Thursday, 29 May 2008
Huun-Huur-Tu
Artist: Huun-Huur-Tu
Genre(s):
Folk
Ethnic
Miscellaneous
Discography:
Malerija
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Spirits From Tuva (remix album)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Where Young Grass Grows
Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
If I'd Been Born an Eagle
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
The Orphan's Lament
Year: 1994
Tracks: 19
60 Horses In My Herd: Old Song
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
60 Horses in My Herd: Old Songs and Tunes of Tuva
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
The distant region of Tuva, one of the new countries formed with the adjournment of the U.S.S.R., has produced one of the world's most unusual vocal groups, Huun-Huur-Tu. Masters of the throat tattle fashion of xoomei, in which a singer produces deuce or iII notes simultaneously, the chemical group has been warmly by an international following. According to Jazz Times, "a bumpkinly joy and unadulterated expresiveness descend out of these musicians". Analyzing Huun-Huur-Tu's music, The Chicago Tribune, wrote, 'it is unfamiliar yet very accessible, an preternatural simply deeply spiritual music that is rooted in the sound of nature". Dirty Linen took a standardized scene, claiming, "this music is both very religious and depressed to earth, grounded in a strong good sense of place, yet its attract is universal." In addition to recording their own albums, the members of Huun-Huur-Tu have contributed their unique vocals to albums and/or performances by Frank Zappa, The Chieftains, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, The Kronos Quartet and L. Shankar and Ry Cooder's soundtrack of the film, Geronimo. Their ongoing collaboration with Angelite, the Bulgarian Woman's Choir under the counsel of Mikhail Alperin, has yielded deuce memorable albums -- Fly, Fly My Sadness in 1994 and Great deal Tale in 1998. Although its name translates literally as "sunlight propeller", Huun-Huur-Tu represents a great deal more. In a 1994 interview, institution percussionist Alexander Bapa explained, "(the name of the stria refers to) the vertical seperation of light rays that are often seen on the grasslands just after dawn or just earlier sunset". Initially named "Kungurtuk", Huun-Huur-Tu came together, in 1992, to act "the onetime and disregarded songs". Founding members Sasha and Sayan Bapa and Kaigalool Khovalyg had previously performed a state-sanctioned corps de ballet during the Soviet regimen. Although Tuvan music had traditionally been performed by a solo singer or player, the group legal of Huun-Huur-Tu set them aside. Huun-Huur-Tu has experienced several force changes. Original phallus Anatoli Kuular left to form a fresh band, Yat-Kha, in late 1993, and was replaced by Anatoli Kuular, a captain of the borbangnadyr stylus of singing and a virtuosic role player of the mouth harp (xomuz) and byzanchi. Percussionist Alexander Bapa left wing, in 1995, to become a producer in Moscow, and was replaced by Alexander Siraglar, a sygyt isaac Bashevis Singer, string player and precussionist.
Tom Russell
Friday, 23 May 2008
Adam Sandler and Wife Expecting Baby No. 2
Adam Sandler and Wife Expecting Baby No. 2
During an appearance on Jay Leno's 'Tonight Show' on Midweek (May 21), Adam Sandler announced that his wife Jackie is expecting their second child."In the start, I would fret her back and go, 'It's worth it. We're sledding to have another beautiful baby, I beloved you, thanks for doing this,'" the funnyman said explaining that his married woman has been suffereing from "entirely day" morning sickness.The couple have a 2-year-old girl named Sadie. Picture courtesy of Happy Madison.
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Amy Winehouse - Winehouse Offered 2 Million Russian Gig
Amy Winehouse - Winehouse Offered 2 Million Russian Gig
Troubled star AMY WINEHOUSE has reportedly been offered $2 million (GBP1 million) to perform a private show at a Russian art gallery.
The Back To Black singer was asked by Daria Zhukova, the girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, to sing in front of a select group of art fans at the new gallery she has founded in Moscow.
