Dippin' - Hank Mobley

Rating: 6/10
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Record Label: Blue Note
Year Released: 1965
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About Hank Mobley

Henry (Hank) Mobley (July 7, 1930 – May 30, 1986) was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz. This description suggested to some that Mobley was mediocre; and, as his style was laid-back, subtle and melodic, especially in contrast with players like Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, it took connoisseurs until after his demise to fully appreciate his talent.

Mobley was born in Eastman, Georgia, but was raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, near Newark. Early in his career, he worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach. He took part in one of the landmark hard bop sessions, alongside Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and trumpeter Kenny Dorham. The results of these sessions were released as Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers. They contrasted with the classical pretensions of cool jazz, with Mobley's rich lyricism being bluesier, alongside the funky approach of Horace Silver. When The Jazz Messengers split in 1956, Mobley continued on with pianist Horace Silver for a short time, although he did work again with Blakey some years later, when the drummer appeared on Mobley's albums in the early 60s.

During the 1960s, he worked chiefly as a leader, recording 25 albums for Blue Note Records, including Soul Station and Roll Call, between 1955 and 1970. He performed with many of the most important hard bop players, such as Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Clark, Wynton Kelly and Philly Joe Jones, and formed a particularly productive partnership with trumpeter Lee Morgan. Mobley is widely recognized as one of the great composers of originals in the hard-bop era, with interesting chord changes and room for soloists to spread out.

His 1961 album, Another Workout, while considered an instant classic, was inexplicably not released until 1985.

Mobley also spent a brief time in 1961 with Miles Davis, during the trumpeter's search for a replacement for John Coltrane. He is heard on the album Someday My Prince Will Come (alongside Coltrane, who returned for the recording of some tracks), and some live recordings (In Person: Live at the Blackhawk and At Carnegie Hall). Though considered by some as not having the improvisational fire of Coltrane, Mobley was still a major voice on tenor saxophone, known for his melodic playing.

Mobley was forced to retire in the mid-1970s due to lung problems. He worked briefly with Duke Jordan before his death from pneumonia in 1986.

Giblet Gravy - George Benson

Rating: 5.5/10
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Record Label: Verve
Year Released: 1968
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About George Benson
George Benson (b. March 22, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me (One More Time)", "Turn Your Love Around","Inside Love(So Personal)", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among others.

Beyond The Blue Horizon - George Benson

Rating: 5/10
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Record Label: CTI
Year Released: 1971
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About George Benson
George Benson (b. March 22, 1943, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is however, better known to the public at large as a Pop and R&B singer, famous for such hits as "Give Me the Night", "Lady Love Me (One More Time)", "Turn Your Love Around","Inside Love(So Personal)", "In Your Eyes", and "This Masquerade", among others.

The Collection - Solomon Burke

Rating: 5/10
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Record Label: Spectrum
Year Released: 2004
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About Solomon Burke

Solomon Burke (born March 21, 1940) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter. During the half-century that he has performed, he has drawn from his roots: gospel, soul, and blues, as well as developing his own style in a time when R&B, and rock were still in their infancy. Burke is revered by some of the most respected big acts as a pioneer and member of the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Best Of Tony Joe White - Tony Joe White

Rating: 5.5/10
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Record Label: Warner
Year Released: 1993
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About Tony Joe White

Tony Joe White (born July 23, 1943, Oak Grove, Louisiana) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie", and for "Rainy Night in Georgia" which he wrote but was firstly made popular by Brook Benton, and "Steamy Windows" - a hit for Tina Turner in 1989. "Polk Salad Annie" was also recorded by Elvis Presley. Nicknamed "the Swamp Fox" in France (according to a European documentary), he is regarded as an original exponent of the sub-genre swamp rock. His songs have been recorded by at least 25 major artists.

Lookin' Out - Terry Callier

Rating: 5.5/10
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Record Label: Mr Bongo
Year Released: 2004
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About Terry Callier

Terry Callier (born 24 May 1945) is an American jazz, soul and folk guitarist singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois.Callier, a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, began recording in 1963 but never reached stardom despite a series of regional hits in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1983, he gained custody of his 12-year-old daughter Sundiata and decided to retire from music to look for a steadier income. He took classes in computer programming and landed a job at the University of Chicago in 1984. He reemerged from obscurity when British DJs discovered his old recordings and began to play his songs in clubs in the late 1980s. Acid Jazz Records head Eddie Piller brought Callier to play clubs in Britain beginning in 1991 and he began to make regular trips to play gigs during his vacation time from work. In the late 90s Callier began his comeback to recorded music, contributing to Beth Orton's Best Bit EP in 1997 and releasing the album Timepeace in 1998, which won the United Nations' Time For Peace award for outstanding artistic achievement contributing to world peace. Curiously, his colleagues at the University of Chicago never learned of Callier's life as a musician, but after the award the news of his secret life became widely known and subsequently led to his firing.Callier today is continuing his recording career having currently released five albums since Timepeace. Summer 2008 will see his latest album "Hidden Conversations" featuring Massive Attack released on Mr Bongo records.

