Loading...
Done

Claire Pelletier: Murmures d'histoire

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 05 Aug 2009 18:38:36 | Comments : 1

Claire Pelletier: Murmures d'histoire
MP3 | 192 Kbps | 72Mb
Folk/Songwriter/French |1997

“Claire Pelletier est une chanteuse québécoise. Née en 1959, elle vit son enfance dans le petit village de Saint-Pascal-de-Kamouraska au Bas-Saint-Laurent. Tout d'abord membre du groupe folklorique 'Tracadièche' avec Raymond Allard et Dan Paquet puis choriste pour plusieurs artistes québécois (Michel Rivard, Louise Forestier, Pierre Flynn, Richard Séguin, Claude Dubois, Gilles Bélanger…,), elle fait ses premières armes sur le devant de la scène dans la distribution des spectacles Chez Gérard en reprise et De Félix à Desjardins où elle interprète des classiques de la chanson française et québécoise.
Avec ses complices, son mari le compositeur, arrangeur et réalisateur Pierre Duchesne et le parolier Marc Chabot, aussi professeur de philosophie, elle prépare son premier album solo, Murmures d'histoire, en 1996, qui présente des pièces ayant pour thème la philosophie, l'Histoire (particulièrement de l'époque médiévale), les légendes amérindiennes ou des mélodies traditionnelles, dans une approche qui n'est pas sans rappeler Loreena McKennitt et la musique néo-celtique à la Clannad.		”

“Claire Pelletier has an absolutely beautiful voice, and this CD has some very nice cuts. I cannot speak for my Canadian, and/or French Canadians neighbors to the North, but to an American ear, she has the most sensuous voice that simply never sounds strained at any note. Yet I had to go to Amazon's Canadian site to get this CD. Only her CD, Galileo, is available on Amazon's American site. This CD is also very pleasant to listen to. Why is Claire not better known in the US? From whatever research on her I could muster, it is my impression that she is an extraordinarily modest person for her talents; she loves what she does. Fame is not important to her. In any case, every American to whom I exposed her music has been transfixed. Her voice is truly unique.
By Alex J. Golian (Columbia, MD US)		”
Details

Jorane: 16MM

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 31 Jul 2009 19:10:32 | Comments : 0

Jorane: 16MM
MP3 | 192Kbps | 86Mb
2000 | Rock, Alternative

“Jorane's self-produced second disc may take its name from a film format that is modest in size, but the music is definitely closer to 70mm in scope. In 16mm, the Montreal-based singer and cellist has created a much more satisfying disc than Vent Fou, her precocious debut. While she may still attract comparisons to Kate Bush, Tori Amos, and Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard, Jorane confidently stakes out more of her own terrain. On "By Feet from" and "Pour Gabrielle," her plaintive singing and cello playing are effectively juxtaposed with the nimble, subtle rhythms that lie deep in the songs. With its lush, multitracked vocals, the gorgeous three-part "Film" has a depth and richness missing in Enya's lullabies. But 16mm is too compelling to serve as musical wallpaper. The centerpiece is the eight-minute "Work No. 3," a brooding song on which Jorane sings wordless incantations. On "Chouette," she gets more playful, mewling like a cat over a jazz riff by bassist Thomas Babin and clattery percussion by
Genevieve Jodoin and Alexis Martin. "Hello" is an offbeat piece of percolating babble that recalls the work of American composer Meredith Monk. The closing songs--the ghostly "Nouvelle" and "My Little Luck"--are equally endearing. On the latter, she croons while plucking out a melody that bears an odd resemblance to Otis Redding's "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay." (That melody recurs in the hidden bonus track, a full-band version of "My Little Luck" that includes a lovely vocal duet by Jorane and Jodoin.) The album benefits greatly from a sense of economy and restraint that was mostly absent on the melodramatic Vent Fou--the music on 16mm is intricately detailed but not overly ornate. On this rich and emotionally affecting disc, Jorane proves to be a performer capable of subtlety as well as intensity. --Jason Anderson		”

Details
Best Internet Links
Posted by :: Alex | Date :: Aug 20, 2008 19:05:00 | [ 34 comments ]


Jorane: Vent Fou

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 31 Jul 2009 19:10:28 | Comments : 2

Jorane: Vent Fou
MP3 | 192Kbps | 68Mb
1999 | Rock, Alternative

“One could also liken her music to listening to "alien whales singing to each other", because it has a mysterious almost trance-like quality to it. Very relaxing in many ways, but also makes great fucking music. She is frequently compared to Tori Amos on the piano and I'd compare her voice to Emiliana Torini.
We're used to seeing the cello in orchestras so this kind of alternative "cello rock" really seems like a novelty, but that is what makes it so special. Jorane was trained on guitar and piano like thousands of other musicians, but then, seemingly on a whim, she tried the cello and discovered that the deep sounds of the cello made great harmony with her singing voice.
The Entertainment eZine - Music		”

Details

Ricardo Rocha: Voluptuaria

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 17 Jul 2009 15:21:43 | Comments : 2

Ricardo Rocha: Voluptuaria
Flac, log, cue | 516Mb | MP3 | 320kbps | 211Mb | covers 600dpi 50Mb
2003 | World, Ethnic, Portuguese | Label : V&A

“Ricardo Rocha’s guitarra portuguesa is a beautiful instrument, more akin to mandola than guitar. Rarely heard alone, it usually accompanies fado singers. Ricardo Rocha’s voluptuária does not reject tradition, but his more adventurous coruscations show why Rocha has been called ‘the Ornette Coleman of his instrument.’”
Details

