M a y / J u n e 2 0 0 8 Ae n-t Te r Rt a i An m Ie nNt WELCOME TO THE A-TRAIN NEWSLETTER! The A-Train newsletter is back in a new bimonthly format. With it comes several new releases, positive reviews and Top News exciting live performances. Enjoy! •Will Bernard teams up with Stanton Moore We’re back with the second half of your Spring double whammy •Henry Kaiser writes score newsletter and we have one heck of a line-up! Since summer is just for new Werner Herzog film bubbling up, all sorts of new projects, tours, releases and more are drifting through the airwaves for your ear’s delight. •Jose Neto to tour with Steve Winwood band Enrich your musical tastes with Ziriguiboom’s sounds from •New releases from Bebel around the globe, take a load off with smooth jazz by helping fight Gilberto, Chris Standring, Shantel, and more AIDS with KKSF. Not bad for a lazy Spring afternoon, eh?!? With GRAMMY nominees, chart toppers, and award winning •Tour dates from Will Bernard, The New Deal, collaborations you can’t get more A-list than A-Train! Phunk Junkeez, Madeline, Alla, and Jose Neto - The A-Train Staff A - T r a i n E n t e r t a i n m e n t • P . O . B o x 2 9 2 4 2 • O a k l a n d , C A 9 4 6 0 4 • 5 1 0 . 8 9 3 . 4 7 0 5 M a y / J u n e 2 0 0 8 NEWS & REVIEWS A Paragraph For Love & Music For Vagabonds - The July 4th - San Diego July 11th - Boston, Washington DC, Paragraphs: The Many Sides Tuxedomoon Chronicles Denver, Minneapolis, Philadelphia A richly-documented, 450-page book of Chris Standring July 18th - Chicago, Seattle, Portland, St by Isabelle Corbisier. Isabelle is a For a guy who says he never Louis, Atlanta consciously tries to compose a radio hit, journalist, a lawyer and a Tuxedomoon Chris Standring has an impressive track specialist. She worked on this project for http://encountersfilm.com/ several years, collecting data and pictures, record on the airwaves. The popular Two New Videos, One guitarist scored one of 2000’s most spun conducting interviews with the Emerging Artist songs with the title track from Hip Sway Tuxedomoon members, as well as with and more recently hit in 2006 with the dozens of people who crossed the band's Fresh off the editing table comes two new videos from Yatra Media’s rock/folk Paul Brown-produced “I Can’t Help path. Music For Vagabonds is a mine of singer and composer, Samuel Markus. Myself.” As co-writer of the Rick Braun/ information and stories, spanning the Richard Elliot hit “RnR,” Standring band's entire 30-year career and their Expanding beyond the intriguing softness of his skillful and enticing vocals, the track delivered one of the biggest genre songs of journeys around the globe. A must-have “Rosa” off the upcoming album “The 2007 – the track stayed at No. 1 on Radio for all Tuxedomoon fans. Only Ones”, showcases this young & Records’ smooth jazz chart for 12 weeks http://www.amazon.com [next to his newest single at No. 5, the title ingénue’s love not only for music and Southern California love stories, but the track from the latest album Love & Henry Kaiser Has Encounters Paragraphs released this April]. dynamic art of film and performance as - Jazziz (April 2008) At The End Of The World well. Just when you think Samuel’s all too There is a hidden society at the end of comfortable in front of the camera, he http://www.chrisstandring.com the world. One thousand men and women takes a step behind the lens as director/ live together under unbelievably close cinematographer in collaboration with quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives artist Noble Pound, in their silent Will Bernard and Stanton and sanity in search of cutting-edge archetypal short film of the power and true Moore: Back At It Again science. Now, for the first time, an outsider meaning of Art and artist. Each video Will Bernard is prominently featured has been admitted. depicts candid representations of the two as both a guitarist and co-composer on In his first documentary since Grizzly different sides of this versatile musician. Stanton Moore's new sophomore release Man, Werner Herzog, accompanied only http://www.youtube.com on Telarc, coming April 22. Stanton by his cameraman, traveled to Antarctica, returns the favor and appears along with with rare access to the raw beauty and raw John Medeski on Will's forthcoming release humanity of the ultimate Down Under. José Neto Teams Up With on Palmetto, due in August. Stanton hits ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF Steve Winwood the road in support of the new release with THE WORLD explores this land of Fire, José Neto and Steve Winwood’s long Will in the band- first run of dates is New Ice and corrosive Solitude. Henry Kaiser lasting musical relationship brings us a Orleans in late April, the Rockies and West has teamed with Werner Herzog as wonderful new Steve Winwood CD, Nine Coast through May. producer of this amazing documentary, but Lives. José performs on and co-composed also wrote the original score along with http://www.willbernard.com six songs on the new album, released April David Lindley. 