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I Can't Live Like This
Glen Gordon...has felt a burning desire for singing since the age of five. Born in Hemingway, South Carolina, his first stage performances were in small country churches, and a school marching band. Hoping to travel the world and possibly gain another outlet for his music, Glenn joined the US Army in 1973. Glenn's army buddies gave him the nickname GG. He has kept the moniker of GG, using it as his stage name to this day. With a strong conviction to follow his heart and pursue a music career, he formed a band called GG and The Shock Waves. Later in the 1980s, joining the band, Rush Hour in Columbia SC, as lead vocalist and light percussion player, opened for concert headliners, Bill Pinkey and The Original Drifters and Billy Paul of Me and Mrs. Jones fame. August 27,2006, 'GG and Friends Band' played the opening at Lakewood in the Atlanta Ga. area on the side stage for the Mary J. Blige concert 'The Breakthrough Experience'. Today GG resides in Atlanta, GA. For the most part, GG is a solo performer,using his bass guitar as a soulful accompaniment. His sound is an exciting combination of artists: Luther Vandross, Larry Graham, Teddy Pendergrass, Lionel Richie and the Motown sound. GG adores performing for audiences who like to dance to the sounds of legends such as: Kool and the Gang, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Ohio Players, Sly Stone, the Isley Brothers and Rick James. With over twenty years in the music business along with releasing his first single 'I Can't Live Like This,' GG has been helping musicians, artists, and others to learn how to protect their work. As an expert in copyrights, he conducts workshops and seminars, offers instructional copyright kits on disc,copyright forms from the copyright office, speaks and presents to panels, and does one-to-one consultations on his areas of expertise. 'GG and Friends Band' Plays all over the USA at present and will come and play any place you need them as long as they have a 90 day notice and all parties have agreed to an advanced approved contract.- Shop: odax
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One Word Name
Liam is a singer/song writer from San Diego, CA. He is trained as a classical trombone player, but has played guitar since high school. He was in a punk band in 1999 called 'Spare Time'. He then did a solo projet of acoustic/folk music entitled 'scoite'. Then he played a small stint in another punk band named 'man down'. After that, he sought out his rooots, and played trombone in a reggae/pop/funk group named 'shaka buku'. After a three year run with the buku, Liam decided to concentrate on work and stopped playing with groups for a year. He dedicated to his job and then the company he worked for went out of business... That was the spur to start the solo project back up again. This time it needed to be done right... After numerous talks with his good friend David they decided to get in to the studio and start laying it all down. The efforts are the ecletic grouping of songs making up the CD titled 'One Word Name'. Liam plays guitar, bass, drums, and vocals on the album. The point of this album is to be straight-up, honest, and sincere. It is not just of grouping of soft songs, but rather, a collection of heart-felt, catchy, heart-on-your-sleeve ballads... Liam has always used a stage name or moniker in the past. Since one of the main concepts for this project is honesty, he decided to just go by his real name. Thus, you end up with a soft/pop/rock album by 'Liam Williams'... Hope you like it! The hard copy of the album is in a full jewel case with full color graphics on the tray inserts and the CD itself. The tray insert has pictures of Liam's guitars and the hand written lyrics by Liam himself...- Shop: odax
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Haunts
Bare Branches came about in the dead of winter in the year of our Lord, 2005. Refugees from other bands, the six men and women who would become Bare Branches wrote and recorded two EP's under the moniker 'Hand Drawn Mountains'. After playing out for five years, the band decided that a new focus and vision was needed to create and sustain the mood and sound they all cherished and had come so close to attaining. The decision was made to change the name of the band to something a bit more serious and representative of the music they were creating. Around this time, a producer/friend from Las Vegas named Christin Nelson (a member of recording artist Listener) happened to catch a set the band played in the Summer months of 2010. He approached them a week later and offered to fly to Pittsburgh and record their first full length album. So the