Chyi Yu & other: 2008

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Blackland Farmer

NOT to be confused with the Scottish blues rocker of the same name, this Frankie Miller is a superb Texas honky tonker.

He's also one of those unlucky souls to have his brilliant music languish in the formidable shadow of George Jones.

But as this exciting triple CD shows, Miller deserves a wider listenership than his cult artist status has so far allowed.

The 96 tunes, spanning 1956 to the late '60s, include all his cuts for the famous Starday label, demos, radio stuff and interviews - all the usual Bear Family bells and whistles.

Backed by Texas stalwarts and Nashville hot shots from the days when that city had soul, Miller covers a lot of terrain, from rocking juke box fodder and truck driving tunes to downhome homilies such as Family Man and the splendidly hateful Just for Spite.

Miller is riveting. His soulful wail is deep country of the sort likely to have country fans used to less astringent contemporary styles ducking for cover. And that's high praise.

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Sunday, 31 August 2008

Mp3 music: Cosmic Jokers

Artist: Cosmic Jokers: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Electronic

Cosmic Jokers's discography:

Planeten Sit In

Year: 1974

Tracks: 13

Galactic Supermarket

Year: 1974

Tracks: 2

Cosmic Jokers

Year: 1974

Tracks: 5

One clarence Shepard Day Jr. in 1974, Manuel GÃ¶ttsching, guitarist for the fabled Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, walked into a Berlin criminal record fund and heard some wildly cosmic guitar sounds blaring from the speakers. He was aghast to get word of honor that he was listening to a novel Krautrock supergroup, and that he in fact was the guitarist. The Cosmic Jokers were the superlative Krautrock supergroup that never was, a cosmic joke even on to the highest degree of the musicians world Health Organization played on the roger Huntington Sessions, unbeknown they were members of this newfangled "mathematical group." Over various months in early 1973, producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser unionized several wild acid parties at Dieter Dierks' good studio, where the musicians played in exchange for a modest fee and all the hallucinogens they could consume. These musicians included GÃ¶ttsching and Klaus Schulze of Ash Ra Tempel, Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf of Wallenstein, and Dierks himself. They had all been part of the Cosmic Couriers, a loose group that had musically backed Kaiser-produced records by Swiss artist/poet Sergius Golowin, gipsy Tarot-reader Walter Wegmuller, and even acid guru Timothy Leary the family before.

From these 1973 roger Sessions, the Cosmic Jokers were innate, as Kaiser and Dierks emended and interracial the real and slapped it tabu on vinyl on Kaiser's Kosmiche Musik label without the other musicians knowledgeable anything about it until the records appeared in stores, regular as their pictures were posted prominently on the covers. The self-titled first base album followed in speedy succession by Astronomic Supermarket (which actually wasn't credited to the Cosmic Jokers when it originally came out) and Planeten Sit-In, all released in 1974. In that same class came out iI other records later credited to the Cosmic Jokers, the Kosmische Musik tag sampler Sci-Fi Party, and Gilles Zeitschiff (or "Jill's Timeship"). This last album featured Gille Lettmann, Kaiser's girlfriend at the sentence, besides known as Sternenmadchen, narrating over music pillaged from assorted earlier Kosmische Musik releases. By at present the unpaid musicians were quite resentful, and Zeitschiff, where they play second diddle to Kaiser's girlfriend, was the last stalk for Klaus Schulze, wHO soon took legal action against the increasingly megalomaniac Kaiser. By 1975, all the albums were indrawn until the musicians rights could be sorted out and Kaiser was run out of the nation by the authorities, his record empire destroyed. Though some people at the time disparaged these records as a bad gimmick and ane of the worst examples of blatant creative person heist, and Schulze noneffervescent reviles them, the fact can't be denied that these ar some of the topper records of dead tripped-out German cosmic outer space stone ever made.

Monday, 11 August 2008

Cough Affects Lives In Different Ways

�Cough is a symptom of many respiratory diseases; however, a new study shows that chronic cough may affect quality of life differently, based on a patient's disease.

Researchers from Ireland administered trio health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires to 147 outpatients (inveterate cough, n=83; COPD, n=18; asthma, n=20; and bronchiectasis, n=26).

Although the magnitude of cough-specific HRQoL deadening was like among all groups of respiratory disease, subdomain wads revealed that patients with chronic cough suffer from more psychosocial issues than patients with bronchiectatics, just they have less functional impairment than patients with COPD.

Furthermore, there was a substantial difference in generic health status across the quartet disease groups, with the poorest health status in patients with COPD. This study is published in the August issue of the journal CHEST.

This study is promulgated in the August issue of the journal CHEST.

