• Best Of 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival 2009 - CD Out Now

    Dez 14 2009, 22h33 por musicdish



    Url: http://www.jazzsolopianofestival.com/

    Jan Matthies Records releases a live recording from the 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival at Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany. The event took place on 28th March 2009 on a Steinway & Sons Concert Grand - Model D.

    The 12-page booklet contains Liner Notes by Howard Mandel, president of the Jazz Journalists Association and senior contributor DOWNBEAT Magazine:

    "Best of 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival 2009 institutes a high standard for international solo jazz piano"

    "Mathias Claus, Bob Albanese and Ayako Shirasaki are devoted, virtuosic, daring and expressive pianists, who together assured that personal, spontaneous interpretation of classic repertoire was the focus of the 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival. …"

    Enjoy 3 swinging takes from each of the participating pianists:

    1. Hymn for the lost Souls - Mathias Claus
    2. Old Folks - Mathias Claus
    3. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise - Mathias Claus
    4. Manhattan - Bob Albanese
    5. Time remembered - Bob Albanese
    6. Morning Nocturne - Bob Albanese
    7. Con Alma - Ayako Shirasaki
    8. Someday my Prince will come - Ayako Shirasaki
    9. Lennies Pennies - Ayako Shirasaki

    Available now with audio samples on iTunes, cdbaby etc.

    Please contact info@jazzsolopianofestival.com for interview requests or further info.

    The International Jazz Solo Piano Festival is a project of JAN MATTHIES MUSIC MANAGEMENT.

    JAN MATTHIES MUSIC MANAGEMENT
    Jan Matthies
    Heidestrasse 30a
    22889 Tangstedt
    Germany

    office@janmatthies.com
    www.janmatthies.com

    Phone: +49 (0) 4109 277066
    Mobile: +49 (0) 170 4938226
  • FOWL As Sandy Claws

    Dez 9 2009, 2h46 por FOWLmusic

    As a special Christmas treat, I urge everyone to go check out FOWL's interpretation of Sandy Claws on Jerry Ford's excellent freaky musical promotion site In Protest of Boredom . Get the skinny on what the fat man is really up to, and why he does the bizarre things he does! Enjoy!
  • Give The Gift Of Music Promotion This Season With Mi2N Music PR

    Dez 3 2009, 15h09 por musicdish



    Url: http://www.mi2n.com/gift.php3

    As part of Mi2N's continuing efforts to make its services available to more artists/musicians, the company will begin offering the purchase of its Mi2N press release distribution services in the form of gift certificates for the upcoming holiday season. The decision to do so was quite logical, partially due to Mi2N's popularity as well as the current economic climate.

    "People love giving gifts to their friends and family for the holidays, but during economically challenging times, they tend to choose gifts that are more practical than fun. By giving an Mi2N PR Gift Certificate, you can do both. We offer several PR distribution packages to choose from, so you can support your favorite artist and without breaking the bank," said Eric de Fontenay, Mi2N's Founder and CEO.

    Ideal for artists and labels, as well as supporting promoters and agencies, the Mi2N Music PR service provides guaranteed press release placements through a network of newswires, eGroups, blog communities, boards and forums, as well as MP3 and video distribution. In addition to guaranteed PR placement, the packages provide exposure through the Mi2N website, and multiple other sources with target based distribution. Through Mi2N's penetration in the music industry as well as its diverse and substantial delivery network, your giftee's PR announcement will be seen by prospective fans, promoters, labels - everyone who's anyone in the music industry.

    "You can be the best artist/musician in the world, but if you aren't able to get news out about your music, upcoming releases, or performances to music industry professionals, it really doesn't matter. Waiting to be discovered based on talent alone is like trying to find a needle in a haystack," de Fontenay continued. "There are lots of talented artists who know that visibility and exposure are critical to their success. It's what separates them from the rest. They have a better chance at being successful, not necessarily because they are more talented, but because they know that publicity is a need, not a luxury, and they make the investments accordingly to acquire as much exposure as possible. We're proud to play a role in making that happen."

    If the person you love is a talented musician, then you probably know how hard they work on making their music the best it can be. This holiday season, you can help them to tell the world about it by giving them something they'll thank you for: a seasonal gift certificate for the Mi2N Music PR marketing service.

