"This hypnotic, mysterious little piece, of approximately 5 minutes duration, was originally written for the sequence with Marcel Duchamp in Hans Richter's movie _Dreams That Money Can Buy_. The piano is prepared with bits of rubber and weather stripping and one small bolt precisely placed to emphasize string harmonics that make the piano sound like an obscure village ensemble.- Allmusic."
"Verlained died last week, age Debut album by this group that had become legendary in the lower east side music scene of the '70s. For Marquee Moon, Verlaine and fellow guitarist Richard Lloyd abandoned contemporary punk rock's power chords in favor of rock and jazz-inspired interplay, melodic lines, and counter-melodies. The resulting music is largely hook-driven with complex instrumental parts (particularly on longer tracks such as _Marquee Moon_), while evoking themes of adolescence, discovery, and transcendence through imagery in urban, pastoral, and nocturnal modes, including references to the geography of Lower Manhattan. Marquee Moon inspired interpretations from a variety of sources, but Verlaine conceded he did not understand the meaning behind much of his lyrics. He drew on influences from French poetry and wanted to narrate the consciousness or confusion of an experience rather than its specific details. - wiki"
He's 42, and the son of legendary Malian multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Touré. This is his 10th, and most recent album. According to wiki -- Despite his father's discouragement and his family's lineage as a tribe of soldiers, Touré secretly took up the guitar and enrolled in the Institut National des Arts in Bamako, Mali.
Zanda was born in Siparia, in South Trinidad,the first of nine children:_24_ born to Richard and Louisa Alexander. His father, a shoemaker, guitarist, vocalist and church music leader, was born in St. Vincent. His mother, a homemaker, florist and gospel singer, was born in Grenada. Zanda began making music as a child using homemade cardboard bongos. He is regarded, together with Schofield Pilgrim and Michael Boothman, as a pioneer of the genre Trinidad and Tobago extempo and kaisojazz. -- repeatingislands.com"cardboard bongos. He is regarded, together with Schofield Pilgrim and Michael Boothman, as a pioneer of the genre Trinidad and Tobago extempo and kaisojazz. -- repeatingislands.com"""
"Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas, on September 30, 1935, the fourth of seven children of Clem Mathis and Mildred Boyd, both domestic cooks. The family moved to San Francisco when Johnny was five years old. He enrolled at San Francisco State and h became noteworthy as a high jumper. In 1956 he was asked to try out for the U.S. Olympic Team that would travel to Melbourne that November. On his father's advice, Mathis opted to embark on a professional singing career. At 87, Matthis retains enthusiasm for sports. He is an avid golfer, with nine holes in one to his credit. This is his 29th studio release. May 14, 2017, Mathis discussed the Us magazine article and confirmed he is gay. _I come from San Francisco. It's not unusual to be gay in San Francisco. I've had some girlfriends, some boyfriends, just like most people. But I never got married, for instance. I knew that I was gay._ - wiki"
"The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a Grammy award-winning American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000. The group is composed of vocalist and pianist Karen O (born Karen Lee Orzolek), guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase."
It was premiered on December 1, 1944, in Symphony Hall, Boston, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. Bartók's moved to the United States from his native Hungary, escaping World War II. According to multiple accounts, Bartok was in hospital, suffering from what would later be discovered to be leukemia, when Serge Koussevitzky visited him to personally inform him of the commission for him to write the work which would become this concerto. Following Koussevitzky's visit, Bartok was so moved to receive this commission that, despite his difficult medical condition, he simply got up and walked out of the hospital, to begin working on his new composition. Béla Bartók died at age 64 in a hospital in New York City from complications of leukemia (specifically, of secondary polycythemia) on 26 September 1945. His funeral was attended by only ten people.- wiki
This is the second track off of Jaipong Kalangenan Rumaja: Naon Margina, a collaboration jaipongan album between Masyitoh and the group Gamelan Rineka Swara. The label specializes in Sudanese-Indonesian music. - Youtube Jaipong, is a popular traditional dance ... on traditional Sundanese Ketuk Tilu music and pencak silat movements.
