Pat Mastelotto - Recidivate - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This Is Pat DiNizio Expanded two CD edition of this 2006 album from the Smithereens frontman includes a bonus CD containing an additional 18 tracks. On this , DiNizio leaves his guitar in the case and croons pop classics in a smooth, low-key style. While he tackles a couple bone fide standards here, for the most part the set list is made up of tunes familiar to anyone who came of age in the 1960s covers of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Henry Mancini, Bacharach/David, Jimmy Webb, and more. DiNizio tackles these songs with no accompanists other than Jazz pianist Jay Rowe, who handles the melodies in a tasteful and elegant manner. As for DiNizio, he's in fine voice on this set, and his phrasing is intelligent and well-considered. The album leaves no question that DiNizio has both the pipes and the musical sense to make this sort of project work, and InchThe Days Of Wine And Roses,Inch InchMoon River,Inch and InchMy Funny ValentineInch suggest he could have a second career as a jazz singer ahead of him.

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1980 album from the Pop vocalist including three bonus tracks. No Night So Long was originally Dionne's second album for the Arista tag. The three previously unissued bonus tracks date from the same period.

Avant-Primitivism and baroque lyricism collide on Patrice Sciortino's unknown and under appreciated InchPercupulsionsInch. Recorded late 1969 and released on the French 'Neuilly' library imprint in 1970, the album is delightful, mysterious and strangely accessible - jarring percussion jostles with tape manipulations, abstract melodies, spacious disconcerting harpsichords and extended techniques. A few years later Sciortino cut the inventive InchGymnorythmies 1Inch, an album of polymorphous individualism intended to accompany contemporary dance/gymnastics (it even came with an instructional booklet). Both LPs are reissued for the very first with a raft of intriguing and rare extra tracks. Superbly remastered from the original tapes and presented with exclusive liner notes and rare photos from the composer's own collection. 46 track CD. All original recordings. Firs ever official reissue. 20 page full color booklet with exclusive liner notes and rare photos.