"Here taken from the debut album by electronic and tape music composer Ruth Anderson (1928-2019), only recently released. Anderson was a curious, playful, and thoughtful composer interested in the healing properties of sound, and was also one of the first women to set up an electronic music studio in the USA, after originally training as a flautist. Ruth passed away at the end of 2019, before she was able to see her first solo release out in the world. - bandcamp"
"Two Boston based musicians (Berklee & Harvard) this was recorded in a single day in a Maine summer last year, the six pieces have been culled from the improvisation which took place in the studio that day. Gardony is a Hungarian born jazz pianist and seasoned sideman. Kastning is a guitar player and inventor of guitars...I didn't know so many guitars existed...he seems to play them all. "
"A Brit, Webb's formative years were spent as a band leader, before finding his feet as composer, with his compositions being heard in such films as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Boogie Nights, Creepshow, Sicko and What's Up Nurse? as well as a host of TV shows. "
"Booker Ervin (born October 31, 1930, Denison, Texas, USA - died July 31, 1970, New York City, New York, USA) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He died of kidney disease aged 39 . He is remembered for his association with bassist Charles Mingus. This is off of his debut album, with Zoot Sims joining him on tenor, Tommy Turrentine, tpt; Tommy Flanagan, pno; George Tucker, bass; Dannie Richmond, drums"
WORDS AND SILENCES is a music portrait of the Cistercian monk and writer Thomas Merton (1915-68). It brings together archival recordings Merton made alone in his Kentucky hermitage in 1967, along with newly composed music. These remarkable recordings are intimate, ranging from Merton’s thoughts on Samuel Beckett, to Sufi mystics, to the Louisville race protests, to Michel Foucault. He also managed to immediately use the tape recorder both as a contemplative tool and a medium for self-discovery. In all of this music, we hear Merton’s curiosity, questioning, and bewildered perplexity. We also hear the tape recorder itself, acting as both a mirror and counterpart to Merton’s voice. We hear the exposed, vulnerable, uncertain self of Merton sitting alone in his hermitage.- bandcamp
"CJ Boyd has literally spent the last ten years of his life on tour. Boyd refers to his obsessive dedication to the road as the InfiniTour. As the ten-year anniversary of the InfiniTour approached, both Boyd and his label decided the occasion should be marked with the release of a commemorative album.- bandcamp This song was associated w/Nevada. "
"The album features Hassell manipulating and looping fragments of sampled sound. In the liner notes, Hassell describes the album as _a proposal for a 'coffee-colored' classical music of the future_ assell was an American trumpet player and composer. He was best known for developing the concept of _Fourth World_ music, which describes a _unified primitive/futurist sound_ combining elements of various world ethnic traditions with modern electronic techniques.- wiki His seminal work on this frontier was with Brian Eno. They released Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics in 1980. "
"According to Wiki, the details of Rameau's (1683-1764) life are generally obscure, especially concerning his first forty years, before he moved to Paris for good. He was a secretive man, and even his wife knew nothing of his early life. Rameau was reportedly taught music before he could read or write. He was educated at the Jesuit college at Godrans in Dijon, but he was not a good pupil and disrupted classes with his singing, later claiming that his passion for opera had begun at the age of twelve. He had a _loud voice_. His speech was difficult to understand, just like his handwriting, which was never fluent. As a man, he was secretive, solitary, irritable, proud of his own achievements (more as a theorist than as a composer), brusque with those who contradicted him, and quick to anger."
