Dionne Warwick - Uma dama da canção americana...

Marie Dionne Warwick (East Orange, Nova Jérsei, 12 de Dezembro de 1940) é uma cantora norte-americana. É prima de primeiro grau de Whitney Houston, irmã de Dee Dee Warwick e sobrinha de Cissy Houston. Ganhou fama como a intérprete preferida dos compositores Burt Bacharach e Hal David. Ambos a presentearam com uma série de sucessos. Com mais de 50 anos de carreira, estima-se que tenha vendido mais de 66 milhões de cópias de seus discos. Em 1963, emplacou o clássico soul "Don't Make Me Over", chamando a atenção de David e Bacharach, que estavam procurando a voz ideal para suas sentimentais baladas. Com ela, rapidamente várias músicas que a dupla escreveu se tornaram sucesso com a sua voz, como "Walk On By", "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?", "Alfie" e "I'll Never Fall In Love Again". Entretanto, outras da autoria de David/ acharach ficaram consagradas nas vozes de outros artistas, porém, gravadas primeiramente por Dionne durante os anos 60, como "(They Long To Be) Close To You", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "What The World Needs Now", "The Look Of Love", entre outras, além de "I Say A Little Prayer", que apesar de ter feito sucesso na voz de Aretha Franklin, é uma música consagrada por Dionne, e uma das mais requisitadas pelos seus fãs.

 Em 1982, Barry Gibb dos Bee Gees, que já declarou ser grande fã da cantora, decidiu produzir um álbum para Dionne chamado Heartbreaker, contando com várias participações do cantor tocando violão assim como fazendo backing vocal. Esse disco trouxe uma música que foi sucesso em todo o mundo e não pode faltar em seus shows: "Heartbreaker". Outros êxitos notáveis da cantora durante os anos 80 foram "It’s You", dueto com Stevie Wonder em 1985, da trilha sonora do filme "A Dama de Vermelho" e também "Love Power", dueto com Jeffrey Osborne em 1987. Dionne também participou de duas músicas beneficentes, ambas em 1985: We Are The World, fazendo parte dos USA For Africa ao lado de várias estrelas da música americana e também That's What Friends Are For, ao lado de Stevie Wonder, Elton John e Gladys Knight, escrita pelo seu velho amigo Burt Bacharach em conjunto com Carole Bayer Sager. Em 1990, Dionne lançou um disco que reverencia um grande músico norte-americano: Cole Porter, destacando a música "Begin The Beguine". É grande admiradora da música brasileira, e além de uma casa de veraneio na Bahia e outra no bairro do Jardim Botânico no Rio de Janeiro Dionne apresenta-se com certa regularidade ao lado de intérpretes de renome, como Ivan Lins, Simone, Jorge Ben Jor, entre outros e comparecendo muitas vezes ao Programa do Jô.

Vejam também: (http://globoplay.globo.com/v/1243235/)...

Com vocês, Dionne Warwick

Presenting Dionne Warwick (1963)

The Dionne Warwick Collection (Her All-Time Greatest Hits) (1989)

The Essential Collection (1996)

ENJOY!!!

Joan Armatrading - Great Voice from England...

Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. As a three-time Grammy Award-nominee, Armatrading was nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She also received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. In a recording career spanning 40 years, Armatrading has released 18 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations. Armatrading possesses the vocal range of a contralto. Her music is considered to be mostly pop with forays into rock, folk, jazz, blues, soul, and reggae.

Joan Armatrading (1976)

Step Ahead - French Prog Rock

Step Ahead biography (ProgArchives)

French act STEP AHEAD was active in the early 80's. Their only release prior to breaking up, 1982's "Step Ahead" has seen lots of praise coming it's way, which has led to the album being reissued two times so far. In many ways the band, dominated by the contributions of Christain Robin (guitars), Claudie Truchi (keyboards) and Danny Brown (vocals) were a precursor of things to come. Symphonic rock of late 70's Yes is a clear influence, but mixed with classical influences and 80's keyboards the resulting sound was quite similar to what was to be coined Neo Progressive in England a couple of years later. Other musicians participating on the only album made by this talented group are Gerard Macia (guitars), Antoine Ferrera (bass), Jean-Yves Dufournier (drums), Alain Lejeune (keyboards), Philippe Recht (bass), Emmanuel Riquier (drums). 

