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Another hot month in this hemisphere, and another great set of recordings to listen to while beating the heat! This month bring a great set of Clean Feed releases, and the last set of Utechs for a while. Two new Ambiances Magnetiques from their excellent jazz series also have us smiling inside. Meanwhile the new Fe-Mail has the hairs on our neck standing on end, which we're balancing out with new Necks album, in a rare show of short songs, and Alfred Harth's latest, bridging the jazz and electro-acoustic worlds. A couple of Mode and Explore titles along with the Sublime Frequency releases from the Sun City Girls world should make for a great end to the summer...
"Seems tribute albums are in the air over at Damon Smith's Balance Point Acoustics. Sextessense is "a tribute to John Stevens and the SME"-the title refers of course to the two albums Stevens recorded with the Derek Bailey, Kent Carter, Evan Parker and Trevor Watts line-up of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in 1973, Quintessence 1 and 2). Stevens was one of the prime movers and arguably the most important catalyst in improvised music as it emerged in late 1960s London, and his SME remains one of [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Leading such an outstanding group of players in the production of an album requires much candor and courage. Guitarist Antoine Berthiaume is joined by Michel Donato and Pierre Tanguay in this dynamic trio that will that will groove your heart and soul. Ellen's Bar unveils a different side of Antoine's multifaceted activities. The eleven originals presented here are bursting with vitality and showcasing a firm and lively guitar style, while relying strongly on the jazz trio tradition. Except for [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Burk's fourth release in as many years further documents his trademark synergy of freedom and structure. The all-original program features reinterpretations of previously composed works, organically developed free improvisations and explorations of the non-traditional sound potential of the piano."Burk's seemingly paradoxical ability to sound both considered and unfettered is a marvel," wrote AllAboutJazz.com Senior Editor John Kelman of 2005's Nothing, Knowing, featuring Steve Swallow [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Burk's fourth release in as many years further documents his trademark synergy of freedom and structure. The all-original program features reinterpretations of previously composed works, organically developed free improvisations and explorations of the non-traditional sound potential of the piano.
"Burk's seemingly paradoxical ability to sound both considered and unfettered is a marvel," wrote AllAboutJazz.com Senior Editor John Kelman of 2005's Nothing, Knowing, featuring Steve Swallow [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Every acoustic musician is at the mercy of the sound of the room they play in. Whilst there may be awkward mismatches for composed music, improvisers can, if they wish, radically shape their music to the acoustics in which they find themselves. In Albi we explored this interplay a little further. Laurent Sassi recorded the trio in the large hall of L'Athanor Cultural Centre, in the extremely resonant antechamber of the Chapelle, in the Chapelle itself and in the dry studio of GMEA. Some situations [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Prolific bassist and composer Cartier tackles the concept of jazz standards and love songs from a French/Actuelle perspective. Compositions and lyrics are from Guillaume Apollinaire, Michel Garneau, Paul-Marie Lapointe, Gaston Miron, Pierre Perrault and Cartier himself, played by a quintet steeped in the idiom, including Jean Derome, Bernard Falaise, and Pierre Tanguay, with Cartier handling vocals. The results are a compelling set of songs, new jazz standards of familiar form in a new language [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Get Goin' The band name is an acronym, standing for Get out of Iraq Now. The membership includes Brian Ritchie and Victor De Lorenzo of the Violent Femmes, my old Corpses mates, plus Brian Jackson on piano. These are some highlights from a spring tour as well as a version of Joanne from our first concert ever in Oshkosh. Brian plays beautiful shakuhachi on versions of Change Has Come and Summertime and also hauls out a one string bass and a demented washtub bass without a washtub. Molly Chadbourne [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This recording features Eugene Chadbourne and Dave Fox performing a series of solo and duo pieces, culminating in the debut performance of Dave Fox's "Sonata for Banjo and Piano (Quasi-Improvised)." Additional improvisations and compositions include the opening "Two Plumbers," Dave Fox's "Chantarelle and Chardonnay" and the standard "Secret Love," and Eugene's performances of the Bill Evans classic "Time Remembered" and Nick Drake's "One of These Things First." "-Umbrella Recordings"Greensboro [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This Me and Paul set, released in its entirety, came to light in 2006 and was passed along by Paul Lovens with his recommendations. It had been a long travel day including a frightening experience getting off at the wrong Warsaw station, but there we finally were onstage in front of fanatic crowds who had been waiting a long time to see me in Poland. Byob Club, Everyone's been Burned and some other familiar numbers are part of a set which also includes a cover of 19th Nervous Breakdown and There's [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This CD is mostly solo, the ridiculous new song Rebuild New Orleans in Iraq plus pristine solo recordings from the Green Bay Charles Mingus Festival, duo improv with Sir Richard Bishop of Sun City Girls, lots of hot acoustic guitar and banjo. Other tracks include Charter and People Will Vote For Whoever Gives them Food."-Eugene Chadbourne
The successor to the amazing Vandermark/Lytton duo, here augmented with violin and electronics from Philipp Wachsmann (Freezone Appleby, Evan Parker, King Ubu, etc). Inspired and creative playing recorded live in France and Slovenia. Limited edition of 999, we only have a few copies...
