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Blue Canoe Records – Look What The Cats Drug In

By Suman Sinha | Published: June 23, 2012

Or, The Modern Jazz Stylings of Blue Canoe Records Volume 1 – Look What The Cats Drug In, as the full name of this album goes, is a compilation of some contemporary jazz tracks by an independent record label from Atlanta, USA. This album has been licensed under Creative Commons thankfully, which is a great thing because it has helped us discover some absolute preciousness! For example the Saltman Knowles Quintet! The kernel of this quintet comprises of bassist Mark Saltman and pianist William Knowles and they are “known for serving up melodically alluring while rhythmically infectious music with a sincere and emotional collection of songs”. What About April, which is featured on this compilation is a fine example. This

Posted in Listen | Tagged Bob Marbach, Bryan Lopes Trio, Dan Baraszu, E.M.P. Project, EJ Hughes, Eugene Maslov, Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, Ron Westray, Saltman Knowles Quintet, Thomas Heflin | Genre: Fusion Jazz, Jazz, Light Jazz | Leave a comment

All Mankind – Break The Spell

By Suman Sinha | Published: June 22, 2012

All Mankind is an Australian band from Sydney who are currently based in the UK and is made up of Rich Beeston (vocals/piano), Dave Beeston (drums/backing vocals), Gavin Perkins (bass) and Dorny (guitar). Their single Break The Spell is a lively pop anthem with an urgent, driven rhythm and some delicate melodies, which should get most people hooked at first listen. Think U2 in the 80s, think the album War, think New Year’s Day – you get the picture. Love the number? Go support the band – buy their debut album. All Mankind – Break The Spell Website Facebook Twitter MySpace Buy

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Mynta – Meetings in India

By Suman Sinha | Published: February 22, 2012

Mynta, Swedish for mint, are veterans in the world of Music. Having started out in 1979 as primarily a blues, jazz, latin band they slowly turned to fusion and jazz rock in the 80-s. And then in 1987 on a tour of India they met Fazal Qureshi, the son of the illustrious Alla Rakha and the brother of Zakir Hussain. This meeting completely changed their Music into ‘A fusion of Nordic ice and Indian spice’. To quote from their website, Mynta’s music is “a lovely mix of Indian classical, African and Latin-American rhythms, Arabic sounds and Scandinavian Folk Tradition”. Quite eclectic! Their last album Meetings in India was released in 2009 and presented below are some of the tracks off

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The Great Indian Rock V

By Suman Sinha | Published: December 6, 2011

We have earlier featured the first 4 volumes of The Great Indian Rock – the annual compilation of the best of the underground Rock scene in India. And now we would like to present Vol. 5 of the series. This volume included the usual suspects – Orange Street and Parikrama – trusted veterans of the scene and also second-timers Envision and Ashtoreth. The rest of the bands were on their maiden appearance. This also marked the advent of Zero on the scene. They would of course go on to be arguably, one of the most popular bands in subsequent years and their guitarist Warren Mendonsa, whose Music has been posted here before, would become something of a legend in Rock

Also posted in Featured | Tagged Aatma, Ashtoreth, Bombay Black, Cadenza, Envision, Orange Street, Parikrama, Voices, Zero | Genre: Classic Rock, Metal, Rock | 2 Responses

Freeky Cleen & Dickey F – Double Feature

By Suman Sinha | Published: December 5, 2011

“What else should I be, All apologies…” For suddenly doing the disappearing act on AI. Fact is, a momentous event took place in the interim – the birth of my son! And I can see all of you who have gone through above-mentioned trauma nodding your heads quietly in sympathy! Nah, who am I kidding! It was and has been and will be I’m sure, amazing. But there have been myriad adjustments here and there and am still settling down into this new phase of life. Which explains the long absence. To mark the comeback, I have hand-picked a very special sound. It’s a very Bluesy kind of Rock or Rock-tinged Blues and it comes from a collaboration from the

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Category Archives: Listen

Blue Canoe Records – Look What The Cats Drug In

All Mankind – Break The Spell

Mynta – Meetings in India

The Great Indian Rock V

Freeky Cleen & Dickey F – Double Feature