"Alexander B_l_nescu (born 11 June 1954) is a Romanian violinist and composer, founder of this quartet that bears his name. He is a founding member of the Michael Nymans band, and one can find recordings of B_l_nescu's original work on his albums for Mute (Maria T, Possessed, Luminitza, Angels & Insects) as well as his tribute to the Yellow Magic Orchestra, East Meets East (Con-Sipio), his score for the Italian war film Il Partigiano Johnny (Virgin, Italy), collaborations with electronic artists, Lume, Lume (Staubgold), being featured on Carla Bley's Big Band Theory, as well as guesting on albums by Goldfrapp, Gianna Nanini, Malika, To Rococo Rot, Spiritualized, Rabih Abou Khalil, The Pet Shop Boys and Grace Jones. - wiki"
"I was gathered with some other people last weekend., stood to share a few thoughts about binoculars & my search for a good handlens...desire to bring what is far away closer in; to become intimate with what is under my feet. As we broke up, a woman -- a stranger -- came to me and asked if I knew Robert Lax. Said he'd come into her mind as I spoke. She told me about how she'd gone to Greece in search of him... to Patmos, a remote island, and how she was guided to his door by various strangers she met along the way. So it seems right I, too, go in search o Lax, and I bring him to you today. Here's what written, and you can find more on-line, including a YouTube doc that I hope to soon watch. Click link. Robert Lax (1915-2000) was a poet with a singular vision and style whose quest to live an authentic life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and countless others. Known in the U.S. primarily as Merton’s best friend and in Europe as a daringly original avant-garde poet, Lax lived a life of simplicity, humility and grace that continues to encourage and motivate readers and followers. These excerpts are taken from a beautiful 58 min documentary by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel
This is the most notable track off Eno's twenty-ninth studio album...Confronting the climate crisis and the prospect of humankind’s demise...See link for review
They _push the boundaries of their mystical and magical Scandinavian string instruments._ Max Baillie on violin, Olav Luksengård Mjelva on Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and Erik Rydvall on Swedish nyckelharpa.
Bob released one of the top notch loner folk LP’s back in 1974 as a private release. I was wondering up Centre Street last Thu night with a friend and we had a number of amazing experiences wandering into Diversity Cosignment and met the amazing Hilkin Mancinin...this used clothing shop her latest enterprise, which are many. Further down the road, it was Deep Thoughts records and books. Another deep dive, and I pulled this album off the shelf. Uncle Bobby has moved on from his folk music days, and since appeared on Coast to Coast, and overnight conspiracy-leaning radio program, and has been published. His book Dirty Science promised to expose _Scientists who know nothing about the psychic and the spiritual use unscientific methods to block the study of these subjects, and this is universally accepted at American colleges and universities._ The album jacket is hand-made, presumably by niece/s and/or nephew/s who also came up with the name. It's covered in lime green paint -- over the top of a recycled Air Supply album (The One That you Love). Various bits of paper with xeroxed drawing and a listing of tracks and an image of Bob sitting on a rock w/his guitar (on bluepaper) are glued to the front and back.
White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) grew up in the Jim Crow South. During the 1920s and 30s, he had a prolific output of recordings in genres including Piedmont blues, country blues, gospel, and social protest songs. In 1931, White moved to New York, and within a decade his fame had spread widely; his repertoire expanded to include urban blues, jazz, traditional folk songs, and political protest songs. close friend and confidante to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, White's anti-segregationist and international human rights political stance resulted in the right-wing McCarthyites assuming he was a Communist. From 1947 through the mid-1960s, White was caught up in the anti-Communist Red Scare and his career was damaged. One note: civil rights activist and musician Byran Rustin was one of the Carolinians for this recording
Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919-2006), the only child of Augustus Cornelius Bennett, the owner of a bakery in Spanish Town, Jamaica and Kerene Robinson, a dressmaker. She moved to UK in 1943 to go to college, eventually hosting two radio programs for the BBC – Caribbean Carnival (1945–1946) and West Indian Night (1950). Bennett lived in Scarborough, Ontario. She died on 27 July 2006 at the Scarborough Grace Hospital after collapsing at her home. A memorial service was held in Toronto on 3 August 2006, after which her body was flown to Jamaica to lie in state at the National Arena on 7 and 8 August. A funeral was held in Kingston at the Coke Methodist Church at East Parade on 9 August 2006 followed by her interment in the cultural icons section of the country's National Heroes Park. She was praised as an inspiration to Jamaicans as she +proudly presented the Jamaican language and culture to a wider world and today we are the beneficiaries of that audacity.+ - wiki See link for Google's commemorataion of her 100th bday.
