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Elevated Entity-Ancients Speak

03.17.2009 by Mark Forman

Recently on Twitter I met Melvin Gibbs a journeyman bassman who has played for a variety of talented and edgy musicians ranging from Rollins and James White to Ronald Shannon Jackson and Defunkt. Melvin has been focusing more and more on his own musical vision lately which he channels via Elevated Entity. One of the thoughts I [...]

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Suncake Lounge Vol.1

02.25.2009 by Mark Forman

Pleasant surprise when I checked my Twitter and noticed message from @moshang who is Jean Marais/MoShang linking to this audio teaser from upcoming CD with guitarist Chris Bailey. These are all photos I shot with them for upcoming CD artwork. Complete photo set here.

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Culture in Living Stereo

02.18.2009 by Mark Forman

What is "Living Stereo"? Well the living in this case has 2 meanings:1) as in alive and happening in real time (or as close as it gets online) and; 2)Living Colour the rock band(or their staff manning Twitter). I saw a Tweet about a list of songs they were offering for crowd sourcedconsideration from their upcoming [...]

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Get your free music sampler here….

01.21.2009 by Mark Forman

Get your free !K7 Sampler here K7 records offering another free sampler. Some eclectic mix of tunes including: Hot ChipMy Piano (dub)"My Piano" appears on "Hot Chip DJ-Kicks" Carl CraigBrainfreeze (edit)"Brainfreeze" taken from Carl Craig's "Sessions" Quiet VillageCircus of Horror"Circus Of Horror" taken from the album "Silent Movie" The HerbaliserYou're not all that"You're Not [...]

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Free 4AD music

12.15.2008 by Mark Forman

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I recently guested on…

12.08.2008 by Mark Forman

I was recently a guest on a friend's podcast-Chinese Consumer Connection, hosted by Clyde Warden and James Stanworth 2 professors here in Taiwan. Here is a blurb from their shownotes: Many foreigners move to Taiwan or China and hit a phase of culture shock. For some, the environment is too alien and they choose to leave--especially [...]

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Moshang-Stone Bell

11.10.2008 by Mark Forman

Yes it's true folks-Taiwan's favorite Sound Jeweler(from Capetown, SA) has a new musical work: Stone Bell. So new in fact that the mp3 is still wet so I couldn't listen at blog time . Jean (Moshang's off-stage name) asked me to use my photo above for his cover art so I said, "Yes!" How cool [...]

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Confessions of a Knick fan

10.31.2008 by Mark Forman

Thanks to all-nba-all-basketball.com for graphic Full disclosure-I was a major basketball jock as a kid in Brooklyn and played quite avidly until college. One of my major sources of inspiration was the NY Knicks. My home team. The NY Nets didn't count (even though they had Dr. J.) because they were from Long Island, some foreign [...]

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Saying R.I.P. Levi Stubbs

10.18.2008 by Mark Forman

The Four Tops were a major part of that wonderful Motown sound that was part of the aural background of my childhood: Sugar Pie,Honey Bunch, Reach Out and I'll be There. Lead singer Levi Stubbs died today at 72. He had a wonderful baritone voice and brought many smiles to my face through the beautiful [...]

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Brad Sucks: Out of It

09.09.2008 by Mark Forman

In my online life Brad Sucks is one of the good guys. He is an indie musician from that friendly country to the north od the US-Canada. Brad has a wry sense of humor and good compositional chops. He's not afraid to get a little grungy or even pretty but manages never to be slick. [...]

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