The Geography Of Sound

A musical journey through the paths of Ethno-Jazz and World music.

BADAWI a voice from six corners (from "The Heretic Of Ether", 1999, U.S.A.) 

YASUAKI SHIMIZU  Utukushiki tennen ("Kakashi", 1982, Japan)

LOWZYL/TIMANSKI/ KLEBBA/CHANDRAN afrodyzjak ("Nisani", 1999, Poland)

RENAUD GARCIA-FONS Fui piedra ("Navigatore", 2001, France)

CARLO ACTIS DATO QUARTET Bossa di mafia ("Fes Montuno", 2000, Italy)

UNE ANCHE PASSE Chanson du feu follet ("Serpent d' Etoiles", 1997, France)

FREY/TIEPOLD/THIERFELDER Tabasheer ("Ziyada", 1979, Germany)

FLORIDIS/SKOPELITIS/TEMIZ pitch ("Our Trip So Far", 2001, Greece)

MARCO ZURZOLO Chi e...n' aggie capito... chi e ("Pulcinella", 2002, Italy)

LA KUMPANIA ZELWER C'est pas tous les jours shabbat ("Daissa", 2003, France)

ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ Cuando vuelvo a tu lado ("Cuba Linda", 1996, Cuba)

MIRTHA POZZI ceci-cela ("Acadacoual", 1996, Uruguay)

MEGADRUMS (REINHARD FLATISCHLER) Mahakal ("Layers Of Time", 1996, Austria)

FODAY MUSA SUSO spring waterfall ("Jali Kunda: Griots Of West Africa..", 1996)

MALHERBE/ELHRICH  Caspienne blues ("Hadouk", 1999, France)

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The Female Energy Of THE TIPTONS

The Tiptons is an all-women sax quartet which features Jessica Lurie (alto, tenor, vocals), Tina Richerson (baritone, vocals), Sue Orfield (tenor, vocals) and Amy Denio (alto, vocals), with the latter -member of so many avant, rio, impro and world jazz oufits- to be the most well known name here. The line up is completed by guests percussions.

The band, active since 1988, was formerly known as Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet. Original members Lurie and Denio are the main composers. The Tiptons have released 10 cd's so far, the most recent one is "Strange Flower", (2010).

The quartet describes its music as: “... a high energy blend of ‘twisted folk’ with world music, second line, funk, jazz, and Eastern European influences thrown into the mix of mainly original material.”

Selections (2004 - 2008) 

1. Darling, please don't wake me ("Tsunami", 2004)
2. Zemrude ("Drive, 2005)
3. Hands down ("Drive", 2005)
4. Shop of wild dreams ("Laws Of Motion", 2008)
5. Sleepytown ("Tsunami", 2004)
6. Alma ("Drive", 2005)
7. After before ("Tsunami", 2004)
8. Anthem ("Laws Of Motion", 2008)
9. Mi yo mei ("Laws Of Motion", 2008)

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NED SUBLETTE: Adventures In Black & White

Ned Sublette is a texan multi-talented artist, musician, photographer, producer, labelman, musicologist... Since 70s he's been living in New York, where he has collaborated with many important avant artists (Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, John Cage, Love Of Life Orchestra, Lenny Pickett a.o.) and also has written books about the history of american and the latin-american music.

As a performer and composer he is mainly interested to create forms where his "white" country-western roots style encounters the pulse of latin music (cuban, carribean etc.) and the voices of "black" America.

Two of his most significant works are the albums "Ships At Sea, Sailors And Shoes" (Triple Earth, 1993) and "Monsters From The Deep" (Triple Earth, 1997), both collaborations with lyricist Lawrence Weiner and the soul-vocal group of The Persuasions.

"Ships At Sea, Sailors & Shoes" (1993)

"Monsters From The Deep" (1997)

"Smarnamisa! Resia Valley Music" (1997)

Resia Valley is a very small municipality-region lying in North Italy near the borders with Slovenia and Austria. Resian people, who nowadays are numbered in about a thousand, have slavic origins and speak a very idiomatic slavic dialect ("rozajanski"), strongly influenced by archaic  lingual elements. Located between the two peninsulas (the balkan and the italian), but in fact isolated due to its surrounded by mountains alpine position, Resia has, in spite of its size, a rich folkloric history with unique customs and traditions.

