Britney's cousin to launch singing career? & other: 2008

Sunday, 7 September 2008

Mp3 music: Abstrakt Algebra

Artist: Abstrakt Algebra: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Metal: Power
Metal: Doom

Abstrakt Algebra's discography:

Abstrakt Algebra

Year: 1995

Tracks: 8

Abstakt Algebra

Year: 1995

Tracks: 8

Having watched the life history of his longtime group, the legendary Candlemass, decay in front him, headsman songwriter and bassist Leif Edling sought comfort in a refreshful project he named Abstrakt Algebra. Enlisting singer Mats Leven (at one time of Yngwie Malmsteen's band), guitarists Mike Wead (King Diamond, Hexenhaus), Simon Johansson (Fifth Reason, Memory Garden), and drummer Jejo Perkovic to assist him, Edling looked to call on over a fresh 'leif' (contract it?) -- abandoning the work-shy doom he'd long been associated with to bosom a quicker and quite an technical business office alloy style. The results, heard on the band's 1995's eponymic release were interesting, simply non sufficiency to keep Edling from giving Candlemass another shot a few geezerhood by and by, and pickings drummer Perkovic with him as well.

Friday, 8 August 2008

Conception

Artist: Conception

   Genre(s):
Metal: Progressive
   Rock

Discography:

Flow

Year: 1997
Tracks: 10

In Your Multitude

Year: 1995
Tracks: 10

The Last Sunset

Year: 1993
Tracks: 10

Parallel Minds

Year: 1993
Tracks: 10

Perhaps topper remembered for its musicians' later exploits with sundry bands, Norwegian superpower metal act Conception issued 4 very competent simply non all that successful albums during its nineties consort. After starting proscribed with 1991's Norway-only severally released The Last Sunset, vocaliser Roy S. Khan, guitar player Tore Ã˜stby, bassist Ingar Amlien, and drummer Arve Heimdal added keyboard player Hans Christian Gjestvang for their soph movement of deuce years later, Analogue Minds. This was released (along with their reissued debut) by Noise Records and, amazingly, climbed to telephony number 23 on the Japanese charts, where musical, progressive rock-tinged heavy alloy happened to be in vogue during the '90s. Album telephone number triplet, entitled In Your Multitude, followed in 1995 but the band was starting to finger the stress of both the media and public's love/hate response (passion in Japan and select European nations, hatred pretty much all over else), and decided to break up shortly after issue a terminal bow called Flow (featuring keyboard participant Trond Nagell-Dahl) in 1997. Not quite ready to retire, though, Khan promptly hooked up with American progressive metal powerhouse Kamelot, Ã˜stby went on to reach true guitar heron status with Ark, and the calendar method discussion section changed centering via pitch-black metallic element band Crest of Darkness.

Love Is Colder Than Death

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Friends mystified by model's fatal decision

Close friends of Ruslana Korshunova, the 20-year-old Kazakh model who plunged to her death from her ninth-floor Manhattan flat at the weekend, say they can't believe she committed suicide.

Korshunova appeared on the front covers of Russian Vogue and French Elle and was dubbed "fashion's muse of the moment" by the Times newspaper in 2005.

Police in New York reported no signs of a struggle inside the model's apartment and witnesses say they saw her leap from her balcony on Saturday, just three days shy of her 21st birthday.

But Kira Titeneva, who described herself as Korshunova's "best friend" from her home town, told the New York Daily News: "There's no way she would have killed herself. She loved life so much."

Ms Titeneva was also quoted in London's Daily Mail as saying: "I talked to her on Friday night and we were talking all the gossip."

Another friend told the paper that Korshunova, who would have earned around $5200 for a catwalk show, had been sending money home to her family in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan and was "one of the sweetest, nicest people you'll ever meet".

The unnamed source told the paper the model had just returned from a modelling job in Paris and seemed "on top of the world".

"There were no signs. That's what's driving me crazy. I don't see one reason why she would do that," he said.