    Mi2N gift certificates will be available for purchase beginning December 1st. Get yours at http://www.Mi2N.com/gift.php3
  • New Jazz, Fusion, Nu-Jazz, Classical Jazz Music - Rain Showers

    Nov 26 2009, 18h02 por tyshowers

    Ty Showers' upcoming release Rain Showers is a collection of various Jazz styles. Traditional Jazz - TocarChick, TocarNice T, TocarMy Inspiration and TocarFriday. Classical Jazz - TocarConcerted and TocarThe Bradford. Nu-Jazz - TocarIt's Cool, TocarNeed For This and TocarRiver Dream.
    Jazz Rock - TocarSiano, TocarSuck My Dic and TocarListen.
  • The Adventures Of Wireman

    Nov 26 2009, 6h27 por FOWLmusic



    Wireman moves on wire brush feet. Sometimes he skips, sometimes he shuffles down the street. Sometimes he even jumps up and swishes the splashy street signs, but often he just drags his feet. With his lanky wire body he makes spastic movements in random directions. While this does mean fun tangents in freak flavoured directions, it also leads to snapped strings in abundance. Along his way one day Friar goat nudges him forward horn wise towards a placement agency for to toil. As Friar head butts the door closed wire man's left hand of thick sturdy bass strings gets caught and warped out of shape. Trying to fill out the second grade math test proves near impossible as his left arm is no longer stable enough to hold the sheet down. One of the other worker drones offers the advice that when he gets a new bass guitar, it's always good to get your hydraulic suspension pumping enough to really get some good lift on your vehicular, then bounce it over onto the strings a couple times. It melts 'em and wears 'em down a little, gets it warmed up to a real nice tone. "That's what you need son, a real good tone." The kind slave trader secretary then sling shots the Wireman by his lean spastic right arm. He lands rolling down-hill tumbling towards his yellowarm loved one. There she winds new wire around his frame, and patches him up for to re-enter the new world. Whilst mending his weary wires during the burning bright of mid-afternoon with audacious audacity assinine assailant posing as furnace inspector wearing a suspicious black "Energy" cap worms his way past security and down in the depths of his bass meant for glory maliciously cracks a patch cord in half and snaps lady's high E string. At which point lady whirls around with hockey stick in hand and swirl flips the cap off, exposing a flurry of stolen heating bills to the floor. Wireman awakens and stumbles downstairs. Wherein he slips and falls, head landing on the gorgeous pillow of stolen bills, sliding instantly into a deep dream ridden sleep. Getting tired eventually of the sloppy rodeo he has entered into in his subconscious, he awakens, and realizing the deep debt incurred by his very real and disturbing pillow, vowing to retain his null credit rating from here to eternity, Determines to delete his downtime and venture back into the real world. As he steps outside for the first time since the cold last snapped a string, he chooses to speak for the first time, informing the hammers beating inside of his wire framed skull just what he thinks of their games.

    TocarThe Adventures Of Wireman
  • Milano da Suonare

    Nov 25 2009, 13h16 por MirkoFait

    La storia
    Non molti giorni fa è uscito un articolo su un quotidiano che parlava del ritorno alla moda dei salotti "artistici" milanesi e romani. Luoghi di incontro, di scambio culturale e in molti casi di rinascita delle arti. 
    Come nel rinascimento e anche più tardi, sono stati la fucina che hanno visto l'affermazione di grandi artisti delle epoche passate, pittori, scrittori e musicisti. E proprio di questi ultimi vogliamo parlare. 
    Tra i vari salotti del capoluogo lombardo, uno particolarmente attivo, ben frequentato e noto per l'ospitalità genuina, ha dato vita ad un progetto che si è concretizzato con la produzione di un cd e di uno spettacolo che contengono ben undici gruppi jazz milanesi. Quello di Gabriella Niccolai. 

    Nessuno di particolarmente affermato, a parte un paio di nomi forse, ma nemmeno sconosciuti. Sono gli operai della musica, i quali, ogni volta che andiamo a bere qualcosa nei locali, sentiamo spesso distrattamente nel brusio di sottofondo, tra vocii e schiamazzi. Sono quei musicisti che si sono fatti le ossa sul campo, nei club e nei pub. 
    Eppure, qualcuno li ha ascoltati con più attenzione e, non a torto, vi ha trovato quella scintilla che spesso fa la differenza tra mestiere e arte, tra suonare e fare musica, tra bellezza e magnificenza. Ma senza cercare grandi paroloni, una cosa sola ha mosso produttori e musicisti nella realizzazione di questo cd che è diventato anche un evento, un live show: la passione!

