Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Blues
ART PEPPER: Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Vol. 3 (Vol. 3 Is a 2 Disc Set)
Art in top form with his first "comeback band" at a sold-out concert. Hot, swinging, soulful, rowdy, cool, wild. A great night, and you're there.
CD price: $17.50 / MP3 price: $15.00
HECTOR QIRKO BAND: Old School
In its fifth CD release, the HQ Band gets back to the basics with a relaxed and intimate session of blues and related styles. This one is straight from the heart.
CD price: $12.97
FULL CIRCLE 2DB: Pourin' Out the Blues
Late 60's and early 70's blues rock sound like Bad Company meets Humble Pie.
MP3 price: $8.99
JACE MARTIN: Jace Martin
Brand new self-titled debut driven by smooth, soulful rhythms. The vibrant vocals that have characterized Jace's career, bring it all together with refreshing energy. Definitely worth a listen.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
JEAN GAUTHIER: Feels Like Home
Romantic, warm, sultry blues and jazz vocals that will excite and move you.
Recommended if you like Nina Simone, Odetta.CD price: $17.00
JUMP & GUY: Night-Train
Good blues rock with great guitar riffing.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
RAINMAKERS: Into the fire
A little blues, a little folk, a lotta singing about love.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JIMMY JOANSSON: Words Don't Say It All
Unique atmospheric blend of electric guitar, bass, and percussion that melds classic rock, blues, and alternative (New Age) rock together, creating a profound and exotic sound with a mellow chill. Words can't say it all.
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $10.00
Classical
ALIAS ALAISE: Abode
Recommended if you’re looking for new classical music that can be interpreted and yet sounds traditional.
Recommended if you like Ludwig van Beethoven, Ballet.CD price: $9.97
Country
HERALD NIX: Everybody Loves You
Herald has long been one of the most universally respected artists in Canada. Ten years before people started talking about "alt country" and "americana" Herald Nix was writing and playing music that drew on very deep roots.
HERALD NIX: What A World
Herald has long been one of the most universally respected artists in Canada. Ten years before people started talking about "alt country" and "americana" Herald Nix was writing and playing music that drew on very deep roots.
MARK WAYNE: Return to Melody
From simplicity to "Out of the box", Mark Wayne's "Return to Melody" instrumental pedal steel CD encompasses many different styles of music.
Recommended if you like Buddy Emmons, Paul Franklin.CD price: $12.97
Easy Listening
DR. JAMES POLK: When Evening Comes
A groovy smooth jazz style with deep roots in the traditional jazz genre. You can hear influences of Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Smith and others.
Recommended if you like The Crusaders.CD price: $15.00
Electronic
AD-VER-SARY: Bone Music
Hard Industrial rhythms meet enormous organic soundscapes to create a perfect balance between the beautiful and the brutal.
CD price: $12.97
ACID J: My Life
Great mix of drum'n'bass, down tempo, dub, and electronica.
Recommended if you like Amon Tobin, Photek.MP3 price: $9.99
AL GROMER KHAN: Negus
Modern Ambient, avant garde, electronic creating contemplative new worlds inviting listeners to connect.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DAVOL: Truth
A powerful electronic tapestry written for an online video with a message for modern times.
Recommended if you like Robert Miles.MP3 price: $1.98
DIRTY BROTHERS: Funk You
Armenian Music Center presents Dirty Brothers' CD "Funk You". The aim of the project is to give second birth to old Armenian songs, popular in the 70s. These songs are remakes for club and dance parties.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
FUMOSONIC: Love Is Everything
New Age ambient world music with tabla, sitar, dumbek, solo trumpet, and a female vocalist set against funky grooves.
Recommended if you like The Cinematic Orchestra, Thievery Corporation.CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
KITTY VON STEEL: Cellular Telephone
Hi-NRG hyper wurobeat music with a punk/underground touch.
Recommended if you like Becky, Fright Ranger.MP3 price: $2.97
RELEVELER: Untouched
Krhys Wiebe has his own unique electronica blend of electro, house, darkwave and EBM.
Recommended if you like cEvin Key, Cryptomnesia.VINYL price: $10.00
DALTON MULLINS: Hot Pink
Like some MAD Scientist.Dalton blends plush pads, quirky mechanical loops and sounds that seem to fly by in a swirling wind into music that's anything but normal.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
THE ELECTRONIC GOSPEL EXPERIENCE: Throne Life
We're creating music from another planet. Building the best show ever made. Telling the greatest story ever told.
