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• Finley Quaye - Maverick a Strike woensdag 23 november 2011

  A debut full of quirkiness, sophistication and well-written tunes.

  For a brief while, Edinburgh-born musician Finley Quaye genuinely seemed like the future. When Maverick a Strike was released in September 1997, its maker arrived with a beguiling and newsworthy back-story – son of composer Cab Kaye, half-brother of Elton John’s guitarist Caleb Quaye, and apparently an uncle to Tricky. Although that earned him column inches, it was his music, a perfect meeting point of roots reggae and the then-current trip hop craze, that made him loved.

• El Rod - Art Nouveau woensdag 02 november 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Art Nouveau' van 'El Rod'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Chagall - Chagall maandag 24 oktober 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Chagall' van 'Chagall'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Fatoumata Diawara - Fatou maandag 17 oktober 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Fatou' van 'Fatoumata Diawara'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• The Stepkids - The Stepkids maandag 26 september 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'The Stepkids' van 'The Stepkids'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Step Kings - The Stepkids maandag 26 september 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'The Stepkids' van 'Step Kings'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• SuperHeavy - SuperHeavy maandag 19 september 2011

  Muziek / CD-recensies

• Chic - Risqué dinsdag 06 september 2011

  The disco album as rock classic.

  Chic’s third album, Risqué, is one of the greatest exhibits in the case for disco’s defence. Released in the summer of 1979, it was as integral to the Atlantic label as any of the great rock albums that had taken the imprint out of Black America and into the world in the late 60s. With a budget of $160,000, it was a widescreen record with widescreen ambitions.

• Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/Live! dinsdag 23 augustus 2011

  An intimate live portrait of a unique performer.

  Although more space has always been given to Marvin Gaye’s politicisation with What’s Going On in 1971, at the same time Curtis Mayfield was sincere in his belief that music should carry potent messages of change and advancement for African Americans. Curtis/Live! captures Mayfield at his very best. He was still only a year outside of his old group, The Impressions, and very much striking out on his own.

• Fitz and The Tantrums - Pickin’ Up the Pieces dinsdag 16 augustus 2011

  Debut album of retro-R&B from LA soulsters.

  Michael Fitzpatrick and his band, which includes former members of Dilated Peoples and De La Soul, are on a mission: to reclaim the original US R&B, an American invention, remember, even if the dominance of UK soul girls (Adele, Amy, Joss et al) on both sides of the Atlantic over the past few years would suggest otherwise.

• The Bongolian - Bongos For Beatniks zaterdag 06 augustus 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Bongos For Beatniks' van 'The Bongolian'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Prince - Parade vrijdag 05 augustus 2011

  Not quite a classic Prince album, but Kiss is a minimalist masterpiece

  Whereas 1984’s Purple Rain had seen Prince merge the on-screen and on-record perfectly, remaining a classic to this day, Parade can’t quite claim to be as essential. Again a soundtrack to one of the Purple One’s excursions into cinema, it supports the movie Under the Cherry Moon – a flop which cleaned up at 1987’s Golden Raspberry Awards. The album, though, is significantly better than the messy flick, which featured Kristin Scott Thomas in one of her most forgettable roles.

• Stevie Wonder - Innervisions vrijdag 29 juli 2011

  A work of constant, evolving surprise.

  Remarkably, Innervisions is Stevie Wonder's 16th studio album. It is the album that best celebrates his musical maturity and completes the transition from Little Stevie Wonder to the grown-up artist with an active imagination and burning social conscience. Coming just nine months after Talking Book, Innervisions is Wonder at the absolute peak of his powers, a 23-year-old man with the world at his fingertips.

• Smoove + Turrell - Eccentric Audio vrijdag 22 juli 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Eccentric Audio' van 'Smoove + Turrell'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Luther Vandross - The Night I Fell in Love dinsdag 19 juli 2011

  Dreamy reveries, performed by Vandross at the absolute top of his game.

  Although its successor, Give Me the Reason – Luther Vandross’ fifth solo album – was the one that truly broke him commercially in the UK, The Night I Fell in Love is arguably the point where everything aligned for this remarkable singer.

• Donny Hathaway - Live dinsdag 05 juli 2011

  Quite simply one of the best live albums ever recorded.

  Recorded in two intimate clubs better known for their showcasing of folk and rock, The Troubadour in LA and The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, this live album enhanced Donny Hathaway’s reputation. It frequented the US charts in tandem with the album he’d cut with Roberta Flack and established him as one of the greatest writers and performers of his generation.

• Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy dinsdag 31 mei 2011

  Captures this first phase of Jamiroquai at their very best.

  When Jason ‘Jay Kay’ Cheetham and his band appeared in 1992 as part of the acid jazz movement, they were viewed with a great deal of suspicion by the rock and soul cognoscenti. Aside from their leader’s silly hat, they – keyboard player Toby Smith, bassist Stuart Zender, drummer Derrick McKenzie and Wallis Buchanan on didgeridoo – seemed too arriviste; he was a showbiz child (his mother is comedienne Karen Kay), had bad boy credentials and a deep love for Stevie Wonder’s music. Naming his band after a combination of ‘jam session’ and the Iroquois Indians, theirs was a weird, stoned funk that sounded like some lost album from 1972.

• Miles Davis - Tutu dinsdag 24 mei 2011

  A work of engrossingly fraught atmospheres, and proof that Davis was still relevant.

  Jazz’s most famous son is given godly status for his work in the 50s – as in Kind of Blue – and the 70s – as in Bitches Brew. The 80s remains a dubious period of his discography. Tutu casts doubt on that received wisdom. Although it is still dismissed by many as ‘lightweight’ or, worse still, ‘pop-fusion’, the album, whose striking monochrome sleeve stylized the trumpeter’s austere, sculptural, late-years beauty, had something that captured the imagination of many outside of the world of jazz.

• The Jig - Brooklyn Blowout donderdag 28 april 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Brooklyn Blowout' van 'The Jig'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Bill Withers - Still Bill dinsdag 29 maart 2011

  Withers’ second studio LP sounds fresh and innovative to this day.

  It is said that pop stars remain the age they were from when they first achieved success. Hence some, with their every whim being catered for, remain trapped in a permanent childhood. Not so Bill Withers. The man from Slab Fork, West Virginia didn’t turn professional until he was 32, after spending time working in milk delivery, for the Ford Motor Company and building Lockheed aircraft.