Various Artists - Bye Bye Birdie (Original Soundtrack) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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Steven is the sound of me holding a mirror up to and critically reflecting on who I am the good, the bad, the ugly. It's about trying to understand the multitudes within me. -S. RaekwonSteven Raekwon Reynolds performs as S. Raekwon, but his second LP is simply calledSteven. Across ten tracks of furious and subtly strumming guitars, plodding bass riffs,and whispering revelations, S. Raekwon's newest album strips back sonic and personallayers to present his most vulnerable, yet authentic self.Born in Buffalo and now based in the East Village of New York City, Steven wrote,produced, engineered, and mixed everything on the record, in addition to playing everyinstrument except the drums. He packed up a rental car with all his gear and returned tohis fiancée's parents' home in Southern Illinois, where they rode out the pandemic andwhere he recorded half of Where I'm at Now. The house proved to be a nontraditionalrecording space, but one that provided plenty of physical space as well as spiritual roomfor experimentation.Steven and drummer Mario Malachi, longtime friends since their days at college inCleveland, Ohio, spent a week in July 2023 transforming the living room into amakeshift studio, rearranging furniture, sitting face-to-face in front of a mic, and tapingsongs in single takes. It was a new way of working together, with no demoing or pre-production; Mario hadn't even heard the songs before getting there, which created a senseof spontaneity and improvisation.Where his debut explored his past - longing for a connection to his father and the Blackside of his family and wrestling with his identity while being raised in a household by asingle, white mother - Steven looks inward. Steven is loosely structured in three parts Part 1 is fast and energetic, exploring the concepts of rage, anger, jealousy. Part 2 is slowand dynamic, with themes of ugliness, disappointment, emb

Digitally re-mastered collection from the British guitar Pop quartet. This features all of their hits ('Come And Get It', 'Day After Day', 'No Matter What' and 'Baby Blue', as featured on the series finale of Breaking Bad) as well as key album tracks including their original version of 'Without You', a song they wrote and recorded in 1970 that became an international hit when Harry Nilsson released his version a year later. Contains tracks from their years on the Beatles' Apple Record tag as well as a track from their 1974 masterpiece Wish You Were Here (on Warner Bros) and a glorious Power Pop nugget from their 1979 'reunion' album Airwaves. The musical legacy of Badfinger is indeed timeless, in that it has survived the decades, and shows every sign that it will continue to do so for many generations to come.