band brought him to town and for two weeks they recorded night and day in a beautiful 19th century church. The result of this collective effort is 'Haunts'. It is an audio recording of all that was poured out in those fourteen days. Drawing comparisons to such diverse acts as Joy Division, MeWithoutYou and Okkervil River, Bare Branches has spent the last year getting acquainted with the dark and resonant tone of the ten songs that make the album 'a subtle and somber journey to the depths of the human soul' The band's modern influences include The National, Arcade Fire, Interpol, Pedro the Lion and Damien Jurado. They also owe a debt to a plethora of independent and underground bands from the eighties and nineties. In summary, 'Haunts is an exploration of mystery, a subtle and somber journey to the depths of the human soul. There are moments of hope and joy, just as there are moments of grief and confusion. In the end we get a picture that is painted delicately, full of complex yet minute details that do not make a show of themselves. Rather, the sounds and images used here work gently to pull the heart and mind in different directions, and the genius of this release is that all this immense emotion is easily missed if one is not open and attentive. In other words, it works just like the real life it portrays.' - Eric, Indie Vision Music.- Shop: odax
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Bartok's Room
Take yer fav ball o' silly putty and roll it over a sound/style image of chops a la Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, Alex MacHacek, Joe Satriani, and snippets of Robert "the math-rock, monsieur Roboto" Fripp and squash out a nice distorto reprinted mosaic riffage picture of Michelena's multi- instrumentalist expertise and voicings . . . and you have this release in a nutshell or putty print. Seriously, a great deal super-duper, quicksilver riffs, frettage and wailings are going down here. There is a variety of hippy-trippy, Euro-cool-techno- futuristic, furious, frenetic, yet laid-back Floydian, "Comfortably Numb"-ish fusion prog guitar and programming inside. Did I mention groovin beats and a unique variety of song flows? Cool acoustic axe work is included too! Michelena has a new groove here of fresh chops galore but in a package like I haven't heard in awhile. There's even that Lost Tribe boogie-yer-bootay thang in places but overall this is avant-fusion, not freeform, but free-for-all fusion, whatever goes be slick. Attaching a post-rock, experimental, technical fusion moniker might work with a nod to Zappa and Vai's Flexable way of attacking and decimating the expected. Michelena is full of surprises and overflowing with technical prowess. Don't expect to relax too much nor for too long. This is an "upper" y'all. Recommended for the adventurous folks tired of fuzak. ~John W. Patterson, EER-MUSIC.com.- Shop: odax
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Burning in Color
San Francisco Bay Area music fans are well acquainted with Timothy 'Space Captain' James as a psychedelic-pop band leader (Aquamarine, Squire-James Band, Big Luv Nation)and solo acoustic performer of uncommon presence. With the release of his latest project, 'Burning In Color', issued independently under the 'Hifidelic' moniker, it's time to meet some new and equally compelling facets of James' musical personality. For starters, the album is chock full of slinky grooves, funkily understated keyboard textures and silky smooth vocals. (Think Hall & Oats and the blue-eyed soul elite.) Check out 'Working Girl 2000', 'Fire and Ice', 'Fire of Our Love' and 'Starvin' For Marvin', James' socially-conscious nod to a certain Mr. Gaye. And throughout the album's R&B flavored numbers, James also flashes a subtle but unmistakable cool jazz sensibility. Toss in a taste of contemporary beats and rhymes (rapper A g freestyles on 'Sir Real Santa Cruz') and it's clear that this is one space captain who's comfortable exploring all corners of the pop universe. Don't get the wrong idea, James' rangy guitar-pop roots don't go untended. 'Artichoke Paradigm', a reflective, melodic rocker, and 'Dr. Feelgoode', with it's soaring duel electric guitar passages, fit right into the eclectic mix. Come to think of it, same goes for atmospheric instrumental interludes including 'Brew Bop', 'Hard Beets', 'Lyle's Mood' (a lovely solo acoustic piano number) and 'Ocean Swells'. It all fits together because James - who wrote, arranged, performed and produced damn near every diverse lick - moves effortlessly across genre boundaries. Face it, James is a tough guy to pigeonhole, but if you use the word 'soulful' you'll never miss the mark. -MIKE THOMAS -Music Editor, Pacific Sun.- Shop: odax