"AKA Allan Hope, a Revolutionary Dub Poet, born +Allan Hope+ on 26th December, 1952, Rae Town, Kingston, Jamaica. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he studied Electronics at Kingston Technical High School. Whilst working at the Jamaica Telephone Company he declared himself a Rastafarian, changed his diet, stopped combing his hair and grew dreadlocks. Mutabaruka means +He who is always victorious+ in Rwandan - discogs"
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4:31
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Cat Power [George Koury and Philip Baptiste (aka Phil Phillips)]
"Originally released in 1959 -- the only top-40 chart-maker for Phillips aka Baptiste, who never recorded another hit. Baptiste, who was working as a bellboy in Lake Charles, Louisiana, wrote +Sea of Love+ for a love interest. He was introduced to local record producer George Khoury, who took Baptiste into his studio to record it. At Khoury's request, Baptiste took the stage name of Phil Phillips. The song, originally credited to Phil Phillips with The Twilights, was released on a small record label owned by Khoury, but due to its success it was eventually leased to Mercury Records. Despite the success of +Sea of Love+, Phillips claimed that he only ever received US$6,800 for recording it. - wiki"
"From Youtube: When I was a young man living in England there was a series of +In Concert+ TV programmes broadcast with singer / songwriters of the day including Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell and of course Melanie Safka. This particular short +concert+ was recorded in London on 14/7/1971 and broadcast 8/1/1972. I remember being mesmerised by Melanie's performance, and its power has not diminished over the intervening years, although sadly the +peace and love+ message, so prominent in Melanie's lyrics, never really got much further than 1971, we all hoped it would after the short lived +halcyon+ years of hope from 1967 - 1970. As Joni Mitchell sang in 1972 on California + Sitting in a park in Paris, France, Reading the news and it sure looks bad, They won't give peace a chance, That was just a dream some of us had .... + - Sky Vibes on Youtube In Concert (also known as BBC In Concert) was a British music television series, broadcast live by the BBC between 1970 and 1974. Each episode consists of a one-hour live performance by a single singer songwriter. The series premiered on 9 October 1970 on BBC Two. It is credited in the evolution of the music video. (wiki)"
"Unit 4 + 2 were a British pop band formed in Hertfordshire, England, who had a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1965 with the song +Concrete and Clay+. The track topped the UK chart for one week. Members included: Rod Garwood, Hugh Halliday, Howard Lubin, David Miekel, Tommy Moeller, Pete Moules."
In the southeast of Tajikistan, where the majestic Pamir Mountains reach heights only slightly lower than those of the Himalayas, local traditions of devotional song, mystical music, and dance have flourished among mountain-dwelling Pamiri people, many of whom are Shia Isma’ili Muslims. Artists of the this ensemble present their cultural practices that, together with Badakhshan’s rugged geography, nourished the preservation of traditional culture. -- see link for more
Gordon (1928-2002) born in Memphis and Gordon was one of the “Beale Streeters“, a moniker given to a group of musicians who helped develop the style known as Memphis Blues. See link for more.
"AKA Allan Hope, a Revolutionary Dub Poet, born +Allan Hope+ on 26th December, 1952, Rae Town, Kingston, Jamaica. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he studied Electronics at Kingston Technical High School. Whilst working at the Jamaica Telephone Company he declared himself a Rastafarian, changed his diet, stopped combing his hair and grew dreadlocks. Mutabaruka means +He who is always victorious+ in Rwandan - discogs"
Features Buddy Terry Edlin +Buddy+ Terry on Tenor. Roach is considered by some to be one of the "more underrated soul-jazz organists of the '60s." He recorded a series of seven albums for Blue Note and Prestige. See link for more.
"This was an American band originating from San Francisco, California. Active from 1966 to 1983, they were pivotal in the development of funk, soul, R&B, rock, and psychedelic music. Their core line-up was led by singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone (aka Sylvester Stewart), and included Stone's brother and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone, sister and singer/keyboardist Rose Stone, trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Greg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham. The band was the first major American rock group to have a racially integrated, mixed-gender lineup. - wiki"
"Indianapolis saxophonist Cecily Terhune dives headfirst into an exploration of heroism. The theory goes as follows: Most myths in human history have an archetypal heroine/hero who answers a call to journey through a supernatural world. After undergoing a transformation of strength and character, the heroine returns equipped with material and/or incorporeal boons to bestow upon her community."
Long Gone Miles, vocal and guitar; Lightnin’ Hopkins, vocal and guitar; Love Crazy, vocal (from tape 396, MD 12/13) A previously unreleased track, this interplay between Long Gone Miles and Lightnin’ Hopkins Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins (1912–1982) was one of the most important and best- known artists with whom McCormick recorded and worked. Originally from Centerville, Texas, Hopkins developed a seemingly endless repertory of songs, often making them up on the spot. As Hopkins told Paul Oliver, he’d sometimes just begin a “kind of ramble about different things” and see where it took him. During the 1940s Hopkins played as a duo with Thunder Smith as “Lightnin’ and Thunder,” which released their first record in 1947. For the next decade, Hopkins primarily recorded singles for small labels. Hopkins had stopped recording by the time music historian Sam Charters tracked him down in Houston about a decade later. He convinced Hopkins to record again, for an album that Folkways released. Accustomed to the singles market, Hopkins insisted on receiving cash after each song. It was a savvy decision, enabling him to leave the studio as soon as he made as much money as he wanted for the day’s work, regardless of whether he had recorded enough songs for an album. Charters and those who later recorded Hopkins’s albums often had to search for him the next day to round out the track list. Fellow record collector Chris Strachwitz had been intrigued by a Hopkins song he heard on the radio, so when he later visited Texas, he asked McCormick to bring him to Hopkins. McCormick had learned about Hopkins’s general whereabouts from Charters and tracked him down with Strachwitz, which led to many recordings being released on Arhoolie. In 1959, McCormick took over Hopkins’s management, which led Hopkins to tour outside Texas for the first time and to release several albums on various labels. Around 1963, Hopkins let McCormick go and went on to make hundreds of recordings and to release albums for many different labels through the 1960s and
"Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919-2006) (see link for bio) From YouTube, expressions of love and appreciation in the comments on this age. From @soulflotv _miss lou was telling the world that jamaica is a friendly place with real people and dont be turned off by the aggressiveness of the language , it sound harsh but we are just talking , come to jamaica , learn the language ,learn the culture , its worth it , we are valuable, miss lou made jamaica famous to the world just like bob marley did with reggae , long live this legend ,gone in the flesh but spirit will live on for ever , _"
"aka Volker Bertelmann is a German composer and pianist best known for his compositions for prepared piano. He won an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for his work on All Quiet on the Western Front. B: 1967 Kreuztal, Germany"
