"Lockwood (born July 29, 1939, in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born American composer and academic musician. She taught electronic music at Vassar College.[1] Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds. She has also recorded Fluxus-inspired pieces involving burning or drowning pianos. Her spouse of 46 years, Ruth Anderson, was a respected electronic composer. "
"American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of drummer Robby Staebler, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Charles Michael Parks Jr., guitarist Ben McLeod, and keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Allan Van Cleave. This is the first song from ATW's upcoming project, _Baker's Dozen._"
"The Syndicats were an English beat band formed in 1963 with Thomas Ladd on vocals, Steve Howe on guitar and backing vocals, Kevin Driscoll on bass and backing vocals, Jeff Williams on organ and piano, and John _Truelove_ Melton on drums."
"Sri Lankan group formed by Clarence Wijewardena in 1965. The group disbanded in the early '70s. This cut features Indrani Perera and Clarence Wijewardena. Wijewardena experimented with sitar music and introduced the sitar to some of the songs of the 'Moonstones. For the first time in Sri Lanka, he used a guitar wah wah pedal for this particular song (Pemkathwawal). Since Wijewardena's death in 1996 at 53, there has been alot of contention re: intellectual property. His widow has been unable to secure rights to his compositions, and has had little recourse. "
"The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who began performing together on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1960s. Their unique blend of folk music revival and psychedelia gave them a cult-like following from the late 1960s into the 1970s. For a time the group also included the playwright and actor Sam Shepard. Stampfel explained the origin of the name in the webzine Perfect Sound Forever: _We kept changing the name. First it was the Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers. Then the Temporal Worth High Steppers. Then The Motherfucker Creek Babyrapers...then it was the Total Modal Rounders. Then when we were stoned on pot and someone else, Steve Close maybe, said Holy Modal Rounders by mistake. .- wiki"
"From an amazing compilation of South African Kwela, or pennywhistler players, half of the selection feature this group who also performed with American clarinetist Tony Scott when he toured South Africa in August 1957. On that occasion the Dead End Kids included Shakes Molepo, Benjamin Masindi, Joseph Mahlatsi and Sophonia Namini.
He crosses into many musical terrains. _Through my compositions, I invite the public to discover an accordion chameleon, outside clichés _accordeon music_, which crosses by very eclectic styles as the nuevo tango, the rumba, the sound, and the other Latin rhythms, the milonga, the waltz swing, the sertao and the samba of the brésil, the ballad-jazz, the music inspirations of the Balkans or the Yiddish fleurtant with the Jazz and the other surprises of more classic spirit _. -- Jacques Pellarin.
"from his 7th studio album, and his most successful. Besides singing, he's playing the Mellatron. This cut was included in the soundtrack for First Ladies"
"New Zealand born, house in the Hudson Valley and was, with her spouse Ruth Anderson, close friends & associates w/Pauliine Oliveros & her wife Ione. See earlier in playlist for more details on her, and link "
Chicago cellist, composer, and improviser Lia Kohl. Here, Kohl expands her twin practices of layering improvisations to create music and incorporating these layers within found sounds. She took hours of live radio samples recorded primarily on Vashon Island in Washington State, choosing select moments – bits of weather reports, prayers, talk shows, ads, and music – to elaborate on with her own recordings...she believes he world of radio is ripe with possibility, holding both the mundanity of ads and news with moments of profound beauty or weight...inviting us to time travel. - bandcamp
"Grace Slick joins her on back up, andf -- interestingly -- Lisa Germano also plays on this albm. She's violinst, mandolin player, and composer in her own right who played for some time w/John Mellencamp. This album, In Flight, was described by Perry as _an audio diary_ inspired by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon [12] She said she would have made it during her time as a member of 4 Non Blondes, but she _didn't have enough influence in the band_. The album was intended to create an _atmosphere for visualization in the mind._ - Wiki"
Namtchylak is an experimental singer, born in 1957 in a secluded village in the south of Tuva. She is proficient in overtone singing; her music encompasses avant-jazz, electronica, modern composition and Tuvan influences. Being the daughter of a pair of schoolteachers, she grew up in an isolated village on the Tuvan/Mongolian border, exposed to the local overtone singing – something that was generally reserved for the males; in fact, females were actively discouraged from learning it (even now, the best-known practitioners remain male, artists like Huun-Huur-Tu and Yat-Kha). However, she learned much of her traditional repertoire from her grandmother, and went on to study music at the local college, but she was denied professional qualifications. Quietly she studied the overtone singing, as well as the shamanic traditions of the region, before leaving for study further in Moscow. She's released nearly 50 albums to date. - wiki
"Third studio album & aka Gerald Maxell Rivera's first to top the R&B charts. Maxwell grew up in East NY, a neighborhood of Brooklyn with a Haitian mother and Puerto Rican father. His father died in a plane crash when Maxwell was 3 years old. - wiki"
Born in Columbus, GA, she met her musician husband Doug just before planning to go to NYC to study at Julliard. She's said to have had a five-octave vocal range in her prime. She & Doug eventually divorced. She went on to perform in Ellington’s final spiritual work and toured with him for a month, his last outings before he died in May that same year. “He was ill at the time, but he was such a wonderful, grandfatherly gentleman,” she says. “Between shows, he would rest in the dressing room and ask me to sing for him. He showed me the skill in singing very high and very soft and was always recounting his philosophies on life. (see link)
"_Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Torquay, Victoria, Australia; born 29th May 1978. He mostly performs as 'one-man-band' an plays a lot of instruments simultaneously, e.g. didgeridoos, various percussion, slide guitars, harmonica and so on. One of his grandmothers was from an Irish potato-growing family and grew up in Colac, Victoria. Rudd is of Aboriginal, Irish and Scottish heritage, furthermore mentioning having Wurundjeri ancestry,and that one of his great grandmothers was an Aboriginal Australian, and her child (Rudd's paternal grandmother) was taken away from her. In 2003, he was adopted into the Dhuwa mob (one of two moieties of the Yolngu people) in northeast Arnhem Land. He has also spent time with people from several North American indigenous groups —the Cree, Mohawk and Iroquois.- wiki
"Rudd recorded most of the album in Ontario, Canada at a studio in a wooden cottage by a lake. Follow The Sun_, which features the sound of magpies at the start, was the last track recorded for the album, and the only song recorded outside of Canada, at Studios 301 in Byron Bay"
