Category: Rock
ERIC MCFADDEN TRIO – JOY OF SUFFERING (2005)
By Marcus Pan
I love it when a press kit smacks back. I’m reading the first few lines of the page that accompanies my copy of Eric McFadden Trio’s Joy of Suffering as it describes the jaded contemporary music scene, anxious anticipation of the coming of the EMT, etc. blah. “What a pile of exaggerated schlock,” I think. Then the next line: “Lest you dismiss the preceding as absurd hyperbole.” Oops, caught me. Suddenly I’m a lot more interested!
Eric McFadden is a dirty dirty boy. His music is dirty, his guitar is dirty, his attitude is dirty. Not dirty in a screaming “fuck” in a childish attempt for attention sort of way, mind[1], but in a more of a tongue in cheek in-depth thing. Basement level no holds barred, Joy of Suffering looks a lot nicer than I would expect a garage band to kick out. But it seems McFadden has a bit of a legacy to justify his shiny cardboard fold out sleeves while still being all disgruntled about music at large and getting away with it – adult like, not child like.
He’s seen the road with the likes of Bo Diddley, Joe Strummer, Reverend Horton Heat, Ron Wood, Les Claypool, George Clinton. The list goes on, but those are a few of the names that hit me. From classic rock to alternative, funk to ‘abilly, McFadden’s been out there. This time around he’s brought James Whiton (bass, stand up even which way cooler than my bass) and Paulo Baldi (drums) with him for the Eric McFadden Trio, and mixed up a whole bunch of brews on one album. McFadden himself isn’t even sure what to call it – “for the most part, it’s a rock band.” We’ll just go with that for now and take a listen to the dirty dirty tracks.
The funk-punk Put it Down cranks it open. Stoner rock in the sense that I’d break shit were I stoned. This has got to be an amazing pit song – raw, dirty, energetic with Eric’s “I don’t need to really sing I’m that cool” vocal aesthetics. Whiton’s bass are like nail gun shots to the temple. Bury Our Sins lopes up jauntily like a messy four month old zombie on steroids with castanets on its heels. Long Way Up surprises us by being a timid ballad.
Dig Whiton’s funky slapping on Miranda, a Spanish sounding or western sounding folk tune that feels like it bleeds tequila and dances in Tijuana. I keep waiting for John Wayne to stumble in with a Mexican hooker blowing his dick and a bottle of rum hanging from his pinky. Is the Morning Safe For Waking? is a good question and a grungy tune.
Nice work, your absurd hyperbole is awarded with honors. Joy of Suffering is a lot of fun with or without the alcohol and the drugs – with it you’ll break shit, without it you’ll contemplate the interesting lyrics. I’m not quite sure what would happen were you to involve acid. But it’s great fun had all around, from the stroppy Bury our Sins to the loping instru-grunge of The Ghost-Maker. Dirty dirty fun for dirty dirty adults, have at it then. Everyone gets to be that sometimes.
Band Eric McFadden Trio
Info: USA
Info: Diamonds to Coal
Years: 2005
Info: MP3 CBR 320
Info: 126 ??
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Tracklist:
1. Put It Down
2. Bury Your Sins
3. Long Way Up
4. Miranda
5. Memories Can’t Wait
6. The Rise of King George II
7. Is the Morning Safe For Waking?
8. The Ghost-Maker
9. The Ghost of Saint Patrick
10. Never Gonna Burn
11. Fill My Cup
12. Limitations
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Alan Price & Georgie Fame – Fame And Price, Price And Fame-Together! (1971)
Band Alan Price & Georgie Fame
Info: Fame And Price, Price And Fame-Together!
Style: Rock
Years: 1971
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100,60 Mb
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 – Roseta.
02 – Yellow Man.
03 – Dole Song.
04 – Time I Moved On.
05 – John And Mary.
06 – Here And Now.
07 – Home Is Where Your Heart It.
08 – Ballad Of Billy Joe.
09 – That’s How Strong My Love Is.
10 – Blue Condition.
11 – I Can’t Take It Much Longer.
