Mehldau is American jazz pianist who plays original compositions, jazz standards and jazz arrangements of popular music, having a particular liking for the music of Radiohead, Nick Drake and The Beatles. Mehldau has a distinct talent for transforming these 'Rock' songs in such a way that they sound as if they were Jazz Standards in the first place. He is best known as leader of the Brad Mehldau Trio, with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummers Jorge Rossy and Jeff Ballard.
He will be on tour across Europe next month and I'm really looking forward to Sunday's concert here in Prague.
tour dates: 11/1 | Jazznojazz Festival Kaufleuten | Zurich, Switzerland(Solo) 11/2 | Teatro Eden | Treviso, Italy (Solo) 11/3 | Auditorium Comunale | Pagnacco, Italy (Solo) 11/5 | Dvorak Hall of Rudolfinum | Prague, Czech Republic (Solo) 11/6 | Auditorium - Parco Della Musica | Rome, Italy (Solo) 11/7 | Teatro Comunale di Ferrara | Ferrara, Italy (Solo) 11/8 | Theatro Augusteo | Napoli, Italy 11/9 | Impart Arts Center, Wroclaw, Poland (Solo) 12/11 | Audiitori de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain
Aktionskammarn is the outstanding full length debut from Gothensburg, Sweden based duo Fontän (Jesper Jarold and Johan Melin). As cherry on top featuring the aired vocal star Sarah Assbring (aka El Perro Del Mar). Fontän intriguingly blends a progressive electronica and 8-bit analogue synths with an accoustic instrumentation and gentle vocals. Perhaps it seems a little queer but it works! Aktionskammarn runs the gamut from happy to sad and back again however it's always fresh. Their music is once poppy (Gone Fishing) next time fluffy cinematic (Alla Kan Se Dig) and at the end you can looking forward to post-rock fireworks (The Ship). Do you think it is not enough? I do and highly recommend!
Tracklist: 1. The Bird [5:15] | 2. Florida Towers [3:50] | 3. Alla Kan Se Dig [5:48] | 4. Gärdebylåten [0:30] | 5. Beautiful Bastards [4:11] | 6. You, Me & A Tree [7:28] | 7. Lie to… [2:43] | 8. …You [3:28] | 9. Blueberry And Raspberry [1:49] | 10. Lesbian Girls [3:52] | 11. Soltemperatur [0:34] | 12. Gone Fishing [3:05] | 13. Barentsburg [4:59] | 14. The Ship [12:50] Total time: 60m29s
Do you like string orchestral soundtracks and a dark cinamatic sound? Do you also like an ambient electronica and an atmospheric noir feeling? And do you like a harp in music? If all your answers are "yes" so the album Coins & Crosses from young British elecroacoustic composer Ryan Teague is the right stuff for you.The album with roots in early sacred music and mysticism features a 24 piece String Orchestra performed by the Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Tim Redmond as well as acclaimed harpist Rhodri Davies. This stunning music is a perfect soundtrack for your imagined film which you dream of in deep your mind. I highly recommend!
Good news from Efterklang newsletter (October 01, 2006):
Originally the plan was to release a new EP here in October, but this has now been changed to a mini-album with 5 new songs and almost 30 minutes of new Efterklang music! The release date has also been changed. We have just finished the mini-album so this means it will be released early 2007. The title is "Under Giant Trees" and we look forward to share this music with you!
We are now taking a short breather, but very soon we will return to our studio to continue the work on our new full lenght album that also will be released in 2007. The full lenght album and "Under Giant Trees" will not share any songs in the tracklists so there is a lot of new Efterklang music coming your way in 2007!
On the picture here you see Casper, Mads and Rasmus with the brand new master after a night with no sleep and a lot of mixing ...
I can't wait to see new mini-album and of course brand new full lenght album in 2007! It will be very good year for Efterlang fans!
The debut of the Copenhagen-based collective Efterklang (reverberation, or perhaps echo) called Tripper is simply beautiful. They combine glitch electronica with epic-sound strings and wonderful etheric vocals in atmospheric, cinematic and very delicate music. Immediate comparations come to mind: múm and especially Björk and Matmos because of clicks 'n' cuts sounds but I rather like my own term "microbeats" ;-).
This is headphone album for calm and silent nights.
I haven't seen Little Miss Sunshinemovie yet but I'm looking forward to so much. And there is a couple of laconic words about it from Wikipedia: (yes, i'm so lazy to write something more jucy :p)
Mehldau is American jazz pianist who plays original compositions, jazz standards and jazz arrangements of popular music, having a particular liking for the music of Radiohead, Nick Drake and The Beatles. Mehldau has a distinct talent for transforming these 'Rock' songs in such a way that they sound as if they were Jazz Standards in the first place. He is best known as leader of the Brad Mehldau Trio, with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummers Jorge Rossy and Jeff Ballard.
