Gipsy Kings – Ami Wa Wa

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HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY

The Gipsy Kings consist of two bands of brothers: the Reyes (Nicolas, Canut, Paul, Patchai, Andre) and the Baliardos (Tonino, Paco, Diego). The Reyes and Baliardo boys were the offspring of Spanish gypsy families that had fled into France to escape Spain’s Civil War. They grew up roaming the south of France, working harvests and making music.

Jose Reyes father of the GK Reyes sang alongside guitarist Manitas de Plata and did much to popularise flamenco internationally: John Steinbeck, Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso, Miles Davis and Salvador Dali were amongst the duos admirers Jose split from Manitas in the 1970s and formed Los Reyes with his teenage sons. His death devastated the Reyes yet lead to their fortuitous encounter with the Baliardos at the St. Marie de la Mer Gitan pilgrimage. On that warm night, as they passed the guitar, shared songs and wine, history was shaped.
Initially, the Reyes and Baliardos busked on the streets of Cannes, played weddings and parties, young men flavouring flamenco with Western pop and Latin rhythms. When an American admirer told the band their name Los Reyes meant “The Kings” in English they realised they were born to be Gipsy Kings. In 1987 The Gipsy Kings self-titled debut album introduced the world to rumba Gitano the sound of South America rumba rhythm married to flamenco guitars  and with Bamboleo the Gipsy Kings scored a huge international hit. Since then the Kings have never stopped singing to the world.
Today the Gipsy Kings still live with their families in the south of France. Life may have changed for them  they no longer busk on streets or pick crops when times are hard or travel in caravans  but still, at heart, they remain Gypsies, the proud descendants of an ancient people who seduced the world with music and dance. On Pasajero, the Gipsy Kings continue their epic musical journey.

Source: http://www.gipsykings.com/history.html

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The Living End – All Torn Down

Six albums. Each one, a milestone: The time we thought we were indestructible. The time we lit a fire under the establishment. The time we wondered if it was all worth it. No.6, if we put it under the scalpel, is the album that hunts down the truth, asks the big questions and demands answers. THE ENDING IS JUST THE BEGINNING REPEATING is The Living End’s most honest album yet.

Chris Cheney, Scott Owen and Andy Strachan have always forged their own path, irrespective of passing fads, haircuts, and any vogue for keytar-wielding debutantes. Their songs require of the listener a social conscience and mosh pit stamina, and give in return a visceral experience that’s flawlessly executed. It’s this attitude that’s earned the band four platinum and one gold albums.

Winding up the tour cycle that followed 2008’s WHITE NOISE, Cheney went to New York to buckle down and write, before the songs were jammed out organically in a South Melbourne rehearsal room. Finally the demos were taken to 301 Studios in Byron Bay and Chris’s studio Red Door Sounds in Collingwood for a reworking with producer Nick DiDia — who has put the Midas touch on records by The Living End-approved Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine — imported especially for the occasion from Atlanta. Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Powderfinger, AC/DC) took the reigns as mixer. The results are astonishing.

All three musicians share a craftsmanlike love of songwriting, on an eternal quest to find the ultimate hook, most danceable tempo, the chord progression to break your heart. “With this album we were searching for really spine-tingling bits,” says Cheney, who namechecks classic songwriters like Glen Campbell, Springsteen and the Bee Gees.

Read More:   http://www.thelivingend.com.au/legacy-and-history/

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Nouvelle Vague – Making plans for Nigel

New Wave, New Wave Bossa Nova: three words in their respective languages ​​mean exactly the same thing.Three passions that Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux endeavor since 2004, married together in the collective Nouvelle Vague, or, swaying elegance of Bossa Nova, writing melancholy of the New Wave and distanced view movies New Wave.

The group’s approach is as follows: transpose standard directory punk / new wave and (re) discover obscure titles more or less 80 years, offering an original rereading rooted in modernity.

The cover art is tricky … but 3 albums (“New Wave” – 2004, “Bande à Part” – 2006, “3” – 2009), reinterpretations of Nouvelle Vague toured the world.
700,000 albums sold hundreds of complete concerts around the globe, the respect of many original artists (Martin Gore, Terry Hall, Ian McCulloch … also on the album “3”).

The female performers contribute significantly to the success of Nouvelle Vague, the originality of Camille, the elegance of Mélanie Pain, the sensuality of Phoebe Killdeer, madness scenic Nadeah Miranda had flipped the international public. A chic aesthetic extended by Helena Noguerra or Mareva Galanter, who accompanied the band on stage today.