Korshunova's last hours were spent with a former boyfriend Artem Perchenok, 24, who told the New York Post he dropped her off at her apartment just hours before her death after they watched the Patrick Swayze film Ghost together.

Korshunova's doorman, Mahmoud Nakeeb, was also quoted in the Daily Mail as claiming the model seemed happy when she came home about 4am on Saturday.

"She came in this morning, she smiled, no sense of depression," he said.

But emotional postings on the beauty's social networking site in recent months hinted at an inner struggle.

"I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?" London's Telegraph quoted Korshunova as writing three months ago.

The paper also quoted a post in January saying: "It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out."

The balcony the model fell from had construction netting around it which appeared to have been cut, according to the Daily Mail, which also wrote that Korshunova was shoeless and dressed in blue jeans and a purple tank top when she died.

Her agency, IMG, was reeling from the tragedy and gathering information about her death and work schedule, the Daily Mail reported.

"We're shocked and our heart goes out to her family," spokesman Zach Eichman was quoted as saying.

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Thursday, 19 June 2008

Cultus Ferox

Artist: Cultus Ferox

   Genre(s):
Industrial

Discography:

Unbeugsam

Year: 2006
Tracks: 14

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Bada Bing! Tony Soprano Sells The Shirts Off His Back

Actor James Gandolfini is selling off outfits he wore on hit TV drama The Sopranos to raise cash for charity. The TV heavyweight is to auction off 24 complete outfits from the award-winning series to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, which offers help and assistance to U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The highlight of the clothing auction is expected to be the short-sleeve, button-down blue shirt Tony Soprano wore in the show's opening credits. Soprano's famous bathrobe is also going under the hammer at the Christie's Pop Culture auction, which takes place in Manhattan, New York on 25 June. Gandolfini's wardrobe is expected to fetch up to $36,000.

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Friday, 30 May 2008

Traffic

Artist: Traffic

   Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Trance: Psychedelic
   Rock
   Jazz
   Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

Far From Home

Year: 2003
Tracks: 10

Traffic: On The Road

Year: 1973
Tracks: 3

Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory

Year: 1973
Tracks: 5

Welcome To The Canteen

Year: 1971
Tracks: 6

The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys

Year: 1971
Tracks: 6

John Barleycorn Must Die

Year: 1970
Tracks: 6

The Best Of

Year: 1969
Tracks: 11

Last Exit

Year: 1969
Tracks: 7

Traffic

Year: 1968
Tracks: 10

Mr. Fantasy

Year: 1967
Tracks: 10

Dear Mr. Fantasy

Year: 1967
Tracks: 10

Smiling Phases (CD 2)

Year:
Tracks: 10

Smiling Phases (CD 1)

Year:
Tracks: 16

Sala De Espera

Year:
Tracks: 9

On The Road

Year:
Tracks: 6

Though it at long last must be considered an meantime vehicle for Steve Winwood, Traffic was a successful group that followed its own single course of instruction through the rock music setting of the late '60s and early '70s. Beginning in the psychedelic year of 1967 and influenced by the Beatles, the band early on turned tabu eclectic pop singles in its aboriginal Great Britain, though by the end of its first yr of being it had developed a pop-rock hybrid tied to its unusual instrumentation: At a metre when electric guitars ruled rock, Traffic emphasized Winwood's pipe organ and the reed instruments played by Chris Wood, particularly flute. After Dave Mason, wHO had provided the band with an alternate folk-pop sound, bypast for good, Traffic leaned toward extensive songs that gave its players room to extemporize in a jazz-like mode, regular as the rhythms retained a rock structure. The resultant was international success that complete only when Winwood eventually distinct he was ready to strike out on his own.

Steve Winwood (born May 12, 1948) number one attracted attention when, at the geezerhood of 15, he and his older brother Muff formed a band in their aboriginal Birmingham, England, with Spencer Davis and Pete York, finally called the Spencer Davis Group. They were gestural by record executive director Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, and began recording in 1964. As the band's singer, Winwood received the lion's share of attending. By the time he and his brother drop by the wayside the grouping in April 1967, the Spencer Davis Group had amassed quadruplet Top Ten singles and troika Top Ten albums in the U.K., iI of those singles as well arrival the Top Ten in the U.S.

