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Beyond the Roots While music with 'roots' is my main interest, I also have an interest in music that blurs the boundaries between folk, roots jazz and rock. This section will highlight just a few of the CDs from beyond the roots that I carry.
Re-covers - Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha
- 17.99 Turn Pain Into Power - Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information A Matter of Life… - Penguin Café - 18.99 Thirteen years after Simon Jeffes' death, his son, Arthur, started playing his music again. Performing under the name Penguin Cafe, the younger Jeffes - along with a new group of musicians - is re-visiting his father's music and starting a new chapter in the story. Their sound is at once familiar and new, combining acoustic power and a beguiling, feisty charm. Since 2009 Arthur has been writing new material to compliment and respond to the old. A love-letter to the original music, A Matter Of Life... is the 2011 realization of this endeavor. I vrochi apo kato (The rain from below) - Thanasis Papakonstantinou - 19.99 More musical wonder and strangeness in 2006 from the Greek laikadelica master. Bubbemeises:Lies My Gramma Told Me - David Krakauer, Socalled and Klezmer Madness - 17.99 Clarinetist Krakauer strikes again, as he teams up with Jewish hip hop beat architect Socalled and the ensemble Klezmer Madness!, remixing Hasidic chant, klezmer tributes to James Brown and all manner of musical merriment. It's not your old Jewish bubbe's music anymore. Musica Obliqua - Antonello Paliotti - 16.99 As the artist writes, this is "a record that presents the peaceful (and sometimes less peaceful) coexistence of my musical thoughts about ballet, cinema or simply about dreams." Performed by the Orchestra Collegium Philarmonicum directed by Gennaro Cappabianca. Coppola Rosso - Antonello Paliotti - 16.99 The Red Cap is, as the artist puts it, "an autobiographic record which takes its name fron a theatre play with the same title. The play represent the world to which I have been a witness: the world I inherited from my ancestors, the world of war and poverty as experienced at home - unbelievable as it may seem - of those wanting to live and who found the strenght to laugh without second thoughts. Technically, Coppola Rossa is a study of the song as a musical form. It can be interpreted from at least two viewpoints: at first hearing, that of folk tunes, traditional or not. At a second, more in-depht approach, that of the classical processing of material taken from the popular tradition, or at least from my personal tradition: that of somebody in his forties, who grew up with Schoenberg, The Beatles, Debussy, Canfora, Mingus, Berg, Mina, Rota, Chaplin, Satie, Iviani, Brecht.... And so, Coppola Rossa is a tribute to these monuments, which, although intheir death throes, I still feel alive." Ossicles - Karl Seglem - 18.99 The Norwegian saxophone (and goat horn) weilding explorer is joined by Hĺkon Hřgemo: Hardanger fiddle; Olav Torget: electric guitars, konting, mbira; Gjermund Silset: electric bass and percussionists Erland Dahlen, Kenneth Ekornes and Harald Skullerud on this 2010 release. All About Jazz calls it "an album that occupies the same continuum as fellow Norwegians like saxophonist Jan Garbarek and traditionalist singer Mari Boine but, with its combination of goat horns, Hardanger fiddles, ethnic percussion and African instruments breaks down barriers in its own very personal way." Highly recommended. Glitter and Doom Live - Tom Waits - 16.99 17 selections hand-picked by Waits, from his 2008 tour: 'Trampled Rose', 'Get Behind the Mule', 'Singapore", 'Dirt In The Ground', more. With a typically strange, Waitsian 35-minute bonus disc encompassing an arrangement of between-song banter into a consecutive monologue entitled, 'Tom Tales'. Tribal Musette - Les Primitifs du Futur - 15.99 2008 recording by Dominique Cravic and his outsized, wildly eclectic multi-ethnic Parisian ensemble, including mandolinist, cartoonist and illustrator Robert Crumb (who did the artwork for the CD), plus interesting guests: Sanseverino, Flaco Jimenez, Raul Barbosa, Mieko Miyazaki and many others. Highly recommended Mulatu Steps Ahead - Mulatu Astatke - 15.99 Vibraphonist and composer Astatke and his Ethiopia band are joined by members of The Heliocentrics and The Either/Orchestra for some totally original Ehtio-jazz adventures. La Tarantella: Antidotum Tarantulae - Lucilla Galeazzi, Marco Beasley,L'Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar - 16.99 New SACD Edition (2010) - A fascinating, original crossover of folk and classical, with the musicians of the Renaissance ensemble L'Arpeggiata joining the illustrious singers Galeazzi and Beasley, performed on modern and ancient instruments including chitarra