Tag Archives: 1970s – 2000s

Mel Cheren was an instrumental number in the delivery and breakout achievement of disco — the co-founder from the influential label Western End Information, he was also the monetary backer behind the landmark nightclub Heaven Garage area, the longtime house of taste building DJ Larry Levan. Created in Everett, MA …

The music of Indonesia was raised to contemporary standards by vocalist Rhoma Irama. Regarding his music group, The Soneta Group, and coperformers including Elvy Sukaesih and Evie Tamala, Irama helped to transform the traditional style of music performed from the Malay Orchestra in to the contemporary, rhythmic, dance-inspiring, noises of …

Hailing from Elazig, a city in East Anatolia, but blessed in Ankara in 1954, Erkan Ogur began on violin as a kid and discovered cumbus, a little fretless lute, from local music artists playing traditional dances at wedding ceremonies. Hearing Jimi Hendrix on the air was a significant surprise, and …

Although he has often earned a full time income from film, movie theater, and television function, John Serry can be an expressive and versatile jazz improviser/composer who’s as comfortable using straight-ahead acoustic post-bop as he’s playing electric powered fusion. Actually, a few of his music offers blurred the collection between …

As the image designer for the legendary Factory label, Peter Saville revolutionized the appearance and experience of music product packaging, transforming the humble cardboard LP sleeves of pop’s past into postmodernist objects d’art. Cryptic and enigmatic however lush and frequently gorgeous, Saville’s groundbreaking function for rings like Joy Department, New …

Along with Eppu Normaali and Juice Leskinen, Popeda is among the cornerstones of Manserock — a movement of rings from Tampere, Finland that took underlying during the past due ’70s. Inspired mainly by the Moving Rocks’ heavier and much less serious materials, the music group was shaped in 1977 by …

Although Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan are categorized within the acoustic blues revival period, similar to Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, they inject fun themes to their repertoire, be it “No Money, Zero Honey,” “Your Sneakers Don’t Fit,” “Poultry a la Blues,” “YOUR BRAIN Is within the Gutter,” or “My …

With her ultra-deep voice, Ruby Hunter has increased to the top echelon of Australia’s Aboriginal singers. Most widely known on her behalf collaborations with her spouse, Archie Roach, Hunter effectively stepped in to the spotlight on her behalf own having a unforgettable debut recording, Thoughts Within, in 1994. An assessment …

Russian composer Artemiy Aremiev has used his knowledge of extracting spiritually shifting atmospheres through the most mechanical digital for the scores greater than 50 feature films, and produces an avant-garde music program named Electroshock. His dad Eduard can be a renowned author of ratings in his very own right, having …

Liner note writer John Swenson was (with Dave Marsh) co-editor of, and a contributor to, the initial edition from the Rolling Rock Record Guidebook, the first in depth reference guidebook to rock and roll albums (also covering some folk, jazz, blues, gospel, and nation recordings which were influential on rock …