the third by the former Impressions frontman. It touched on issues of the day, from drugs to Black empowerment to ghetto life, and was super funky without leaving behind the hallmarks of the soul genre that had brought Mayfield fame. The title track, in particular, is emblematic of its time...
Keep On Pushing was the Impressions’ first attempt at a proper album—their previous records were essentially singles collections. Every song is crafted just as beautifully as the title track, with Pate’s expert arrangements backing the trio’s earworm harmonies. Mayfield cements his soul icon st...
The sparse impressions on tracks like the out-of-step “Beating” and the unsettled “Crepuscular Rays” are the result of years of friendship and community melted down into what sounds like a close, honest embrace. –Eric Torres Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp |...
The gallery is so tiny I think I've walked into somebody's front room. A 10-minute film plays on a loop. Weirded-out rock stars who look like, or who are, preen, strut and do their late-1960s satanic thing. White dots form a pyramid on a black background, naked boys lounge on...
Take a look at Susan Darlington’s albumreview. 37. The Voidz Virtue (Columbia) Julian Casablancas’ best, maddest work this side of ‘First Impressions of Earth’. It kinda blew Edgar Smith’s mind at the time it came out – see thereview. ...
"When we opened Disneyland in Anaheim, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we...
Buy album from Presto Music 45 John Coltrane: Impressions (Impulse!) Coltrane (ss, ts), Eric Dolphy (bcl, as), McCoy Tyner (p), Reggie Workman, Art Davis, Jimmy Garrison (b) and Elvin Jones (d). Rec. 1961 and 1963 This was Coltrane’s second scoop into the Aladdin’s cave of ...
And here’s another 90s album with 3 songs that made the cut. 3 songs telling 3 different stories of the rundown & oppressed. I put Galveston Bay at #90, Youngstown at #79 & The Ghost Of Tom Joad at #40 These 3 albums released 1995-2005 each had 2 songs in my top 100. ...
My Initial Impressions Having spent years using Digital Performer, and then briefly trying a demo version of Cakewalk before it kept crashing my computer, I was a little put off by the Cubase 5 track controls. There are a million different little icons around the recording/editing screens and ...
As leader of the Impressions, Mayfield's low-key demeanor matched his lithe tenor and restrained, spacious guitar playing that influenced fellow chitlin' circuit veteran Jimi Hendrix' "Little Wing." He kept his empathetic light touch even when he transitioned to the realist street tales of the ...