Performed with the Leon Young String Chorale. English clarinetist-composer Bernard Stanley Bilk was one of three instrumentals to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during 1962 (see also “The Stripper” and “Telstar”).
"English Olympic athlete, actor and singer, born 29 January 1934 in London, England, UK, died in October 2013 in Devon, England, UK. Son of Rex Harrison"
Doco is an Argentine singer and musician currently based in France. This is her second release on her own label -- created in 2015 to best reflect her style.
"Hundreds of musicians have been inspired by the album. Pianist Lafayette Gilchrist states that Money Jungle was the first jazz album that he bought, and that it _sounds like an orchestra being played by a trio. - wiki"
"Harold and Gwen McKinney handle the lead vocals, while a backing chorus of seven helps out on other pieces. Harold McKinney was one of Detroit's jazz legends as both an artist and as a cultural figure. His Voices and Rhythms of the Creative Profile was issued on the city's cooperative independent Tribe label. Ultimately, this is a solid recording that embodies the entire spirit of the Detroit jazz scene at the time."
"Jazz double bassist Abdul-Malik (1927-1993) is remembered for integrating Middle Eastern and North African music styles in his jazz music as evidences by this oud performance by him. He played bass. Art Blakey, Earl Hines, Randy Weston, Ray Nance, and Thelonious Monk, among others. An interesting collaborator on his recordings was reed player Bilal Abdurhaman. Ahmed Abdul-Malik - bass, oud, Tommy Turrentine (Stanley's younger brother)- trumpet, Bilal Abdurrahman - clarinet, percussion, Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone, Calo Scott - cello, Andrew Cyrille - drums"
"Goebbels draws from old wax cylinder recordings made by Hans Lichtennecker in 1931, withing tto bring into new context the racist motives of Lichtennecker. He records descendents of the Nama & Herero, people living in South Africa, descendents of the Germany Empire's campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment that nearly exterminated the tribes. It was the first genocide of the 20th century, occurring between 1904 and 1908. - wiki & liner notes"
With the demise of the group Wire in 1980, founder members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio Dome took the ethic of “using the studio as a compositional tool” and recorded and released three Dome albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: DOME (July 1980), DOME 2 (October 1980) and DOME 3 (October 1981). A final fourth album, WILL YOU SPEAK THIS WORD: DOME IV was released on the Norwegian Uniton label in May 1983. These albums represent some of the most beautifuly stark and above all timeless exercises in studio experimentation from early 1980s alternative music scene.
Os Carbonos is a band formed during the 1960s in São Paulo. It is one of the first bands to cover international successes. They used the names The Witchcraft and The Hot before adopting the name Os Carbonos, in 1966. Under the name Os Carbonos, the group released about 20 LPs. Throughout the decade of 1970, they modified the name several times, appeared like Androids, The Mackenzie Group, Carbono 14 and The Magnetic Sounds in the latter, recorded the series of LPs _Super erotic_. - discogs
Texas-based Canadian composer MONICA PEARCE's debut full-length release presents a series of keyboard and percussion-driven chamber works each paying homage to the form and feel of a specific textile.
In 2020, while studying composition abroad, the Kenyan composer and multi-instrumentalist got stuck in her secondary abodes of New York and Maryland. With Kenya’s borders locked during the pandemic, she had no way to know when she’d be able to return to her hometown of Nairobi. Kari_ki’s most cherished spots in and around Nairobi—which she affectionately calls her “peace places”—became the seeds from which each track on the EP would grow. - Pitchfork
"This is from Houston's 2nd studio album. She is the mother of the late singer and actress Whitney Houston, the aunt of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and a maternal cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price. She's 89 years old and lives in Newark."
At the creation of Mirrors was happenstance. “There’s something in me that loves serendipity,” says Cerrone.” Perhaps it comes from living in New York City. “I love hearing two construction sites—the hammering away in different places, in different rhythms.”First, he recorded improvisations: on flower-pots found at a hardware store, and on the thunk and clunk of his upright prepared piano. Then, he forced these improvised recordings onto a rhythmic grid. The result, somewhat by chance, gave him the erratic music box-like sounds of the work’s mirrored beginning and end.The title comes from Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station. In the final paragraphs, Lerner refers to a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca. In the poem, a dying orange tree, unable to produce fruit, begs to be freed from the torment of a barren future.
