 Artist: Michael Brook: mp3 download Genre(s): New Age Electronic Soundtrack Michael Brook's discography:  India Kingdom Of The Tiger Year: 2003 Tracks: 16  Cobalt Blue Year: 2000 Tracks: 12  Live At The Aquarium: London Zoo 21 May 1992 Year: 1993 Tracks: 7  Hybrid Year: 1985 Tracks: 8  Tribal Year: Tracks: 2  Affliction Year: Tracks: 16 The innovational guitarist and producer Michael Brook was natural and embossed in Toronto. While perusal electronic euphony and the humanities at the University of Toronto, he met trumpter Jon Hassell, with whom he subsequently toured; through Hassell, Brook as well was introduced to minimalist composer LaMonte Young, under whom he studied Indian music. A period on the job as the house applied scientist at producer Daniel Lanois' celebrated Grant Avenue recording studio apartment lED to a incumbency playing guitar with the Canadian crop up band Martha and the Muffins during the late '70s; at the like time, Brook as well met Brian Eno, guesting on the 1980 Eno/Hassell collaboration Possible Musics. In 1983, he as well played on Harold Budd's Thaumaturgy Realism. In 1985 Brook made his solo debut with Hybrid, an influential ethno-ambient work recorded with Eno that discovered the heart ground betwixt Western and Indian musical aesthetics and naturalized his unique, heavily-processed "infinite guitar" heavy. He spent much of the unexpended decennary working with Eno, portion create picture sculptures and sound installations crossways the orb; he also became a sought producer, helming records for such various talents as Roger Eno, Pieter Nooten, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Balloon, and the Pogues. In 1990, Brook returned to public music, producing Youssou N'Dour's acclaimed Set; more significantly, he began a continuing quislingism with Pakistani qawaali isaac M. Singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with the seminal Mustt Mustt, a nuclear fusion of Western ambient and pop sounds with the sacred spiritual music of the East. Later producing Khaled, a 1991 visualize for the Algerian rai vocalist Cheb Khaled, Brook returned to the studio to record his number one solo effort in 7 age, 1992's leading Co Blue; a uncommon concert performance granted at a company celebrating the album's sacking was after issued as the limited edition Live at the Aquarium. A mate of projects with the Indian mandolin sensation U. Srinvas, 1994's Rama Sreemrama and the next year's Ambition, followed; in 1996, Brook reunited with Ali Khan for Night Song, trailed by work on on the score for the Kevin Spacey-directed offense noir Albino Alligator. |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008
Miley Cyrus On Nick Jonas: 'We Are Still In Love'
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Miley Cyrus has broken the silence around her ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas, and confesses even though they ar no thirster together, they both still love each other. Is she trying to stimulate a chemical reaction from Selena?
Speaking to Seventeen magazine, the Hannah Montana starlet reveals all the details around her former beau. She gushes: "We became boyfriend and girl the day we met. He was on a quest to meet me, and he was like, 'I think you're beautiful and I really like you.' And I was wish, 'Oh, my gosh, I like you so much.'"
Although the pair never confirmed their relationship, Miley admits in hindsight: "Nick and I loved each other. We still do, merely we were in making love with each other. For two years he was basically my 24/7. But it was really hard to keep back it from people. We were arguing a mint, and it really wasn't fun."
As for their eventual dissolve last year, the 15-year old says it injure her unfit: "At first I bawled for a month straight. I was so sad. I just went into this weird funk.
�And I colored my hair black. When we were dating, Nick wanted me to get highlights � and so I did that, and I got myself looking for great. And then, on the day we broke up, I was like, I want to construct my pilus black at present � I don't want to look pretty; I want to look hard-core.
�I was rebelling against everything Nick wanted me to be. And and then I was like, I've got to be by myself for now, and just figure out world Health Organization I genuinely am."
Even though Nick is rumoured to be dating Wizards Of Waverly Place star Selena Gomz, Miley soundless hopes she has a future with the cradle. "Maybe he'll be my best friend for the rest of my life or peradventure I'll end up marrying Nick Jonas!"
Is Miley stressful to effort tension betwixt Nick and Selena with this gush? Do you think she is beingness manipulative? Be sure to leave your comments below.
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Taylor Swift Celebrates Grad With Top 2 Albums
Country music sweetheart Taylor Swift had a unspoilt reason for missing her high school day graduation�she's on tour with Rascal Flatts.
