Saturday, February 12, 2011

Plantar Wart Begins As Hole

ESCREET JOHN - "Do not Fight The Inevitable "(2010) by Freddiejazz.






British pianist John Escreet is a gifted young musician whose reputation as a composer and instrumentalist continues to grow. DO NOT FIGHT THE INEVITABLE, his second album leadeur after the spirited CONSEQUENCES (published by Post Tone in 2008), the company presents the cream of musicians from New York, around a downright exciting. The music he offers here is a contemporary jazz that is both intense and complex, with this very unique and very identifiable shape melodic lines without necessarily reconsider interactions between the various components of speech. In short, there was a surprising, invigorating, and totally unexpected. Somehow, the piano playing is between that of Herbie Hancock (for science harmonies, flowing melodic lines, the complexity of the agreements) and Cecil Taylor (for contemporary look, the speech délinéarités The work on dissonance).

Favoring the configuration of any acoustic quintet, pianist nevertheless offers music that, in essence, is the opposite of post-bop revivalism so dear to Wynton Marsalis and Roy Hargrove. The quintet is almost identical to that of CONSEQUENCES, except that the drummer Nasheet Waits Tyshawn Sorey replaces . Waits is asked everywhere. After his tenure at Fred Hersch, Dave Douglas then Jason Moran (it is now part of the trio of the latter), drummer slips effortlessly into the line-up, composing a pair with outstanding rhythmic bass Matt Brewer (which was already heard on the side of Gonzalo Rubalcaba) . The rhythm is so strong, flexible, offering breathtaking reminders.



saxophonist David Binney

Currently, the craze for the pianist's least in Europe, seems limited, and that's a shame. A jazzman friend told me recently that his music was "too cerebral". Personally, I do not want to see go the way of pianist Brad Mehldau , by engaging in commercial projects and syrupy, drained of their essence, which is far from being the case here. Because only casually, the style of percussive pianist, his notes and clear beaded comparable Falls Lake Victoria, or on a creek lost in the wilds of Montana, offers a dizzying imagination. One might add that his style is a successful combination, a summary brought to perfection between bop, modal and free jazz. Also, walks are clear and beautiful to cry (her duet with absolute saxophonist David Binney , "Gone But Not Forgotten " track 7) deserves its own acquisition of this cake that I put Jazz among the greatest achievements of the year 2010).


The other beaches show a surprising vitality. Creation as I see fit. Music by John Escreet illuminates a musical personality, which, far from emerging as a monolithic, may prove better than ever in its fluidity and mobility, and an attraction to the mystery, as in Wayne Shorter . In the title track, "Do not Fight the Inevitable", for example, the offender, the art of dissolver boundaries, with its fashion, Borders in respect of the invention, the route of travel is strictly shortérien. The game, far from superfluous vagrancy, gave the impression that the thought of each musician is inseparable from the movement (" Soundscape", "Civilization on Trial ). The sense of drama is magnified here by musicians at the top of their art: David Binney on alto sax, Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet (the trumpeter never looked so brilliant, his style, his sense of space and height recall from far and near, as is the sorcerer black , Miles Davis ...), while both give incredible relief this music that is far short of the beaten track, this disc demonstrates a rhetoric that is both original and unheard, whose wording seems accomplished and in form and substance. Masterpiece.

Here's a video of the quintet Lars Dietrich (alto sax) performing " Gullin brust " Escreet with John at the piano, which gives us a solo of a high technical level:







Escreet John "Do not Fight the Inevitable" (Tone in Post, 2010)

1. Civilization On Trial 8:40
2. Do not Fight the Inevitable 11:47
3. Soundscape
3:10 4. Chemical Magic (For the Future) 12:48
5. In the Charlie Parker
3:49 6. Disorder and Activity
7:41 7. Gone But Not Forgotten 2:50
8. World avaricious 10:09

Friday, February 11, 2011

What Is The Irony Offull Circle By Sue Grafton

Willy Vlautin" DUE NORTH "(2008), by Foxy Lady


Leaving Las Vegas
While I wandered into a bookstore aimlessly, a novel me just called ... sometimes, it happens, a sort of love at first sight .... The book in question is the second novel by Willy Vlautin " Full North . Besides being a talented writer, Willy Vlautin, 43, is also the leader of the rock band Richmond Fontaine . Originally from Reno, he depicts in his novel, he lives in Portland. Literary critics see him as the heir of Raymond Carver or John Fante.


Full North depicts the journey of Allison Johnson, a girl of 22 years, totally clueless, alcoholic, a victim of bad meetings, to whom life seems to have made any gifts. A youth with no future, who can not or she is going, or why it exists ... Dreams and illusions forever lost ...


