Gardel Martini, Latin Lounge with Lots of Love
The late, great Carlos Gardel is revered as the foremost star and true giant of Argentina’s beloved tango genre, with an astonishing 1,000+ recordings and 800 recorded songs to his credit. Sixty-eight years after his untimely death in a plane crash at only 37 years of age, and at the height of his monumental national popularity, a devoted following of fans continues to keep his legend alive as a tragically lost musical hero in both Argentinean and Uruguayan cultural history.
Gardel Martini is a collection of ten of Gardel’s most beloved signature songs. It is also a collective of young Argentinean musicians — all now based in Los Angeles — who worked together to freshly re-interpret some of this classic repertoire for a generation of new audiences, adding a distinctive bossa nova, “lounge music” flare to their renditions of the songs.
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Biomusique will be performing live at the famous new age bookstore The Bodhi Tree. The performance will feature music from the duo’s new release in an hour-long performance. This is a rare chance to get an entire music concert absolutely free from two of the industries leading artists.
I’ve re-discovered vinyl. You remember don’t you? Wax? Those plastic platters with circular grooves spinning out the soundtracks of lives…yes, that’s it…records. Well in my attempt to merge the archaic with the temporal, I decided to start ripping my records onto my computer and into MP3s and when I dove back into my record collection I found a surplus of material that had set the stage for today’s global renaissance in sacred and spiritual music, the likes of which Deva Premal and Jai Uttal are making to the delight of many.
The latest round of The Grammies had its fair share of surprises. From Amy Winehouse’s big wins and her bloozy rendition of “Rehab” (captured live from London) to Herbie Hancock’s startling win for best album. In fact, Hancock’s capture of the best album award for River: The Joni Letters A tribute to the music of Joni Mitchell, was rapidly regarded of one of the biggest upsets in Grammy history. On the surface it’s easy to see why. It’s a jazz record and most people outside of a rapidly aging few don’t purchase jazz CD’s. It’s slowly but surely joining Western movies, drive-ins, and other forms of Americana that comprise our history but aren’t immediately accessible as modern idioms of expression. That’s no slight on jazz, where some of the greatest and most creative souls congregate, it’s just that as a musical and commercial force, it’s a genre that exists mostly for collectors, purists and lovers of that soft new-agey version of the Quiet Storm listening experience. So how did one of Miles’ guys run away with the best record of the year?
by Robert Phoenix
by Robert Phoenix
by Robert Phoenix


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