Quick Music News
Haale Presents No Ceiling CD and Spring Tour
 Haale is a downtown New Yorker of Iranian descent. On her full-length debut, No Ceiling, she draws on that heritage freely, but filters it through a contemporary prism. That is, she extracts the Persian influence of her bloodline - including the work of the mystical poet Rumi - and the Sufi trance tradition, while weaving in her fondness for Hendrix, Dylan, Radiohead, and psychedelia. No Ceiling synthesizes the diverse elements of Haale's... |
Kilema at Colonial World Music Nights in Madrid
 Malagasy act Kilema will be performing at Colonial, the new world music venue in Madrid. "After the Caribbean grooves we enjoyed last week, we sail on over warm seas," say the presenters. "We have the honor and pleasure to receive Kilema, an artist that has traveled around the world by Peter Gabriel's hand and his WOMAD festivals, and has recorded for labels like Real World." Kilema... |
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Features
The word "chanteuse" may have been coined for Canada's Krall, who has emerged as one of the preeminent jazz voices of our era--mostly by her mastery of a bygone one. On "The Very Best," the singer slinks and sashays through more than a decade's worth of reinvigorated standards.
Seventies rock-inspired ladies' man Josh Rouse found a few minutes out of his busy tour schedule to stop by Studio C. He treated us to solo acoustic versions of "Hollywood Bass Player" and "Sweetie" from his latest album, Country Mouse City House. 
While some guys try to impress girls with lines like "I didn't know angels flew so low," James Blunt simply sings "you're beautiful." That genius pick-up line scored him supermodel Petra Nemcova and turned him into a rock star overnight. His latest, "All the Lost Souls," continues with the romance.
Before Pink Floyd became '70s prog-rock heroes, they were Swingin' London's most interesting psychedelic pop group. Newly reissued with a CD of bonus tracks, the Syd Barrett-led "Piper," their debut, still stuns like it did then: as the most darkly grown-up children's lullabies anyone's ever heard.
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