The book opens with a scene untenable dead drunk Allison is driven by its Jimmy boyfriend in the bathroom of a casino. There, he rapes her, she can not say no, she did not have the strength to resist. The scene is pretty raw, violent ... of entry, one is in the heart of the matter is steep, hard to take, but it continues because the middle This distress and horror of this, one senses an element of light, ethereal beauty, something beautiful behind the mud and humiliation.

When she discovers she is pregnant, Allison decides to chuck everything. She left Las Vegas, his mother, his sister and her boyfriend too violent, trying to rebuild itself and especially to their child in the shelter of a racist father and unstable. Allison's journey is marked by injuries, but she rises, do not give up and commit the act of love the most beautiful and most desperate to be a young mother: she decides to adopt her child.



With this story being skinned alive, Vlautin (above) touched my heart. More than a story about the journey of a young girl full of dignity, which asks only to live like others, without fear of the future, without fear of his inner demons, not in fear of resurgence in his review existence of the man she left due north is the story of a long rebuilding but possible. Vlautin never remits the maudlin or voyeurism, he makes his characters of being out of the ordinary in search of freedom and respect, who despite injuries and violence they have suffered break out. On his way, Allison will have many encounters: TJ Watson, truck driver, Penny Pearson, with whom she works at night. The finest of his meetings are probably the one with Dan Mahony: two solitudes, two beings messed up just waiting to feel tame exist, and who knows? again pleased to learn ... Dan Mahony, "The Scarface", has a scar on his face, a certain point of view, each with its brands and its wounds, to Dan, it's a bad fight with dirty types who crushed forever.

I enjoyed the moments or Allison speaks with Paul Newman , which she knows by heart the entire filmography: he represents the ideal man, one who does not disappoint, small inner voice that even in his darkest moments, pushes her to get up, stop drinking, to resume his studies and to believe again in love. With him, she does not cheat, the dialogues between them are full of tenderness, the little twist of the novel is also the moments or Allison seems as: touching and very vulnerable.

Vlautin me alternately troubled and upset, because his writing is a rare accuracy, almost disconcerting ... Here, there is no pretense, the style is pure and sincere, steeped in humanity, and even when he describes scenes of absolute hardness, Vlautin leaves room for light and slowly lift the veil of despair ... It gives honor Allison found and more importantly, beyond d some form of redemption, the possibility of being happy again. At least that's what we hope for the end of the novel leaves us feeling bittersweet.

Roman punch, Full North is one of those books that shake us and we leave an indelible mark.

A book tender, poignant, shocking and cruel to be known as life.

As it is not so easy to end a love story, I decided to prolong the pleasure of meeting with an author who has touched me, reading Motel Life, which I probably talk soon.

To read about the music of Johnny Cash also very present in the novel by Willy Vlautin, playback will be more beautiful.






(256 pages, Albin Michel, collection "Land of America", released in November 2010)

small gift home, we listen Richmond Fontaine:



Thursday, February 10, 2011

Quotes About Losing A Loved One To Cancer

DEEP PURPLE" MACHINE HEAD "(1972) by Luc B.







October 4, 1969, Deep Purple is in concert in Montreux.



In Europe, the album was released FIREBALL in September 1971. DEEP PURPLE enchaine concerts, TV passages, but the album did not stay long at the head of sales. Commercially, it is almost a failure, the views of the hopes of a successor to the album IN ROCK (1970) which had marked the spirits. Titles FIREBALL do not pass the test stage. The group plays songs from the first three albums, 1968-69, as "Wring That Neck" or "Mandrake root", in versions each time stretched over nearly thirty minutes. DEEP PURPLE severe shortage of material. The musicians quickly compose two songs "Highway Star" and "Lazy" (originally a long improvisation, boogie that Blackmore quilted Clapton, a pretext for extending chorus) that the singer Ian Gillan on stage and announced: "Titles our next album. "