"Being a drummer, Whit Dickey uses generally the piano when he composes. The pieces included in "Sacred Ground" are exceptions - this time, he chose the voice as compositional tool. That circumstance lead him to a particular purpose: to reinforce the melodical complexion of his music. And notice: the music of a drummer. This is not new, of course. Max Roach is the most famous case of a percussionist who wanted to play melodically, but truth is many performers of this instrument aren't satisfied [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
" "Like new fire / Burning us down to the roots, past the roots". These are the first two verses of the poem by Geral Schwartz that inspire this record. And Fire Music this is indeed, as the press call to free jazz and its heirs in the present scene. Rob Brown, Steve Swell and Harris Heisenstadt, the three Diplomats, are really "burned down to the roots", and that means they are true followers of the New Thing. An alto sax, a trombone and a drumkit, here is a combo reduced to its bones. They don't [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The other side of this, of course, is exactly the music proposed by Filiano and Adams, not any other, but listened in another way, actively, not as a scenario for reading a magazine, having a conversation or driving in the highway. You have to commit yourself to listen to the proposed sounds, to be there, on the spot, and that's why this isn't a duo record, but a trio one. There's Ken Filiano with his bass and some electronics, there's Steve Adams with his saxophones and flutes and there's you, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"John Carlson (a former Either/ Orchestra member), Eric Hipp, Shawn McGloin and George Schuller call "cosmosonic jazz" to the music they play with this quartet that was already a duo and a trio (special guest Douglas Yates is the fifth element here), in tribute to Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra.And that's why a very well known composition ("The Satellites Are Spinning") by the first to use synthesizers in jazz, Herman P. Blount, aka Sun Ra, is one of the highlights of "Free Range [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"John Carlson (a former Either/ Orchestra member), Eric Hipp, Shawn McGloin and George Schuller call "cosmosonic jazz" to the music they play with this quartet that was already a duo and a trio (special guest Douglas Yates is the fifth element here), in tribute to Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra.
And that's why a very well known composition ("The Satellites Are Spinning") by the first to use synthesizers in jazz, Herman P. Blount, aka Sun Ra, is one of the highlights of "Free Range [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Gasilini's homage to Jelly Roll Morton in a large ensemble setting.
"For much of this bristling 2006 Stockholm club date, Charles Gayle interprets - or shreds, depending on your vantage - iconic flag-wavers like "Cherokee" and "Giant Steps," as well as standards like "Softly in a Morning Sunrise" and "What's New." It is a welcomed reminder that free jazz is often at its best when its jazz roots are ecstatically celebrated, instead of being shrouded. Gayle wields an alto for the entire set instead of his signature tenor saxophone, resulting in a distinctive abrasive [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"From someone who was absent from the jazz scene for ten years, trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez's recent hyper-activity put his name in focus, as if he had always been active and simply became more and more famous. The Boston concert documented in "No Photograph Available" was one of those things that only happens thanks to the Internet.On his way to New York, where the Texan had a gig the following day, he wanted to stop in Boston and play there with local musicians, so he sent some messages [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"From someone who was absent from the jazz scene for ten years, trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez's recent hyper-activity put his name in focus, as if he had always been active and simply became more and more famous. The Boston concert documented in "No Photograph Available" was one of those things that only happens thanks to the Internet.