battente, lutes, harp, psaltry. With Alfio Antico, Eero Palviainen, Marcello Vitale and many other fine musicians. (This SACD edition includes one additional track not on the original release) Shab Tab - The Peeni Waali All Stars - 18.99 The return of the return of the amazing Peeni Walli concept with Alan Kushan (santur, vox and all lyrics) and Fizzč (piccolo, flutes, Hammond B 3 organ, accordion, percussion, tones and shades) is as unexpected as we expected. With a full ensemble of horns, guitars, kitchen utensils, hackbrett and alphorn, they have crafted another unique aural experience. I can't adequately describe it. Go listen! Rumi - Lu (Luisa Cottifogli) - 15.99 Italian singer and composer Cottifogli returns in 2006 with a new solo project that expands on the explorations started in her superb (and sadly, out of print) Aio nene. Innovative arrnagements that delve into the 21st century via ancient roots are executed by a fine ensemble of piano, percussion, chitarra battente, guitars, flutes, electronics, reeds and strings, all focused on one of Italy's finest young voices. A heavier emphasis on samples and electronics is balanced by chorale vocals, classical strings and a total awareness of the roots of the music, be they sacred or profance. This is a unique and challenging recording that offers new rewards with each listen. Return to the Woods - Joe Townsend and Martin Green - 16.99 Joe Townsend and Martin Green have recorded an album that walks through the hinterland of jazz, folk, and contemporary music on violin, guitar, accordion, and an array of other instruments such as Mongolian cello, octave violin, musical saw and Fender Rhodes piano. They move from the inspiration of Duke Ellington and Romanian Gypsy music, through the minimalism of Adams and Reich and into the darker regions of English folk music. Through imaginative recording techniques such as the placing of tiny microphones inside instruments, playing the accordion through rotating speakers and using vintage keyboards they have produced a unique voice which is constantly changing yet somehow familiar. There's no explaining it; you simply have to listen. Jump for George - Imaginary Homeland - 15.99 This is one of those 'what can you say?' sort of recordings. Composer, saxophonist, and percussionist David Rogers, percussionist Mark Stone, violinist Marlene Rice and funky bassist Matt Pavolka have found the non-existant link between Appalachian string bands, Ghanian percussion, downtown jazz and host of other unrelated ideas that miraculously fit together as if they had the deepest of ethnomusical roots. Rozz - Milann and Laloy - 16.99 The Belgian accordion and guitar duo forms a quartet with Thierry Rombaux (bass) and Didier Fontaine (drums) and pushes into rock territory on this 2011 release. Listen to Color, Tik averechts and Toy's Sweat Tya - Karl Seglem and Reidar Shar - 18.99 Reidar Skĺr (piano, keyboards and computers) is an innovative and creative musician, composer and producer working in his own studio in Oslo. He has participated on a numerous list of recordings with Norwegian jazz, pop and rock artists. Skĺr has been collaborating with Seglem for years - mainly as a studio technician, co producer and composer/arranger. Seglem (sax and horns) has been called one of Norway’s foremost saxophonists, with an original and distinctive voice and a unique ability to renew himself. They are joined by an ensemble of fiddle, guitar, accordion, voices, percussion and more in an adventurous set from 1997. Sqworld Record - Mighty Squirrel - 16.99 Old time string band gone wild, a blend of international, acoustic folk music with original material inspired by sources closer to home is a genre they call 'world-time' music. Fiddles, accordion, guitars, and vocals explore wonder and strangeness from many traditions. Assim - Dick van der Harst - 17.99 Contemporary wind instrument sounds and Indonesian gamelan music are just a little of what this Belgian composer uses to create this work, performed by the ensembles Zefiro Torna and Het Nieuw Gents Stadblazerscollectief. Listen http://wwww.homerecords.be/mp3/assim/Track02.mp3 Evok - Dietrich - 17.99 Unusual pop music with some folk inspiration from Belgium. Jeuc Dietrich sings and plays percussion, hurdy-gurdy, Irish bouzouki, guitars, melotron, cellos, drum and electronic programming. Anik Faniel is the second vocalist and plays electric bass, percussions, bass drum, hurdy gurdy. They are joined by a nice cast of musicians playing Arabic percussion, pipes, drums and strings. Listen Saalas - Jouko Kyhala - 17.99 Harmonica master Jouko Kyhälä (of Svang) is joined by Piia Kleemola (violin), Pekka Lehti (bass), Janne Lappalainen from Varttina (bouzoki) and Abdissa Assefa (percussion) for a wide ranging musical tour. Bellow Poetry - Maria Kalaniemi - 15.99 Maria K's 2005 release is a solo