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By combining great music talent with a new media, out of the box approach to marketing, Paved Earth Music is forming a unique model of what a music company can be. Our goal is to give fans unique access to our artists and make them feel part of the process.
Our upcoming release is 'Token Tales' by Mark Rapp. "...Rapp's five years in New Orleans instilled a love for the Crescent City tradition that colors his playing, though he is not afraid to use electronic effects... His quartet is trying to find the fertile middle-ground 'between adult contemporary accessibility and modern jazz idealism.'"
-David French Look for this title in stores soon! |
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Mark Weinstein featured on Jazzcorner.com |
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 Mark Weinstein
O NOSSO AMOR
Jazzheads Records
Mark Weinstein - soprano, alto and bass flutes
Romero Lubambo - guitar
Nilson Matta - bass
Paulo Braga - drums
Guilherme Franco - percussion
Jorge Silva - percussion
This is what the critics are saying about Mark's O NOSSO AMOR:
"With O Nosso Amor, flautist Mark Weinstein has put together one of the year's top Latin jazz releases. The recording, which is of superior quality and performance, resonates Weinstein's texture on every track..."
"This is Jobim and Bonfa of old, but with a modern contemporary twist. The group's striking use of imagery in their renditions points to their unusual artistic sensibility and viewpoint about their chosen craft..."
O NOSSO AMOR is available now through Synergy Distribution, contact us more more details on ordering. |
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ReR USA reissues THIS HEAT Box Set! |
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 This Heat, the band emerged in early 1976 on the leading edge of what became the New Wave, but they were always apart, more scary and more subtle. Known as the most left-field, and at the same time most hard-edged, band in the country, their concerts attracted Experimental, Punk and New Wave audiences alike. Just a handful of performances made them the band everyone had to see, and every journalist had to interview. And the more we knew, the more enigmatic they became. This Heat was a passion. The band worked day-in, day-out for years in their own, now legendary, studio in Brixton (Cold Storage - sited in an old industrial meat refrigerator), or they were away somewhere touring abroad. In this hothouse environment, their material evolved and grew, and became increasingly intense; on the one hand more cuttingly simple, on the other more layered and more dense. When their first LP - itself several years in the making - finally appeared on David Cunningham’s Piano label in 1979, with its distinctive blue and yellow sleeve, it acquired immediate iconic status. And over time it has also proved itself prescient; there are musical innovations here that anticipate genres that would take another 15 years to reappear.
This Heat, the record was a landmark release. It tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. The music was without precedent; the musicians uncompromising; the recordings hammeringly intense and the sound deep, radical, and rich. This was music stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn’t aged.
 The later CD version of the LP has now been out of print for some fourteen years (and is currently fetching £150-200 second-hand), so this edition, the first on the new this is label, re-mastered and repackaged by the group, will be doubly welcome. It is the first of a series of historical This Heat re-editions and unpublished works by the band to be released on this dedicated label.
Contact Synergy Distribution for more info on how to order this long awaited release! |
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Downbeat Magazine gives Phil Woods DVD 4 Stars. |
 Phil Woods' latest DVD release entitled "A Life In E-Flat" has received a 4 star review from Downbeat Magazine. This is what they had to say about the release, which is available now from Synergy Distribution.
"As part of a growing area that seems certain to become a popular vehicle for telling the stories of individual musicians, this DVD is a standard-setter in terms of presentation. Slightly more than an hour long, the documentary section of the DVD is the main event. Well-photographed, it brings viewers into a studio session for This Is How I Feel About Quincy, a celebration of the music of Quincy Jones". -Ira Gitler
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Liquilab Records first release with Synergy. |
Liquilab Records has recently joined Synergy Distribution. Their first release made available from us is an exciting new album from the band "Baleen". The following few paragraphs describe the release in more detail. Contact Synergy today for more information about this release.
