Month: December 2017
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Pianist, horn player, composer, and all-around musical disruptor DJANGO BATES brings back his Belovèd Trio with “The Study of Touch,” his ECM debut as a bandleader.
As the album notes for The Study of Touch indicate, Bates had little interest in adding another piano trio to the jazz world but while teaching at the Copenhagen Rhythmic Music Academy in 2005 he came into contact with bassist Petter Eldh and drummer Peter Bruun and the Belovèd Trio was born. Their two previous…
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Our main in-store sound guru, Mr. STEVE MCGOWAN, lists his top five fave releases of 2017 (with a bonus pick) and breaks down the best live shows, too!
If you’ve ever been to an in-store show at Horizon Records, the odds are the man behind the board conjuring up that sweet live sound mix is our buddy, 70’s-style garage rocker and renowned local recording engineer Steve McGowan. In addition to making everything from solo acoustic shows to full-band blasts sound great, McGowan is…
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NEW RELEASES, 12/15: DALE WATSON, NEW ORDER, EMINEM, N.E.R.D., BOOSIE BADAZZ, the STRANGER THINGS, VOL. 2 soundtrack, JEEZY & more!
The fifth NERD album charged into view with a ferocious lead-off single, Lemon, its relentless, speedy beat playing host to both a guest appearance from Rihanna and a sample from a YouTube video of rapper Retch shouting out to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X while smoking a joint amid a crowd of baffled-looking white…
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SCOTT MCCAUGHEY gathers an all-star cast for the first-ever MINUS 5 Christmas album, Dear December, out now on Yep Roc Records!
“I wanted to evoke the classic Christmas album feeling without leaning too heavily on sweet baby Jesus and good ol’ Little St. Nick,” says McCaughey. “Yet I also wanted to curb my cynical tendencies as well. I feel we succeeded on both counts, and the results are a holiday record that should work for any…
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SWAG SATURDAY returned to Horizon, and Greenville helped us pay it FORWARD for food and warmth with donations for the TRIUNE MERCY CENTER while we gave away an assortment of vinyl, sampler CD’s, posters & more!
Horizon Records partnered with our pals at iongreenville and once again asked Greenville to join us and pay it FORWARD for Food and Warmth on Small Business Saturday! All day Saturday, Horizon Records celebrated Small Business Saturday and Greenville responded big time, bringing Food (non-perishables only), Warmth (need blankets, caps, gloves, socks) and of course…
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NEW RELEASES, 12/8: SUFJAN STEVENS, SHOVELS & ROPE, BELLE & SEBASTIAN, JIM JAMES, CHRIS THILE, a reissue of THOM YORKE’s debut solo album on vinyl and more!
A timeless yet specific reflection on empathy and loss, Sufjan Stevens’ 2015 album Carrie & Lowell stripped away many of the singer’s flourishes to reveal something barren and reverent, compassionate and utterly human. Writing in the wake of his mother’s death, Stevens used Carrie & Lowell to grapple with their fraught and often absent relationship,…
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NEW RELEASES, 12/1: CHRIS STAPLETON, U2, VAN MORRISON, THE ROLLING STONES, NEIL YOUNG & PROMISE OF THE REAL, MINUS 5, and some killer reissues from TOM WAITS, WILCO and RUSH!
Few would have predicted Chris Stapleton’s dominance earlier this decade, but he’s commanded the spotlight for long enough now — through show-stealing televised performances, major awards show wins and enviable album sales —to bring what it is about him that people are responding to into focus. The 39-year-old Kentucky native relies on Dave Cobb, Nashville’s…