recording that examines the potential of accordion in the Finnish rune song and lament tradition. Highly recommended. OuterRail - ZetaBoo - 16.99 ZetaBoo arrives for a second round with this down to earth CD, a unique blend of pop, jazz and folk-roots. Composer Jarmo Saari offers songs that are melodic and folky, spontaneous and intuitive. Marko Timonen provides the swinging percussion that is at the heart of this new recording, driving a more relaxed band of vocals, accordion, keyboards, guitars, cavaquinho, trombone, lapsteel, keyboards, citara, and bass (Pekka Lehti) , a bit more subtle than their previous releases. The theme of the disc is the outer rail and homesickness. Says Saari: 'This is like a series of traveller's landscapes. The journey is more important than arriving. The traveller prefers to follow a flitting butterfly or the advice of a stranger than a tourist map. Boldness and spontaneity are rewarded.' Kalevi Aho (Black Birds) - Marjut Tynkkynen - 16.99 Solo works for accordion from Finland: 'Sonata for accordion No.1' and 'Sonata for accordion No.2 - Black Birds' Pictures at an Exhibition - Trio Fratres - 16.99 A Finnish accordion trio of Raimo Vertainen, Heikki Jokiaho and Toni Hämäläinen tackles the classic Mussorgsky work, plus some piece by Tchaikovsky and Jokiaho. A must have for anyone interested in the extremes of the accordion! Zolo- Finnish works for accordion - Matti Rantanen - 17.99 Solo accordion performances by Matti Rantanen of works by 20th and 21st century Finnish composers. Kuu ja korkokengät - Vihrea Palma - 16.99 I have a soft spot for well-executed schmaltz and the Finnish ensemble Vihreä Palma stroke it nicely! Kirsi Poutanen's wonderfully warm voice fronts a strong ensemble of Juha Mäntylä, accordion, piano; Hannu Rantanen, bass and Timo Seppänen, guitar. It's a quirky mix of Latin jazz and Finnish attitude that makes it unique. Add to it that the ensemble is top-notch and you really can't go wrong. Son de los diablos - Tonadas afro-hispanas del Perú - Diana Baroni and Sapukai - 17.99 The record label says 'Far from the stereotypes of pseudo-Peruvians in publicity and the subway, this recording approaches the same sources of Andean music, mixing pre-Colombian music and the contributions of the conquistadores with the music of African slaves brought to the region.' The result is a formal 'art music' approach that finds both the formaility of the composition and the raw energy of the source material. Paris - Istanbul - Shanghai - Joël Grare - 17.99 Joël Grare (ar., percussion), Guo Gan (erhu), Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo), Emek Evci (bass), Karine Herroud Gonzalez (Flamenco) with the participation of the ensemble Les Tambours de Lune, Claire Lefilliâtre (soprano vocal) and Véronica Votti (cello). This recording is a manifesto of modernism, culture, temporality, style and improvisation. This Paris-Istambul-Shanghaďensemble is a musical invitation to travel. Somewhere between a chamber music ensemble and a traditional one, they play standardsmuch like in jazz. But their standards are classic themes from Spain, Turkey and China, ancient music… Puching these melodies well beyond their borders, thoroughly enjoying them, improvising, composing, whether or not in the style of their country or their period, following moods and moments to a uniqque new sound. Around the world - Elmer Balasz Group - 17.99 The Hungarian drummer and his ensemble of piano, bass, guitar and percussion in a set of jazz based on Hungarian roots, with Mihály Dresch on flute, David Yengibarjan on accordion, and vocalists Gábor Winand and Henriett Czerovszky. Meselia Hill - Mihaly Borbely Quartet - 17.99 Mihály Borbélyplays clarinet and jazz saxophone as well kaval flute and tárogató (a wooden soprano saxophone) joined by an ensemble of piano, bass and drums with guests Zoltán Lantos (violin) and Miklós Lukács (cimbalom). Says Michael Stone in RootsWorld, "If Bartók played not-so-straight-ahead jazz, it might sound like the Borbély Quartet, combining Serbian, Slovak, Gypsy, Jewish and German folk influences with classical music, shot through with that thing that swings. Roland Kirk would understand." Check it out, Igor - Bela Szakcsi Lakatos and Miklos Lukacs - 16.99 Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, piano and Miklós Lukács on cimbalom offer some wild and far-ranging improvised musical duests drawing on the musical grammar of Roman and Hungarian Gypsy tradition, classical keyboard from the Baroque to Bartók, and jazz styles from barrelhouse to bebop to Braxton. Challenging doesn't begin to describe it! Modern dances for the advanced in age - Gabor Gado - 17.99 Hungarian guitarist Gábor Gadó and his ensemble offer "a tongue-in-cheek sextet rounded out by a pair of saxes, trumpet, trombone, bass and drums... a certain down-at-the-heels dancehall