Step Ahead (1982)

Kerry Allen Livgren from Kansas

Kerry Allen Livgren (born September 18, 1949) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as one of the founding members and primary songwriters for the 1970s progressive rock band, Kansas.

Kerry Allen - Seeds of Change (1980)

Seeds of Change is Kerry Livgren's first solo album. Released in 1980 while he still was a member of Kansas, it features guest appearances by three fellow Kansas members: Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart and Robby Steinhardt. Singer Ronnie James Dio and members of LeRoux, Jethro Tull, Ambrosia, and Atlanta Rhythm Section are also featured. In 1996, Seeds of Change was reissued by Renaissance Records with an interview with Livgren as a bonus track.

Led Zeppelin para refletir no Ano Novo

Nada melhor que finalizar o difícil ano de 2015 ouvindo um Led Zeppelin no toco. Selecionamos este show em Berlin, Alemanha, realizado em 7 de Julho de 1980. Como dizia nosso querido Dead, ENJOY!!!!!

 A Memory Frozen Forever (07.07.1980, Berlin) 

Um Feliz Ano Novo a todos amigos que continuam firmes no SOM MUTANTE...

The Great Steve Walsh (Kansas)

Steve Walsh (born June 15, 1951) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock band Kansas. He sings lead on Kansas' four best-known hits: "Carry On Wayward Son," "Dust in the Wind", "Point of Know Return", and "All I Wanted", the last two of which he also co-wrote. During Walsh's time with the band, Kansas recorded two enormously successful albums, 1976's Leftoverture and 1977's Point of Know Return. With Kansas, Walsh has released 12 studio albums, six live albums, and numerous singles. He has released three solo albums thus far. Walsh left Kansas after 1980's Audio-Visions due to creative differences with the band's primary song writer Kerry Livgren. Earlier in 1980, he released his first solo album, Schemer-Dreamer, which included band mates Kerry Livgren, Rich Williams and Phil Ehart, as well as guitarist Steve Morse (who in 1985 would join the revamped Kansas). It contains the popular song "Every Step of the Way". In 1982 he formed a rock band called Streets, which released the albums 1st in 1983 and Crimes in Mind in 1985 before disbanding...

Steve Walsh - Schemer Dreamer (1980)

Schemer-Dreamer is the first solo album by Steve Walsh, the former and original keyboardist/vocalist of the progressive rock band Kansas. It was released in 1980. Although this is his solo album, it features other members of Kansas including Kerry Livgren, Phil Ehart, and Rich Williams. In their retrospective review, Allmusic sarcastically suggested that the self-aggrandizing front cover of Schemer-Dreamer "very well could be the greatest album cover in rock history." They criticized the music itself as "a big, loud, dumb arena rock record, one that sounds completely tied to its year, if not month, of release", but also avouched that "it's kind of fun because of that".

Feliz Natal! E um som para sua festa...

Esta é a seleção do Som Mutante para musicar seu Natal...

Christmas Greetings From Jerry Vale

Etta James - 12 Songs Of Christmas

Cool Jazz Christmas Hits

A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra

A Merry Christmas With The Four Aces

Burl Ives - Have A Holly Jolly Christmas

Wynton Marsalis - Crescent City Christmas Card

Randy Travis - An Old Time Christmas

Johnny Cash - Country Christmas

Santa Claws & The Naughty But Nice Orchestra

Hell’s Bells Of Christmas: A Holiday Tribute To AC/DC (2007)

And Christmas For All: A Holiday Tribute To Metallica (2007)

The Green Days Of Christmas: A Holiday Tribute To Green Day” (2007) 

The Mills Brothers - Merry Christmas

LINKs from TWILIGHT ZONE

Thanks to ronh1...

