This months freebie with the Naxos Newsletter subscription. What with the cover proudly displaying the length of the recording and the DDD description - it really does feel like a time warp. A mere 37 years ago.
New album just released by Cameron Blake. It's kind of a singer-songwriter/free jazz mashup album with a little dash of dixieland and opera, all improvised in a two-day session. There's a making-of-the-album film at the above link. Cameron is local to me and we just started getting to know him and his wife - had them round for lunch a couple of weeks ago. The album's really interesting - give it a listen, and maybe check out the video for Athena (a part of the first track), which was made by a really young local filmmaker:
Had a reply from Christopher Conway, when I bought this during Bandcamp Friday "I honestly can’t remember the last time we sold one." I find that sad.
I've only recently bought some other Chris Conway music so I shall have to take a look here and maybe add to his medical woes. [All of five minutes later - I've joined the club!]
Had a reply from Christopher Conway, when I bought this during Bandcamp Friday "I honestly can’t remember the last time we sold one." I find that sad.
I also got an email from Chris Conway and like a complete felon also asked for other crimes to be taken into consideration, that is buying five other albums from the Planet Scanners and Scanner Game groups. I also explained my connection here and via Audion / Ultima Thule / Auricle.
"Live in London" by Christone "Kingfish" Ingram. I saw him live at the Byron Bay Bluesfest this April and believe that he is amongst the very best current Blues artists.
The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards and won Album of the Year at the 2024 Blues Music Awards.
All Music says "It's a beautifully recorded, incendiary gig captured in the moment..........Live in London provides more evidence that Ingram is a force to be reckoned with: Not only can he play like the legends, but he's an original vocalist, a solid songwriter, and a disciplined bandleader."
Here is one of the best tracks "Midnight Heat" but if you're into the Blues, I would strongly recommend listening to the whole album.
Proving once again there is no predicting what my memory will recall, I thought the name Chris Conway rang familiar as one of my first "discoveries" when I began checking out the Jazz section in Bandcamp back in 2011(!). And I was right. His album "4am" gets mentioned in one of the very first posts on the Throwing Punches at the Hurricane thread.
It genuinely makes me laugh at the changes since then. Back then, it was such a dearth of options for jazz at BC that I was willing to include new age-y instrumental music on my list just because it kind of faintly resembled something you'd hear on ECM perhaps AND the volume was so little I could actually try to document it all on a forum post, to today, with a deluge of jazz on BC to where it would be easier to list the jazz NOT retailing on the site, and also, holy shit, I've gone from posting about jazz on BC on random forums to actually posting about jazz on Bandcamp at Bandcamp Daily lol.
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This months freebie with the Naxos Newsletter subscription. What with the cover proudly displaying the length of the recording and the DDD description - it really does feel like a time warp. A mere 37 years ago.
https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/can-you-prove-i-was-born
Shuttle358 - Can You Prove I Was Born
Awakenings by MANJA RISTIĆ
@amclark2 your post sent me back to this.
A bit of Ghana Highlife for a wet and miserable Monday.
https://eveadams.bandcamp.com/album/american-dust
I got all 4 of the releases.
He might be having a heart attack now.
Considering adding a seizure to the heart attack.
P.S. This has to be a first. All three of the paying supporters on bandcamp for this album are emusers.
Really enjoying this one
The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards and won Album of the Year at the 2024 Blues Music Awards.
All Music says "It's a beautifully recorded, incendiary gig captured in the moment..........Live in London provides more evidence that Ingram is a force to be reckoned with: Not only can he play like the legends, but he's an original vocalist, a solid songwriter, and a disciplined bandleader."
Here is one of the best tracks "Midnight Heat" but if you're into the Blues, I would strongly recommend listening to the whole album.