Various Artists - Hot Rod City / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On March 12, 2013, SOUND CITY REAL TO REEL, the companion album to the documentary is due out on Roswell Records, in conjunction with the films DVD and Blu-ray releases. A brand new collection of all-new all-original songs, each song featured on the album was composed and recorded exclusively for the film within it's own 24-hour session on that console after it was reinstalled in Grohl and his Foo Fighters own 606 Studios. The new tracks - featuring an amazing and idiosyncratic cast of collaborators including Paul McCartney, Grohl's former Nirvana and current Foo Fighters bandmates, Stevie Nicks, Rick Springfield, Trent Reznor, Joshua Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Lee Ving of Fear, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford of Rage Against the Machine and more-passionately exemplify SOUND CITYs celebration of the human element of musicianship and recording in an increasingly digital world.

Indonesian experimental duo Senyawa have releasd the explosive, exploratory trip Alkisah. Through their unique sonics it represents these masters of unpredictable experimental music pushing their own boundaries. Instrumentalist Wukir Suryadi performs on homemade instruments, created from bamboo and other natural material, offering a rarely explored link between the ancient, traditional, mystical musics of South-East Asia and the contemporary avant-garde. Vocalist Rully Shabara mines the human voice for it's strangest and most challenging sounds, chanting, yowling and throat-singing like a chorus of demons in one song and an arcane, chattering machine in the next. About them, rhythms skitter and crash around like gamelan, punctuated with trashcan drums here or bulging plumbing percussion there, while the doomier moments (such as InchIstanaInch) crush with seething waves of distortion and Shabara's mesmeric growls (a mix of Javanese, Bahasa, and other Indonesian languages). The record lurches from urgency to apocalypsis, twisting and twining fervorous Ramayana chant with animist mythology and hellish atmospherics.

Various Artists - Dci (Various Artists) [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/13/2017