Fun Stuff > BAND
The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
TheClickOfALight:
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk (1967)
RIP Don Van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart, who died today at the age of 69. Hugely talented artist, fantastic record - if you've never heard any Beefheart before expect surreal blues. This is a great place to start, as it's his debut album, and my personal favourite.
--- Code: ---http://www.mediaf!re.com/?2o7t1uotq7921xy
--- End code ---
ackblom12:
Charlie and His Orchestra
--- Quote ---In the 1930s, there was great demand in Germany for jazz music, as well as swing, which mixed elements of the big band sound. However, such African and American influences were viewed as counter to goals of German racial purity and by 1935 were outlawed. An underground jazz scene persisted in Berlin. Here, band leader Lutz Templin and drummer Fritz Brocksieper brought together key swing figures of the late 1930s, including singer Karl Schwedler ("Charlie"), clarinetist Kurt Abraham, and trombone player Willy Berking. They escaped notice by pasting pro-German lyrics over sheet music and using instruments like harpsichords for boogie rhythms.
Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels recognized that both art and propaganda was meant to bring about a spiritual mobilization in its audience, and was well-aware of the popularity of swing and big band music in Allied countries. He gave permission to bring Berlin's best jazz musicians into the music propaganda program, and in 1940 Charlie and his Orchestra were born.
As an official Reichsministerium band, the group made over 90 recordings between March 1941 and February 1943. Arrangements were by Templin, Willy Berking, and Franz Mück, with lyrics written by the Propagandaministerium. Schwedler was allowed permission to travel to neutral and occupied countries to collect jazz and dance music, which helped the band and propaganda ministry to craft more recordings. Outside of their official duties, many members of the band supplemented their income by playing in underground venues.
By 1943, bombardment by Allied planes took a toll on German broadcast operations and the studio, employees, and musicians were moved to southern Germany to perform on station "Reichssender Stuttgart". Even when the city finally came under attack, the band played jazz hits live on international shortwave radio while German domestic stations were playing the "cuckoo" air raid warning.
After the war, the musicians reorganized under Fritz Brocksieper with the band name "Brocksieper Freddie", but were still recognized as "Goebbel's band". They played for US Armed Forces clubs in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg. Conductor Lutz Templin became one of the founders of the ARD broadcast network. Schwedler, by various accounts, either emigrated to the US in 1960 or became a businessman who retired at Tegernsee.
--- End quote ---
Volume 1:
--- Code: ---http://www.mediafire.com/?9hhe6k7622bnrob
--- End code ---
Volume 2:
--- Code: ---http://www.mediafire.com/?dzyml3gkckc4md2
--- End code ---
JD:
Kimonos - Kimonos[2010](320kb/s)
--- Code: ---http://www.mediafire.com/?b511yfgipdy310b
--- End code ---
Myspace
JimmyJazz:
]In honor of Don Van Vilet's recent death, here are some Captain Beefheart albums everyone should own:
Trout Mask Replica (1969, Reprise)
--- Code: ---http://www.mediaf!re.com/?zzkynmuyotn
--- End code ---
Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970, Planet 3 Records)
--- Code: ---http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mnbxzmulmne
--- End code ---
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) [1978, Warner Bros. Records]
--- Code: ---http://www.mediaf!re.com/?mqvomdnw2lr
--- End code ---
Doc At the Radar Station (1980, Virgin)
--- Code: ---http://www.mediaf!re.com/?n9dnw2elide
--- End code ---
Ice Cream For Crow (1982, Virgin)
--- Code: ---http://www.mediaf!re.com/?tvmmqtjdmkw
--- End code ---
Nodaisho:
I've been meaning to upload this for a while.
Drown The Sun - Metallic Heralds of Armageddon
Drown The Sun were a rare breed: An actual metal band in the middle of nowhere, USA. I saw them live once and bought their self-produced EP. Since then, they broke up, so I don't feel bad about uploading this. Metal-Archives says they are "Death/Black Metal with Traditional Metal influences", I'm not good with genres, so let's go with that.
--- Code: ---http://www.mediaf!re.com/?2kz3hozi6y5v77r
--- End code ---
edit: Oh, if you want it at a higher bitrate, I might be able to do that. Not sure how much of a difference you would notice, given that it is pretty much a metal band's demo, if a well-recorded one.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version