About CHEST

CHEST is the official publication of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Each month it features cutting edge original research in the multidisciplinary specialties of bureau medicine, such as pulmonology, critical concern, sleep medicine, cardiorespiratory interactions, thoracic surgical operation, transplantation, airways disease, and more. CHEST also features Recent Advances, Topics in Practice Management, Medical Writing Tips, Pearls, Chest Imaging and Pathology for Clinicians, Contemporary Reviews, and a great deal, much more. Editorials and communications to the editor explore controversial issues and encourage farther discussion by physicians transaction with chest of drawers medicine. More than 30,000 readers worldwide turn to CHEST each month to keep up-to-date on the in style in chest-related medicine.

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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Broken Social Scene gets behind 'All of Us'

Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene [ ] has elongated its coming "For All of Us" tour into the fall.

The outing, which supports cofounder Brendan Canning's debut solo effort, kicks off this weekend at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. The band is scheduled to hit a slate of US and Canadian festivals in August, and then visit clubs and theaters from the Midwest to the East Coast in October. Details are included below.

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The spell will feature of speech Broken Social Scene [ ] as a seven-piece including ring staples Canning, Kevin Drew, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Apostle of Hustle's Andrew Whiteman, Sam Goldberg and Leon Kingstone.

Canning's new set, "Something for All of Us ...," is the minute release in the "Broken Social Scene Presents" series on the band's own Arts & Crafts label. As expected, fellow BSS bandmates accompany Canning on the album, as well as contributors including Lisa Lobsinger, Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies, Lou Reed), Liz Powell (Land Of Talk) and Liam O'Neil (The Stills).

"This record, for me, is not a brobdingnagian departure from what we do as BSS," Canning explained in a statement. "It's a natural progression really, and these songs will sure as shooting be a part of the live performances to come, as Broken Social Scene."

The album, which dropped last week, follows last year's "Broken Social Scene Presents" offering, "Spirit If ...," helmed by Kevin Drew. The approaching tour will also feature of speech material from that phonograph recording, as substantially as BSS's back catalog.

Drew and Canning formed the Juno-winning collective in 1999. Broken Social Scene's up-to-the-minute release outdoor of the "Presents" series is its 2005 self-titled set, which cracked The Billboard 200 and landed in the Top 10 on the independent albums chart.

[Note: The following hitch dates experience been provided by artist and/or circuit sources, world Health Organization verify its accuracy as of the publication clock time of this story. Changes may come before go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]

August 20082 - Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza2 - Chicago, IL - Metro4 - Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Music and Arts Festival8 - Regina, Saskatchewan - Regina Folk Festival10 - Edmonton, Alberta - Edmonton Folk Music Festival15 - Ottawa, Ontario - Ottawa Folk Festival21 - Salt Lake City, UT - Twilight Concert Series22 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues23 - Los Angeles, CA - Sunset Junction Street Festival24 - San Francisco, CA - San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Arts FestivalOctober 20088 - Grand Rapids, MI - Calvin College11 - Madison, WI - Wisconsin Union Theatre13 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue14 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown16 - Kansas City, MO - Beaumont Club17 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note18 - St. Louis, MO - The Gargoyle19 - Urbana, IL - Foellinger Auditorium21 - Richmond, VA - Toad's Place22 - Falls Church, VA - The State Theatre24 - Brooklyn, NY - Masonic Temple25 - Brunswick, ME - Bowdoin College26 - Boston, MA - The Wilbur Theatre

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Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Alio Die and Mortar

Artist: Alio Die and Mortar

   Genre(s):
Ambient

Discography:

Split Tape

Year: 2000
Tracks: 10

Saturday, 21 June 2008

Ustad Vilayat Khan with Zakir Hussain (Table)

Artist: Ustad Vilayat Khan with Zakir Hussain (Table)

   Genre(s):
Ethnic

Discography:

Captivating Melodies of Sitar

Year:
Tracks: 2

Misirli Ahmet

Ferrell planning Anchorman sequel

The writer/ director of Will Ferrell's 2004 hit comedy 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' has said that a sequel is being planned.
Adam McKay confirmed that both he and Ferrell will begin work on the follow-up within the next couple of years.
McKay told Collider.com: "I'm looking to do another movie, I might do this other movie called 'Channel 3 Billion', which is kind of this science fiction/Brazil type comedy.
"Then after that, Will and I are like 'let's do Anchorman 2'... so you're talking like two years, maybe we'll do it. But we're going to do it for sure."
McKay and Ferrell previously worked together on 2006 comedy 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'.

Armstrong Dodges Father's Day Questions After Celebrating With Hudson

Latest: Cycling champion Lance Armstrong is still refusing to confirm his relationship with Kate Hudson, despite the pair spending Father's Day together with their kids. The couple has been romantically linked since they were spotted kissing and cuddling during a party at the Cannes International Film Festival in France in May - and have fuelled speculation by dodging questions on the subject, while repeatedly being photographed together. Armstrong and Hudson spent Sunday in New York with the actress's ex-husband Chris Robinson, their young son Ryder and Armstrong's own three children. But when he was asked about his day on The Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday , he smirked and refused to acknowledge Hudson was even with him. Armstrong said, "I hung out. My kids were here with me in New York City with me so we had a brunch thing and then we went to go see this movie the Incredible Hulk."

