24 Jun
I was reading Ebony magazine earlier this week and found a review of this album:
Inspiration Information, Vol. 3
This album is a collaboration of Ethiopian Jazz artist Mulatu Astatge and the UK band Heliocentrics. I personally really love Ethopian Jazz and this album is awesome!!!! I highly recommend this album to anyone that is a jazz lover [...]
14 May
Music Monday on Thursday this week, it has been one of those weeks.
Amon Tobin
Amon Tobin’s music is categorized as Electronica, and I would say that is true. I wanted to share Amon with you all but the thing is, I am not sure how to describe his music to you. I love it personally, but [...]
27 Apr
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens is amazing!!! His music is diverse, his lyrics are outstanding, and he just plain rocks in my opinion.
Here are some of the albums that we listen to and love:
This Christmas album is probably one of my favortite Christmas albums. He does the best version of Holy, Holy, Holy I have ever [...]
20 Apr
Hungry Fathers
Hungry Fathers is a band that is close to my heart, it is the band that Brian is in. I figured that I could not review music and not include my husbands own band so here it goes.
The title of Hungry Fathers first album is “Will The Lightning Bug Return?”. This album would definitely fall into [...]
13 Apr
Amadou and Mariam
“The blind couple from Mali”
Amadou and Mariam are considered to be African Blues/Jazz artists. Since the late 1990s Amadou & Mariam produce music that mixes traditional Mali sound with rock guitars, Syrian violins, Cuban trumpets, Egyptian ney, Colombian trombones, Indian tablas and Dogon percussion. All these elements put together have been referred to as “Afro-blues”. (Wikipedia)
We came across Adamou and [...]
6 Apr
Blossom Dearie
(April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and known for her distinctive girlish voice (Wikipedia).
I heard about Blossom Dearie while listening to NPR, and right away I knew I needed to own some of her music. I love vocal jazz. I love how it makes me feel: like I [...]
30 Mar
God Is An Astronaut
God Is An Astronaut came to us through last.fm, we are glad they made the recommendation and now we are passing it along to you.
This group is categorized as electonica/ambient on itunes but last.fm categorizes it as Post Rock. I find the this music to be fairly mellow, Brian on the other [...]
19 Mar
We like Music!
So to share our like/love for music I decided to do a Music Monday post. Each Monday I will do my best to post something about an artist that we are currently listening to or someone that we love but is not in our shuffle currently. I love feed back so If you [...]
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