J u l y / A u g u s t 2 0 0 8 Ae n-t Te r Rt a i An m Ie nNt WELCOME TO THE A-TRAIN NEWSLETTER! Summertime is officially here and everyone is looking to slip away on a sun filled adventure, so get ready for an international Top News party aboard the A-Train line! We are rolling into your station, •Will Bernard to release a bringing those exotic destinations to your doorstep with all the best new album gear to go with those new sandals and shades. Uncover the corners •Henry Kaiser writes score of Africa with sounds from Congotronics 3 and the Kasai Allstars, for new Werner Herzog discover the richness of India with the newest Explorer Series from film Canyon Records, dance a jig with the Celts compliments of Brian •New single release from Dunning’s Puck Fair, and bring it back home to the jazzy tunes of RnR album Roger Smith! •New releases from Roger And if music to your ears just isn’t enough to satisfy those balmy Smith, Puck Fair, Canyon nights, we have a treat for all your senses with the new film from Records and more Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser, “Encounters at the End of the •Tour dates from R. Carlos World,” premiering in theaters this summer. The possibilities are Nakai, Jeff Golub, The New Deal, Peter Phippen, endless when the world is brought to you by the hottest ticket in and more travel… A-Train Entertainment. - 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 J u l y / A u g u s t 2 0 0 8 NEWS & REVIEWS “RnR,” the duet recording of Rick Braun Henry Kaiser contributes “After pioneering the concept of Balkan and Richard Elliot. sights and sounds to new clubbing with his now-legendary Werner Herzog film Bucovina Club parties and albums, Shantel moves on to the next level and “Philippe Saisse wrote the charming and In his follow up to the acclaimed releases “Disko Partizani!” (his first solo tender Que Paso, and his sweet piano lines “Grizzly Man,” filmmaker Werner Herzog album in seven years), which lays the provide an irresistible harmony beneath journeys to Antarctica to document both foundations for an innovative new brand one of RnR’s more subtle yet hum-able the animal and human inhabitants of one of pop music. This is the sound of new hooks; this is mid-tempo romantic smooth of the most beautiful and remote places in Europe, centered in the middle of our old jazz at its best” the world. “Encounters At the End of the continent, but incorporating vibrant – Jazz Monthly World,” produced by Henry Kaiser, influences from the emerging new frontier which stretches all the way to features a score by Kaiser and David With tour dates throughout the summer, Lindley as well as Kaiser’s stunning Mitteleuropa, the south east, Greece, Turkey and beyond…” smooth jazz fans everywhere will be underwater photography. Look for it in –PBS 106.7 fm, Australia bopping along. theaters nationwide opening in late June. http://www.artizenmusic.com/ http://www.bucovina.de/ “Like many of Mr. Herzog’s movies, http://www.youtube.com/watch fiction and nonfiction, “Encounters at the End of the World” itself has the quality of Will Bernard to Release New a dream: it’s at once vivid and vague, easy Canyon Records continues to Album to grasp and somehow beyond reach. Its Hot on the heels of touring dates with most striking nonfiction moments come astonish Stanton Moore (whose second Telarc courtesy of the underwater video images Along with consistent digital sales album features Will extensively) comes shot in the Antarctic by his friend and growth, Canyon Records is continuing to Will’s own Palmetto release, “Blue Plate sometime composer, the guitarist Henry turn heads and garner attention. Rhapsody Kaiser, of divers swimming in the eerie Special,” due for release September 16. is currently running a feature on Grammy- blue under a shelf of crystal ice. (Mr. Arguably his best record to date, it features winning R. Carlos Nakai and his new Kaiser produced this new movie and, with guest appearances from Stanton Moore, release “Talisman.” Dixiefrog, one of those David Lindley, did its plaintive, effective Andy Hess, and John Medeski of Medeski, iconic blues labels that the French love so string-centric music.)” Martin and Wood. Between now and then much, is putting out a Native American - New York Times look for a new recording from the collection entitled “Indian Reservation Groundation family featuring Will and Blues” featuring tracks from