Anna Maria Jopek and Pat Metheny - This is not America

Anna Maria or David Bowie? Who do you prefer?

Suphala - Underwater City

Record release party July 10th, 2007 in NYC at Canal Room.

Artists performing with Suphala include David Gotay (cello), Eddie Venegas (violin), D.I. Noizepunk (laptop, keys)

“This Indian-American beauty plays those two small drums like Bruce Lee in a fistfight - with fast hands and a furious beauty.” – St. Petersburg Times

Suphala is a protégé of the great tabla masters Ustad Allarakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain, who are a constant source of inspiration to her.

Herbie Hancock - Jazz Fusion Cantelope Island

The master "Herbie" in one of his great performances. Enjoy the live version of Cantelope Island!

Suphala - Unwind You

Suphala - Unwind You

Tabla Artist, Composer, and Producer, Suphala:

In Feb. 2005, Suphala made history when she became the first musician to play in public in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban. According to the New York Times, "Kabul's badly depleted music scene received a welcome injection of excitement last week with the arrival of Suphala, the New York-based tabla player and composer… Suphala certainly brought brightness… her touch and rhythm are sure." It caused a sensation in the war-torn country. "I have not played with a woman before," one Afghan tabla master said. "Our grandfathers do not even know of it."

Suphala assets, video. Record Release performance -- July 10th, 2007 at Canal Room in NYC: track from Suphala's album "Blueprint", song and all parts written by Suphala, performers include Suphala (tabla), D.I. Noizepunk (laptop, keys), Edie Venegas (violin), David Gotay (cello). 

Matisyahu - forget what you know about Hasidic Jews

Forget what you know about Hasidic Jews.

Matisyahu (born Matthew Paul Miller, June 30, 1979) is an American reggae musician.

He wears the traditional clothing of Hasidic Jews and does not perform on Sabbath, but his reggae is great!

This piece, King Without a Crown is fun, dancing and has a message. Enjoy.

Buddy Guy invites Carlos Santana

Great encounter of two awesome guitar plyers - Montreux Jazz Festival 2004. Enjoy!

Manu Katché's PLAYGROUND

Recording of Manu Katché's latest album, PLAYGROUND

Playground Manu Katche (Clip video)
Uploaded by Manu-Katche

and here he plays with Sting in Soul Cages:

Classical Music podcasts

For the classical lover, some good podcasts to try.
Johann Sebastian Bach at Magnatune that has also good podsafe MP3 music for download or streaming - Jazz, Blues, Folk, Rock, Classical.

Dr DK offers the Mozart Podcast (the site is in German).

The British Magazine Gramophone has a podcast with news and music.

And also Wagner Operas has an interesting podcast although it has not been updated very often.

Cool site: The Hype Machine

The Hype Machine follows music blog discussion.

You can search the blogs and it will create links to the posts and to the MP3 files they refer. You can listen to the results as an Internet Radio or buy the tracks via iTunes or Amazon.

The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page.

It will even create an RSS feed based on the search, so you can subscribe like it was a podcast or blog!

Enjoy.

Return of The Police - Shigemi in the news!

from Bloomberg News: The new Tour of The Police is already a success.

More than 1.77 million tickets for the tour have been sold so far, according to the band's publicist Clare Fisher at RMP. Tickets cost between $50 and $225 on online sites, though seats for some sold-out venues are on offer for $2,500 for two on EBay Inc.'s Web site.

But the cool thing: the media found my friend Shigemi at the concert. Shigemi is following the tour around the world.

``They made history here tonight,'' said Shig Hayashi, 40, a telecommunications engineer from Saitama, Japan, who said she quit her job of 13 years to attend Police concerts in Vancouver, New York and London. ``It was worth it.''

LiveEarth 7 7 07 starts

"Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis."

Too watch live you need Internet Explorer - maybe because the site is at MSN it does not work well with Firefox

The first show started in Sydney at 11am. In Tokyo it started at noon. Al Gore appeared as an hologram in the Tokyo concert! That was cool.

John Butler Trio just finished playing in Sydney. Great band, I never heard before, but for sure will check more of their work.

Great Jazz from Italy

Just listened a great Jazz from Italian group Boom Boom Beckett in the episode 118 of Catholic Under the Hood podcast, one of my favorite podcasts from SQPN.