Mp3 music: Dan Siegel

Artist: Dan Siegel: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Jazz Rock New Age     Dan Siegel's discography:      Departure    Year: 2006    Tracks: 11      Inside Out    Year: 2004    Tracks: 10      Along the Way: The Best of Dan Siegel    Year: 2000    Tracks: 18      Clairvoyance    Year: 1998    Tracks: 10      Hemispheres    Year: 1995    Tracks: 10      The Getaway    Year: 1993    Tracks: 10      Short Stories    Year: 1992    Tracks: 9      Late One Night    Year: 1989    Tracks: 10      On The Edge    Year: 1985    Tracks: 8      Another Time, Another Place    Year: 1984    Tracks: 8      Reflections    Year: 1983    Tracks: 8      Nite Ride    Year: 1980    Tracks: 8 Smooth jazz keyboardist Dan Siegel has been serving to condition the literary genre since his recording debut in 1980. Born in Seattle and raised in Eugene, OR, Siegel started taking pianoforte lessons at age 8 and was fronting a stone dance band at 12. After attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he received a degree in composition from the University of Oregon and began transcription his possess works. Soon thenceforth, well-known independent idle words label Inner City Records signed the young keyboardist, releasing 1980's Nite Ride, which featured guitarist Lee Ritenour. Siegel's second album for Inner City, 1981's The Hot Spot, was more than successful and spent ten dollar bill weeks in the Top Ten of Billboard's jazz chart. In 1983, he touched to Los Angeles to pursue film and television organization work, as easily as a more than active recording career. Spending half of the decennary composing TV and photographic film slews as well as releasing several albums of varying involvement, he sign with Epic in 1986 and began moving aside from the unwell malarkey fusion scene and into the grownup present-day jazz well-grounded that he had been toying with all along. Highlights of this geological era include 1994's worldbeat-influenced Hemispheres and the urban-flavored ESP, released in 1998. Siegel spent the nineties transcription for a miscellany of labels, on the job with some of the larger names in smooth jazz (Weedy James, Larry Carlton, John Patitucci), and leading the hard boP jazz group Birds of a Feather. In 2000, Legacy Recordings released a superlative hits compilation called On the Way: The Best of Dan Siegel.

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WGA passes screenwriting credit amendments

Verrone, Winship say changes show continued solidarity




Members of the WGA East and West have got passed trey amendments to the guild�s feature screenwriting credit policy.

A total of 1,619 ballots were cast by members. WGA rules expect any change to its Credits Manual be arrange to a vote by its roughly 12,000 members.

Members passed by 90% of the vote to allow the guild�s arbitration committee to teleconference with each other and the arbitration adviser if they�re unable to reach an unanimous conclusion when determinative writing credits.

Additionally, voters passed by 86% an amendment eliminating the "any material contribution" standard that allowed the arbitrament committee to give course credit to production executives or production executive director teams without any specific percentage demand.
With the new amendment, writers experience credit if they canful they can prove they contributed more than 33% of the script as a kickoff writer or a writer adaptation or if they acted as a subsequent writer and contributed 50% on an original screenplay.

A add up of 83% of the writers voting passed an amendment that reduced the percentage for contributions of subsequent writers who ar part of a production executive team. The amendment changed screenplay credit from "substantially more than than 60%" to "more than than 50%."

WGAW president Patric Verrone and WGAE chief Executive Michael Winship said in a statement the changes are "in time another reading of our continued growing solidarity."


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TV review: Only in the US could this vulgarity exist

If your tear ducts want cleansing or you just need a jolly good cry, then Oprah's Big Give, which started on TV3 last night, is for you.

Apparently after exhaustive auditions the length and breadth of America, 10 people were selected to compete against each other to become the biggest givers.

One wonders what goes on in the audition process to arrive at someone deemed suitable for big giving.

Only in America, where everything has to be bigger and better than anywhere else, could this vulgar show have eventuated.

Americans just can't give, they have to give big and when they do it they need an audience to stand around and applaud to make them feel good and virtuous about giving because it's no fun giving when no one's looking.

We've seen this on those extreme home makeover shows where hosts, who charge round as if they're fuelled on P, swamp destitute families with luxury homes, cars and a huge rates and whopping power bill when the team walks away.

But hey, they can always sell up and move to Beverly. Maybe they could immigrate to New Zealand and get a spot on Mucking In.

