Rainey's debut release. THis song is a recorded phone call with a relative from inside Jackson Correctional Institution. He's born in Minneapolis, a Native hub, he has been putting pow wows to tape since he was 8 years old. “Being a recorder at the pow wow got me wanting to learn,” he says. (He maintains an extensive archive of these recordings on SoundCloud.) His mother encouraged his education, signing him up for drum and dance activities, and his entry into the world of inter-tribal social gatherings was fostered by Minneapolis’ flourishing Native community. - Pitchfork
"Recorded in the basement studio of WSLU in Canton, NY. Larry Ham, pno; Pat O'Leary, bass; Eddie Ornowski, drums. Ray ran the jazz department at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music. I met him there, played in his bands, and we had a long relationship. Larry, Pat, and Eddie were classmates and friends who famously played the Sunday night gig at Algiers (another basement) fronted by Renee Fleming. Renee, who was my roommate, went on to do great things with her music. "
Born in Quivicán, Cuba in 1941, CHUCHO VALDÉS is one of Cuba’s most famous pianists, bandleaders, composers and arrangers. Perhaps best known for founding the famous Latin jazz band Irakere in 1972 - LA Phil program notes
"Sharde, born in MS in 1990, plays a homemade cane pipe, or fife, and carries on her grandfather Otha Turner's musical legacy. Dickinson, long time friend of Thomas' family, is a guitar player who fronts the band North Mississippi Allstars. - wiki"
Niño is a hub of LA's musical subculture, one of those people whose primary contribution seems to be his ability to connect other people. Over the past 20 years, he has hosted three radio shows and worked on over 50 albums, charting an invisible continent where hippy jazz meets new age music and underground hip-hop meets airy, Laurel Canyon-style folk. Though many of the projects he's worked on credit him as an artist, I'm still not sure what he plays. - Pitchfork This cut features on Flute – Yaakov Levy, and Piano – Nate Morgan
"This compiliation, produced by Larry Klein, features a broad range of stylists, including Renee Fleming with Yo Yo Ma, Dianne Reeves, Shawn Colvin, Allison Krauss, and Esperanza Spalding. "
Bruno Råberg is an internationally renowned bass player and composer. Since coming to the U.S. from his native Sweden in 1981, he has made six recordings as a leader, about 30 as a sideman, and has performed with numerous world-class artists. He also teaches in Boston at the Berkleey School of Music. -- Berklee Music school catalogue. This is his 11th studio release. Chase studied at Berklee College of Music with Jaki Byard, at the Creative Music Studio with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Karl Berger and George Lewis at Arizona State University, and at Tufts University. He wrote his master thesis on the music of Sun Ra. McMahon is another Bostonite, teaching a NEC.
"In the second half of the 20th century, Tula craftsmen improved the existing types of harmonicas. The changes affected the voice bars, due to which the instrument began to produce the same sound when squeezing and stretching the bellows. Though harmonic still remained diatonic, the presence of additional chromatic sounds made it possible to expand the range of tonality. - see link"
"Turner was 90 when he recorded the album. The title refers to Turner's barbecued goat parties. He would personally butcher a goat and cook it in an iron kettle, and his band would provide musical entertainment. The picnics began as a neighborhood and family gathering. The event grew over the years to attract musical fans, first from Memphis, Tennessee, and later from all over the world. - wiki"
"This innovative trio is comprised of Mazz Swift (vno), Silvia Bolognrdi (bass) and Tomeka Reid (cello). Swift is a Juilliard-trained violinist as well as composer, conductor, singer, bandleader, and educator. Bolognesi is an Italian double bass player, composer and arranger. Graduated in double bass at the R. Franci Institute of Siena. She founded the Fonterossa label in 2010 to guarantee freedom of production in full creative autonomy. Reid lives in Chicago whose work _forges a unique jazz sound that draws from a range of musical traditions and expanding the expressive possibilities of the cello in improvised music._ - wki & NPR"
Song was recorded in 1929. The album features Manthos Halkias on his clarinet with sublime and unhinged music rarely heard outside of Northern Greece and Southern Albania, the performances presented in this collection span the range of plaintive, ancient dirges to hypnotic, droning dance pieces. The style, repertoire, and songs from this isolated region are unearthly in their euphonic appeal. Most of the sides on this LP have not been issued since they were originally pressed on 78 rpm disc. A deep set of notes is accompanied by comprehensive lyrical translations as well as original artwork by R Crumb. Christopher King, the re-mastering engineer, specializes in pre-war rural American music (with an emphasis on Cajun) and various Eastern European, Balkan and Mediterranean musics.
"Kaoru Ishibashi, who performs as Kishi Bashi, is a Seattle born singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter currently based in Athens, Georgia. He was a founding member of Jupiter One and, for a few years, was a member of the band of Montreal. This is his debut release. THe title resembles the Japanese expression ichi-go ichi-e, meaning one time, one place. "
Bashir was an Iraqi Assyrian musician and one of the most famous musicians in the Middle East during the 20th century and was considered to be the supreme master of the Arab maqamat scale system. (see link)
Taken from the ABC Australia's national broadcast, transmitted by The Listening Room, followed by additional post-broadcast screamline calls: objections, responses, post-screams, reflections, wrong numbers, confessions, and bold polemics.
Birgit Dieckmann, known professionally as Billie Ray Martin, is a German singer and songwriter. Divas, transvestites, and rising stars striving for sanity, identity, or that next plastic surgery fix. Their stories, among others, are brought to life by the electronic beats of Hollywood under the knife, The Opiates’ debut album.