"Smarnamisa!" compilation, an Avant Records release, is a rare document of traditional resian music created by fiddle ("citara"), cello ("bunkula"), "percussive'' feet, vocals, narrations etc.

Perhaps attractive mainly to ones with traditional folk tastes or ethno-musicological interests, but valuable and sympathetic as valuable and sympathetic a voice of an unseen dot of the world can be.

Smarnamisa! (feb 2013 updated)

UNE ANCHE PASSE "Port D' Attache" (FRA, 1995)

Traditional musics from Italy, South France, Spain, jewish diaspora... plus compositions of Nino Rota, George Brassens and others... revitalised idiosyncratically by the south french reed & brass Une Anche Passe orchestra.

"Port D'Attache" is the second "mare nostrum" trip for an ensemble that trusts the "essences" of multicultural folk mediterranean "air" to build its own borderless sound language.

Port D' Attache 

JAVIER PAXARIÑO "Perihelion" + "Temura"

Perihelion 

 Temura

Spanish wind player (flutes, clarinets, saxes...) and composer Javier Paxariño makes music based, mainly, on the traditions and the history of mediterranean civilizations. His explorations through space and time bring in light elements from cultures grown in Iberica, South Europe, North Africa, Balkans, Middle East... and fuse them in seductive world-jazz-folk forms.

 These efforts -that although don't seek a new, genuine language, they lack no originality-  reach their best with albums "Temura" (1994) and "Perihelion" (1996) , two works that demonstrate Paxariño's ability for composing clarity and imaginative arrangements, perfectly balanced between ethno-colours and modern instrumentation.

"Temura", influenced by judaic esoterica, is named after a cabbalistic technique to extract hidden meanings from the mystery of sentence. "Perihelion", on the other hand, focused on the timeless worship of light, recalls the ancient sun ceremonies of mediterranean and subsaharian lands.

Ali Farka Toure & Tony Coe

Ana Sefalelku

'Ana Sefalelku' is a song from the collaboration of Ali Farka Toure with english saxophonist and clarinetist Tony Coe. It appeared in the Coe's album "Les Voix d'Itxassou" (Nato, 1990). It is posted here in memory of great Ali and for the Malian friends who have asked to listen to it...

The JazzWorld of The ACT Company

German ACT Company, one of the most successful world-music labels of the current era, founded in 1992 by Siegfried Loch. Internationally acclaimed for its debut -inspired and produced by Loch himself- projects, ACT extended activities and soon became home to many popular jazz artists. ACT's releases are focused on german new jazz scene, nordic contemporary music and ethno-fusions of mediterranean, african, latin, far east and american origins... This remarkable global-sound profile is portraited here:

Act One
TORBJORN SUNDE arctic
("Meridians", 1998)
NGUYEN LE mangustao, pt 2
("Tales From Viet-nam", 1996)
HUONG THANH the soaring of the heron
("Moon and Wind", 1996)
MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN lonconao
("Sol Mestizo", 1996)
JONAS KNUTSSON, JOHAN NORBERG resan
("Skarren:Norrland III", 2008)
NGUYEN LE, DHAFER YUSSEF kithara
("Homescapes", 2006)
ULF WAKENIUS u-dance
("Notes from the Heart", 2005)
BEIRACH, HUEBNER, MRAZ around dubrawuschka
(V.A. "Global Magic", 2001)
ESBJORN SVENSSON TRIO serenade for the renegade
("Strange Place For Snow", 2002)
ACTRONIC frontside backside
("Hamlet", 2001)
ODDJOB where eagles dare
("Clint", 2010)
MICHAEL RIESSLER orange
("Orange", 2000)
CORYELL, CATHERINE, KUHN deus xango
("Twin House + Splendid bonus tracks" [reissue], 1992)
GERARDO NUNEZ templo de lucero
("Andando El Tiempo", 2004)
KNUT ROESSLER, JOHANNES VOGT canaries
("Between the Times", 2007)
NILS LANDGREN emil kahl
("Gotland", 1996)


