Showing posts with label steely dan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steely dan. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
TOMITA LAB
"Placebo C'est Si Bon" (feat. Yukihiro Takahashi & Taeko Onuki)
I'm really becoming addicted to this guy's stuff. He's a producer who brings in guest vocalists to float atop his immaculate arrangements. A lot of them are lush '70s pop, but then other tracks are pure Donald Fagen worship, like this one. It's from his second album, Shiplaunching, the only one of his three discs to date that I don't have. I need it.
I'm really becoming addicted to this guy's stuff. He's a producer who brings in guest vocalists to float atop his immaculate arrangements. A lot of them are lush '70s pop, but then other tracks are pure Donald Fagen worship, like this one. It's from his second album, Shiplaunching, the only one of his three discs to date that I don't have. I need it.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
HOW NOT TO MAKE ME LISTEN TO YOUR RECORD
Got a CD called Seahorse and the Storyteller, by Michael Leonhart and the Avramina 7, in today's mail. Here are the two paragraphs from the press release that nearly caused me to hurl the CD the length of the post office:
While on the road with Steely Dan in 2005, Leonhart came up with the idea to record a concept record that would meld the styles of Bollywood funk scores, '60s psychedelic rock, and the mythical storytelling of artists like the Beatles and Donovan. Seahorse and the Storyteller is a modern kaleidoscopic opera that in the words of Leonhart, "tells the story of two mythical creatures who meet, fall in love and begin piecing together the mysteries of each other's past."
Seahorse and the Storyteller is a record that defines genre generalizations and will prove to be one of the most enjoyable and interesting records of 2010. With quirky arrangements featuring strings, mellotron, fuzz guitar, horns, vibes, farfisa, gang vocals, and practically every percussion instrument under the sun, Michael Leonhart & The Avramina 7 have created a new and unique sound that heavily draws influence from artists like R.D Burman, The Beatles, Fela Kuti, and 60's psychedelic but manages to sound completely fresh and new and like nothing else out there.
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I would seriously rather have a lit match stubbed out on my eyelid than listen to this album.
While on the road with Steely Dan in 2005, Leonhart came up with the idea to record a concept record that would meld the styles of Bollywood funk scores, '60s psychedelic rock, and the mythical storytelling of artists like the Beatles and Donovan. Seahorse and the Storyteller is a modern kaleidoscopic opera that in the words of Leonhart, "tells the story of two mythical creatures who meet, fall in love and begin piecing together the mysteries of each other's past."
Seahorse and the Storyteller is a record that defines genre generalizations and will prove to be one of the most enjoyable and interesting records of 2010. With quirky arrangements featuring strings, mellotron, fuzz guitar, horns, vibes, farfisa, gang vocals, and practically every percussion instrument under the sun, Michael Leonhart & The Avramina 7 have created a new and unique sound that heavily draws influence from artists like R.D Burman, The Beatles, Fela Kuti, and 60's psychedelic but manages to sound completely fresh and new and like nothing else out there.
[Grammatical and punctuation errors, inconsistent capitalization, etc., all in original.]
I would seriously rather have a lit match stubbed out on my eyelid than listen to this album.
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