The three are Chicago based musical collaborators. Gira Dahnee states the belief that music is a passageway to the metaphysical realm. Her approach is conceptually rooted in Afrofuturism: using the past and present to create better futures for people of African descent. Dawid is an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and singer. Her parents are Christian missionaries. She collaborates with Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Orchestra, and notably recorded her first solo album, Oracle, on her cell phone.
The NYC based group was founded by flutist Valerie Coleman in 1997 -- she is also a prolific composer -- and is known for its adventurous and diverse programming, which includes both established and newly composed works.[2] The word Imani means _faith_ in Swahili. They are also active commissioners of new music with the intent of introducing more diverse composers to the wind quintet repertoire. Coleman wanted to form a chamber group to highlight the work of underrepresented composers and performers.[1] Therefore, the group's initial members were all of African American and Latino ancestry. The group first included Valerie Coleman on flute, Toyin Spellman-Diaz on oboe, Monica Ellis on bassoon, Mariam Adam on clarinet, and Jeff Scott on french horn.[1] In 2016 Mark Dover replaced Mariam Adam, in 2018 Brandon Patrick George replaced Valerie Coleman, and in 2021, Kevin Newton replaced Jeff Scott. The song was originally published in 1949 simply as _Tomato_ and is written by Trinidadian musician Sam Manning, - Wiki
In the immediate period before her overdose death in 1969, Garland was preparing to write an autobiography. The publisher gave her a cassette tape recorder and suggested she simply record her thoughts. She is full of emotion, anger,and angst throughout much of what I heard via YouTube clips.
Windham Hill wanted to branch out, so they began a set of projects designed for children called _Rabbit Ears_. They approached McFerrin, and about a year after his Spontaneous Inventions, the afforded him a sandbox and a choice of what to do with it. He was tasked with providing music soundtracking the words to a few of Rudyard Kipling’s less culturally problematic selections from his Just So stories. Jack, gamefully, came ready to apply his trademark acting skills into a format that richly rewarded his laconic delivery, leaving open space for Bobby to fill in the atmosphere. -- notes by Diegos Olivos (FondSound)
Marcel Zaes explores one conceptual idea through 38 iterations realized by the prolific and idiosyncratic new music group Yarn/Wire. Parallel Prints provides the listener with a fascinating sonic terrain which is, no less, further highlighted by Yarn/Wire’s stellar performance over the 3 years spent rehearsing, recording, and algorithmically processing their sounds. - Editions Verde liner notes
Catherine was exiled in 1943 to Kalaupapa, the remote peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai'I where, from 1866 through 1969, the gov't of HI banishedmore than 8000 of those affilcted with Hansen's Disease (leprosy). She lived there from about the age of 9 until her death in 2008. The peninusula is bordered on three sides by the open ocean, and extends out from the highest sea cliffs in the world. The 5.8 mile switchback trail decent from _topside_ to the settlement takes about 2 1/2 hours by foot or mule. Many now consider this place -- once the destination for outcasts and untouchables -- to be a paradise. Two ordained Catholics - Father Damien and Mother Marianne Cope -- were beautified (made saints) by the church for their care of the people of Kalaupapa during it's formative period. Mother Marianne's community, the Sisters of St. Joseph from Syracuse NY, have maintained an unbroken lineage of service, beginning with her arrival in 1888 and continuing to the present day.
Windham Hill wanted to branch out, so they began a set of projects designed for children called _Rabbit Ears_. They approached McFerrin, and about a year after his Spontaneous Inventions, the afforded him a sandbox and a choice of what to do with it. He was tasked with providing music soundtracking the words to a few of Rudyard Kipling’s less culturally problematic selections from his Just So stories. Jack, gamefully, came ready to apply his trademark acting skills into a format that richly rewarded his laconic delivery, leaving open space for Bobby to fill in the atmosphere. -- notes by Diegos Olivos (FondSound)
THis is off the 2nd studio album of Moses Sumney, a Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter wjp was born in California and raised by pastor parents. The album title ‘græ' connotes "a 'conceptual patchwork about grayness,' exploring statelessness, the shades of meaning in between, the feeling of being displaced from absolutes." He moved with his family back to Ghana at the age of 10. He described his childhood as _Americanized_ by this age and had difficulty adjusting to the culture of Ghana, especially the rural nature of his new environment. There he grew up on a goat farm in Accra and commuted by public bus to school. His family returned to Southern California when Sumney was 16, settling in Riverside. His music has been featured in a number of streaming series and features, including Orange is the New Black, Dear White People, and Random Acts of Flyness.
