Their debut album. Simple yet complex, stripped then layered, Battles is unlike anything heard before. Comprised of simple computer blips, keyboard rhythms, looped and grooving walls of guitar, and precise backbeats, Battles is confronting new ground and dissolving any possible comparison. Battles is headed by Ian Williams (who you might recognize as frontman for Don Caballero and Storm and Stress) and John Stanier (the Swiss timing machine behind the kit, formerly of Helmet). Dave Konopka on guitar and Ty...   [ read more ]

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This amazing six-CD set drops out of the proverbial heavens on us. In the spirit of Revenant & Folkways, Greil Marcus calls it the "best country-religious music collection I've ever heard." Features five CDs of guitar evangelists, holiness string bands, jubilee gospel quartets, sacred harp choirs, and sanctified jug music, plus one CD of shouting sisters and powerful preachers delivering the message. Including Louvin Brothers, Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Rosett...   [ read more ]

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'One either loves Mark Murphy's style or one does not. The veteran vocalist is at his best when scatting, Jon Hendricks-like, on flat-out bebop numbers such as Tadd Dameron's There's No More Blue Time and Oscar Pettiford's Bohemia After Dark. On the other hand, he seems a little rough-edged and indelicate on ballads such as Jimmy Rowles's Peacocks and Cy Coleman's With Every Breath I Take. Murphy is a highly musical, expressive singer, but his voice just isn't that pretty. The ballads accentuate that fact...   [ read more ]

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