Act Two
GERMAN JAZZ MASTERS song for bam bam
("Old Friends", 2000)
SORIBA KOUYATE, DIDIER MALHERBE diya
(V.A. "Global Magic", 2001)
PAOLO FRESU predagoria
("Sonos E Memoria", 2001)
ROBERTO DI GIOIA TRIO sahara
("Abracadabra" [celebrating Klaus Doldinger], 2006)
RENAULT GARCIA-FONS, GERARDO NUNEZ un amor real
(" Jazzpaña II, 2000)
JAVIER PAXARINO, GLEN VELEZ temura
("Temura", 1994)
KLAUS PAIER, ASJA VALCIC tango loco
("A Deux", 2008)
CARSTEN DAERR, DANIEL ERDMANN reveal your identity
("Berlin Calling", 2007)
JONAS KNUTSSON polska efter jon marsen (trad)
("Cow Cow: Norrland II", 2005)
LARS DANIELSSON, LESZEK MOZDZER follow my backlights
("Pasodoble", 2007)
ODDJOB sewerside blues
("Sumo", 2008)
ELBTONALPERCUSSION st agnes & the burning train
("Four Elements", 2005)
LAUER, GODARD, HUSBAND de cuir et de cuivre
("Blues In Mind'', 2007)
JENS THOMAS sakyi's song
(V.A. "Global Magic", 2001)
PETER APFELBAUM & NY HIEROGLYPHICS it is written
("It is Written, 2005)
NILS LANDGREN, ESBJORN SVENSSON song from the valley
("Layers Of Light", 2001)

ACT one + ACT two

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The Global Sounds Of HANNIBAL RECORDS

Formed by producer JOE BOYD (Incredible String Band, Nick Drake, etc) and active in the field of folk/ethnic music throughout 80s and 90s, Hannibal Records was a daring label that brought us in touch with sounds and artists from all over the planet, a label with a major contribution to the evolution of world music and the globalization of folk influence.

Some selections from Hannibal catalogue:

ALI FARKA TOURE i go ka
[Mali], ("The Source", 1991)
TOUMANI DIABATE sankoun djabi
[Mali], ("Djelika", 1995)
BAKA BEYOND nahwia
[Cameroon/UK], ("Spirit Of the Forest", 1993)
SONGHAI jarabi
[Spain/Mali/UK], ("Songhai", 1988)
PATA NEGRA blues de la frontera
[Spain], ("Blues De La Frontera", 1986)
SILVIO RODRIGUEZ como esperando abril
[Cuba], ("Dias Y Flores", 1986, reissue)
MAHMOUD AHMED Tezeta
[Ethiopia], ("Ere Mela Mela", 1986, reissue)
KANDA BONGO MAN malinga
[Congo], ("Amor Fou", 1988)
JAZZ JAMAICA don cosmic
[UK], ("Skaravan", 1993)
OUTBACK an dro nevez
[UK], ("Baka", 1990)
DANNY THOMPSON yucateca
[UK], ("Whatever", 1987)
MARTA SEBESTYEN & MUZSIKAS regen volt, soka lesz
[Hungary], ("Prisoner's Song", 1986)
VUJICSICS svatovac iz pomaza
[Hungary], ("Vujicsics", 1988)
MUZSIKAS jewish dance from szaszregen
[Hungary], ("Maramaros: Lost Jewish Music Of Transylvania", 1993)
MARIA KALANIEMI & ALDARGAZ slingerdansin
[Finland], ("Iho", 1997)
NORMA WATERSON rags and old iron
[UK], ("Norma Waterson'', 1996)
CHOYING DROLMA & STEVE TIBBETS tal
[Nepal/USA], ("Cho", 1997)

Hannibal Music
(17 tracks - 74 min)

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Sounds In Restless Motion: The music of ANO KATO Records

Florina Brass Band

Lefteris Agouridakis (Diotima)

F. Floridis, M. Siganidis, K. Vomvolos (Wutu Wupatu)

Ano Kato Records was formed in 1984 in Thessaloniki. It is one of the oldest independent greek labels, definitely the most historical one in Northern Greece.

