Yama no Oto Sound of The Mountain (1954) Mikio Naruse, Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Ken Uehara, Drama

93 Feet East, Brick Lane, May 31, 2004: This was the first show of our May / June European Tour in 2004. We just come off a crazed US tour with Fourtet a month earlier, and a few months before that we did our first and very well-recieved tour of the UK after the big Wire article. Vibracathedral Orchesta & Jack Rose were also on the bill.

Mexican workers at a Zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers and daughters, that they eventually triumph.

Jazz At College Of The Pacific is the 1954 album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Brubeck is joined by Paul Desmond (alto saxophone), Ron Crotty (bass), and Joe Dodge (drums) at the College Of The Pacific in Stockton, California on 14 December, 1953. Originally released on Fantasy, this was released by Original Jazz Classics/Fantasy Jazz in 1987, remastered by Joe Tarantino.

The Mountain Goats are an American indie folk band formed in Claremont, California by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. "Tallahassee" is their eighth studio album. The album focuses on semi-fictional accounts of band leader John Darnielle's years as a teenager, particularly his friends' and acquaintances' experiences in California and in Portland, Oregon as methamphetamine addicts. One of the provisional titles for the album was New Age Music Will Save Your Wretched Soul. "We Shall All Be Healed" was generally liked by critics. The critics look at this album song by song leading to a difference of opinion on the different direction The Mountain Goats have taken in the albums creation. With a new production style and a band playing alongside John Darnielle comes the criticism on how this changes the heart of the music.

Village Of The Sun is an enigmatic collaboration between UK jazz virtuosos Binker Golding & Moses Boyd and electronic music legend Simon Ratcliffe of Basement Jaxx fame.

A new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina. This woman is loved by a rich businessman named Alberto but chooses Ulises. Soon after their marriage and the birth of their son, Ulises vanishes while fishing at sea. In the meanwhile Martina marries Alberto, but all is not what it seems…

Their 2nd effort released in 1966 feels like all the Tracks (with exception to “When Summer’s Gone“) were recorded within the same time frame and were meant for this LP ( even top flight groups of the Era like The Supremes did not, with the execption of their Rodgers & Hart LP, have albums based on one set of sessions. Their “I Hear A Symphony” LP includes tracks recorded in New York and Detroit, and a number of it’s selections were intended for a standards LP). In This sense “Elegant Sounds of the Royalettes” is similar to “Dusty In Memphis” because you can tell producer Teddy Randazzo was working to make a complete album statement not just a few hit singles ( which after 1965, unfortunately, The Royalettes did not have) and “Filler.”
The arrangements are more advanced than what the Royalettes previously employed by this album. “Baby, Are you Putting me on?” seems to out BurtBacharach with all the time signature changes , and as a whole the LP keeps up the uptown soul feel continues through the Lp.