TomKat to throw housewarming bash

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Carlos Alomar

   
Artist: Carlos Alomar

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Dream Generator

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 10

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Guitarist Carlos Alomar has played on more than David Bowie albums than whatever other sixer stringer has (including Mick Ronson, world Health Organization was peradventure the most identifiable with Bowie). In 1974, Alomar crossed paths with Bowie, world Health Organization was interested in authorship an record album that explored dance/funk sounds of Philadelphia soul. The two attain it sour, which would signal the origin of a long and fruitful relationship between the isaac M. Singer and guitar player. 1975's classical Young Americans soon followed, as Alomar too helped co-write one of Bowie's biggest hits, "Celebrity," on with Bowie and John Lennon. It was besides around this meter that Alomar supposedly 'discovered' person isaac Bashevis Singer Luther Vandross, having him blab on Bowie's album, which at long last lED to a successful solo career of his have. Alomar apace figured out that Bowie wasn't typeset on a single musical expressive style for whatever period of time, as Alomar unbroken pace on such experimental and musically varied Bowie albums as 1976's Station to Station, 1977's Low and Heroes, 1979's Lodger, and 1980's Scary Monsters. The guitarist and Bowie as well helped revive the life history of hood icon Iggy Pop during this time period, serving bring forth and co-write two of Pop's finest solo albums, 1977's The Idiot and 1978's Lust For Life.


Alomar continued to play/tour with Bowie off and on throughout the '80s, including being named "musical theater director" of Bowie's portentous Glass Spider Tour in 1987. An surfeit of session work out likewise came Alomar's fashion, as he played with a change of early artists during this geological period - Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Chuck Berry, Bette Midler, Arcadia, Digable Planets, James Brown, The Bee Gees, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Carly Simon, Duran Duran, and Prefab Sprout, among innumerous others. As a upshot, the guitarist/songwriter has played on a total of 32 Gold and Platinum records all over the days. Alomar as well issued a solo album in 1988, Dream Generator, which focused more on synth/guitar textures rather than screening cancelled his chops. Soundtrack work for movies and TV followed, including such movement pictures as Pretty Woman, Pretty In Pink, Usual Suspects, and Christina F, asset jingles for idiot box commercials. Alomar as well reunited with his old sidekick Bowie for such latter day releases as 1995's Outside and 2002's Heathen. The early twenty-first hundred saw Alomar assist as Director of A & R for the "Boombacker" Music label, and putt together another solo expiration, to be highborn Hyly Volatyl.





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Gigs around town

THE ARCHITECTS
Kansas City, Mo.’s punk-ish Phillips brothers get behind their new release, “Vice.” Sunday at T.T. the Bear’s Place, Cambridge, 866-468-7619.
WALTER BEASLEY



Part-time Berklee educator and full-time saxophone talent, Beasley continues promoting “Ready for Love,” which hit No. 2 last year on Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz chart. Tonight and tomorrow at Scullers Jazz Club, 617-562-4111.
ROBERTO CARLOS
One of Brazil’s most popular vocal exports and a legendary figure in his homeland, Carlos refuses to slow down. At age 67, he still tours the world and a new CD is in the works for release later this year. Tomorrow at Agganis Arena, 617-931-2000.
CUTTING EDGE OF THE CAMPFIRE
Throughout the holiday weekend, Harvard Square’s legendary Club Passim showcases nearly 100 mixed solo sets and in-the-round performances by folk newbies (and some not-so-newbies). Tonight through Monday at Club Passim, Cambridge, 617-492-7679.
EARTHFEST
Tomorrow’s forecast calls for partial sun and tempertures in the high 60s: perfect weather for Radio 92.9-FM’s Earth Day celebration. Sacramento, Calif.’s Cake headlines with its patented horn-and-vibraslap sound, off-kilter humor and oddball cover choices. The BoDeans, the English Beat and Cracker also perform, as will five unsigned bands appearing on a second stage. Tomorrow from noon to 6 p.m. at the Hatch Shell. Free. Go to earthfest.com.
FIREWATER
Former Cop Shoot Cop frontman and Firewater focal point Tod Ashley chronicles his recent journeys through Thailand, India, Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia on “The Golden Hour,” a new CD. Tonight at the Paradise, 617-562-8800.
CONRAD HERWIG
Trombonist Herwig has carved his own musical niche doing Latin-tinted interpretations of jazz composers. His latest subject? Wayne Shorter. Tomorrow at the Regattabar, Cambridge, 617-661-5096.
LOOP 2.4.3
This Brooklyn-by-way-of-Connecticut duo concocts a daring mixture of uncommon percussion instruments and classical structures. Sunday at the Lily Pad, Cambridge, go to lily-pad.net.

Peter Schilling

   
Artist: Peter Schilling

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Pop
   Vocal
   

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Discography:


   
 Emotionen Sind Maennli

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Tauch' Mit Mir in Eine Neue Zeit

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 14


   
 Zeitsprung

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Retrospektive

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Raumnot 6 vs 6

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Fehler Im System

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 9


   
 The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime)

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


   
 Von Anfang an Bis Jetzt

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Geheime Macht

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 120 Grad

   Year:    
Tracks: 9

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While legion new wave artists in the early '80s well-tried to imitate David Bowie, Peter Schilling went a whole tone further. In 1983, Schilling released "Major Tom (Coming Home)," a synth pop retelling of Bowie's 1969 classic "Space Oddity." It became Schilling's number 1 and but entry in the U.S. charts, a song that finally stigmatized him as a one-hit wonder in America. Schilling was innate in Stuttgart, Germany, on January 28, 1956. As a stripling, Schilling couldn't settle on whether to be a soccer actor or a singer. He chose music and his debut album, Mistake in the System, appeared in 1983. The individual "Major Tom (Approach Home)" wasn't just popular in the U.S., it was a universal smash. The video was played oftentimes on MTV, as well, just Schilling was not able to be its success. In 1989, Schilling collaborated with Enigma's Michael Crétu on the track "Different Story (Universe of Lust and Crime)," an admirable attack at updating his sound and trying to deliver to the American charts. "Major Tom" was given a techno sheen in 1994, and the reworked strain was welcomed in the clubs. A year subsequently, Schilling formed the Space Pilots with Catyana Schilling, J. Feifel, and P. Magnet, recording Trip to Orion.

Praxis

   
Artist: Praxis

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Metatron

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 14

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Praxis is one of manufacturer Bill Laswell's many projects, featuring guitarist Buckethead, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, AF Next Man Flip (turntable) and Brain (drums) Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) appeared on Axiom Records in 1993, followed a yr afterwards by Sacrifist. Warsawa, featuring contributions from members of the turntable crew Invisibl Skratch Piklz, was released in 1999.

EastEnders star attacked leaving nightclub

'EastEnders' star Lacey Turner returned to filming in London today after getting caught up in a fight when she left a nightclub.
The 19-year-old actress, who plays love cheat Stacey Branning in the hit BBC1 soap, was on her way home from a night out with co-star Aaron Sidwell (Steven Beale), also 19, when she was hit.
Turner did not report the incident, which took place at 2am at a supermarket car park near the Destiny club in Watford, Hertfordshire.
The actress' spokeswoman said: "She was literally walking back into a car park when a fight broke out and she got clipped.
"She was in the wrong place at the wrong time but she's fine. She and Aaron were not involved in the fight.
"She had a day off yesterday because she was off schedule and she's back filming today."
Turner joined the soap in November 2004. Her feisty character has recently been searching for her husband Bradley after he disappeared when he found out she had been cheating on him with his father.