Sonkhiri Siprachuap

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From the album : " Fon Tok Fa Rong ". Monrakplengthai's blog



... "Born and raised in Samut Songkhram province, Sonkhiri left school at a young age to work on his family's coconut palm farm, and later a pineapple plantation down in Prachuap Khiri Khan. Between shifts, he would always entertain his fellow farmhands by singing the songs of khamron sambunnanon, dreaming of becoming a famous singer. . . . . After many years of performing with a popular local ramwong group, came to the attention of Luk Thung maestro Phaibun Butkhan. With the hits of phaibun to propel him, Sonkhiri became a huge star throughout the [ Thai ] kingdom. Sadly, he was killed in a motor accident in 1972 ". ( Monrakplengthai's blog ).

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Coumba Sidibe - " Yali Djamou "

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A video of a concert by Coumba Sidibé, star of the kamalen n'goni music of the Sikasso region in Mali. Recorded in the 1990s in Paris, France. Coumba Sidbé (born 1959) died in New York on May 10, 2009.( posted by wrldsrv, Netherlands )
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Marcus Miller - " Blast "

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Uploaded by " zootopian07 " .....05:10: bass guitar/drumkit.. . . 04:05 : drumkit solo

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Michael Wolf Photography Gallery: "100 x 100 "

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Michael Wolf shot his series, “ 100 x 100, ” at the Shek Kip Mei Estate, the oldest public housing complex in Hong Kong.

. . . “Imagine if someone came to our place and asked to take a picture, we’d probably say no,” Mr. Wolf said. “And maybe if the photographer had a compelling reason, maybe we’d say, ‘Maybe tomorrow, I need to clean up.’ This never happened there. Once they said yes, they said, ‘Come on in.’ And so you basically had this immediacy of the interior. I love that about people. It also shows that they have a lot of self-esteem about how they live.”

( New York Times, Showcase: A Room of Everyone’s Own by Valerie Lapinski )

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Fabrizio Bosso : "The Funk Phenomena"

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Jazz

Italian trumpeter ,Fabrizio Bosso , playing over Herbie Hancock's " THe Funk Phenomena " at "Live @ B Side (Radio Deejay)".

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Masterclass from Arvo Part - " Fur Alina "

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From the DVD " Arvo Part - 24 Preludes for a Fugue "

. . ." These two small voices, amazing how in ten minutes they seem to speak decades of sorrow with such serenity. Thanks, Mr Pärt." ( PerhapslessMystery )

. . ." the silence between the notes " ( federicobarabino )


Arvo Pärt (born 1935 ) is an Estonian classical composer. Since the late 1970's, Pärt has been working in a minimalist style that employs a self-made compositional technique called tintinnabuli . His music also finds its inspiration and influence from Gregorian chant.
Continuing struggles with Soviet officials led him to emigrate in 1980 with his wife and their two sons. Pärt lived first in Vienna, Austria, where he took Austrian citizenship, and then re-located to Berlin, Germany. He returned to Estonia around the turn of the century and now lives in Tallinn.

Björk interviews Arvo Pärt for the BBC program 'Modern Minimalists' (1997).





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Super Chikan and the Fightin' Cocks at Juke Joint Festival 2009

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Blues

James "Super Chikan" Johnson is an American blues musician, artist and guitar maker based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the nephew of fellow blues musician Big Jack Johnson.

James Louis Johnson was born in Darling, Mississippi on February 16, 1951. He spent his childhood moving from town to town in the Mississippi Delta and working on his family's farms. He was very fond of the chickens on the farm, and before he was old enough to work in the fields, he would walk around talking to them. This led his friends to give him the nickname "Chikan Boy". At an early age, Johnson got his first rudimentary musical instrument, a "diddley bow", which was simply a piece of wood with a piece of baling wire stretched from end to end. As he grew up, he came up with new ways to improve and vary the sounds he could make with it, and finally, in 1964, at the age of thirteen, he bought his first guitar, an acoustic model that had only two strings, from a Salvation Army store in Clarksdale.
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L. Shankar - " Raag Abheri " ( 1995 )

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..."After obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Physics in India, Shankar moved to America in 1969 and earned a doctorate in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. Here he met jazz musicians Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Garrison, and John McLaughlin while working as a teaching assistant and concert master of the University Chamber Orchestra. In 1975 Shankar and McLaughlin founded Shakti, a pioneering, groundbreaking and highly influential east-meets-west collaboration, with a fluid sound that managed to successfully combine seemingly incompatible traditions. His first solo album, Touch Me There, was produced by Frank Zappa in 1979. Shankar founded his own band - The Epidemics, in 1982, with the composer Caroline. He released three albums with the band.

During the 1980s, Shankar recorded periodically as a leader, doing both jazz-based material and Indian classical music. His 1980 release of the album Who's To Know on ECM introduced the unique sound of his own invention, the ten-string, stereophonic double violin. This instrument, designed by Shankar and built by noted guitar maker Ken Parker, covers the entire orchestral range, including double bass, cello, viola and violin. He has recently developed a newer version of his instrument which is much lighter than the original..." ( more from Wikipedia )


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Gavin Bryars featuring Tom Waits - "Jesus' Blood never failed me yet"

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Uploaded by "nednickerson2010".

"Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" is a piece of music composed by Gavin Bryars in 1971. It is based around a recorded loop of an un-named tramp improvising a hymn; eventually rich harmonies are played by a live ensemble of strings and brass, always increasing in density. The recording was originally made for a 1960s documentary by Alan Power which chronicled street life in London. Later when listening to the recordings, Bryars noticed that the clip was very in tune, and that it looped well into 13 bars. The tramp died before being able to hear the completed piece.

For the first recording as an LP, Bryars was limited to a duration 25 minutes for the piece; upon the invention of cassette tape technology, Bryars made a 60 minute version of the piece, and for CD, a 74 minute version.

The studio in which Bryars made the piece was next to a busy art studio. When constructing the piece, Bryars unintentionally left the loop playing and his door open during a lunch break; when he returned, the usually lively studio was quiet, and some people were crying.

A new recording of this work was made in the 1990s with Tom Waits singing along with the original recording of the tramp during the final section.

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