HepCat Matt is an old friend of mine, from back when we were both at school playing our respective instruments together (his is guitar). Since the good old days we've both been at uni discovering all sorts of music and he's become quite the connoisseur of Rock & Roll. So much so that he runs two nights down in Brighton playing said style of music. By all accounts there's hair gel, tweed and crazy dance crazes wherever you look. Anyway, he's been kind enough to tell us about a few of the songs he most enjoys playing and listening to, [...]
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( screencap ) Zola Jesus - Run Me Out (mp3) (buy CD/vinyl / mp3 ) Zola Jesus ( myspace ) is a woman named Nika Roza Danilova who howls out the deep dark Wisconsin weird. Trained as an opera singer before even hitting puberty, she sometimes lifts her voice into an tropospheric wail, more often lets it settle into a broad, hovering moan. Past releases have featured fault-crack tracks that buried her vocals under noise and reverb; the aura was undeniable but the message unclear. [...]
La voz de Yma Sumac los dejará atónitos, estupefactos, desconcertados, maravillados. Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo, mejor conocida como Yma Sumac, fue una mujer fuera de lo común. Su voz es una de las más reconocidas en la música, pues pocas personas han logrado dar tantos tonos como la princesa peruana. Alcanzaba casi cinco octavas. En una misma canción, se pueden escuchar registros de barítono, así como notas más altas que las de un soprano normal. La carrera "oficial" de Yma Sumac empezó en la década [...]
mp3: Yma Sumac - Bo Mambo mp3: Yma Sumac - Taki Riri mp3: Yma Sumac - Gopher mp3: Yma Sumac - Chicken Talk Yma Sumac came from Peru and possessed one of the most possessed sounding voices ever recorded. No discussion of multi-octave vocal ranges would be complete without mention of her. Stunning looking, and apparently an Incan princess, Sumac became the queen of a musical genre known as exotica -- a kitsch 1950s descendant of what we call world music. This excellent EP [...]
No lounge, exotica or easy-listening compilation is complete without a song from the late Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac . Born in 1922 as Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo and assumed the name of Yma Sumac from Ima Shumaq, "how beautiful" in her own native language, Yma is THE stereotypical exotic diva with the unbelievable voice and the temper that accompanies it. We've already been acquainted with her through compilations but lately I've discovered her 1954 album Mambo! and run into a blockade of "not listen to anything else even if you've [...]
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"There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death," wrote esteemed poet/ author Kenneth Patchen. Yet the accrual of such dying over the course of a calendar year belies such "little"ness. As we nudge into the 21st century, the luminaries of the previous one begin to wane, the architects and innovators of prime American music forms: blues, jazz, folk, rock. The obituary page for 2008 may not feature so many marquee names, but the crucial people behind the stage—the gurus, the producers, the poster artists, the record executives, the session men—all continued to vanish [...]
Yma Sumac , the Diva Exotica, the Celine of strange, the Barbra of the bizarre, passed away recently, thus ending the original exotica era - she was the last surviving member of the Mount Rushmore of exotic music, now that Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman have all moved on to that big tik i bar in the sky. Sumac was o ne of my f avorite [...]
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Like a lot of Baby Boomers, my introduction to "pop" music was my father's collection of record albums – and they really were albums in those days, with heavy-to-lift "collections... Continue reading "Remembering Yma Sumac's Life and Her Visit to KC" >
Yma Sumac died, age 86. Yma Sumac - Bo Mambo
The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that famed singer Yma Sumac died on Saturday at the age of 86. I was surprised to find out that she was living in Silverlake which is only about 5 miles from my house, in my mind, I figured she would be living somewhere more exotic. She was one of those artists that was on my list of wanting to see before they died, but she had not performed since 1997, so I never had the opportunity. Looks like I will have to dust off the old 78 player and put on [...]
Peruvian singer Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, who went by the stage name Yma Sumac, passed away at her home in California on Saturday morning. Sumac, who claimed that her voice had a five-octave range, sang around South America before being signed to Capitol Records in 1950. Her albums for Capitol brought together traditional South American folk songs and splashy Hollywood arrangements, and she performed at the Hollywood Bowl and in Las Vegas during that decade. The '60s took her around the world and resulted in her recording a live album—the only one she would release during her career. [...]
Above, The Rotary Connection's stellar version of Jimi Hendrix's warped "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" , which you may recognize as being sampled in Jay-Z's "Hova Song." The Rotary Connection, led by a very young Minnie Riperton, take what's arguably one of Hendrix's lesser singles and crank up the majestic. They pile on the strings and vocals, particularly Minnie's voice—which is striking in any octave, though she spends most of the song hanging out with Yma Sumac in the stratosphere. The Rotary Connection were a psychedelic-soul outfit headed up by [...]
Above, The Rotary Connection's stellar version of Jimi Hendrix's warped "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" , which you may recognize as being sampled in Jay-Z's "Hova Song." The Rotary Connection, led by a very young Minnie Riperton, take what's arguably one of Hendrix's lesser singles and crank up the majestic. They pile on the strings and vocals, particularly Minnie's voice—which is striking in any octave, though she spends most of the song hanging out with Yma Sumac in the stratosphere. The Rotary Connection were a psychedelic-soul outfit headed up by [...]
Track List: 1. Scratch Acid - Greatest Gift 2. Jeff Mangum - My Dreamgirl Don't Exist 3. Yo La Tengo - Last Days of Disco 4. Yma Sumac - Gopher 5. Shellac - Copper 6. Joe Lally - Tonight At Ten 7. Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk? 8. Daniel Johnston - Silly Love 9. Chrome - TV As Eyes 10. AA Bondy - American Hearts 11. Digital Leather - Modulated/Simulated [...]
It's moments before midnight, moments before Tuesday, and moments before 2008. With so little time, I'm not going to do the big year-end offering I was planning; but stay tuned for a rather large post with many links/songs coming soon. For this evening, I offer you this in the way of old. It's a stellar piece by the incomparable five-octave diva Yma Sumac. Enjoy, and Happy New Year! [mp3] Yma Sumac: Malambo No. 1 from the compilation Carnival [...]
I guess the music lesson for 2007 is, if you've got something poignant to say in your season finale, make sure to use Bob Dylan . Three of the four most talked about finales this year featured Bob Dylan songs prominently -- Battlestar Galalactica , The Sopranos and John From Cincinnati . Last night's finale for Mad Men made it four out of five, ending with Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," which is used to [...]
Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the late 1950s to mid 1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism, exotica, means tropical ersatz: the non-native, pseudo experience of Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Southeast Asia, and especially Hawaii). While the South Seas forms the core region, exotica reflects the "musical impressions" of every place from standard travel destinations to the mythical "shangri-las" dreamt of by armchair safari-ers. (Wiki) Edmundo Ros [...]
Well here we are, with only one episode left of the best new show of the season, and, like The Sopranos , the climax of the series came with the penultimate episode. Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner wrote the explosive series penultimate Sopranos episode "The Blue Comet," so he's well acquainted with the David Chase school of season enders. With Mad Men , it's no different, as we find out how Dick Whitman became Don Draper via flashbacks triggered courtesy [...]
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