Thanks, Greg. I have the Vieux album that Guvera has. Ballake Sissoko I have yet to check out, but will.
ETA, turns out Ballake Sissoko is not on Guvera.
Another Brazillian artist on there is Cibelle. Pacifika is there, but only their singles and a pre-Six Degrees album (d/l'ed but not listened to). Lots of Banco de Gaia. Ohh, and Ben Neil. Check him out, definitely. Inventor of the mutantrumpet and taught music technology at MIT.
I discovered Thomas Fehlmann's "Lowflow" was on there last night; GP I thought you might be interested in that. Lowflow's on Plug Research, which has some other interesting things, like Daedelus.
I found "The Modern Red Norvo" last night; 2 discs, 42 tracks; the first 8 tracks are Norvo with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and others, and the rest are the complete trio sessions with Tal Farlow and Charles Mingus. That's on Savoy which has some other good things too...
If you have a lot of credits, I found an 18 Disk Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole trio! I'm curious about his early jazz trio stuff; he was supposed to have been an influence on other jazz pianists; even Tatum.
A couple of available labels that I'm not sure anyone's mentioned:
Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL). Label started by Thievery Corporation. Lots of electronic lounge music. Highlights include Chris Joss, Ursula 1000, Thunderball. If you like this genre, you almost can't go wrong with anything on the label. If you download nothing else, at least grab Chris Joss' "Wrong Alley Street (Part 1)" which is the greatest, most bad-ass theme song to a blacksploitation movie that never existed.
Most of you are probably familiar with the Daptone label, but I just wanted to mention that they are on Guvera, in all their retro soul glory.
Also, starting today, I noticed that when I click on a song to add it to my library, I no longer have the option of adding it to a new playlist. Only existing playlists. Anyone else having that problem?
Also, starting today, I noticed that when I click on a song to add it to my library, I no longer have the option of adding it to a new playlist. Only existing playlists. Anyone else having that problem?
18 Disk Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole trio! I'm curious about his early jazz trio stuff; he was supposed to have been an influence on other jazz pianists; even Tatum.
@ac2 - The Nat King Cole trio stuff is primo - they swung hard and Nat was truly kinda badass on the piano, and Oscar Moore was a terrific guitarist - great tone, almost prescient at times of what was to grow out of jazz and jump blues into R&R, similar to Carl Hogan on some of the Louis Jordan sides.
That Bashung album is superb, I must say. Think crossing Talking Heads & XTC & Depeche Mode & B52's all together, now.
I don't care that I can't understand the lyrics.
The Birkin albums had a few good tracks, but the Bashung is good all the way through.
@Katrina: There is a website to read Bashung's lyrics" Bashung in English. His legacy is very large right now, being credited with having successfully married Chanson and Rock. His most celebrated album is Fantaisie Militaire. The double live album, Tourn
Just found that G has Insane Times - 25 British Psychedelic Artyfacts From the EMI Vaults, a most entertaining comp that I have the CD of, but G has a 30 song bonus version as found on this Amazon MP3 page, so I got me the five bonus tracks - far out!
Re that Nat King Cole Trio set, if I like the first one or two I've heard but am not ready to say I need the whole 18 disk set, is there any advice on which subset to go for? Any classic albums represented in there?
I prefer the tracks without singing.
@anose - a bit of a problem happened with creating a new playlist with a new track, it is being fixed and released in the next few hours. Again, a few small fixes to come today as well.
Nothing to report on yet GP, sorry, other items are still taking priority but the work is still happening in the background.
For those interested in Mobile, http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=379258938837815 -- #1 in the Aus Music section for iPhone! US is "coming along soon!".
So I'd avoided Guvera for ages, based on an earlier look and the processes I heard about to use it. But since so many are enthusiastic about it as a source, I signed up to check it out. While it's nice to be able to stream ECM, I still find the almost-exclusively track-oriented interface nearly intolerable. I must be missing something - it seems that an artist search will yield only tracks, and that you cannot see what albums there are unless you can parse titles from the small album art?? Is that really the case? That seems crazy bad. Please tell me I'm doing something wrong.
Kargatron, there must be something because the average artist search should yield more - say Miles Davis - this should yield three columns of results, left to right, as Artists, being Miles Davis and any other group the words Miles Davis appears in, next Albums, being any album title in which Miles Davis appears, and third Tracks, yielding any track including Miles Davis.
Album titles with the artist name in it is certainly not the same as the albums found in the artist's catalog. Most artist searches simply list the artist's name, and clicking on it gives track listings. Blurgh.
You should be able to search by album title if you are looking for something specific. Also, when you click on an artist's name, and get that long list of tracks, if you click on any track title, it should take you to just the tracks for that album. Also also, if you click on a track title in the track search column, it should take you to all the tracks from that album.
What browser are you using? I've found it works well with chrome.
But yeah, it is not the best search engine at all. Nothing like the old emu exploring; but the price can't be beat!
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ETA, turns out Ballake Sissoko is not on Guvera.
Small software update today, to fix a few small bugs (nothing mentioned here so far).
Back at work, hope you are all prepared for 2013!
Also got some French pop - Jane Birkin & Alain Bashung. Haven't listened to it yet; it's on the ipod for tomorrow:
If you have a lot of credits, I found an 18 Disk Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole trio! I'm curious about his early jazz trio stuff; he was supposed to have been an influence on other jazz pianists; even Tatum.
Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL). Label started by Thievery Corporation. Lots of electronic lounge music. Highlights include Chris Joss, Ursula 1000, Thunderball. If you like this genre, you almost can't go wrong with anything on the label. If you download nothing else, at least grab Chris Joss' "Wrong Alley Street (Part 1)" which is the greatest, most bad-ass theme song to a blacksploitation movie that never existed.
Most of you are probably familiar with the Daptone label, but I just wanted to mention that they are on Guvera, in all their retro soul glory.
Also, starting today, I noticed that when I click on a song to add it to my library, I no longer have the option of adding it to a new playlist. Only existing playlists. Anyone else having that problem?
Yup.
I don't care that I can't understand the lyrics.
The Birkin albums had a few good tracks, but the Bashung is good all the way through.
I prefer the tracks without singing.
Savall fans, rejoice! I gave up trying to find this one. Seach for "Por que llorax ..." and pick one of the tracks. 18 total tracks, 130 minutes.
Also in the vein of Greek-Sephardic-Turkish music:
Sumiglia by Savina Yannatou (search by the title)
Found Fantasie Militaire on Guvera & just DL'd it.
Again, a few small fixes to come today as well.
For those interested in Mobile, http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=379258938837815 -- #1 in the Aus Music section for iPhone! US is "coming along soon!".
ETA, missing album-only track in vol 1, sadly
What browser are you using? I've found it works well with chrome.
But yeah, it is not the best search engine at all. Nothing like the old emu exploring; but the price can't be beat!
Craig