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Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is an influential Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They are renowned as a major influence in popular music, and for pioneering the electropop music genre. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).
The band was originally conceived as a one-off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio...
Electric Light Orchestra were a symphonic rock band which formed in Birmingham, England in 1970. The band was formed by Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar, multiple instruments), Roy Wood (multiple instruments, vocals), Richard Tandy (keyboards, vocals) and Bev Bevan (drums). Lynne, Wood and Bevan were former members of the psychedelic rock band The Move. The band's lineup would fluctuate throughout its original incarnation, although Lynne, Tandy and Bevan would remain constant members.
They incorporated the sounds of string ensembles, vocoders and dub echos into rock songs, thereby creating a very sophisticated studio version of rock. The musical content of ELO songs...
Fragmentorchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. The result is a beautiful and up-tempo album of moods and grooves for some autumnal bliss. For Luca and Giulio, Jazz also means improvisation, which Luca Pernici explains. "A musician, in the moment at which improvisation occurs, is irrationally set free from any approach, creating a philosophy of composition without any given time or place". The goal is just this, to preserve an improvised approach through breaking down beats and notes but still achieving the variety of an orchestra or better yet, a Fragment Orchestra...
Luca Pernici...
Brian Setzer (born April 10, 1959 in New York) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose popular big band orchestra is most appreciated commercially for their swinging take on Christmas holiday classics.
Early in his career Setzer was a member of the NYC band Bloodless Pharaohs, and later fronted the popular rockabilly revival band, Stray Cats. The Stray Cats particularly caught America's attention with the 1982 album Built for Speed, which included the two Top Ten hits, "Rock This Town" (#9) and "Stray Cat Strut" (#3), as well as with the follow-up 1983 album Rant 'N Rave, which included...
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Something
Too Much Heaven
O Barquinho
And I Love Her
Help
For no One
The Fool On The Hill
Wave
Yesterday
Something Stupid
She's Leaving Home
Love Is Here to Stay
Garota De Ipanema
Ternura Antiga
Historia De Un Amor
Let It Be
Hey Jude
Here Comes The Sun
A Day In The Life
The Long And Winding Road
Don’t Let Me Down
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Wishin' and Hopin'
Água De Beber
A Banda
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Baby
Something (Plays The Beatles In Bossa Nova, 1990)
A Banda
Luiza
Yesterday (Plays The Beatles In Bossa Nova, 1990)
Wave
Amigo
Quero Que Vá Tudo Pro Inferno
Olha
Detalhes
Samba De Orly
Gabriela
Desafinado
Somos Novios
Angustia
Café da Manha
Wave
Let it be (Plays The Beatles In Bossa Nova, 1990)
Solitary Bailarine
Help!
Bebel
Something (G. Harrison)
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