"Dubfeth is a UK musician. Liner notes quoteKebra Nagast, a 700 year old _national epic of Ethiopia_ _And everything was wrought by his order, and there was none who set himself in opposition to his word; for the light of his heart was like a lamp in the darkness, and his wisdom was as abundant as the sand. And of the speech of the beasts and the birds there was nothing hidden from him, and he forced the devils to obey him by his wisdom._"
"I screened a new film on June 10th in Philadephia. Marshall & Kash played a 30 minute opening set and, as promised, I'm bringing some of the sounds into the margin today. I asked them to _open the portal_ to the flm, _Nothing in then Way of Beauty._ They conjured the cosmos -- that which is unknowable.
"Born in 1935 in New York, NY, USA. An American musician, multi-instrumentalist (dulcimer, hurdy gurdy, zither, recorder among others) and composer. Could be John Nagy wife. Died of a stroke on June 7, 2003 in New Orleans. Carter studied classical piano at age six. She later attended Bard College in New York, the London Royal Academy, and Guildhall School of Music in France. She is regarded as an important figure in the genres of psychedelic folk music and medieval music revival. Robert Rutman (RIP) on his steel cello. - wiki RE: the song, This Appalachian traditional song was collected by John Jacob Niles as Niles #2C in Kentucky in 1908. It is a variant of Child Ballad #2 _The Elfin Knight_, which is in turn the source of the Simon & Garfunkel adaptation _Scarborough Fair_.- riseupandsing. _Oh, water where there is no well. Viny flow'r & rosemary tree. Water where there is no well. What name will my true love tell? Viny flow'r & rosemary tree"""
"B. 1946 Her daugher Jesse is playing piano on this one. Her parents were Beverly Smith, a jazz singer turned waitress, and Grant Smith, a Honeywell machinist. The family was of part Irish ancestry, and Patti was the eldest of four children, with siblings Linda, Kimberly, and Todd. This album is in part a tribute to Smith's mother, who died two years earlier.Smith is ranked 47th on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.-- wiki. Click link to her excellent substack channel "
"This song is one of the tracks of my summer childhood. One year, when I was nine, the ice-cream man driver was a crew cut ex-Navy guy who was perverse, with a fondness for little girls. I wonder, still, about those guys that drive ice-cream trucks. I was in Philly recently on a long walk with a good friend on a perfect afternoon and crossed paths with this music. "
"Dabagian (b: 1965) is an Armenian duduk player of liturgical and folk music, born in Yerevan. In 1991 he founded the Shoghaken Folk Ensemble, a group of Armenian folk musicians and singers who specialize in traditional Armenian music. He was part of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project in 2005 - wiki"
"Ednan (1925-2021) is a Lebanon-born poet. Her biographer, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, describes Edan as a _shaman and activist_. Besides her writing accomplishments, she was a painter, a journalist and editor, and had a degree in philosophy. She and her also-Lebanese-born partner Simone Fattal moved to Sausalito for a time in the '80s. - internet references. According to their friend Fanny Howe, they spent most of their years in Paris. The Miracle Marathon brought together practitioners from the fields of activism, art, anthropology, architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theology and science to focus on ritual, imagination and magical thinking."
