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Tim Collins - Fade feat. Charlie Hunter & Simon Lott
(CD/Digital) Ropeadope, 2008-10-14
Tracklisting :
01. Loud | MP3
02. Rise, Set, Fall
03. Lake George 1983
04. Dear Old Friend
05. Stop or I'll Throw My Keys
06. Cave Dweller
07. Fade
08. Mystified
09. Saddlebags
10. Joy Ride
Personnel :
Tim Collins - vibes, electric vibes, piano, glockenspiel
Charlie Hunter - electric bass
Simon Lott - drums
Ulrike Schmitz - violin (track 2)
Tracks 3 and 7: Zach Brock (violin), Marla Hansen (viola), Chris Hoffman (cello), Matt Clohesy
(bass), Matt Blostein (alto sax)
Press Release :
With the release of his new album "Fade", vibraphonist Tim Collins has found a way to meld raw
grooves, lush arrangement, and haunting melody into a powerful unit. Critics and fans alike have
hailed Tim as "a world class vibes player" (CJSR-FM), "one of the best vibraphonists" (KMVR-FM) "an
exciting player" (All Music Guide) and "nothing less than exemplary" (Downbeat).
"I wanted to make a record that would somehow reflect my love for Milt Jackson, The Police, and
Bjork all at the same time," Collins says.
He uses the vibraphone like a guitar - creating layers with a myriad of effects and sounds that
largely haven't been used by vibraphonists. Ring-modulators, distortion, delay, pitch bending,
bowing - all are used by Collins on this album, and it proves to be a rocking combination with
bassist Charlie Hunter and drummer Simon Lott.
"I've never heard anyone use the vibes like this," say Hunter, who also produced the record with
Collins.
On songs like "Loud" and "Cave Dweller", the heavily distorted vibes sit on top of dirty punkish
grooves. Delay and reverb give Steve Reich-esque qualities to other songs, such as the
strings-driven "Lake George 1983" or the trance inducing "Mystified" and "Stop or I'll Throw My
Keys".
Still other songs are flat out pop songs - with vibes as the lead singer. "Three of these songs
actually do have lyrics," says Tim.
The first of these, "Dear Old Friend" is a hauntingly simple piano melody reminiscent of the
Beatles "Abbey Road" era, while "Joyride" is an irresistably catchy pop tune more akin to Green Day
or the Foo Fighters.
The title track "Fade" is another song with lyrics, and it's also one of two tracks that feature a
string ensemble. It is performed beautifully by Zach Brock (violin), Marla Hanson (viola), Chris
Hoffman (cello), Matt Clohesy (bass), and Matt Blostein (alto sax).
The same ensemble is featured also on "Lake George 1983", a song that uses the strings as
percussion instruments, propelling the groove with their hypnotic, minimalistic rhythms.
For all of the experimental sounds on this record, "Fade" never forgets how to rock. This is most
evident on both "Saddlebags" - a rousing tribute to Milt Jackson relentlessly propelled by Lott and
Hunter - and "Rise, Set, Fall", a song which uses piano and glockenspiel to invoke a 'music box'
feel.
"Fade" can be purchased at CDBaby or through Ropeadope.com in August.
visit www.timcollinsmusic.com for more info!
Last week, we gave you the chance to ask Patapon 2 game designer Hiroyuki Kotani your questions
about the follow up to this year’s unique PSP hit. A few days ago in SCEI’s Tokyo
offices, I passed those questions on to Kotani-san (through an interpreter). He was happy to answer
your questions on camera:
The next day, he introduced Patapon 2 Don Chaka (Japanese title) to the media at Tokyo Game Show. I
transcribed the event, which should answer even more questions you may have about the game.
Kotani: We received a lot of requests after the first one, which shaped Patapon 2
· More customization
· Want to create original Patapons
· Want to play Patapon Longer
· Want to enjoy Patapon with friends.
The game takes place on an unknown island after the first game. There, the Patapon are blocked by
the Karmen, a mysterious masked clan, blocking the Patapon’s path to the true Earthend.
That’s where you come in.
Early on, you’ll encounter a lost Patapon, who is the Hero Patapon. The Hero Patapon features
in both single player campaign and multiplayer.