Black And Blue & Tobacco Road - Lou Rawls

Rating: 5.5/10
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Record Label: Capitol Jazz
Year Released: 2006
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About Loy Rawls
Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game". Rawls released more than 70 albums, sold more than 40 million records, appeared as an actor in motion pictures and on television, and voiced-over many cartoons. He had been called "The Funkiest Man Alive".

Foreign Affairs - Tom Waits

Rating: 5/10
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Record Label: Elektra
Year Released: 1977
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About Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including The Fisher King, Coffee & Cigarettes, Down by Law, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wristcutters: A Love Story, and Short Cuts. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.

Lyrically, Waits' songs contain atmospheric portrayals of bizarre, seedy characters and places, although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists—for example, "Jersey Girl," performed by Bruce Springsteen; "Downtown Train" and "Tom Traubert's Blues" performed by Rod Stewart; and "Ol' '55," performed by the Eagles. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.

Waits currently lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife and their three children.

Tiny Voices - Joe Henry

Rating: 8/10
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Record Label: ANTI
Year Released: 2003
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About Joe Henry

Henry's first albums, including "Talk of Heaven" (1986) and "Murder of Crows" (1989), introduced his facility for songwriting but tended to be overburdened by their production values; they passed into obscurity after attracting some mainstream and industry attention. His sound, which thereafter has avoided easy pigeonholes, then veered toward what was then emerging as "alt country". This period's emblematic artifacts are the critically noted "Short Man's Room" (1992) and "Kindness of the World" (1993), which shared members of the country-rock band the Jayhawks.

1996's Trampoline, his sixth LP, began to explore the stylistic dynamism that has characterized his later albums. "Trampoline" employed metal guitarist Page Hamilton (who demonstrated his own eagerness to stretch by collaborating on the album) and created a breadth of style one reviewer called "idiosyncratic broadmindedness". Fuse (1999) continued Henry's experimentalism with its trip hop shadings. One review of the album states that Fuse has "real weight, emotion and beauty that is both unmistakable and unforgettable". Scar, released in 2001, was seen as a breakthrough: Henry's evocative songs had only traces of his early career's country sound, and the band on the record consisted mainly of jazz musicians (Marc Ribot, Brian Blade and Brad Mehldau among others), including an appearance by saxophonist Ornette Coleman—in a very rare cameo—who steals the show on "Richard Pryor Addresses A Tearful Nation."

Scar earned very positive reviews, including one by Allmusic's Thom Jurek, who wrote that Henry "has moved into a space that only he and Tom Waits inhabit in that they are songwriters who have created deep archetypal characters that are composites—metaphorical, allegorical, and 'real'—of the world around them and have created new sonic universes for them to both explore and express themselves in. Scar is a triumph not only for Henry—who has set a new watermark for himself—but for American popular music, which so desperately needed something else to make it sing again." In 2001, Henry sang on the song "Alleluia" from Julia Fordham's album, Concrete Love.

2003's self-produced Tiny Voices, his first on Epitaph's Anti label, inspired more praise from reviewers. Reviewer Jurek described the album as "the sound of Hemingway contemplating the Cuban Revolution with William Gaddis, the sound of Buddy DeFranco and Jimmy Giuffre trying to talk to Miles Davis about electric guitars in an abandoned yet fully furnished Tiki bar in Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles."

Henry produced Teddy Thompson's 2000 album Teddy Thompson, a critically acclaimed album from the son of British folk legends, Linda Thompson and Richard Thompson. Henry also produced Solomon Burke's 2002 album Don't Give Up On Me, which won Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 2003 Grammy Awards. 2005 releases produced by Henry include Ani DiFranco's Knuckle Down, Aimee Mann's 1970s concept album The Forgotten Arm, and Bettye LaVette's I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. He also produced the multi-artist album I Believe to My Soul, which featured Allen Toussaint, Mavis Staples, Ann Peebles, Irma Thomas and Billy Preston. In 2006, Henry teamed with Toussaint, producing his collaborative album with Elvis Costello, The River in Reverse.