"Sez Cole: I wrote these pieces for less brilliant pianists than him, too - amateur and lapsarian pianists like me. So I encourage you not just to listen to these, but to get a copy of the score and put your hands on a few bars. - bandcamp"
American cellist, artist, and composer (born 21 May 1951 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA - died 4 April 1992 from AIDS in New York, New York, USA (aged 40). RThis album features nine previously unreleased performances compiled from completed masters culled from two unique test pressings, including one, dated 9/15/85 by Arthur, provided by his mother and sister. A further four tracks were discovered in his tape archive. The track listing includes an exceptional and dramatic solo recording of “In The Light of a Miracle” and the enigmatic title instrumental “Picture of Bunny Rabbit”, written especially for a friends pet rabbit. The bulk of the material was recorded with engineer Eric Liljestrand at Battery Sound Studios, New York, which was located directly opposite the World Trade Center and at Arthur’s apartment studio in the East Village. - bandcamp
"British band Formed in 1979 by Fritz Catlin, Johnny Turnbull and Sam Mills, and later augmented by Alex Turnbull and Tom Heslop, 23 Skidoo had interests in martial arts, Burundi and Kodo drumming, Fela Kuti, The Last Poets, William S. Burroughs, as well as the emerging confluence of industrial, post-punk and funk. This album is a compilation making sense of their catalogue of singles and obscure cuts from before 1987. - wiki"
"Horowitz (1903-1989) was a Russian/American musician considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. He was born in Kiev when it was part of the Russian Federation. He was the youngest of four children of Samuil Horowitz and Sophia Bodik, who were assimilated Jews. His father was a well-to-do electrical engineer and a distributor of electric motors for German manufacturers. His grandfather Joachim was a merchant (and an arts-supporter), belonging to the 1st Guild, which exempted him from having to reside in the Pale of Settlement. In order to make him appear too young for military service so as not to risk damaging his hands, Samuil took a year off his son's age by claiming that he was born in 1904. The 1904 date appeared in many reference works during Horowitz's lifetime. He debuted in the US in Carnegie Hall in 1928. Despite rapturous receptions at recitals, Horowitz became increasingly unsure of his abilities as a pianist. On several occasions, the pianist had to be pushed onto the stage.He suffered from depression and withdrew from public performances from 1936 to 1938, 1953 to 1965, 1969 to 1974, and 1983 to 1985. - wiki. "
"Best known as drummer for Wilco. In high school, Kotche was a member of the drum line in the Lake Park Marching Band, and later the University of Kentucky, where he honed his musical skill and technique and obtained a bachelor's degree in music performance. Glenn was also a member of The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps from Rosemont, Illinois in 1989, playing in the snare line. As for this release, record notes read: Sticks are the most basic tools of the percussionist. They are used for striking but are also shaped and arranged into tonal bars giving the percussion family rich melodic and harmonic components. Skins are what make drums drums. Metal in it's varied forms - both tuned and untuned - provide a world of percussion color. And stone - the most basic of materials - struck together or shaped into pitched bars creating the most premordial, yet intriguing percussion sounds. These 4 elements are the catalyst for the music contained in this record. "
"King was in a long-term relationship with Ivor Cutler for over forty years up to his death in 2006 though they did not live together, preferring to retain their independence. Like Cutler, she was a teacher. Cutler wrote the song _Beautiful Cosmos_ about her. She has a daughter and lives in Wiltshire." - wiki
Lived at 122 Oxford Street between Harvard & Porter Square, on the corner of Prentiss. Spent a couple years at Radcliffe and reportedly loved her time in Boston...at the height of the folk scene. She's said that whenever she's in town, she likes to drive past her old place, sometimes on a bicycle.
Makanda (1931-2001) was among the jazz-loft set in New York in the early 70s. He dropped out of the scene to raise a family…had a successful career as a professor at Old Westbury College, where he founded and chaired the American Music, Dance and Theatre Program, which was one of the country's first departments dedicated to the arts in the African American tradition. Makanda designed and taught more than 10 courses in instrumental music, arranging, history, theory and composition. He retired as a professor emeritus from Old Westbury in 1995. I heard of him a year or 2 before died -- interviewed him live on WMBR. We had a great conversation about music and playing, including a digression into his dissertation he wrote about the _Ghanaian sense of time._
Prior to his move to France in 2011, Chenaux was a key figure in Toronto’s fertile avant/improv music scene throughout the 1990s and 2000s, releasing a solo album of instrumental improv guitar in 1999 and co-founding the experimental music label Rat-drifting in 2001,
"This is the closing segment of Kash & Marshall performance at the screening of my film, Nothing in the Way of Beauty on June 10 in Philadelphia. Marshall had more to say, and returned several times after we all (including Kash) thought the set had ended. "
