Thank You For F.u.m.l.

Donald Byrds “Thank You…For F.U.M.L.” CD is a vibrant tribute to the jazz-funk fusion genre that he helped pioneer. The album showcases Byrds masterful trumpet playing, blending seamlessly with groovy basslines and rhythmic guitar riffs. Each track is a journey through energetic and soulful landscapes, highlighting Byrds versatility and innovation. The production quality is superb, […]

American Rituals

On the outskirts of late 1970s Olympia, Washington, something stirs, sings, and breathes. Cheri Knight, a music composition student at the Evergreen State College, is developing her practice in a quaint but adequately equipped campus recording studio, amalgamating with the sonic timbre of the surrounding time, space, and place, while devoting to her own inner […]

Trios: Sacred Thread

Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than six decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains both at the height of his powers and as prolific as ever. Early on Lloyd saw how placing the […]

Trios: Chapel

Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than six decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as prolific as ever. Early on Lloyd saw how placing the improvised […]

Fearless Hyena Part 2

By the early 1980s, Jackie Chans popularity made him box-office gold. Thus when, midway through filming the sequel to his hit The Fearless Hyena, Chan walked off the production to defect to rival studio Golden Harvest, producer Lo Wei opted to complete the film with the help of stunt doubles and recycled footage. The result […]

John Wick: Chapter 1-4

Quadruple bill of action thrillers starring Keanu Reeves as a former hitman who must return to the criminal world he left behind in order to seek revenge. In John Wick (2014), after the eponymous hitman (Reeves) refuses to sell his car to Russian gang leader Iosef (Alfie Allen), the gang members break into his home […]

Commedia All Italiana: Three Films By Dino Risi

Comedy ruled the box office in Italy from the late 1950s to the 1970s where the commedia allitaliana also found critical success. Great talent behind and in front of the camera delivered a series of brilliant films that gave an incredible spin on familiar genres with comedic overtones that often held a dark and biting […]

Cage Of Gold

Cage of Gold is a 1950 British drama from Ealing Studios directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Jean Simmons, David Farrar, and James Donald. A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her “dead” husband comes back and tries to extort money from her.

Smother

Dervla Kirwan stars in this Irish miniseries set on the west coast of Clare. The morning after her 50th birthday celebration Val Ahern (Kirwan) discovers that her husband Denis (Stuart Graham) has been killed. As the tensions present in their marriage come under scrutiny and Vals three daughters reveal their own dark secrets Val does […]

Prelude

The vinyl is pressed as a marble, yellow & green disc. 1. Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) 2. Spirit of Summer 3. Carly & Carole 4. Baubles, Bangles and Beads 5. Prelude To the Afternoon of a Faun 6. September 13