29, 2008 on the Sony label. José will also Screening Dates: be touring with the Steve Winwood band June 11th - NYC this year. June 27th - San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose, Los Angeles http://www.joseneto.com http://www.stevewinwood.com A - T r a i n E n t e r t a i n m e n t • P . O . B o x 2 9 2 4 2 • O a k l a n d , C A 9 4 6 0 4 • 5 1 0 . 8 9 3 . 4 7 0 5 M a y / J u n e 2 0 0 8 NEW RELEASES Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo Larry Ochs and Orkestrova - (previously through Six Degrees) “The Mirror World (for Stan With love from Brazil via the Brakhage): Realization 1: continent-spanning Ziriguiboom label Hand”, “The Mirror World (for (Crammed Discs) comes the Stan Brakhage): Realization 2: GRAMMY nominated debut album Wall” (5/1 Release) of Brazilian Bossa Nova heiress Within just a few minutes of a first Bebel Gilberto. Premiering to rave listening of Orkestrova’s “realization reviews, see what the press has to say 1: Hand,” one of two disc-long about the smooth grooves from down South…. Link renderings of Larry Ochs’ homage to avant film pioneer Stan Brakhage, “The Mirror World,” it is clear that all of the prerequisites “The new album, Tanto Tempo (which means "so long" in for these compositional approaches to reach their full potential are in Portuguese), is deliciously good, and the best example thus far of place. What is immediately obvious and perhaps determinative is the the new, deconstructed bossa associated with the impeccably hip ability to hear each of the 15 or 17 musicians (Bruce Ackley, playing Ziriguiboom imprint of Belgium's Crammed Discs label. Helping clarinet, and percussionist Moe Staiano are brought on midway to reinvent Bossa Nova by mixing elements of her father's music through the piece), regardless of how many musicians are playing at a with new, sample-based grooves calling on hip hop and house, given moment. Granted, credit is due to the concert engineering and “Bebel has created a dreamy, erotic, trance-music where acoustic post production; but, the clean definition of each instrument is also a guitars strum against a background of lazy percussion beats, measure of how well traffic controller Ochs, and conductors Steve overlaid with a somnambulistic trombone riff. Hearing it is like Adams (who plays bass flute), baritone saxophonist Jon Raskin and dying and going to Ipanema-heaven.” The Times (UK) percussionist Gino Robair mid-wifed the composition. Stuffed with what Rova does best – treacherous four-part ensembles; careening "The world music arena is not exactly lacking in divas…Even so, solos backed not by simple riffs, but challenging figures and it's good to know that new divas are arriving with considerable embellishments; and a palpable aversion to the easy, crowd-pleasing regularity. Bebel Gilberto, however, might more accurately be gambit, the music is far from quaint, it is nevertheless among the most described as a princess than a diva - the Princess of Bossa Nova. accessible recordings of Rova’s 30-year run. –Bill Shoemaker (Point [...] In her first full-length solo album, "Tanto Tempo"[...] of Departure). Link Gilberto makes a case for the continuing vitality of the bossa nova genre with several impressive new originals and the contemporary Various Artists - "Come To Me recasting of a few classics. Impressive lineage doesn't always Great Mystery: Native American mean much, but in Gilberto's case it has produced another Healing Songs (4/22 Release) potential star in the already bright firmament of Brazilian music. This stunning collection of all new – Los Angeles Times recordings is another unique conceptual project by Grammy “In her debut album, the wonderfully seductive "Tanto Tempo"… Award winning producer Tom Bebel Gilberto effortlessly bridges the gap between classic Wasinger. Similar to his ground Brazilian rhythms and contemporary pop/dance soundscapes. Of breaking World Music and Native course, savvy listeners wouldn't expect anything less: the American Lullaby collections, Tom works with a talented and daughter of musician/bossa pioneer João Gilberto and singer experienced cast of Native American singers including Thirza Defoe, Miúcha, the sweet-voiced Bebel has appeared on recordings by Doug Foote, Lorain Fox, Allen Mose, and Dorothy Tsatoke.