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Simple & Supreem
www.shakeyourbooty.org |
 "Funkupinyah" 5:01
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| Is your favorite rock group taking themselves too seriously? Has your favorite funk band lapsed into soft jazz? Your favorite hip-hop group too full of themselves? That jam band you kind of used to like just ... totally lost? Simple & Supreem's funky, joyous roar might just solve all of these problems in one shot. Interesting piece of trivia: This is the first time we have ever featured a track that included a bass solo, and probably the last. |
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Box Five
boxfive.org |
| "Aqua Toffana" 5:35
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| So this is Classipop: "Leave me to my sorrow, my bill collectors and my requiem / La la, la la, la la la la." The Bichner family is one of the few remaining carriers of the increasingly rare "dynamics gene." This track's dramatic shifts in volume, along with the guitar's rock steady pulse, may lead you to think that we manipulated the levels a lot at mixdown. We didn't. That's just Joe actually being musical and following his sister's every move, a demonstration of dynamics largely unseen in pop music this century. CityPaper's Pat Rapa also had some interesting things to say about this track. Click here to learn how you can contribute to the next Box Five EP! |
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Society Hill String Quintet
www.philorch.org
societyhillsynagogue.org |
| Beethoven: String Trio in c minor, Op. 9, No. 3 7:56
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| First movement: allegro con spirito. Paul Arnold on violin, Kathryn Read Picht on cello, Robert Kesselman on bass. Showcasing three players from the Philadelphia Orchestra, this piece was recorded live in concert, on location at Society Hill Synagogue. The building began as an Old Philadelphia church in the 1800's and is considered one of Thomas U. Walter's early triumphs, and the acoustics in the main worship space are sensational. For the microphone nerds out there, the recording features Earthworks omnis towards the front of the audience, mixed with AKG C414 TLII's up on the balcony, about 200 feet from the stage and 50 feet up. |
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Jaffna
jaffna homepage |
| "Tiger
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| Jaffna, the original First Friday house band, leaves us speechless. |
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Cabin Dogs
www.cabindogs.com |
| "Winds"
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This track captures the Cabin Dogs (then known as the Kwait Brothers Band) at their best, with a song that's both hooky and langorous, an arrangement that's both crisp and expansive, and ace players moving effortlessly between an easy country-blues double-time and cool early-seventies groove. A sweet sensation.
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Freebo & Photoglo
www.freebophotoglo.com www.rachelbissex.org |
| "For Andy (The Door Is Open)" 3:18
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| We got to work with two very talented and classy musicians on this track, which was contributed to a memorial album for folk songwriter Rachel Bissex. There is an almost unbearable irony in Rachel's lyrics, and this stunning arrangement holds back from excessive sentiment, deferring to the simple beauty of the song. |
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Papalegba
www.papalegbamusic.com |
| "Star" 4:23
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| A shimmering stunner from the New York-based band's brand-new debut release. Beautiful feel from the rhythm section, and vocalist Chris Kinsey really shines. As with most of the vocal tracks on this CD, Chris nailed it on the first take. |
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Big Breakfast
www.bigbreakfastband.net |
| "Snow
In April" (live) 6:15
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Recorded on First Friday, live from
the Turtle Lounge, 11/1/02. This track is from the forthcoming second
live CD from our latest house band, repository of a half-dozen up-and-coming
session players, Original Hyperfunk, Weather Report on ecstasy ...
but perhaps the best superlative comes from the guy who books the
Grape Street Pub: "I fucking LOVE Big Breakfast!"
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Marja Kaisla
www.marjakaisla.org |
| Debussy: Etude No. 11
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"Pour les arpeges composes" Recorded in high resolution for DVD-Audio and somewhat more close-mic'ed than conventional piano recordings, creating an unusually sonorous reproduction of overtones that is particularly well suited to Debussy's music. This technique leaves the pianist in a particularly "exposed position, because you can hear every single detail without any filtering," Marja says. "As a result, the listening experience becomes exceedingly intimate."
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The Barnes Benson Project
bbenson@sas.upenn.edu |
| "Ticket
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| We brought three of our best session
guys together to ask the question, "What if Booker T and the
MGs decided to cover a Beatles tune?" The answer left our heads
spinning. Arne Wendt provides the Hammond B-3 that's about to explode
your tiny little computer speakers. |
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Beats Walkin'
www.beatswalkin.com |
| "My
Window Faces South" (live) 3:07
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| Recorded on First Friday, live from
the Turtle Lounge, 12/7/01. Steel guitar virtuoso Jim Cohen leads
this authentic Texas Swing ensemble through this track from their
album Bop-A-Billy Swing!, all of which was recorded live at a Turtle
Studios open house. The lead vocal is provided by drummer Chuck Lindsey,
who later on was overheard to say, "I think people like to buy
their drums and drum products from a man who smells like alcohol."
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Jim Wade
jwadewithwater@earthlink.net |
| "Don’t
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| Jim showcases both his singing and
his uncanny knack for vocal arrangements on this catchy track from his
uplifiting 2001 release Wade In The Water. Randy Bollan, as always,
exempliflies session guitar playing — so tasty you don't even notice it. |
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