I had read about Adam & The Fish-eyed Poets on the Moopcity blog (there is place in this country and in the world for this band – they’re too good not to) a few months back. What monumental lapse of reason it was that took me as long as this to give them a listen is…
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A Long-lost Voice
This past weekend I was reminiscing about music that I grew up listening to in school and college. And I couldn’t help but laugh. This was the ’80s, you see – Rick Astley, Taylor Dayne…enough said. Still, I thought even that decade had its moments of redemption. And as that thought possessed me, a question…
Shorty ‘n the Farm House
Nope, this one’s not about hip-hop. Had it been, it would’ve been titled ‘Shorty ’n da Farm House’…something like that. This is just a bit of jazz, and an excellent bit of it too. I had previously heard Trombone Shorty (Troy Andrews) and James Farm (a collective of four of the brightest modern jazz artistes,…
Indians Out Of My Closet
For a long time, I avoided – mostly – listening to Indian rock/pop bands because with a few exceptions, I thought all they produced was heavy metal. That is a notion (maybe it was based on reality, I don’t know) that has mercifully been given a sound thrashing in the last about year and a…
Black and Bright
‘El Camino’ by the Black Keys along with ‘Bad As Me’ by Tom Waits and Florence + The Machine’s ‘Ceremonials’, was one of the most anticipated album releases for me in some time. And all three released in the later part of last year and each one of them is delightful – a sort of…
Strange, Love
My last post of year 2011 and I just have to draw a picture of the wonderfulness of human sentiment while yet filling it with the color of my own soul. And so I painted it black. Two songs, both by Death Cab for Cutie (ironic? You don’t say!), hold up to light two aspects…
Draw your strings…a little more
Following up on my last post Draw Your Strings, here are a couple more pieces which I find interesting. The first piece on the first CD of Western Classical music that I bought was Mozart’s ‘Rondo Alla Turka’ (or Turca). A search for something else (after hearing this I forgot about that original quest) led…
Draw Your Strings
When I was in school and college, my friends and I used to debate on end the relative merits of the big names of the guitar world as known to us then – Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan…And for long, we swore by these and a few others. Every…
Return To Roots
I have been a little late with my posts the last 2-3 times for a variety of reasons, all unhappy. As usual, I prescribed myself an insane cocktail of the music drug to combat self-doubt and physical pain. There was Ali Farkah Toure and there was Jay-Z, Bach and Metallica, Pat Metheny and Zac Brown…
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