Phish

   
Artist: Phish

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   Rock
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Undermind

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Round Room

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 12


   
 Live Phish 11 - 11.17.97 - CD3

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


   
 Live Phish 11 - 11.17.97 - CD2

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 6


   
 Live Phish 11 - 11.17.97 - CD1

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 5


   
 Farmhouse

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Story Of The Ghost

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 14


   
 Rift

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 15


   
 A Picture Of Nectar

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 16


   
 Lawn Boy

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 9


   
 Live In Tweeter Center (cd3)

   Year:    
Tracks: 2


   
 Live In Tweeter Center (cd2)

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Live In Tweeter Center (cd1)

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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During the early '90s, Phish emerged as successor to the Grateful Dead's throne. Although their music is somewhat like to the Dead's -- it's an eclectic, free morpheme rock-and-roll & hustle panoptic folk, malarky, country, bluegrass, and pop -- the grouping adheres more to jazz-derived improvisation than tribe tradition, and they bear a looser, goofier mental attitude. After all, their drummer regularly plays a vacuum cleaner during their concerts. Phish's primary call as the inheritors to the Dead's bequest is their approach to their musical life history. The band didn't concentrate on albums; they dedicated themselves to live improvisation. Within a few days of their 1988 debut, Phish had become an instauration in certain sections of America, particularly college campuses. And their in concert popularity didn't necessarily translate to vast record sales; their biggest-selling albums normally halted at gold status. Still, Phish were the de facto leadership of the neo-hippie block stria movement, until decision making to go on reprieve in 2000.


Guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, drummer Jon Fishman, and guitarist Jeff Holdsworth formed the band in late 1983 patch attention the University of Vermont. After meeting and jam in their dormitory, the trio posted flyers crossways campus, recruiting a bassist. Mike Gordon answered the ad and he was soon added to the original lineup. The group began practicing regularly and presently assembled a demo tape measure. In the fall of 1984, Phish began acting off-campus concerts. At this degree in their career, the stria was augmented by percussionist Marc Daubert and, occasionally, a singer called the Dude of Life. Soon, the group was acting concerts on nearby campuses, including Goddard College's Springfest in 1985. Page McConnell organized the Springfest at Goddard and he became a fan of the band. Later in the year, McConnell convinced the group to add him as a keyboardist. Shortly after McConnell coupled Phish, Holdsworth left the group. In the fall of 1986, Anastasio and Fishman transferred to Goddard College.


Early in 1988, Phish recorded Military junta, which they sold at their shows as a cassette-only handout. In 1989, the group played their first circuit outside of New England, travel through the Southeast. Phish also recorded their second album, Lawn Boy, in 1989, although the album wasn't released until the fall of 1990; the record was released on the independent label Absolute A-Go-Go, a subsidiary company of Rough Trade. Throughout early 1991, Phish toured America; during the summer, they recorded their tierce album, as well as a set of roger Huntington Sessions with their old booster, the Dude of Life.


Late in August, Rough Trade collapsed, pickings Absolute A-Go-Go with it. Phish was left without a record contract, but they were presently sign-language by Elektra, which released A Picture of Nectar in February of 1992. After the album's spill, the group embarked on an extensive national term of enlistment. In the summer of 1992, Phish played a handful of shows on the first H.O.R.D.E. tour. Also that summer, Elektra reissued Lawn Boy and Military junta. Break, the band's fourth album and the showtime they recorded with a manufacturer, appeared in February of 1993. During Phish's 1993 spell, the grouping sold tickets that were specifically designed for fans tape the concert, a major gesture of goodwill. Wind, the band's fifth album, was released in 1994; one of its songs, "Low with Disease," became the band's first-class honours degree video and standard some airplay on MTV. Hoist sold better than the group's previous albums, which was an indication of how big the group's fan basis had gotten. In the fall of 1994, Crimes of the Mind, the record album Phish recorded with the Dude of Life in 1991, was released on Elektra Records.


In the summertime of 1995, the band released the bivalent live album A Live One, which attempted to definitively capture the Phish concert experience. In early 1996, Trey Anastasio released a free form idle words incline project called Surrender to the Air. In the fall of 1996, Phish released their sixth album, Billystick Breathes, which was produced by Steve Lillywhite and garnered the group's topper reviews thus far. Slip, Stitch & Pass, their second live LP, followed in 1997, and the undermentioned year, the radical resurfaced with the studio effort Account of the Ghost. The six-disc Lionel Hampton Comes Alive, capturing 4 good live sets all over the course of two nights, appeared in late 1999 and went amber, a testament to their rabid following.


Phish's popularity only grew during the last half of the '90s, and their never-ending touring had helped make water them indisputably one of the top concert draws in the nation. In the spring of 2000, Phish delivered the pastoral studio effort Farmhouse, which was hailed as one of their finest and tightest to date; they likewise landed some mainstream photo thanks to the individual "Heavy Things." However, spent by touring and separation from their families, Phish decided to take up an extended break, announcing a irregular separation in October 2000. A month afterward, Elektra reissued The Siket Disc, which was antecedently available only through mail order; it featured improvisational tracks from the band's 1997 Tarradiddle of the Ghost roger Sessions.


Each member branched extinct into different direction with by and large successful results during this period of time. Anastasio released a serial of demos ahead draw up with Primus bassist Les Claypool and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland for their eccentric Oysterhead project. Despite all the touring he assign into these projects, he also released an eponymous solo album during the outpouring of 2002. Jonathan Fishman worked with his side throw Pork Tornado and the touring jazz jazz band Jazz Mandolin Project. Page McConnell released the first-class honours degree few recordings from his former band, Vida Blue, as well as contributed keyboards to Tenacious D's low gear record. Mike Gordon did some work with friend and other employer Col. Bruce Hampton and splashed in photographic film exploit both in presence of and behind the camera. And both Gordon and McConnell worked on Gov't Mule's The Deep End, Vol. 1.


