he is actually ok one.......just that he likes to flame people in tank, its not the forum he posts seriously so he's just toying around. i cant really argue with him on that, tank is the place where i spam and cause trouble.

another few abulm reviews...

vital tech tones - vital tech tones

genre: fusion

line up : victor wooten, scott henderson, steve smith

the line up explains much of this outing...ganas! and it lives up to it, no this aint no wild creativity musical rant...so people looking for rio ancho, shakti, and those wild stuff look elsewhere nonetheless its a very good abulm with great jazz playing (come on, those names cant suck).

porcupine tree - voyage 32

Steve Wilson (everything)
Richard Barbieri (Synthesizers on Phase IV)

genre - psychadelic, rock

tracks ; phrase I - IV

perhaps one of the weirdest abulms i listened to. its targeted to LSD users so like dark side of the moon this is an asid trip ablum. why the comparision with floyd? now porcupine tree has been labled by some as the floyd of now and its very very clear in this ablum (you'll know when you listen to it), although later outings they have a more mainstream pop feel to their music its pretty obvious where their roots are.

this abulm is about a trip and thats it, its a trip that takes you through diffrent soundscapes and atmospheres trying to pull emotion out of the listener. with cool guitar solos littered around and mixtures of multiple sounds and instruments, the atmosphere or "trance" thats created is astounding. you like trance? i think you might like this, you like guitars also....wallah good combo for you.

note also this is an atmospheric ablum..think about er.....something like aphex twin + explosions in the sky. so if you want some lyrics dont look here, if you want wanking not here either, if you want an ablum that plays on the atmosphere and something psychadelic IMO this is one of the must gets

This post has been edited by +3kk!: Nov 6 2006, 03:29 PM

wtf is going on? i have no problems with ppl in jamtank!!! in fact i do meet up with the bassists there.

theres some other guy with the nick 'merlvyn' that isnt me. now that merlvyn has quite alot of issue's with jamtankers. did u guys confuse him with me?

i thought i kinda remember you having the same nick there?

but aiyo whats the fuss, you got no prb with tank, tank got prb with you.

always half the case

The drum sound on this is top notch. It's a darn good album and the tracks are rather accessible. Scott Henderson's playing is jaw-dropping nonetheless.

I doubt so, everdying mentioned echobrainproject.

As for the other merlvyn, never seen his posts.

Yeah, he had the same nick there. Perhaps we should ask everdying to clarify this matter, he was the one who brought it up. I'm curious because like I've said, I always thought he was ok with Tankers.

I could have swore you got into some dispute with gapnap and friends on something about sweep picking.

I remember the nerdy picture of you in your avatar

thats weird. coz i remember i added him on msn so he could give me tips on sweep picking. of coz, in jamtank he's like 'sweeping isnt good...legato is better...(and all that sh!t)'

gapster? hahah that guy memang like that, tank is his playground.



strangely what strikes me in that ablum aint scotts playing but the bass playing....scott is unreal still tho, just that wooten's work was omfg......

i think i know too little bassists

Vital tech tones. Some nice stuff inside, but some really weird pieces too.

Scott Henderson is a genius. I think Wooten is seriously on steroids on this album. The basslines in almost all the pieces are vigorous. The weakest link in the band is steve smith in my opinion. But other than some failed attempts in polyrhythm and some crappy drum solos, nice album.

EDIT: i wouldn't classify it as jazz though. Fusion sounds better. *Whee mislabelling again*

This post has been edited by Bassix: Nov 6 2006, 07:31 PM

it is fusion but well again those two just seem to come together, if you look under genre for shakti most people would put it under jazz instead of world music. same as jaco pastorious stuff and paco de lucia.

though one is flemenco and the other lies more towards fusion people generalise them into jazz

pastorius stuff is...pastorius stuff. It's a category of its own

Anyone have "white ladder" by david gray? I heard its quite nice

yaaaaaah...I do ...really good album..I love (Please Forgive Me)

anyone heard of owen nicholas? i dunno if he have an album out or not but you can download his songs from myspace.. i'm totally in love with his voice.. yummylicious indeed.. oh.. and did i mention that he's malaysian??

Regina Spektor!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Spektor

Weird but really damn good music. Sort of like Bjork and Jewel mixed together. Her music is described as 'anti-folk', which apparently is a mix of punk and folk. A lot of the songs are sparsely arranged, with just a piano accompanying her voice.

She's a really experimentative singer, singing one way in this song and a totally different way in the next. Of course the fact that she has a really good voice gives her the leeway to do that.. I think she's the only singer I ever heard where at the end of one song she actually sneezes. (In 'Mary Ann', a song about a woman murdering her lover.)

Get her latest album 'Begin To Hope' and listen to the song "Samson". Really beautiful song. The rest of the album is superb also.

She's released a few albums already, but impossible to get them here lar, unless you go the you know what route

Outstanding songs (not all from the same album)-

From Begin To Hope- Samson, Fidelity, Lady (basically the whole album is good except for one or two songs)

From earlier albums- Carbon Monoxide, Oedipus, Pavlov's Daughter etc etc (too many to list)

I don't get it why we don't get more of this type of music on local radio. If I hear Hips Don't Lie *one* more time I might just strangle myself.

This post has been edited by kyl: Dec 13 2006, 03:26 AM

Im currently hooked on Vinnie Moore. Good stuff. Should have discovered him earlier...

Gosh, no one ever mentioned about Radiohead...

Ermm...this is not exactly an album, but get the King Crimson "Eyes Wide Open" live in tokyo 2003 concert. I just watched the DVD. And I am still dumbfounded. I have never heard anything like it never seen anything like it and never experienced anything like this. I swear after watching this DVD you will have either of the 2 reactions:

"what the *#*euro$!! was that noise all about?"

or

you will need a 2 week vacation from any type of music just so you can digest what you have just seen and heard.

I am still

Band: The Decemberist
Album: The Crane Wife
Genre: Indie Rock

One of the best release of 2006.
Check them out.

At first I thought it wasn't anything special, but it's the kind of album that grows on you. Their music is indie folk, the songs mostly driven by guitars.

I love their lyrics. Each song tells a story- The Crane Wife is based on the folk tale about a poor fisherman rescuing a crane who returns in human form and marries the fisherman to repay her debt.

After hearing this I checked out their earlier albums. 'Picaresque' and 'Castaways and Cutouts'- the songs (especially on Picaresque) are even better imho

Where can i find music store that carry loads of 60's Jamaican Rock steady CDs?

Tower Records KL CC used to have load of Jamaican Rock steady, but there are no more....

This post has been edited by ejoi: Feb 14 2007, 09:13 AM