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Wann immer bei uns eine neue Kai Alcé (myspace) Platte ins Haus flattert, sind wir begeistert. Und wenn es einen Mix von ihm gibt ist das nicht anders.

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Now, I don’t only enjoy listening to Latin and Spanish music but also other foreign songs like Koreans. I just so love the beat and their lyrics (when translated in English). Here are some of my recently favourite songs with foreign lyrics. =)

1. Perhaps Love – song from “Prince Hours” (Korean)
2. Stay – song from “Princess Hours” (Korean)
3. No Me Ames – by Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony
4. Hey – Julio Iglesias
5. Bailamos – Enrique Iglesias
6. The Prayer - Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion

Returning to speak about this live my second prefer song is the savage 'Jin-Go-Lo-Ba' that is the end song of this live. Perfect ending, I think. I love this song because is a sort of return to the roots of the music! and this is another aspect that I love in Santana's music.

'Oye Como Va (including: El Pito [I'll Never Go Back To Georgia])' is ruined from the insert of another song, but is good for a good listen to. Vice versa is great 'Samba Pa Ti (including: El Manisero/ Forest Flower- Sunset/ Brazil/ Breezin')' also with these inserts.

So, in conclusion I think that 'Sacred Fire (Live In South America)' be a great live for the music and the spirit. Certainly one of my all time preferred live albums.

by Mandrakeroot


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NY Giants WR Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub over the weekend. He is now in police custody after turning himself in earlier today on felony weapons charges. It seems Burress is not licensed to carry a concealed weapon in NYC much less inside a crowded nightclub. Lickily he didn’t kill anyone. Burress is awaiting arraignment sometime this afternoon.

Burress went to the Latin Quarter nightclub but was initially turned away, according to the New York Daily News. But the paper says club management had a change of heart after Burress came back, “flashing jewelry and carrying loads of cash,” reportedly telling management he needed the gun for protection.

According to the Daily News, Burress was being taken into a VIP area when he fumbled with the gun as it began slipping down his pant leg. The gun fired, and the bullet tore through his leg.

According to the paper Burress told his teammate Antonio Pierce not to call 911. Pierce then reportedly helped Burress out of the club.  Source

According to TMZ.com Burress hired the same lawyer that got Sean Combs a unanimous “not guilty” in his 1999 gun case.

Burress was treated and released from a NYC hospital following the incident. Late Sunday afternoon, someone at Burress’ New Jersey home turned the gun over to police.

1. Waiting- Wow, fantastic organ work here! This song is hard to resist and has some really interesting organ soloing on it. This is Santana fusion at its best and features good guitar work from Carlos (what a surprise). Try not to like this one! 10/10

2. Evil Ways- This is a much more popular Santana song that is the vein of a slower track, but it still is catchy and pretty enjoyable. I’d take this kind of well-known Santana over their later work in a heartbeat. Great instrumental interplay appears as the song develops. Fantastic! 9/10

3. Shades of Time- Another catchy song here with further great instrumentation with a jazzy feel. Not as blazingly awesome as the first two songs, but still pretty good with some more good guitar from Carlos. 8/10

4. Savor- This starts out with awesome Latin percussion and then proceeds to feature some more really groovy, outstanding instrumental work. This is my personal favorite; the instruments are all on fire! You can feel the intensity of the fusion. 10/10

5. Jingo- A good, commanding and building intro then explodes with some guitar into a Spanish-sung straight-forward rocker with guitar work driving it along. The percussion and instrumentation are awesome, even if the vocals can get annoying eventually, so that adds another point. 8/10

6. Persuasion- Decent song here with funky organ, but it’s not one of my favorites and doesn’t strike a chord with me as much as the previous songs. The musicianship is good and the song structure is sufficient for its length. Not bad. 6/10

7. Treat- The piano is featured more here, giving the organ a nice break and introducing a more relaxing feel to this song, despite the very impressive, fast jazzy piano parts. The instruments again all play together well and I love the percussion touch. This is another wonderful fusion instrumental from Santana and the crew. 9/10

8. You Just Don’t Care- Another really good song with Carlos’s fantastic guitar work and everyone else complementing well. This one features vocals and is more in the vein of Persuasion as it is more of a rockier, repetitive song with atypical fusion elements. For that reason, I don’t like it as much as the more explorative blazing pieces, but it still is good. Carlos’s mid-song solo is of particular note. 7/10

9. Soul Sacrifice- Hypnotic, groovy percussion opens this one and you know immediately you’re in for a treat (which is coming two songs late I suppose). The interplay between the drums, percussion, guitar, and organ is fantastic here and this is an effective closer. You can hear the instruments talking to each other well on this track—a feature which I think makes it extremely intriguing. If you want to hear what Santana’s sound is all about, just give this song a listen. 10/10

This is a very important album in the makings of jazz and Latin fusion with rock and it is extremely good. It is close to being a masterpiece, but barely misses the mark and still is an excellent addition to any prog music collection.

A wonderful album of blazing, enjoyable instrumental work and an almost dance-able fusion edge that makes it unique and extremely satisfying. Recommended.

by MovingPictures07


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Rayzoon has released Jamcussion, a percussion add-on for Jamstix 2.

