"_String Noise is Conrad Harris, violin; Pauline Kim Harris, violin. This is their second album, and they dedicate it to the music of commissioned works from three composers. _"
"_Excerpt from Rodney King's remarks after the 1992 aquittal of the LA police officers who were filmed brutalizing him after a police chase. The rioting lasted six days and killed 63 people, with 2,383 more injured; it ended only after the California Army National Guard, the Army, as well as the Marine Corps provided reinforcements to re-establish control. A federal court eventually convicted 2 of the officers. King died on Father's Day 2012, drowning in his back-yard swimming pool. It was the 28 years to the day his father died of accidental drowning in a bath tub. _"
"_Brooklyn born,actress, rapper, singer, songwriter with roots in the Caribbean. She starred in the Emmy awarding winning HBO series, The Corner. In 2010, Connor abandoned the media industry and went back to the Islands to look after her father, whose health was declining due to a terminal illness and died in 2012._"
Amanda Jo Williams was born in Georgia. She had a lot of outdoor fun, especially with her brother. She quit college very abruptly and moved to New York at 19 after attending a modeling convention in Columbus, Georgia. It was a rip-off but Amanda met an agent. He said, “Come to New York.” She did, and then went alot of other places, including Woodstock where she met a shaman. She eventually landed in L.A where she is today, making music and raising 3 kids.
"_This is a Abayudayan lullaby, sung in Luganda text, with a mother encouraing her baby to take its first unsteady steps. The Abayudaya is a community of about 600 practicing Jewish people living in a cluster of villages in Eastern Uganda. Their ancestors converted in 1919, separating themselves through religious observation, from Chrisitan missionaries and British political rule -- liner notes_"
Collection of songs resulting from one late summer afternoon in Gendel’s Los Angeles home, is less an album and more a moment. The ten tracks here were recorded mostly in one sitting, fully improvised, in the order in which they appear. It was the first and last time the songs have been played.At the time of recording, Cytrynowicz was only eleven years old. The younger sister of Gendel’s significant other and creative partner Marcella, Cytrynowicz is an artist in her own way. She has no formal musical training. She spontaneously crafted all the melodies and lyrics on the spot as Gendel played alongside her.
"_Previously unissued performance. Joining Shaw in this March 1954 date are Hank Jones, pno; Tal Farlow, gtr; Tommy Potter, bs; Joe Roland, vibes; Irv Kluger, dr. This collection draws from Shaw's final recordings as an instrumentalist, before choosing to focus on being a band leader, composer, and arranger. Said Shaw about this release, _I never played again and I never regretted it....All the public wanted was Beguine and Frenesi...Jesus! It can drive you crazy._ - liner notes by Loren Schoenberg_"
"_The Ideal Bread, in 2007, this NY based group has existed with only two rules: 1.) Ideal Bread would be a band in the traditional sense, the same members for every album and every show 2.) Ideal Bread would play exclusively the music of iconoclastic saxophonist-composer Steve Lacy. Josh Sinton
"_Tchicai is a Danish free form saxophonist. He met Archie Shepp and trumpet player Bill Dixon at a music festival in Helsinki, 1961. They convinced him to move to New York, so he did. Stayed for five years gigging with Shepp, Coltrane and Albert Ayler among others. Back to Copenhagen until 1991 when her returned to California. Lived there for a decade. On this cut, we hear Jeff Parker accompanying Komunyakaa on the electric guitar. Yusef Komunyakaa is a prize-winning American born in 1947 and given the name James William Brown. He was the eldest of five children of James William Brown, a carpenter, and his wife. He grew up in the small town of Bogalusa, Louisiana. As an adult, he reclaimed the name Komunyakaa, said to be his grandfather's African name. He said that his grandfather had reached the United States as a stowaway in a ship from Trinidad. He served in the US Army, serving one tour of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. After a 10 marriage to Australian novelist Mandy Sayer, he had a relationship with India-born poet Reetika Vazirani. They had a son (Jehan) together. In 2003, Vazirani killed the two-year-old boy and committed suicide in 2003. Komunyakaa is now a professor in the Creative Writing Program at New York University. - wiki _"