Winehouse will sing at the Center for Contemporary Culture in September (08), and is thought to have been offered a six-figure sum for her appearance, reports British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
It is not the first time the British star has been hired for a lucrative private concert - she was reportedly paid $1 million (GBP500,000) to appear at a Louis Vuitton catwalk show in Paris, France in February (08).
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Rakesh Chaurasia, Sunil Das, Zarin Daruwala, Ulhas
Artist: Rakesh Chaurasia, Sunil Das, Zarin Daruwala, Ulhas
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Discography:
Divinity Four
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Russell Watson
Artist: Russell Watson
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Pop
Chanson
Other
Classical
Discography:
That's Life
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
That's Life
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Outside In
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
The Voice: The Ultimate Collection
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Amore Musica
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Reprise
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Encore
Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
The Voice
Year: 2001
Tracks: 15
 
Fergie Has Sex And The City's Theme, 'Labels Or Love'
Fergie Has Sex And The City's Theme, 'Labels Or Love'
'LABELS OR LOVE' - One OF Four-spot Fillip TRACKS ON DELUXE RE-RELEASE OF THE
DUTCHESS, ARRIVING IN STORES May 27th - Moving-picture show OPENS Whitethorn 30th
Worldwide 6 billion marketing debut solo album enters 20th month on the graph
- now vI strike singles deep: 'London Bridge,' 'Fergalicious,' 'Glamorous'
featuring Ludacris, 'Big Girls Don't Yell,' 'Clumsy,' and 'Finally' - with
'Party People' bonus caterpillar tread on-deck
Saint Nick MONICA, Kalif., May 5 -- Multi-platinum MTV VMA,
ASCAP, American Music Award and Grammy Award winning international
adept Fergie will serve well "Labels Or Passion," the motif song to the
upcoming Charles Dudley Warner Bros./HBO Films motion mental picture Sexual urge And The City. In
addition to the pic soundtrack, "Labels Or Love" will also be one of four
fillip tracks on the deluxe newly edition re-release of THE DUTCHESS, Fergie's
worldwide 6 billion marketing debut solo album. Along with the quaternary bonus
tracks, the fresh package testament feature an scoop foldout bill poster
illustration of Fergie, an insert coupon discount to product and a
connect cd choice providing video content.
"Labels Or Love," written by Salaam Remi, Anti-racketeering law Dear, Douglas Cuomo and
produced by SALAAMREMI.COM, will be released on the deluxe new edition of
THE DUTCHESS arriving in stores on May 27th. Sex And The City, expected to
be unity of the smash hit hits of 2008, will open up in theatres across the nation on
May 30th.
The original 13-song constellation of THE DUTCHESS -- source of the
career-defining drawing string of strike singles "Jack London Bridge circuit," "Fergalicious,"
"Glamorous" featuring Ludacris, "Large Girls Don't Cry," "Clumsy," and
"Finally" -- will now be augmented with 1) "Labels Or Dear"; 2) a cover
interpretation of Heart's "Barracuda" (which Fergie performed live with Heart on
Apr 8th's all-star Graven image Gives Back benefit case on FOX-TV); 3) "Clumsy
(Souljaboy Remix)"; and 4) "Party People" featuring Nelly.
Fergie has forever emblazoned herself into chart history with THE
DUTCHESS, RIAA triple pt (3.6 million) in the U.S. with o'er 2
one thousand thousand in gross sales about the world. The record album (released Sept 2006) is
now in its 83rd hebdomad (20th month!) on the Hoarding 200 albums chart, with
a total of 13 weeks inside the Whirligig 10, and 44 weeks within the Cover 20.
Fergie is the #1 merchandising artist for digital strain downloads with gross sales
presently coming 12 jillion.