    La produttrice, Gabriella Niccolai
    Abbiamo scelto lo slogan "Milano da Suonare" perché Gabriella era la moglie del compianto Marco Mignani, famoso pubblicitario che nel 1987 inventò lo slogan per l'amaro Ramazzotti, "Milano da bere". Finì per diventare una nuova icona della comunicazione di massa, usata addirittura da sociologi e storici per soprannominare il periodo dell'edonimismo reaganiano.
    Ma non lo abbiamo scelto con la speranza che diventi un nuovo slogan di massa, ma perché racchiude in se io spirito del progetto.

    Il cd
    United Jazz Artists of Milan, non vuole avere grandi pretese, se non quella di farsi ascoltare e di regalare 72 minuti di piacevole distrazione e di intensa emozione. 
    Un esperimento che, malgrado le differenze stilistiche e il sound multicolore che hanno gli undici gruppi e i 37 musicisti che vi partecipano, suona in maniera omogenea tra cool jazz e bop toccando perfino il free, come frutto di un'unico parto, forse dovuto alla laboriosa direzione artistica di Mirko Fait, presente anche come compositore nel progetto.

    Sono da segnalare in particolar modo, oltre agli arrangiamenti ben riusciti degli standard, i pezzi originali ed inediti di alcuni musicisti presenti nel progetto: Allippando (Daloiso/Cerra), Blues criminal (Di Virgilio), Inside (Crucitti), Never alone Melita (Fait), No More (Crucitti), Nothing else (Fait/Mena), Per Carla (Tognoli), Song for Viky (Di Serio) e 2012 (Fait), un pezzo free jazz a cavallo tra Sun Ra e Schönberg.

    Registrato in analogico negli studi milanesi del Murec Studio di Paolo Falascone, studio dove hanno registrato Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, George Garzone, Joe Lovano, Enrico Rava e molti altri grandi musicisti jazz, è edito dall'etichetta discografica Italian Way Music, che insieme a Gabriella Niccolai, infine produttrice e finanziatrice, ha voluto credere nel progetto e, in generale, si sta prodigando per la diffusione e la rivalutazione della musica italiana di qualità.

    Accade
    “Come una goccia che cade casualmente il jazz si espande e prende forme inaspettate, riflettendo i colori delle emozioni che solo i musicisti riescono a dare. Il jazz, a volte, accade.”
    Mirko Fait



    L'evento, live show:
    L'iniziativa è piaciuta così tanto, riscontrando così tanti consensi che è venuto naturale farne un evento, un live show mai provato prima.
    Addirittura tutti e 37 i musicisti a turno sul palco, inframezzati dal balletto di sette splendide ragazze che interpreteranno con la coreografia di Lara Crivelli alcuni brani. Uno di questi è già diventato un video, Never alone Melita.
    Dance in Progress, le ballerine: Lavinia Anselmi, Federica Bocciardi, Benedetta Brison, Guendalina Ficara, Serena Granzini, Maria Chiara Mignani, Matilde Spampatti.
    Come se non bastasse, nella stessa serata un'artista che ha adottato Milano da molti anni, Ivàn Fernandez Gonzales, dipingerà sul palcoscenico un'opera, ispirandosi alla musica che sente.


    La prima rappresentazione dell'opera sarà
    il 15 dicembre alle ore 21
    presso lo Shanghai Café
    di via Sammartini 124 a Milano.


    I brani del cd: 

    1. Softly as a morning sunrise (Romberg)
    2. Per Carla (Tognoli)
    3. Sometime ago (Mihanovich)
    4. Allippando (Daloiso/Cerra)
    5. A night in Tunisia (Gillespie)
    6. Song for Viky (Di Serio)
    7. Never alone Melita (Fait)
    8. No More (Crucitti-Cavenati-Dassi-Tosi)
    9. Beautiful love (Young)
    10. O sole mio (Di Capua)
    11. Reflections (Monk)
    12. Voyage (Barron)
    13. Nothing else (Fait-Mena)
    14. Blues criminal (Di Virgilio)
    15. Inside (Crucitti-Cavenati-Dassi-Tosi)
    16. Humpty dumpty (Corea)
    17. Oleo (Rollins)
    18. Tocar2012 (Fait)
  • Mi2N Launches PR Writing Service For Music Industry: Mi2n-PRESS

    Nov 12 2009, 18h30 por musicdish

    Url: http://www.mi2n.com/services/mi2n_press.php3

    With a dozen years at the forefront of music PR, Mi2N announced the launch of MI2N-PRESS. MI2N-PRESS provides a complete PR solution for independent artists, labels and music companies, including professional press release writing and the option to combine the service with selected Mi2N Music PR marketing packages.

