Arist of the Week: Daniela Nardi

User Image Karen posted on January 4th, 2009
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Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer: Daniela Nardi is a smouldering, passionate performer, with an enticing voice.

Her music is literate, yet emotionally charged, blending diverse sounds to deliver up a world breadth and scope.

Her CD “One True Thing” has received critical acclaim and airplay, both nationally and internationally. It’s jazzy, but not jazz; groovy but not pop.

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UnderScore present the four-track EP “Children on Birthday”

User Image IMIsound posted on January 4th, 2009
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“UnderScore” came to life in the spring of 2003 when Pasquale (bass and vocals) and Antonio (former guitarist) decided to set up a cover band. The duo were soon joined by Diego (drums) and Carlo (keyboards) and in the summer of 2004 they started to write their own material, producing their first demos in 2005. In April 2006 Antonio left the band and after a number of unsuccessful experiences with other guitarists, the band decided to experiment with melodic and distinctive, guitar-free sound. The experiment proved successful and the new UnderScore sound was at once used to great effect on the four-track “Children On Birthday” EP.

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CD of the Month: Remergence

User Image Karen posted on January 1st, 2009
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Remergence have been writing music since 1997 and to date have written seven albums, the style of music ranges from ambient through to dance, a lot of inspiration for the music comes from those around and things that happen from day to day.

Remergence has been described in the past as a mixture of ambient, anthropological, chillout, dance & modern electronica.

This the long awaited seventh album which includes the very popular collaboration with Corrientes on the track I Need You.

The album also features the remixes of the tracks Probably, Starlight and I Need You all of which have become very popular across the internet causing a buzz and a vast following of Remergence since they were originally posted on the official Remergence website.

Remergence - Lux Lucis Quod Vis Somnium

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Happy New Year from Atom Sounds

User Image Karen posted on December 31st, 2008
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A quick post on the blog, wishing all readers, friends and members of Atom Sounds a fantastic 2009.

We hope that 2009 will bring you as much happiness and wonder as possible.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant made a CBE

User Image Karen posted on December 31st, 2008
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Almost 20 million people are reported to have tried to buy tickets for the roof-raising reunion concert at the O2 of the blues-rock behemoth whose members lived lives of legendary hedonism.

Plant, 60, from Worcestershire, asked on a stage in Barry in Wales about a possible reunion tour with Led Zeppelin band mates Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones laughed off the suggestion, declaring: “Do you know how long it took me to climb up on to the stage here – and it’s only four steps!”

Plant has little time for Led Zeppelin. He is enjoying his new partnership with American country singer Alison Krauss, 37, having gone on international tour together after the success of their debut CD, Raising Sand. Orchestral conductor Owain Arwel Hughes receives a CBE, while concert pianist and conductor Howard Shelley is awarded an OBE.

via Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant made a CBE - Telegraph.

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Sound of Music helps battle the doldrums

User Image Karen posted on December 28th, 2008
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If you like dirndl skirts, nuns and yodelling–and really, who doesn’t?–you probably grew up watching The Sound of Music on TV during that weird limbo between Christmas and New Year’s.

It’s one of those retro holiday traditions whose origins are lost in the mists of time, but which never fails to produce a warm, festive glow.

Based on a true story, the original Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical focused on a would-be nun named Maria who falls in love with the von Trapp children after being hired as their governess, eventually marries their widowed father and later helps to lead the family out of Nazi-occupied Austria. In the 1965 film version airing tonight, Julie Andrews plays Maria and Canadianborn Christopher Plummer is Captain von Trapp.

via Sound of Music helps battle the doldrums.

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Blood and life from Grand Guignol Diabolique

User Image IMIsound posted on December 27th, 2008
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The name of this band is Grand Guignol Diabolique. Everything else is irrelevant. This project begins where the last one left off. The name of that band was Beat Babol. Everything else is completely irrelevant. The name of this album is also Grand Guignol Diabolique. Do you really want to know everything else? Have a rummage inside. The creature/man is made of blood: blood that pulses throughout the body. And when that blood ceases to pulse the man dies, although he is technically still alive. These songs therefore are songs of blood. Of blood and of life. Of unchained life which is none other than living emotions to the full with no concern for the consequences. Sometimes it can seem somewhat negative. Other times (often immediately afterwards) it can seem absurdly positive. It all depends on us. Men and women. All the creatures of this wild and stark, yet nonetheless wonderful world.

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Eartha Kitt Dies at the Age of 81

User Image Karen posted on December 26th, 2008
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Eartha Kitt, the American singer, dancer, actress and self-professed “sex-kitten” who has died aged 81, was one of the most remarkable and distinctive entertainers in the history of cabaret and the light musical stage.

Known as “That Bad Eartha” from the suggestive manner in which her rasping, reedy voice threaded its way through such songs as I Want To Be Evil, Just An Old-Fashioned Girl, Santa Baby and C’est si bon, she brought an exotic sensuality and feline verve to all her performances.

Although she played Helen of Troy for Orson Welles (who declared her “the most exciting woman in the world”) and in stage plays, films and television programmes, it was as a chanteuse in revue or musical comedy or on records that the peculiar and brilliantly controlled vibrato of her voice, now purring, now growling, always sensually arousing, won greatest admiration.

via Eartha Kitt - Telegraph.

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Merry Christmas from Atom Sounds

User Image Karen posted on December 25th, 2008
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Well by now you should all be or have opened your presents from under the tree, which just leaves me with the chance to wish everyone reading the blog a Merry Christmas and a fruitful New Year