Static non even so 19 days honest-to-goodness, Winwood formed Traffic with ternion 22-year-old friends wHO had played in lesser-known bands - drummer/singer Jim Capaldi (August 24, 1944 - January 28, 2005), singer/guitarist Mason (born May 10, 1944), and Wood (June 24, 1944 - July 12, 1983). In the emotional state of the times (and despite Winwood's prominence), the radical was intended to be a accommodative, with the members living together in a country cottage in Berkshire and collaborating on their songs. Blackwell quickly signed them and released their debut single, "Paper Sun," which peaked in the U.K. Top Five in July 1967 and also spent several weeks in the lour reaches of the charts in America, where Blackwell licenced it to United Artists Records, as he had the Spencer Davis Group's recordings.

Meantime, as Traffic recorded material for its debut album during the summer of 1967, its communal mentality was disrupted by Mason, wHO, unlike Winwood (a composer world Health Organization needful help with lyrics and therefore tended toward collaboration), was subject of penning songs on his have and did so. The succeeder of "Newspaper Sun" encouraged Blackwell to button a reexamination single quickly, and he chose as the most likely nominee among the songs Traffic had recorded so far "Hole in My Shoe," written and song by Mason. It became an fifty-fifty bigger strike than "Paper Sun," nearly topping the British charts in October, just that didn't baby-sit easily with Winwood, wHO matte it was unrepresentative of the sound he wanted for Traffic. The group's third single was "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush," the title of respect song from a motion picture, which became their third British Top Ten hit in December, the same month that their debut album, Mr. Fantasy, was released. It, also, earned a Top Ten ranking in January 1968, just by then Mason had left Traffic. A fourth part single, "No Face, No Name, No Number," culled from the album, made the British Top 40 in March, the month that Traffic debuted as a unrecorded attraction in the U.S., where Mr. Fantasy (ab initio titled Heaven Is in Your Mind) reached the Top C.

Traffic encountered two problems as a trio. First, given its unusual instrumentation, it had difficulty onstage doing without a instrumentalist like Mason, wHO could handle the bass voice guitar form. In his absence seizure, Winwood was forced to occupy in the bass voice sound by playing the organ's bass pedals with his feet while at the same time performing the organ keyboards with his hands and telling. Second, without a fertile writer like Mason, the radical had more difficulty coming up with sufficiency new material to gratify its contractual commitments. As a resultant, Winwood, Capaldi, and Wood reconciled with Mason, world Health Organization rejoined Traffic in the fountain of 1968 and contributed heavy to the band's second album, Traffic, committal to writing half of the songs, among them "Feelin' Alright?," which went on to turn a rock 'n' roll monetary standard, peculiarly later Joe Cocker's 1969 cover adaptation became an American Top 40 hit in 1972.

Traffic was released in October 1968, and the band went on enlistment in the U.S. to promote it. But simply subsequently the start of the enlistment, Winwood, Capaldi, and Wood discharged Mason. Then, at the decision of the enlistment, Winwood withdrew, announcing the separation of Traffic at the beginning of 1969. These events even so, the album reached the U.K. Top Ten and the U.S. Top 20. And separation or no, Winwood was contracted to Island and United Artists for fin albums, of which only two had been delivered. Thus, in April 1969, the labels released Last Exit, a compendium of non-LP singles sides, outtakes, and live recordings. It was some other Top 20 success in America.

Meanwhile, Capaldi and Wood rejoined Mason along with keyboardist Wynder K. Frog in the transient band Wooden Frog, which never recorded, and Winwood teamed with one-time Cream members Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker as intimately as former Family penis Ric Grech (Nov 1, 1946 -- March 16, 1990) in Blind Faith. This extremely touted supergroup made one album, Blind Faith, which topped the charts in the U.S. and U.K., and played one American circuit earlier breaking up. Still outstanding his record labels two albums, Winwood began work on a solo track record in early 1970, only chop-chop brought in Capaldi and Wood and off it into a Traffic LP. Gospel According to John Barleycorn Must Die was released in June 1970. In the U.S., it was a gold-selling Top Ten hit; in the U.K. it reached the Top 20.