feel: odd time changes, droll, edgy tango, cha cha and calypso, a guitar owing as much to Hendrix, Hawaii and heavy metal as to Wes Montgomery and George Benson, while the spirits of Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini drift by for the album closer, 'Moon River,' a place you've never been but might want to reconnoiter." - RootsWorld Árgyélus - Mihaly Dresch Quartet - 18.99 Hungarian saxophonist and compoer Mihály Dresch 's 2007 release. The artist says: I have the feeling that people today are missing a kind of organic musical culture based on a clear overview of a system, typical for example of traditional Indian music or the Transylvanian music of our ancestors. Yet it would seem that at present we are unable to create a new musical system at this level, so we try, piecemeal fashion, to tack together the systems we consider important. The result of this 'piecing together' is inevitably a fragmentary culture. Listen With mallets and strings - Ildikó Vékony - 17.99 Performances on solo cimbalom of J.S. Bach's 'Partita No. 3 in E major' and 'Sonata No. 1 in G minor.' The artist says: 'Why this music? ...you may ask. Some pieces I have been playing for ages; others I have always wanted to play. Some are not really my world, (but sometimes we long for another world); some are pieces I have been waiting for, and yet I needed years to uncover their deeper meaning. And some have jolted me out of my habits, highlighting for me the moment when a sound is born.' Nubiska Natter - H3FK - 17.99 Mixing influences from the likes of John Coltrane and Anouar Brahem with their own unique style, this ensemble offers an unorthodox vision. The group started out as a double trio mixing modern jazz with Arabic folk music, but have now reached a point where the borders are blurred and the feeling is completely natural and original. The compositions are written for the whole ensemble, but also includes trio and quartet pieces, with elements of Arabic, Middle-Eastern, Gypsy and Swedish folk and pop. Rosenang - Elise Einardotter and Lennart Hellsing - 17.99 One of Cliff's quirky choices... This is vocal pop music from Sweden, performed by pianist/composer Einarsdotter and singer Hellsing, and a small jazz ensemble and some of Sweden's most interesting singers including Lena Willemark, Olle Persson and the Voice Boys. File under 'other?' Maximalism - Katzen Kapell - 18.99 Their 4th recording is all instrumental and invokes classical, folk and jazz sources as it creates its own unique soundscape using accordion, voices, violin, grand piano, organ, marimba, vibraphone, drums, percussion, glockenspiel and double bass. Shadows - Sabbath Hela Vecken - 17.99 An instrumental sextet based in Sweden with members from Sweden, the US and Finland. They call it 'a musical and visual experience in Klezmer, Gypsy and east-European music.' It's done with energy and wit. See You In A Minute - Berger, Knutsson, Spering, Cherry, Cherry - 17.99 Bengt Berger, Jonas Knutsson, Christian Spering, Eagle-Eye Cherry and Neneh Cherry in an international homage to the late, great Don Cherry Up Close - Berger Knutsson Spering - 17.99 Swedish musicians Bengt Berger, drums Jonas Knutsson, saxophones Christian Spering, bass recorded this set of songs at Studios La Buissonne in Provence. It includes original works, an interpretation of a South Indian piece, trad/arrs of some Swedish polskas as well as Paul Motians 'It should have happened a long time ago' and Ellington's 'In A Sentimental Mood.' Jazz as only the Scandinavians play it. Ting Qui: Listening to Autumn - Fung Liao aka Lars Fredriksson - 17.99 Swedish born conductor Fung Liao, aka :ars Fredriksson, directs 108 singing Chinese crickets, which belive it or not, is a long respected Chinese tradition. It is strangely beautiful and alluring. Live in Frankfurt 82 - Bitter Funeral Beer Band w Don Cherry, K. Sridhar - 17.99 A remarkable concert recording of innovative trumpeter Cherry and sarod master Sridhar, joined by a stellar cast of Swedish, African, American musicians including Bengt Berger, Atsimevu, Anita Livstrand, Matthias Helldén, Christer Bothén, and many more. Live - Jonas Knutsson and Mats Öberg - 18.99 Saxophone maestro Jonas Knutsson and the keyboard genius Mats Öberg have played together since childhood and know each other inside out. The is a recording of a concert in Stockholm, February 2008. Beches Brew - Bengt Berger - temp out of stock-18.99 Bengt Berger has pulled together a band together that conveys all his uniqueness as a composer, musician and band leader: The modal, the ethnic, the melodies, rhythms, the old-school, avante garde, odd meters, humour and seriousness, chastity and sex, childishness, wisdom and senility, in a word: Country and Eastern music. Plea for Peace - The Afro-Semitic Experience - 15.99 This African-Jewish jazz alliance