On Follow Me Blind, Baleen re-establishes itself as the last original act in the East. With their collective creative outlook on full display, baleen runs the gambit between R&B, Soul, Jazz, Funk, and Rock, taking us on a haunting journey fueled by swaggered rhythms, provocative lyrics, eerie synth textures and pulsing guitars. This type of music should be listened to with headphones, late at night, while running through a deserted city.
From the industrial and soulful opening song "Solidify," to the beautiful harmonies of the last track "Nothing," Follow Me Blind reads like an exercise on how to keep things freshtastic. baleen keeps a head-nodding pace by using the bass as the driver, while allowing the guitars, keys, found sounds and sax to construct the deep soundscape. What really sets baleen apart is the three-headed attack on the vocal duties.
Each singer has a distinct style and range, but it is the combination of these voices in harmony that cement Baleen’s signature sound. The cover song on the album, "Vitamin C," is a revved-up take on Can’s 1972 classic and fits well into baleen’s original tunes. While baleen demands attention on the harder hitting songs, they also get it right on the quieter tracks. The delicate "Take a Number" is a perfect ballad with an infectious melody. baleen shows its crazy side on "Back in 15 min." showcasing a freak-out sax solo on top of a jam of found sounds and samples. Although hard to compare to other groups, I would say that Baleen falls between acts like Pinback and the Coral, but reaches beyond the boundaries set by the predictable contemporary rock scene.
Whereas most bands compromise their vision for accessibility, baleen isn’t afraid to shock the listener. The band makes its own rules, only to break them with every song. It is this idealology and practice that makes Follow Me Blind such a compelling work of art.
Baleen is on tour right now! Click below for the dates.
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Hip Hop Hoodios Media/Marketing update |
HIP HOP HOODÍOS:
MEDIA & MARKETING UPDATE (7/19/05)
TELEVISION
-Fuse TV (#2 national music video network ˆ MTV‚s rival) will finally air the ŒHoodios in Paris‚ segment nationally on July 26th on their Latin show „Marcha‰.
-New video „Kike on the Mic‰ nearly completed and will be serviced to MTV-Espanol, Telemundo/Mun2, SiTV, LATV and mtvU in the first week of August. Clip is directed by Alex Cortez (PBS ŒAmerican Family‚).
-Previous video „Gorrito Cosmico‰ remains in light rotation on MTV-Espanol, and airs twice/day.
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Barbara Carroll's "Live at Birdland" Reviews |
 Barbara Carroll: "Live at Birdland" (Harbinger)
by David Hajdu (column excerpt)
New Republic, June 28, 2005
A pianist who plays bebop with rare delicacy and grace, Barbara Carroll
is commonly regarded as a lounge singer, a misjudgment roughly
equivalent to thinking of Dizzy Gillespie as a comedian. Of course,
Carroll does even more singing than Dizzy did clowning -- that's the
way she buys the time to indulge her rarefied approach to the piano. A
tribute to her at this year's JVC Jazz Festival in New York (featuring
the pianists Marian McPartland and Bill Charlap, the under-appreciated
singer-pianist Daryl Sherman, and others) reminded me that Barbara
Carroll is one of our living treasures, and I put on her most recent
CD, recorded live at Birdland in Greenwich Village. Highlights: a
chamber-jazz medley of Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim's "Do I
Hear a Waltz" with Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz," and a reinvention
of Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard's "Mood Indigo."
Also, view a recent feature by NPR here.
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 Often confused for Puerto Rican, Guitarist and Tres Virtuoso
Benjamin Lapidus is in fact from a second generation Jewish European
family, but he grew up in what he says is the largest Caribbean City in
the world - the island of Manhattan. There he was exposed to the full
spectrum of the African Diaspora including the USA’s diasporic music
Jazz. In the fourth release from his group Sonido Isleño, the sound of
the Island references New York City and the Islands of Cuba, Puerto
Rico, Haiti, Jamaica and The Dominican Republic.
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