One of the more obscure Dave Brubeck albums is really a showcase for the young singer Carmen McRae who performs nine numbers: six composed by the pianist/leader, one song apiece by altoist Paul Desmond and bassist Eugene Wright and the lesser-known standard "Paradiddle Joe." McRae is in fine voice but strangely enough all of the songs (except for "Strange Meadowlark") have been long forgotten.
From ' Introduction ' Hirofumi's guitar and Masafumi's keyboard solos are so bluesy that we cannot help foreseeing the next explosion. Yep, exactly ' The Day Before Eruption '! Maki's dark but aggressive voices can encourage us against the eruption or collapse of the town where we are. In this album, each song should be a part of one story titled " An Entombed Town "…
Carmen Maki has a long history with prog/psych/hard rock in the Japanese recording industry. In 1970 she was with Time Machine but moved on to Blues Creation (Version #2) in 1971…
Une biographie romancée du compositeur Georges Bizet, mort en 1875 sans savoir que son Carmen deviendrait un chef-d'oeuvre. L'auteur met en scène sa vie, de sa naissance à la réalisation de son opéra, et met l'accent sur sa relation avec la comédienne Célestine Galli-Marié, sa muse à l'origine de son héroïne sulfureuse. …
Carmen was a British-American band active from 1970-75. Their style was a fusion of rock, progressive, and flamenco music and dance. Carmen's first album, Fandangos in Space, is ranked number 46 in the Rolling Stone list of 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time.