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Who would have thought that music from a white man would be sexy enough for the bedroom?
Even Miles Davis was told to watch out for this 'cool cat'...
Of course I'm speaking of no other than Mr. Chet Baker and his album:
White Blues
This album just sets the mood for a laid back night with wine, candles, and if you're good enough, dancing. And we all know where those three things can lead, don't we?
What better to take you there than this?
Chet Baker's version of 'Round Midnight' is the sexiest take on the Thelonious Monk classic. Clocking in at 10 minutes, if you aren't ready for the nasty by the end of this song, well, then you're just not sexy anyways. So stop trying.
The only draw back to this album? 'Over the Rainbow.' That could kill any mood, really, unless Chet Baker plays it- then its okay.
There are enough fast-ish songs on here to get you movng in all the right places, and plenty of slow songs to get you in close with some curves and grooves.
Second best to 'Round Midnight' is 'Ellen and David' This is by far one of the best songs on the album, and, one of the best by Baker in total. It's slow, sultry, classy, and somehow gets the heart pumping at just the right tempo to get the blood flowing nice and smooth.
It's cool, it's sexy, it's great for the sack. Try it out, get down, get it on.
Your M.C.
-Logan
They say order came out of chaos. Or is it chaos our of order?
That's a question I've asked myself while listening to Charles Mingus' album"
The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady.
Is it chaotic order, or ordered chaos?
Or is that strange in between, the link, like that between Id and Ego.
This album continues to make my mind wobble and impregnates strange images in my head.
What can I say- this is one of the greatest jazz records I have ever heard.
I first picked this up because a) I like jazz and Charles Mingus, and b) the quote on the front of the album which says: Touch my beloved's thought while her world's affluence crumbles at my feet.
I don't know what it was about the line, some kind of strange beautiful revelation of what was within, but it sealed the deal.
Now here is an album that just sounds liek an inner demon. A fight, a conflict, with the world as percieved by someone with the ability to speak out to whoever would listen, but ended up being locked up in Bellevue for a time as well as being convicted of assault.
Mingus doesn't seem to be the happiest of men.
But, in the liner notes, we are told "Mingus is ingenius."
And that's the truth.
While this album may not be for that kind of Kenny G smooth jazz shit that plays while you're in the elevator or some overly priced minimalist restaurant (I mean really, who wants to listen to that anyways?) this album should be owned by everyone.
The layers of this album are amazing all on themselves. The first track -"Track A- Solo Dancer"- has the drum making us count at least THREE different beats and times...from one drum. Amazing, no?
It's escapists jazz. No...it's the kind of jazz that hijacks you and drops you off in the desert and laughs as it watches you trying to find your way back to civilization.
It takes your mind and sucks you in, you find yourself following one melody on the piano only for it to change completely and your stuck on a saxaphone or Mingus's bass strings and then your bombarded by flamenco guitar and then you come to the realization: you don't want to find your way out of this desert.
Black Saint and the Sinner Lady makes you feel the rage of the repressed and the hope of the revolutionary at the same time and gives off the air of some kind of audio nirvana that even Siddhartah would be amazed to discover.
So as track 4 "Mode D- Trio and Group Dancers" tells us
"Stop! Look! and Sing Songs of Revolutions!"
"...then Farewell, My Beloved, 'til It's Freedom Day"("Mode F- Group and Solo Dance)
Your M.C.
-Logan
I was asked by a good friend to review albums with no lyrics. He related the current state of lyrics to hangovers and unnatural acts with sea creatures. So, just for him. this weeks posts will all be lyric free (for the most part) I like lyrics.
For some reason, this year, my music tastes have changed drastically. Maybe change isn't the best word. Let's say...expanded.
One of my recent finds in my new found musical expansion is DJ Shadow. Big player in music, I know, but new to my ears. Well, this album is at least.
I first discovered DJ Shadow when I saw the music video for his "This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)" from the abulm, The Outsider. Now that song was some cool shit, and the album- not my favourite, but still good enough to deserve multiple listenings.
But...recently I picked up the special edition of Endtroducing...
Now, as I said before, the music I listen to has just recently expanded. So, as you can imagine, DJ Shadow is completely different than all the rest in my collection. But, I have to tell you, there is something about this artist and this newly acquired album.
Generally I've stuck to guitar driven music- rock, blues, that sort of thing, Then I drifted to the soul side of things, then to ambient electronic and trip-hop...but there is something about the dub-music stlying of DJ Shadow that has my complete attention. Maybe it's the sampling, the scratching, the under beats and the over laying rhythms...I don't know...it's porbably all of that. But with songs like "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt", "What Does your Soul Look Like" and "Midnight in a Perfect World" this album is becoming a fast favourite of mine.
And if for no other reason, if you already have the original which was, I believe, released in 1996, pick this one up just for the live track at the end of the bonus disc.
So, DJ Shadow- scratch on, brother. I dig.
Your, M.C.
-Logan
p.s. I do in no way condone unnatural acts with sea creatures. Even the seahorse as tempting as thay may be.
Music to get your Bedroom Groove on...
Once a week there will be a Musex special. Spotlighting an album that I think would be perfect for a "bedroom groove session". You know what I mean
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There is an album that the majority (read that as all but myself) of the people I know, have never listened to. Make that album and artist.
Terrell's Angry Southern Gentlemen
I first discovered Terrell through the movie Pool Hall Junkies where one of the characters lip sings to "Redneck Gigilo
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Let's start this jam with an album I just picked up and have had playing nonstop day and night.
Kid Confucius
Their self titled album is, in my opinion, one of the best musical offerings from Australia
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Welcome one and all to Groovenomics-your place for music of all kinds, reviewed by yours truly.
Being a music junky I have taken it upon myself to review music and, hopefully, bring music to you that you might not have heard of or given a chance.
Speaking of giving a chance- I like all music so I will do my best to discuss any and all from banjo to beatbox to blues to bop all the way to (maybe) Britany
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