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Hotel Vast Horizon
''Hotel Vast Horizon'' is the ninth album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It is his seventh studio album. It was produced by Heiko Schramm, Chris Whitley, Matthias Macht, and Edgar M. Röthig. The album was recorded by Röthig at Helicopter Studio in Dresden, Germany. "Breaking Your Fall" won Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song at the 3rd Annual Independent Music Awards. Track listing All tracks written by Chris Whitley unless otherwise noted: # "New Lost World" – 4:24 # "Breaking Your Fall" (Chris Whitley, Warner Poland, Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt) – 3:23 # "Frontier" – 4:43 # "Hotel Vast Horizon" – 3:54 # "Blues for André" – 2:52 # "Assassin Song" – 3:56 # "Wide Open Return" – 3:06 # "Silhouette" – 4:26 # "Insurrection at Newtown" – 3:33 # "Free Interval" – 2:40 Trivia *Part of a song verse in "Hotel Vast Horizon" references 'The Castle of the Poor', by French poet, Paul Éluard. *"Blues for André" refers to French writer, poet, and surreali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Whitley
Christopher Becker Whitley (August 31, 1960 – November 20, 2005) was an American blues/rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. During his 25-year career he released more than a dozen albums, had two songs in the top 50 of the Billboard mainstream rock charts and received two Independent Music Awards. Whitley's sound was drawn from the traditions of blues, jazz and rock and he recorded songs by artists from many genres. He died in 2005 of lung cancer at the age of 45. Early life Whitley was born in Houston, Texas and learned to play guitar when he was fifteen. His father was an art director and his mother was a sculptor. During his youth he lived in Dallas, Texas, Oklahoma, Connecticut, Mexico and Vermont. His parents "grew up on race music, race radio in Southern United States, the South" and their musical tastes—including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix—influenced Whitley. Career During the early 1980s Whitley was busking on the streets of New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messenger Records
Messenger Records is an independent record label. Based out of New York City, USA, the label was started by Brandon Kessler during his time in college in 1996. The label has released albums by Anne McCue, Dan Bern, Chris Whitley, Johnny Society, and others. The label also offers consulting services to independent artists, including advice on promotion, touring, and music production. See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, b ... External links Official site Record labels established in 1996 American independent record labels Alternative rock record labels {{US-independent-record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heiko Schramm
Heiko Schramm (born 8 June 1971 in Dresden, Germany) is a German musician, singer/songwriter (bass guitar, double bass, and guitar) and writer. Career Heiko Schramm started his musical career as the bassist for the Dresden-based band Freunde der italienischen Oper (FDIO) in 1988. Engaged for the stage production of Goethe's Faust at Staatsschauspiel Dresden in 1989, FDIO gained renown as the first rock band in the history of the state theater in 1991. Schramm collaborated on the FDIO albums ''Um Thron und Liebe'' as well as ''Edle Einfalt Stille Größe'' and left the band in 1992. Together with the original lineup, Schramm recorded a song for the German opera singer René Pape in 2005 which was featured in a documentary on Pape produced by the TV network Arte. In 1990, Schramm, singer and guitarist Jens Berger and drummer Tom Wolf formed the band Need A New Drug. They recorded the albums ''Greedy Moon'' (1990) and ''Santa Cruz'' (1992, produced by Jorge Cousineau). The coop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigs Will Fly (soundtrack)
''(Music from and inspired by the film)'' ''Pigs Will Fly'' is the soundtrack for the German film, ''Pigs Will Fly'' (2002) directed by Eoin Moore. The soundtrack is a collaboration between musicians Warner Poland and Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt and features singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. The soundtrack was produced, recorded, and, mixed by Warner Poland and Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt. It was recorded at Monobeat Studio in Berlin, Germany. Additional recording was done at The Himalaya Lounge in Berlin, Germany. Track listing All tracks written and performed by Warner Poland, Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt and Chris Whitley unless otherwise noted. # "Crystaline" – 3:56 # "Laxe 01" – 0:31 # "Dislocation Blues" – 2:30 # "Please Please" – 0:38 # "Breaking Your Fall" – 3:30 # "Gum" – 1:13 # "Frisco 01" – 1:27 # "Fine Day" – 3:53 # "Tijuana" – 0:41 # "Laxe 02" – 1:01 # "Velocity" – 0:53 # "Velocity Girl" – 4:27 # "Under the Bridge" – 1:27 # "Frisco 03" – 1:26 # " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weed (album)
