Segovia - Music for the Guitar

If you like classical guitar, Segovia - Music for the Guitar is the album for you. The mellow plucking of the classical guitar make this a great record to make art while listening to it. Andres Segovia is a true master of the guitar doing some marvelous five finger picking! The second track on Music for the Guitar entitled "pieces caracteristiques" is an amazing medley of 6 songs and good example of his depth as a classical guitarist. Another favorite would be "The Old Castle" which is the first song on side B. The Prelude has a harpsichord accompaniment that is very cohesive with Segovia's sound. I would highly suggest this album to any lover of classical music!

Pharoah Sanders - Karma

If EPIC song intros are your thing that this album has something for you. Karma features 19 minute jazz songs with 2 minute intros. Pharoah Sanders and his Tenor Sax leads this 8-10 piece jazz band. The first track "The Creator and His Master Plan"starts with an EPIC intro (surprise) and then drops into a nice little break, that would make a nice hip-hop song. The song then kind of builds into a jazzy song that you might hear on the soundtrack to Hair the Musical. Enter side B. The first song and most of side B is what sounds to be the end of the first track on side A. It fades in, EPIC intro, and then takes it to a place that you wouldn't expect. The song shifts into the bastard son of John Coltrane's "Sun Ship." To me it sounded like someone being slowly murdered in the forest by an axe and the screams of the victim being played by Sanders Tenor Sax. All in all the album, Pharoah Sanders - Karma, was a fair listen and if anything the break on the first song makes it worth it.

Becoming a record collector

I have always had collections growing up. Baseball cards, comic books, spiders, paintings, hats, dirty magazines, etc. Growing up my folks always had a little stack of records that they never really busted out and played. Being born in 1980 it was more the era of cassette tapes and eventually CD's. Growing up shared my step dads love for rap music and when and my mother split up, in 1993, I stopped listening to it for a while. At 17 years old I was in a metal band named "Drunk by Noon" which prompted me buying a 4 track recorder. The fact that it is very difficult to record any full band on a four track. So I started making Rap music.