Mongolia: Enkh Jargal
Enkh Jargal plays Morin Khoor and sings Kharchira (Throat singing) and Xööni (vertone chanting).
Gang Gang Dance - "Chinese High" (4AD Session)
To mark the release of fourth album Eye Contact, Brooklyn's Gang Gang Dance is the latest act to record a 4AD Session. Filmed in early April at Angelic Studios in the heart of rural England, the band convened in a purposefully built 20ft square mirrored room, encased by endless reflections of themselves.
Inspired by the so-called 'infinity rooms' of the seminal Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, the construction of the space comprised most of the time allotted to recording. Consequently, the session didn't begin until midnight, and continued through until sunrise the next day. Inevitability, the twilight hours suffused the performance with a subtle euphoria, which allayed with the warped environment crated by the mirrors, touched the renditions of 'Glass Jar' and 'Adult Goth' with an otherworldly quality.
With the idea to create all effects live in the space sans digital manipulation, the resulting performance channeled a raw responsiveness to the music as it was being played, as witnessed in the 15 minute take on the visceral dancehall of 'MindKilla' and the Balearic feel of 'Chinese High'. Indeed, spontaneity was key to the entire session. 'MindKilla' was recorded in one take and improvised to include an exclusive airing of previously unreleased track, 'KOU-DA-LEY', while 'Adult Goth' likewise segues into a delirious version of 'Bond'. Adding to the room's ambience, the hanging crystals lent a prismatic quality, rendering the kaleidoscope of Eye Contact in primary colours, and helping mark the session as a true landmark in the series.
4AD Records
Photography: Alberto Seveso
Alberto Seveso was born in Milan / Italy in 1976, but has lived most of his life on the island of Sardinia, in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, in this corner of paradise has begun to take its first steps towards the art, computer graphics and photography.
Alberto has not attended school of Art or Design is a self-taught, began in the early '90s following the "Amiga" scene and start using graphics softwares like Deluxe Paint and mid 90s as a street artist, in the early years of the new millennium, he moved to Rome, where he began his career as a graphic designer / illustrator.
Bharatanatyam Dance - Malavika Sarukkai
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Bharata Natyam is considered to be a 'fire dance' — the mystic manifestation of the metaphysical element of fire in the human body. It is one of the five major styles (one for each element) that includes Odissi (element of water), Mohiniattam (element of air), Kuchipudi (element of earth) and Kathakali (element of sky). The movements of an authentic Bharata Natyam dancer resemble the movements of a dancing flame. Contemporary Bharata Natyam is rarely practiced as Natya Yoga, a sacred meditational tradition, except by a few orthodox schools.
Bharata Natyam proper is a solo dance, with two aspects, lasya, the graceful feminine lines and movements, and tandava Ananda Thandavam (Tamil) (the dance of Shiva), masculine aspect, which is identical to the Yin and Yang in the Chinese culture.
Jon Hassell | Live at Lausanne 2009
"If you're looking for interesting new music, I recommend all the works of Jon Hassell." PHILIP GLASS
"Ever listened to really early Pink Floyd? 'Interstellar Overdrive' era Floyd? Or King Crimson? There's something special about certain types of music. They reach in behind the ears...and pull out things that you could swear never belonged to you...Jon Hassell's Maarifa Street: Magical Realism II is an immersive experience... This is music that plays with the ephemeral curtain between the conscious and the unconscious. No...really."
CD REVIEWS.COM / Peter Dolan
Joe Mangrum
Joe Mangrum was born in Florissant Missouri. At the age of 16 he was awarded a trip to India sponsored by the Asia Society of New York 1986. After completing his BFA with a focus on painting and photography from the School of the Art institute of Chicago in 1991 he traveled for many years before making his home in San Francisco. His first solo exhibition was at San Francisco State University in 1995, titled “Hypothesis”.