''Weed'' is the tenth album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It is his eighth studio album. The album is Whitley's acoustic re-recording of a selection of songs he wrote from 1986 to 1996 for his three recordings on Columbia / Work Records: ''Living with the Law'' (1991), ''Din of Ecstasy'' (1995), and ''Terra Incognita'' (1997). It was produced and recorded by Chris Whitley live to a two-track MD in Susann Bürger's bathroom / Sebnitzer Straße and Space House / Katharinenstraße in Dresden, Germany. Track listing All tracks written by Chris Whitley: # "Power Down" – 3:43 # "Living with the Law" – 4:05 # "Know" – 3:16 # "Phone Call from Leavenworth" – 4:22 # "Cool Wooden Crosses" – 2:44 # "Big Sky Country" – 4:26 # "New Machine" – 3:19 # "Clear Blue Sky" – 4:36 # "Bordertown" – 3:16 # "Narcotic Prayer" – 3:42 # "Kick the Stones" – 4:11 # "Weightless" – 2:37 # "I Forget You Everyday" – 4:20 # "Make the Dirt Stick" – 3:33 # "Dust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaffa (magazine)
''Gaffa'' (stylized as ''GAFFA'') is a free Nordic music magazine with local editions in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. ''Gaffa'' is Denmark's largest and oldest music magazine. It has been published since 1983 and has 320,000 print readers and 750,000 online readers each month. The name ''gaffa'' comes from gaffer tape, with the magazine's stated intention of "binding the different parts of the music community together". History and profile ''Gaffa'' has been published on a monthly basis since 1983. The magazine is distributed to places such as educational institutions, record shops, libraries and cafés, as well as a small number to paying subscribers. It features music news and notes, interviews, album reviews and upcoming concert schedules. ''Gaffa'''s website, GAFFA.dk, was established in 1996. Since December 2008 all back issues of the magazine are accessible online free of charge. In 2008 ''Gaffa'' launched GAFFA live, a concert overview for Denmark, Sweden and Norway. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stylus Magazine
''Stylus Magazine'' was an American online music and film magazine, launched in 2002 and co-founded by Todd L. Burns. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog. Additionally, ''Stylus'' had daily features like "The Singles Jukebox", which looked at pop singles from around the globe, and "Soulseeking", a column focused on personal responses in listening. Even though they never reached the readership of other music magazines such as PopMatters or Pitchfork, they still had a very consistent and fired-up audience. In 2006, the site was chosen by the ''Observer Music Monthly'' as one of the Internet's 25 most essential music websites. ''Stylus'' closed as a business on 31 October 2007. The site remained online for several years, but did not publish any new content. On 4 January 2010, with the blessing of former editor Todd Burns, ''Stylus'' senior writer Nick Southall launched ''The Stylus Decade'', a web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncut (magazine)
''Uncut'' is a monthly magazine based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections. A DVD magazine under the ''Uncut'' brand was published quarterly from 2005 to 2006. The magazine was acquired in 2019 by Singaporean music company BandLab Technologies, and has been published by NME Networks since December 2021. ''Uncut'' (main magazine) ''Uncut'' was launched in May 1997 by IPC as "a monthly magazine aimed at 25- to 45-year-old men that focuses on music and movies", edited by Allan Jones (former editor of ''Melody Maker''). Jones has stated that " e idea for Uncut came from my own disenchantment about what I was doing with ''Melody Maker''. There was a publishing initiative to make the audience younger; I was getting older and they wanted to take the readers further away from me", specifically referring to the then dominant Britpop genre. According to IPC Media, 86% of the magazine's readers are mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. Many boroughs west of the Elbe lie in the foreland of the Ore Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard (), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal grandmother. He adhered to Dadaism and became one of the pillars of Surrealism by opening the way to artistic action politically committed to the Communist Party. During World War II, he was the author of several poems against Nazism that circulated clandestinely. He became known worldwide as The Poet of ''Freedom'' and is considered the most gifted of French surrealist poets. Biography Éluard was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, the son of Eugène Clément Grindel and wife Jeanne-Marie née Cousin. His father was an accountant when Paul was born but soon opened a real estate agency. His mother was a seamstress. Around 1908, the family moved to Paris, rue Louis Blanc. Éluard attended the local school in Aulnay-sous-Bois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Breton
André Robert Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "Surrealist automatism, pure psychic automatism". Along with his role as leader of the surrealist movement he is the author of celebrated books such as ''Nadja (novel), Nadja'' and ''L'Amour fou''. Those activities, combined with his critical and theoretical work on writing and the plastic arts, made André Breton a major figure in twentieth-century French art and literature. Biography André Breton was the only son born to a family of modest means in Tinchebray (Orne) in Normandy, France. His father, Louis-Justin Breton, was a policeman and atheism, atheistic, and his mother, Marguerite-Marie-Eugénie Le Gouguès, was a former seamstress. Breton attended medical school, where he developed a parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