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Gugun Power Trio – Solid Ground (2011)
Die produktiven Indonesier fackeln nicht lange, wenn es um Standortbestimmung geht. Die Herkunft mag immer noch exotisch auf manche wirken, der Bluesrock des Dreiers überzeugt heuer aber mehr als zuvor. Langer Atem zahlt sich aus und reicht im Fall von „Solid Ground“ gar über Ozeane hinweg.
Die beiden ersten Titel „Solid Ground“ und „One Heavy Night“ gehen als Fingerzeige durch: Das GUGUN POWER TRIO zeigt sich perfekt eingespielt, und Fronter Gugun steht mit seiner kernigen Stimme über allem. Die Band klingt in vielen Passagen eher nach einem Quartett, so dicht fallen ihre Arrangements aus. Wie der Sänger zwischen all den Worten noch Zeit findet, die Löcher derart geschmackvoll mit solistischen Glanzlichtern zuzukleistern, hört man es nicht alle Tage. Trotz „fire, desire“-Reime klingen die neuen Tracks der Combo frischer als noch auf „Far East Blues Experience, worauf auch „Marching Strut“ verweist, welches man Tommy Bolin widmete, doch statt den Seligen plump zu covern, dachte man dessen „Marching Powder“ sowie „Homeward Strut“ weiter.
Die Post geht nach zwischenzeitlichen Leisetretern (das slowe Gitarrenfeuerwerk „Mission“ etwa) auch anderswo ab. „Silent Rider“ stellt alle drei Musiker ins Rampenlicht, und Gugun singt sein Solo mit, wohingegen er im passend betitelten „I’m Juicy“ sexy haucht, ohne die Hose herunterzulassen. Trotz zahlreicher Jam-Passagen wirken GUGUN POWER TRIOdiesmal kompakter und lassen in Sachen Songwriting nichts anbrennen, genauso wie sie weite Landschaften in ihrer Musik beschreiben können, was der fabelhafte Abschluss „Crystal Mountains“ (Killer-Drums!) bezeugt.
FAZIT: „Solid Ground“ hebt seinem Titel zum Trotz ab und ist die bislang stärkste Scheibe des indonesischen Trios. Jammiger Bluesrock mit starker Liedschreibe wird 2011 anderswo kaum so trefflich zelebriert.
01. Solid Ground
02. One Heavy Night
03. Soul On Fire
04. Vixen Eyes
05. Mission
06. Trampled Rose
07. Silent Rider
08. I’m Juicy
09. Funky Chicken
10. Marching Strut
11. Crystal Mountains (Bonus Track)
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USA
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Symphony Of Gunfire – Symphony Of Gunfire (2011)
With the release of their self-titled album Edinburgh band Symphony Of Gunfire have concreted what many have been saying around the UK for a while, that there is a new force in rock emerging. A reputation for energetic and passion drenched live shows goes before them and with their debut album the quartet show they can carry it into their recordings just as well. Their sound, an instinctive blend of hard rock, melodic shred metal with a splash of thrash here and there, is a driving and creative beast that their name represents perfectly. It majestically caresses and swoops around the ear whilst hitting hard with shotgun effect.
01. No Rats Land
02. Same Mistake
03. Not the Outlaw
04. The Ghost of Regret
05. Iron Wolf
06. Surrendered
07. End of Ends
08. There Will be Blood
09. Doomsday Riders
Produced by Dominic Hardy & Mark Grant
Recorded & Engineered by Dominic Hardy
@ Domination Studios, Crossgates, Fife
Mixed & Mastered by Brent Clawson
@ The Music Box Studios, Garden Grove, CA.
ProTools Engineers: Dominic Hardy & Brent Clawson
Add’l Vocal Editing: Liam Shepherd
Add’l Drum Programming: Brent Clawson
Bass on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 & 7: Mark Grant
All Music & Lyrics: Symphony of Gunfire
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53mb
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Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
UK
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Spike – Blue Eyed Soul (1998)
Band Spike
Info: Blue Eyed Soul
Style: Rock / Blues Rock
Years: 1998
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbs
Info: 85.72 MB
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 – Only Want To Give.
02 – Be Here Now.
03 – That’s Me.
04 – Thrill Of It.
05 – Not Enough.
06 – I’m Gone.
07 – You Are The One.
08 – Heaven.
09 – Like A Woman.
10 – Start Cryin’.