offers a unique perspective, both musically and philosopically. Using tools expected and unexpected (bass, horns and drums are met by dobro, violin, African percussion and clarinet) they make a music that will grab the ear of mainstream jazz and Jewish fusion fans because no matter the genre, it is genuine, original and surprising. Yizkor: Music of memory - Chevan, Nizrahi and Afro-Semitic Experience - 14.99 Composer and bassist David Chevan's Afro-Semitic Experience is joined by Jewish cantor Alberto Nizrahi for a contemporary look at Yizkor, a memorial service when sinners seek atonement, remember those who have passed before and contemplate the the transience of life. Carefully fusing modern American jazz, older American roots and ancient Hebrew traditions is no easy task, but Chevan and company prove more than up to the task on this 2008 exploration of modern American spiritually and musical experimentation. Cosmic Sounds Remixed - Various - 16.99 Artists from around the world join forces to pay tribute to the Cosmic Sounds label (Italy, Austria, Croatia, England, Hungary, Australia, Japan and Serbia). Each of them chose one track from the CS catalogue and gave it a fresh touch. 8 remixes of tracks by Arkestra One, SHQ, Jerome Richardson, Dusko Gojkovic and others by DJs from across Europe and Asia. Aparelhagem - DJ Dolores - 17.99 Aparelhagem literally means 'equipment,' and is the Brazilian slang expression for 'sound system.' It is both the title of the album and the name of DJ Dolores' new live band and features female singer Isaar, a horn section with a distinct Nordeste-cum-reggae flavour, rock guitar, percussion, vintage synths, and DJ Dolores on laptop and turntables. To hear with the mouth - Ensemble SON - 16.99 Inky Joy - The World Mankeri Orchestra - 16.99 The Finnish etno-pojat returns with their 2004 release of edgy winds, subtle percussion, bass and strings. Heikki Syrjänen and Pekka Westerholm - winds (including lira and mänkeri) and kantele; Olli Penttilä - bass; Markku Penttilä - percussion and bass; and Petri Pentikainen, percussion and drums. tango agazapado - la Chicana - 17.99 I have been thoroughly captivated by this Argentine band that has created its own dark, expressive version of contemporary tango, with a rich European sound, traces of traditional folk from Argentina and Uruguay, a bit of flamenco, and a youthful bad attitude. Fronted by one of the great husky voices of South America, Dolores Solá. Go listen. sin titulo - Rao Trio - 15.99 his Spanish trio of drums, bass and zanfona (hurdy gurdy) pushes the outside of the envelope with their thoroughly modern approach to folk music Cicada - Hazmat Modine - 15.99 The best damned band in NYC, says Cliff. Harmonica, brass, drums and guitar stomp and romp through a unique collection of songs. On this second recording ,they are joined by special guests appearances including Natalie Merchant, Kronos Quartet, and most importantly, the absolutely essential Gangbé Brass Band from Benin. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Martyred Saints and Sister Bells: Stave Church Songs - Holmertz, Roine, Skullerud and Vatn - 19.99 A diverse group of Norwegian artists, Elisabeth Holmertz (vocals), Anders Rřine (langeleik, Jew's harp, Hardanger fiddle), Harald Skullerud (percussion, ceramic bells, music box), Elisabeth Vatn (harmonium, folding organ, Swedish bagpipes, medieval pipes, Merĺker clarinet, digital Srutibox), have joined together to make an impressive and important contribution to new Norwegian folk and art music. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Ice Concerts - Terje Isungset - 18.99 Live concerts of voice and mostly instruments made of ice: Terje Isungset: ice percussion, flute, voice; icefon; icehorn, ice; Sara Merielle Gaup: joik; Arve Henriksen: trumpet, vocal, icehorns; Unni Lovlid: vocal; Lena Nymark: vocal; Silvia Moi: vocal; Jon Halvor Bjornset: live sampling; Nature: snow and ice. Two Moons - Terje Isungset - 18.99 The second recording of "all ice" music from the Norwegian percussionist, this time joined by Per Jřrgensen on vocal and ice trumpe, with Isungset on ice percussion, icehorn and isofon. Absolutely unique; beautiful, surprising and highly recommended. Djungelmusik med sĺng - Rudiger Carl and Sven-Ake Johansson - 16.99 Swedish experimentalists Rüdiger Carl (accordion, clarinet) and Sven-Ĺke Johansson (accordion, drums and voice) push the limits on this 1997 recording, made live in a Stockholm bookstore. Their free-association approach to music makes this challenging for those in need of a countable beat, but the mood is elegant, bizarre or beautiful at each turn and the results are nothing short of unique. Coasting Notes - Three Metre Day - 16.99 Three Metre Day is an original, Canadian roots music trio whose members are violinist Hugh Marsh, guitarist Don Rooke and pump organist and vocalist Michelle Willis. This debut for the Canadian trio is warm, intense and complex, offering songs both beautiful and edgy. Is This Tomorrow (2 discs) - The Henrys - 15.99 The new CD/DVD combo from this most eclectic band is coming in late June, 2009. This is not just a CD, it is a CD/DVD package. 