"A.r.b.f, led by Yoram Rosilio, is a nebula of sound experimentation that fights against brain formatting aiming to inject the energy and revolution of free jazz into the music of the Maghreb -- the region encompassing Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. "
"Brattleboro VT band. This is a concept album about a guy who turns into a pillow and now must walk the world in shame. Also he has a glass tongue so he can never kiss the girl he likes, and then there's always this silk pistol hot against his chest. It looks like a snub-nose .38 revolver. "
"Segah is the name of a Dastgah (musical mode) in Persian and related systems of music. Segah (From Persian se-g_h, third place) is named because the maqam starts on the third degree in relation to the _basic_ _Magham_ scale found in Rast. Sigah features a half-flat tonic and a half-flat fifth scale degree; as such, it has an unstable sound that tends to favor its own third degree, found on a whole tone. Middle eastern Sephardic Jews make heavy use of this in their liturgy. For the prayers during Parashas Bo, Beha'alotecha, and Eqeb, parashas that are the _third_ in their respective books, maqam Sigah is used. It is also applied on holidays."
Norwegian group Trio Mediaeval is Agnès Vesterman · Garth Knox · Sylvain Lemêtre. "Just (After Song of Songs)" was written by Lang in 2014 song. The song is based on language from the Song of Songs in the Old Testament.
Mark Fry was 19 recently graduated from high school and in Italy studying painting when he walked barefooted into RCA’s Italian subsidiary, played some songs he’d written on his guitar over a 3-day period. He was signed to record the album. Convening in a basement home studio with two 4-track reel-to-reel recorders, Mark’s visions coalesced in a dreamy, airy manner “Nick Drake meets Dr. Strangely Strange with a touch of Lewis Carroll” The Word Magazine would later write. Pressed in small amounts for Vincenzo Micocci’s RCA sub-label It, Alice remained an out of reach masterpiece for many but its creator. Unknown to Fry, the album had been developing cult status over the ensuing three decades as a psychedelic folk classic, garnering acclaim from critics[3] and a new generation of musicians as diverse as Kieran Hebden (Four Tet),[4] Colleen[5] and Plastic Crimewave. Fry was to discover this by chance in the early 2000s - wiki and other sources
Goin' Places is the tenth album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio. It peaked at number three on the Billboard charts and spent 41 weeks in the Top 40. -wiki
"This traditional Western song was created by black cowboy, Charley Willis. The song was first collected by songwriter, N. Howard -Jack- Thorp in his 1921 book Songs of the Cowboys. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. In writing about it, Thorp wrote: _Heard this sung by a puncher who had been on a spree in Pecos City. He had taken a job temporarily as a sheep-rustler for an outfit in Independence Draw, down the river, and was ashamed of the job. I won't mention his name._ Charley Willis, a former slave who became a cowboy and rode the Wyoming trail in the late 1800s, is now credited with authorship. Willis was in demand on cattle drives because his voice was reportedly calming to the herds. Though folklorist John Lomax did credit Willis with the authorship of the song, Lomax never recorded a performance of the song by any black person. In spite of the somewhat-concealed history of the song, many people have been credited with writing it. One of the first recordings was in 1928 by Harry McClintock"
"Windo came from a musical family in England. By age six he took up drums and accordion, then guitar at twelve and saxophone at seventeen. He lived in the United States during the 1960s but returned to England in 1969. In the early 1970s, his career grew as he founded the Gary Windo Quartet and worked with Carla Bley, Brotherhood of Breath, Centipede, Matching Mole, The Running Man, and Nick Mason. Sonny Stitt heard Windo play at the Berlin Jazz Festival and asked him to join the band, which he declined. He worked outside jazz, with the Psychedelic Furs, Robert Wyatt, NRBQ, and for the comedy television show Saturday Night Live. His time in America exposed him to all types of jazz, and he was at home in any idiom. He used harmonics often and could split a note into its components using his prodigious technique and a metal mouthpiece with a wide lay and a hard reed. He suffered from asthma and died of a bizarre gardening accident (asthma attack) in 1992."
"Hugh Thompson was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam who witnessed the massacre of civilians in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1967. He chose to intervene, and Kronos come together with others, including Vietnamese survivor Tr_n V_n __c, first in an opera, now in this musical tribute to more than 500 M_ Lai villagers killed, half of whom where children. His actrions left him villified as a disloyal outcast for much of his life. According to wiki, Thompson's paternal grandmother was full Cherokee Native American and his ancestors were victims of the ethnic cleansing policies and actions that resulted from the Indian Removal Act, most notably the Trail of Tears. It's not clear who the singer is at the start of this track. "
"Ng_c __i is one of the most influential composers in contemporary music in Vietnam. Due to the socio-political and sexual lyrics, the original album was prohibited by government to release in Vietnam. This album presents the Dai's unique singing style, evoking the northern Vietnamese folksong, composition based on the chanson music. He was born in 1946 in Vietnam. He studied composition in Hanoi Conservatory from 1977 to 1983 but soon decided to leave the national communist system and live as a true independent artist. He has also been recently convicted by the Vietnamese Authorities for being a counter-revolutionary artist when his last album was released."
"Recorded in NYC's Town Hall in November 1973, he's joined by Andrew Cyrille (drums), Jimmy Lyons (sax), and Sirone (bass). In a 1975 interview with Boston Public Television, he said: _The purpose of the music is to achieve a levitation or a trance which is the existence beyond the normal existence._ The -return- marked Taylor's first appearance in the New York area in five years. In the interim, he served as a visiting professor at Antioch College and University of Wisconsin-Madison -Trevor Smith via WBGO United"
"This collection pulls together a broad range of Aretha's demos spanning late 1966 to 1973. Here, she accompanies herself on the piano…the composer is unknown
Musicians from six countries join Keb in this recording produced as part of a jam series released via YouTube. Robert Johnson originally recorded it in 1930 for Son House records.
"This postumous compliation released 5 years after he died of asphyxia in his sleep after eating too many barbiturates. The album contains demo-type recordings that were overdubbed with musicians who had never played with Hendrix, including -- on this cut -- Buddy Lucus on the harmonica. "
"A.r.b.f, led by Yoram Rosilio, is a nebula of sound experimentation that fights against brain formatting aiming to inject the energy and revolution of free jazz into the music of the Maghreb -- the region encompassing Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. "
I asked a Russian colleague to recommend a non-touristy Georgian restaurant they liked in Moscow. I took a long walk from my hotel, through the Resurrection Gate into wide open Red Square, with it's Virgin Mary chapel, then past Lenin's tomb, the Kremlin, and out again just alongside the iconic St. Basil's Cathedral. Eventually, then, a bridge crossing the Moskva River that runs through the city. I eventually found the restaurant and the host sat me on a slightly elevated platform. About a dozen other tables of diners. There was a trio of Georgian musicians playing just next to me. This is their last serenade, as I happily ate my dumplings, dark bread and beef soup and, of course, a couple shots of vodka.
"Born Harry Kirby McClintock in Knoxville, TN (1882 - 1957) aka _Haywire Mac_ This is one of the first recordings of one of the most popular cowboy songs of all time. The credit for who wrote it has been a bit convoluted by now goes to a former slave black cowboy, Charley Willis. See earlier notes w/Arthur Russell's performance. "