On his way to New York, where the Texan had a gig the following day, he wanted to stop in Boston and play there with local musicians, so he sent some messages [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The Will Holshouser Trio's new album "Singing to a Bee" takes its title from the novel "Lovesong for the Giant Contessa" by Steven Tye Culbert. Considering the new language and narration techniques used by the Texan writer and the trio's own approach to music, combining formal aspects of several idioms in a new kind of hybrid you can't easily label - call it "world chamber jazz", if you want, but be warned: there's so much more not fitting in the description -, we're not surprised. There are [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"If you still think jazz is an American music, think again. This is jazz indeed, and none of the artists involved was born on the United States. A Brazilian, tenor saxophonist Alípio Carvalho Neto, a Belgium, vibraphonist Elsa Vandeweyer, a French, trumpeter Jean-Marc Charmier, and two Portuguese, bassist João Hasselberg and drummer Rui Gonçalves (with another Brazilian on one track, zabumbist and singer Paulo Matricó), play this New World turned All World music, and [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Label owner Kevin Norton in a trans-atlantic trio playing modern Euro-flavoured improv with tremendous creative drive.
"At least Henry Kaiser's honest: if it hadn't been for Derek Bailey he probably wouldn't have picked up a guitar in the first place. ("Would you have become a scuba diver instead?" wonders Damon Smith.) So there are few people better placed to curate a Bailey tribute album than Kaiser, especially since, just glancing at the photos in the digipak interior, it looks as if he's got every record the man ever made, including of course his (Kaiser's) own duet outing with Bailey, the splendid Wireforks [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Adam Lane is doing some magic. If you didn't noticed, here's a new opportunity you shouldn't miss. And why? Because the bassist, composer and arranger is taking the big band format in jazz (in this case a septet) some steps beyond. You know there's not much happening nowadays in this field. Even the best examples of good orchestral work follow the same old patterns, without adding anything really new to what was done before. The Full Throttle Orchestra is an exception. Lane has Duke Ellington [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This record finds Tetuzi and McPherson playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that, on each listening, uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each other's playing that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem. Tetuzi Akiyama is often associated with the improvising community in Tokyo generated around Tokyo's [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This record finds Tetuzi and McPherson playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that, on each listening, uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each other's playing that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem.
Tetuzi Akiyama is often associated with the improvising community in Tokyo generated around Tokyo's [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Chemist is the 13th release from Australian maverick trio The Necks, now approaching their 20th Anniversary, and still occupying a genre-group of one. Their slow, gripping, development of a single idea over the length of a whole CD, while somehow obvious, has proved un-copyable, mostly because it so much depends on the unique musical personalities and extreme virtuosity of these three, profoundly different, musicians. Having established their theme, The Necks, with Chemist, break [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Chemist is the 13th release from Australian maverick trio The Necks, now approaching their 20th Anniversary, and still occupying a genre-group of one. Their slow, gripping, development of a single idea over the length of a whole CD, while somehow obvious, has proved un-copyable, mostly because it so much depends on the unique musical personalities and extreme virtuosity of these three, profoundly different, musicians.
Having established their theme, The Necks, with Chemist, break [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Amazing band that ended far too early in their creative cycle due to the early demise of Tom Cora. The band continued as 4Walls, but the recordings under the name Roof remain stellar achievements.
"Billy Stein graduated from Hunter College in the mid-1970s, where he studied with musicians as diverse as composer Louise Talma and bassist Milt Hinton. He was the guitarist in Sahib Shihab's big band, and has led several bands, some including bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Lewis Nash. Over the years, Billy Stein has performed with Rashid Bakr, William Parker, Wilber Morris, Matt Shipp and Sabir Mateen."-Barking Hoop"The rhythmic empathy within the trio is strong, as is their ability [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"The rhythmic empathy within the trio is strong, as is their ability [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Every acoustic musician is at the mercy of the sound of the room they play in. Whilst there may be awkward mismatches for composed music, improvisers can, if they wish, radically shape their music to the acoustics in which they find themselves. In Albi we explored this interplay a little further. Laurent Sassi recorded the trio in the large hall of L'Athanor cultural centre, in the extremely resonant antechamber of the Chapelle, in the Chapelle itself and in the dry studio of GMEA. Some situations [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Intense and unexpected meeting between Braxton and the improvising rock band Wolf Eyes. Disturbing and fascinating, one of the best of the recent Braxton Victo releases.
