Shay 1000 à L'heure

Stand Up! It's not just an album title, it's an order, forcing anyone who hears Whitney Shay's brand of rocket-fueled R&B onto the dancefloor. A flame-haired stick of dynamite in a sparkling dress, this San Diego phenomenon has made a record for dancing, drinking and dreaming, with songs to soundtrack the peaks and punches of life. Stand Up! Is sure to mark the global explosion of a singer-songwriter who's long been threatening to go 'boom'. Coming up the old-fashioned way - with a thousand word-of-mouth shows blazing her reputation across the planet - Shay's first decade has seen four wins at the San Diego Music Awards, a nomination at last year's prestigious Blues Music Awards and the tag of "future blues icon" bestowed by Blues Matters! #magazine.

lues Caravan is unstoppable. Fifteen years after Europe s most respected label put on its first showcase tour, the founding concept is instantly familiar to blues fans: every night, on club stages across the US and Europe, three rising talents will burn down the house and kick the blues into the modern age…

This new recording (recorded in 2012) brings together two great, but altogether different 20th century Cello Sonatas from Russia: the gorgeous and deeply romantic cello sonata by Rachmaninoff, of near‐symphonic proportions, and the cello sonata by Prokofiev, a hybrid piece of his later period, a fascinating mixture of the romantic, the grotesque and the introspective side of the multi-faceted composer..

Avishai Cohen’s third CD for the Stretch Records label, Colors, features the talented bassist, composer, arranger, producer, and pianist trusting his own imagination and intelligence in order to capture the auras of chord progressions and rhythmic patterns with this excellent use of musical metaphors. The composer wrote 13 selections for this program and each is a meeting of artistic colors, each rare and emanating its own originality through Cohen’s sense of harmony, expansive tones, and polyrhythms. His earthy placement of “Shay Ke,” a warm, ballad filled with the funk-Middle Eastern oud solo of Amos Hoffman, vocals of Claudia Acuna, and individual gifts from Jimmy Greene on soprano saxophone, is a prime example of Cohen’s ability to realize his maturing non-conformism. The inclusion of Avi Lebovich on trombone in addition to Steve Davis, makes the experiences of his circle of friends a splendid chance to grow musically.

Ursula 1000 - Kinda' Kinky (2002)
Lounge/Breakbeat/Urban Swing | MP3 | CBR 320kbps | 55:00 | 124 MB

Music, of course, plays a most important part in the seduction technique. You never want to overplay your hand with something too obvious (Barry White, Naked Music comps, D'Angelo). This says to your prospective playmate that you have nothing more on your mind than that precious patch of skin between her breasts (since that's all you've been looking at since she arrived). Teen pop signals a potential pedophile; rap-rock is a dead giveaway for a whiny mama's boy. Bling-branded hip-hop screams freak (she'll be convinced you're into group action, too). But thanks to the cool urban swing of Ursula 1000's latest confection of carnival rhythms worthy of Breakfast at Tiffany's (although for our purposes, let's call it Breakfast at H&M), your sonic seduction is handled. You'll feel like Dean Martin playing James Bond when the "Beatbox Cha Cha" kicks in (martini suggested). "Les Techniques De L'Amour" is jazz-intensive electro-house, like St. Germain providing the soundtrack for a couture catwalk. So when the drunken horns of "Mucho Tequila" mark her third shot of Patron and "Tigerbeat" finds you dancing the Frug before she turns into "The Girl From N.O.W.H.E.R.E." who's even hotter than the girl on "Alias," you'll thank me in the morning. (URB magazine)