2-disc set is about 2 hours of music, copious photography, home theatre (5.1) sound, a pdf file with song info, and the tactile kicks of the 3x2 panel recycled paper digipak packaging. Highly Recommended Alma - Paolo Fresu and Omar Sosa - 18.99 The Italian horn player and Cuban pianist are joined by Brazilian musician and arranger Jaques Morlenenbaum for a unique set of songs and improvisations composed by Sosa and Fresu. Mademoiselle Marseille - Moussu T e lei Jovents - 17.99 Tatou and Blu of the Massilia Sound System join Brazilian percussionist Jamilson to explore the city of Marseilles, circa 1930. Provençal songs sit side by side with Vincent Scotto operettas, jazz, blues, Latin and Caribbean dance music evoking the coastline from Marseille to La Ciotat. This is unique French music, a rough-hewn acoustic sound, augmented by clever electronics, samples and audio archival snippets, all to create a psuedo-historical documentary that might be more true than the real thing. Neverland Fusion - Yildirim Levent - sold out The leader of a new generation of darbuka players in Turkey, inspired by both the Egyptian and Turkish traditions and by the technique of the Indian maestros. This new album contains two solo pieces, but the bulk of the eight tracks feature him playing with both traditional instruments and contemporary electronics and programming in a fusion of styles. The disc is accompanied by a free bonus DVD with live and studio footage and an interview. Deep Silence / gagaku - Toshio Hosokawa / Stefan Hussong - Mayumi Miyata - 18.99 Music,' says Toshio Hosokawa, 'is the place where notes and silence meet.' This identifies his aesthetic concept as a genuinely Japanese one. It is found both in Japanese landscape painting and in the music, such as the courtly gagaku, in which audible sound always stands in relation to nonsound, i.e. to silence. In their rhythmic proportions Hosokawa's compositions are oriented around the breathing methods of Zen meditation, with their very slow breathing in and very slow breathing out: 'Each breath contains life and death, death and life.' Mayumi Miyata (sho – the instrument of the universe or of tradition) and Stefan Hussong (accordion – the human or contemporary instrument) are among the most important interpreters of Hosokawa's music, which here is framed by four traditional gagaku pieces. Play-Station - Motion Trio - 17.99 The Polish 'infernal trio' returns with their second recording, an adventurous exploration of the analog accordion in the digital age. The musicianship is peerless, their ideas are on the edge, and the execution is remarkable. Live ŕ FIP - Omar Sosa - 17.99 This is Sosa's first live recording with an ensemble, featuring bass, drums, percussion and saxophone. Recorded at Radio France in Paris with a live, studio audience, he offers new interpretations of many of his earlier compositions as well as a number of new works, with Angá Díaz on percussion, Childo Tomas on electric bass, Luis Depestre on saxophones and drummer Steve Argüelles. New material includes the tracks "Métisse" and "Paralelo," and "African Sunrise" featuring Childo Tomas on mbira and vocals. Mulatos Remix - Omar Sosa - 18.99 A remix album of material from Sosa's award-winning Mulatos CD features club-remakes by Paris-based drummer/producer Doctor L; Brooklyn-based producer/remixer DJ Spinna; live Drum and Bass pioneer/drummer Marque Gilmore; Paris-based drummer/producer Steve Argüelles (who produced 'Mulatos'); and French DJ basephunk. The dance-jazz vibe of these remixes features Omar Sosa piano and marimba riffs, funky clarinet riffs, as well as new vocal and flute elements… all sharpened by the cutting edge approaches of the guest remixers. I am never sure what the attraction is to such projects, but if you like this sort of dance-floor chop=shop music, this one is well executed and might be worth your time. Outra Praia - Swami Jr. - 18.99 Outra Praia (Another Beach) is a case of a supporting actor emphatically and justifiably stealing the limelight. Swami Jr. has long been a highly sought-after producer, arranger, composer and guitarist who has worked with musical talent from Brazil and further afield. He recorded and toured with Chico César for ten years and has accompanied and/or produced Omara Portuondo, Vanessa da Mata, Elba Ramalho, Zélia Duncan, Elza Soares, Zeca Baleiro, Tom Zé, Lokua Kanza, Mayra Andrade, Dori Caymmi and more. This is the debut solo album for Swami Jr. as he establishes himself alongside these cohorts as a major