Sunday, November 27, 2005

Click here for Episode 4:We're back and now weekly!

As previously mentioned, Smooth Groovers review is now a weekly podcast (effective from Monday 28th November 2005).

This week the team have at last completed there much awaited promised Fast track Artist review segment. The concept is to feature tiny snippets and the post commentary or paying a tribute to a fantastic artist. The fast track review artist featured on our latest podcast is Pat Metheny.

In addition, Master Move performs a great wind-up against the Professor and the Dr attempts to bring in some pop.

Please join in the fun by giving us feedback and telling us about your life experiences. On the podcast this week are reviews of:

Joyce Cooling: Expression from the album 'That girl can play'
Will downing: Soul stepping from the album 'Soul Symphony'
(See also:
http://www.willdowning.com
Ken Navarro: Breathe from 'Love Coloured Soul'
(See also
http://www.kennavarro.com
Gorilliza: Dirty Harry from the album 'Demon Days'
Madonna: Future Lovers from the album 'CD Confessions of a dance floor'
Burt Bacharach: In our time and Always Taking time from the album 'At this time'

The Fast Track artist review was crafted by The professor and features 13 Tracks:

Pat Metheny -Emerged in the mid seventies, Pats been making great music for nearly 30 years, The pat metheny group was founded in 1977, the group has played all over world
- you can find out everything you want to know from the website
http://www.patmethenygroup.com -like they are the only group to win 7 consecutive grammys for seven consecutive albums.

Their 2005 album is called the way up and you can catch a piece of it straight from the website.

In the record shops you 'll most likely find his albums in the jazz sections but the albums will not be like anything youve heard before. The snippets here is not by any means the totality of pats work - just a few of my favourites.

There are jazzier examples inluding some interesting collaborations with other artists.
go to the website to find out more.
Track snippets are:

1 557
2 to the end of the world
3 afternoon
4 and then I kne
5 here to stay
6 James
7 last train home
8 first circle
9 facing west
10 dont know why
11 Red sky
12 we live here13 slip away

Lets also not forget the albums:
letter from home....1989
we live here........1995
speaking of now......... 2001/02
offramp 1982
still life talking 1987
the first circle 1984
one quiet night 2003
secret story

Pat's also worked on movies, for example: A map of the world 1999 and The falcon & The snowman 1985 (David Bowie).
As mentioned on the podcast, if anyone knows about his contribution to another 1985 film called Fandango with Kevin Costner, it would be really nice to know. The latter track is believed to be called September 21st.

On to the features oldies / discussion:

Disco Nights by GQ
The glow of love by Change (featuring the late great Luther Vandross)
Disco Inferno by The Players Association
Space by Magicfly

We closed with M-Peoples 'Search for a Hero' as it is such an inspiring song.

Take care till next week and Thanks again for your wonderful correspon_d_a_n_c_e!

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home