If the three previous games clung directory new wave and post punk Anglo-Saxon “Colors of Paris’ 4th album but the first group on the Barclay label, revisits this” New Wave “that swept the French late 70 and extended over most of the next decade.
This spontaneous generation – the Current magazine named “Young people modern”-extended the Anglo-Saxon heritage in France. More than current musical set (new wave, post punk, pop, cold wave, Novo …), this scene – which was the heyday of the Palace – is illustrated by a line of thought rejecting the values ​​and sixty-eighters aesthetics, which in taming synths and drum machines, overthrew the 80s.

Kas Product / Marc Seberg or Lio / Indochina? Black and white or colorful? Rage punk dandy aesthetic? Or underground hit singles?
many differences but a movement with complex ramifications and incestuous.

To celebrate the new wave “made in France” , it is no longer only the New Wave singers are invited. Each title is revisited by an artist of the contemporary French scene, which grew out of the ashes of this movement and assumes inheritance.

Source:  http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/ABOUT_texte.html

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Nouvelle Vague – This Is Not A Love Song

New Wave, New Wave Bossa Nova: three words in their respective languages ​​mean exactly the same thing.Three passions that Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux endeavor since 2004, married together in the collective Nouvelle Vague, or, swaying elegance of Bossa Nova, writing melancholy of the New Wave and distanced view movies New Wave.

The group’s approach is as follows: transpose standard directory punk / new wave and (re) discover obscure titles more or less 80 years, offering an original rereading rooted in modernity.

The cover art is tricky … but 3 albums (“New Wave” – 2004, “Bande à Part” – 2006, “3” – 2009), reinterpretations of Nouvelle Vague toured the world. 
700,000 albums sold hundreds of complete concerts around the globe, the respect of many original artists (Martin Gore, Terry Hall, Ian McCulloch … also on the album “3”).

The female performers contribute significantly to the success of Nouvelle Vague, the originality of Camille, the elegance of Mélanie Pain, the sensuality of Phoebe Killdeer, madness scenic Nadeah Miranda had flipped the international public. A chic aesthetic extended by Helena Noguerra or Mareva Galanter, who accompanied the band on stage today.

If the three previous games clung directory new wave and post punk Anglo-Saxon “Colors of Paris’ 4th album but the first group on the Barclay label, revisits this” New Wave “that swept the French late 70 and extended over most of the next decade. 
This spontaneous generation – the Current magazine named “Young people modern”-extended the Anglo-Saxon heritage in France. More than current musical set (new wave, post punk, pop, cold wave, Novo …), this scene – which was the heyday of the Palace – is illustrated by a line of thought rejecting the values ​​and sixty-eighters aesthetics, which in taming synths and drum machines, overthrew the 80s.

Kas Product / Marc Seberg or Lio / Indochina? Black and white or colorful? Rage punk dandy aesthetic? Or underground hit singles? 
many differences but a movement with complex ramifications and incestuous.

To celebrate the new wave “made in France” , it is no longer only the New Wave singers are invited. Each title is revisited by an artist of the contemporary French scene, which grew out of the ashes of this movement and assumes inheritance.

Source:  http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/ABOUT_texte.html

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Paramore – Decode

The combination of musical energy between brothers and Hayley’s bold charisma earned them instant attention, particularly from Florida indie Fueled by Ramen, who signed the band and put them to work recording their debut. Says Hayley, “Some of our favorite bands are on Fueled by Ramen. We knew that they would know exactly how to carry out the vision for our band and music.” Paramore went into the studio with producers James Wisner (Dashboard Confessional, Further Seems Forever, Underoath) and Mike Green (Yellowcard, The Black Maria) and blew them away with their sincerity and enthusiasm.

When Hayley Williams began writing lyrics for the songs that appear on Paramore’s self-titled new album, she found herself feeling more optimistic than ever before about the future of the band she has fronted since she was 15. “I had this kind of Tony-in-West-Side-Story-moment when he sings about how something is coming. He doesn’t know what it is, but it’s going to be great,” she says with a laugh. “A lot of the new songs came out of that. They’re about needing to find whatever’s next.”

Lead-off single “Now” — with lyrics like “if there’s a future, we want it now” — sets the urgent tone ofParamore, the Nashville, Tennessee-bred band’s fourth album. Given the choice of packing it in or reinventing themselves as a trio, Williams, guitarist Taylor York, and bassist Jeremy Davis chose the latter and made a positive, uplifting album that reflects who they are in the present. “I’m really proud of the fact that this is not an angry Paramore album,” Williams says. Adds Davis: “It’s a lot happier and brighter album than people might expect given what’s happened. We’ve wanted to write songs like this for so long, but weren’t there emotionally. Now we are.”