In ad-hoc MP, the missions involve Magical Eggs
Kotani-san brings 3 players up to help, including Andrew Yoon of PS3 Fanboy and Dale North of
Destructoid. One controls the new wizard class of Patapon (Mahopon), another takes control of the
bird rider (Toripon), another new Patapon class.
The goal of the mission played is to carry an egg to the goal, where the egg can hatch and reveal a
mask, which can then be used in the single player campaign. The 4 players cooperatively battle a
giant bird boss equipped with a lethal, um, gas attack. When they get into Fever mode, meteors rain
from the sky in attack.
Once the players get into the rhythm, they are able to take down the avian monster using Attack,
Withdraw, and March commands. The players are then launched a rhythm game (similar to the
”make it rain” miracle in the original Patapon), only longer and
more complex. At the end, the egg hatches, and they receive a mask, which is equippable in the
single player mode.
Kotani-san runs through some comparisons with the original game (basically, significantly more
levels, items, Rarepon varieties, classes, and more in the sequel). He also reveals a Game Sharing
mode, where 4 players can play missions with a single Patapon 2 UMD.
All of the new features were added due to player feedback, and Patapon 2 is more accessible than
the original. He finishes up by saying that he designed Patapon 2 with ”the idea of players
smiling in enjoyment” as they play.
We’ll continue to bring you Patapon 2 news as we get closer to release, which will be 2009 in
North America.
LocoRoco 2 is an awful lot like LocoRoco. Sure it has a German blob and swimming and a rhythm game,
but all of that is just a few more cherries on what I've always felt was a wonderful sundae of a
Playstation Portable game.
I sped through a single level of the game at Tokyo Game Show earlier this week and quickly found
myself falling back in love with the cute graphics and catchy nonsense music. The controls remain
great and, unless my imagination was playing tricks on me, feel a bit more responsive than the
first time through.
The basic controls of the game remain the same. You're still tilting and bumping the playing field
to get your LocoRoco to move around. There are still some hidden areas and the occasional enemy you
have to either avoid or flatten with your globularness. I did stumble across what I believe is a
new sort of creature. A bee of sorts that if you fail to avoid stings you. When your LocoRoco gets
a sting a little red-tipped welt forms on the creature. Every time the LocoRoco rolls over his
sticky-outtie bump he sort of cries. It's quite endearing and made me both laugh in surprise the
first time and feel just a little bit bad.
I also ran across a couple of the mini rhythm games. In them you have to tap a face button to a
rhythm, trying to land a series of music notes which you collect for some reason unknown to me.
Like I said, more of the same but in a very wonderful way.
Tracklisting (temporary) :
01. I Believe in You
02. Crazy Day
03. Black House (Paint The White House Black)
04. Vibrationship
05. Runnin'
06. Lonely
07. Fell on The Wagon
08. You
09. This World
10. Changes
11. Everything
Note : This is the first in this series, pairing Detroit soul maverick Amp Fiddler with reggae
heroes Sly and Robbie, with others to come from Ashley Beedle and Horace Andy as well as Mulatu
Astatke and The Heliocentrics among others.
Press Release (french) :
Strut démarre une nouvelle série exclusive d'albums studios cet Automne, explorant des
collaborations aussi alléchantes qu'exceptionnelles. Intitulée Inspiration Information,
la série rassemble des artistes et producteurs contemporains et leurs héros
musicaux ; des artistes qui ont directement inspirés leur propre carrière.
Ensuite ils ferment les portes du studio pendant 5 jours d'écriture et d'enregistrement
intensif.
La collaboration requiert une direction artistique ouverte voulue focalisée sur la
spontanéité et une véritable fusion des styles plus que sur des restrictions
marketing liées à la production d'un album d'artiste normale. Chaque album peut prendre
la forme que l'artiste choisit, allant d'une structure de morceau basique de 3 minutes à des
morceaux de forme libres plus étendues.
La série se veut gardienne d'un son et d'un style frais et espère représenter un
instantané du son de chaque artiste au moment de l'enregistrement. Une fois que l'album est
mixé, le planning promotionnel débute immédiatement, avec la plupart des albums
sortant moins de 3 mois après les sessions.
