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Workout #113 (pdf)
One hill that will try to shake you off it’s back as it dares you to work at the high end of the RPE scale all the way to the top
RPE range:
level 3 (challenging/HR Range: 75 – 85%)
level 4 (hard/HR Range: 85 – 90%)
Consult with your doctor before beginning this or any exercise routine. The creators, producers, participants, and distributors of this program do not assume liability for injury or loss in connection with this exercise program.
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Posted by admin on Apr 25, 2009 in Featured Articles, Featured Track | Comments Off
Peter Gabriel, Billy Cobham, The Holmes Brothers, Wendy Melvoin, Arona N Diaye, Jah Wobble
“Burn You Up, Burn You Down” (mp3)
from “Big Blue Ball”
(Real World Records)
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Almost eighteen years in the making, Big Blue Ball grew from three extraordinary Recording Weeks at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in the summers of 1991, 1992 and 1995. Produced by Peter Gabriel, Karl Wallinger (of World Party, Waterboys) and Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, OMD), BBB is a unique collection of stellar artists and songs – including Gabriel, Wallinger, Sinead O Connor, Natacha Atlas, Iarla O Lionaird and James McNally (both of Afro Celt Sound System), Papa Wemba, Joseph Arthur, Hukwe Zawose, Hungary s Marta Sebestyen, Tim Finn, Justin Adams, Jah Wobble, Billy Cobham, gospel group the Holmes Brothers, flamenco guitarist Juan Canizares, Japanese percussionist Joji Hirota, and many more…in all totaling 75 artists from over 20 countries.
“It s like a wall of sound coming at you, listening to the planet from outer space, Karl Wallinger says of the final mix “It s a real world-view of music, a snapshot of the music-making continents at that time. It’s a more apt time to release it now than ever before. I think it’s actually gathered weight with time, because it’s people from all over the world playing together, just getting on together. There’s an iconic aspect about that which is probably more important now. Things have become more partisan. It’s a timely reminder of how you can co-operate.”
“After all these years, it’s a fine wine ready to be drunk,” says Peter Gabriel, “It was the most fun music making I’ve ever had. I’d love to do it again.”
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Posted by admin on Apr 18, 2009 in Featured Articles, Featured Track | Comments Off
School of Seven Bells
“Half Asleep” (mp3)
from “Alpinisms”
(Ghostly International)
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Like many bands before them, School of Seven Bells were born as the result of a late-night revelation. Benjamin Curtis connected with sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza in 2004 while their bands—Secret Machines and On-Air Library!, respectively—were on tour. While watching PBS at 3am, Alejandra caught a show about the School of Seven Bells: a mythical South American pickpocket academy that may or may not have existed in the ‘80s. The idea of seven minds working as one appealed to her, as did the phrase’s cryptic musicality, and a creative spark ignited.
By the end of 2006, Curtis and the Deheza sisters had completely disappeared into School of Seven Bells. From the outset, it was clear that the trio’s music transcended the usual genre restrictions. Early recordings popped up on Sonic Cathedral, Table of Elements, and Suicide Squeeze, then Blonde Redhead tapped School of Seven Bells for a tour. Remixes came from Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie and Prefuse 73, whose “Class of 73 Bells,” a re-imagining of SVIIB’s “Iamundernodisguise,” ended up on his 2007 album Preparations (Warp).
School of Seven Bells’ music is full of tensions—Curtis’ gentle guitars wrap around jagged beats; silky vocals hide behind grumpy, alien synthesizers—but the resulting songs are effortlessly cohesive, and insidiously catchy. Elements of dream-pop, Afrobeat, IDM, and 4AD’s gauzier moments provide a constantly shifting frame for the Dehezas’ lyrics, which they write as mysterious missives between the School’s imaginary seven members. On their Ghostly debut, Alpinisms, we get the impression that the three seasoned musicians have taken up full-time residence in a dizzying fantasy world; they move freely within the realm of pickpockets and dreamers, composing a soundtrack according to their own odd, beautiful logic.
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