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Have Guitar Will Travel
Delton was a regular at Nashville, Tennesee's Bluebird Cafe for more than a year. He also invaded the New York/New Jersey market while remaining central in Michigan. His music is very lyrically oriented singing auto-biographical songs of love, life, and spirituality. All with the intent to inspire hope even if in darkness. His delivery was always heartfelt, with a live show paralled by no one. His show could be described as Bruce Springsteen meets Marc Bolan(T-Rex). He often played without amplification for three hours at a time. Taking the moniker 'The D-Man' Delton Parker his music has been decribed as 'Johnny Cash meets Cinderella (The Band)' and 'Tom Waits meets The New York Dolls', the latter a quote from The Last Vegas lead singer Chad Cherry.- Shop: odax
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Bhakti: Devotion
BABA "The end goal of education is character. The end goal of knowledge is unconditional love. The end goal of wisdom is freedom. The end goal of culture is perfection." - Bhagwan Sri Satya Sai Baba Few have influenced the spirit of modern India as Bhagwan Sri Satya Sai Baba. Baba's thoughts, words, sentiments and actions permeate the lives of human beings everywhere regardless of origin or faith. Baba's vision of a better world is exemplified in the exceptional schools, universities, hospitals, housing and drinking-water supply projects built by his charities to serve and enhance societies in hundreds of countries. A life of truth, righteousness, peace, love and non-violence is a life dedicated to Baba. THE MUSIC BHAKTI : DEVOTION celebrates the eternal spirit of Baba through music. The inimitable sisters Kalaimamanigal Radha & Jayalakshmi join some of the most eminent musicians of India to sing twelve songs espousing Baba's values composed and conducted by Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao. Through the past seven decades, legendary flautist, innovative composer, pioneering choreographer and erudite musicologist Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao has shaped and indelibly influenced the essential form and derivatives of culture known to the world as classically Indian. Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao's is a rare brilliance on the cultural firmament in India and abroad. Marked by characteristic excellence, his work has always carried an exuberance of spirit. In BHAKTI : DEVOTION Panditji leads a stellar cast of renowned singers and musicians to celebrate the aesthetic joy inherent in spirituality. ART & SPIRITUALITY In the interview below, Pt. Vijay Raghav Rao elaborates on the confluence of art and spirituality. Question: What is spirituality? Answer: It is perhaps an inwardly soulful vivacity, well defined as an immaterial, eternal, pure state of mind devoid of all physical tensions, illusions, or wants. It is what makes the mortal an immortal. Q: Are you spiritual? A: Just to say 'yes, i am' is sheer hypocrisy. All achievements, attainments or professional skills of a human being - I think - are ultimately aimed at making him/her a ' spiritual' person: a true human being guided by a spirit that can conquer his / her self. That spirit embodies my ideals. As I seek it through my thoughts, it transforms my actions. In the serene, unconscious manner of a prayer with tangible consequences, my spirituality allows me successively increasing amounts of self-fulfillment. Complete self-fulfillment is a state of true independence. Liberation is another moniker for that state of being. As we seek what we know is an infinite expanse of ideals, we regulate our processes accordingly, and eventually liberate ourselves. I think liberation is the process of fully coming to terms with oneself, free from non-idealistic bondage. Every human is endowed with a fund of divinity, the complete potential of our ideals. Artistes seek it as a matter of skill, those less prone to expression seek it through prayer. When we strive to realize that innermost being and it's consequent divinity, we seek to be spiritual. 