    Everyone knows that the music industry isn't just about music; it's about business as well. Now, more than ever, artists must be able to successfully express their unique brand and convey news about upcoming performances or the release of a new track or CD to their target audiences. As the leading music news source and major online artist marketer, Mi2N has over a decade's experience working with people on both sides of the PR sector and knows what it takes to get results.

    "Online PR has proven to be one of the most effective and affordable ways for independent artists and labels to reach out to new fans and industry professionals," commented Eric de Fontenay, Mi2N's Founder and Editor.

    Mi2N-PRESS includes:
    * A professionally written 400-450 word press release within 2 days of your paid submission (all details must be provided) including images, URLs, a sound link, and your complete contact information
    * Automatic submission of your press release to the Mi2N newswire and express submission to over 35 Mi2N syndicated newswires
    * 15% discount on select Mi2N premium PR distribution packages
    * A money back guarantee that your press release will be error free and delivered on time

    What people are saying about Mi2N:

    "[Mi2N] is a trusted resource I use all the time to get information. I strongly recommend Mi2N Music PR" Robert Morrison, President, Chart Noise

    "I've used Mi2N to increase exposure into my press releases for my company (WaTunes). I highly recommend that you use Mi2N for your press distribution as it is one of the most cost effective solutions out there!" Kevin Rivers, CEO WaTunes.com

    "[Mi2N PR] has been easy and effective for our clients...at a great price! We all highly recommend Mi2N PR services to everyone we know!" Kathy Douglas, Indie Extreme

    "Mi2N is an essential service for PR." Chris Jones, 2SPR

    About Mi2N
    Mi2N (Music Industry News Network) is the largest online daily newswire serving the music industry. Since 1998, Mi2N has kept professionals worldwide informed on the latest developments shaping their sector by covering nearly every facet of the industry, from new business models and technological innovations to up-&-coming artists and emerging trends. Through its Mi2N Music PR service, it has become a leading PR resource for major and independent music companies around the world.
    http://www.mi2n.com

    For more information, please contact:
    Eric de Fontenay
    Mi2N Founder/Editor
    (718) 278-0662
    ecfont@musicdish.net
  • Good Stuff 2009

    Nov 10 2009, 3h57 por brianshazaaam

    ...is still a work in progress.

    Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)


    Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity (ACT)


    Pan•American - White Bird Release (Kranky)


    Brad Shepik - Human Activity Suite (Songlines)


    Led Bib - Sensible Shoes (Cuneiform)


    Bat for Lashes - Two Suns (Astralwerks)


    Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)


    Do Make Say Think - Other Truths (Constellation)


    David Bazan - Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)


    Joshua Redman - Compass (Nonesuch)


    Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (Kranky)


    KILLER BONG - Murder Scene Togashi Dub (Black Smoker)


    Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs (Matador)


    Chris Potter Underground - Ultrahang (ArtistShare)


    Nomo - Invisible Cities (Ubiquity)


    Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11 (ATO)


    Atlas Sound - Logos (Kranky)


    The Field - Yesterday and Today (Kompakt)


    Ben Allison - Think Free (Palmetto)


    Joe Lovano Us Five - Folk Art (Blue Note)


    Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (Drag City)


    Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)


    Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy - Spirit Moves (Greenleaf)


    A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head (Mute)
  • Banging, Pounding, Racket, Noise Vol. 3

    Nov 7 2009, 7h16 por FOWLmusic

    For anyone who hasn't heard it yet, I suggest dowloading for free
    Banging, Pounding, Racket, Noise: Vol 3
    It is my most emotionally dense recording, yet the most sparse note per second of any of my releases, go figure! I consider it perhaps my favorite release.
  • Lord of the harvest CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN ROCK

    Abr 17 2009, 14h06 por lollypiehi

    MANY OTHER TRACKS TO POST, THANKS FOR LISTENING TO MY CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN ALBUM. HOPE YOU GOT YOUR 10 FREE DOWN LOADS .
    A JAZZ ALBUM COMING SOON , ALSO A SPANISH ALBUM. PIANOSIDEMAN WILL BE PLAYING HIS KEYBOARDS TOO. LOOK FOR IT SOON !