Chai was formed in 2012 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, by twin sisters Mana and Kana, alongside Yuna and Yuuki. Mana, Kana, and Yuna are all from Nagoya, and were in the same class at high school. The three were members of the light music club at their high school. - wiki Pink is their debut album.
This tune off of Bland's 2nd studio album. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described him as _second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene._ When he was near death at age 83, Bland told his son Rodd that the blues musician James Cotton was his half-brother. Featured on this recording with Bland is guitarist Wayne Bennett.
Coles was self taught trumpet player, raised in Philadelphia, honed his technique playing in a military band. Little Johnny C is universally recognized as Johnny Cole's finest solo recording. He's best best known for his associations with Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Art Blakey, the Charles Mingus Quintet of 1964, and Herbie Hancock's late '60s Sextet. On this date Piano: Duke Pearson, Tenor Saxophone: Joe Henderson, Trumpet: Johnny Coles, Drums: Pete La Roca, Bass (vocal): Bob Cranshaw, Alto Saxophone: Leo Wright _Johnny moves by the moment,_ said Herbie Hancock. _He plays things with such sheer beauty that I wonder where it's coming from._ So Sweet My Little Girl — was written for Duke Pearson's seven-year-old daughter, Cynthia. Of the date, he says, "Johnny restricts himself to solo-melody duties, and I'm given the solo spot to play tribute to my little Cynthia. Johnny's sound here is that of a proud parent serenading his own little daughter."
LA based musician, visual artist, filmmaker. Spirit Girls was the name of Marnie Weber's six member drone-rock musical group. The Spirit Girls is also the name of Weber's multimedia conceptual project which used film, sculpture, collage, installation and performance to explore the after-life of the all-female rock band featured in four Weber films where the Spirit Girls _are the specters of five adolescents, killed in their prime, who come back to the real world to 'express things they weren't able to express' while they were alive._ The spectral Spirit Girls are said to have died tragically in the male-dominated music scene of the 1970s. Her art is featured on the cover of the 1998 Sonic Youth album A Thousand Leaves. - wiki Drums Paul Ryer, Guitar: Kevin Chenelle, Guitar/Synth: Philip Drucker, Trumpet/Autoharp: Natan Stein, Viola/Bass: Tony Davis, Vocals/Synth/Bass: Marnie Weber
"The album was produced features musical performances from former Beatles Ringo Starr and George Harrison, as well as Lowell George and Peter Frampton. With Ringo, the latter two play on this cut (Ringo under the name Richie Snare) "
Satie was as musician, poet, and calligrapher. This piece is taken from a cycle of 21 short piano pieces he composed in 1914. The set consists of a prefatory chorale and 20 musical vignettes depicting various sports and leisure activities. First published in 1923, it has long been considered one of his finest achievements. They originally appeared as a collector's album with illustrations by Charles Martin, accompanied by music, prose poetry and calligraphy. The latter three were provided by Satie in his exquisite handwritten scores, which were printed in facsimile. The description of Carnival as follows: _Lightly. Confetti rains down on a Carnival celebration. Costumed revelers pose and jostle one another, including a drunken Pierrot who is behaving obnoxiously. -Are they pretty?- the text inquires. Satie answers with an ambivalent musical coda - and adds the playing direction _Hold back considerably._ -wiki
The reverberation length is so long (approximately 45 seconds) inside the 186-foot diameter cistern at Fort Worden, about 70 miles northwest of Seattle, that the composer describes the feeling as _this is where you have been forever and will always be forever_._Conch Calling_ is a solo piece, the first notes of which demonstrate the incredible nature of this two million gallon water tank. Dempster plays a remarkable series of tones and inflections with the conch creating an eerie and hypnotic atmosphere. - allmusic He has collaborated with former classmate Pauline Oliveros and Panaiotis including co-founding the Deep Listening Band. He commissioned Theater Piece for Trombone Player (1966) from Oliveros and choreographer Elizabeth Harris. Dempster practices yoga and breath control including circular breathing and is credited by some with introducing the didjeridu to North America.
Centered around the mesmerizing voice of Robert Ashley, considered a _giant_ of the avant garde. These piece is one of a pair-- the first part is _The Park_ -- and are initial versions of the first and last episodes (of seven) for Ashley's first _new narrative_ opera-for-TV _Perfect Lives_. Blue Gene Tyranny is on Piano, Polymoog, Clavinet & Krishna Bhatt plays tabla. - discog notes. Ashley has been part of a formative center of avant garde vocal work, collaborating with those include Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Joan LaBarbara, Thomas Buckner, and Jacqueline Humbert. He directed the San Francisco Tape Music Center for a period of time during its existance from 1962-1969, when it merged with Mills Tape Music Center and is now the Center for Contemporary Music.
