"Brit Hebden's 3rd solo album (aka Four Tet). Hebden recorded and produced the album in his North London flat over ten months using a desktop computer and a home hi-fi system. Its ten tracks feature elements of hip hop, jazz and folk, and composed from between 200 and 300 samples, many processed beyond recognition."
"I'm currently in residence on San Juan Island with the kitchen radio tuned to a local community radio station out of Squimish, WA. This recording I made Sat morning waiting for my coffee to brew. Ciccos the gardener recently competed against his wife of 40 years, Mary, in a pot contest. Click the link to see who won. "
Lida Husik & Beumont Hannant featured. Husik was born in DC and relased several albumsin the '90s.Disappeared until 2006 when she produced a digiital single called Nuclear Soul.
Pontiac had lived a storied life: Getting into a fistfight with Little Walter for stealing his harmonica style, having one of his songs become a hit in Nigeria after being bootlegged there, and ultimately refusing to record for any label whose owner wouldn’t come and mow his lawn. The liner notes on the original CD were festooned with superlatives from rock ‘n’ roll royalty: Leonard Cohen called the music “a revelation,” Iggy Pop said “Marvin would kick your ass for nothing”, and even David Bowie came through on a blurb, saying it struck him that “Pontiac was so uncontainably prescient that one might think that these tracks had been assembled today.”
"Recorded and annotated by Frank Proschan. He captured the people living in the uplands of Laos, Thailand. They numbered around 600,000. The audio collection was the first of its king, recording/capturing the sounds and songs of the Kmhmu people"
He was born in New York City. An LP of his dream diatribes – The Dream World Of Dion McGregor (He Talks In His Sleep) – was released to minor acclaim by Decca Records in 1964. A book of the same name, containing the transcripts of a wider selection of McGregor's dreams, and with illustrations by Edward Gorey, was also published in 1964. McGregor would essentially narrate his dreams at conversational volume. As a narrator of his (often terrifying) dreams, Dion adopted various personas but frequently established a fey, argumentative, insolent approach to the subject at hand – be it a hot air balloon trip to the moon with a group of multi-ethnic children, a frantic journey around New York, or a tattooing job on a woman's tongue. In 2017 Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor made an experimental documentary film about McGregor's dreams called Somniloquies.The original recordings were, reportedly, recorded by his roommate. - wiki
"Cuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world's most renowned string quartets and, for forty years, the leading proponent of Latin American music for the genre. The group was Founded in Mexico in 1982. To date, they've reorded more than 80 CD recordings "
"This a musical collective started by Marc Anthony Thompson, a Panamanian singer-songwriter based in New York City. Marc Jon Medeski ae in the group. Ribot & Thompson conceived Chocolate Genius as an alter ego, which then became a music project."
"Harlem Bush Music is a compilation of two albums by saxophonist Gary Bartz NTU Troop which were recorded in 1970 and 1971. Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. of Allmusic said _How one finally looks at Harlem Bush Music -- is it music, politics, or something in between -- matters less than understanding the time and place that it was made. And whether one ultimately finds these efforts by the Gary Bartz Ntu Troop satisfying or tiring matters less than appreciating the adventurous spirit that went into making them_"
"w/Quincy Jones & Orchestra. In this original version, the song is a song of regret, with a verse introducing the theme in words which include: _Love was mine, you gave me a chance; But my heart was not content and I lost my romance.._ - wiki"
"Ran Blake, piano; Ricky Ford, Tenor; Steve Lacy, soprano saxophone. Blake is an incredibly prolific recording artiist and composer. He teaches and performs, still at NEC. "
"Kahil El'Zabar is Kenyan (born Clifton Blackburn; November 11, 1953) -- an American jazz multi-instrumentalist (mainly a percussionist) and composer."
"He was a singer favoring the nyatiti (an eight-stringed lyre with its origins credited to the Luo, a tribe in Nyanza Kenya) as his characteristic instrument. His music is known to have a natural feel to it, having songs of birds, the calls of animals and the sounds of children playing in the background.["
"Shankar was an Indian musician, singer, and composer best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to dancer and choreographer Tanusree Shankar. In the late 1960s, Shankar travelled to Los Angeles, where he played with many contemporary musicians including Jimi Hendrix. There he was signed to Reprise Records and released this first album, with original Indian classical material alongside sitar-based cover versions of popular hits. in cluding (in addition to this cut), The Rolling Stones' _Jumpin' Jack Flash._ He died in 1999 of heart failure at age 56. """
