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June 2008

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The Scent Of Light, Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra: the best album by the band since their seminal 1990 platinum release Nouveau Flamenco? Or could it possibly be better?

"While Ottmar has stepped away from the recent minimalism of his 2007 Grammy nominated solo flamenco album One Guitar, you still get that sense of high resolution, beautiful clarity, and a live combo dynamic. It's a layered recording, with the multiple guitars, basses, keyboards & percussion subtly exchanging altitude, rooms, dimensions... "read more »»

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The Last Detective has recently been showing up on public television channels in North America. "Despite his handle as 'The Last Detective' Dangerous Davies is actually The Last Englishman," says Lawrence Russell. "He prefers a pint rather than a Bud, an ironic rebuttal rather than a reactive fist. His composure is dangerously obsolete, as are his values and his methods." A decent man in an indecent time? See for yourself. Now available on DVD.

Andy Summers. Guitar player with The Police. Early years with Zoot Money & the Big Roll Band, and Eric Burdon & the New Animals, with others like Soft Machine, Neil Sedaka & Roberto Menescal between and after.

About his memoir One Train Later LR says, "Even if you aren't a musician, the info is delivered in such a street hip manner you end up thinking you are, and you're right there with him and The Police on stage at the CBGB Club ripping out Roxanne or hanging in the Green Room upstairs at the Whiskey in L.A. accepting joints from UFOs, groupies, hustlers and mind parasites."

Recent posts:

HBO-BBC TV serial ROME

Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra: Up Close: the Fritz Files [binaural recording]

Features:

24: Parallel Stories Must Converge [Kiefer Sutherland] [TV drama]
Asylum [Iain Sinclair] [TV drama]
Cracker [McGovern] [TV drama]
The Prisoner [McGoohan] [TV drama]
The Stone Tape [Kneale] [TV drama]

Flamenco Revisited
Cranial Firestorms: Atomic Rooster Retrospective
Hwy 101: Ottmar Liebert Live At The Secret House
Lamya [Lamya interview]
Sampling the Dead [electro-dance]
Essential Dub [King Tubby]
Bootleg Music [various]
The New Flamenco [roots guitar]

CDs

JJ Cale/Eric Clapton The Road to Escondido
Ted Nugent Full Bluntal Nugity Live
Zucchero Fly
Stephen Duros Thira [07 Grammy nominee]
Joe Abernethy College Grove
One Guitar Ottmar Liebert [07 Grammy finalist]
Lava [Ottmar Liebert & Eric Schermerhorn]
In the Arms of Love [Ottmar Liebert] |
Transit II Jon Gagan [07 Grammy nominee]
Transit [John Gagan]
Plank Spankin' Paul Wainwright & Sax Safari
Geisterfaust [Bohren]
Bohren & the Club of Gore
Mambo Sinuendo [Cooder/Galban]
Lovers Live [Sade]
Vozero [Phil Manzanera]
In The Flesh [Roger Waters]
Two Against Nature [Steely Dan]
The Best of Sade [Sade]

Muso DVD

Mika Kaurismaki: Moro No Brasil DVD docu [Seu Jorge, Ivo Meirelles, Margareth Menezes, Silverio Pessoa]
Stewart Copeland: Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
Echoes Of Forgotten Places Robert Fantinatto/Robin Guthrie
Space Is The Place [Sun Ra]
Being Mick [Mick Jagger]
Gimme Shelter [Stones]
Merchants of Cool [Bad Company]
2VN [Steely Dan]
Sheryl Crow: Rockin' The Globe Live