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Michael and Klein,Lars Burkat

Artist: Michael and Klein,Lars Burkat

   Genre(s):
Electronic

Discography:

The One Family Thing

Year: 2003
Tracks: 18

Holocaust

Artist: Holocaust

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Primal

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, Holocaust were formed in the tardy '70s, and featured singer Gary Lettice, guitarists John Mortimer and Ed Dudley, bassist Robin Begg, and drummer Nicky Arkless. Like many New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands, Holocaust edit out their teeth in local clubs during the waning days of punk rock, earlier finally scoring an independent criminal record deal and issuance 1981's seminal The Nightcomers. Though commercially unsuccessful, the album has remained a favorite of the genre and was by and by cited as a major influence by members of Metallica, world Health Organization covered the song "The Small Hours" from the band's subsequent release, 1983's Live -- Hot Curry and Wine. But the band was already experiencing internal strife and fell apart earlier the recording of 1984's illogical No Man's Land, which featured sole living original member John Mortimer treatment vocals, guitars, and basso, and backed by drummer Steve Cowen. Five days would clear in front the duette (along with bassist David Rosie) resurrected Holocaust once over again, expiration on to release a issue of solid efforts, including 1989's The Sound of Souls, 1992's Hypnosis of Birds, 1996's Strong drink Fly, and 1997's Covenant. 2003 saw the band's work self-possessed on the anthology Smokin Valves

James Dean Gallery moves back to original home in Fairmount, Indiana

Zhou Yu and Ensemble

Artist: Zhou Yu and Ensemble

   Genre(s):
Ethnic

Discography:

Master Of The Chinese Erhu

Year: 1997
Tracks: 7

Plugs return to the live fold with sweaty London gig

Plugs, fronted by Does It Offend You Yeah?'s Morgan Quaintaince, played their first gig since their singer's other band took off on Friday (June 6).

Because of Does It Offend You Yeah?'s touring committments, the group have not been able to gig recently, but bassist David Chin told NME.COM that the Camden Barfly show had seen them moving out from underneath the other band's shadow.

�We were outside earlier and a guy approached Morgan asking 'Are you that guy from Plugs?',� he joked.

"I hope we'll be playing more and more," added Quaintaince. "It's good to be getting our own following."

The show itself saw the band playing for a packed sweaty crowd, that included singer Shingai Shoniwa, with the likes of last single 'That Number' and forthcoming release 'Imaginary Friends' .

Mundanus Imperium

Artist: Mundanus Imperium

   Genre(s):
Metal: Power
   Metal: Thrash
   Metal: Progressive

Discography:

The Spectral Spheres Coronation

Year: 1998
Tracks: 8

The Spectral Spheres Coronatio

Year: 1998
Tracks: 8

Ode to The Nightsky

Year: 1997
Tracks: 3

Taking various influences in alloy and classical, Germany's Mundanus Imperium clue more towards the complexities of orchestrated arrangements rather than the traditional verse-chorus-verse styling of ludicrous hairsbreadth bands. Consisting of Jorn Lande (vocals), Petter J. Thuve (guitar), Bent E. Holm (keyboards) and Lars Wiik (drums, bass part), Nuclear Blast Records took a beam to Mundanus Imperium song writing try and released their debut full-length "Spectral Spheres Cornation" in 1998.

Infadels, Universe In Reverse

Having come to our attention when John Peel declared himself a supporter, as well as winning a Diesel Award, the London-based fivesome, Infadels, signed to Wall Of Sound and knocked out a cracking debut album with the hoho title of We Are Not The Infadels. Along with ‘sixth member’ and all-round sonic genius, Jagz Kooner, assisting, they combined to create a merry noise that fitted nicely into their dance-based template.

After that initial success, the band became an undeniably exciting live prospect, grooving their stink around the world's venues. Now back after a wobbly couple of years, Bnann, Wag, Richie, Matt and Alex, along with uber producer, Youth, are fighting fit, with an eye on wider vistas than the confines of the dance tent.

Buoyed by the splendidly jumpy, singalong single Free Things For Poor People, which should be the first song anyone will reach for when traipsing into work on a sunny morning, the rest of Universe In Reverse certainly shows a more pop direction. Circus Of The Mad pumps along like a less irritating Hard-Fi, and the likes of Play Blind and Chemical Girlfriend have slight echoes of Snow Patrol. Code 1, on the other hand, would be a cracking set-opener, showcasing their hybrid perfectly.

Universe In Reverse doesn't outstay its welcome, and works perfectly in certain environments. While you're not hurrying to play it again, there's a handful of great moments to revisit. One thing's for certain; Infadels will win over plenty of new friends on the festival circuit this summer.

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