"First full-length collaboration by Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree since 1999's Spec. (12k). For this collaboration, sound artists Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree were invited by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, to create a new live work inspired by the Seascapes series of renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto on the occasion of his retrospective exhibition. The result is this live recording, Specification.Fifteen. This work premiered on March 30, 2006 [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Four new pieces from this excellent electro-acoustic and vocal duo, who use a variety of analogue electronics & acoustic instruments, live sampling and computers to create complex improvisations that take unexpected twists and turns. Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord have worked together for 10 years, including the SPUNK improv quartet, but only began touring and releasing material under their own name in 2000. Last year they toured with Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, and this year has seen a flurry [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Studio constructions of acoustic & electronic musics in an eclectic set of pieces. Each are complex compositions with many unexpected twists and turns and a great attention to detail; journeys in sound that are active, interesting, and occassionally irascible, but powerful discourses on the themes that Harth presents. You'll have to listen closely to hear the saxophonist Harth within, but his compositions are mature works worthy of a close listen."With a respectful distance, I want to [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Studio constructions of acoustic & electronic musics in an eclectic set of pieces. Each are complex compositions with many unexpected twists and turns and a great attention to detail; journeys in sound that are active, interesting, and occassionally irascible, but powerful discourses on the themes that Harth presents. You'll have to listen closely to hear the saxophonist Harth within, but his compositions are mature works worthy of a close listen.
"With a respectful distance, I want to [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Spanish composer Francisco López presents four recently composed pieces which span a broad dynamic as well as stylistic range. Together these constitute a fascinating and intense research exploration into the deep essence of sound. From sizzling jungle atmospheres to rumbling subterranean drones and microscopic details, this is a Francisco López tour de force. In addition to three pieces based on environmental recordings, Untitled (2005) features also an instrumental composition Untitled [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"It all started in 1994, in a bathroom. An air vent above the bathtub attracted my attention. There, in the dusty environment, air became noise, music. Microphones were brought into contact with this acoustic territory to transmit the sonority of the aeraulic device directly. Since that day, I have been attentive to the flow of air in the modern architecture. This CD presents a selection of sound recordings made in Paris in buildings of various ages and dimensions. Without seeking to itemize mechanized [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Minazo is Merzbow's tribute to the beloved male elephant seal who lived life in captivity at a Tokyo aquarium. Masami Akita often visited the seal at the aquarium and was allowed to access Minazo behind the scenes. Minazo includes many phototographs and an essay by Masami Akita as well as illustrations by Jenny Akita.Minazo, an Elephant seal, died at 5:15 pm on October 4, 2005. He was 11 years old, still young for an elephant seal whose life expectancy is 20 years on average. Whatever [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Minazo is Merzbow's tribute to the beloved male elephant seal who lived life in captivity at a Tokyo aquarium. Masami Akita often visited the seal at the aquarium and was allowed to access Minazo behind the scenes. Minazo includes many phototographs and an essay by Masami Akita as well as illustrations by Jenny Akita.
Minazo, an Elephant seal, died at 5:15 pm on October 4, 2005. He was 11 years old, still young for an elephant seal whose life expectancy is 20 years on average. Whatever [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Soundtrack from cassette/electro-acoustic musician Onda and collaborators. "Onda is a self-taught composer, producer, electronics musician, and also a photographer. As a composer, Onda has paid his dues in electronic music, ambient, and jazz. A mature hand guides the sounds culled from collaborators such as Eye Yamatsuka, Nobukazu Takemura, SFT, Noél Akchoté, Blixa Bargeld, Steven Bernstein, and Linda Sharrock.""Aki Onda released albums under the project name Audio [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Soundtrack from cassette/electro-acoustic musician Onda and collaborators.