Joe uses a variety of materials in his work creating 4 dimensional experiences with everyday objects including auto parts, computer parts, food, money, bullets, flowers, fire and glass. His most recent medium of choice is colored sand. ( more )
The Shook Twins | Toll Free
The Shook twins are identical twin sisters originally from Sandpoint, Idaho. They play banjo and guitar with beatboxing, looping, whistles, wawa pedals, tambourines and djembes intertwined. Their identical, chilling vocal harmonies take the lead on most of their unique, quirky folk songs. “The sisters’ voices blend and braid with amazing clarity and depth, their guitars percolate brightly, and the intensity builds to incendiary proportions with layers of percussion gradually added to the mix.” -Spokesman Review (Spokane WA)
Cassandra Wilson - "Love is Blindness"
Live at Warsaw, 1996 .
The voice is more visual than audible; shaded, iridescent, tangible, substantial. It seems to flow effortlessly. Read any of the dozen or so biographies on Cassandra Wilson and you’ll discover some basics: born and reared in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s and 70s by musician and educator parents.
Classically trained on piano from age 6 until the age of 13, she also received further musical instruction as a clarinetist for the concert and marching bands of secondary school. During the 70s, she could be found performing Joni Mitchell songs behind an acoustic guitar, or singing with a blues band in Little Rock, Arkansas, in front of a large funk band in Jackson, or in the company of long-time friends in an all-girls ensemble. In the eighties, Cassandra moved to New Orleans where she performed with local luminaries Earl Turbinton and Ellis Marsalis. After a year, she relocated to East Orange, New Jersey where she made a decision to take her chances on the New York jazz scene. After a stint as the main vocalist with Steve Coleman’s M-Base Collective, Cassandra began recording on her own.
Her development can be tracked through her discography. From the standards on Blue Skies to the Grammy-winning projects New Moon Daughter and Loverly, to the combination of originals and interpretations played by a collection of Mississippi and New York musicians on both the 2001 release, Belly of the Sun, and 2003’s Glamoured, Cassandra continues to evolve as a vocalist, songwriter, and producer. She is a world renowned vocalist, songwriter and producer, with an extraordinary following, but at heart she is still a Mississippi girl whose art reflects her deep musical and cultural roots, anchored in the fertile Mississippi soil.
All About Jazz
Posted by "darominu" 2010 .
Zap Mama in New York 2009
Zap Mama at The Brooklyn Academy of Music's R&B Festival at Metrotech.
Zap Mama is an all-female a cappella quintet founded by Zaire native Marie Daulne. Daulne's father was killed during the revolution of 1960 while her mother was pregnant with her, so the remainder of the family fled to the forests and found refuge with a tribe of pygmies. Daulne was raised primarily in Europe, but when she heard a recording of traditional pygmy music at age 20, she decided to return to Africa to learn about her heritage. She was trained in pygmy onomatopoeic vocal techniques before returning to the West to found Zap Mama. Her group blends world music styles from all over the globe with little, if any, instrumental or percussive backup other than what group members can do with their voices and bodies. Their 1993 debut, Adventures in Afropea, became the biggest-selling non-compilation album in the history of Luaka Bop Records, helped in part by an opening slot on that summer's 10,000 Maniacs tour. A year later they released a follow-up, Sabsylma; 7 followed in 1997. A Ma Zone appeared in 1999. Zap Mama returned to Luaka Bop for 2004's Ancestry in Progress. Supermoon was issued by Heads Up in 2007. The group evolved around Daulne into an increasingly more pop-directed world beat configuration, and while Zap Mama may have lost a few of their more traditionally focused fans in the process, the infectious persuasiveness and danceability of the later era version of the group brought in just as many again. ReCreation, a perfect example of the sort of global urban tone Daulne had been grafting into the group's DNA, appeared in 2009.
Steve Huey & Steve Leggett, Rovi
Posted by "nycsummer"
Prapancham Ravindran Raj TV
Guitar-Prasanna, Mridhangam- Prapancham Ravindran, Ghatam- Dr. S. Karthik, Kanjira- Purushothaman.
Posted by" shiridiprasanna "
Trilok Gurtu, L. Shankar & Don Cherry at Mumbai 1978
Don Cherry (trumpet), Trilok Gurtu (percussion , tabla) and Shankar ( electric violin) .
