"Dr. Reagon passed away yesterday leaving a long legacy from the front lines of the fight for Civil Rights, to her outspokeness for injustice in its many forms, and as a powerful composer, producer, and singer -- the medium she turned to with great effectivess to spread her own brand of gospel over decades. She had a solo career and later formed Sweet Honey in the Rock, who've graced these airwaves from their earlilest beginnings and Boston's performance stages, from Roxbury to Harvard to Symphony Hall. - see link to bio"
Press release bills this as _INCREDIBLE LONG-LOST PERFORMANCE BY THE MYTHICAL BLACK ARTIST GROUP (BAG)_ comprised of JOSEPH BOWIE: trombone, conga, voice, miscellaneous instruments; BAIKIDA CARROLL: trumpet, flugelhorn, bass, log drum, cow bells, voice, miscellaneous instruments; CHARLES “BOBO” SHAW “Under The Sun”: drums, woodblocks, gong, stylophone, voice, miscellaneous instruments; FLOYD LEFLORE: trumpet, voice, miscellaneous instruments; OLIVER LAKE: saxophones, marimbas, mud drums, voice, miscellaneous instruments. The Black Artist Group (BAG) was founded in St Louis, USA, in 1968 to promote local artists from the burgeoning Black Arts movement, including musicians, playwrights, dancers and poets. The group had recently arrived in Paris when they made this recording.
Anima POP“ is a compilation of hand-drawn and puppet animations of the Estonian film studio Tallinnfilm. This album is a compilation of music composed for these pieces. Throughout the 1970s, a whole generation of young artists, influenced by Western pop art, op art and the surrealist-psychedelic figurative language of the time got employed at animation studios. Young creators saw it as a window of opportunity, a rare chance to do „their thing”. Also, the composers found a chance to exercise something beyond the routine standards of pop and academic music, to try their hand at the edges of orchestral sonic palette as well as at early synthesizers. Suddenly, pop art merged with pop music, and electric guitars, Rhodes pianos and synthesizers were telling tales of a better future that still hasn’t fully arrived today.- Click link for more, and to watch the animations (there is a small fee for watching). Arvo Pärt is among the artsts whose work is featured on this complilation along with Rein Rannap, Sven Grünberg, Olav Ehala, Tõnu Aare, Tõnu Naissoo. This one, by Tõnu Aare was originally released on the Aare label in 1977, wriitten for animation entitled Is the Earth Round?
"...during contemporary interviews, the guitarist (Patrick Flegel) would point out that much of Cindy Lee catalogue came out of collisions with pain and hardship, and seemed faintly dislocated in the present, where Flegel had found comfort and stability happiness, even. Even then, Flegel would rather talk about Diamond Jubilee, a collection of songs that were much less infected by darkness and were instead eightless This collection is now on display, a double album of over two hours. Nevertheless, to call the record spectacular doesn do it justice. Over the span of 32 songs, Cindy Lee and Flegel melt into a wholly new sound world of imaginary Americana that feels incredibly hypnagogic..1966 weighs heavy here, as The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, Ricky Nelson and Joe Meek collide into a strange new sound. Edges are blurred out and voices disembodied. Even though Flegel rejected the narrative of the underdog, it makes perfect sense that Diamond Jubilee exists outside of the music business it not on streaming platforms only on YouTube or a prehistoric blogsite. The complete 3 record set is made available in digital format for free of whever you may choose to donate -- John Wohlmacher @ beatsperminute.com >> click on link for full review (and a link to download the entire collection is embedded in 7th graph)"
This is a cut from Bjorks' 6th studio release, an homoage to her Icelandic homeland. _Besides its extreme sounds, “Fossora” presents vulnerable themes: grief, womanhood, motherhood and romance. They may be difficult to recognize at first (they were for me), but if you give the record a few listens or simply glance at the lyrics, you’ll see what Björk is getting at._See link for the full article from the Miami Student newspaper about this album.
This album comprised of a set of miniatures he commissioned between 2013 and 2015 to be woven into the Davidsbündlertänze of Robert Schumann. Kaplan asked 16 composers to write responses to Schumann's original, presenting a startling range of compositional approaches, though all unified by their common engagement with Schumann’s spirit - bandcamp.sb
"Baum is a flautist who grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut in a musical family. Her mother studied piano and trombone at Juilliard and her parents often took her to New York City for jazz concerts. Baum attended New England Conservatory of Music's Third Stream program, which combined jazz and classical music, but she switched to jazz and graduated from the jazz department.[1] She studied with Jaki Byard. - wiki"
Soon after she crossed into her sixties, and just six years before she died, in New Orleans, in 2003, Dorothy Carter (b: 1923) became an unlikely star. Her life had been a whirlwind: Born in New York but raised in Boston, she was a childhood piano whiz who forsook professional life for a vagabond existence scattered among convents in Mexico, stints as a steamboat deckhand on the Mississippi, and communal living and music-making in Maine. But in the mid ’90s, while Carter was sleeping on floors in Berlin, what already sounds like a fable took a stranger-than-Chaucer twist. On a lark, she proposed an all-women ensemble playing the very old music of Europe in modern settings. The result, Mediæval Bæbes, was an unexpected sensation, See linnk for a Pitchfork review o this album
"Eric Chenaux is one of Canada's most respected and long-standing experimental guitar players and songwriters, starting with legendary Toronto punk band Phleg Camp in the early 90s and tirelessly expanding his musical vocabulary and reach in countless improv, avant-folk, damaged jazz and contemporary music ensembles throughout the 2000s."