CD price: $21.99 / MP3 price: $19.99
Folk
ANNE SANDS: The Day Is Well Spent
Haunting love songs from one of the best known names in Irish traditional music.
CD price: $18.00
DOUG MISHKIN: Climbing That Ladder
A long-awaited follow up, this album has catchy folky tunes combined with warm, beautiful melodies.
Recommended if you like Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow.CD price: $15.00
BILL HARTWELL: Better Than Never
Singer/songwriter: Songs about life, love and the human spirit.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
JORDAN CLEMENTS: Jordan Clements EP
Small girl, big voice, acoustic modern folk music for anyone who's ever lost it, found it, or wanted it really badly.
Recommended if you like Patty Griffin, Melissa Ferrick.CD price: $8.00
HOLLIE ROGERS: Let Me Be The Shadow Of Your Dog
The debut album from 19 year old acoustic folk singer/songwriter Hollie Rogers. An incredible and powerful voice, and a songwriting talent that belies her years.
Recommended if you like Damien Rice, Joe Purdy.CD price: $16.00
Hip-Hop/Rap
SCRILLA C: Get Rich or Keep Lying (The Compilation)
The album is a lyrical club banger.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
Jazz
BREADMACHINE: Under the Greenwood Tree
Soulful, positive, relaxed new jazz originals featuring 4 top Finnish vocalists on 5 tracks + 4 instrumentals featuring the hardest working men of music scene in Finland and worldwide.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RUSS LITTLE: On The Shoulders Of Giants
A complete (and completely amazing), trombone player --- in the mainstream jazz idiom.
Recommended if you like Frank Rosellino.CD price: $16.97
BOBBY G SUMMERS: Labor Of Love
Funky but Smooth Jazzalistic with RnB overtones
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.97
Kids/Family
DAVID LANDAU: Live at the Noodle Factory
Filmed in a pasta factory, this live concert for kids is 31 minutes of songs and silliness.
DVD price: $12.00
IMPACT KIDS: We Are Saisd
10 Original songs featuring 15 of the best young songwriters in America.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MAGICAL DAVID: Singing With Friends
An imaginative pop-folk-country-rock album--transfixes the listeners with catchy original animal story songs, special FX , "magic words", great vocals and instrumentals that transport listeners to lands full of magic and fun.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $11.99
"HARMONY" YNEZ REYES: Honey Bear
This is an album of songs I wrote and sang for and with my kids when they were growing up.
CD price: $12.97
New Age
SHAD DIAMOND: Stress Relief
2 CD set: gentle music and nature with Superquantum healing for stress, hypertension, worry, burnout, overwhelm and emotional calming.
CD price: $44.00
GUNNAR MUHLMAN: Behind Monestary Doors
Deep alpha wave meditation music enhanced with chanting Tibetan monks
CD price: $12.97
SHAD DIAMOND: No More Smoke
Soft music with Superquantum Healing Fields that teach your body cells to seek oxygen rather than nicotine.
CD price: $26.00
LESLEY ANN SMITH: Where Love is Found
"Lesley Ann Smith sings like an angel, capturing the rhythm of a contemporary mystic that is mesmerizing." When the world has got you down, this CD will lift you up and heal you at depth. Check out the musicians on this recording.
Recommended if you like Eva Cassidy.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
Pop
BERKELEY HEIGHTS: Heartbreak 101
Melodic, catchy, electro alternative pop from Seattle.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $6.00
THE BOLTS: Like a Fantasy
The Bolts, The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, The Jakes, Addam Farmer, Heath Farmer, Austin Farmer, Matt Champagne, Ryan Kilpatrick, Muse, The Killers, The Strokes.
Recommended if you like Muse, The Killers.CD price: $10.00
KENDALL BEARD: Kendall Beard
The power, soul and conviction of an passionate singer/songwriter with modern rock and roll on her mind. Throw in a touch of R & B mixed with a bit of country, and you have it.
