The Poison Girls were an English anarcho-punk band from Brighton active from 1976-87. The singer/guitarist, Vi Subversa, was a middle-aged mother of two at the band's inception, and wrote songs that explored sexuality and gender roles, often from an anarchist perspective. This excerpt is from their debut release. - discogs
Edwards is married to Seattle native Caroline Craabel (b: 1961), a free jazz saxophonist living in London. She became active in London's improvised music scene, developing a style based on extended techniques and acoustics.She organized and conducted pieces for Mass Producers , a 20-piece, all-female saxophone/voice orchestra[5] and for Saxophone Experimentals in Space, a 55-piece group of young saxophonists. Kraabel hosted a weekly radio show on Resonance FM and is the editor for the London Musicians Collective's magazine Resonance. - wiki
Bush Lady is the only recording ever made by Alanis Obomsawin, a member of the Abenaki First Nations and best known as one of Canada’s most accomplished and decorated documentary filmmakers. Less well known is that Obomsawin began her artistic career as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s, part of a broad movement of Indigenous artists from across North America rallying in new assertions of cultural consciousness, political rights, and reckonings with oppressive colonial history. She was born in Lebonon, New Hampshire, United States and raised primarily in Quebec, Canada. Works for National Film Board of Canada. She's now 90 years old.
Am 4 is Linda Sharrock, Uli Scherer (Aurstrian pianist), Wolfgang Puschnig (Austrian jazz sax player). Sharrock nee Chameber b: 1947 in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Clip from NYTimes (see link): Last April, the Vienna-based avant-garde jazz vocalist Linda Sharrock gave her first New York performance in over 40 years: a sold-out concert at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House, as part of a series curated by Solange. Appearing between the poet Claudia Rankine and the saxophonist Archie Shepp, Sharrock guided eight musicians through a fully improvised set while she howled powerfully over the cacophonous squall of free jazz in a declamatory style that evoked the evening’s program title, “The Cry of My People.” It wasn’t until after she’d received multiple standing ovations that most of the audience realized the 76-year-old singer wasn’t able to speak: Sharrock became aphasic after a 2009 stroke that paralyzed her right side; she now uses a wheelchair.
Azema (b: 1957) is accompnanied by Shira Kammen on the harpe. Azema is a French-born soprano, scholar, and stage director. She is currently artistic director of the Boston Camerata. She has been an important or leading singer of early music since 1993. She has created and directed programs for the Boston Camerata and is also noted as a music scholar - wiki
La Barbara (b: 1947) started out in Philly is onsidered to be a vocal virtuoso in the field of contemporary music, she is credited with advancing a new vocabulary of vocal sounds including trills, whispers, cries, sighs, inhaled tones, and multiphonics (singing two or more pitches simultaneously). She's currently on facultry at NYU and Mannes. Kenneth Goldsmith is an experimental sound/poet. He created the fantastic repository of sounds, Ubuweb. On January 1, 2024, UbuWeb shuttered, posting: "As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer active. But the archive lives on forever See link
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Jane [Jane Lancaster and Edward Barton (aka Owain Anthony Barton)]
Jane Lancaster (also known as Jane) (born 1963) was a British singer, who teamed up with at that time her boyfriend, Edward Burton to compose the song, It's A Fine Day. The track gained interest from the Red Cherry label, who released it as a single. An album followed on, with credits going to Jane And Burton. After that she made some records before later going into acting, including appearances on Coronation Street, before finally becoming a fitness instructor. THe tune turned into a daytime Radio 1 staple after evening plays from – inevitably – John Peel, it later became the sampled source material for a deluge of 1990s dance hits: including the Pete Waterman-backed Opus III, who took it into the Top 5, and Kylie Minogue, whose 1994 No 2 hit ‘Confide In Me‘ incorporated sizeable chunks of the melody. Edward would later claim the only section of the song not to have been sampled is the concluding line: “We will have salad”.
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.
This is the 3rd studio album for Raitt. Wiki says: In 1973, Raitt moved to Los Angeles, and became friends with members of American rock band Little Feat. After the release of their album Dixie Chicken (1973), Raitt hired frontman and guitarist Lowell George to produce her upcoming album. Raitt was unhappy with George's production, which she said was due to a lack of objectivity. According to Raitt: "It became too emotional. It's hard having a strong woman telling the man her ideas when, in fact, the man wants to take over the situation." American musician John Hall was then brought in for production to replace George. Under the direction of Hall, Takin' My Time was recorded from June to July 1973 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles.
Chiweshe (1946-2023) a Zimbabwean musician, composer, actress, and activist internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. She is one of the few female players of the instrument. The songs were mostly recorded in the 1970’s, during the buildup to the Chimurenga revolution, and were only ever released in Stella’s home country.
The Opiates is Birgit Dieckmann (aka Billie Ray Martin) and Robert Solheim, both Germans. Martin was born in Germany in 1960. Her first solo release was a dark electro-chanson reworking of Throbbing Gristle's 'Persuasion', with the techno duo Spooky in 1993. She moved to NYC after that and continued making & recording music, including laying the foundations to the 2001 album '18 Carat Garbage', which was the culmination of her dream to record in Memphis. DJ and producer from Norway. He is the founder of CurrentMusik and co-founder of Aquavit Records.- discogs
Founded in 1976 at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal by Jean Laurendeau, the Ensemble seeks to familiarize audiences throughout the world, and particularly in North America, with the Ondes Martenot, or Martenot waves, or ondes musicales ("musical waves"). It is an early electronic musical instrument played with a keyboard or by moving a ring along a wire, creating "wavering" sounds similar to a theremin. A player of the ondes Martenot is called an ondist. It was invented in 1928 by the French cellist Maurice Martenot, a cross between and organ and a theramin. Martenot had been a radio operator during World War I, and developed the ondes Martenot in an attempt to replicate the accidental overlaps of tones between military radio oscillators. The Ensemble continues today its activities most often in the formation of wave quartet comprised of musicians Jean Laurendeau, Johanne Goyette, Lucie Filteau, Marie Bernard, Serge Gratton. Their intenton is to be an open ensemble where works composed not only for quartets but also for the most diverse formations are interpreted. - wiki See link for more detail on how it's played.
Berlin-based composer Catherine Lamb’s music inhabits different worlds. Inspired by visual art, geometry, phenomenology, and the relationships between tone and color, sound and physical space, Lamb’s conceptual approach mirrors that of sound artist Maryanne Amacher’s notion of “immersive sonic architecture.” see link for full article
June 29, 1963, this was episode 21 of Julia Child's first season on public television. Click link for wiki entry on native sister, Julia, and the genesis of the first cooking show in America. She's also noted for creating the first cookbook (Mastering the Art of French Cooking) with pictures!
Hania Rani (ala Hanna Ranisszewska) is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics.
Gertrude E. "Trudy" Pitts (August 10, 1932 – December 19, 2010)[1] was an American soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania trained at Julliard, Temple U, and Philly's Musical Academy. She was known primarily for playing the Hammond B3 organ.Pitts eventually went on to play with Ben Webster, Gene Ammons, and Sonny Stitt.[1] She recorded four albums for Prestige Records, appearing with Willis Jackson among others. On September 15, 2006, Pitts was the first jazz artist to play a concert on Philadelphia's Kimmel Center's 7,000 pipe organ, "taking the medium to a whole new level"
