"The music of Swiss experimentalist Alain Croubalian (1964-2021), who played with The Dead Brothers, Maniacs, and others. Songs in single mic mono, direct studio recording. Toured extensively in Germany and is little known in the U.S. "
"Kikagaku Moyo are a Japanese psychedelic band from Tokyo. The band's name translates to _geometric patterns, which the drummer Go Kurosawa suggested as a band name after getting visuals caused by sleep deprivation during a long jam session at night. In a 2014 interview with the It
"The Ponderosa Twins Plus One featured two sets of identical teenage twins, Alfred and Alvin Pelham, and Keith and Kirk Gardner, along with Ricky Spicer. The boys hailed from Cleveland, OH. The group released a couple of singles and a lone album before breaking up and disbanding as adolescence waned. Kanye West and Tyler The Creator,
"Jennifer Lynn Wasner (born April 16, 1986) is an American musician from Baltimore, Maryland. Wasner is best known as one of the founding members of the band Wye Oak, along with Andy Stack. This is her first solo production. "
"La Raspa originated in Veracruz is a dance often performed during celebrations and at dance schools. The name may be derived from the Old Germanic verb _raspere_, meaning _to grate upon_. It either referred to the way the ratchet-like sound of the G
"Toronto based experimental music group. The Glass Orchestra Toronto, founded in 1977, is the only ensemble in the world whose musicians create and perform entirely with glass instruments.Members Paul Hodge, John Kuipers, V. Eric Cadersky, Miguel Frasconi, Marvin Green explored all the sonic possibilities of glass objects and glass instruments, sometimes with the addition of vocals or water sounds as well. Thanks to the variety of instruments used (incl. glass harmonica, flutes and xylophones, found bottles and objects, etc), the Orchestra is able to produce a large array of sounds, from percussion to whistles, from bowed glass to shaterred glass, from ringing glass to blown into glass. Unconventional tuning, attention to details and mutual listening are key elements. They released a total of 7 albums from 1978-2007, including work on the soundtrack for Girl Interrupted. "
"The music of Swiss experimentalist Alain Croubalian (1964-2021), who played with The Dead Brothers, Maniacs, and others. Songs in single mic mono, direct studio recording. Toured extensively in Germany and is little known in the U.S. "
"Birdtalker is an American indie folk music based in Nashville, TN. The band is made up of Zack and Dani Green -- married couple -- Andy Hubright, Brian Seligman, and Jesse Baker. This song, says Zack Green, is a love song he wrote for himself
"Bulbous Creation was a psychedelic rock band from Prairie Springs, Kansas, active throughout the 1960s. It was formed by bassist Jim _Bugs_ Wine and guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Paul Parkinson, both of whom grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas, a town about ten miles from Kansas City. In 1971 Bulbous Creation invested in a single day of recording time at Cavern Sound in Independence, Missouri, and recorded eight songs thatcomrise this, their only album. The group promptly broke up. The band, and their music, went largely unnoticed until getting a bit of a boost in 2014 when Numeo Group picked it up and issued a re-release. "
"Philadelphia steel guitarist Mike 'Slo-Mo' Brenner travelled to Kolkata, India to study Indian slide guitar with the great Debashish Bhattacharya. While in Kolkata, he cut tracks at a small studio with stellar Indian musicians. Returning to Philadelphia, Brenner added his own crew of players, edited and mixed and came up with the with album. "
"Husky was born in Gumbo, Missouri, an unincorporated community in northwestern St. Francois County, Missouri.His mother named him Furland, but his name was misspelled on his birth certificate. He learned guitar from an uncle. After dropping out of high school, Husky moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a truck driver and steel mill worker while performing in honky tonks at night. He also worked under the names of Terry Preston, Simon Crum, partly because Smiley Burnett told him the name Ferlin Husky would never work on a marquee. Husky was one of the first country singers to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (for recording). -- wiki"
Harold Montgomory Budd (May 24, 1936 – December 8, 2020) was an American avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert, he became a respected composer in the minimalist and avant-garde scene of Southern California in the late 1960s. Budd developed what he called a "soft pedal" technique for playing piano. Brian Eno called Budd "a great abstract painter trapped in the body of a musician." He was undergoing therapy at a short-term rehabilitation facility after suffering a stroke on November 11, 2020, when he contracted COVID-19 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in California. He died from complications of COVID-19 in an Arcadia hospital on December 8, 2020.
"M.A Littler is a German writer and the editor Sargasso. Of this recording he writes __About 5 years ago, I began writing a cycle of songs that differed from my previous writings. I don't know where they came from. Around the same time, my friend and longtime collaborator Alain Croubalian was given a piano - an instrument he could not play. I sent him my most recent writings, amongst them two or three of the songs here mentioned. I didn't think much about it, and a few months later had forgotten all about the songs. Sometime in winter Alain sent me two songs - Jupiter Is Rising and The Plains."
