Pop 1280 - Paradise - VINYL LP

Various Artists - The Rough Guide To Brazilian Electronica [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/23/2003

Jeff Healey, arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time, is releasing his first blues/rock album in eight years a bustling, bright collection of tunes he's titled MESS OF BLUES. The album was recorded late last year, with the musicians who regularly accompany the guitarist at Jeff Healey's Roadhouse in Toronto - two tracks, in fact, were recorded at the club, and two more cut at a concert in London, England. This was the last studio album to be recorded by Jeff Healy before his untimely death after an ongoing battle with cancer.

The Chicago-to-Portland husband/wife team of Paradise's Steven Denekas and Tamar Berk have crafted a loving homage to the classic rock opera in Dawn of Paradise, a double-vinyl LP which recalls the heyday of The Who's InchTommy,Inch Pink Floyd's InchThe WallInch and Yes' InchTales of Topographic Oceans,Inch produced and engineered by the legendary Ron Nevison, who manned the boards on both InchQuadropheniaInch and InchPhysical Graffiti.Inch A sprawling epic described as Inchthe journey of a child to God,Inch that encompasses both religion and politics, family and work, mortality and transcendence, it is an unabashed attempt to bring this classic-rock genre into 2017. Denekas and Berk have been working their way through the history of rock on their previous two Paradise albums, as they start from the British Invasion's mid-'60s garage-rock roots, graduate to psychedelia and then fully immersing themselves in the '70s conceptual, progressive rock era. Along with drummer Thom Sullivan and bassist Allen Hunter, the pair bring both craft and passion, updating the form with instrumental prowess and a larger-than-life vision.