Embarking on extended touring, Traffic expanded its batting order, adding Ric Grech on bass part. In the spring of 1971, in anticipation of British and American touring, drummer Jim Gordon, once of Derek and the Dominos, was brought in, as was percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah. Also joining for a handful of U.K. dates was Dave Mason, wHO had in the meanwhile suit a solo star with his 1970 album Alone Together. The band was able to work off its contractual committal with a live album from this lineup, Receive to the Canteen, released in September. Re-signed to Island, which began releasing albums in the U.S. as intimately as the U.K., Traffic quickly followed in November with the studio album The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, which reached the American Top Ten and sold a one thousand thousand copies, though, in an reading of the group's progressively international focus, it didn't even chart back plate in Britain.

A wintertime 1971-1972 enlistment was aborted by Winwood's poor health (he was later on revealed to be suffering from peritoneal inflammation), and Grech and Gordon left the band, piece Capaldi recorded his debut solo album, Oh How We Danced; it reached the American Top hundred. In the fall of 1972, with Winwood recovered, Traffic convened to disk a new album, adding drummer Roger Hawkins and bassist David Hood, members of the studio band at the notable Muscle Shoals recording studio. (Keyboardist Barry Beckett, some other Muscle Shoals alumnus, played with the band live.) Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, released in January 1973, reached the American Top Ten and went gold. The domain enlistment that promoted it was chronicled on Traffic -- on the Road, released in October 1973.

At the ending of the enlistment, the Muscle Shoals musicians returned base and Kwaku Baah as well left hand Traffic, which recruited bassist Rosko Gee. Capaldi released a second solo album, Whale Meat Again, in the summer of 1974; "It's All up to You" from it reached the U.K. Top 40. With Traffic, he recorded a new album, When the Eagle Flies, released in September. It was the band's fourth part consecutive studio album to extend to the American Top Ten and go amber, and the grouping toured to support it, merely at the ending of the enlistment Traffic silently disbanded.

With a headstart on a solo life history, Capaldi scored a Top Five hit in the U.K. in 1975 with a cover of "Love Hurts" from his third gear record album, Short Cut Draw Blood. (The single charted in the U.S., but deep in thought knocked out to a competing version by Nazareth.) Along with former Santana drummer Michael Shrieve, Winwood participated prominently in Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamashta's conception record album Go, which made the Top one C in the U.S. in 1976. In 1977, he at long last made his solo bow, releasing the modestly successful album Steve Winwood. A three-and-a-half twelvemonth silence ensued, broken in by the 1980 release of Arc of a Diver, which hit the American Top Five and went pt, paced by the Top Ten single "Piece You See a Chance." 1982's Talk Back to the Night was a commercial letdown, merely Winwood had the sterling success of his life history with 1986's Back in the High Life, a multi-million trafficker that threw cancelled four Top 20 singles, among them the chart-topping "Higher Love." In 1987, "Valerie," a remixed reading of a vocal from Talking Back to the Night, hit the Top Ten. 1988's Roll With It was another multi-platinum marketer for Winwood, with both the record album and the title sung dynasty topping the charts. But Refugees of the Heart (1990) was less successful. In 1994, Winwood announced a reunion with Capaldi (Wood had died of liver failure), wHO had continued to record solo albums with diminishing success. The iI made a new album, Far From Home, and toured as Traffic during the summer. The album rapidly reached the U.S. and U.K. Top 40, but did non sell good, and the hitch likewise performed disappointingly, signal another retirement of the Traffic name. Nevertheless, the 1967-1974-era band continued to enjoy substantial position as a graeco-Roman rock act, its albums earning CD reissues along with the release of compilations like Smiling Phases (1991) and Feelin' Alright: The Very Best of Traffic (2000). Capaldi's decease on January 28, 2005, appeared to commit an end to the band.

Roberta Flack