"I played ths cut and It makes good sense that Stone & Feldman would go together, yet I have been unable to retrace my steps to figure out where it came from, or if this is actually the title. "

I recorded this at a launch celebration for album _A Gentleman of Istanbul on April 1, 2023. Salikol was commissioned by A Far Cry in 2017 to create this work that blends Turkish, western classical, and jazz in celebration of a 17th-century Ottoman traveler. Sanlıkol was born in Turkey of Turkish-Cypriot parents and came to Boston on a Berklee College of Music scholarship to study jazz piano and composition in 1993. He now teaches at New England Conservatory where he is director of the Intercultural Institute.

"This is part of a tribute to the great singer song-writer, Laura Nyro who first performd this song in 1968. "

"Brilliant Pebbles was a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system proposed by Lowell Wood and Edward Teller of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1987, near the end of the Cold War. It is also the name of a briefly-lived Chicago quartet comprised of Monika Bukowska (singer), Sam Ng (keyboards), David Mancini (bass) and Philip Montoro (drums). They released this one EP and, after 2 1/2 years, broke up. This is a solo played on the Chinese short-fretted Erhu. See link for more. "

"Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje (at the time in Yugoslavia) in 1980, Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) collective, a group which Laibach helped found in 1984. _Laibach_ is the German historical name for the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, itself an oblique reference to the Nazi occupation of Slovenia in World War II. - wiki The group is not without controversy (link)"

"Tilsley (1926-1987) was a British composer, arranger, conductor and lyricist aka Dick Bradford and Henry Norman. This was the second of 16 album releases. See link for full discography"

Ranchera (pronounced [ran_t_e_a]) or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in virtually all regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional folk music, the ranchera developed as a symbol of a new national consciousness in reaction to the aristocratic tastes of the period. Two of the best known practitioners were Lola Beltrán and Aida Cuevas. - wiki The harmonica is used as a substitute for the accordian which was an original, traditional part of these ensembles.

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"Sweet Smoke were a 1960's and 70's progressive jazz-rock band. They were originally formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1967, although the band moved to live as a commune in Germany. This is their 2nd album. According to Discogs, the album exhibits the use of acoustic guitars, 12 string guitars and flute more than their debut album Just A Poke. Released in Germany, where the band relocated from Brooklyn, living on a commune there in the early 70's. "

"I was on a bike ride, listening through my earbuds to a Youtube video of George Solti leading the Chicago Symphony in this intriguing work when @ 26 mins into the performance, a young oboist cut in. He'd recorded himself playing the oboe solo from the 3rd movement, then hacked himself in. I couldn't see what was happening (on my bike), and was quite jarred when this happened. I went back and investigated later, and you can watch it for yourself (see the link). "

"According to AllMusic.com's Andrew Hamilton, Jessica Cleaves, Barbara Love, Harry Elston, and Floyd Butler were the Friends of Distinction, Southern California natives who sought to imitate the 5th Dimension's success. They shared similar lineups -- two women, two guys, each dressed differently with no overt attempts to coordinate.This album made them known across America; lyrics were added to Hugh Masekela's clanging, cowbell-driven African tune, and it sold in droves, as radio stations played it, people liked it, and even jazz aficionados dug it. They released 8 albums, and 25 singles over the course of 6 years beginning with this, their debut "

"Horn was born and raised in Dallas, won the Thelonius Monk competition in 2015, a trajectory to success. Her first live radio show was in the fall of 2009 on the Junior Mance WBGO radio show in Newark - wiki. This is her debut release. Bass – Ben Williams, Piano - Victor Gould, Percussion - Jerome Jennings, Trombone - Frank Lacy.

"_Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird_ is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. The poem consists of thirteen short, separate sections, each of which mentions blackbirds in some way. Although inspired by haiku, none of the sections meets the traditional definition of haiku. It was first published in October 1917 by Alfred Kreymborg in Others: An Anthology of the New Verse"

Bartók wrote some of his finest music for the Swiss conductor Paul Sacher, in whom he found a particularly sympathetic champion. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, written for Sacher in 1936, explores with great refinement and mastery the musical concepts that Bartók had been developing since the mid-'20s. The third movement is one of Bartók's most accomplished _night music_ pieces, with cricket-like notes from the xylophone, eerie timpani glissandi, fragmentary murmurs, and frightened exclamations from the strings, along with the always-mysterious notes of the celesta floating clear and sphinx-like over the nocturnal weft. - Victor Brauner (Allmusic.com)

Born Christa Päffgen in Cologne(or Yugoslavia?) in 1938 to parents of Spanish and Yugoslavian descent, Nico (1937-1988) led a tough life in post-Hitler Germany, where her mother scraped a pittance as a seamstress. Her father, a Wehrmacht recruit -- a reported drunk --was apparently shot dead by his commanding officer after a French sniper’s bullet had entered his brain. In later years, Nico liked to say that “German pigs” had murdered him.Good full bio on Nico in the Guardian (see link)

"Scarce information. Seems like it may be an internet robo song maker. The song was a 1978 hit for the Bee Gees, and this the 45th anniversary of their album Staying Alive. "

He is from Paris. Says Oliver, Between The Wo(o)(r)ds » is my US vision, the American culture that I created for myself:

Kim Soo Soo's Bohemian would be unlike little else in Korea. In the throes of some kind of personal emotional malaise and a long battle with cervical tuberculosis that began after his sophomore release, Kim looked again at music to find some kind of release. In it he’d be inspired to create a concept album of sorts to get all his thoughts and ideas out there before, what he thought at the time, would be his imminent death. Looking back at his earlier itinerant life, this album would try to make sense of his biography. The song has deep Appalachian roots, and is attributed by some to Georgia Turner and Bert Martin

"feat. Rohey Taalah, Ellen Andrea Wang, Hanna Paulsberg "

Double Bass – Rufus Reid, Drums - Jerry Granelli, Jane on Soprano Sax. See link for info on her latest, intriging project, arising during the pandemic & based on the work of New York City street photographer Berenice Abbott. Coming to the Margin soon!

"The group consisted mainly of members of the Chatmon family from Bolton, Mississippi, who were well known in the Mississippi Delta. The father of the family, Henderson Chatmon, had been a _musicianer_ (someone with good technical ability on his or her instrument, adept at sight-reading written music) during slavery times, and his children carried on the musical spirit. Their most famous member (although not a permanent member) was Armenter Chatmon, better known as Bo Carter, who managed a successful solo career as well as playing with the Sheiks, which may have contributed to their success...Carter's solo work is notable for his sexually suggestive songs, and this tone carried over to some extent to the group. - wiki"