This Weeks Releases
This week is also a pretty thin one for good albums coming out, but there is at least one good one and several re-issues worth investigating:
1. Heavy hitter of the week is sadly being released in conjunction with Fourbucks...er...I mean Starbucks. Herbie Hancock releases his latest mainstream oriented album, a collection of pop yunes taken through the Hancock zone and with collaborations from as far afield as Trey Anastasio (ex-Phish, Oysterhead) to Christina Aguilera working the vocals on a rendition of a Leon Russell classic. It's Herbie, so it has to at least be decent. I am betting there will be some so-so tracks, but overall I'd bet this will be a great pop album from a master. It is titled Possibilities.
2. There are several Brian Eno reissues out, most importantly his collaboration with Talking Head David Byrne, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Ambient at its finest.
3. Speaking of fine ambient, two other artist reissues worthy of eartime is Harold Budd's Luxa, & Through the Hill (the latter with XTC's Andy Partridge) and Jon Hassell's City: Works of Fiction. While not the strongest that either has put out, they never really do badly. Budd has now retired from music altogether, and Hassell's releases seem to becoming more and more infrequent (although it is nice when he does the occasional guest spot, as he has for Peter Gabriel and Frou Frou among others).
4. Opeth releases Ghost Reveries. Granted, I only pay attention to them because of their connection to Porcupine Tree.
5. There is also rumor of some multi-cd collection of dubplates from the Trojan catalog. That cannot be anything except good. Much respect.
1. Heavy hitter of the week is sadly being released in conjunction with Fourbucks...er...I mean Starbucks. Herbie Hancock releases his latest mainstream oriented album, a collection of pop yunes taken through the Hancock zone and with collaborations from as far afield as Trey Anastasio (ex-Phish, Oysterhead) to Christina Aguilera working the vocals on a rendition of a Leon Russell classic. It's Herbie, so it has to at least be decent. I am betting there will be some so-so tracks, but overall I'd bet this will be a great pop album from a master. It is titled Possibilities.
2. There are several Brian Eno reissues out, most importantly his collaboration with Talking Head David Byrne, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Ambient at its finest.
3. Speaking of fine ambient, two other artist reissues worthy of eartime is Harold Budd's Luxa, & Through the Hill (the latter with XTC's Andy Partridge) and Jon Hassell's City: Works of Fiction. While not the strongest that either has put out, they never really do badly. Budd has now retired from music altogether, and Hassell's releases seem to becoming more and more infrequent (although it is nice when he does the occasional guest spot, as he has for Peter Gabriel and Frou Frou among others).
4. Opeth releases Ghost Reveries. Granted, I only pay attention to them because of their connection to Porcupine Tree.
5. There is also rumor of some multi-cd collection of dubplates from the Trojan catalog. That cannot be anything except good. Much respect.
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