Femme Fatale is the very suitable title of Wolf Myer Orchestra's debut album. Passion, emotion and lifes other big themes are the threds, leading through this new recording. Demandig an active listener as with previous soloprojects (Seven and Storm, Rough Cuts) Parov Stelar cooperates on "Femme Fatale" with Wolf Myer and his Orchestra. Over 30 guest - artists helped to create a fresh and vivid album that is always aware of its jazzy roots but definitively goes beyond any genres thight boundaries. Hip Hop meets Soul, Funk, Pop und Jazz in a perfect blend of analog and digital. Leading the listener into a world full of intimate thoughts and capacious moments, "Femme Fatale" rejects all daily struggle and rush.
The quintet Femme Fatale formed in Albuquerque and relocated to Los Angeles in 1987, during the years when hair metal acts were enjoying high visibility and platinum-level sales. Fronted by Lorraine Lewis, the group consisted of guitarists Mazzi Rawd and Bill D'Angelo, bass player Rick Rael, and drummer Bobby Murray…
Live set by former Velvet Underground member and the ringmaster of the avant-garde, Mr. John Cale. The album is virtually a career retrospective, recorded live on John's 2006 European tour. Cale felt like he'd finally found the personnel to interpret his songs with new twists, new dimensions and new emotions. None more so evident than the track 'Gun', originally appearing on 1974's Eno & Manzanera produced Fear but now sounding akin to a heavy arsenal of crunching weaponry. Inspired, Cale recorded the dates and the band began to tear up a 40 year musical history book, challenging and breathing new life into Cale's work.
Arriving mere months before Document took the group into the Top Ten, the B-sides and rarities collection Dead Letter Office sums up all of the quirks and idiosyncrasies that made R.E.M. the leading underground guitar pop band of the '80s. While only a handful of songs on Dead Letter Office rank among the group's best, the record is extremely entertaining, even for casual fans, particularly because it captures the wild spirit of R.E.M. that was evident at their concerts, but not always on their records…