In September 2006, Joe Henry and his longtime hero Loudon Wainwright III began composing the music for the Judd Apatow movie Knocked Up. Snippets of instrumentals were used as background score for the film, but the full versions of the songs make up Wainwright's 2007 album Strange Weirdos. Henry produced Mary Gauthier's 2007 album Between Daylight and Dark. Joe Henry's 10th LP, "Civilians," was released in 2007 on the Anti label. The song "God Only Knows," the final track on the album, was used in a "TCM Remembers 2008" TV spot, a video memoriam of actors who have passed away in 2008.

Nixon - Lambchop

Rating: 6/10
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Record Label: Merge Records
Year Released: 2000
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Nixon is a 2000 album by Lambchop. The album was a critical and commercial breakthrough for the band, especially in the United Kingdom where it polled highly in several year end polls in music magazines, among them Uncut magazine. The song Up with People was subsequently remixed by Zero 7. The sleeve is a painting by Wayne White, a childhood friend of Kurt Wagner who also provided cover art for Thriller, Aw Cmon and No You Cmon by the band.

About Lambchop

Lambchop, originally Posterchild, is a band from Nashville, Tennessee. Lambchop is loosely associated with the alternative country genre, though its music resists easy classification. The music website Allmusic refers to them as "arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s". Never a band with a "core" lineup, Lambchop through the years has consisted of a large and fluid collective of musicians focused around its creative centre, frontman Kurt Wagner. Initially indebted to traditional country, the music has subsequently moved through a range of influences including post-rock, soul and lounge music. Whatever the style, the characteristic mood of Lambchop's music is evoked by Wagner's distinctive songwriting - lyrically subtle and ambiguous, the vocals melodic but understated. Setting this apart from other minimalist songwriters is the large group of backing musicians, with the range of instruments and styles that it brings. Wagner's songwriting bears similarities with soul musicians such as Barry White, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye as much as with country and folk music, and can be seen to embody Kris Kristofferson’s dictum that “country music is the white man’s soul”.

Out Of Season - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man

Rating: 7.5/10
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Record Label: Go Beat
Year Released: 2002
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Out of Season is an album by Portishead frontwoman Beth Gibbons and former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb (under the pseudonym Rustin Man). It was released in 2002 in the United Kingdom and in 2003 in the U.S. Out of Season is largely a folk album with jazz leanings, with Gibbons and Webb drawing more directly on the influences of Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Nick Drake that Portishead's work in trip-hop only hinted at. Out of Season also features contributions from Gibbon's fellow Portishead bandmate Adrian Utley. The first track of the album, "Mysteries", appears on the original soundtrack of the French movie Les Poupées Russes (The Russian Dolls). Among the notable lyrical references, "Tom the Model" references Nina Simone's "Do what you gotta do", while "Spider Monkey" references Drake's "Fruit Tree". "Drake" also appears to borrow its unusual time signature from Drake's "River Man".

About Beth Gibbons

Beth Gibbons (born 4 January 1965, in Exeter, Devon) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist for English band Portishead.

The Dead Christmas Spirit

Άντε να τελειώνουμε με το πνεύμα των χριστουγέννων και τον "αναψυκτικό άγιο"...
Αρκετά γνωστά και το video αλλά και η photo.
Tα ποστάρω όμως:
...γιατί μου τη δίνουν τα χριστούγεννα κι η πρωτοχρονιά
...για όσους δεν τα έχουν δει
...και για όσους επιμένουν στη γιορτινή θαλπωρή

Όχι τίποτ’ άλλο δηλαδή, αλλά δε γουστάρω τις πρωτοπορίες, ρε αδερφέ!
Ακόμα κι υπαρκτό πρόσωπο να ήταν ο Τζιζ-ass, ο super star...
γιατί, αγόρι μου, να συλληφθείς με κρίνο, να γεννηθείς σε φάτνη, να ξεποδαριαστούνε για σένα οι copperfield της εποχής και να τρελαθούν τα αστέρια, ε?
'Αμα είσαι μάγκας και καραμπουζουκλής, να συλληφθείς από δύο μικροαστούς που μένουν σε δυάρι στα Σεπόλια, να γεννηθείς σε δημόσιο νοσοκομείο, που θα είναι και εφημερία παρακαλώ, χωρίς καισαρική γιατί δεν σου καλύπτει τα έξοδα το Ι.Κ.Α, καθώς η μάνα σου είναι από τα Ιεροσόλυμα και έχει μπει παράνομα στη χώρα, και στο τέλος να έρθουν οι "μπαρμπάδες με τα δώρα" και να σου φέρουν αυτές τις ξενέρωτες πλαστικές αηδίες του jumbo...
Εκεί να σε δω.