In this show giving is about receiving because the twist is that. And guess what? The biggest giver winds up at the end of the journey getting a truck load of Oprah dollars.

Shucks, as if the possibility of that outcome hadn't occurred to the contestants who, if they've done their Oprah homework, would know that Lady Bountiful is prone to random acts of well- publicised generosity.

Remember when everyone in the audience got a posh car?

One would have thought that fundraisers extraordinaire would have been in the final 10 but among their number was Kim, who had led a me-me-me life and had an epiphany that she wanted to give- give-give.

When she reached the ripe old age of 39 she realised that what she needed was "boobs, Botox or a turnaround". I immediately wondered if turnaround was a new augmentation procedure.

And there was Brandi, a pageant queen, who said that she was battle fit and had plenty of character because as a Miss USA title holder she'd had all sorts of heinous acts done to her - including having her dress cut up.

For the first challenge, Brandi got teamed up with Cameron, who'd had his first business at the age of nine and made his first million by the time he left college. He was only 22 but he looked as old and as strange as a social credit voter from the Bruce Beetham era.

The first challenge was a complete ripoff of The Amazing Race as five pairs of competitors raced to their black SVUs and charged off to accost a deserving person.

Kim and Marlene got hopelessly lost and started bickering, failing to find their person in need for a whole 24 hours. He was a soldier who'd got three purple hearts and a medical discharge after serving in Iraq.

Kim and Marlene weren't much use to him but he got the loan of a beach side apartment and $25,000 to help pay the bills, but he and his wife and kids looked a little nervous in their new surrounds.

Among the judges on Oprah's Big Give was Jamie Oliver, who is obviously going to be the best thing about this show. The British cook was always going to look like the proverbial fish out of water in the midst of the gushy Americans but halfway through I realised that there was something vital and missing from his delivery and patter. The F-word.

Well, you can't be having any of that on Oprah, can you.

At the end of the show, there was a segment called The Big Reveal, which sounds jarring to the ear, but it is the money shot when all the money is counted and everyone stands around as if they're a mini Telethon community as all the gifts are distributed.

The crowd cheers, the fundraisers high five each other and speak into microphones like old pros, while the recipient of all this largesse is wheeled out to tear up, weep and cry, and generally break down and sob some more.

People give spontaneous yelps from the crowd as if they've just had a religious conversion as they cheer and get off from all the giving that's going down.

And the really awful thing is that even though I'm hating this show, and as cross as two sticks with Oprah for all her emotional manipulation - and hoping like hell she makes up the difference to the poor people who got stuck with lousy fundraisers - I'm sitting there sniffling into my hanky too.

It's not a pretty sight.

*What did you think of Oprah's Big Give? Post your comments below.





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the Murder City Devils

   
Artist: the Murder City Devils

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 In Name And Blood

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 Broken Bottles Empty Hearts

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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James McAvoy Denies Rumours of Lead Role in The Hobbit

James McAvoy has blasted recent reports he has landed the lead role in upcoming film The Hobbit.

The Scottish actor, 29, said speculation he was set to star in the movie as Bilbo Baggins was unfounded.

Speaking at a press conference for new film Wanted, in which he stars alongside Angelina Jolie, McAvoy insisted, "It's not true. It's all internet rumoring and nothing else I'm afraid. Sorry."

J.R.R. Tolkien's novel is set to be turned into a major blockbuster under the direction of Guillermo del Toro and filming is due to begin in New Zealand later this year. Sir Ian McKellen will reprise his role as Gandalf.

The character of Bilbo Baggins was played by Ian Holm in the previous films of the fantasy franchise, but he is due to be replaced by a high profile star for the new movie.

Del Toro has previously been quoted as saying, "I can tell you it's down to a few names that we all agree upon. For our first choice, completely magically we all have the same name."

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Anne Ducros

   
Artist: Anne Ducros

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Vocal
   

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Discography:


   
 Urban Tribe

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Piano, Piano

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Purple Songs

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Close Your Eyes

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9

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Atlas Sound, Let The Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See But Cannot Feel Album Review

Atlas Sound

Let The Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See But Cannot Feel

4AD

Album Review



As the main singer/songwriter for Atlanta experimentalists Deerhunter, Bradford Cox has already carved his name in rock and roll's guidebook of mavericks and geniuses in waiting. Last year's excellent 'Fluorescent Grey EP' initially placing Cox and his band on the map, paving the way for the 'Cryptograms' long player that followed in hot pursuit like a pack of beagles on the trail of a lonesome fox.