Taken from the documentary 'Bombay and Jazz', BBC's 'Rhythms Of The World' series. Posted by "kundalini76".
P18- "Bacalao con Pan"
P18- Bacalao con Pan - Live 2008
Groupo Irakere
Date of foundation: 1973
Place of foundation: CUBA
Irakere is a Grammy Award winning Cuban ensemble founded by the pianist Chucho Valdés in 1973. They are known for their unique sound by using a wide range of percussion instruments, like batá, abacuá and arará drums, chequerés, erikundis, maracas, claves, cencerros, bongó, tumbadoras, and güiro.
Zong - "Pendiyé"
Zong is an electronic outfit from the French Reunion Island . Their music incorporates elements of rock , dub , Maloya , techno , drum and bass , groove , or punk .
Posted by "YomghY".
Jenny Hval - "Blood Flight"
From Jenny Hval's concert in Kulturkirken Jakob at by:Larm festival, 17.02.2011.
..." Jenny Hval, also known as Rockettothesky, has been described as “rigorously intellectual, poised and determinately instinctual”. She studied art of writing and performance at the University of Melbourne from 2001 to 2005. During her stay in Australia she also played in the bands iPanic and Folding for Air. She was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy in 2006 for her successful debut album To Sing You Apple Trees, and her second album Medea came out in 2008.
Hval’s music may be described as a mix of electronic, pop, poetry, mystique, sensuality and a smooth sound. She played at most of the big Norwegian festivals in 2007, as well as at different events in Scandinavia, France, the UK and Belgium..."
Norway's Official Site Abroad
Misinterprotato with Tunji Beier - "THE GENTLE WAR"
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02:44 . Misinterprotato collaborate with Tunji Beier at a live concert in Brisbane, 2010 .
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02:44 . Misinterprotato collaborate with Tunji Beier at a live concert in Brisbane, 2010 .
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Spring Heel Jack - "The Road To The Western Lands "
LP : Oddities THI 57086.2 (2000). Written & Produced By John Coxon And Ashley Wales. Words By William Burroughs. HQ Audio.
Posted by "TheIDMMaster" January 2010.
EboTaylor with Bonze Konkoma
EboTaylor with Bonze Konkoma , Heaven, LIVE 2011. Lead Vocals Henry Taylor .
..." Taylor's career as an outstanding Ghanaian guitarist, composer and arranger spans over 50 years. His music and style have shaped Ghanaian popular music over the last five decades substantially.
He has recorded twelve albums, once led several well-known bands, among them the Uhuru Dance Band, was the musical director for Essiebons, Gapophone and Polygram, and composed and arranged numerous songs, also for other great musicians like C.K. Mann, Pat Thomas, Jewel Ackah, Papa Yankson and others. His classic Highlife and Afrobeat compositions include "Sika Enyiber", "Odo Ye Wu", "Ghana Be Ye Yie", "Dofo", "Twer Nyame", "Heaven", and "Come Along".
Two years ago, with the support of Essiebons Music in Accra, Taylor started a new band called "Bonze Konkoma". The band features talented young musicians from around the area of Saltpond in the Central Region where Taylor lives, as well as music graduates from the University of Ghana, where he has been teaching Highlife and Jazz Guitar for the last seven years.
Having researched into Fante Akan music extensively with Bonze Konkoma Taylor draws on musical traditions like Adowa, Asafo, Osode, and Adzewa (a Fante dance music form traditionally mainly played by women) which he creatively reinterprets into a new Ghanaian musical form strongly shaped by Taylors own musical style: a unique blend of Highlife, Jazz, and Afrobeat.
The use of a Konkoma drum ensemble alongside guitars, bass, keyboard, brass section, and a prime emphasis on vocal music, to transpose Taylor's compositions and arrangements into a modern band idiom presents the Bonze Konkoma as a highly interesting and unique project in contemporary Ghanaian music." ( Ghanamusic.com )
Posted by "wideworldinc" 2011
Ebo Taylor -" Twer Nyame"
Posted by "The Paw 89"
Posted by "wideworldinc" 2011
Ebo Taylor -" Twer Nyame"
Posted by "The Paw 89"
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