It is the most complex Jamstix expansion that we have developed so far. Not only does it add a wide range of percussive sounds and new style and player models but it also expands the interface of Jamstix 2 to allow the simulation of three dedicated percussionists, complete with separate bar, song and kit editing.

Jamcussion features

• Expands the Jamstix interface and A.I. with 3 new percussionists.
• Features its own kit editor, bar editor and brain elements.
• 35 percussion instruments covering a wide range of styles and locales.
• Adds 12 new instrument slots to the Jamstix kit concept.
• 26 styles modeling West-African, Latin, Modern and even Middle-Eastern rhythms.
• Two percussionist player models.
• 11 percussion kits, including African, Latin, Darbuka and Udu kits.
• 7 quickstart songs.
• Can be used with the Jamstix A.I., e-drumkits or traditionally via MIDI by the host.

Rayzoon Jamcussion is available now for $69 USD.

Visit Rayzoon for more information and audio demos.

Acclaimed Latin Jazz and Funk Guitarist Dave Percell has just emerged to the Southern California Jazz scene with a newly released solo album, ‘Eternal Traveler’.

Dave Percell on amazon.com

This new, yet exceptionally talented guitarist has delivered a CD with nothing less than a brilliant display of what a #1 hit CD should contain. It’s very rare that one can listen to a CD and actually enjoy all of the tracks, but I guarantee that not one song on this CD is a filler. Every song on Dave’s new album, ‘Eternal Traveler’ was pieced together with soul and passion.

The jazz industry has long awaited a musician such as Dave Percell. He’s different, he’s fresh, and he’s brought a new zeal behind the nylon strings. He’s created his own style and his own sound. Whether you like Jazz or not… you’ll fall in love Dave Percell.

While the entire album is incredible, my Fave 3 tracks are:

Eternal Traveler - Track #4
In Do Time - Track #5
Right of Way - Track #3

‘Eternal Traveler’ won in the top 10 spot on Ourstage.com latin channel in June of 08.

“Right of Way” kept the #1 and #2 slots for most of the month and was bumped to #13 during the finals in the Jazz channel for June 08.

Dave Percell released all tracks for online downloads in June, 2008. He is currently unsigned.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Walk With Me
2. Into The Light
3. Right of Way
4. Eternal Traveler
5. In Do Time
6. Twinkle of an Eye
7. No Turning Back
8. Do you Know Me
9. Just In Time
10. Welcome Home

Producers: Hush Productions and Dave Percell

For music and more information, go to:

Dave Percell Official Website

Dave Percell MySpace

Loopmasters has released Killa Kits, a collection of 6,000 drum samples formatted into 96 presets for NI Battery 3, covering genres from Rap and Hip Hop to Dance genres.

Crammed to the hilt with 6,000 samples and mapped across the whole 60 note template, this downloadable sample cd-rom is bursting with the latest cutting edge drum sounds for both Rap/Hip Hop and Dance genres.

Killa Kits features

• Scratch: sliced n’ diced scratch samples, chronologically mapped so as to provide you with playing realism. Unique and original and sampled live from a scratch artist.
• Layered: layered drum kits, mapped and edited to provide you with the extra ‘thump’ and ‘bottom-end’ in your mixes.
• Percussive: from Latin percussion to manic Tibetan Bells, from club Cowbells to Tabla drones, these kits have hundreds of pristine acoustic and synthetic percussive samples.
• Hip Hop and Dance drum kits: specifically tailored for the genres. No gentle acoustic kits here, just mind numbing and spine rattling mega drums.
• EFX: no drum library is complete without effects. Fancy some reverse Cowbells, or how about some electro grating sounds, or sounds from a factory? Maybe some huge resonating Toms run through an Eventide, or maybe some cricket crushed sounds, or sci-fi? They are all here.

Killa Kits is available now for £49.99 GBP. A free sample pack is available for download from the product page.

Visit ProducerLoops.com for more information and audio demos.

In almost random order:

James Carter -- Present Tense (Emarcy) -- Outrageously accomplished reeds player Carter and fellow virtuosi (D.D. Jackson, piano; Dwight Adams; brass, among them) squeeze fresh thrills out of dramatic themes and basic arrangements, stretching old school ways to suit themselves and wow us.

Rudresh Mahanthappa, featuring Kadri Gopalnath and the Dakshina Ensemble  -- Kinsmen (Pi). Indian-American alto saxophonist-with-a-Guggenheim and the unique maverick Indian "classical" saxophonist expand on their mutual appreciation for similarities and differences, backed by on-it electric guitar-violin-mrdingam-bass and traps. Newly imagined music, rather than awkwardly hybrid or superficially mixed, and often hypnotic, sometimes searing.

Lafayette Gilchrist and the New Volcanoes -- Soul Progressin' (Hyena) Simultaneously bold, blunt and sly, with bracing horn riffing, spunky solos and, underlying all, subtle references and fascinating subversions from Baltimore-based pianist-composer Gilchrist.