Of course, anyone expecting that to be Cox's sole dalliance musically would be massively underestimating the vision and ambition of a man who clearly has no defined boundaries or barriers as far as constructing a piece, or collection of musical works together is concerned. Not content with simply regurgitating the tried and tested method of verse-chorus-verse, or even that age-old creation known as song, Cox in his latest guise as Atlas Sound really wants to take you some place else entirely.



Initially released in North America three months ago via the Kranky label (head honcho Brian Foote assists on production duties here), 'Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel' has been causing a stir in the underground ever since, and it was only a matter of time before one of the bigger independent distributors - in this case 4AD - gave it the widespread release its ambition and stark attention to detail unwittingly deserved.



Although there are clear mirrors of an adolescent infatuation with the original shoegaze scene and 'Evol'-period Sonic Youth here, don't let that put you off or indeed make any rash categorisations as far as Atlas Sound is concerned. Essentially a solo project although Cox has roped in one or two friends such as White Rainbow's Adam Forker, 'Let The Blind Lead Those.' is at times a harrowing and bleak journey through the thoughts, both past and present, of a clearly affected and occasionally disturbed individual.



From the opening infant-read narrative 'Ghost Story' through the psychedelic Animal Collective vibe of 'Quarantined' and beyond, Cox always manages to write straight from the heart, which makes his thoughts all the more compelling. The fact that he chooses to shroud most of them in a crushing veneer of white noise and delayed effects makes this record occasionally feel like the score to a disengaged horror movie. 'Cold As Ice' and 'Scraping Past' both mix similar jazz-tinged fusions as Battles with an alluring sense of gloom that most artists wouldn't even attempt, let alone expect to get away with.



Likewise, the frugal monotone instrumental that is 'Ready, Set, Glow' coupled with 'Winter Vacation' and its eerie sense of displacement could give anyone nightmares, and yet by the same token have an enthralling complexity about them that makes either impossible to dismiss. One thing that is for sure about 'Let The Blind Lead Those.' is that you won't ever hear anything like this on the radio, although the penultimate feedback-driven swirl of 'Ativan' comes closest to a conventional pop song, even if it is in the most skewered, Mary Chain-esque manner.



The biggest compliment, however, is reserved for last, in that Bradford Cox has truly elevated himself to another level here, so much that after hearing 'Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel', people won't be asking about when the new Deerhunter record's due but rather when the next Atlas Sound one is instead.



Gripping stuff.



9/10

Dom Gourlay

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Lil' Wayne Swaps 50 Cent For Cole

Lil' Wayne Swaps 50 Cent For Cole

Rapper LIL' Wayne has confirmed he won't be touring with 50 Cent on his flow tour his G-UNIT set - insistence he hopes to take to the level with R+B singer KEYSHIA Kale.
Lil' Anthony Wayne - real number key Dwayne Michael James Earl Carter Jr. Jr. - was rumoured to be in dialogue with the In Da Nightclub hitmaker around a possible support slot on their man go.
Merely Carter insists it isn't release to happen and he is at present looking at to hitch with Kail or else.
He tells MTV.com, "That one (touring with G-Unit), I don't think is gonna form no more. It was something that ain't went correctly. I think I mightiness go out with Keyshia Kail.
"You're delivery two different types of people in at that place. You got people coming to soothe their souls with Keyshia, and you got people wHO wanna throw their men up with me. It's like hearing to the radio. When you listen to the radiocommunication, and your top-five or top-eight songs come on, it's hip-hop, it's R+B. ... I think you gonna beget that from me and Keyshia and whatever in between that."
And Kale has as well expressed interestingness in touring with President Carter, expression, "I'mma (set) nobble him and guide him on enlistment with me.
"I think it's a little harder to get him on the stage than it is to start out me. We gotta make for certain we acquire together on that."