"Stewart was an American pop, soul and rhythm & blues singer, drummer, pianist and songwriter, born March 24, 1937 in Washington, D. C., died January 17, 1970 in Neuse River, Smithfield, North Carolina (car accident) - discogs"
Machito (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo, December 3, 1909 – April 15, 1984) was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music. He was raised in Havana with the singer Graciela, his foster sister. In New York City, Machito formed the Afro-Cubans in 1940, and with Mario Bauzá as musical director, brought together Cuban rhythms and big band arrangements in one group. Machito's music had an effect on the careers of many musicians who played in the Afro-Cubans over the years, and on those who were attracted to Latin jazz after hearing him. George Shearing, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Stan Kenton credited Machito as an influence. An intersection in East Harlem is named _Machito Square_ in his honor. - wiki
"Founding member of Sun City Girls, and now primarily a solo artist. Best known for his guitar playing, he also plays a variety of other instruments including piano. Brother of Alan Bishop who co-owns Sublime Frequencies. -discogs"
Taken from a compilation of short samples by Vasco Trilla: drums and percussion and Rutger Zuydervelt: post production and electronics. Recorded in Barcelona
"Natalie Carol is lead vocalist on this Pavement cover. This was included in the studio release from this LA outfit. based... Chord of Sympathy is borne of the endless present Carol experienced in her bedroom during lockdown, where time collapsed and the future needed to be created. -bio"
"first released as a single, then on this full studio release a year later -- the fifth album by the Monkees. It was the first Monkees album not to reach Billboard's number one, peaking at No. 3 on the U.S. charts. The front cover of the album shows a shadow box that contains some memorabilia from the 1940s through 1960s, including a Cootie bug, a popgun, a fan that folds out into a paper flower, ceramic birds, various paper flowers and stick flowers (which were popular in 1968). Alan Wolsky, whose agency created the cover, put a picture of himself in the bottom center square, partially obscured by some flowers. The rear cover [6] contains the term _MIJACOGEO_ alongside Micky's photo, a term that is an acronym for the members of Micky's family (Micky, Janelle, Coco and George, respectively)- wiki"
"Muraoka was a popular Japanese shakuhachi player. Born in 1924 in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki. Died _Shina No Yoru_ was a popular hit in the years preceding WWII. It is a remnant of the modern era Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945). Performed by _Sparky_ Iwamoto, "
American cellist, artist, and composer (born 21 May 1951 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA - died 4 April 1992 from AIDS in New York, New York, USA (aged 40). This album features nine previously unreleased performances compiled from completed masters culled from two unique test pressings, including one, dated 9/15/85 by Arthur, provided by his mother and sister. A further four tracks were discovered in his tape archive. The track listing includes an exceptional and dramatic solo recording of “In The Light of a Miracle” and the enigmatic title instrumental “Picture of Bunny Rabbit”, written especially for a friends pet rabbit. The bulk of the material was recorded with engineer Eric Liljestrand at Battery Sound Studios, New York, which was located directly opposite the World Trade Center and at Arthur’s apartment studio in the East Village. - bandcamp
The Obama's invited her to present a poem at Barack's 2009 inauguration. She composed this for the occasion. This recitation is taken from an event at Emory University some while later. I had a memorable evening w/her at a friend's dinner in Cambridge. It was before her husband, Ficre Ghebreyesus, died -- suddenly & shockingly. She had a fellowship or something at Harvard. It was a frozen deep- winter night. I stood w/him on the front stoop smoking a cigarette talking about food & cooking (both of us passionate) went inside, and we all had a vigorous debate about "Hillary vs Obama" -- still in the primaries before that first election. We didn't know she & the Obama's were tight. Didn't know that until she was announced as part of the festivities. I advocated for Hillary, which we laughed about at a later encounter. We exchanged numbers that night, promised to cook for each other but never did.
"Davis' wife Frances Davis insisted he accompany her to a performance by flamenco dancer Roberto Iglesias. Inspired by the performance, Davis bought every flamenco album he could get at Colony Records shop in New York City. Soon after, he got to work on this recording. _Saeta_ is a type of religious song mostly sung during the Semana Santa (Holy Week) processions in Spain. - wiki"
"New Future City Radio is a collaboration between Rob Mazurek and Damon Locks. Within this new duo the two contemplate: community, transformation, and the future, through the lens of imagining a pirate radio station for the people. - wiki"
"Ray Conniff aka Joseph Raymond Conniff (1916-2002) was born in Attleboro, MA. His father taught him trombone, starting his musical life. The Singers -- his main vehicle to fame -- was comprised of 12 women and 13 men. This album included what would become his most successful hit, Somewhere My Love. He died at age 85 2002, in Escondido, California after falling and hitting his head on the sink. "