"_Russian born Slonimsky was a fascinating character conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer. His Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns was essential to Frank Zappa, and Quincy Jones said in a February 2018 interview: _Every time I used to see Coltrane he'd have Nicolas Slonimsky's book_. Slonimsky became friends with Zappa, and performed with him in 1981 in Santa Monica. His appearance on the Tonight Show with Johanny Carson featured his performance of a Chopin Mazurka holding an orange in his right hand (see the link)> _"
"_Cogan is a Candian singer/song writer born in Salt Spring Island, BC. She's based now in Vancouver, and said to be part of a close knit Canadian sisterhood which includes the Begood Tanyas and Carolyn Mark._"
"_Thibaudet is an internationally reknown French pianist. Gaspard de la nuit is a three-_poem_ suite, each work based on a poem by Aloysius Bertrand. This piece, _Ondine,_ depicts a water fairy wooing an observer, trying to seduce him into the watery depths of her kingdom. The shimmering opening reflects light ripples upon a calm body of water, and gradually builds into a torrent of notes._"
"_Adrianne Lenker met Buck Meek at a show in Boston in 2012 while she was attending Berklee. The came together later in Brooklyn and began performing as a duo, eventually marrying. Lenker's early years were spend in a cult -- her parents eventually left it -- and had a nomadic childhood. She never went to high school & got a black belt in karate. Meek & Lenker divorced in 2018, the band held together. Lenker spent some significant pandemic time alone in a cabin in western MA. I assume this release includes some of the material generated during that time. _"
"_This the first solo EP for Hutchins, the influential jazz saxophonist and leader of Sons of Kemet, the Comet Is Coming, and Shabaka and the Ancestors. _"
"_This recording was made on Feb 14, 1964 at Monbra, a village a day's walk on a footpath from Kong to Ngambe in Central Cameroon. The recordings were made by Gerhard Kubik, who provides liner notes, or -- he says -- another member of his team. The current population of Tikar in Cameroon is approximately 168,000-173,000. The earliest historical accounts the people have of their origins dates back to the 12th century. Majority of the Tikar people would later be kidnapped by Fulani traffickers in the 18th and 19th centuries, who were angry at the Tikar's thriving trade deals through iron-working and mask-making. They were then sold into slavery and forcibly taken to the Americas in the Atlantic Slave Trade, leading to the drastic decline of the Tikar ethnic group in Cameroon. Through DNA testing, people of African descent across the United States and the Carribean have been able to trace their maternal lineages to the Tikar people of Cameroon. This includes notables such as Quincy Jones, Condeleezza Rice, Wanda Sykes, Don Cheadle, and Spike Lee. - wiki_"
Collection of songs resulting from one late summer afternoon in Gendel’s Los Angeles home, is less an album and more a moment. The ten tracks here were recorded mostly in one sitting, fully improvised, in the order in which they appear. It was the first and last time the songs have been played.At the time of recording, Cytrynowicz was only eleven years old. The younger sister of Gendel’s significant other and creative partner Marcella, Cytrynowicz is an artist in her own way. She has no formal musical training. She spontaneously crafted all the melodies and lyrics on the spot as Gendel played alongside her.
"_Solo performance by one of the few people who perform on the glass harmonica, an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. Last week's ITMOTO (_Took_) introduced the instrument and featured a number of selections performed by Thomas Bloch. Visit http://mixcloud.com/ITMOTO/uploads
"_Psychedelic rock band from St. Joseph, Missouri. They recorded this in 1969, but never released it. In 2015, Numero picked it up and put it out into the world. _"
"_Recorded in 1971 by a 27-year-old pastor and an after school program choir, Like A Ship is a stirring and powerful meditation on the wayward aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. Barrett is a preacher on Chicago's South Side who released gospel albums in the 1970s; as a musician, he was largely unknown outside of Chicago until a resurgence in interest in his music occurred in the 2010s. His recordings has been sampled by Kanye West, Richard Ashcroft, and used extensively in TV and movie soundtracks. _"
"_Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. _"
