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Just Encoded: Amy LaVere – “Stranger Me”

Jun

2011

Artist: Amy LaVere
Album: Stranger Me
Label: Archer Records
Genre: Rock : Alternative
UPC: 822533193628
Territory: World
Release Date: 7.19.11

Archer Records is excited to announce the release of Amy LaVere’s new record, Stranger Me, on July 19th (July 4th in the UK). Produced by Craig Silvey (Arcade Fire), Stranger Me is LaVere’s third record and is the follow up to the Jim Dickinson-produced Anchors & Anvils. Always texturally rich and often employing dissonance and off-kilter instrumentation, Stranger Me is her most exploratory work to date. Alternately haunting and exuberantly defiant, it is a perfect backdrop for this collection of songs about frustration and feeling emotionally disconnected.

LaVere was originally planning on making this album with Dickinson. He had not been in good health for some time, and she felt that she might not have many more opportunities to record with him. “He was the one who really got me to believe in my own voice,” says LaVere. When he passed in August 2009, in addition to grieving one of her greatest mentors and champions, she was back at square one in the recording process. One of her first thoughts, after she was ready to begin thinking about producers, was Silvey. They met in London through a mutual friend at the BBC, hit it off immediately and he volunteered to run sound for her performance on Later With Jools Holland. Like Dickinson before him, Silvey encouraged LaVere to follow her own muse, even when (especially when) it led her to more esoteric choices, like the one to cover Captain Beefheart’s “Candle Mambo.”

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Featured Artist: Gerald Wilson

Jun

2011

Gerald Wilson
“Cubs, Bears, Bulls, And White Sox” (mp3)
from “Legacy”
(Mack Avenue Records)

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Gerald Wilson, jazz’s reigning composer/orchestrator pays homage to his adopted hometown, Chicago on his fifth Mack Avenue Records release, Legacy. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Giacomo Puccini also receive Wilson’s musical tips of the hat. Wilson’s son, guitarist/composer Anthony Wilson, and grandson Eric Otis are also represented by a composition/orchestration apiece, thus extending Gerald’s musical legacy.

The Gerald Wilson Orchestra assembled for Legacy comprises many of the great jazz artists who’ve been Gerald’s collaborators for the lion’s share of his Mack Avenue canon. A first-class rhythm section of pianist Renee Rosnes, guitarist Anthony Wilson, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash anchors the group. Trumpeters Sean Jones, Frank Greene, Jeremy Pelt, Tony Lujan, Freddie Hendrix and Mike Rodriguez along with trombonists Dennis Wilson, Douglas Purviance, Luis Bonilla and Alan Ferber stud the brass section. Antonio Hart, Dick Oatts, Kamasi Washington, Ron Blake, Jay Brandford and Gary Smulyan comprise the reeds.

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Cheb i Sabbah Diagnosed With Cancer

Jun

2011

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Photo courtesy of Ritwik Dey via Creative Commons

Recently, our dear friend and musical pioneer Cheb i Sabbah was diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer at San Francisco General Hospital. He was advised that the cancer was spreading to his liver and left lung. Without immediate and proper treatment, the prognosis given is very grim. The phrase “weeks maybe months” was repeated to a devastated group of close friends and family who were there to support him as he received the heartbreaking news.

Like many Americans, Cheb (affectionately known to friends and family as “Chebiji”) does not have health insurance. His declining health has also caused him to cancel his live shows, which means his income has come to a complete halt.

Upon learning of his condition and his inability to pay for treatment, a few close friends and artists have rallied around Chebiji to support him in his fight. Together they have created the Cheb i Sabbah Health Care Fund, in hopes that fans of the beloved artist will donate to help get him back to performing.

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Featured Release: Jencarlos – “Un Nuevo Día”

Jun

2011

Artist: Jencarlos
Title: Un Nuevo Día
Label: Bullseye Music
Genre: Latin : Pop
Territory: World
UPC: 097037894221
Release Date: 6.21.11

The Cuban-American’s debut album, Búscame (released Nov. 10, 2009), written and produced by mega producer Rudy Perez, garnered the highest Latin chart debut ever for a new artist on an independent label, reaching certified gold status within just a couple of months. According to Soundscan, Jencarlos has been the #1 selling new Latin Pop artist released in the past two years. His work on Búscame, earned him a Premio Lo Nuestro 2011 for “Best New Pop Artist”, as well as a Latin Billboard nomination for “Best New Artist”. Winning the Premio Lo Nuestro award underscored the immensity of his popularity, marking the first and only time someone working for a competing network has been honored on a Univision Network awards show.

The songwriter’s highly anticipated second album Un Nuevo Día, once again written and produced by multi GRAMMY award-winning producer Rudy Perez, will be released tomorrow, June 21 and it promises to exceed the huge success of his debut production. Un Nuevo Día’s first single, power ballad “Mi Corazón Insiste” is burning up the airwaves as Jencarlos gets ready to embark on his next acting project. . . another starring role in an international primetime drama, this time with his song as the title track and the name of the novela.

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Digital Digging: Mickey Newbury – “An American Trilogy”

Jun

2011

Artist: Mickey Newbury
Album: An American Trilogy
Label: Saint Cecilia Knows / Mountain Retreat
Genre: Country : Country
UPC: 5055300328373
Territory: World ex- AM
Release Date: 5.16.11

As the ultimate songwriter’s songwriter and the unsung hero of American popular music, Mickey Newbury’s influence is immeasurable. His early success as a songwriter in Nashville and his selfless and relentless championing of others paved the way for Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and David Allen Coe. Joanna Newsom recently cited the inspiration of Mickey Newbury (alongside Kris Kristofferson and Sandy Denny) as a songwriter with “the ability to compose a lyrical line that is so perfect, so distilled and clean and pure”.

Newbury songs have, to date, been recorded over 1300 times by more than 1000 performers including Johnny Cash, Scott Walker, Ray Charles, Joan Baez, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, the Box Tops, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Nick Cave. He is the only songwriter ever to have number one hits (with different songs) in the pop, country, R&B and easy listening charts within the space of one year (three of those songs were in the charts simultaneously). But Mickey Newbury himself was by far the best interpreter of his own songs.

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