'Spirituality' is a process of such realization. If I am engaged in this process, I am spiritual. I wish to be spiritual in every action of mine and earnestly attempt to seek it's blessings. Q: How does your spirituality influence your expressions? A: My spirituality guides me when I create. It offers me inspiration. It makes me humble. It provides me with an anchor. It puts my muse in perspective. It is the essence of any innovation I attempt. When my creations rise above what is mundane and appear to be genuine, everlasting, they implicitly suggest a lingering, pervasive aesthetic. That aesthetic is significantly intertwined with my spirituality. Because what I seek through my spirituality is intrinsically unique to my being, my aesthetic is original too. Technically perfect pieces of art begin to enlighten beyond their compass if they were founded on the basis of spirituality. Entertaining is no longer an audience driven exercise - with spirituality, the performer begins to express a soul. Q: Can there be such an entity as a non-spiritual artiste? A: The world is populated with human beings of all kinds. Simple expression sometimes becomes high art. Much vacuous expression is passed off as art. Intentions drive human beings to the extremes of their potential: evil masquerades under guises of acceptable expression. There is much tacit approval of non-art, rooted as it is in a confusion of metaphor or medium. A lot of this comes from non-spiritual expressionists. They exist, and they practice, and they foist their mindsets on unsuspecting audiences. They are a necessary barometer of free societies: for every action, the unavoidable reaction. Yet, in my opinion, true art has always had it's roots in introspection. Art is a journey from the realms of the self to the non-self. The moment one undertakes the responsibility of making that trip, he / she invariably operates in the realm of spirituality. To be an artiste, therefore, is to be spiritual. Art is the language of the spirit. A non-spiritual artiste, thus, is a rare species. Q: Is the artist's nature the same as his spirit? A: Through constant 'sadhana', by virtue of an innate discipline in consequent expression, an artiste could attain a level of maturity that allows him / her to realize all his / her visions and his / her dreams, consistently, at the level of complete perfection. In that stratosphere, over time's passage, he /she could conceivably express his / her imagination through the process of conquering self-defining traits, so that his / her spirit is allowed free reign. What he / she expresses then is the spirit in it's full glory. Shorn of what is fleeting, devoid of the artiste, completely representing his / her art. The spirit is the art, then, the spirit is the artiste. There is a resplendent symmetry in the artiste's nature, his / her medium, and what it carries outward. Perhaps this is utopian, maybe it is an ideal as unattainable as the spirit itself. Perhaps that state of being is what characterizes saints who practice artforms - Thyagaraja is a case in point. In such states of consciousness physical existence is not a desire. Art outlives the artiste. Q: Is God an artiste? A: Can you ever believe that nature - our nature, beautiful, colorful, multivariate - , throbbing with a multitude of energies, seething with a billion forms extending well into the reaches of time and space, that this nature could ever be the work of a non-artiste? I believe God is the net essence of all knowledge, truth, energy and purity. He / She is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. That essence is achieved through several lifetimes of inculcating and honing of an ephemeral spirituality. The quest of a typical human lifetime is to harness it's skills, knowledge, capacity and deeds to move toward a sense of godliness. In that framework, we human beings are all engaged in the process of making art. An art that meshes with the grand order of natural process - the ultimate work of art. In that order worlds exist in majestic splendor to sustain life, and just as majestically self-destruct, so that newer worlds of fresher truths take their natural place. If that is not art, what is. If that is not the artiste's dream, what is. Q: What has been the role of God in your art? A: To me God represents exquisite energy: immaterial, immortal, eternal energy. As I create, I seek recourse to that perennial energy. I can seek to perfect my expressions that way. Work becomes a form of worship. I am able to sustain my spirits for interminable lengths of time. My creations take on a completeness of meaning. I seek symmetries with pieces of nature. Can my interpretation of a Raga induce it's natural mood in the ears and minds of my connoisseurs? I work within a divine frame of reference. I develop an aesthetic which is uniquely mine. I am more mature as an artiste because I- Shop: odax
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The Blacklist: The Complete Fifth Season
The Blacklist - Season 05 -Blu-ray - Feeling surprisingly unencumbered, Raymond Reddington (James Spader) is back, and in the process of rebuilding his criminal empire. His lust for life is ever-present as he lays the foundation for this new enterprise - one that he'll design with Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) by his side. Liz finds herself torn between her role as an FBI agent and the temptation to act on her more criminal instincts. In a world where the search for Blacklisters has become a family trade, Red will undoubtedly reclaim his moniker as the "Concierge of Crime." Number of discs: 5 Run Time: 945 minutes- Shop: odax
