"This is excerpted from The Tape Beatles' first release. The Tape-beatles are (were) a collaboration of varying membership originally formed in Iowa City to make music and audio art recordings, ‘expanded cinema’ performances, videos, printed publications, and works in other media. Their aim was to create works that challenge the notion of intellectual property. They worked under the non defunct umbrella organization called Public Works Productions. This collection has contact instructions: for more Information on releases or other items by the Tape-beatles, send a SASE to: Plagiarism; PO Box 8907; Iowa City, IA; 522245 I wonder what would happen if I sent a postcard. _"
"He has been many times introduced as an _Unidentified flying object_,] of cinematography and electronic music by the fact that he writes, plays, records, mixes and masters himself all his compositions in his studio saturated with curious and rare musical instruments of all ethnicities, synthesizers, organs and old analog tape recorders. This is #13 of his 16 album releases (so far). "
"Ted Singdahlsen and Mark Robinson are LASOHALO. They work in a studio called _The Gingerbread House_ in Efland, NC. They continue to work as Lemmons the Shiny Clown. "
"MOON ROCKET is one of George Barnes' original compositions from the 1959 album, DEAN HIGHTOWER: TWANGY WITH A BEAT. In the midst of Duane Eddy's popularity, the electric guitar pioneer was asked by producer Sid Feller to record an album for ABC-Paramount in that genre. Jazz guitarist Barnes, who was a prolific New York City studio musician, could play any style of music. He opted to create an alter ego for this release, as these tracks were not necessarily in keeping with the George Barnes brand. Hence, the birth of Dean Hightower -- who never recorded another album, but whose mythological existence was founded in the artistry of a true guitar legend. - youtube"
"Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn named Jacob Kaminsky and Clara Kaminsky, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He left school at 13 to perform the Borscht Belt circuit in the Catskills. - wiki & iMDb"
Her latest release showcases Saito's improvisatory talent. She was born in 1976 in Sapporo, studied with Keiko Abe, and is a founding member of the Berlin Mallet Group"
"Alabaster's 4th album, themed around greed, division and unity. Aka Angus Fairbairn, is an English jazz musician, saxophonist, spoken word poet, composer, and activist born in Manchester, UK and started out making _jagged, noisy music_ with his brothers, before learning to play the saxophone in 2007. -wiki"
"Thanks to Charlie Kohlhase/Research and Development and the listener who heard Karl there and passed the tip on to the Margin. Berger last year at 88 (see link) This date was recorded in @ Electronic Body Works in Albany NY. Balafon and Goblet Drum [Darbuka] – Karl BergerDrum; [Osi-drum], Slit Drum – Edward Blackwell (1929-1992). Blackwell and his drumming skills were a prime influence on New Orleans drummers in the 1950s. He was a member of the original American Jazz Quintet, which also included Alvin Battiste, and Ellis Marsalis. ..He was one of the greatest pioneers of free drumming whose main body of work remains within the group context in Ornette Coleman's Quartet and Don Cherry's units. Born in New Orleans, his drum concept fitted perfectly the needs of the new collective music-indeed, traditional New Orleans march rhythms combined with an African and Afro-Cuban influence in his work. - allaboutjazz.com"
"Richard Myhill is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and arranger, originally from Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, who worked on Duran Duran tracks in the early 1980s. - Duran Duran wiki"
"Wifflefist was a bunch of people who got together to do stuff - audio stuff, live performance stuff, film stuff, and video stuff. The collective existed from roughly 1990 - 1998, with membership primarily from the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill parts of North Carolina. Polycarp is Rich Misenheimer and David Jordan. "
"Died last year at 99. Ethiopian-born, she was on track to be a concert pianist before choosing a monastic life. But her later piano recordings gained fans. Norah Jones called them “beautiful_ and says “This album is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard: part Duke Ellington, part modal scales, part the blues, part church music,” Ms. Jones told The New York Times in 2020. “It resonated in all those ways for me.” - see link for full NYTimes obit"
"Song he wrote about tther death of Christin Gail Hinton, his girlfriend. She was killed in a car accident on Sep 30, 1969 while taking her cats to the vet. see link for more 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"
"This was a one-hit wonder for Sigman and Maxwell, originally recorded in 1953 by The Righteous Brothers. See link for Harmonicats performing on Ed Sullivan in 1950. "
"London was born Julie Peck on September 26, 1926, in Santa Rosa, California, the only child of Josephine Rosalie Peck (née Taylor; 1905 – 1976) and Jack Peck (1901–1977), who were a vaudeville song-and-dance team. In 1929, when she was three years old, the family moved to San Bernardino, California, where she made her professional singing debut on her parents' radio program. She graduated from the Hollywood Professional School in 1945 and worked as an elevator operator in an upscale clothing store in downtown Los Angeles throughout high school. During this time, she met Jack Webb (of Dragnet Fame)...She was 15, he was 21, and they eventually married. - wiki"
"The album is one of Simone's most introspective and personal works, with songs about her father's death and her (not always pleasant) stay in Liberia, Trinidad, and Switzerland. There is some confusion about the actual title of the album and the song with almost the same title on the album, being called _Fodder on My Wings_, _Fodder in My Wings_, _Fodder in Her Wings_ interchangeably. Gilbert O'Sullivan first recorded iit in 1972 O'Sullivan has said the song is not autobiographical: for example, his mother was alive during its composition, and he was not close to his father, who was cruel to his mother and died when the singer was 11 years old"
"Esquivel was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as one of the foremost exponents of a sophisticated style of largely instrumental music that combines elements of lounge music and jazz with Latin flavors. Esquivel is sometimes called _The King of Space Age Pop_ and _The Busby Berkeley of Cocktail Music_, and is considered one of the foremost exponents of a style of late 1950s-early 1960s quirky instrumental pop that became known (in retrospect) as _Space Age Bachelor Pad Music_. - wiki"
"The now defunct band was named after a ballistic missile defense system conceived in the wake of the cold war. Consisted of Monika Bukowska (singer), Sam Ng (keyboards), Dave Mancini (bass), Philip Montoro (drums)." See link for a goodbye article by James Kennedy