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Real Gone -Tom Waits

Rating: 6.5/10
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Record Label: ANTI
Year Released: 2004
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Real Gone is an album by Tom Waits, released October 3, 2004 in Europe, and October 5 in USA on the Epitaph Records sub-label ANTI-. The album features some of the few political songs Waits has ever written. The most explicit being "Day After Tomorrow" which Waits has described as an "elliptical" protest against the Iraq War. It is also the first Waits album with no piano. The album was supported by the Real Gone Tour, playing sold out locations in North America and Europe in October and November 2004. It was chosen by the editors of Harp Magazine as the best album of 2004.

About Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including The Fisher King, Coffee & Cigarettes, Down by Law, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wristcutters: A Love Story, and Short Cuts. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.

Lyrically, Waits' songs contain atmospheric portrayals of bizarre, seedy characters and places, although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known to the general public in the form of cover versions by more visible artists—for example, "Jersey Girl," performed by Bruce Springsteen; "Downtown Train" and "Tom Traubert's Blues" performed by Rod Stewart; and "Ol' '55," performed by the Eagles. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations.

Waits currently lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife and their three children.

News From Dada! 24.Dec.08

"Κι αφού ρίμα με τίποτα δεν κάνει το σιφόνι...
μπάτσοι γουρούνια δολοφόνοι"

Ώτα μου διαπλανητικά, από τις επάλξεις της ένοπλης ποιοτικής ποίησης σας χαιρετώ και
σας ποστάρω τον Fela Kuti που υποσχέθηκα την προηγούμενη βδομάδα.

Live In Amsterdam - Fela Kuti & Egypt 80

Rating: 5.5/10
Sound Quality: 192 kb/s
Format: Mp3
Record Label: Wrasse Records
Year Released: 1983
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About Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.HMV ranked him #46 on a list of the top-100 most influential musicians of the 20th century.

Amore Del Tropico - The Black Heart Procession

Rating: 8.5/10
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Record Label: Touch & Go Records
Year Released: 2002
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Note From Dada!

Όταν πριν από περίπου 6 χρόνια "παρέλασαν" στα αυτιά μου ετούτες οι καρδιές - οι μαύρες, οι κατράμι, οι "ταμ ταμ ταμ" - κάθε άλλο παρά "μαυρίλα" μου φέρανε, καθώς ήταν μια όαση για τα μουσικά δεδομένα της εποχής. Ναι μεν ένα "σκοτεινό" και εσωστρεφές δισκάκι, σίγουρα όμως ένα από τα πιο ολοκληρωμένα και ωραία album του είδους αλλά και της ίδιας της μπάντας.

About The Black Heart Procession

The Black Heart Procession (occasionally spelled The Blackheart Procession) is an indie rock band from San Diego, California. The band was formed in 1997 by Pall Jenkins (member of Mr. Tube and the Flying Objects and the short-lived Ugly Casanova) and Tobias Nathaniel (both members of the band Three Mile Pilot). The group is often augmented by the contributions of Mario Rubalcaba, Jason Crane, Joe Plummer, Dimitri Dziensuwski and Jimmy LaValle. The band are set to return in late 2008 with appearances at the UK All Tomorrow's Parties festival, where they were invited to perform by curators the Melvins, and with European dates including London.

Pieces Of A Man - Gil Scott Heron

Rating: 5/10
Sound Quality: 228 kb/s
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Record Label: Flying Dutchman/RCA
Year Released: 1971
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Note From Dada!
Εδώ βρίσκεται η πιο γνωστή εκτέλεση του "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" που ανέβηκε κι ως ξεχωριστό track πριν από δύο αναρτήσεις.

About Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949) is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. The music of these albums, most notably Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". On his influence, a music writer later noted that "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists".

