JAZZ CORNER Presents: Stanley Turrentine – A Bluish Bag (2007)
Recording in an endless variety of forms and genres, here, we find Stanley Turrentine creating a template for Blue Note Records, ushering a style known as Soul Jazz...
George Harrison: Soul Man Vol. 1 by John Blaney review
George Harrison: Soul Man Vol. 1 By John Blaney Mega Dodo/Paper Jukebox In his introduction, author Blaney explains that this book is...
Magic Castles – ‘Starflower’ (2015)
Nearly three years ago, even with the help of Anton Newton [Brian Jamestown Massacre], or perhaps because of it, Magic Castles were nearly written off and doomed to...
Gasoline
Gasoline story began in the late '90s as a one-man recording project. Mastermind behind fairly unique instrumental Hip-Hop is Yoann Letard (known also as Monsieur X). In 2002 he...
Robbie The Werewolf – At The Waleback (1964) review
Robbie The Werewolf "At The Waleback" (Gear Fab Records, 1964/2016) Although the weird and wonderful prevails at "It's Psychedelic Baby," few albums are odder than this strange slab...
Atomic Simao – Nodo (2014) review
Atomic Simao - Nodo (Cosmic Eye Records, 2014) Listen: https://atomicsimao.bandcamp.com/album/n-do Another excellent Cosmic Eye release, Atomic Simao's "Nodo" lifts off into space in the smoke-filled jam of the orgasmic...
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Dexter Gordon – Gettin’ Around (1966)
The proof that one can have a presence in jazz without being muscular is Dexter Gordon; especially so on “Gettin’ Around.” Of course there are those, and rightly...
Prophets of Saturn
Prophets of Saturn are four dudes from Leicester, England. Although they might have some vision, their music is mostly soaked in dirty and sheer retro psychedelic stoner/doom as...
Ogre
If you long for times that passed, if you like both good hard rocking riffs and sci-fi stories, if you dig into such blends as combination of traditional...
The Bleu Forest
THE BLEU FOREST- A thousand trees deep (USA 1968) http://www.goldenpavilion.org/ USA produced such a vast variety of garage bands, that were highly influenced by major known bands of...