Playlist: 22nd Dec 2010

 

Black River – Trash [2010]

Genre: Hard Rock/Stoner/Heavy Metal

Country: Poland

Black River’s 3rd album RAWKS!

If i’m not wrong it contains 6 new tracks & 6 Live & Acoustic versions of old songs

 

 

Bloodhound Gang - Show Us Your Hits [2010]

Genre: Alternative Rock

Country: USA

Bloodhound Gang’s very 1st compilation album

 

 

 

 

Charlie Hunter - Public Domain [2010]

Genre: Fusion, Jazz

Country: USA

Great new album from the 8-string Jazz Master!

Mr. Big - What if... [2010]

Genre: Hard Rock

Country: USA

7th album from Mr. Big after 10-years hiatus!

My favorite track is “I won’t get in my way”, check it out!

Playlist: 27th November 2010

 

Buckethead - Captain EO's Voyage [2010]

Genre: Instrumental Guitar, Rock, Metal, Bluegrass, Jazz, Electronica

Country: USA

"Star Chasing" & "The Siphoning Sequence" are my favorite songs on this album.

 

 

 

Girl Talk – All Day [2010]

Genre: Mashup, Electronic

Country: USA

 Girl Talk’s 5th album great stuff!

 

 

 

 

Tommy Emmanuel – Little By Little [2010]

Genre: Folk, Rock, Blues, Country

Country: Australia

Master fingerpicker Tommy Emmanuel returns!

 

 

 

 

Yaron Herman Trio - Follow The White Rabbit [2010]

Genre: Jazz

Country: Israel

Contains Jazz renditions of Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box”& Radiohead’s”No Surprises”

 

 

 

Parov Stelar - The Paris Swing Box [2010]

Genre: Electro-Swing

Country: Austria

If you are looking for dance music that isn’t “cheesy”Parov Stelar might be it..

New CD Day! Lunarin [Duae] & Rudra [Brahmavidya: Transcendental I]

 

Bought my copy of Lunarin’s 2nd album Duae & Rudra’s 5th album Brahmavidya: Transcendental I from Gramophone yesterday.

Lunarin recorded Duae on their own from their home studio By The Woods, drum tracks recorded at Jurong West Street 65 (as stated in the booklet).

The album contains 12 songs.

I love their style of New Wave Metal, my favorite track Serpentine (Track 08) starts out sounding very much like something TOOL would play with the filtered vocals..but I must admit Linda Ong (Voice/Bass) sounds rather “whiney”on a few tracks.

 

There is a Thank You note enclosed in the CD which looks like it’s physically signed by the 3 members of the band.

 

 

 

 

Rudra’s Brahmavidya: Transcendental I  was recorded at Blackisle studios.

The album contains 14 songs.

Rudra has been around for 18-years since 1992, lineup for this album consists of:

{ Kathir (Voice/Bass), Shiva (Drums), Devan (Guitars), Selvam (Guitars) }

My favorite track in the album is Advaitamrta (Track 06)

I usually do not listen to a Rudra album from start to finish, I cant listen to Blast-Beats for too long as it is too noisy (LOL), strangely it feels great to play along to Blast-Beats during jamming at the studio maybe it’s the energy..?

 

Playlist: 28th October 2010

 

Angra – Aqua [2010]

 Genre: Progressive Power Metal

Country: Brazil

 “Aqua” is Angra’s 7th album, my favorite song after a couple listens is the 3rd track “Awake from Darkness”

Former drummer Ricardo Confessori (Shaman)returns to Angra following the departure of Aquiles Priester

 

Helios – Ayres (Instrumental) [2010]

 Genre: Ambient, Post-Rock

 Country: USA

This is a remastered instrumental version of Keith Kenniff’s 3rd album "Ayres".

I love the tracks “In Heaven” & “Signed I Wish You Well”

Beautiful album art.

 

 

 

Tak Matsumoto & Larry Carlton – Take Your Pick [2010]

 Genre: Jazz Guitar

 Country: Japan/USA

Tak Matsumoto + Larry Carlton, need I say more? =)

 

 

 

 

Lordi – Babez For Breakfast [2010]

 Genre: Hard Rock

 Country: Finland

 Lordi’s 5th album, quite a disappointing album..

Title track “Babez For Breakfast” sounds quite dumb, “I’m Bigger Than You” sounds almost like a pop song.

The only song I really like off this ablum is “Loud & Loaded”

 

Marc Ribot - Silent Movies [2010]

 Genre: Experimental, Free Jazz

 Country: USA

“the strange area between language and spatiality that exists partly in between music and visual image, and partly as a common property of both.” – Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot, one of my Guitar Heroes!

Amazing album!

Playlist: 15th September 2010

John 5 – The Art of Malice [2010]

 

Genre: Rock/Metal

Country: USA

John 5’s 5th Solo album

 

Paul Gilbert – Fuzz Universe [2010]

Genre: Rock/Metal

Country: USA

Paul Gilbert’s 9th Solo album, almost fully instrumental

Them Crooked Vultures – Self-titled [2009]

Genre: Rock

Country: USA

Debut album by Supergroup formed by John Paul Jones(Led Zeppelin), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (QOTSA)

George Lynch - Orchestral Mayhem [2010]

Genre: Rock/Metal

Country: USA

George Lynch’s 1st ever fully instrumental album

Demians – Mute [2010]

Genre: Progressive Rock

Country: France

Nicolas Chapel returns with Demians 2nd album

Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth [2010]

Genre: Heavy Metal

Country: USA

Danzig is finally back after a 6-year wait!