Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra | en
Holidays is a dream-pop Italian band from Rome "with songs and DIY-visuals inspired by their European travels, Roman summers, and youthful nostalgia" (SBWR). If we should describe their music, we could say that it's a "sunny bucolic daydream, drenched in reverb and lovelorn lyrics" . .
Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is an influential Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They are renowned as a major influence in popular music, and for pioneering the electropop music genre. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards).
The band was originally conceived as a one-off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio...
Electric Light Orchestra were a symphonic rock band which formed in Birmingham, England in 1970. The band was formed by Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar, multiple instruments), Roy Wood (multiple instruments, vocals), Richard Tandy (keyboards, vocals) and Bev Bevan (drums). Lynne, Wood and Bevan were former members of the psychedelic rock band The Move. The band's lineup would fluctuate throughout its original incarnation, although Lynne, Tandy and Bevan would remain constant members.
They incorporated the sounds of string ensembles, vocoders and dub echos into rock songs, thereby creating a very sophisticated studio version of rock. The musical content of ELO songs...
Fragmentorchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. The result is a beautiful and up-tempo album of moods and grooves for some autumnal bliss. For Luca and Giulio, Jazz also means improvisation, which Luca Pernici explains. "A musician, in the moment at which improvisation occurs, is irrationally set free from any approach, creating a philosophy of composition without any given time or place". The goal is just this, to preserve an improvised approach through breaking down beats and notes but still achieving the variety of an orchestra or better yet, a Fragment Orchestra...
Luca Pernici...
The Very Thought Of You
Riffin’ The Scotch
God Bless the Child
No Regrets
I'll Be Seeing You
Blue Moon
(In My) Solitude
Gloomy Sunday
How Deep Is the Ocean
Tenderly
Autumn in New York
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Mean to Me
Moonglow
Speak Low
Speak Low
Solitude
Tenderly
Now or Never
The Man I Love
The Man I Love
Autumn In New York
Summertime
Cover The Waterfront
Strange Fruit
Don't Explain
Solitude
Things Are Looking Up
Solitude
There Is No Greater Love
Only the best
Just Friends (Live)
How Deep Is The Ocean
Billie`s Blues
Lady In Satin 1958
I'm a Fool to Want You (Billie Holiday cover)
Strange Fruit (1949 Live)
Strange Fruit
P.S. I Love You
Tenderly
Baby I Don't Cry over You
Cheek To Cheek
Billie's Blues
Yesterdays
Love Me or Leave Me
Lover Man
Easy Living
Yesterday
Careless
No Regrets