In October-November 1971, the group is touring the United States. Gillan falls ill, and Roger Glover singer improvised time some concerts, but the group should pack up and returned to England. Forced rest. And the opportunity to look ahead ...
And already Ritchie Blackmore (guitarist) is considering to christen the new album: MACHINE HEAD. To put what is not known, but there's already the title! We remember that for FIREBALL , drummer Ian Paice had recorded its parts outside the studio, in a corridor, to benefit from better acoustics. The group wants to push the experience further, and they agree to save, not at a professional studio. And outside Great Britain. Why? Blackmore asks tone. " To avoid that taxes fall on us ! There is probably a background of reality, but in fact the real reason lies elsewhere. DEEP PURPLE had already occurred at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and had sympathized with Claude Nobs who worked at the local Tourist Office and founder of the festival. But the idea of the group was to record an album in live conditions, on stage, but in a room vacuum, without an audience! However, the hall of the casino in Montreux was the perfect place, and Claude Nobs had convinced the co-organizers of the festival to give him the room for three weeks. For the management, the microphones are connected to a truck parked outside, a little technological marvel, called "The Rolling Stones' mobile truck, built at the request of Mick Jagger in 1968, then used by the Stones Villefranche-sur-Mer, for recording EXILE ON MAIN STREET (and Led Zep, The Faces, The Who ...). To thank Claude Nobs, the group had planned, once the album is completed, to do a real concert, with the public, which would be recorded too, and would be subject to a second drive. MACHINE HEAD was therefore expected to have a disk "studio" and record "live".

The group arrives in Switzerland 6 December 1971, and attended the evening's final concert of the season at the Montreux Casino, that gives Frank Zappa . During the concert, a spectator pulls a flare toward the roof, covered with strips of bamboo, fire instantaneously. Frank Zappa, calmly announces something like, "uh, I think it is now Cramer, thank you to leave here in peace ... "The room literally ablaze, firefighters will control two days in the fire. Zappa used his Gibson to break a large window, and evacuate the spectators. And dreams of Ritchie Blackmore fly, as the thick black smoke above the icy waters of Lake Geneva ... (it's nice eh? But it's not really me, you will understand later ...). The question for the group now is: where to save? They try a fallout shelter (yeah, they are in Switzerland!) But its not worth anything, then settle in a theater, the "Pavilion". Martin Birch the sound engineer, complained of the echo, and the scene is closed by curtains. The group rehearses a new theme, a riff idea of Richie Blackmore. After two trials, the piece is in the box and hear the results coming out in the truck-studio, the group realizes that the police knocking at the doors of the theater (blocked by rodies) alerted by the noise unbearable In the night! The song in question, which has not yet text will become "Smoke on the Water"



Ian Paice on drums and Jon Lord on keyboards, in the corridors of the hotel.

With the help of Claude Nobs, they then inverting the Grand Hotel Montreux little crowded during the winter. The lobby, corridors, some rooms are carpeted cover, electric cables run along the ground. Each isolated in a corridor, a bedroom, a corridor, linked by headsets. A dreadful maze, and Roger Glover remembers to take to the streets and join the truck studio, they had to go through rooms, balconies and bathroom in a row the group gets along well and works fast. In two weeks the album will be completed. Besides "Highway Star" and "Lazy" (reworked and more compact), the band recorded six new songs, inspired by their experience in Montreux.



Ritchie Blackmore, the man in black in the character of a dog, never satisfied.




The album was released in April 1972 and was a huge success. This generates money, much money, so far as the musicians were divided into five equal parts. The compositions are the result of jams (= collective improvisation sessions) difficult to designate a particular author, but some members feel they are more author such a piece, the neighbor. The tension mounts. Blackmore told reporters: " yes, I think we will spend the next year ... hopefully .

A lot just before turn 45, it will be "Never before" considered by the group as a hit irrefutable, their finest creation. Result: a total flop! Suddenly, the B-side goes to the dustbin of history, with "When A Blind Man Cries." But the album himself, sells, much, much, ranks first in the UK charts, and " Smoke on the Water "is the single that DEEP PURPLE waiting for years, the group's favorite song, anthem unbeatable Hard Rock 70's, one hundred thousand times scratched by apprentices guitarists of all stripes, until today yet.

- Quick, you're hungry!
- Yes I'm coming! Here is the menu, choose it as the best, or rather not take it!

"Highway Star" : As usual, an album of DEEP PURPLE begins with a fast song, it is a model of its kind, stamped hard, that opens the concerts at this time. For his solo, Blackmore said he was inspired by JS Bach arpeggios, a gimmick he said in very original, but effective! Rather unusual at the time, the process has been to school for heavy metal guitarists ...

"Maybe I'ma Leo" originally called "One Just Before Midnight." The tempo is slower, but Ian Paice strives to enrich its partition by multiple figures, which sometimes give the impression that the downbeat shifts constantly, leaving a space as if suspended before its breaks. We hear two tracks of keyboards, hammond organ accompaniment, and an electric piano for the chorus. In its structure, this piece is neither more nor less than a blues ...!

"Pictures of home" tumbling to 100 mph on a ternary mode, boosted after an intro on drums. This title evokes the snowy mountains of Switzerland. The machine is run swing, a bridge on bass, hammond skids, and Blackmore splits two flawless chorus.