The 18-year-old "Our Song" singer just standard her diploma via escargot mail and blogs on MySpace about the joys of being a high school graduate:
"Another thing I'm excited well-nigh is that I've officially graduated from high school!! CLASS OF 2008. YESSSSSSS. Even if I've been home schooled for the past 2 years, it still means a caboodle to me that I have my diploma."
Swift accompanied public school before her career took off, then switched to Aaron Academy, a private Christian school that offers homeschooling.
Last week, Swift became the first artist since LeAnn Rimes in 1997 to hold the two top positions on the Top Country Albums chart, with her new Wal-Mart-exclusive EP discharge, Beautiful Eyes, at No. 1 and her triple-platinum, self-titled debut album at No. 2.
"I'm having the most astonishing week! Thanks to you guys, I've got the 1 AND 2 land album this week," she writes. "Thank you to everybody world Health Organization went out to Wal-Mart this week and bought Beautiful Eyes. I'm so thankful for you. Wow. It's pretty unbelievable."
She gets our vote for Most Likely to Succeed.
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Thursday, 26 June 2008
Maximo Park Announce Brand New Tour Dates
Maximo Park have announced two new Irish tour dates ahead of their appearance at this year's Marley Park festival.
The band are expected to preview tracks from their third album during the shows in Galway on August 21st and Cork on August 22nd.
As previously reported on Gigwise, the band will perform at Marlay Park in Dublin on August 23rd, as part of the Lovebox Weekender.
For all the latest information on the bands shows, check out our new look Gig Guide.
Meanwhile, you can keep up to date with this summer's festivals by using out Festival Guide.
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
As I Lay Dying Frontman Pays Tribute To Arnold Schwarzenegger; Plus Underoath, Light This City & More News That Rules, In Metal File
As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis isn't ashamed to admit it: He's an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan, through and through.
"I love watching his movies," the singer told Metal File last week, just as his band prepared to hit the road as part of this summer's Warped Tour. "I don't see how you could put an Arnold movie on and not be entertained. Even the lesser of his films, like [1994's] 'Junior,' the ones that were goofy and sort of out there for him, they're still pretty great."
But Lambesis' unusual adulation for "The Governator" extends beyond his action-packed DVD collection. In fact, his appreciation runs so deep, the "Twins" thespian inspired Lambesis to strike out on his own, with a new side project inspired by Arnie. Called Austrian Death Machine, Lambesis plans to release his band's forthcoming debut album, Total Brutal, on July 22.
In essence, though, it's really a Lambesis solo LP. Not only did he write all the band's songs, he performs all of the material on Total Brutal, which was recorded inside his home studio in between As I Lay Dying tours.
"This is one of the albums where the recording took longer than the writing process," Lambesis explained. "I actually wrote most of the songs in about a week, because I just wanted to write 'em all before I ran out of time between tours. Then we went on tour for a while, and I came back and started recording the tracks. Because it's not a full band, and just one person, it was a lot harder to get everything right. When As I Lay Dying records, everyone knows their parts perfectly well, and they're all more than capable of playing everything perfectly. In my case, I had to pull a little studio magic to make everything right. It's a solo project where I'm trying to do everything, and there's no shame in a little ProTools trickery."
The idea for Austrian Death Machine — which Lambesis hopes to tour with this fall — came to him during a casual conversation with some friends backstage while AILD were on the tour.
"I think an Arnold one-liner came up in the conversation, and I was saying how amazing it would be to start a band where people were actually piling up at the front of the stage to sing along to those one-liners," he said. "It was just a thought at first, but about a year later, I had some time off, and so I just made it happen. I wrote as many songs as I could, recorded them, and now, I have a full album. It actually surprised me how easily it came together, because it was something that I just did on a whim. And it sort of surpasses my own expectations.
"[Austrian Death Machine] is a chance for me to show, musically, what I'm capable of," he continued. "I didn't try to write the most technical music in the world; I just wanted to write music that had a certain type of aggression that I think Arnold would want to sing over. A lot of [As I Lay Dying's] fans don't realize that, in addition to being a singer, I'm also very involved in the songwriting process."