Plastikman

   
Artist: Plastikman

   Genre(s): 
Techno
   Other
   Electronic
   Acid Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Nostalgik 3

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2


   
 Nostalgik Vol.2

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3


   
 Cha

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 3


   
 Disconnect CD5

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


   
 Disconnect

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3


   
 Closer

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 Spastik

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


   
 Consumed

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 3


   
 Artifakts [BC]

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


   
 Sickness

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 3


   
 Recycled Plastik

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 6


   
 Musik

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 8


   
 Sheet One

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 1


   
 Krakpot

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 2


   
 Nostalgik Vol.1

   Year:    
Tracks: 2

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Johnny Farmer

   
Artist: Johnny Farmer

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Wrong Doers Respect Me

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 9

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Lewis tops US album charts

Lewis tops US album charts

Leona Meriwether Lewis is set to turn the first British people solo artist of all time to enter at No 1 in the American album charts.Her debut aggregation, Purport, tops the Hoarding 200 chart, with craft publishing Day by day Change coverage that it has shifted more than 205,000 copies in its low gear week of cut-rate sale. It is the second US No 1 for Jerry Lee Lewis, world Health Organization also broke records when her debut 1 Hemorrhage Passion hit the top spot in America last month.










Lewis launch fame in 2006 after winning the TV talent show X-Factor. The 23-year-old from east John Griffith Chaney was immediately taken under the wing of Simon Zelotes Cowell and went on to work with more or less of the biggest, and to the highest degree expensive, name calling in the manufacture. One of those figures was Clive Davis, world Health Organization shaped the early on career of Whitney Houston. And it's Houston to whom Lewis has oftentimes been compared.Thanks to extensive radio play and the support of Oprah Winfrey and famous person blogger Perez Hilton, Bleeding Passion was staggeringly popular in America ahead it had been released. The song has now sold 1.1m copies in the US on downloads solely.Haemorrhage Love life was the UK's biggest-selling single of 2007 and Heart has since sold nearly 2m copies in the UK.

Sopranos star for Marvin Gaye film

Sopranos star for Marvin Gaye film

'The Sopranos' star topology James Gandolfini has been cast opposite 'Law & Order' star Jesse L Martin in a new film well-nigh the last years of soul fable Marvin Gaye.
Variety reports that 'Sexual Healing' volition chronicle Gaye's (Steve Martin) self-imposed exile in Kingdom of Belgium and his return to the big time with the help of promoter Freddy Cousaert (Gandolfini).
The Lauren Goodman-directed pic volition be produced by Gandolfini's party, Attaboy Films, and the histrion will work as producer on the project.
Cinematography of 'Sexual Healing' is due to begin on 15 April, with locations in Ostend, Massachuset and Los Angeles.




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Kylie back with Oliver Martinez?

Kylie back with Oliver Martinez?

Pop up singer Kiley Minogue has reunited with former young man Baron Olivier of Birghton Martinez subsequently a class apart, according to reports published in several UK written document.
The pair deliver been seen strolling arm-in-arm in the streets of French capital, where Martinez, 42, lives, sparking the reports.Minogue, 39, was likewise photographed departure his flat to train his heel Sheba for a walk.
"Kylie has taken him back - with a new set of rules," a ally of Minogue's told the Daily Mail.
"Ollie has agreed to try for a infant. That was ever the stumbling block in their relationship. They have both been single for a class and Kylie has realised she has never had anyone that has matched up to him."
Minogue arrived in Genus Paris last William Ashley Sunday for the NRJ Euphony Awards and spent the following years with Martinez.
"She has always described him as the sexual love of her life," a phallus of Martinez's family told The Lord's Day.
"WHO knows what power take place? We would for sure like to see them back together."

Winehouse leaves rehab to apply for visa

Winehouse leaves rehab to apply for visa

Isaac M. Singer Amy Winehouse left the rehab clinic where she is being treated for a short time yesterday in order to apply for a US visa.
According to reports, Winehouse left her Greater London clinic for a few hours to receive with officials at the US Embassy.
She was accompanied by her father Mitch and a hold, as the terms of her treatment necessitate her to remain under superintendence at wholly times.
Winehouse sported her custom joseph Black beehive, which had not made an visual aspect in recent weeks, after the maven switch off her hair and bleached it blond.
It is thought that Winehouse is seeking a US visa in order to travel to Los Angeles to do at the Grammys on 10 February. She is nominated for six-spot awards at the ceremony.
The singer's visa application volition non be simpleton due to the fact that she was arrested and fined in Kingdom of Norway for possession of marihuana.
A spokesperson for Winehouse said: "The engagement at the US Embassy was made close to time ago and was function of serve for obtaining a visa. No decisiveness has been made about the Grammys."
"Amy was accompanied by a nurse as the fitting was under oversight. She has non left rehab and corpse under the care of the clinic."