Due to the fact that Ano Kato has always supported in their first steps, artists derived from different music cultures, its repertoire displays great variety of sounds and idiosyncratic styles.

By starting of sublabel ρει records in early 90s, Ano Kato entered deeper the exploration of jazz, traditional, contemporary music and the space between, creating in parallel, innovative ideas, rediscoveries, international collaborations, experimental projects... the ground, briefly, on which the most interesting Ano Kato works finally were born.

Focused mostly on the ρει spirit, here it is our introduction to Ano Kato music:

ACID FREE purple ("Acid Free")
WUTU WUPATU doxombus ("Wutu Wupatu")
KOSTAS VOMVOLOS Romeo ("Girls' Bedroom")
P. KOWALD, FL. FLORIDIS, G. SOMMER aphorism 13 ("Aphorisms")
S. PAPADIMITRIOU & G. SYLLAIOU street theme ("The Song Of Lulu")
DIOTIMA eros ("Diotima")
OKAY TEMIZ MAGNETIC BAND kim o tomi ("In Finland 1995")
KOSTAS VOMVOLOS a strain of grass in her wedding dress ("Girls' Bedroom")
A PRIORI at a rubber sea ("A Priori")
GIANNIS MOURTZOPOULOS byzantine shuffle ("Dramamusic")
TRIO PRAXIS byzance ("Palmus")
MODE PLAGAL by the first light ("Mode Plagal")
FLORINA BRASS BAND minderia ("Florina Brass Band")
FLORIDIS, PETROVIC, NIKOLIC oh my life ("Syrtis Major")
WUTU WUPATU Chalkidiki ("Wutu Wupatu")

Ano Kato Music

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HiM " Lila ", EP (US, 2003)

HiM is a very interesting avant outfit behind of which we find percussionist, multi-instrumentalist DOUG SCHARIN, an important musician who has played among others with Codeine, June of 44, Directions In Music, Rex, and generally have had a remarkable role in the middlenineties evolution of post-rock. Earlier works of the band have origins to dub, krautrock, experimental ambient, gradually though, their sound becomes jazzier, cleaner and more atmospheric.
"LILA" is a 2003, highly melodic, mini work with world influences and a strong jazz feeling (Rob Mazurek plays the cornet here), in similar vein to that year's full album "Many In High Places Are Not Well", which we also recommend. Necessary though for a deeper contact are earlier works, especially their debut album "Egg" (1995).

LILA (EP)

KIP HANRAHAN: The Inspirer

The "artist behind the artists", writer, percussionist, label-man, producer, composer, world-art director... Kip Hanrahan.

(portrait by Ritchard Rodrigues)

the visionary man among half-light and darkness
(characteristic pose with Kip's face partly in shade)

An introduction to the world-art universe of Kip Hanrahan
and his record label...

01 Whatever I Want

( KIP HANRAHAN "Coup De Tete", 1981)

02 Bitter Chocklate

(CONJURE "Cab Calloway Stands In For The Moon", 1988)

