A good book and Rachmaninoff.... What more could you want?
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
Friday, March 6, 2020
Thursday, March 5, 2020
ELLA AND HER FELLAS
Lovely album from Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, the Delta Rhythm Boys, Eddie Heywood, the Inkspots, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Sy Oliver and The Mills Brothers.....
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
TRIBES OF DA UNDERGROUND VOLUME 1
Two ep's with underground dance music from the middle 90's.....
And listening to this I'm transported back to the middle 90's, when I bought this double album....
I was either working in Cafe The Rhythm (in Rotterdam) ....
Or I was busy working in the weed business....
Or I was doing odd dj job's, every Thursday night at Cafe/restaurant/podium B14, a very, very cool place where I was coming since I was around 15 years of age.... Every Thursday night they had session night, a band playing mostly funk and the band leader was Miko, a very tall black guy from Oakland in California, he was well known, played guitar in the Eddy Murphy Band and with Prince during the Purple Rain period. After a tour with Prince he fell in love with Rotterdam and never left.... Funny how I got that job, One night I was having a dinner break in the B14, working in The Rhythm, and a huge fight broke out between the owners of the place, they had other cafe's too, and the dj quit his job and went with the owner who quit the place. So, they had no dj for that night. Manon, who was working behind the bar there, and also was working behind the bar in The Rhythm with me said, but Henk is a dj!!! Well... I wasn't but I jumped at the chance, ran home which at that time was in ruins from a huge fire because the lamps in my weed plantation at home had somehow short-circuited, burned half the place down, me on the front page of every damn news paper in Holland (very small article but still, damn....two and a half years probation for that joke) and I came back with a back-pack full of cd's and bags full of records. Band played and in between breaks I played and I absolutely rocked the crowd, playing loads of hip hop which at that time, '94, wasn't really played anywhere 'cept at hip hop concerts... After the band quit I kept playing and had the crowd dancing till the early morning, something that was never happening at that place and I was hired on the spot....
I loved playing in that place.... I would show up really early so I could start playing when people were still having dinner, playing lounge type music, jazz and all that and go wild later at night between breaks from the band.... One thing that I will never forget was when one of Rotterdam's longest playing and most respected dj's (and still playing!!!) Adre Dadi was there, and he came over and paid his compliments, saying that he really, really enjoyed listening to what I was playing and I should really keep doing it because, in his words, I had a "special talent".... When I was still a kid I would go to clubs and Andre would be spinning in those places, to have him say to me what he said back then.... it's hard to put into words what that meant for me.... So MUCH LOVE for dj Andre Dadi!!!!
Another dj that comes to mind is Dj Eric van Doorn aka Dj Eric Denz Da Denz... Sadly, Eric passed away quiet recently... He would often come to that place to eat, and if I was playing, it was so funny, he would get up and run to me, what is this you're playing???!!!! "Well Eric, I told you about this guy, it's Mic Geronimo". He'd be running up to me 10 times, 15 times a night :) At One point Eric came up to me and asked me if I wanted to start working with him, to warm up the crowds for him and at the time he was playing in the big hall in Nightown which, at that time was one of the biggest most successful venues in Holland, not just Rotterdam... Unfortunately that never happened because I was just getting ready for a four month back-pack trip and I ended up in Indonesia and never left.... So... Rest In Peace Eric and thanks for the recognition man!!!!.
Yes.... The 90's... Just like the 80's.... Great, great times, so many incredibly wild adventures.....
Anyway, here's the two ep's:
HERE'S THE FIRST EP
HERE'S THE SECOND EP:
Enjoy!
R. BARNAS SUMANTRI, R. DEDEH KURNIASIH & SENI SUNDA DAYA GUNA TUMARITIS - DJAKA GINTIRI
Beautiful record from the great dalang R. Barnas Somantri, wayang with some great, great music played by Seni Sunda Guna Tuamaritis....
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
B R A I N B O X
Fantastic album from Dutch prog-rock band Brainbox....
Brainbox is a Dutch rock group from the late 1960s/early 1970s. The band was founded in Amsterdam by guitarist Jan Akkerman , drummer Pierre van der Linden and singer Kazimir Lux (Kaz). Their debut single was "Down Man", which established their progressive blues sound. They had several hit singles in the Netherlands, including "Between Alpha and Omega", "Doomsday Train", "Reason to Believe" and "Smile". In late 1969, soon after they released their first album, Akkerman left to join Focus, later recruiting van der Linden as well, then Brainbox bass player Cyril Havermans.
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
BILL EVANS TRIO - HOW MY HEART SINGS!
Fantastic 1962 album from the great Bill Evans and this is the original 1962 pressing....
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
HARRY VAN HOVE & DE MEICY
Here's an album from Harry van Hove with band De Meicy, check out the second song, Berpacu Dengan Waktu, nice funky tune....
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
HECTOR ZAZOU - MADE TO MEASURE VOL. 5
Hector Zazou (July 11, 1948 – September 8, 2008)was a prolific French composer and record producer who worked with, produced, and collaborated with an international array of recording artists. I saw him live in Amsterdam with Zazou Bikaye back in '84 just after they released their incredible album Noir Et Blanc....
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
FAUST: DER TRAGODIE ERSTER TEIL
Three record box, Goethe's Faust, The Tragedy, First part, spoken in German Language....
HERE'S THE FIRST RECORD
HERE'S THE SECOND RECORD
HERE'S THE THIRD RECORD
Enjoy!
I.K. DAIRO AND HIS BLUESPOT BAND
Here's a lovely record from the great Juju musician Isaiah Kehinde Dairo who was from Nigeria. I love his music, so far I've only managed to find this album that came out in 1983.... He was born in 1930 and passed away in 1996...
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
Monday, March 2, 2020
HARVEY MALAIHOLLO & IRENG MAULANA
Nice jazz-pop album from Harvey Malaihollo with muisc by Ireng Maulana.... Harvey Benjamin Malaihollo was born in 1962 in Jakarta, his mother, Maudy Titaley was one of the Titaley Sisters and he is the grandson of famous Indonesian singer Bram Tilaley.... This is a record made for promotional use, for radio stations etc. ....
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
Sunday, March 1, 2020
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ANTON WEBERN VOLUME 1
Here's a four album box with the Complete Works of (Austrian composer) Anton Webern Vol 1., recorded under the direction of Pierre Boulez, he also conducted a lot of the orchestras on these recordings....
You can read about Anton Webern here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Webern
HERE IS THE FIRST RECORD
HERE IS THE SECOND RECORD
HERE IS THE THIRD RECORD
HERE IS THE FOURTH RECORD
Enjoy!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)