
COVER ME! #5 » Seleção especial de covers Mumford & Sons tocando "Cousins" , do Vampire Weekend , Mark Ronson e sua entourage revisitando Tame Impala , a versão transcendental de "Light My Fire" e muito mais! Enjoy! E bom feriado! ;) DOWNLOAD! Mélanie Pain - Girls and Boys (original by Blur) [...]

What can be said when the now is the only thing that can be realized, and when our ideas are to become our feelings and actions, how carefully deliberate we should be in what we let ourselves think. The less I can impose upon a song, sometimes the better I think. Fingerbanger 1 : Duptribe - Blackbird Song (Feat. Ben Cocks) (don lowed) -- Slow overlapping and washing over like waves. Fingerbanger 2 : Blackbird Blackbird - Fade To White (don lowed) [...]
Oh, folks. Have I got a tale for you. As a matter of fact, now that I'm thinking about it, I don't have a tale for you. Because words cannot accurately render how incredible last night's screening of The Room was. It was without a doubt the greatest movie-watching experience of my life. Setting aside the beers at Golden State, the beers at Surly Goat, the bottle of wine consumed while waiting in line, or the bottle of Jack Daniels consumed in the movie theater, I haven't laughed that hard in God knows how long. If [...]

George Harrison got nothin' on this baby! You may recall an ongoing aesthetic scuffle over the mystery of Joanna Newsom 's appeal and whether the harp actually holds any value in rock 'n roll . As part of the possible "flavor of the month" perspective on this issue, we wondered who was rock's second-best sitar player . Well, wonder and ye shall find an answer on Rock Town Hall. Clearly it's Ananda Shankar , nephew of Ravi! Ananda Shankar, "Jumpin' [...]

One of the greatest albums ever by one of the most compelling figures in Indian music! Ananda Shankar's been chronicled elsewhere and often on these pages - so by this point, you probably already know that he's a renegade pioneer who combined funky grooves with sitars and tablas, forging a whole new sound in Indian music that's still having quite a bit of influence today. This 1975 album is a stunner - way more open-minded than his other album for Reprise (which we've also got on reissue!), with tracks that push the funky groove a lot farther than you'd expect, [...]
C'est que ça commence à ressembler à une série cette "cover session" ! Voici "Light My Fire" de The Doors , extraite de leur premier album sorti le 4 janvier 1967 chez Elektra Records. Elle a été écrite par Robby Krieger, sans doute aidé un peu par Morrison, et est sortie en single (en version abrégée, sans les solos de guitare et d'orgue) en avril, avec "Crystal Ship" en face B. Sortir ça juste avant l'été, vous vous en doutez, c'était plutôt bien joué, et le single atteignit la première place du Billboard américain et la carrière du groupe [...]

Ananda Shankar: Streets of Calcutta + Dancing Drums From Ananda Shankar and His Music (EMI India, 1975) Manteca: Afro-Funky + Gozando Tropical From Ritmo + Sabor (GRC/Sound Triangle, 197?) The thing about funk's entry in pop music in the late 1960s and forward was how artists would find ways to work in its rhythmic signature when you least expected it. (See this for a great example). Hearing the Ananda Shankar [...]

موسيقار و عازف سيتار هندي ، ولد عام ١٩٤٢ ميلادي في معسكر ألمورا- Almora - في ولاية أوتار انتشال - Uttar Pradesh - الواقعة شمال الهند، أحيط منذ الصغر ببيئة فنية متنوعة لحد ما ، فكان ابن أحد أهم راقصي الفلكلور الهندي أوداي شانكار - Uday Shankar - الأخ الأكبر لعازف السيتار الشهير رافي شانكار - Ravi Shankar - كما أن لوالدته "أمالا" إطلاع متجدد على [...]
Two crazy covers and Liquid Liquid at their best. Liquid Lquid - Optimo Rock With You - Jazztronik Ananda Shankar -Jumpin' Jack Flash Tags: Liquid Liquid Tags: Jazztronik Tags: Ananda Shankar
Not much to write about, just settling in after a move, so I figured it was time for a Friday Fiver (hat tip to im_not_marching ). Be Bop Deluxe: Fair Exchange - 7.89MB Ananda Shankar: Dancing Drums - 5.00MB The Decemberists: Sixteen Military Wives - 7.05MB Creature: Pop Culture - 3.90MB We Are Wolves: La Nature - 5.37MB

been looking for this for a minute now. Ananda Shankar "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (Rolling Stones Cover)

The brown western shirt with the diamond buttons that I'm currently wearing doesn't quite fit in with this post because it ain't bringing the funk. The kind of funk that makes you strut down funky Broadway. Back in a posting on December 21, 2006 I called What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977) the best box set of the year. That still holds true because a Doctor never goes back on his word. In these past few coffee infused days I've been doing a lot more listening to this box and it is better than [...]

Ananda Shankar and his Music (EMI India 1975 - Fallout 2006) Ananda (1942-1999) is certainly not the most famous member of the Shankar Family : his uncle Ravi is the best-known Indian instrumentalist-sitarist of all time and his cousin is nobody less than jazz-country-soul singer/songwriter Norah Jones. However, this man maybe was the most innovative, brilliant and visionary Indian musician ever !!! His main achievement is to have broken the traditions [...]

If I get an extra couple Jacksons stuffed in a Christmas card this year, I'll be heading out to buy myself what sounds like the best box set in quite a while: What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977) . Reminding me of the scenes from the fantastic documentary Scratch where DJ Shadow is digging through dusty old basements and stacks of unloved records at a Davis, CA record store, this is a collection of castoff funk & soul lovingly assembled from the vaults at Atlantic and Warner Records [...]