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Sundance Spotlight on Music

November 2, 2008

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Signal Hill - Signal Hill
The Necks - Hanging Gardens
Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag
Neil Young - On the Beach
The Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit - Secret Rhythms 3
Andy Laster's Hydra - Polyogue
Expo 70 - Animism
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
The Mercury Program - A Data Learn the Language
Earthless - Live at Roadburn
James Carney - Thread
Forgas Band Phenomena - Soleil
Pink Floyd - Animals
Tristeza - Dream Signals in Full Circle
Mamiffer - Hirror Ennifer
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night
Instrumental Quarter - Traffic Jam
Enrico Rava - The Pilgrim & the Stars
Bill Laswell - No Matter
Theo Travis and Robert Fripp - Thread

October 8 2008
My Education - Bad Vibrations
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution
Dark Tooth Encounter - Soft Monsters
The Claudia Quintet - For
Paik - Spacer
MGR - Wavering on the Cresting Heft
Scorch Trio - Brolt !
Rush - Caress of Steel
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Hank Mobley - Quintet
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
Mathias Eick - The Door
Zebulon Pike - Intransience
Kenny Dorham - Trompeta Toccata
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan - Signature Series Volume 3
Daturah - Daturah
Calexico - Carried to Dust
Ravi Shankar - Live in London
David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Shora - Malval
Harold Budd and Brian Eno - The Pearl
Peter Walker - Echo of My Soul
Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit - Secret Rhythms 3


Richard Wright: The Quiet Soul of Pink Floyd 

 The news that Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright died of cancer September 15 caught fans and music scribes alike off guard. It provides a further illustration of the privacy so cherished by Pink Floyd throughout their history, that no announcement had been made to the press of his illness. As a  longtime afficionado of the group, I was affected on a level as when Lennon was shot in 1980.          
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Sundance Bookstore's Top Selling Music Titles, and Noteworthy Mentionables

Emmylou Harris – All I Intended to Be (Nonesuch)
Harris’ latest finds her working with ex-husband/producer/multi instrumentalist Brian Ahern for the first time since the 1970s, and a cast of friends and collaborators including Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Dolly Parton, and Vince Gill. It has a more relaxed ambiance than recent offerings Red Dirt Girl or Stumble into Grace, with more prominent acoustic instrumentation, and a greater emphasis on covering other writer’s material (Merle Haggard, Billy Joe Shaver and Patty Griffin among them). Even so, Emmylou contributes about half the numbers, and this is a great album for late summer nights or lazy Sundays.

Steve Winwood/Nine Lives (Sony)
Fueled by his tasty Hammond organ, guitar, and trademark soulful vocals, this is easily Winwood’s best album since Traffic disbanded in the mid 1970’s. Each track features more or less the same musicians, which gives Nine Lives a band-like quality his past albums have lacked. Having a conga/percussionist (Karl van den Bossche) prominently on board gives some songs a flavor not unlike Reebop Kwaku Baah’s time with Traffic on classics like Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys. With Eric Clapton contributing a blazing guitar solo on the single Dirty City, it isn’t difficult to see why fans of Winwood and Clapton are salivating at the possibility of a Blind Faith reunion.

Barenaked Ladies/Snacktime (Warner Bros.)

Snacktime is the new children’s album by everyone’s favorite silly Canadians. In the oft-derided genre of kid’s music, the Ladies have created that rare album that will appeal to younger folks without driving their parents crazy. Indeed, grown ups may relish the clever wordplay and snappy musical arrangements that inform this record that stands with Trout Fishing in America’s classic Big Trouble as one of the best albums ever for little guys and gals everywhere.

Ray Davies/Working Man’s Café (New West)
As always, Ray Davies’ uniquely English perspective informs this offering full of sharp and witty observations. This album is loaded with catchy, up tempo songs that strongly recall his classic work with the Kinks, with a strong emphasis on melody and Ray’s wistful, yet still somewhat detached voice.

James McMurtry/
Just Us Kids
(Lightning Rod)
This is a top notch offering from McMurtry on a brand new label. It features his usual pointed commentary oriented lyrics dealing with the current social/political climate. On hand are his cracking band that has graced his last few albums, with an added bonus of Timbuk 3’s Pat McDonald on harmonica and backing vocals, and the legendary Ian McLagan (ex Small Faces/Faces) on Hammond organ and piano.

R.E.M./Accelerate (Warner Brothers)

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