Canyon Leroy “Horsemouth Wallace” as featured http://encountersfilm.com/ Records artists Aaron White and A. Paul guests. Ortega. Also, check out the sample of http://www.willbernard.com Return of the Balkan! Canyon’s “It’s Time to Roundance,” featured in a new release from Santogold, Not long after Shantel's new remix EP the Downtown Records artist who is of Disko Partizani scored a feature on the tearing up the charts with her debut iTunes' world page, the album "Disko Look for these artists at ATHFEST album. • Madeline Adams is working on a new Partizani" made it's debut in iTunes' album with producer Jason Robira "What's Hot" section. This Balkan delight http://www.canyonrecords.com/ • Bloodkin continues to tour with has over 600,000 plays on Last.fm and over Widespread Panic and their new album 3000 plays on MSN's ZUNE... and A Little RnR for the Summer “Baby They Told Us We Would Rise climbing. What's all the fuss? ARTizen is releasing a third single Again” is slated for release in early 2009 “Que Paso” from their highly successful 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 J u l y / A u g u s t 2 0 0 8 NEW RELEASES Kasai Allstars - In the 7th and decided that they wanted to work together on a project. A few moon, the chief turned into a years later, Bill floated the idea of doing an album of their collective favorite songs. The list they came up with covered many genres swimming fish and ate the head including jazz, rock, country, world and pop standards. From of his enemy by magic Coldplay's "Yellow" to Gershwin's "I've Got a Crush on You", Petra (7/25 Release) Haden and Bill Frisell offer the listener a beautiful eclectic mix of Using a spectacular mixture of music that flows together seamlessly. traditional acoustic instruments, electric guitars, distortion-laden thumb pianos and soulful vocals, "The duo date of vocalist/violinist Petra Haden and guitarist Bill Kasai Allstars is a collective revolving around 25 musicians all based Frisell is a delicate flower with deep roots. Quiet, intimate and in Kinshasa, DR Congo, but originating from five different ethnic softly floating, this album is an eclectic mix of mild-mannered groups, each with their own language and musical tradition. The pop tunes that matter." songs on In The 7th Moon… are directly drawn from festive and ritual music that was played in the bush before the arrival of the Europeans. - Dan Oulette, Billboard Combining various traditions, their respective styles, languages and instruments as well as the band's interaction with Western amplification and production techniques (through their collaboration Jeff Golub - Six String Santa with the producer of the album, Vincent Kenis) gives an exciting and (Release TBA) very creative angle to the project. Combing a rich love for blues, rock Kasaï Allstars' music is powerful and sophisticated, driving and pop with potent jazz chops, Jeff and raw. It blends acoustic instruments with electric guitars, distortion- Golub is perhaps best known for his laden thumb pianos (with DIY amplification) and soulful vocals. As years with Rod Stewart where he underlined by a reviewer for UK magazine The Word, "This is rock toured and recorded from 1988 to sucked back to the continent of its birth to be granted a glorious 1995 as well as co-composed a resurrection". number of songs with Rod. Jeff has become a fixture on the very successful Guitars & Saxes tours and his One of the wildest records of the year, as distorted and dirty, recent Narada Jazz release spent months on smooth jazz radio. beautiful and funky as James Brown or Fela Kuti Jeff and his band recorded their first Christmas record with -The Observer, UK special guest Warren Hill, soon available digitally for the first time. Effortlessly funky and mesmerizing…Reveals the depth of a David Darling and Eve music scene as vibrant and unique as any in the world Kodiak - Return of Desire: -Pitchfork, USA Improvisation (7/8 Release) Grammy award nominee David By Western measures, the bizarre timbres constitute an accidental Darling collaborates with Music and avant-garde; by any measure, they rock. Grade A Movement extraordinaire Eve -Entertainment Weekly, USA Kodiak. "Return of Desire: Improvisations" is a fine space music collaboration of piano and cello, - Petra Haden and Bill Frisell inspired and created to accompany Gina Odgen Ph.D's book of the Petra Haden and Bill Frisell same name.