La série démarre sur les chapeaux de roues avec le combat musical catégorie poids
lourds entre le rebelle Soul de Detroit, Amp Fiddler et les légendes Reggae, Sly Dunbar &
Robbie Shakespeare.
Press Release (english) :
This Autumn brings the launch of a priority new series on Strut as the label takes a break from its
schedule of funky compilations and moves into new studio recordings for the first time. Entitled
Inspiration Information, the series brings together current artists and producers with their
musical heroes for a mouth-watering one-off collaboration. With each album centred around an
intensive five-day writing and recording session, the emphasis is on spontaneity, musicianship and
an open A&R brief.
The series kicks off with Detroit soul maverick Amp Fiddler in a head-to-head with reggae legends,
Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare. "This is monumental for me," says Amp. "I discovered Sly &
Robbie through their Compass Point productions with Wally Badarou, all the Grace Jones records,
'Boops' too. I loved the way they experimented with a more ambient direction."
"Our manager Guillaume Bougard, "The General", told us about Amp," says Robbie. "We heard that he
used to be part of the Funkadelic set-up." "We were always right into the Parlia-Funkadelic sound,"
recalls Sly. "Their brand of funk was so different. I loved it from their first record. Me and
Bootsy Collins are good friends - he played on one of our albums - and I always loved Motown too,
ever since I was a kid. That all brought us closer to Amp and the musical groove just stuck. We hit
it off from the first session."
Arriving at Anchor Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, armed only with a handful of acoustic vocal ideas,
Amp and the Riddim Twins recorded the album in just three days during June with overdubs laid down
a week later in Detroit. "We work fast," says Robbie. "Time is money!" The result is a confident,
laid back set that brings a whole new twist to Amp's trademark vocal style: Sly builds innovative
digital and live rhythms, Robbie underpins the tracks with solid bass foundations and original
generation guests "Sticky" Thompson (percussion) and Dalton Browne (guitar) add plenty of colour.
Back in Detroit, Amp knitted together the finishing touches, adding extra keys and backing
vocals.
The tracks are never predictable, at times echoing Sly & Robbie's '80s days with Island Records
at Compass Point studios, at others structured around more mood-based keyboard pads and new
patterns re-inventing the established dancehall template. "It's been amazing - the level of
musicianship is sky high," explains Amp. "Sly & Robbie work so well together - everything has
happened really smoothly." Within the sessions, the trio honed both new compositions and covers,
including a pertinent re-work of a George Clinton-era classic, 'Paint The White House Black'
re-titled by Sly as 'Black House'. They also revisited select tracks from Amp's 'Waltz Of A Ghetto
Fly' album from 2004, with Amp favourites like 'I Believe In You' re-worked over a lilting reggae
base. The album was mixed in London by another original Island Records studio regular, Godwin
Logie, complete with extra dub versions of selected tracks worked live off the desk.
All album design inspired by some of the striking photography-led sleeves of the '70s on the
Prestige and Blue Thumb labels. This album features images by leading US photographer Wonder Knack
and is packaged in a deluxe digipak with a CD booklet documenting the sessions.
iJ Biol Rhythms, Vol. 12, No. 3. (1 June 1997), pp. 204-217./ibr /br /To determine the in vivo
regulatory pattern of the clock gene period (per), the authors recently developed transgenic
Drosophila carrying a luciferase cDNA fused to the promoter region of per. They have now carried
out noninvasive, high time-resolution experiments allowing high-throughput monitoring of circadian
bioluminescence rhythms in individual living adults for several days. This immediately solved
several problems (resulting directly from individual asyn chrony within a population) that have
accompanied previous biochemical ex periments in which groups of animals were sacrificed at each
time point. Furthermore, the authors have developed numerical analysis methods for auto matically
determining rhythmicity associated with bioluminescence records from single flies. This has
revealed some features of per gene transcription that were previously unappreciated and provides a
general strategy for the analysis of rhythmic time series in the study of molecular rhythms.
10.1177/074873049701200302
Nouveau clip de l'excellent groupe Mattafix Angel On My Shoulder. Après Living Darfur,
découvrez Angel on my shoulder, le nouveau single du groupe Mattafix issu de leur album
Rhythm And Hymns sorti en 2007 à avoir absolument !...
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