"Never before" released as a single in March 1972, " When A Blind Man Cries "B side, and although the group considers him a hit in power, the public does not adhere. While this song is in my view to the best of DEEP PURPLE . Intro drums, funky and exposure before starting aggressive. Again, typing Ian Paice hit their peak, combining binary and ternary. Jon Lord played on electric piano, sounds very rock'n'roll at all, airlift, and wham, Blackmore sends its chorus, concise, perfect. You'll understand that I love this track, I am not tired, year after year. If perfection exists, it is in these four minutes of music.


"Smoke on the Water" : arrrfff say ... that was never said! The lyrics evoke the group's adventure in Montreux, describing the burning of the casino, and how the musicians ended up at Grand Hotel. The group will sing to Claude Nobs, as a gag gift, saying that they do not count include in the album. Nobs suggest they think twice ... Beyond his famous intro (guitar riff, then the organ comes in, then the bass, the battery grafting on to As, charley first, and finally snare drum) it must be said and repeated that whole song is awesome and a vein in the R & B quintet mastered. An absolute killing. It seems that we should title of the song to Roger Glover (Smoke on the water = Smoke on the Water, referring to the fire, the song Funky Claude is Claude Nobs). Ian Gillan there is obviously wonders.

"Lazy" : re arrffff ... what about that firebrand timeless jazz-rock boogie that reigns on Olympus of genre, amazing swing, an original structure. After a long intro on the organ, exposed to the theme, three racks of guitar chorus, three organ, verse / chorus, harmonica intervention, before the second chorus guitar (grounds around the theme) and tempo change blues in 12 / 8 on the end. It's huge, grand, Everest is in good time, hitting his head against the walls. It may die after the consciousness of having finally hit rock nirvana! (Only that? Yes yes). Yet Blackmore was not fully satisfied, the chorus is also the assembly of two shots (a man decidedly demanding with himself ... that's what we said coyly when talking about personality changes, another term for the shit disturber!). The theme draws openly "Spettin 'out" by Eric Clapton (John Mayall period).

"Space Truckin '" : re re arrrfff ... the piece of hard-rock par excellence, speed tempo, howling Gillan, mini chorus of drums. A piece without the usual solo. The words are phrases and without logic, about the idea we had of a trip into space in the 50s. "Space truckin '" be quickly adapted to the stage in long (very long ...) musicians then developing improvisations, by abusing their equipment, thus supplanting "Mandrake root" in the role of défouloir song, played at the end of the concert.

"When a Blindman Cree" is not pressing on the 33 final round, Blackmore disliked this song (a shit disturber, I tell you ...). It is a slow-blues of rare purity, poignant, clear, crystalline, chorus Blackmore is crying beauty and simplicity, just built on a pattern and a few notes (a case study, approach after the jazz / blues). The organ plagued the latter part of the song, giving it a more dramatic tone. Gillan is also in sobriety. Faultless. The song returns to the detention of five members of the Grand Hotel in Montreux.
In a cold month, I'm his room
We found a reason for The Things We Have To Do
I'ma blind man, a blind man EMI, now my room
Is Cold When a Blind Man cries, Lord , you know, he feel it from His Soul.



Roger Glover, bassist, and designer bags of the group.




Well then, what about MACHINE HEAD if not rehash the superlatives about him. If "Picture-of-home may seem more basic than the other tracks, all songs on this disc are successful. Regrettably "Never before" or "Maybe I'ma Leo" not be played on stage, which seems to relegate to second place, while I say this with full authority that I deploy know when the situation demands: those are two brilliant songs. Soon after, DEEP PURPLE recorded a set for the BBC, a double album released years later, and it is to my knowledge the only resume that almost the entire MACHINE HEAD live. This is the album of the consecration, finally. It contains its share of classics, who once played on stage will take yet another dimension, a fantastic firepower, enabling musicians to display their virtuosity and their freedom of invention. This is the album that made me finally go in the "Rock" led me to the blues made me choose to play the drums. I love the sound of drums in this disc, like other instruments, the mix is perfect. There's this velvety bluezy few tips aggression is strong, sweet and nasty at times, is masterful! I had made, kid, a battery with buckets of paint, a trash can to the bass drum, pan lids as a cymbal, hanging by a thread to a ladder! And strove to imitate the style of Ian Paice on "Space truckin '". I also remember rerecorded "When A Blind Man Cries" with two magneto batteries, superimposing the tracks on my keyboard Bomtempi, a harmonica, flute, and a simulated battery. The tape piled where the tracks for play-back, while another allowed me to add a layer ... Once the song is stacked, the first track was almost inaudible! I'll have you done well to take this musical experimentation and sensory quite fascinating, but lawyers for Ritchie Blackmore ordered me to burn the tape ... unfair competition, it seems. I did not obey, and work has languished in I do not know what cardboard between two Sylvain and Sylvette ... But I digress, if I let myself go, on my vacation j'embraye Pornichet in 1974 ...



group before the truck studio.