FELIZ NATAL

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Spacecraft (France, Space Electronic, Ambient)

ProgArchives Revires:

Paradox is the first and only album by a largely unknown French guitar/synth duo called Spacecraft, and the music on this album is a psyche-tronic mess. I'd put this somewhere between the loudest krautrock and the noisiest prog electronic. The synth and electronic effects on this album are extremely bright and punchy in the mix, which makes for a slightly abrasive but very powerful kind of spacey feel when coupled with the echoing/hypnotizing psychedelic effects in the background. But, unlike most of the spacey electronic albums, this album sounds less like the atmosphere of space and more like the congested atmosphere from inside a spacecraft looking outwards toward the stars and planets. This sound is achieved from the electronics sounding very mechanical but within the context of a spacey atmosphere, whereas most prog electronic groups seem to do either one or the other. The addition of the manipulated guitar gives this album a strong krautrock flavor as well, and I'm not sure if I'm correct but the guitar playing sounds to be mostly improvised. It's all done very well, but it does sound a bit German to me. Not that sounding German is bad, but I kind of hoped for something uniquely French, considering that the guitarist of this project was also a member of Clearlight (which sounds uniquely French, in my opinion). Of course, there is no France in outer space, or a Germany for that matter. The purpose of the electronic and krautrock genres were initially to create music that sounded like it was from the depths of space. With that in mind, this album definitely succeeds, and it is a very wonderful album of noisy, congested, mechanical space music.

Spacecraft - 1978 - Paradoxe

Kalapana - Hawaiian Rock

Uma interessante banda do Havaí, com um Rock consistente e que está há muito tempo na estrada, com mais de 10 álbuns de sucesso, principalmente no Japão.

Kalapana II (1976)

Personnel:

- Malani Bilyeu (Carl James Malani Bilyeu) - acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, percussion, vocals

- Mackey Feary (Bryant Mackey Feary) - bass, acoustic guitar, gut string guitar, percussion, vocals

- D.J. Pratt (David John Pratt) - acoustic guitar, lead guitar, percussion, congas, clavinet, backing vocals

- Kirk "Guitar" Thompson - acoustic & electric piano, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, vibraphone, vocals

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- Alvin Fejarang - drums, percussion, timbales

- Michael Paulo - saxophones, flutes

Symphonic Slam - Prog Rock from Canada

Symphonic Slam biography (Prog Archives)

Symphonic Slam was mainly about Timo Laine (born in Finland, and moved to America as a child), and his polyphonic guitar synthesizer. The rest of the band was filled out by drummer John Lowery, and keyboardist David Stone. Timo had been playing the club circuit for a while, but it wasn't until he relocated to Canada that things began to happen. It was there that Symphonic Slam was discovered by A&M Records. What set them apart was the $10,000 360 systems guitar synthesizer prototype. This led to the release of their 1976 self-titled album. They toured, and played gigs with some of the big names of the time (Rush, The Rolling Stones, and the Village People). Soon they were asked to go to L.A. to work on a new album. Not being interested in this tack, Stone took the opportunity to defect to Rainbow. After the album was completed, A&M wasn't pleased (they wanted disco). Timo took it to Canada, and created his own label on which to release it. It had some modest success, but Laine wasn't interested in going back to L.A. to fight disco once again. Musea's 2001 re-release of the first album inspired Timo to get back on the horse. Apparently he had been working on another album for many years. "Her Fire" is supposed to be released some time in the future. He is also working on an instrumental solo project. You can hear some influences of Styx, Kansas, Wakeman, Emerson, a bit of E.L.O., and even some funk. However, this is not like most of what we consider to be the classic '70s progressive sound. Some of those qualities are woven in, and there are some lovely moments. But make no mistake, this is mid 70's rock and roll at the core.  The main point of interest here is really the fact that Laine basically pioneered the synth guitar. It was a very new thing at the time. 

H.T. Riekels (bhikkhu)

Symphonic Slam official website

Symphonic Slam (1976)