrase, accompanist Doug Hammer adds - and we'll never know why - a Samba shimmy to the piano. This is one of the artist's favorites! 'Laugh Little Girl' ends with a little known song by the modern indie rock duo Secret Stars, hailing from Narragansett, Rhode Island. Inspired by the original, as well as the interpretation by the lo-fi band Ida, Phil delivers this song as if he's whispering in your ear. The artist recommends you find a quiet, dimly-lit place to listen to this record...- Shop: odax
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Leave on the Lights
Australian singer/songwriter Henry Hall's debut album Leave on the Lights is a diverse and uplifting soul journey that began in Sydney, Australia, traversed the globe through Europe and then onto Colombia, South America before continuing north into the United States. The Sydney-based guitarist and singer first turned the soil on his career in his native Australia, plying his crafted songs in the dimly lit corners of pubs and bars to the hardened regulars. He recorded some demo versions of newly written songs with Cruel Sea bassist Ken Gormley, but even so, something was eluding Henry, and it was time to move on. "I had all these songs floating around inside my head and it just wasn't happening for me in Australia. So I packed up all my stuff, grabbed my guitar and headed overseas to open up some doors on a different life perspective. Spent a couple of years in Europe and eventually stumbled into South America." With just a plane ticket and a guitar, Hall shook the dust of Sydney off his feet and went abroad to feast on the traveler's privilege of love, heartache and watching the sun rise. It wasn't until his journey took him to the town of Cali, Colombia, that the path suddenly became clear. A fortuitous meeting with a local personality/guitarist led him to the New York City recording studio of Juan Pablo Mantilla. "I was traveling through Colombia and I met this guy playing in a bakery in Cali. He was good so I hung around. He ended up asking me to play. So I did. He invited me back to his place and I played some more, for hours. His reaction was electric. It turned out he was a renowned musician. He said I had to go to New York. It seemed like fate tapping at the window, so I went." The album Leave On The Lights was recorded during Hall's three months in New York period, Hall stepped through ankle-deep snow from a barely-converted Brooklyn warehouse where he was staying. The album was recorded at Soundscribe Studios on Broadway, with musicians like guitarist Thad DeBrock (Aimee Mann), drummer John Clancy and bassist Malcolm Gold (Sheryl Crow, Garth Hudson), Cuban percussion avatar Marvin Diz and keyboardist Daniel Mintseris, who has worked with the likes of Teddy Thompson and Marianne Faithfull. Given the calibre of Hall's songs and the pedigree of the musicians brought together by producer Mantilla, it's no wonder the album sounds as alive and warm as it does. From the suffocated static that announces the opener 'On The Radio' or the gentle swirl of backwards guitars that introduces the protagonist of 'Broken Mirrors' - 'You say you like broken mirrors/they make you look just how you feel'. "This album is all about love going right, love gone wrong and love some place in the middle," explains Hall. "It freezes moments in time that we can all relate to. I guess the title Leave on the Lights is about hope, a bit of a reaction to the beige PC world we could easily become. And, of course, sex."- Shop: odax
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