"Onda is a self-taught composer, producer, electronics musician, and also a photographer. As a composer, Onda has paid his dues in electronic music, ambient, and jazz. A mature hand guides the sounds culled from collaborators such as Eye Yamatsuka, Nobukazu Takemura, SFT, Noél Akchoté, Blixa Bargeld, Steven Bernstein, and Linda Sharrock."
"Aki Onda released albums under the project name Audio [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Very first release of all electronic music from this bigwig of the global improv/noise/experimental underground, known for his work alongside trumpeter Greg Kelley in the influential duo, nmperign, his direction of the improvising juggernaut, The BSC, and collaborations with Jason Lescalleet, Gunter Muller, Ralf Wehowsky, Le Quan Ninh, Alessandro Bosetti, and Michel Doneda, among others. This new music ranges from homemade synth textures to field recordings from Lisbon, Venice, Huelva, and other, [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
2004 Sampler from the ever-interesting Psychform records, introducing their artists, mostly in the post-industrial electro-acoustic world. Interesting music at a good price.
"CD Reissue of the first Alvarius B record. 32 instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird Lo-Fi rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of several folk guitar styles, some which may never have existed before. From abrasive to delicate, these lucid antique paintings with acoustic guitar employ Appalachian polyrhythms, dark melodies, flamenco thrash, alien tunings, pseudo eastern drones, cinematic backroad twang, and other hybrid ideas not easily described. This record is a folk [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"I have been wanting to add a Shockabilly release to this list, it is only fair. The entire catalog of this group is embroiled in some kind of heinous legal dispute circa 2006 but there are many live recordings. A friend sent a good one done by a radio station in Ann Arbor but as soon as I started listening to it I realized this was a set in which Kramer's organ stopped working for nearly four songs. Then at a Greensboro Sunday morning jazz set a local artist presented me with a poster that was [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This debut release from the mysterious Herb Diamante will transport you on a naughty journey through his speakeasy of debauchery and sin. These eleven tracks of alcohol, tobacco, and desire are driven by his rich, golden voice atop a psychedelic showroom of sound. Herb Diamante is perhaps the most unique lounge singer around. He sings songs about eggplants, yellow kazoos, and delicate stilettos. Then, he'll "hail the fish-king" and finish you off with "a wasp in a jam jar." The elusive Englishman [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Hungarian avant-pop band playing complex and interesting compositions. A band well known to Recommended Record collectors, this is another fine addition to their catalog.
Reissued in a new package of the box manufactured for the Faust Fiesta Festival, these CDs all feature Jean Herve Peron and Zappi Diermier as the core Faust with long time collaborators Olivier Manchion and Amaury Cambuzat. One CD is a concert recording from 1996, remastered and featuring anarchy enough for Bakunin (or Hugo Ball), plenty of rock noise and the twin pillars of Jean's driving spirit and Zappi's inimitable style. The second CD is of rehearsals in July 2005, more songlike; work in progress. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
John Lennon's first solo release after departing the Beatles, a strong set of songs that help distinguish Lennon as the artist he would be most remembered for. Expensive because of the remastering series (ultradisc) but worth it for the excellent fidelity and good presentation of this important record.
Christian Vander's other project was called Offering, and this 4 CD box presents the bulk of his material under that name. The CDs are all remastered, and a bonus track, "Out of This World" is included. International & Canadian Customers please note - because of the weight of this item we must manually add $5 to the shipping cost of your order.
An orchestral keyboard record from Magma's leader, Christian Vander. "Fifteen years in composition (1982 - 1997) and more than four years in the making, this music is something entirely new, bridging the compositional efforts of the 20th Century post Schoenbergian greats to create a 21st Century music which grasps the essence of the vast interior stillness behind all sound and pierces the intensity of silence behind all noise. Disavowing all mechanical tempos, this free-flowing masterpiece reveals [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This recording features six of the most inventive younger composers (born between 1957 and 1977) in Mexico's contemporary music scene. * Irvine Arditti and the Arditti Quartet gave the first performances of many of these works for string quartet or solo violin. * The works were recorded in 2002 during the first Radar festival, an ongoing yearly project of new and experimental music produced in collaboration with the Festival de México en el Centro Histórico, Mexico [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"This recording features six of the most inventive younger composers (born between 1957 and 1977) in Mexico's contemporary music scene.