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Emanuele Perilli – Elheaven (2011)
Just like Steve Senes (also reviewed this month) Emanuele Perilli also releases an instrumental guitar album, however on three songs there is some vocals. “Manny” Perilli too wrote, arranged, and produced everything but released his debut not through a label and financed it himself. It is clearly all about the guitar playing for this Italian guitar teacher (who also is a sound engineer and graphic and web artist). The arrangements are put together with the accent on his playing, not too uncommon for an instrumental album, but on some songs the backing music sounds inferior to the guitar playing. Something one can see on many YouTube clips, a tape rolls and the relevant guitar player plays his part. Not so weird as one knows his guitar playing is recorded in the “Badroom studios”, the bedroom of “Manny” (nice wordplay by the way). Also Perilli explores more styles and genres en knows all the techniques, from speed picking, sweeping, legato and tapping until shredding, that is clear.
What should make, and keep, an instrumental album interesting are the melodies and colouring of the songs and that is well done by Manuele Perilli. Whether it is a heavy, funky song like ‘The Noise Of The Bliss’, a sensitive, atmospheric song like ‘Tears That Taste Of You’, a song that is being pushed forward by a disco like up-tempo beat like ‘Across The Universe’ or a heavy rock song like ‘The Truth’ (including speech from JFK), “Manny” gives them the needed, catchy melody, power when needed and colours them with lovely solo’s. ‘An Ivory Moon’, which starts and ends with the sound of crickets, sounds sweet as the summer and reminds of Joe Satriani, but that is more like a compliment. Perilli too dares to play a tropical reggae tune in ‘A Perfect Place’ with vocals by Rudy B. The song sounds like a mix between Santana and The Police and that too is not meant harmful. Strong debut album and – good – stuff for guitar players, or those who appreciate it.
01. The Vision
02. Trails Around The Sun
03. The Noise Of Bliss
04. Tears That Taste Of You
05. Midnight Thrill
06. Across The Universe
07. An Ivory Moon
08. Vortexes In My Mind
09. The Truth
10. A Perfect Place
11. Infinity
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100mb
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Instrumental Guitar/Hard/Rock
Italy
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Mungo Jerry – Long Legged Woman (1974)
Band Mungo Jerry
Info: Long Legged Woman
Style: Rock
Years: 1974
Info: MP3 CBR 192 kbs
Info: 64.31 MB
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01. Long Legged Woman Dressed In Black.
02. Glad I’m A Rocker.
03. Gonna Bop ‘Til I Drop.
04. Wild Love.
05. O’Reilly.
06. The Sun Is Shining.
07. Summer’s Gone.
08. Don’t Stop.
09. Going Back Home.
10. No Girl Reaction.
11. Little Miss Hipshake.
12. Milk Cow Blues.
13. I Don’t Wanna Go Back To School.
14. Alright Alright Alright.
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Alexis – Alexis (1977)
Band Alexis
Info: Alexis
Style: Pop Rock
Years: 1977
Info: CBR 224 kbs
Info: 57,84 Mb
Info: USA
Tracklist:
01 – Fly By Night.
02 – It’s About You.
03 – We Need Help Now.
04 – Goodnight, My Son.
05 – It’s In Your Hands.
06 – Late Night Rocker.
07 – Lord Keeps Account.
08 – Moon Worlds.
09 – Elam.
Rip By: Kissmar
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Quincy – Quincy (1980)
Band Quincy
Info: Quincy
Style: New Wave
Years: 1980
Info: 192 kbps
Info: 58 mb
Info: USA
Tracklist:
1. Turn the other way around
2. Critics choice
3. Don’t knock on my door
4. Always in the news
5. Dime store lies
6. Can’t live in a dream
7. Just a tragedy
8. Stop now
9. Grow up
10. Roamin catholic
11. Stuck on you
12. Ordinary town
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Rough Trade – The Best Of Rough Trade: Birds Of A Feather 1985
Band Rough Trade
Info: The Best Of Rough Trade- Birds Of A Feather
Style: Pop Rock
Years: 1985
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 85 mb
Info: Canada
Tracklist:
Birds Of A Feather
High School Confidential
All Touch
Weapons
Up Against The Wall
Insatiable
Fashion Victim
Crimes Of Passion
Territorial
Shaking The Foundations
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