Flying Saucer Attack - Wish

Margarita Radulescu - In padure la Ghergani

It’s every man for himself, song by song.

Rock Music Is The Color Of Black Hair

Tomutonttu ja Lehtisalo

Tomutonttu Ja Lehtisalo - Muinaisten vitsausten hylly

Tomutonttu Ja Lehtisalo - Nolla kärpästä yhdellä iskulla

Tomutonttu Ja Lehtisalo - Luukku yksi

Your Funeral My Bile

This lyrical and spirited album by a village ensemble from Bukovina in northern Romania, recorded between 1936 and 1956, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/09/romania-roumanie-ansamblul-lui-sidor.html

The Traditional Folk Music Band: II Bucovina – Electrecord EPE 02164 

Romania - Traditional folk music from Bucovina

James Beaudreau: all instruments, recording, mixing

For Alex Dulberg

"Already, one potential audience is imagined for this collection of two dozen solo guitar pieces [Java St. Bagatelles]: fans of Captain Beefheart's instrumental solos for the same instrument. Guitarist James Beaudreau, playing both improvised and composed pieces and using editing as a way of making one appear to be the other, or else not, has made an impressive debut with this effectively recorded collection." - Eugene Chadbourne, All Music 

"James Beaudreau's 2006 Java St. Bagatelles (Workbench) made a nice splash in the music press, with glowing reviews in The Wire, All Music Guide, and Tokafi. Fresh Twigs is an equally compelling follow-up, featuring the delicious picking and melodic strengths of Java St. combined with mixing room agility and intriguing compositional elements. Inspired by pioneering producers Holger Czukay and Teo Macero, Beaudreau has created a CD of rewarding music that only strengthens upon repeated listening… Fresh Twigs finds Beaudreau fulfilling the promise of Java St. Bagatelles and then some. Beaudreau is a musician of vast talent, with a wealth of ideas and exquisitely sensitive ears. It'll be interesting to hear what he does next." - Flo Wetzel, All About Jazz

"I would suppose that for James Beaudreau, as for Brecht, the intention is to focus the audience’s critical attention on the work, to make them aware of the act of listening, rather than taking for granted the automatic processes by which certain sounds reference certain socially constituted assumptions. Where he and Brecht part company, to my mind, is in Brecht’s intention to privilege an intellectual response over an emotional one. While Beaudreau encourages us to listen closely, with conscious attention, to listen critically to the entirety of the recorded sound, the end point of that process is still a musical meaning, which in my view can never be wholly, or even predominantly intellectual." - Oliver Arditi

"There is an odd charm at work here where different themes overlap, connect and/or intersect. Each piece present a different theme, idea or a handful of related fragments that somehow fit together just right. Some of these fragments are elegant and some are slightly twisted, yet they all seem related to one another. What I dig most about this is the occasionally delicate sections that are both soothing and a bit perplexing at the same time. A few of these tracks have that Frith-like skewered pop sound that was apparent on "Gravity" or "Speechless". You never know where some of these pieces will end up, yet with some time & perspective, they all fit into a certain magical place." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk

released May 17, 2011

Astral Law

Quiver

Even if that strength looks so tender and soft at times, or angry and hard-headed, some part of you is wishing to be well and can remember the way.

Fire

Label of guitarist and music producer James Beaudreau. New York City.

Quiver

Workbench Recordings

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