The band members holed up to write over the past year and a half and emerged with a collection of songs that retains Paramore’s youthful spirit, but clearly shows their evolution. It’s the most musically adventurous set they’ve released to date. Which isn’t to say the album won’t thrill longtime fans. Still present is a ferocious, churning energy (a hallmark of Paramore’s sound) on “Now,” “Fast In My Car,” “Proof,” “Anklebiters,” and “Be Alone.” But the album should also earn Paramore new listeners, thanks to the trio’s willingness to explore uncharted sonic territory, like the funky, high-stepping “Ain’t It Fun” (featuring soulful vocals from Williams, slap-bass from Davis, and the soaring sound of a gospel choir), the doo wop-inflected “(One of Those) Crazy Girls,” and the lilting, string-filled “Hate To See Your Heart Break.” “People obviously give Hayley credit for being an amazing singer, but I don’t think they really understand how versatile she is and how much her voice can do,” York says. “You really hear different sides of her on this album.”

Read More:  http://www.paramore.net/about

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Bernard Fanning – Songbird

Best known for his stint fronting the popular Australian rock band Powderfinger, singer/songwriter Bernard Fanning was born August 15, 1969, in Brisbane. He joined Powderfinger at the behest of St. Joseph’s College economics classmate Ian Haug, who co-founded the group in 1989.
Originally slated as a guitarist, Fanning was soon awarded lead vocalist duties, charting the group’s evolution from covers to original material. After a pair of independent EPs, Powderfinger (so named in honour of the classic Rust Never Sleeps track by Neil Young, a seminal influence) signed to Polydor in 1994 and issued their debut LP, Parables for Wooden Ears.

With the 1996 follow-up, Double Allergic, the band went double-platinum at home, subsequently notching a series of Australian chart-topping LPs including 1998’s Internationalist, 2000’s Odyssey Number Five, and 2003’s Vulture Street. Also in 2003, Fanning made his feature film debut in Ned Kelly, contributing a solo performance to the movie soundtrack. Despite success in the U.K. and Europe, Powderfinger remained virtual unknowns in the U.S. market, and in 2005 the band went on hiatus. In October of that year, Fanning issued his debut solo effort, Tea & Sympathy, scoring hits with the singles “Wish You Well” and “Songbird.”

Source: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bernard-fanning-mn0000147426

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Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care

The Traveling Wilburys were formed in 1988 and consisted of 5 members:

Bob Dylan -Lucky Wilbury (Boo Wilbury),
Jeff Lynne – Otis Wilbury (Clayton Wilbury),
Tom Petty – Charlie T. Jr.(Muddy Wilbury),
Roy Orbison- Lefty Wilbury,
And
George Harrison – Nelson Wilbury (Spike Wilbury)

They were the first of the ‘Super’ groups combining stars of the musical world, and genuine friends,who had each achieved fame with their own musical talents. The Traveling Wilburys began after George’s comeback album; ‘Cloud Nine’ was completed, George had to create a bonus track for the European twelve inch version of ‘When We Was Fab’. Since Jeff Lynne helped in the creation of George’s album, he postponed his other projects: work on Roy Orbison’s album ‘Mystery Girl’, and work on tracks for Tom Petty. The two Englishmen discussed this over lunch in L.A. That Roy was so well versed in the Monty Python genre of British comedy. George was delighted when Roy volunteered to sing with him on the extra track.

“And so I just thought I’ll just go into the studio tomorrow and do one, and it happened that Jeff was working with Roy and Roy wanted to come. My guitar was at Tom’s house for some reason and I had to go round and get it. And the only studio that we could find available was Bob’s. So we thought, Bobs got one, we’ll just call him up.”- George Harrison It wasn’t worth booking anywhere expensive so George telephoned Bob Dylan in Santa Monica whose garage was available for recording in the next day. Rolling up late the following morning, Roy shook hands with guitarist Tom Petty, whose group had backed Dylan on the tour that had terminated at Wembley. Petty had nothing better to do, so he tagged along. Read More:   http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Traveling-Wilburys-Biography/D332AE10D39D1B4648256991000777BF

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Traveling Wilburys – End Of The Line

The Traveling Wilburys were formed in 1988 and consisted of 5 members:

Bob Dylan -Lucky Wilbury (Boo Wilbury),
Jeff Lynne – Otis Wilbury (Clayton Wilbury),
Tom Petty – Charlie T. Jr.(Muddy Wilbury),
Roy Orbison- Lefty Wilbury,
And
George Harrison – Nelson Wilbury (Spike Wilbury)

They were the first of the ‘Super’ groups combining stars of the musical world, and genuine friends,who had each achieved fame with their own musical talents. The Traveling Wilburys began after George’s comeback album; ‘Cloud Nine’ was completed, George had to create a bonus track for the European twelve inch version of ‘When We Was Fab’. Since Jeff Lynne helped in the creation of George’s album, he postponed his other projects: work on Roy Orbison’s album ‘Mystery Girl’, and work on tracks for Tom Petty. The two Englishmen discussed this over lunch in L.A. That Roy was so well versed in the Monty Python genre of British comedy. George was delighted when Roy volunteered to sing with him on the extra track.

“And so I just thought I’ll just go into the studio tomorrow and do one, and it happened that Jeff was working with Roy and Roy wanted to come. My guitar was at Tom’s house for some reason and I had to go round and get it. And the only studio that we could find available was Bob’s. So we thought, Bobs got one, we’ll just call him up.”- George Harrison It wasn’t worth booking anywhere expensive so George telephoned Bob Dylan in Santa Monica whose garage was available for recording in the next day. Rolling up late the following morning, Roy shook hands with guitarist Tom Petty, whose group had backed Dylan on the tour that had terminated at Wembley. Petty had nothing better to do, so he tagged along. Read More:   http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Traveling-Wilburys-Biography/D332AE10D39D1B4648256991000777BF

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Jai Ho You Are My Destiny – A. R. Rahman and The Pussycat Dolls

“Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)” is a song by American girl group the Pussycat Dolls from their second album, Doll Domination 2.0. Written by Evan Bogart, Ester Dean, Ron Fair, Gulzar, E. Nuri, D. Quinones,  A.R. Rahman, Nicole Scherzinger and Tanvi Shah. It was released as the third single in Europe (fourth in Oceania, United Kingdom and North America). The song is the English-language interpretation of the song “Jai Ho”. These lyrics do not translate directly from the Hindi lyrics.

It was a considerable hit, reaching number one in Australia, Finland, Ireland, Lebanon and Turkey. It also reached the top three in Belgium, France, New Zealand and United Kingdom. In United States it peaked at number fifteen. The music video was shot in Vienna, Austria at a Tramway Museum, recreating the last scene from the movie Slumdog Millionaire . The English-language version of the song was sung by various voice actors of British children’s shows during the 2009 Children in Need Promotional dance video. It was also sung in The Official BBC Children in Need Medley.

In 2009 Ron Fair and Jimmy Iovine wanted to make “Jai Ho!” a pop record keeping the original melody.  After contacting A. R. Rahman, they asked Scherzinger, to re-write and make her own version of the song. On an interview in DesiHits, Nicole revealed that she didn’t want to cover “Jai Ho” saying that,  I was scared to death to touch it [and] afraid for people to hear it before I even wrote it.” She later explained on MTV that,

“It’s crazy how the whole thing came about, I’m a writer, and I’ve been fortunate enough to write for the Dolls, but when they asked me to look at the movie and do my own version, I was really afraid to take on the task of rewriting the lyrics, because I thought the movie was so profound, I didn’t know how to make sure I kept the integrity of the movie and the love story, but also make it cool enough for the Pussycat Dolls and for people all over the world to connect to.

Read More:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Ho!_(You_Are_My_Destiny)

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Green Day – 21 Guns

Green Day is an American rock trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tr? Cool (drums, percussion) for the majority of its existence.

Green Day was originally part of the punk rock scene at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. Its early releases for independent record label Lookout! Records earned them a grassroots fanbase, some of whom felt alienated when the band signed to a major label. Nevertheless, its major label debut Dookie (1994) became a breakout success and eventually sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. and 15 million worldwide. As a result, Green Day was widely credited, alongside fellow California punk bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in and popularizing punk rock in the United States. Green Day’s three follow-up albums, Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning did not achieve the massive success of Dookie, but they were still successful, reaching double platinum, double platinum, and gold status respectively. Green Day’s 2004 rock opera American Idiot reignited the band’s popularity with a younger generation, selling five million copies in the U.S. The band’s eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, was released on May 15, 2009.

Green Day has sold over 22 million records in the United States. They have won three Grammy Awards; Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot, and Record of the Year for “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”.

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