03 Velasquez
(KIP HANRAHAN "Desire Developes An Edge", 1983)

04 Milonga for Three
(ASTOR PIAZOLLA "The Rough dancer & The Cyclical Night", 1988)

05 La Distancia Entre Los Dos
(ALFREDO TRIFF "21 Broken Melodies At Once", 2000)

06 Far From Beirut
(H. HERNANDEZ & R. AMEEN "Robby & Negro At The Third World War", 2002)

07 Hollywood In Harlem
(PIRI THOMAS "Every Child Is Born A Poet", 2006)

08 Poem for Gretchen Ruth
(PAUL HAINES "Darn It!", 1993)

09 Gillian's Folk Song
(KIP HANRAHAN "Tenderness", 1990)

10 Me Vuelves Loca
(SILVANA DELUIGI "Yo!", 2002)

11 The Moon Shows Red
(H. HERNANDEZ & R. AMEEN "Robby & Negro At The Third World War", 2002)

12 Discepolin
(SILVANA DELUIGI "Yo!", 2002)

13 Negro & Andy Run This Very Night Into Rumba
(DEEP RUMBA "This Night Becomes A Rumba", 1998)

14 Oye Familia!
(PIRI THOMAS "Every Child Is Born A Poet", 2006)

15 Mindtrances
(ALFREDO TRIFF "21 Broken Melodies At Once", 2000)

16 Unobtainable Days, Unobtainable Nights
(KIP HANRAHAN "Days & Nights Of Blue Luck Inverted, 1988)

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KIP HANRAHAN - No One Gets To Trascend Anything (1981)

American Clave compilation (16tracks, approx. 1hour)

see more at: www.americanclave.com

ALAIN GIBERT "Chariot D'Or" (FRA, 1995)

The art of ALAIN GIBERT is related with both traditional musics and avant-garde. As a search for a new music idiom, it explores territories between folk memory and folk imagination. "CHARIOT D'OR" is one of the most characteristic acts of this quest. Recorded the period 1994-95, the album comprises 14 tracks, four of which are based on traditional themes derived from french region AUVERGNE (south France), while the rest are Gibert's compositions. The composer plays piano, trombone and sings in the strange local dialect. The line up includes also BRUNO CHEVILLON on contrabass, JEAN-LOUIS MATINIER on accordion and the well known LOUIS SCLAVIS on clarinet and soprano saxophone. The music, jazzy-acoustic, turns to advantage the simplicity of sounds and extends the soul of old traditions towards innovatism and improvisation without spoiling the original warm folk feeling. However, "L' Auvergne imaginee" is rather the place where the "old" and the "new", have lost their meanings.

Alain Gibert


ALAIN GIBERT - Santa Catarino

LABEL BLEU: Jazz In Bleu Moods (FRA)

LABEL BLEU is the independent force of contemporary french jazz. Active since mid-eighties the Amiens based label has presented works from important and well known artists as LOUIS SCLAVIS, HENRI TEXIER, PAOLO FRESU, ALDO ROMANO, ENRICO RAVA, JUAN JOSE MOSALINI, MICHEL PORTAL, DAVID KRAKAUER & many others.
LABEL BLEU and sublabels INDIGO (ethnic, world jazz) and BLEU ELECTRIC (nu jazz, electronic) combine classic jazz values with avant directions, fresh sounds, innovative styles and world influences offering a wide spectrum of creations stamped uniquely by the bleu past-present-future sense of continuity.

JAZZ IN BLEU MOODS...an introduction to Label Bleu

a

01 HENRI TEXIER AZUR QUARTET - don't buy ivory, anymore!
02 SCLAVIS / TEXIER / ROMANO - Annobon
03 PALATINO -Tempo
04 PASCALS - Tour theme 2006
05 DANIEL GOYONE - Dance bulgar
06 ENRICO RAVA Tango for Vasquez & Pepita
07 MOSALINI / BEYTELMANN / CARATINI - Inspiracion
08 SCLAVIS / TEXIER/ ROMANO - Sowetto sorrow
09 PALATINO - Last call from the stars
10 P.A.F. TRIO - Paftastique
11 MICHEL PORTAL - Mutinerie
12 DAVID KRAKAUER - Moskovitz and loops of it

b
01 LOUIS SCLAVIS - Germania valse
02 PALATINO - Glenn's walk
03 JULIEN LOURAU - Tu mi turbi
04 DAVID LINX & DIEDERIK WISSELS - Lord of the groundless
05 MAGIK MALIK - Duo 237
06 VINCENT SEGAL - Castor
07 OLYMPIC GRAMOFON - Shiver
08 BATTISTA LENA - Il cha cha dei cosmonauti
09 JULIEN LOURAU - Diaspora
10 GARY LUCAS - Old dreams
11 PASCALS - Chakuriku
12 SCLAVIS / TEXIER / ROMANO - Viso di donna
13 CHRISTOPHE MARGUET - i
14 VINCENT SEGAL - Vienne

