Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden FruitFirst issued in 1961 on Columbia's early music venture Colpix, Forbidden Fruit is widely acknowledged as the best of Nina Simone's early releases. Producer Cal Lampley chose to cast her in varied settings, blending a rendition of Oscar Brown's "Rags And Old Iron" with a unique take of Bessie Smith's "Gin House Blues," contrasting with Billie Holiday's "No Good Man" and "I'll Look Around," which Simone shifts to her own image. Her backing trio aim for

to spiral into a not-so-distant glorious past

” The music heard in the introduction before “Israel” is an excerpt from The Rite of Spring

Philadelphia singer/songwriter KURT VILE returns with his second proper album (2008's Childish Prodigy was a compendium of sorts)

Orchestre Volta Jazz was at the epicenter of the West African musical explosion of the ’60s and ’70s

identity and self preservation

'Oh Duster music so sad

Retreating to their underground post-nuclear shelter/studio

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The album is notable for the instrumental track 'Luciferama' (a blending of 'Lucifer' and 'Mammagamma'

featuring Billy Aukstik (trumpet) : and Rod Hohl (analog drum machine)

"It feels like part of my writing has come back from the past

violent lyrics