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Ivory Serpents & The Starving Tree

July 17, 2008 – 7:17 pm
C H A R L I E B A R N A R D Ivory Serpents & The Starving Tree Released 28th July 2008 on Skyeyesea Records Recently resuming solo mode after leaving London group Nazca Plain, East London's Charlie Barnard brings out his 3rd album, Ivory Serpents & the Starving Tree, his first on fledgling independent Skyeyesea Records. Channeling the spirit of psychedelic princes like Syd Barrett and Robyn Hitchcock along with a smudge of urban cowboy, Barnard's latest release takes a more serious approach than previous efforts, brimming with biblical hallucinations and psychedelic pop delusions. Ivory Serpents & the Starving Tree is indeed a decidedly dark step forward, uncovering a rich tapestry of lyrics and melodies, as Charlie says, it's a bit "Gnarled voices, Methedrine cowboys with junk smiles.

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Groovetronics CD Review

July 17, 2008 – 6:52 pm
  Groovetronics  is an album comprised of many artist, and because of this, each track sounds completely differnent that the last. Groovetonics album Volume 2 is very unique in the sense that there is a great variety of music in one album. Take for instance track on "What I Am Running From" has the electronica music sound from the 80's with "Modannaesc" vocals and 80's guitar licks. Moving onto track two you here another vocal artist, male this time, and a little bit of a lighter side singing "Wide Blue Sky". Once you get to track three things completely change with "(What if I Had) The Chance", you get a soulful sound with a bit of an airey interlude. The variety of music continues throughout the album, from the easy low tone of Watching without words to an almost old world sound of the song "Millenia".  Track 8 "Transfixed is very "groovy" where ...

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Chris BurkMenn - A Long Time Coming

June 24, 2008 – 5:02 pm
  Genre: Pop Music: A Long Time Coming Website: www.myspace.com/chrisburkmennmusic Review: I gave this song 4**** stars for it's fresh sweet hook it gave out, the arrangement is a tight and poetic with a cross rap/pop sound that gives away to a very addicting sound! I got this song stuck in my head for hours after I heard it, hope to hear more from Chris BurkMenn! ~ Dark (Bill Messick) Biography: Chris BurkMenn at work on new album Los Angeles, CA - Chris BurkMenn has announced a new EP is in the works. The "Breaking Through Glass" EP is due to be completed in 2008. Leading off the musical front will be the single "A Long Time Coming." BurkMenn's sound is filled with variety yet streamlined via his individual artistic personality. Modern rock, indie rock, new wave and more, more, more flow through his sound. From the flavors of programming to the organic instrumentation, both combining to unleash BurkMenn's ...

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Daniel Moore ? The Songwriter Unleashed

June 23, 2008 – 4:26 pm
Daniel Moore is a genuine rock’n’roll survivor. The Oregonian songwriter has played with and written for greats such as Joe Cocker and Jimmy Rogers, and has had no one less than the Everly Brothers record one of his songs, ‘Deliver Me’, in 1967. Now, Moore has his own record label, DJM Records, and in July 2008 he releases his new album, ‘Limited Parking’. This collection of spiritual, adult-oriented modern folk songs will show the world that there is more to this 66-year-old son of a preacher man than just song-smithery. He is a talented and engaging performer in his own right. So, why has this chronicler of Americana only produced five albums before in a career spanning nearly five decades? The answer is surely that his talent as a songwriter has kept him working for others. It is a selfless pursuit and one that his given the musical world many of its most ...

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Ahmad Nadimi - Peace Through Music

June 23, 2008 – 4:22 pm
Plenty of musicians have claimed they have captured the concept of ‘peace’ in their music. Now here’s one who goes that bit further. French-Iranian composer Ahmad Nadimi’s album Suite for Peace is a whole dissertation on the quest for peace. It is the culmination of a life-long voyage of discovery for this renaissance man that began almost 60 years ago. Nadimi’s first love was the trumpet. He graduated from the Tehran Conservatoire of Music, and his skills on the horn soon led him to the famous Versailles Conservatoire in France under Roger Delmotte. It was here that his amazing talent for all types of music started to flourish. He travelled to various countries including India, Nepal, and Africa. He studied different musical cultures and the relationship between music and man’s internal quest. Nadimi experimented with classical, jazz and contemporary music in a variety of bands before finding his true calling in the music he ...

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