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listen to part a
(12 tracks, 1 hour)

listen to part b
(14 tracks, 56min)

More Label Bleu at La Folie Du Jour

JUAN JOSE MOSALINI - Che Bandoneon
MICHEL PORTAL - Musiques de Cinemas
LOUIS SCLAVIS - Ceux qui veillent la nuit

ANDY STATMAN: Forms Of Spiritual World Music

Statman's urban folk: from jewish mystics and bluegrass to impressionistic jazz and world eclectisism

ANDY STATMAN is a rare occasion of a multiculturalist, innovator and strongly rooted to the folk traditions artist. By a very young age, while he was already an accomplished bluegrass mandolinist, attracted by the free/spiritual jazz of Ayler and Coltrane and begun, as a saxophonist, his first adventures in avant-jazz and ethnic music. As a Jew, on the other hand, he involved with the old jewish music and, developing his clarinet virtuosity under the guidance of great Klezmer teachers (as David Tarras), he finally became one of the masters of the genre.

His approach though, in hebrew traditions hasn't been preserving the music of the past. On the contrary, Statman's art is in a constant search for an expansive form which extracts the timeless from the ancient jewish tunes and blends it with his many other influences.
This highly melodic world trip draws pictures of an urban-folk-bluesy american landscape and leads back to Balkan, Mediterrania, Eastern Europe, places where Chassidic culture bloomed. It has for sure its strong references to a collective memory, it is though the very personal journey of someone who attains to put to question our historical-geografical music certainties, communicating with us on the base of an old/new spiritual language.

...circa 1996

front cover of 1997 Statman's work, eloquently titled "Between Heaven & Earth"

A LFDJ introduction to Andy Statman

01 Shalom Aleichem
(Andy Statman & David Grisman "Songs Of Our Fathers", 1995)

02 Bashie's Bounce
("Songs Of Our Fathers", 1995)

03 Slivovitz
(Andy Statman Quartet "The Hidden Light", 1998)

04 Crossing the Bosphorus
("The Hidden Light", 1998)

05 Hispodedus
(Andy Statman "Avodas ha-levi: archival recordings from 90's", 2005)

06 Badekns Niggun
("Avodas ha-levi", 2005)

07 Yonah
(Andy Statman Quartet "Between Heaven & Earth", 1997)

08 L' cha dodi
("Avodas ha-levi", 2005)

09 Waltz
("Avodas ha-levi", 2005)

10 For the sake of my brothers and friends
("Songs Of Our Fathers", 1995)

11 Journey to the center of twang
(Andy Statman & David Grisman "Mandolin Abstractions", 1983)

12 'Till we meet again
("Mandolin Abstractions", 1983)

13 Mah Yedidus
("The Hidden Light", 1998)

14 Chassidic waltz
("Between Heaven & Earth", 1997)

15 Adon olam
("Songs Of Our Fathers", 1995)

16 If not for...
("Between Heaven & Earth", 1997)

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LISTEN HERE
(16 tracks, 56min)


ANDY STATMAN QUARTET - If Not For...


" A holy melody has the power to bring someone to a state of prophecy" (A Chassidic Mystic)

KIRJUHEL : Pulsating Transparencies

Με ορμητήριο τις μεταλλαγμένες σε ιδίωμα προσωπικό, κέλτικες παραδόσεις της ιδιαίτερης πατρίδας του Βρετάνης, αλλά και τους παγκόσμιους ήχους, το διαχρονικό μεσογειακό πολιτισμό και την ποίηση... η μουσική του JEAN-FREDERIC KIRJUHEL, επικεντρωμένη λιτά κυρίως γύρω από κέλτικη άρπα και φωνή, ονειροποιεί την χωροχρονική συνάφεια, επιδιώκοντας μια βαθύτερη εμπλοκή του σύγχρονου με τις αρχέγονες δυνάμεις της ύλης: τη γονιμότητα , την αρμονία, την κοσμική συνοχή...

tide
(photo by SOLVEIGH KAEHLER)

For an introduction to the art of french harpist/composer/poet KIRJUHEL, listen here to the 1999 REVOE compilation "Portrait". KIRJUHEL releases are often accompanied by the fine works of german photographer SOLVEIGH KAEHLER, so check out website of REVOE publishing company for the original items (CDs, photobooks, poetrybooks, etc... ).