new name in Música Popular Brasileira. Listen and Listen Cipity Lorinc - Szaloki Agi - 17.99 Szalóki Ági's Cipity Lörinc is the Hungarian singer's 2007 release, a unique album for children, folk songs from Transylvania and the Uplands arranged by her band (guitar, cello, bass, percussion, with guests on piano, flute, bagpipe and violin), as well as settings of poems by Ágnes Nagy Nemes and Sándor Weöres performed by two noted actors, Mari Kiss and János Kulka. The luckless lands of the North - aNoo - 12.99 aNoo is a group led Brussels based Finn, Anu Junnonen. Anu started playing piano at the age of seven and added flute a few years later. She got the kick for jazz in her teens from playing saxophone and jamming with friends, with whom she also created a local junior big band in order to perform modern -tunes and Finnish compositions. She is accompanied by accordion, trombone, acoustic bass and drums on a set of original and unusual songs. Listen Hypnogol - Aurelia - 16.99 The second ring by the trio Aurélia: Aurélie Dorzée (violin, alto, voice), with Tom Theuns on guitars and vocals; Stephan Pougin on percussion. Guest musicians Michel Massot (tubas) and Sara Salverius (accordéon chromatique) fill out the ensembles unique, edgy sound in this slightly skewed tale of the sea. E40 - Dazibao - 16.99 The second release by this wonderful Belgian ensemble will surely garner as much acclaim as their previous CD, Alma. The diatonic accordions of Sophie Cavez and Jonathan de Neck are still in the forefront, musically and compositionally, but this 2007 release offers a more confident ensemble sound, a little richer in jazz roots while still solidly enthralled the folk roots of their region. Exceptional music from an exceptional ensemble, once again. Some Music About Your Garden - Emmanuel Louis and the Gardening Group - 16.99 Belgian quartet of Emmanuel Louis (guitar, vocals), Emmanuel Godinot (flute), Martin Lauwers (violin), and Marine Horbaczewski (cello) present folk-chamber music with a touch of jazz that they have been performing in the gardens of Europe (really, this is their preferred venue). It's gentle but complex, bringing composers like Satie to mind. Bla koral - Knut Reiersrud Og Iver Kleive - 19.99 Knut Reiersrud and Iver Kleive's Blĺ Koral (Blue Choral) features Knut's earthbound guitars coupled with Iver's pipe organ in a meeting between the religious European organ tradition and Norwegian and American folk tradition, where salms and folk melodies are performed in unorthodox, unprejudiced and free interpretations. 'A thoroughly interconnected musical triumph' said PULS and 'deserves tremendous words of praise' (Dagbladet). The album earned them the Spellemannsprisen in 1991 Kyrie - Iver Kleive - 18.99 Iver Kleive's original compositions are the center of focus on this one (only five of the thirteen tracks come from traditional sources). Kleive's keyboards (church organ, Hammond B3, a grand piano and synthesizers) are acompanied by an interesting ensemble, notably percussion from Paolo Vinaccia on all tracks; Knut Reiersrud guests on three and there are vocal solos and chorales on a number of tracks as well. It's a quirky work that veers from classical choir music to modern pop, from jazz to pure folkiness and then back. It was released in 1994, and it stands up even a decade later as an important and unique work in Norwegian music. Ludo - Bendik Hofseth, Anne-Lise Berntsen, Helge Iberg - 18.99 A strange and challenging recording by three Norwegian artists - jazz saxophonist, classical singer and innovative keyboardist/programmer. 'Dramatic verve and delicate beauty intertwines. This chamber musical play is intelligent, inspired, and captivating. Once you subject this recording to the cerebellum, chances are it will take over the entire brain. If you swear to pure music, a CD like this would serve as a source for the most delightful vexation!' - C. Terje Mosnes, Dagbladet, Norway Will There Be Spring - Maria Solheim - 17.99 Norwegian pop, pure and simple, from a fine female vocalist with a quirky sense of timing and arrangement. (Lyrics in English) Hostslov - Frode Alnćs, Arild Andersen, Stian Carstensen - 17.99 The third in the seasonal song cycles by Norwegian jazz artists Stian Carstensen (accordion), Frode Alnćs (acoustic and electric guitars) and Arild Andersen (bass), Hřstslřv explores autumn in original compositions and classics like Try To Remember, Vivaldis Hřst sequeing into Singing In The Rain, September Song, Harvest Moon, Autumn Leaves and many others from both American pop and Nordic traditions. Dype, stille, sterke, milde - Skruk and Nymark Collektive - 19.99 'deep still strong mild' is a captivating choir record that highlights what Skruk is all about. This album presents Norwegian popular religious songs performed with a small jazz ensemble. Nade over nade - Knut