Bigga Raiji - Massugu - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Surprises... They're rare and wonderful. When music decides to just show up and strut and rock and roll and stomp with swagger, swing and raw energy all over you, that's the rarest surprise indeed. 'What 'genre' is Michael Monroe?' Oh, go and throw yourself back into the shoebox you restrict yourself to if you need a genre... ... How about 'sweet smelling leathery sweat wrapped in one of the greatest rock 'n' roll voices?' How about 'harmonies and vibes swimming in silk scarves and lounging on a beaten sofa in leather pants, with the AM hours alive and the melodies so, so intoxicating?' And how about 'attitude! Which screams carefree not carelessness, confidence not arrogance, a cocksure sense of self-bathed in the sheer joy of playing the religious experience of real rock 'n' roll.' From loud crashing guitars to harmonicas, to gorgeous acoustic moments, you'll sing, you'll dance, you'll shiver, you'll shake, and you'll smell this wonderful exhilarating record in all it's weathered biker jacket incense-coated glory... and you'll also realize that whatever the hell is going on in the world right now, when you put this album on, it's an instant escape to carefree days and an emancipation from worries, fears, and woes. It is EXACTLY what rock 'n' roll in it's truest sense is meant to be, and Michael Monroe is handing you permission to get lost in the love of it. In fact, just stop reading this, play the bastard immediately, and go see Michael Monroe on tour at your first opportunity. Album Tracks 1. Rockin' Horse 2. Shinola 3. Black Cadillac 4. When the Apocalypse Comes 5. Painless 6. Newtro Bombs 7. Disconnected 8. Precious 9. Pushin' Me Back 10. Glitter & Dust 11. Rode to Ruin 12. One More Sunrise

Digitally remastered two CD set containing four Bobby Bare albums recorded for RCA Victor Records and dating from 1963, '66 and '67. All four made the US Country Albums Top 20 chart with the singles 'Detroit City', '500 Miles Away From Home' and 'A Little Bit Later On Down The Line' being US Country Singles chart hits. 'Detroit City' and '500 Miles Away From Home' were also US Top Ten Pop hits. Digitally remastered, slipcased and with extensive new notes. Album Tracks 1. Detroit City 2. Is It Wrong (For Loving You) 3. Lorina • Shame on Me 4. I'd Fight the World 5. Dear Wastebasket 6. All-American Boy 7. I Don't Believe I'll Fall in Love Today 8. Brooklyn Bridge 9. She Called Me Baby 10. The Gods Were Angry with Me 11. Book of Love 12. 500 Miles Away from Home 13. Homestead on the Farm 14. Let Me Tell You About Mary 15. Abilene 16. Gotta Travel on 17. Lynchin' Party 18. Worried Man Blues 19. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight 20. Noah's Ark 21. Sailor Man 22. What Kind of Bird Is That 23. Jeannie's Last Kiss 1. Passin' Through 2. You Can't Stop the Wild Wind from Blowing 3. Got Leavin' on Her Mind 4. The Long Black Veil 5. Heaven Help My Soul 6. Talk Me Some Sense 7. It Ain't Me, Babe 8. All the Good Times Are Past and Gone 9. What Color (Is a Man) 10. A Little Bit Later on Down the Line 11. Salt Lake City 12. (For a While) We Helped Each Other Out 13. A Bird Named Yesterday 14. Recitation / Somebody Bought My Old Hometown 15. Recitation / Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back 16. Recitation / the Day the Saw Mill Closed Down 17. Recitation / the Air Conditioner Song 18. A Bird Named Yesterday (Chorus Only) / Recitation / I've Got a Thing About Trains 19. Recitation / the Old Gang's Gone 20. Recitation / They Covered Up the Old Swimmin' Hole 21. The Church in the Wildwood / a Bird

Marc Riordan and Jon Leland make music together as Ragger. The two began collaborating in 2017 after being invited by Cameron Stallones to form the current trio lineup of his long-running experimental project Sun Araw. They approach Ragger with a very specific scope of material in mind the ragtime compositions of Scott Joplin and his contemporaries, presented in synthetic tones for synthesizers and electronic V drums. Hausu Mountain proudly introduces Ragger to the world with their first album, Euphonic Sounds. Riordan and Leland play precise and complicated music with tumbling melodies flecked with ornamented details that spiral over busy percussion patterns - but they present the keyboard and drums in bright electronic voices that wouldn't be out of place in a Super Nintendo game soundtrack. Marc Riordan's synths shimmer with detail in the upper register tones and bump with heavy-hitting bass, as the low, mid, and high voices interact in a state of tight counterpoint that highlights the complexity of ragtime as it was originally composed. His attention to detail in synth voice selection and programming positions Ragger as a funhouse mirror reflection of tone-obsessed stalwarts of the experimental underground like Emeralds or Oneohtrix Point Never - not to mention the duo's participation in Sun Araw as that project continues to dig deeper into synthesis with each new album. With his cascading electronic tom-tom fills and flurries of synthetic woodblocks clicking beneath FM synth cymbal crashes, Jon Leland's drum performances bring to mind a giant steam-powered calliope instrument with it's pistons pumping as innumerable mallets strike row after row of miniature drum heads. This style makes the drums feel like just as much of a lead instrument as Riordan's synths, as both instrumentalists lock into a tight symbiosis as they work through the winding architectures of t