Bessie Jones, John Davis, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers gained wide renown during the 1960s and ‘70s for their powerful performances of traditional songs from the African American Gullah Geechee community on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Most in the group were born and raised on St. Simons, and could trace their ancestry to the enslaved people from West and Central Africa who worked on the island’s cotton plantations. Throughout the ‘60s, the Georgia Sea Island Singers were prominent voices in the civil rights movement, bringing hundreds of years of Black musical tradition to bear on a pivotal time in American history. This previously unheard recording captures their complete Friends of Old Time Music concert of April 1965, at which they were joined by legendary bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell, cane fife player Ed Young, and folklorist Alan Lomax, who acted as emcee. - bandcamp/liner notes. Sample the full spectrum via Bandcamp (linked)
"Chic currently called Nile Rodgers & Chic, is an American disco band that was formed in 1972 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. The group regarded themselves as a rock band for the disco movement _that made good on hippie peace, love and freedom_. During late 1978, the band released this album containing one of its better-known tracks, _Le Freak_. It was created in a jam session in Edwards' apartment, after they had failed on New Year's Eve 1977 to meet with Grace Jones at New York's nightclub Studio 54. - wiki"
"Sister Mary Nelson was likely a store-front preacher from Memphis, Tennessee. According Jeff Place's notes to the 1997 reissue of the Anthology, Nelson was a member of the Pentecostal church. She recorded four sides for Vocalion during the late '20s. This recording was made in Chicago on April 21, 1927 with with John Davis and Clarence Nelson (possibly her son or grandson) joining in on the choruses. - see linnk for more."
"This is the first posthumous Babatunde album after the drum master passed away on 2003, here he collaborates with fellow percusionists Sikiru and Muruga to produce a series of long trance inducing pieces. Motifs and general themes are not really present in this album, its all about an eternal flow of highs and lows with some electronic elements as well as exotic instrumentation which send you off into outer space. "
"This Zoom presentation happened iwhen we were still deep in the pandemic, and I found it to be a life line. It was a celebration of the launch of Mackey's wonderful new poetry collection, _Double Trio,_ published by New Directions. I recommend bookmarking the link (attached) and watch it when you have some time. "
"Reed (1942-2013) band included Pentti Glan (drums), Prakash John (bass), Ray Colcord (keyboards), and Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter (guitars). (The two guitarists would later form the basis of the first Alice Cooper solo band, beginning on Welcome to My Nightmare, which also features Glan and John.)"
"Alvin Queen(b: 1950) is an American-born Swiss jazz drummer born in the Bronx, New York, on August 16, 1950. At 16, he played for Ruth Brown and Don Pullen and with the Wild Bill Davis trio. He played with trombonist Benny Green and guitarist Tiny Grimes in 1969 and replaced Billy Cobham in the Horace Silver quintet. He also played with the George Benson quartet before rejoining Charles Tolliver in November 1971. During the seventies, he lived in Canada, before settling in Switzerland in 1979 and creating the label Nilva, an anagram of his first name.- wiki"
In those days radio programs on NPR were distributed by what they called a Round Robin - telephone lines connecting all two hundred stations into a large loop stretching across the country. Any station in the system could broadcast a program on all the others by opening the loop and feeding the program around it. I saw that it was possible to make the loop itself into a sound-transformation circuit and tried a few things with it in several preliminary studies in 1974. The results of asking half a million people to do anything, even something as simple as whistling, of course will be diverse. Some will do it; others won't. Those who do will choose how or what to whistle. Even though it may seem a very specific request, for me it was a broad indicator to provide a body of pitched material in the work. During the broadcast, the sounds phoned into each city passed through its self-mixer and started looping. With each cross-country pass, each sound made another layer, overlapping itself at different pitches until it gradually died away. It was quite a beautiful Sunday afternoon - two hours over which ten thousand people found their way into the work and made sounds.- Youtube
Time:
5:21
Artist:
Mountain Movers [Dan Greene Author: Kryssi Battalene Author: Rick Omonte Author: Ross Menze]
Member of this New Haven Group, Dan Greene Author: Kryssi Battalene Author: Rick Omonte Author: Ross Menze, have been playing together for over a decade now, making their recorded debut on a slew of singles released from 2011-2013, but it wasn’t until 2015’s “Death Magic” (released on New Haven label Safety Meeting) that the potential of that iteration of the group became clear.... -bandcamp
"with Ysaye Maria Barnwell, Nitanju Bolade Casel, Evelyn Harris, Aisha Kahlil, Bernice Johnson Reagon together made Sweet Honey in the Rock. She died on 7/16/24 after a long illness in Washington DC. I had the privilege of interviewing her on this show some years ago, and year after year worked wth Virginia Giordano to promote & support Sweet Honey's agazing performances in Boston -- first at the Strand Theater, then moving to Symphony Hall (maybe a stop at Sanders Theater in betwee). This is one of my favorite songs from her. May her spirit rise. "
