Reviews Listed

Here is my list of reviews so far, here on JMA ... more to come as I can get to them,

In the near future: 

Egberto Gismonti - Sanfona

Return to Forever - The Mothership Returns

Dissidenten - The jungle Book

Dissidenten - Out of this World

Eberhard Weber

I won't be doing Keith Jarrett much as there are enough reviews there ... but there are more things in my collection that I will get to after I move and get things out of the box ... some more experimental stuff ... was hoping to get Between but stuff is not readily available, the same with Embryo ... where some albums are STILL not available for download ... horrible state of affairs that some folks don't give a damn about the music whatsoever ... and PM Hamel's site is not nice about his stuff with the group ... half of it is listed as his stuff.

Added today:

Egberto Gismonti - Solo

Charlie Haden, Egberto Gismonti and Jan Garbarek - Magico

Frank Zappa - 200 Motels

Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge

Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo

Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation

I'm going through my CD collection and adding those that this site has listed already, but lack reviews.

Was trying to go a few more reviews for folks listed on the JMA site, but ran into an interesting moment, that I have not been able to resolve a lot.

In general, in a lot of film reviews I tend to look at a lot of music, and I have reviewed it as well as the film. It was really hard to ignore Maurice Jarre, Vangelis, Ryuichi Sakamoto and several others ... and I always felt that their music for the films, also helped tell the story, and make the films really special ... and then I came across an example that has me ... uncertain how to review it.

Bo Hansson in his first album put together music that was inspired by The Lord Of The Rings, and he was not allowed by the family to use it directly, so the album ended up being released as "music inspired by TLOTR".

And a funny thing happened on the way to the review ... I could not, visualize much of the music in this album at all ... even with the title (translations on the American release) ... it was like the visual was not there. 

I'm not sure, yet, as to why that was, of if I can write a proper review of that album ... I thought that the music has "aged" a bit, and is not as lively as Bo Hansson was in his next album, for example, and I wonder how much of Bo's visualization from reading the book, was what he wrote the music for ... something that would be very personal, and difficult to expect anyone else to be able to "see" it like he did.

I'm working on that, and hopefully I can write this review, but several listens have not helped identify much to go by ... normally, I get a few words that seem to describe things to my imagination, but I can honestly say that this has not happened for me as yet ... and I will give it a couple more listens, before moving on to the next album.

Not sure why some things come alive for me, and some don't. Maybe, the music seemingly aged and not sound as good as it might have been otherwise, or perhaps it lacked a bit more "mood" to help us understand it and follow it, instead of so many small pieces, that feel like they do not exactly come together or fit well together to help define a story ... but maybe this is the one album that is not fit for me to review. 

I'll try, though!

Keep wanting to ask to have the Nick Mason album (Fictional Sports) added, since it is, apparently a Carla Bley album and features almost all of her band and Robert Wyatt. I'll wake up sometime!