Seattle based group, also known as DLO3, is an American soul-jazz group founded in 2015. Current members are Delvon Lamarr – Hammond B-3 organ, Jimmy James – guitar, Julian (Thunderfoot) MacDonough – drums
"This is the fourth and final studio album by the Move,recorded simultaneously with the first Electric Light Orchestra album, Electric Light Orchestra (or No Answer as it was called in the United States). It marked l the end of The Move. After this, the group continued as the Electric Light Orchestra."
Percussion: Michael Nyman & Percussion: Nigel Shipway. Brian Eno produced. rom 1968 to 1976, Michael Nyman worked as a music critic for various magazines (Studio International, Time Out, Tempo, The New Stateman or The Spectator). He studied 16th and 17th c. baroque music in the mid-1960s, composing only a handful of musical pieces prior to the present ‘Decay Music’ in 1976, the real starting point of his carreer as a composer. 1-100’ is an auto-generative composition for piano that feeds itself along the way while remaining fairly minimal throughout. The track is played at half the speed it was recorded. It was written for Peter Greenaway's film of the same title but rejected because it was too long. It was inspired by Frederic Rzewski's Les Moutons de Panurge, which Nyman often played with the Scratch Orchestra. ‘- Youtube
"This is drawn from what is purportedly the only recording of Woolf's voice, captured a few years before her suicide in the Ouse River behind her Sussex writing studio. "
"Several flocks of geese had landed in proxity to one another along the Neponset River, moving slowly, closely following the reed bank. They called up and down to one another, swimming closer to one another as dusk fell and as they moved into the reeds to rest after a no-doubt hard day's work up in the sky. I caught them as I rode, and stopped to capture the sounds on my cell phone. The narrow gauge train that runs from Ashmont to Milton passes, and makes a stop at one of the stations. "
"Sakhile Dube from St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, demonstrates how these click sounds are pronounced in the Zulu language. He is a one of the owners and guides at Safari And Surf Wilderness Adventures, and teaches his guests some simple starting sounds/phrases in the Zulu language"
"Uchida is a Japanese-British classical pianist and conductor, born in Japan and naturalised in Britain, particularly noted for her interpretations of Mozart and Schubert. Chicago Jazz pianist Patricia Barber revers Echida, and recently recommended her to me. IVoila! She's in the Margin. "
"In Australia, the Songlines move through the lands of all the neighbouring tribes and then across the entire continent linking all Aboriginal groups together in song and ceremony. See link"
"This is a traditional Catalan Christmas song and lullaby. The song was made famous outside Catalonia by Pau Casals' instrumental version on the cello. After his exile in 1939, he would begin each of his concerts by playing this song. This version is played by Yo Yo Ma, recorded last November by a nun on her cell phone in the cemetery at Kalaupapa, which now a sacred place of exile. In 1866, those living throughout the Hawaiian Islands stricken with leprosy were sent to this small peninisula off the coast of Molokai'i to die. The settlement continues as a refuge for a few remaining patients, and the Franciscan nuns have maintained a continuous, unbroken presence since Mother Marianne Cope first arrived in 1883. Yo Yo Ma arrived unannounced with a borrowed cello a folding chair. People in the community were invited on short notice, and a few gathered to listened to him talk and play for 27 minutes, his back to the ocean with ancient headstones scattered around him. Sister Barbara Jean Wajda shared it with me and now I share with you.
"Flack sings this in one of the ancient _slave castles_ off the coast of Ghana, where kidnapped native Africans were held before being shipped off to the New World to be sold as chattle. Overwhelmed with emotion, (and left out of this posting) she begins the recording by first saying: _This is a very depressing place. It's... oppressive, and... all sorts of, just, unhappy sorrowful things_ with almost unspeakable sorrow. - Youtube comment from Michael Stultz Also included on the album & joining Flack on the trip: Ike & Tina Turner, Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett, Eddie Harris & Less McCann w/Amoa, and the Voices of East Harlem. "