Batman Hellboy Starman #01-02

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 17 Jul 2009 10:33:34 | Comments : 0

Batman Hellboy Starman #01-02
1998 | DC/Dark Horse | CBR | English | 70 pages total | 9Mb
Details

V.G. Jog, Tarun Bhattacharya: Indian Classical Duets Vol. 1

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 16 Jul 2009 18:41:26 | Comments : 0

V.G. Jog, Tarun Bhattacharya: Indian Classical Duets Vol. 1
Flac, no log, no cue | covers | 273Mb | MP3 | 320kbps | 147Mb
2009 | World, Ethnic, Indian | Label : Virgin, ITC Limited

This is a cd that you can't buy, well not in a music store....
“Known as Jugalbandi, it is a spectacular performance featuring two solo musicians where both act as lead players. Eventually the two musicians start to compete and a playful yet exhilarating extravaganza unfolds.”
Details

Berserker #00-01 on-going

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 27 Jun 2009 15:06:49 | Comments : 0

Berserker #00-01 on-going
2009 | Top Cow | CBR | English | 56 pages total | 67Mb

“Berserker is about a group of people that find out that they're a part of this ancient Norse mythology and they have something in their body make-up that makes them go into a murderous rage, to literally go berserk and rip people, life and limb, apart. The scary thing is that they can't distinguish when they're going berserk. When they're "'zerking out," they can't distinguish between an enemy and a loved one. You may be in a battle and rip apart all your enemies, but you turn toward your comrades and you rip them apart, too.”
Details

Beware The Creeper #1-6 Vol.2 complete

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 27 Jun 2009 00:51:44 | Comments : 2

Beware The Creeper #1-6 Vol.2 complete
2003 | Vertigo | CBR | English | 116 pages total | 42Mb

in zee gay Paris quoi...
Details

Beware The Creeper #1-6 complete

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 27 Jun 2009 00:48:38 | Comments : 0

Beware The Creeper #1-6 complete
1997-1998 | DC | CBR | English | 149 pages total | 63Mb

reeeally creeepy.... borderline i'd say.....
Details

The Creeper #1-6 complete

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 27 Jun 2009 00:48:34 | Comments : 0

The Creeper #1-6 complete
2006-2007 | DC | CBR | English | 133 pages total | 58Mb

it even got the Bat and Joker... what more do you want ?
Details

Soul Saga #1-6 Repost

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 24 Jun 2009 22:23:37 | Comments : 1

Soul Saga #1-6 Repost
2000-2001 | /Top Cow | CBR | English | 120 pages total | 50Mb
Details

Perfect Dark: Janus' Tears #1-6 (complete)

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 24 Jun 2009 16:04:18 | Comments : 0

Perfect Dark: Janus' Tears #1-6 (complete)
2006 | Prima Games | CBR | English | 200 pages total | 116Mb

“Joanna Dark, a bounty hunter-turned-corporate superagent of the mysterious Carrington Institute, is a footsoldier in a new kind of war. Powerful business entitites, called “hypercorporations,” are locked in a covert struggle for global dominance with the average man on the street none the wiser. The Carrington Institute may just be the only thing that stands between the sinister dataDyne Corporation, and total domination.”

Details

Wonder Woman : The Hiketeia

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 21 Jun 2009 03:47:14 | Comments : 0

Wonder Woman : The Hiketeia
2002 | DC Comics | CBR | English | 103 pages | 41Mb
Details

The Alcoholic

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 14 Jun 2009 19:29:58 | Comments : 0

The Alcoholic
2008 | Vertigo/DC Comics | Graphic Novel, Black & White | ISBN 9781401210564 | CBR | English | 140 pages | 50 Mb

“ Written by Jonathan Ames; Art and cover by Dean Haspiel
Jonathan A. is a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic and, of course, entirely fictional novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-life writer Jonathan Ames, critically acclaimed author of Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man and What's Not to Love?
For the fictional Jonathan, writing and drinking come easy. The hard parts of life are love and hope. From a touching relationship between Jonathan and his aging great aunt, to an inebriated evening with an amorous, octogenarian dwarf, to the devastating aftermath of 9/11, Ames's first original graphic novel, with gritty, poignant art by Dean Haspiel (THE QUITTER), tells a story at once hilarious, excruciating, bizarre and universal, about how our lives fall to pieces and the enduring human struggle to put things back together again.		”
Details

Major Bummer #1-15

Posted By : GuessNot4Me | Date : 14 Jun 2009 13:15:15 | Comments : 0

Major Bummer #1-15
1997-1998 | DC Comics | CBR | English | 146Mb
The First Inaction Hero

“Two alien college students (named Zinnak and Yoof) are doing their thesis on heroes in Earth culture. To further their study, they send through the mail EEM's or Extreme Enhancement Modules that, when opened, attach themselves to the heart of the recipient endowing them with superpowers.
The main character of Major Bummer was Lou Martin. Lou was a slacker who, due to the incompetence of Yoof received an EEM instead of Martin Louis, an upwardly mobile young lawyer and philanthropist. Lou received a new muscular body that is inhumanly strong and has super-human intelligence. Unfortunately, because Lou is so lazy, he is only able to use his intelligence either subconsciously or during moments of extreme concentration. Despite this flaw, Lou was an erudite and intelligent individual already. The great irony being that his limitations were always his own fault and he enjoyed being a slacker; unlike most superheroes, gaining powers was actually an inconvenience to him. Lou's EEM was designed to attract trouble and the other superhumans whom Martin would have chosen to lead.
Wikipedia
”
Details