CARNAC words of stone
(photo by SOLVEIGH KAEHLER)

epic fragments
(photo by SOLVEIGH KAEHLER)


transparencies
(photo SOLVEIGH KAEHLER)

KIRJUHEL - PORTRAIT
(13 tracks, 55 min)

SUSSAN DEYHIM & RICHARD HOROWITZ "Desert Equations: Azax Attra" (1986)

MTM Vol. 08

The collaboration between electronic/world music fusionist Richard Horowitz and the incredible Iranian vocalist Sussan Deyhim is one of the cult classics of Made To Measure series. Written for the opera performance "Azax Attra", which premiered in 1985 in NY and toured internationally.
A landmark in both musicians career and very influential for the evolution of world fusion genre...

Posted here by request

Desert Equations
(8 tracks, approx 41 min)

HASIDIC NEW WAVE " From The Belly Of Abraham" (US,2001)

Τhe fourth LP of HNW, this time with participation of senegalese hand drummers Aliounne Faye & Yakar Rhythms. Listen to it here.
Other HNW works at this blog are: "Psycho-Semitic" and " Kabalogy"

FROM THE BELLY OF ABRAHAM (62mb)

Στο τέταρτο LP τους, οι HNW συμπορεύονται με το σενεγαλέζικο σχήμα Aliounne Faye & Yakar Rhythms, και παρόλο που η "σύντηξη" των δυο πλευρών δεν αποφέρει ενα αρκετά ομογενοποιημένο και συμπαγές αποτέλεσμα, το άκουσμα ειναι ενδιαφέρον, οι γνωστές αβάν-τζαζ-φανκ-κλεζμερ διευρύνσεις εμπλουτίζονται πολυρυθμικά και αποκτούν χαρακτήρα διαφυλετικό.
Οι "περιπέτειες της αφρο-σημιτικής διασποράς" (έτσι υποτιτλοφορείται το CD) υλοποιούνται με αίσθημα πλήρους παροντικότητας, ελεύθερα, φαντασιακά... Δρομολογούν προοπτικές παρά ξεσκονίζουν μνήμες γιατί χειριζονται την παράδοση ριζοσπαστικά.

CICALA MVTA "CHING DONG, The Return of Japanese Street Music" (JAP, 1998)

streets of global parading

Avant - improv - folk - punk - prog - jazz - new orleans - klezmer - gipsy - balkan - east asian.... you need a train of words to describe.... music that starts from japanese street performances (chindon) and goes globally... madly.
The sound of CICALA MVTA is developed around the mainman/composer WATARU OHKUMA`s distinctive clarinet improvisations, by an unsual line up of musicians playing the tuba, percussions, fiddle, cello, electric guitar... The compositions are complexed, rich in multicultural references, with many unexpected turns and changes; the "street" feeling though, (lyrical, dramatic, bufooning ) is always present...
"CHING DONG..." is the german version of the first self-titled CICALA MVTA album.
Moniker CICALA MVTA honours the memory of the great, early 20th century japanese streetmusic singer, Soeda Azembo, the "mute cicada".

CICALA MVTA - CHING DONG (120mb)

SUB ROSA: " The Myths"

created & provided by RAINIER

Active since mid-eighties, belgian label SUB ROSA, offers one of the most expanded and advanced views on the art of 20th and 21st century. Though they specialize in experimental, world, electronic, avant garde music, in their huge and extremely interesting catalogue you can find also the most unexpected releases: aural documents (from artists, writers and important 20th century personalities), early electronics, recordings from authentic ethnic sources, indepen dent modern composition ("unclassical"), and so many other surprises...

The introductory SUB ROSA collection escorts this post is based mostly on material compiled from SUB ROSA`s "MYTHS" series and provided by our good friend RAINIER.

Discover more for SUB ROSA at:
http://www.subrosa.net

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