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Martin Luther
The Calling
Orchard 2000

When you find something good and you know that few people know what do you feel great?. Martin Luther is the guitarist that came with The Roots during his tours and at the same time as a solo artist is. I liked so much when I saw him playing with the Philadelphia that I buy her CD, "The Calling" to leave the concert and I signed it. Did not have an accurate idea of how it would be, but I liked so much that I spend half return trip from Barcelona listening. The Roots Of course if you choose to live as a musician will be for something. Simply saying that the direct singing the part of Erykah Badu on "You Got Me" from the album "Things Fall Apart" and the hair I had as escarpias.
"The Calling" is a very surprising for several reasons, the main one is so little that is strident. Accustomed as we are strident guitars, electronic effects and catchy bases, Martin Luther is dedicated to creating beautiful melodies ranging from r & b to soul and rock with a touch of gospel that says a lot about the influences of this author.
There are not many authors with whom to compare. Luther is far more articulated that Lenny Kravitz, who most rocker Cody Chestnutt and namby-pamby much less than it is Ben Harper. "Black Eyed Susan" and "Soul Assassinator" are the best songs on a disc tremendously attractive and has no waste, the disc perfect for making love. Great debut.

John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
Impulse! 1965

In the fifties John Coltrane was a musician in his veintimuchos with a great talent and an even bigger problem, his fondness for heroin. His addiction led him to a gang to another, dismissal and redundancy in the age did not help. Almost thirty prominent and hardly ever had to do it would continue in its beak. The heroine was the scourge of the world of jazz, the real devil's music, and musicians of this genre were quite commonly victims of this addiction. One of them, the great Miles Davids, had successfully rehabilitated and given an opportunity to Coltrane to do the same. It was in the band Miles where Coltrane began to shine and be known to more and more recording sessions as a freelancer, becoming increasingly important in the world of jazz. Fruit of the relationship between Davids and take musician imperative as a sign calling attention to Impulse! and to record under his name.
Their entire discography his most famous album is undoubtedly "A Love Supreme", described by many as the best record ever, could hardly achieve this position, but surely that is the most inspired. Without words, A Love Supreme is a mini-opus jazz by John Coltrane devoted to God in gratitude for the spiritual enlightenment that saved his life. In fact barely managed to live two more years, until 1967, died when the 41-year-old surely the punishment to which he put drugs into your body. If ever a book made its author immortal this is one of those cases.
"A Love Supreme" are only 33 minutes of pleasure divided into 4 parts, "Acknowledgment," "Resolution", "Pursuance" and "Psalm" (the latter two in the same court). The titles refer to the steps taken by Coltrane in their approach to God and his departure from the drug. Topics very intense but nothing burdened with listening requires full-time. Emotions are the chest and grab you raise the soil. Coltrane brought to the recording which was his quartet, Elvin Jones on drums, McCoy Tyner on piano and Jimmy Garrison on bass. With these staff are laying the groundwork Coltrane was free to improvise as you like. The most intense moments on the disc are the final part of "Acknowledgment", the only vocal, in which the band finally accepts the fact that there is something bigger than them repeatedly to utter the phrase that gives its name to the disc, "A Love Supreme. " The tension that has managed to bring to a song is great and that the final relaxation listener ends up. The beginning of "Pursuance" is precious, Elvin Jones making one impressive that gradually joins the band.
The disc, heard properly, is simply beautiful and inspiring. One of the great works of jazz.

Probota
Probota
Southern Lord 2004

How many years been waiting for this blessed album?. Neither myself I know.
Dave Grohl was a chavalín mind that the most normal until the tender age of 13 years, his cousin, metida in the world Punky, a way to visit him during the summer. Since then the life of this young man gone wrong for ever, started listening to heavy music, hardcore, punk, rock of all types and became a freaky what is underground.
20 years later, become a drummer, vocalist and guitarist of renown and full of millions after its passage by Nirvana, the Foo Fighters and more recently by Queens of the Stone Age, he decided that he wanted to pursue his dream of playing with teenager vocalists of metal and hardcore groups rejoiced that their youth. As well as Dave should be rich majete got a positive response from the vast majority of the singers, so the final sing Cronos, Mike Dean, King Diamond, Dorri Lee, Lemmy, Snake, Wino, Eric Wagner, Brecht and Kurt Max Cavalera. Matt Sweeney and Kim Thayil (almost anything) playing the guitar and bass each in a song, but the rest of the disc is absolutely Dave Grohl.
In his own words Dave wanted to make a "Supernatural" (for the album of Santana), but in metal. The disc is the most interesting for several reasons, the first is the division of impressive voices, just to have the Dorri Lee, King Diamond, Lemmy, Max Cavalera, and Wino, by talking of those who know, is a lujazo. Another reason is able to assert that Grohl is out of range, parts of the battery in all the songs are wild and remote as Simple, in addition to fit the style of each of the vocalists. The last reason that I can think of is what it is amusing to observe the mixing of the metal style of these pop songs with the wisdom that Grohl has been demonstrating is the last two albums of the Foo Fighters, becoming a metal such as more digestible. That is not a disc of metal? True, but it's pure and hard rock with a touch of "stoner" quite marked.
From the album highlight the songs of Max Cavalera, Lemmy, Wino and the Snake "Dictatosaurus" extremely similar to the style of the Smashing Pumpkins (Matt Sweeney, ex-Zwan plays guitar on this). "Torture My Soul" with Eric Wagner has a sound as Stone Temple Pilots and allow only one thinking about where he has heard before that guitar riff. Of course King Diamond also shines.
But the moment arrives with the hidden track, "I am the Warlock", in which the singer is Jack Black !!!!, actor and member of Tenacious D, for which Grohl played guitar and drums in its debut disc.
I never liked the metal and as far I've come in this genre is the "Turbolover" Judas Priest, but Grohl gets done entertaining ride given by gender, especially keeping the intensity from beginning to end. Nothing new under the sun, but the concept is intelligent, well-produced and this serves to move closer to the underground metal heads of the 80 who did not let us see the dyed hair of the "hair bands".