As for the isthmus, Phish was more a piece of American acculturation than ever so when they made an appearance on The Simpsons before releasing a massive set of live albums and a DVD in the spring of 2002. By the end of the year, the group bowing to pressing and came back with the annunciation that they would begin to play live again starting at the end of December. They played shows through the following year and a half, then distinct to officially call it quits in the summer of 2004 after the button of Undermind and the following support duty tour. This didn't bastardly, however, that more albums couldn't be released, and the next year their 1995 New Year's Eve concert at Madison Square Gardens came out, followed in 2006 by Live in Brooklyn, which was recorded on June 17, 2004 on Coney Island.

Asmus Tietchens

   
Artist: Asmus Tietchens

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Beta-Menge

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 7


   
 A-Menge

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


   
 Dammerattacke

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 5


   
 Eisgang

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 3


   
 Sinkende Schwimmer

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 13


   
 Nachtstucke

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 13

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Synthesizer experimentalist and musique concrète producer Asmus Tietchens began recording in the mid-'60s and continued to book 3 decades after that. Born in 1947 and based in Hamburg, Tietchens listened to German radio as a child and heard pioneering electrical transmissions by the likes of Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig. He began recording his own home experiments in 1965 with rough reverb devices and picked up a MiniMoog several years later. Also influenced by unkeyed Kraut-rockers like Cluster and Faust, Tietchens met Okko Bekker and began a partnership that lasted for decades (Bekker has produced well-nigh of Tietchens' go). After Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann heard a tape of his act, he produced Tietchens' debut album Nachtstücke, released in 1980 on Sky Records. His tetrad albums for Sky during the early '80s focused on surprisingly accessible electronic pop, though 1984's Formen Letzter Hausmusik (recorded for Nurse with Wound's United Dairies label) began a time period of more than abstract, concrète recordings that often use taping experiments as well as synthesizers. During the '90s, Tietchens recorded for experimental labels Barooni, Staalplaat and Syrenia, the latter a 1996 collaboration with Vidna Obmana. Since 1990, he has likewise taught legal at a Hamburg university.

Miroslav Vitous

   
Artist: Miroslav Vitous

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Universal Syncopations

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Bireli Lagrene and Special Guests

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 Journey's End

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 6

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Best known as unrivaled of the foremost young bassists in the jazz-rock movement of the late '60s and early '70s, Miroslav Vitous is one of Europe's most versatile imports, equally at home in mainstream idioms and level down music. A sometime leader, his bass dances and skitters around an supporting players as a coequal phallus of the front strain, and he makes very creative use of the bow. He is influenced non simply by bassists like Scott LaFaro, Ron Carter and Gary Peacock, merely too by Czech folk music.


Vitous began his musical studies on the fiddle at eld six-spot, switch to piano from ages nine to fourteen earlier in conclusion settling upon the bass. While studying at the Prague Conservatory, he played with a trio that included his blood brother Alan on drums and Jan Hammer -- some other future jazz-rock mover and shaker -- on piano. After winning a scholarship to Berklee in 1966, he touched to New York the next year and wound up on the job with Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, and very briefly, Miles Davis.


Today i of the most highly touted prodigies in jazz, Vitous started playing in a recurring triad with Chick Corea and Roy Haynes on Corea's 1968 album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs. He then joined one of Herbie Mann's most democratic groups from 1968 until 1970, with time out for a turn with Stan Getz; Mann produced his number 1 album, a pioneering series of prolonged jazz-rock workouts called Infinite Search on the flutist's Embryo label. As a creation member of Weather Report, Vitous helped delineate the band's freewheeling initial level, leaving the group in late 1973 as its music began to evolve into more than structured forms. A incite to Los Angeles in 1974 lED to a yearlong session of woodshedding in private with a new custom-made instrument, a double-necked guitar and bass. However, that experimentation did not pan out, and he returned to the bass, ahead sessions for Warner Bros., Arista, and from 1979, a sporadic series of dates for ECM as a leader and in reunions of Corea's bop-to-free Trio Music chemical group.


In the meanwhile, Vitous became immersed in academe, joining the module of the New England Conservatory in 1979 and becoming head of the jazz department in 1983. Although his profile isn't most as highschool as it was at the peak of the jazz-rock geological era, he continued to play at jazz festivals and record into the 1990s.

Yves Saint Laurent Dies Aged 71

Designer to the stars Yves Saint Laurent has died ages 71.

The French fashion maestro passed away yesterday following a long illness, according to the Pierre-Berg-Saint Laurent Foundation.

He had retired from haute couture in 2002, after four decades at the top of his trade.

Saint Laurent launched his fashion career after taking over the Christian Dior fashion house following the death of its founder in 1957. But he was soon conscripted to serve in the French army during the Algerian War of Independence where he suffered a mental breakdown .He was institutionalised in a French mental hospital at the age of 22.

Upon his release from hospital, he founded his own company.

Saint Laurent went on to dominate the 1960s fashion market and was the first designer to use black models the catwalk.

In 1983, he became the first living fashion designer to be honoured by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in 2001 he was awarded the rank of Commander of the Legion d'Honneur by former French president Jacques Chirac.

In his latter years, Saint Laurent - who came out as gay in 1991 - became a recluse and spent much of his time at his house in Marrakech, Morocco.