A New Black Poet Gil Scott-Heron - Small Talk At 125th And Lenox

Rating: 6/10
Sound Quality: 320 kb/s
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Record Label: Flying Dutchman/RCA
Year Released: 1970
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Το δισκάκι του Gil Scott Heron που υποσχέθηκα χθες. Ένα από τα πιο πολιτικά άλμπουμ που έχουν γραφτεί, συνδέδεμένο άρρηκτα με τους αγώνες των μαύρων της Αμερικής τη δεκαετία του '70. Επίσης δίσκος ορόσημο των spoken words album και αφετηρία για τα μετέπειτα μουσικά παρακλάδια της rap, της hip hop και άλλων ειδών μουσικής.

About the Album

A New Black Poet - Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, commonly referred to as Small Talk at 125th & Lenox, is the debut album of soul poet Gil Scott-Heron, released in 1970 on Flying Dutchman Records. Recording sessions for the album took place live at a New York nightclub on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. By the time of the recordings, Scott-Heron had published a volume of poetry and his first novel, The Vulture.

About Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949) is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. The music of these albums, most notably Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". On his influence, a music writer later noted that "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists".

Burning 'n' Looting Tonight

News From Dada!
17.Dec.08

Note From Dada!
Κουκουλοφόρα ώτα μου σας βάζω Fela Kuti
μην ξεχαστούν οι μύτες σας πως μύρισαν μπαρούτι
σας βάζω και Gil Scott Heron να σας θυμίσει πως : κι ετούτη
"η επανάσταση δεν θα μεταδοθεί από το χαζοκούτι"

«Q» thanks for the photo.
«Tsouv» thanks for the video.

You Gimme Shit, I give you Shit - Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Download Track)
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott Heron (Download Track)






Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Lyrics)
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

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About Fela Anikulapo Kuti

Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.HMV ranked him #46 on a list of the top-100 most influential musicians of the 20th century.

About Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949) is an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. The music of these albums, most notably Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". On his influence, a music writer later noted that "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists".

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ΥΓ. To "You Gimme Shit, I give you Shit" του Fela Kuti είναι από το δίσκο του "Live In Amsterdam" (1983) και το "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" του Gil Scott Ηeron είναι από το ντεμπούτο album του "Small Talk at 125th & Lenox" (1970) εδώ σε μία μεταγενέστερη διασκευή από το album του "Pieces Of A Man" (1971).
Σύντομα και ολόκληροι οι δίσκοι.

Felt Mountain - Goldfrapp

Rating: 7/10
Sound Quality: 320 kb/s
Format: Mp3
Album Covers: Included
Record Label: Mute
Year Released: 2000
Pass: radiodada
Links: rapidshare (Album), rapidshare (Album Covers)

Note From Dada!

Αν το Twin Peaks του David Lynch γινόταν μουσική (εξαιρώντας το πολύ καλό soundtrack του Angelo Badalamenti) νομίζω ότι αυτός ο δίσκος ακόμα και απο τον τίτλο του καλύπτει απόλυτα αυτή την εκδοχή. Όπως και να χει πρόκειται κατά τη γνώμη μου (που δεν είναι ταπεινή, γιατί να είναι άλλωστε ...?) για ένα πολύ "πρωτότυπο" και ιδιαίτερο δισκάκι που ακροβατεί ανάμεσα σε electronica και ρετρό διαθέσεις.

About Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp is a British electronic music group known for their visual theatrics and contribution to the popularization of electronic dance music. The band was formed in 1999 in London, England, and consists of Alison Goldfrapp (vocals/synthesizer) and Will Gregory (synthesizer).

Despite favourable reviews and a shortlisting for the Mercury Prize, the ambient sound of their 2000 debut album Felt Mountain was a commercial failure. Goldfrapp's second album Black Cherry, which incorporated electroclash sounds into their music, was released in 2003. The album experienced success across nightclubs in North America and influenced the same electroclash experience of their third album Supernature. Supernature took Goldfrapp's work further into electroclash music, and enjoyed international chart success. Supernature produced three number one US dance singles, and was nominated for "Best Electronic/Dance Album" at the 49th Grammy Awards. Their most recent album, Seventh Tree, was released in 2008.

About the Album
Goldfrapp's debut album Felt Mountain was released in September 2000 and featured the singles "Lovely Head", "Utopia", "Pilots (On a Star)" and "Human". The album featured Alison Goldfrapp's synthesized vocals over cinematic soundscapes and is influenced by a variety of music styles including cabaret, folk, and electronic music. The album was well received by music critics, described as "simultaneously smarmy and seductive, yet elegant and graceful". It reached number fifty-seven on the UK albums chart, and was certified gold. In 2001, Felt Mountain was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best British or Irish album from the previous year.

