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Day 327 – Diamond Rugs – Call Girl Blues

April 30, 2012 by Farhang

Happy Monday People!

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Day 326 – Lloyd Miller – Oriental Jazz Gole Gandom

April 30, 2012 by Farhang

Lloyd Miller, AKA Kourosh Ali Khan learned various instruments through his father, a professional clarinet player. Immersing himself in New Orleans Jazz, Lloyd first trained himself in the styles of George Lewis and Jimmy Giuffre and cut his first Dixieland jazz 78 rpm record in 1950. During the late ‘50s, his father landed a job in Iran and Miller began to develop a lifelong interest in Persian and Eastern music forms, learning to play a vast array of traditional ethnic instruments from across Asia and the Middle East.

He toured Europe heavily, basing himself in Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Germany (where he played with Eddie Harris and Don Ellis) and, most famously, in Paris where he worked with oddball bandleader Jef Gilson, a phenomenon in French jazz during the early ‘60s. Miller returned to the Middle East during the ‘70s, landing his own TV show on NIRTV (National Iranian TV) in Tehran under the name Kurosh Ali Khan. His show became a national fixture and ran for seven years.

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Day 325 – Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

April 27, 2012 by Farhang

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Day 324 – Breton – Edward the Confessor

April 27, 2012 by Farhang

South Londoner’s Breton have been hotly tipped for a long time now following a string of well received EPs over the past year. Now, in anticipation of their forthcoming debut album released on FatCat Records, comes their debut single ‘Edward The Confessor’ – and it perfectly encapsulates why there has been so much interest in the art pop electronic group.

Breton’s music is hard to categorize and even harder to pin down. There are a wealth of ideas at work, and ‘Edward The Confessor’’s jerky, lurching mix of electronics is a deeply strange but fascinating pop single. Breton are certainly not short of creativity. ” thisisfakediy.co.uk

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Day 323 – Harriet – I Slept With All Your Mothers

April 27, 2012 by Farhang

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Day 322 – Air (ft. Victoria Legrand) – Seven Stars

April 25, 2012 by Farhang

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Day 321 – Santigold – Disparate Youth

April 24, 2012 by Farhang

In 2008, Santigold grabbed attention with the skewed indie dream-pop of songs such as LES Artistes, Say Aha and Creator. At the time it felt offbeat and new, squashing genres together to exuberant effect. There’s an argument to be made that, in the four years since, music has gone entirely mad, and the madness has gone mainstream, with everyone from Grimes to Nicki Minaj pursuing dogged eccentricity. The question is whether Santi White is still at the vanguard of this. To some extent, Master of My Make-Believe suggests she is. At its best, it’s a surprisingly subtle record, checking off military drums, reggae beats and driving pop, the quality of which creeps in after repeated listens – GO!, featuring Karen O, and Disparate Youth, in particular, get stronger every time. But there’s a subdued, mid-paced feel to it, too, and this sense of somehow sad restraint holds it back from greatness. [Guardian]