* Irvine Arditti and the Arditti Quartet gave the first performances of many of these works for string quartet or solo violin.
* The works were recorded in 2002 during the first Radar festival, an ongoing yearly project of new and experimental music produced in collaboration with the Festival de México en el Centro Histórico, Mexico [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Luciano Berio is one of the greatest and most innovative composers for the voice of the post-war generation, moving the voice into previously unknown territories, but always with an innately literate sense of "song". In honor of Berio's 70th birthday, Mode is proud to release the first of several volumes devoted to his musical genius. His association with the legendary mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian led to the creation of all but one of the works recorded on this CD--a selection of his [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Luciano Berio is one of the greatest and most innovative composers for the voice of the post-war generation, moving the voice into previously unknown territories, but always with an innately literate sense of "song". In honor of Berio's 70th birthday, Mode is proud to release the first of several volumes devoted to his musical genius.
His association with the legendary mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian led to the creation of all but one of the works recorded on this CD--a selection of his [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
Historic recording by John Tilbury on prepared piano playing Cage's Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano," which was originally releaesed on Decca's HEAD label in 1975.
Like the title says, Dr. Chad playing Bach's Sonata and Partita #1, as adapted for the 5-string banjo.
Silvascreen's midline priced sound track series with an excellent selection of classic Morricone compositions
"Outsider Art Music has unfortunately not had a Harry Smith or an Alan Lomax to discover unpretentious talent, those two 'folksong hunters' who had realized the importance of making recordings to serve collective memory. One of them gave us the essential Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), an absolute reference for the folk movement, while the other made recordings all over the world and became an absolute reference for world music. And that is why the sound of Adolf Wölfi blowing into [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
On the cover: Smegma (Three decades of free rock mayhem hasn't dimmed the enthusiasm of the LA freakout troupe who have worked with Wild Man Fischer, Richard Meltzer, Merzbow and Wolf Eyes). Features: Philip Samartzis (Andy Hamilton meets the electronic spatializer who has become a figurehead for Australian New Music); Leopard Leg (How this Brighton based female shamanic free rock collective went wild in the country); John Wiese (The prolific Californian noise generator is on a mission to find the [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"For the first time ever from this part of the world, here is a recording that documents the ceremonial animist music from the mysterious tribal villages of Northeast Cambodia. The Tampoans, Krungs, Kavets, Braos, and Jaraîs of Ratanakiri Province and the Phnongs in Mondolkiri Province have been living amidst each other in this region for centuries, preserving and expanding their unique cultural heritage, sometimes at peace and other times in conflict with one another or with foreign invaders. [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Radio Algeria is a multi-dimensional assembly of audio culture from the Mediterranean coast to the undefined border areas of the Sahara Desert and beyond. This is perhaps the most diverse collection of the Algerian listening experience ever presented featuring raw Berber folk, modern Arabic pop, sacred Islamic traditional, Andalusian orchestral, Guesba (the origin of Rai), classic early Rai, Khabyle, Tuareg, Saharaui, and hybrid music styles influenced by Europeans to the north and sub-Saharan [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
This 2CD set is an exhaustive collection of Thai Radio transmissions recorded over a 15-year period from 1989 to 2004. These 23 collage tracks have been assembled and distilled from dozens of cassette and mini-disc recordings captured on location from the capital of Bangkok to Chaing Mai and Isan Province in the north to Hat Yai in the south. The music presented here is relentlessly mystifying and seductive: Molam, Luk Thung, Kantrum, folk and pop, classic Thai guitar rock, antique ballads, novelty [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
"Masks and outfits made of coconut husks, rice steamers, shredded rags and clanging bells transform participants of Thailand's Phi Ta Khon festival into ghosts, devils, demons, and spirits unleashed for a bacchanal. Outrageous wooden phalluses and plenty of rice whiskey heighten licentious behavior as Mo Lam - Thai country groove music - blasts from makeshift bands in the back of pickup trucks. Described as "The Mardi Gras from Hell" and "Thai Halloween," Phi Ta Khon is a ghost festival that takes [ ... continued @ Squidco ]
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