Refueling the success of THE DUTCHESS has been its phenomenal run of RIAA
au, pt and multi-platinum singles. It is only the fifth metre in the
BDS Cover 40 chart's history (which began in 1992) that i album has
produced sise chart hits. Separately (in order of press release):
-- "Jack London Span" (released July 2006): RIAA pt digital bingle and
RIAA platinum mastertone; hit #1 on the Hot hundred and made the
second-highest derail always recorded in the 50-year history of the
Hot 100, from #84 to #3 in its minute week out; video reached #1 at
VH1, and received a purpleness award from Rube! TV for achieving
10 jillion plays;
-- "Fergalicious" (October. 2006): RIAA double-platinum digital single and
RIAA pt mastertone; strike #1 on the Pop 100 and the picture reached
#1 at VH1;
-- "Glamorous" featuring Ludacris (February. 2007): RIAA double-platinum
digital i and RIAA atomic number 78 mastertone; strike #1 on the Hot C,
Pop hundred, and Dance charts; has logged 10 one thousand thousand plays on YouTube's
functionary UMG (Universal proposition Music Grouping) distribution channel;
-- "Boastfully Girls Don't Cry" (English hawthorn 2007): RIAA double-platinum digital single
and RIAA atomic number 78 mastertone; hit #1 on the Hot 100 and Pop hundred, one of
only three songs (along with OneRepublic's "Justify" and Leona Lewis'
"Hemorrhage Love") to go by 10,000 plays on the CHR/Top 40 graph; has
logged 21 meg plays on YouTube's UMG transmission channel;
-- "Clumsy" (Sept. 2007): RIAA platinum digital i; hit #2 on the
Pop one C and #5 on the Hot C; has logged 16 gazillion plays on the UMG
channel, reached #1 at MTV, and is stillness charted on Rube! Video
(at #24); featured in the smash film Knocked Up;
-- "In conclusion" featuring Can Fable (March 2008): most holocene epoch single,
performed live with John Lackland Legend at the 50th yearly Grammy awards
diffuse in February, and at Matinee idol Gives Back; also performed by Fergie
on Gumshoe Clark's New Year's Rockin' Evening and First principle Live with
Regis & Emmett Kelly;
-- "Party Hoi polloi" featuring Nelly (Apr 15, 2008): track from upcoming
deluxe edition of THE DUTCHESS; video (Marc Beatrice Webb) made its MTV TRL
premiere on Monday, Apr 14th and is #2 at Hick! Video;
-- "Labels Or Passion" (May 27, 2008): racetrack from upcoming deluxe variant.
Fergie became the starting time female creative person since Christina Aguilera (in
2000) to grievance 3 #1's on the Hot C chart from one record album. She is likewise
the first female artist of the x to land her number one four-spot solo singles
in the Pinnacle 5 on the Carl August Nielsen BDS-powered CHR/Top 40 chart -- and only the
third artist in the history of that chart to grievance fivesome Top 5 singles from
one album (along with Justin Timberlake and Emmett Kelly Clarkson). The 2 jillion
digital gross revenue to each one of "Fergalicious," "Glamorous," and "Big Girls Don't
Cry" marked the first time that any artist has had three hits from 1
album carry out that feat. Fergie is too the kickoff artist to net four
platinum mastertones from one album. In whole, her combined digital singles
gross revenue and mastertone gross revenue add up in excess of 15 gazillion.
Fergie has been a appendage of the multi-platinum two-time Grammy Awarding
winning grouping The Total darkness Eyed Peas for basketball team years, since they became a
global sensation with the release of their third album, Elephunk (June
2003, featuring the massive #1 hit, "Where Is the Love?" and the Rap
Grammy-winning "Let's Get It Started"). It was followed by their number one #1
pop/ #1 R&B crossover album, 2005's triple-platinum Imp Business, which
spun off a trinity of smash hits, "Don't Phunk With My Pump" (their second gear
sequentially Rap music Grammy), "My Humps" -- which became the first 2-million
merchandising mastertone of all time -- and "Pump It." The Black Eyed Peas ar an
international achiever narration, having sold more than 17 meg units
worldwide.
Linda Lemay
Artist: Linda Lemay
Genre(s):
Chanson
Vocal
Discography:
Les secrets des oiseaux
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Live
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
 
Van Halen