Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Various

  The Art of Field Recording Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2007

  This beautiful four-CD set documents 51 years of recording traditional American music by Art Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum’s passion and love for th...

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  Weather Report

  Live at Montreaux, 1976

  PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2007

  Weather Report’s translation of Miles Davis’s electric epiphany produced some of the best and most influential electric jazz ever recorded....

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  Nicolas Bernier & Simon Trottier

  Objet Abandonné En Mer

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2007

  The one regional "sound” that’s immediately recognisable in Canada is the one coming out of Québec. Not so much in its Anglo pop vocal cont...

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  The Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium

  Guelph ON September 5 to 9

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

  If you were a DJ and wanted to figure out what to put in your crate for spinning this year’s Guelph Jazz Festival, there would be a signifi...

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  The Flying Luttenbachers

  Destroy All Music: Revisited

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2007

  This release is a time capsule throwdown of a point in history in Chicago when the whole art brut head bashing of the no wave scene was rea...

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  Jean-Marc Hébert

  l'Autre

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2007

  Jean-Marc Hébert has pulled together a skilled ensemble and leads them through a consistent thematic journey, assembling a collection of re...

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  The Radio String Quartet

  Celebrating the Mahavishnu Orchestra

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2007

  The whole concept of "tribute” albums has always been a bit suspect, leading to questions of career, motives and the ability of artists to...

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  Frank Zappa

  Apostrophe(')/Over-Nite Sensation

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

  The trend of "immortalising” audio artefacts (read: "classic albums”) by putting out films and literature devoted to these works is at once...