Free Form Funky Freqs -- Urban Mythlogy Volume 1 (Thirsty Ear). Post- Hendrix guitar god Vernon Reed meets harmolodic electric bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and slammin' Philly drummer G. Calvin Weston. Play it loud.

Cassandra Wilson -- Loverly (Blue Note). Great song selection (starting with "Lover Come Back to Me," including "Caravan"), smart 'n' spare accompaniment and Ms. Wilson's deceptively casual approach to lyrics front and center makes this a welcome return to what she does best, which T-Bone Burnette quite misunderstood in Thunderbird, her previous release.

Lee Konitz and Minsarah -- Deep Lee (Enja). An intuitively-bonded piano-bass-drums trio that met at Berklee School of Music embraces the graceful, wise, sensuous and spontaneous abstractions of Jazz Master Konitz, who finds ever more melody in the nooks and crannies of familiar intervals and progressions.

Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 1 (Doxy-Emarcy) Still champion Sonny Rollins self-selects on-stage highlights from Poland 1980 to Carnegie Hall, 2007. His standard is notoriously high, and this collection meets it.

Mostly Other People Do the Killing -- This is Our Moosic (Hot Cup) Postmodernism at its most engaging, four young men who know a lot of jazz past lay it all out, evidently for fun, and surprise -- one can almost sing along. Previously reviewed.

Joe Lovano, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Liebman/Saxophone Summit - Seraphic Light (Telarc)  -- Three dedicated hornmen, with ace rhythm (Billy Hart, drums; Cecil McBee, bass; Phil Markowitz, piano) and guest trumpeter Randy Brecker collaborate in honor of the late Michael Brecker with heartening depth. Also hear Lovano's suave Symphonica with the WDR Big Band and Rundfunk Orchetra (Blue Note).

Nicole Mitchell -- Black Unstoppable (Delmark) -- Mitchell's flute is a free-flowing wonderment, sustaining constant interest in settings for her Chicago AACM-linked Ensemble, even when they wander. Also available on DVD.

Historical and/or Reissue:

Charlie Parker -- Bird in Time 1940 - 1947 (ESP Disk) -- An audio treasury, four ceds of varying sound quality documenting the jazz revolutionary's rise from obscurity to immortality. For Bird devotees, but definitely for Bird devotees.

Sahib Shihab and the Danish Radio Jazz Group (Oktav) -- Produced in 1965 but previously unreleased, nine tight bluesy little-big band pieces written, arranged and conducted by a commanding baritone sax and flute soloist. Shihab, ab expatriate who had collaborated with Monk, Blakey and Gillespie rewards revisiting -- and here gets excellend rhythm support from bassist Niels Henning Orsted Pederson and drummer Alex Riel. Shoulda been on Blue Note, back in the day.

Anthony Braxton -- The Complete Arista Recordings (Mosaic) Prolific, indefatigably original and unabashedly ambitious (music for four orchestras?!), multi-reedist-composer-improviser Braxton was as brilliant from '74 to '80 as he is now; the top notch productions filling eight discs here retain their original daring and reveal beauty not any better understood 30 years ago.

Most listenable message album: Dr John and the lower 911 -- City That Care Forgot (Blue Note). Few New Orleansians have such a rich drawl, punchy piano style and the righteous anger to ask "Say Whut?" and make it infectious. With ringers Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Terence Blanchard, Ani DiFranco, Trombone Shorty and Terrance Simien all compelling attention.

Exemplary Latin jazz: Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra -- Song for Chico (Zoho). Besides the estimable leader, an elite cast -- Dafnis Prieto, Bobby Porcelli, Papo Vazquez, the late Mario Rivera and Tito Puente, Jim Seeley -- contribute to the sophisticatdd swirl.

In-the idiom-blues: Elvin Bishop -- The Blues Rolls On (Alligator). See my previous brief.

Best Book on a Musical Movement: George E. Lewis -- A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music  (University of Chicago Press). Previously reviewed here. (Of course I'm not going to plug my own Miles Ornette Cecil -- Jazz Beyond Jazz at this juncture. . . )

Further recommendations of jazz-beyond-jazz: Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet -- Tabligh (Cuneiform); Baker-Hunt-Sandstrom-Williams -- Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Okka); Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, The Speed of Change and Mike Reed's People, Places and Things, Proliferation (both on 482 Music); Gonzalo Rubalcaba -- Avatar (Blue Note); Miles From India (Four Quarters); Louis Moholo with Marilyn Crispell -- Sibanya (We Are One) (Intakt); Harris Eisenstadt, Guewel (Clean Feed); Tony Malaby Cello Trio, Warblepeck (Songlines); Steve Lehman Quintet, On Meaning (Pi); Taylor Ho Bynum, Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hatology); William Parker at Vision Festival xii, Double Sunrise Over Neptune (Aum); Mary Halvorson, Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12); Chico Pinherio & Anthony Wilson, Nova (Goat Hill Recordings); Jamie Baum Septet, Solace (Sunnyside); Raphael Imbert Project, Bach/Coltrane (Harmonia Mundi), Toumani Diabate, The Mande Variations (Nonesuch).