CD price: $7.98
HUTCH: Live Or Die
Hutch shines as an extremely gifted guitar player, painting his music with infectious guitar riffs and blazing guitar solos.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TROY: Best Music for Sex 2
Kitaro ven der graff nick kershaw dani robas shlomo arzi aviv gefen nick cave yaron london shulamit hareven all as inspiration for this album.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $2.00
DAVID PATRICK KELLY: Rip Van Boy Man
alternative folk rock jam-a-thon with Holly Everly, Mac Lennon, Woody Dylan, Django Grappelli, Marley Broonzy, Motown Garage homaginations.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SAM OLIVER: Calculated Risk
Acoustic/Pop/Indie. A Journey through space and time.
Recommended if you like Cyndi Lauper, Something Corporate.CD price: $7.00
Rock
ADMIRAL TWIN: Mock Heroic
Criminally catchy, style-blurring pop-rock with eccentric lyrics, adventurous arrangements, a whole lotta oh yeah, and some uh-huh to boot.
Recommended if you like The Beatles, Jellyfish.MP3 price: $9.99
Spiritual
MORRIS CHAPMAN: Come Away
The latest CD from one of Christian Music's most beloved Psalmist's. Dove nominee Morris Chapman shares some of his favorite worship songs in a smooth jazz style that feels like Sunday morning.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $10.95
MR. GOLDEN: The Prequel - EP
He is the Kanye West of Christian hip hop, minus the temper tantrums. Mr. Golden will catch your ears with his lyrical skills and also with the beats that he makes. This EP is just to wet your appetite for his debut album "The Golden Rule", due out August
Recommended if you like Common, Kanye West.CD price: $6.50 / MP3 price: $6.50
SERGEY ACHKASOV: Fire Of The Holy Spirit
…Earth-shattering events had taken place in my life. It was really a “dark night of the soul.” I was in desperate need of the Lord, like never before. I tearfully cried out to Him for help with all of my soul… Suddenly something unusual happened.
CD price: $15.00
JILL SHANNON: Beckon Me
Intimate, poetic and complex worship songs, combining contemporary, classical and folk sounds.
CD price: $12.97
NANA KWEISI BEDIAKO & APOSTOLIC INSTINCTS;: Melodies From Above
Nana Bediako is the exuberant Psalmist with the trademark appearance: But Nana B’ is more than a singer and his unpredictable gospel music is not confined by traditional styles.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NOVEJ: Everyday Like Sunday
Novej is one of the most talented & innovative artists alive.
CD price: $12.97
ROGER VILLA: Primicias
Each song has a positive message of hope and victory put to pop, rock, and smooth sounds.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JONATHAN WHITE: Rainsongs
This is beautiful, instrumental guitar music that calms and is perfect for meditation or prayer.
CD price: $12.97
BOB RICE: You Came To Me (Live Worship)
An inspiring and passionate live worship performance in front of thousands of Catholics in Steubenville, Ohio.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE CHAPIN FAMILY: The Chapin Family Christmas Collection Volume II: Variations on Christmas and Epiphany Carols
This collection takes the listener on a musical train that goes from tender ballad to full-blown rock symphony, with stops along the way at country, folk, street, pop, jazz and ragtime.
Recommended if you like Harry Chapin.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
CHARLES MINTZ: A Message Of Songs by Charles Mintz
This album is contemporary inspirational.
Recommended if you like Teddy Pendergrass, Charles Mintz.CD price: $12.97
JULIE BAIRD: His Tender Care
Think of Julie's music as a cross between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Disney, all rolled into powerful yet peaceful Christian ballads.
MP3 price: $10.00
PAUL ROBERTS: Witness
Christain singer/songwriter, with a sound that crosses between Country rock, Christain rock, and Contemporary Praise and Worship.
Recommended if you like Steven Curtis Chapman, Third-day.CD price: $12.97
THE SAVETTES & THE VICTORY CHORAL ENSEMBLE OF PHILADELPHIA: A New Chapter - Volume 1
Legendary Philadelphia gospel choirs return again with a New Chapter -a renewed fire and a fresh anointing of soul stirring gospel music.
CD price: $12.97
ROSALIND SENDAWULA: Keep The Faith
Powerful message with a great, smooth-sounding vocal and piano. There's a repetitive emphasis on faith. A great song waiting to be heard. Recommended if you like Mercyme and Songs of Inspiration.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JORDAN BIEL: Driven
These are fun, rocking and passionate songs that will bring you closer to Jesus Christ.
Recommended if you like Chris Tomlin, Phil Wickham.CD price: $9.99