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- South by Southwest Festival – New York Times
- Clem Snide | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
- Music: Aaroh ‘” raag neela
South by Southwest Festival – New York Times
New York Times – Mar 17, 2007
Lunsford said he had come to meet with business partners from Australia and Canada but independent labels have also been making business deals to market artists in countries where English is not predominant. Gogol Bordello a Gypsy music-inspired punk band from New York signed to the independent label Side ne Dummy and hammered out a deal to license its album for Japanese release after performing at the Austin club Emo’s two years ago for an audience that included foreign distributors said Thomas Dreux the label’s director of international sales and marketing. The band will tour Japan for the first time next month he said. Another band Bedouin Soundclash of Toronto found a publicist to promote its music in Britain after playing here in 2005. But meeting in person still invites the occasionally awkward moment owing to the cultural divide between the visitors and the Americans hoping to export their music. “Have I seen people bow badly?” asked Rob Kelso who represents Creativeman the Japanese promoter in the United States.
Clem Snide | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
MTV.com – Mar 17, 2007
getRhapRssFeed(1163812 “artist” getRhapTracksRSS); Full BiographyConjuring a sweet and lusciously melancholy sound that merges the tunefulness of vintage pop the late-night vibe of cool jazz the lonesome spirit of classic country and the delicate touch of folk Clem Snide are a trio who’ve gone through more than their share of changes since they first formed in 1991. Clem Snide were first assembled by singer guitarist and songwriter Eef Barzelay while he was attending college in Boston during the early ’90s; the first edition of the band was created to perform his earliest attempts as songwriting and the sound was dominated by noisy punk-jazz-inspired dissonance with abrasive guitar lines and bleating saxophone. (Significantly the band was named for a character in the challenging William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch. ) While this early lineup played out occasionally and released a pair of 7″ singles on a local label Barzelay became disenchanted with both the band and the city of Boston and the group split up in 1994. Two years later Barzelay had relocated back to the East Coast after dropping out of school (he grew up in New Jersey) and he was living with his parents when he got the itch to start writing songs again… Barzelay and Glasser soon began working up new material under the name Fruit Key; after adding Jeff Marshall on double bass Barzelay opted to resurrect the name Clem Snide and by the end of 1996 the group was playing small shows around New York. The following year the band began recording a demo and added drummer Brad Reitz to the lineup; the demo sessions eventually evolved into an album (with a variety of friends and contemporaries helping to fill out the group’s sound a practice that would continue on future recording projects) and Clem Snide’s debut You Were a Diamond was released in 1998. In 1999 Reitz left the band and new percussionist Eric Paul stepped in during the sessions for the group’s second album Your Favorite Music which was released during a short-lived tenure with Sire Records. The group’s relationship with Sire was through by the time the band finished its third album 2001′s The Ghost of Fashion but Clem Snide’s career enjoyed a boost when a song from the album “Moment in the Sun” was chosen as the theme for the hit television series Ed. Several tours across the globe followed throughout 2002; however Jeff Marshall grew tired of the road. He left the band but went on to participate in the recording sessions for the band’s fourth album The Soft Spot (2003) which also featured multi-instrumentalist Pete Fitzpatrick. Pete’s cousin Brendan Fitzpatrick stepped in to play bass shortly thereafter.
Music: Aaroh ‘” raag neela
Pakistan Dawn – Mar 17, 2007
com ———- –>Music: Aaroh raag neelaBy Shazeb Shaikh. Since then Aaroh is regarded as one of the most happening rock bands in Pakistan. Aaroh returns to the mainstream with their second album Raag Neela. The band’s current line up includes Farooq (vocals) Khalid (bass) Haider (lead guitar) and Jason (Drums). The album blasts off with ‘Pyar Ka Jaal’ more popularly known as ‘PKJ’ which ignites with an edgy baseline courtesy Khalid and then it’s Farooq all the way a track for betrayed broken hearts! ‘Janay Kyon’ a definite smash hit kicks off with blistering guitar waves and is probably the best thing that happened to the band after the break-up… ‘Meherban’ a composition by Haider is an enjoyable rocking treat inspired by the popular show Shaft in the ’70s. ‘Wo Jo Kehdey’ brings the album down to its mellowest point when one is tired of crash bang boom. ‘Yaara’ is the first release of the album an energetic vibe while ‘Tu Hi Tu’ is a pure rock ‘n’ roll punk in which Haider’s sky scrapping guitar chords overpowers everything. ‘Dyrah’ opens up with blistering guitar riffs a fusion of soulful lyrics and strong vocals and hardcore drumming. ‘Jeet Lo’ is an inspirational track conveying the message of love while the rollercoaster ride of Aaroh’s mesmerising music concludes with a cover of the Sufi Queen Abida Parveen’s track ‘Yaar di Gharoli’ performed in the signature Aaroh way. The quartet has regarded Raag Neela a live album and is definitely their best work to date. It is definitely a hard-to-let go album.