OSCAR - OSCAR
Freezer
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Sergent Bossa
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Love this Way Again
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Big Apple
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Parisian Soul
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Loa
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Juice da Beatz
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Lo Fu (Nk)
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Sunday 17th
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Huggy Superstar
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Afrodisiac
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Oscar "Oscar" Album Review
Breakneck genius
Oscar just died a few days ago, and I've been listening to his stuff and remembering how legendary he was, and for how long.
This is maybe his finest outing (of dozens of fine outings). Every track sparkles with mastery, and the listener is enveloped by truly great musical intelligence. Hearing tunes played this well just makes you feel holy. Night Train is a genuinely evergreen jazz album, perhaps even one of the best. The man swings like Tarzan on jungle crank and takes you on one wild ride after another. Canadians wail too, eh.
I grew up in Toronto in the '60s and '70s, Oscar's adopted hometown, and many was the night my folks would come home from the Town Tavern with big big smiles after yet another session with OP at the keys. Man I wish I could go back there and sit by their side!
Those who say he plays too fast miss the point (Segovia, when asked why he played so fast, smiled and said, "Because I can"). When you are this insanely musical, sometimes you have so many ideas that they just show up at 110 miles an hour. Tatum was even faster, and it's impossible to not call him one of the other handful of jazz piano geniuses.
After the speed arguments etc are done, we are left with astonishingly beautiful music. Peterson's long-long-time bassist Brown never lets him down, and Thigpen is equally tight on the skins. But this album is all about OP, a true master of perhaps the greatest musical instrument of all, in perhaps the most demanding musical idiom of them all.
If Oscar never lived, we would have had to invent him.
Video Oscar Peterson - You Look Good To Me
An unusual trio, Oscar Peterson on piano, Ray Brown & Niels Pedersen both on double bass, perform "You Look Good To Me" at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1977. This beautiful piece is from the "Norman Granz Jazz In Montreux Presents Oscar Peterson Trio '77" DVD. enjoy
SOLVENT - SOLVENT CITY
A Panel of Experts
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Some Assembly Required
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Solvent City
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Frozen Food-Skanfrom remix
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That Will Be 49 Cents
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Built-in Microphone
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Not for Sale
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Replacement Value 2 00
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A Panel of Experts-Lowfish remix
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Solvent "Solvent City" Album Review
Warm, lovely synthpop.
Solvent is WONDERFUL! If you like synthpop in any style you will come to love this album. "Solvent City" is melodic and warm, full of gorgeous analog synths. The following album, "Apples & Synthesizers" is a little more edgy and discordant, but still fantastic. Unlike any other artists I've heard lately this is not dance music or IDM, this is synthpop in it's most devoted form. Listen to samples at www.suctionrecords.com and www.ghostly.com if you don't take my word for it.
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