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        Joe Strummer: The Leo Connection
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        Joe Strummer: The Leo Connection

        By Robert Phoenix, eMusic Contributor

        One of the astrological aspects that sets the punk movement apart from its musical counterparts in the 60s and early 70s is a sub-generational shift from Uranus in Cancer to Uranus in Leo. The astrological chart for the United States as a whole is heavily influenced and populated by Cancerian planets - that's what makes the nation conservative at its core. Cancer is anything but revolutionary: it's all about hearth and home, nurturing and providing… more »

        Who Are...Peaking Lights
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        Who Are…Peaking Lights

        By Marc Hogan, eMusic Contributor

        Indra Dunis and Aaron Coyes, the married duo behind Peaking Lights, say they plan to get "2011 tattoos." 2011 was the year they moved from Wisconsin, where she grew up, back to California, where he did, and where, up the coast in the San Francisco Bay Area, the two originally met. It's also the year Dunis and Coyes released Peaking Lights' breakout album, 936, welcomed their son, Mikko, into the world, and started recording their… more »

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        2012 | Just Music

        Will Dutta, Parergon

        2012 | Label: Just Music
        Chris Nickson By Chris Nickson eMusic Contributor

        Will Dutta’s music lies at the nexus where modern classical, New Age, and ambient electronica meet. He draws from all of them to create his own sonic geography: Sometimes it is lushly beautiful, other times it sounds as tortured and harsh as modern life, with textures that range from the stark purity of his piano to sounds heavily modified and manipulated by a bevy of producers.

        It’s impossible to avoid the shadows of modern pioneers like Philip Glass and Brian Eno here, and Parergon (the word, by the way, means subordinate… more »

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        Cynth, Flute Medicine

        Label: Cynth / CD Baby
        Robert Phoenix By Robert Phoenix eMusic Contributor

        While this disc does not specifically tout its healing qualities, the way it's produced and played gives it a natural healing vibration. Cynth is a flautist based out of Los Angeles who plays a combination of bamboo, Native American and brindle flutes. (She also acquits herself quite well on the panpipes.) The thing I love about this disc is how the flutes are overdubbed, often to the accompaniment of Tibetan bowls and bells, blowing like a clear breeze through the cathedral of the mind. But it's heart-centered music as well,… more »

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        2011 | Revive Records / TuneCore

        God Is an Astronaut, All is Violent, All is Bright

        2011 | Label: Revive Records / TuneCore
        Tim Chester By Tim Chester eMusic Contributor

        God Is An Astronaut is a band who encapsulates the windswept beauty of their Irish homeland (specifically the rural and wooded Glen Of The Downs area in Co. Wicklow) in much the same way as Sigur Rós or Múm paint an audio panoramic of Iceland. Eschewing loud/quiet schizophrenia for desolate instrumentation, their second album breathes heavy with isolated beauty, again defying the confines of a three-piece. A series of shorter, four minute movements, this is bite-sized crescendo-core for anyone strapped for time, which is not to belittle their… more »

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        Adrian Legg, Guitar Bones

        Label: Favored Nations
        Bill Milkowski By Bill Milkowski eMusic Contributor

        A masterful exponent of the Celtic-styled hammer-on/pull-off technique, Legg's sheer command is astounding here on fingerstyle ditties like "Uncle Adrian," "The Ederly Jig" and "Short Story." But it's Legg's renegade streak that we've really come to admire over the years, and his playfully irreverent side manifests on the Kottke-esque slide vehicle "The One-Eyed Turk, his countrified Albert Lee-meets-Joe Pass turn on "Jam Today" and his knucklebusting closer "Een Kleijne Komedye." Few possess the chops (and sense of humor) of this uncommon acoustic guitarist. more »

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