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Vibrational Osmosis
Since 2007, Wah-Wah Exit Wound has been playing progressive psychedelic music. Dave Webb (Girth, Asva), Warren Pease, and Bowie McLean form the power trio that reminds listeners how and why the simple lineup of guitar / bass / drums has ruled the world since the 60s. Drawing equally from King Crimson, Yes, Rush, and other classic prog bands, fusion greats Return to Forever and Tony Williams Lifetime, and the epic force of Neil Young with Crazy Horse, WWEW can easily blow the roof off a club, then stop on a dime to caress the audience back into the womb....before doing it all again. Originally formed by old friends Jared Nelson (no longer with the band) and Dave Webb, WWEW has steadily evolved. After recruiting Andy Pease on drums and Bowie McLean on bass the quartet hit the road and did a small west coast tour in spring '07. When they returned, the seeds of Earth is a Cannon of Love had been laid. The 2nd half of 2007 was spent hunkered down in Seattle, playing local shows and recording their debut. Huge walls of guitar, tender ballads, and breakneck time and feel changes...this record never fails to remain an interesting listen, but is balanced by the sensibilities of the songwriting team. Repeated listens will reveal layers of sonic landscapes and prove that the great rock record is not a thing of the past. This is progressive psychedelia at it's best. 2008 and 2009 have been busy years for Wah Wah. They've completed and toured in support of Vibrational Osmosis, a record that is close to all their hearts and can be seen as a massive step forward in character, insanity, and song-craft. The entire album could be described as more pure, the songs are more emotionally rich and honest, the technical aspects of the band have been captured as never before. In addition, the band's personality shines through on this record. There is an overall joy here, always buried in ominous layers of psychedelia. Quotes: 'Wah Wah Exit Wound is an emerging force to be reckoned with. It's a three-piece so taught and in sync with each other that the music is able to take over your ears, flowing with a soothing complexity that's so natural that those not so fond of prog-rock may not even notice, but those who are will fully appreciate the precision the band shows off. The bass and drum grooves provide a deep landscape for the shredding guitar to fly over and scream in cold blood it's truths of the world. The rushing walls of sound, a variety of genres mixed into the progressive style, are heavier and truer than their influences...All in all, if you want to see a powerful, confident, exciting, technically gifted band...than you've got an obvious choice.' --Teddy Dutton, LPM Voice, August 2009 '...songs...so serpentine and knotty, they must have taken 10-hour rehearsal days to master them. Seriously. These labyrinthine pieces sound great...while they're happening (thankfully, they aren't fooling about the wah-wah part of their moniker), but they're very hard to retain in your brain afterward. They dissipate like passages from a book written in a language you only half understand. But during them, it's like riding a roller coaster in a forest full of pine trees. Compliment.' --Dave Segal, The Stranger LineOut, 7/10/09 'After seeing WWEW a couple of times and listening to this CD this stuff is really pretty damn good! Kind of different than anything I can name, other than this weird Seattle loose-posse of like-minded players who have managed to mix all these styles into longform tracks that go fucking everywhere, but where it's going are sounds I can dig and not pretentious noise or drone cop-out bullshit so many others tend to get caught up in---you guys actually write shit and can execute it. It's very bizarre that Seattle has several units of such progresso pychedelics out there ahead of the fuckin game. It deserves a vinyl release to give it the psychological edge it deserves to create a timeless document.' --Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies), April 2008 'The quartet's monster guitars, attack-drums, and dramatic tempo changes are mysteriously heavy, darkly psychedelic, and you can actually hear how long the bass player's hair is. The result gratifies audience and musician alike in long, rock-operatic songs like 'Failed Spiraling Majesty.'' -- San Francisco Weekly, 2007.- Shop: odax
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