In 1997, MACHINE HEAD spring with two CDs. The first, the eight tracks on the album, remixed slightly. Titles are more muted (not melted) and end the coup in lollipop, but I really like! And you can hear on alternative chorus "Smoke on the Water" or "Picture of home." Success is usually the version I listen to. For purists, the second CD offers the original recording, remastered, and two titles in quadraphonic. No bonus track, because the group had just recorded what they needed. No waste. Everything that had been made, has been kept, which was also the case for IN ROCK . With this disc DEEP PURPLE fiber revives the hard rock, left side when FIREBALL . Less metal, more bluezy, a perfect musical coherence, it confirms the orientation of the group to a raw music, borrows less psychedelic and progressive. An album recorded on the spot, the victim - so to speak - the circumstances which gave rise, and 40 years later, dominates my pantheon of pop music.

And you know what? Four months after the release of this album, the band entered the studio again, this time in Rome to record the latest installment of this training ... ... We will return



Well, enough of talking shop, music room . I will spare you "Smoke on the Water" which anyway will be in the curriculum of colleges next year, in English (read the second verse), geography (which countries they border on Lake Geneva?) in art history (from the influence of Deep Purple on the heavy metal), and mathematics (knowing that there are four black to an extent, How many are there in the sixteenth chorus?). A small

"Never before" because I love it, even if the version here (live) is not exactly the same, without a piano, and played a bit faster. Cons by mounting images is awful ...



"When a Blindman Cree" because it is less famous but beautiful. You can cry, nobody looks at you ...







MACHINE HEAD (1971, reissued in 1997)
1. "Highway Star" - 6:39
2. "Maybe I'm a Leo" - 5:25
3. "Pictures of Home" - 5:21
4. "Never Before" - 3: 59
5. "Smoke on the Water" - 6:18
6. "Lazy" - 7:33
7. "Space Truckin '" - 4:52
8. "When a Blind Man Cries" - 3:33


Other articles DEBLOCNOT'concernant this group:
http://ledeblocnot.blogspot.com/2010/09/deep-purple-in-rock-1970-par-luc-b.html

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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MOTÖRHEAD -" Better Motörhead Than Dead - Live At Hammersmith "CD (2007) by Vincent" Lemmy "The Chameleon



Everything Louder Than Everything Else .

Motörhead proves that this umpteenth Live still has faith and can still count on him to proudly carry the banner of Rock'n'Roll ... And for three decades at least. In 2007, Lemmy and his band does not yet seem ready to throw in the towel ... the better! This
Live, although published after album Kiss of Death , results from the previous tour, promoting the impeccable Inferno . The sound is powerful, very well produced, the atmosphere is electric and the band in great shape. The great "Classics" of the group are obviously present, and finally the packaging is really neat (the pictures from the book are absolutely stunning).

Phil Campbell (oooh fine or *****!) And Lemmy ... Of race!

Still, I enjoyed listening to benefit from new features (only three extracts from their latest album!) All heard these songs and re-heard in every issue of a new Live .. . There is enough in this group it seems. Especially since their last album more than worth the detour, and Lemmy itself acknowledges having a little tired of these eternal same songs, played at the expense of newer, and sometimes much higher than some of their most hits.
rejoice Let's see to still appear "Dr.Rock" (extract Orgasmatron ) opening the concert, and two excerpts of the controversial, but nonetheless excellent, Another Perfect Day ( "Dancing on Your Grave e" "I Got Mine ).

CD 1:
  1. Dr. Rock Stay Clean
  2. Shoot You In the Back
  3. Love Me Like a Reptile
  4. Killers
  5. Metropolis
  6. Love for Sale
  7. Over the Top
  8. No Class
  9. I Got Mine
  10. In the Name of Tragedy
  11. Dancing on your Grave
CD 2:
  1. R.A.M.O.N.E.S
  2. Sacrifice (with Drum solo)
  3. Just 'cos you got the Power
  4. (We are) The road Crew
  5. Going to Brazil
  6. Killed by Death
  7. Iron Fist Whorehouse Blues
  8. Bomber
  9. Ace of Spades Overkill
Note: Always about Live , 25 & Alive Boneshaker seems to me to be a greater interest in this category. The advantage of the image, certainly, but not only. I'll talk one of these 4... Promis !






"In The Name Of Tragedy" (album Inferno ):