A Louder Silence

Vienna Art Orchestra - A Centenary Journey (2001) {QUINTON 0104-2}
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Jazz / Big Band / Experimental Big Band / Progressive Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz

One has to hand it to the Vienna Art Orchestra; this is one adventurous band of Austrians. On Centenary Journey, recorded live in March ’01 at the Sofiensäle, Vienna, the VAO makes an heroic (and broadly successful) effort to compress a century of ever–shifting Jazz styles into one expansive snapshot. Unlike Ken Burns’ recent (and controversial) television series, Jazz, which was weighted heavily in favor of the music’s early pioneers with the last forty years or so telescoped into one hour–long (or ninety–minute) episode, The VAO’s enterprise leans rather conspicuously in the opposite direction, being evenly divided between Jazz as it developed from 1900 through the ’50s (the first seven selections) and in the years from 1960 to the present (the last seven).

Wildstreet are back in 2011 with their follow-up EP and it's truly faster and louder!! This time , this New York-based quintet follow in the footsteps of the "High n Dry - era" Leps with a little more sleaze mixed in for good measure. The massive choruses are still here , the undeniable hooks and the energy are contagious. Wildstreet has performed at the coveted Rocklahoma festival for a consecutive 3 years as well as appeared on the Jimmy Fallon show and has had their music featured on MTV and various video games. This is a band that I believed had a bright future and this EP solidifies that.

2018 two CD set. XX… since music speaks louder than words… 20 years of creation, research, traveling, partying… so 20 years of love, happiness and sharing to sum up the story shortly. The first compilation released by George V Records was 20 years ago. After millions of CD albums sold out throughout the world, the one and only compilation of lounge, world and downtempo music comes back to stores. This anniversary double CD was mixed by world-famous and historical resident DJs - Ravin & Sam Popat to meet the expectations of all Buddha-Bar lovers. On the lounge CD, relax… Ravin is taking care of everything for you…

Porter Wagoner - The Bottom Of The Bottle (1968) & Confessions Of A Broken Man (1966) (2013) {Omni Recording OMNI-173}
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Country / Nashville Sound / Country Pop / Traditional Country

Not only does it sport one of the greatest album covers of all time, but 1968’s ‘The Bottom Of The Bottle’ is also one of the very finest of Porter Wagoner’s legendary string of concept LPs. Alcoholic cautionary-tales fashioned from pedal steel, string bass and pure pathos – Porter’s cast of inebriates shuffle from barstool to gutter to grave. ‘Wino’ opens proceedings with surreal back-alley sound-scapes and heart-rending narration, ‘Daddy And The Wine’ charts the downfall of a heart-broken man and ‘One Dime For The Wine’ a rural man’s obliteration in the faceless urban jungle.

Long Thoughts is ambient music master Steve Roach’s first long-form electronic release on Projekt since 2012. In an era where a constant deluge of overstimulation from all directions challenges and fractalizes our attention span into smaller and smaller packets, 73-minute sanctuary provides solace: a soul-renewing immersion in the deeper end of the self-reflection pool.