This spellbinding and complex polyphonic vocal music of the Babinga Bangombe and Babenzélé Pygmy peoples in the region of Ouesso, on the left bank of the Sangho river in Republic of the Congo (aka Congo-Brazzaville). These nomadic hunter-gatherer forest people’s collective music and dance accompanies many of their daily activities, most notably magical rituals for the hunt. Taken from recordings made by 23 year old ethnologist Noël Ballif (1922-1993) organized and led a 12 member Ogooué-Congo scientific expedition. They made 600 field recordings, took 3,000 photographs, shot film footage and collected artifacts of disappearing cultures and ways of life in the Republic of Congo and Gabon.
"George Barnes & Bill Bauer on guitars with Jack Lesberg,(bass), Hank D'Amico (clarinet), Cliff Leeman (drums) Barnes, born in Chicago 1921, Bauer in NYC in 1915. Bother were pioneering, multi faceted soloists and sidemen. See link for more on Barnes. "
"British funk/rasta/chant band formed by bassist Steve Scipio and guitarist Patrick Patterson in London, got their start in 1971. They had several periods of going away and coming back together and are presently reconfigured and performing. This debut album has just been reissued "
Wah Wah aka Melvin M Ragin was born & bred in Richmond who moved to Detroit and became a go-to player in the emergent musical scene…steady player in Mo-Town's house band, The Funk Brothers.
"The birth of the talkbox was in 1939. Alvino Rey, amateur radio operator W6UK, used a carbon throat microphone wired in such a way as to modulate his electric steel guitar sound. The mic, originally developed for military pilot communications, was placed on the throat of Rey's wife Luise King (one of The King Sisters), who stood behind a curtain and mouthed the words, along with the guitar lines. The novel-sounding combination was called _Singing Guitar_, and employed on stage and in the movie Jam Session, as a _novelty_ attraction, but was not developed further. Wonders performance here using a gave the talkbox its first national television prominence. He used a Kustom Electronic _Bag_ which was the first mass market talkbox available. - wiki"
"The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio composed of Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya) on Organ/Synth/percussion, Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) on electric gtr, and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B. on bass/alto sax/alto voice bass/alto sax/alto voice. Hailing from Cairo formed in 2012 while living in the same apartment building in Cairo's Agouza district. The trio soon set out on crafting their sound built on instrumental improvisational loops of percussion as well as taking influence from Krautrock and free jazz among other sounds. Joining them here on percussion is Pierre Guy Blanchard. - discogs.com This is their debut release. """
"A deep dive into the Basement collection and beyond, this collection aims to present a comprehensive set of circulating demos and other studio-based material the band has recorded, arranged in approximate chronological order, 1973-2009. -BOOJI BOY'S BASEMENT"
"4th studio album, and the first to be fully produced by the band themselves. Warner initially rejected including this tune. Devo released it independently and found it to be a hit-maker. Warner relented and included it in later pressing of the album. - wiki"
"According to the review on allmusic.com, _The similarity between early mbube and pre-quartet African-American gospel (jubilee) is astonishing, as are the vocalists' range, soaring harmonies, smashing leads, and swirling accompaniment."
In 1957, George -- an influential master of all musical genres -- recorded COUNTRY JAZZ, still heralded as an innovation of musical convergence. 9 years later, Barnes signed with Mercury Records, where he recorded three albums. One of the three, MOVIN' EASY, was a collection of standards and Barnes originals recorded with the Jazz Renaissance Quintet. It was during those sessions that Barnes proposed the idea of recording an album of classical jazz with the quintet. After hearing Barnes' Bach Fugue demo, Mercury loved the music, but deemed the project too esoteric, and the recording was shelved. The only remaining material from the one-day session were two acetate discs — reference lacquers created in 1962 (the mono edit) and 1972 (the outtakes and full unedited performance in stereo). The discs, intended only for limited use, had been played many times over the years. Most of the considerable damage to the discs has been digitally removed, while preserving the dynamics of the music and the voices of the participants. Clarinet – Hank D'Amico, Double Bass – Jack Lesberg, Drums – Cliff Leeman, Electric Guitar – Bucky Pizzarelli and George Barnes.
An underwater concert by five performers submerged in water tanks, playing custom-made instruments and singing - entirely underwater. This is an excerpt from the concert. Between Music is a Danish group including musicians Laila Skovmand - vocal and hydraulophone Performer: Robert Karlsson - violin and crystallophone Performer: Morten Poulsen - drums Performer: Dea Marie Kjeldsen - percussion Performer: Nanna Bech - vocal and rotacorda
"International fusion band based in Munich, Germany (formed in 1970 as Between The Chairs), featuring avant-garde tendencies within a music that blended the medieval, the ancient and the futuristic. Principal is Roberto C. Detree, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1940. He played harmonica and recorder at the age of three, began to play accordion at eight and guitar at eleven, which he still plays today as a self-taught musician."
Recorded in the chapel that is part of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope Clemintine VI led the Catholic Church from 1342 er 1352 during the period of the Bubonic Plague -- the worst in human history with 75–200 million people dying. Clemintine granted remission of sins to all who died of the plague (which he attributed to divine wrath). But he also sought the opinions of astrologers for an explanation. He consecrated the entire Rhône River so that it could be considered holy ground and bodies could be thrown into it. A third of his cardinals died, but he avoided contracting the disease perhaps by following the advice of his doctor to sit between two huge fires, even in the heat of summer- wiki
"With Bill Kreutzmann, David Crosby, David Frieberg*, David Geffen, Elliot Roberts, Ethan Crosby, Gary Burden, Grace Slick, Graham Nash, Gregg Rolie, Henry Diltz, Jack Casady, Jerry Garcia, Joni Mitchell, Jorma Kaukonen, Laura Allen*, Michael Shrieve, Mickey Hart, Neil Young, Paul Kantner, Phil Lesh, Robert Hammer (2), Ronald Stone, Stephen Barncard. See link for Pitchfork review"
"Strange presence on the internet. An unnamed person singing in a unique ways many songs that, like this one, is familiar to a particular segment of the population. "