The lyrics on Felt Mountain were written by Alison Goldfrapp and are abstract obsessional tales inspired by films, her childhood, and the loneliness she felt while recording the album. The song "Oompa Radar" was inspired by Roman Polanski's film Cul-de-Sac, while "Pilots", which describes travelers floating in the atmosphere above the earth, was inspired by John Barry's James Bond theme songs.

To promote Felt Mountain, Goldfrapp toured the UK, Europe and North America, supporting the alternative music bands Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Doves. The band found it difficult to perform songs from the album live because of their complex arrangements which required up to forty musicians. They eventually settled on performing with violinist Davide Rossi, drummer Rowan Oliver and keyboardist Andy Davies. However, Gregory was unhappy with this arrangement, wanting to remain as close to the sound of the album as possible.

Amnesiac - Radiohead

Rating: 8/10
Sound Quality: 320 kb/s
Format: Mp3
Record Label: Parlohpone
Year Released: 2001
Album Covers: Included
Pass: radiodada
Links: rapidshare

Note From Dada!

Με αυτά τα "ραδιόπληκτα κεφάλια" θα ασχοληθώ επισταμένως κάποια άλλη στιγμή - όχι τόσο για τη μουσική τους που την θεωρώ εξαιρετική, αλλά για την "εναλλακτική" τους στάση ως μπάντα. Όπως και να 'χει εδώ βρίσκεται ένα από τα καλύτερα album τους και μία από τις πιο ωραίες περιπτώσεις ανάμιξης της alternative rock σκηνής με την electronica.

About Radiohead

Radiohead are an English alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, electronics), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, other instruments), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar, synthesisers), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion). Radiohead achieved international popularity in the late 1990s and have sold approximately 30 million albums as of 2008.

Radiohead released their first single, "Creep", in 1992. Their debut album, Pablo Honey, followed in 1993. "Creep" was initially unsuccessful, but the song became a worldwide hit when reissued a year later. Radiohead's popularity in the United Kingdom increased with the release of their second album, The Bends (1995). The band's textured guitar parts and Yorke's falsetto singing were warmly received by critics and fans. Radiohead's third album, OK Computer (1997), propelled the band to greater fame worldwide. Featuring an expansive sound and themes of alienation from the modern world, OK Computer has often been acclaimed as a landmark record of the 1990s.

The release of Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001) saw Radiohead reach the peak of their popularity, while the albums divided critical opinion. This period marked a change in Radiohead's musical style, with their incorporation of avant-garde electronic music, Krautrock, post-punk and jazz influences. Hail to the Thief (2003), which mixed guitar-driven rock with electronics and lyrics inspired by headlines, was the band's final album for their major record label, EMI. Radiohead's seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), was first released independently as a digital download for which customers selected their own price, later meeting with critical and chart success.

Viaticum & Live In Berlin - Esbjorn Svensson Trio

Rating: 9/10
Sound Quality: 320 kb/s
Format: Mp3
Album Covers: Included
Record Label: ACT
Year Released: 2005
Pass: radiodada
Links: rapidshare (Viaticum Disc 1), rapidshare (Live In Berlin Disc 2), rapidshare (Album Covers)

Note From Dada!
Διαπλανητικά μου ώτα καλημέρα και καλό μήνα...
Πέρασε ο Νοέμβριος και έκανα ρεκόρ απουσίας...
Μην μου ανησυχείτε όμως.
Είμαι εδώ και κάνω upgrade στη σχέση μας... ή αλλιώς επιλύω τεχνικά ζητήματα του blog. Κάνω ποδαρικό για το μήνα με έναν καταπληκτικό δίσκο - που συνιστώ ανεπιφύλακτα...και επιστρέφω αμέσως!

About Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Esbjörn Svensson Trio (or E.S.T.) (formed 1993) was a Swedish jazz piano trio consisting of Esbjörn Svensson (piano), Dan Berglund (double bass) and Magnus Öström (drums). E.S.T were renowned for their vibrant style, often playing in rock venues to young crowds. They achieved great commercial success and critical acclaim throughout Europe. Their 1999 release From Gagarin's Point of View started their international breakthrough, being the first E.S.T. album to be released outside of Scandinavia through the German label ACT. Pianist Esbjörn Svensson died in a scuba diving accident on 14 June 2008. He is survived by his wife and two sons.