Total Brutal will feature 17 tracks, including "Come With Me If You Want to Live" (which boasts a guitar solo from Killswitch Engage's Adam Dutkiewicz), "Who Is Your Daddy, and What Does He Do" and "It's Not a Tumor." Producer Jason Suecof (God Forbid, Trivium); AILD's Nick Hipa; Haste the Day's Jason Barnes; and Daath's Eyal Levi and Emil Werstler all contribute guitar solos to the effort. While Austrian Death Machine's songs do feature some of Arnold's most famous lines, as provided by a Schwarzenegger impersonator, the actual singing is handled by Lambesis
"Part of what I wanted to do with this band was do things stereotypically on purpose," he said. "Every band wants to be unique and avoid doing what's typical for the genre. In this case, I wanted it to be absolutely typical, so it's everything you'd expect to hear from a metal band, everything that embodies metal, and I think that's what makes Arnold the perfect frontman. At least as a character in movies, he embodied everything that's metal: He's a huge, muscular guy, and he knows how to win a fight. I think the ability to poke fun at heavy music, while at the same time writing really brutal music, is a fun combination. I'm really proud of the record came, and I think As I Lay Dying fans will definitely be able to latch onto it. It's less melodic and more thrash brutality. It has a little more of a tough-guy feel — on purpose."
For Lambesis, working on the Austrian Death Machine record wasn't nearly as intense as his work with AILD, because he didn't have to endure the same emotionally draining experience he does when he writes lyrics for that band.
"Everything in As I Lay Dying is really very passionate for me, vocally and lyrically, and there's a lot of conviction behind what I write, so I wanted to do something that was a little bit on the lighter side," he said. "I felt Arnold was the perfect guy to be in a band with. He's the most brutal guy in the world, and his movies are just pure testosterone. It seems to be perfect for the genre of metal — this brutal warrior who is able to destroy all these villains."
The rest of the week's metal news:
Underoath have titled their forthcoming album Lost in the Sound of Separation. We recently spoke to the band about the effort, and you can read all about it here. ...
Looks like those rumors about Mastodon's next album being a concept piece inspired by Czarist Russia are true. This image of Rasputin has been making the Internet rounds as of late, adding more credence to the tittle-tattle. Mastodon recently entered the studio to commence tracking of the disc, alongside producer Brendan O'Brien (Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots). It's believed the record will be ready in time for release later this year. ...
While the rest of Velvet Revolver continue to search for Scott Weiland's replacement, guitarist Slash is apparently working on his solo debut. He told Spinner.com that he's "working on it pretty aggressively right now, while I have the time, because as soon as Velvet finds its singer, then it's going to be off to the races with that." Slash doesn't know when the record might be ready for release but is hoping to have it out before the next VR LP hits stores. "It'll be my first solo record," he added. "All the other ones were just me putting other bands together and going out and just jamming. This will actually be a little bit more personal." ...
If you haven't already, you should head on over to MTV's "Headbangers Blog," where right now, you can stream Judas Priest's entire new album, Nostradamus. In next week's Metal File, we'll be bringing you an interview with guitarist Glen Tipton, in which he talks all about the LP and the possibility of his band being voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ...
Did Light This City break up? That's what we're hearing, but no official word has come down from the band or the label, but a statement should be released before the weekend, according to one member of the group, who asked not to be named. The rumors started soon after the band pulled out of its current tour with Death Angel, God Forbid and Soilent Green and nixing an appearance on the upcoming Thrash and Burn Tour, with Darkest Hour. ...
In other breakup news, it seems Long Island's From Autumn to Ashes have gone the way of the dodo — maybe. Frontman Francis Mark said in an online post: "At this point, I feel that we have accomplished everything we could have hoped for with FATA. It doesn't feel much like a breakup; just feels like the end. It's complete. I would say that we are going on indefinite hiatus, because the term breakup suggests a more negative circumstance." ...
Warbringer and Finntroll have lined up a U.S. run for August and September. The trek gets under way August 22 in Springfield, Virginia, and dates are booked through September 12 in San Marcos, California.
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Sunday, 1 June 2008
Wayne Rooney Snubs Sir Alex Over Wedding
Wayne Rooney’s Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson has not been invited to his wedding to Coleen McLoughlin.
Despite Fergie nursing Rooney’s career in recent years - with his team expected to secure a second successive Premiership title this weekend - the Scot did not make the final wedding guest cut.
A source tells The Sun, “Having your boss at your big day is a bit awkward.
“They thought it would be better to invite people they were closer to rather than workmates.”
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Sunday, 25 May 2008
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