Reiersrud and Iver Kleive - temp out of stock-19.99 Nĺde over nĺde is the third recording by Norwegian guitarist Reiersrud and organist Kleive, again recorded with the full pipe organ and in the beautiful acoustics of the Odense Cathedral. As with their earlier albums, old psalms and folk tunes predominate, with a few interesting reinterpretations of contemporary songs ("What a Wonderful World" and "Grandma's Hands"). But this time Reiersrud and Kleive have maximized the church's dynamics and three-dimensional qualities, fully exploited under guidence of recording engineer Alf Christian Hvidsteen. Highly recommended. Fantastisk Allerede - Kari Bremnes - 24.99 The Norwegian singer celebrates her 30th year as a recording artist with this compilation of highlights from her career so far. 2 CDs covers a wide range of styles and musical ideas from folk to pop and beyond. Arv - Arild Andersen - 19.99 Bassist Arild Andersen's epic Nordic folk and jazz fusion, with Nana Vasconcelos on percussion, Kirsten Brĺten Berg on vocal, munnharpe, langeleik, and Bendik Hofseth on tenor and soprano saxophones. Recorded in 1993 - how did I miss this one all these years? Highly recommended. Gronn - Qvale's Ensemble - 17.99 An unusual pop recording from Norway features a unique singer backed by an adventurous ensemble, and produced by Farmers Market legend Stian Carstensen. Himmelskip - Iver Kleive and Knut Reiersrud - 18.99 The Norwegian organist and guitarist have created some stunning music. The combination of electric guitar and church organ is a truly magnificent musical experience, and its unique character led to their being awarded the prestigious Norwegian Music Award (Spelemannprisen). Neonlys pĺ Wergeland - Ingrid Bjone, Dr. Jonas Fjeld, Ola B. Johannesen - 14.99 Neon Light on Wergeland' presents the Norwegian poet and nationalist in an unusual musical light. Soul of a Man - Knut Reiersrud - 17.99 The Norwegian guitarist's 1998 take on soul, blues and gospel is, as always distinctive and surprising. Always a step ahead, Knut employed samples of legendary blues performances together with rock-solid band of Paolo Vinaccia, Auden Erlien, Bugge Wesseltoft and Reidar Skĺr. The album is more of a band album with Knut's electric guitar virtuosity in focus. Three of the songs were written exclusively for him by Mac Rebenack and the late Doc Pomus, and the most convincing song on the recording, the title track, is an original. Completely unique and different. Pretty Ugly - Knut Reiersrud - 18.99 Knut Reiersrud, Norwegian guitarist extraordinaire, creates a solo ensemble with himself and the studio recorders, and goes back to his folk, blues and R'and'B roots. His mugshot may be pretty ugly... the music is anything but! Sha - Peeni Waali and Schildpatt - 16.99 The 2006 brainchild of the amazing Fizze of Switzerland. He says: 'Sound-stalking through Alpine and Persian inflections, drum n' bass oriental improvisations, remixes, dubs, ambiances,collages and genuine creations...' Features santur master Alan Kushan. Tre - Archimedes Badkar - 18.99 Reissue of a 1977 recording by a Swedish jazz-folk-rock fusion outfit that was pretty pioneering for their time, and still sounds fresh all these years later. It combined a raw jazz attitude with a flair for more folky melodies, all twisted around with attitude and energy. Fans of Arbete-Fritid and David Amram will get it right away, but you have to love long jazz solos! Bastian Contrari - Patrick Vaillant - 18.99 French mandolinist Patrick Vaillant's unique new recording, joined by a marvelous ensemble including Bijan Chemrrani (percussion for Iran), Serge Pesce (guitar), Benjamin Novarino Giana (voice) and Lucien Massuco Anatomy of a Coup - Sacha Silva - 12.99 An unusual ensemble mixes flamenco, Indian classical and modern music with heady questions of personal and political issues, music, as the band says, 'that reads the newspaper.' An original sound, adventurous but rooted in traditions from around the world, and not a hint of "world-beat' or 'world fusion.' Highly recommended Unpacking The Trailer - QQQ - 14.99 QQQ unspools folk music from a place where bluegrass, Norwegian wedding marches, progressive rock, and post-minimalism have merged into a funky, engaging hybrid. Dan Trueman plays the Hardanger fiddle, Monica Mugan is on classical guitar, Beth Meyers on viola and Jason Treuting does the drums and percussion.It is a wild and decidedly non-traditional mix, yet the music still sounds ancient and rooted. Down In Dublin - Michael Hurley - 13.99 The king of snock, a master of overstated, under-rated, country influenced songwriting is like no one else on the planet, and these sessions from ireland are no exception. Dark, funny, disturbing and romantic, often simultaneously, Hurley is one of the few people out there who merits the accolade of 'one of a kind.' The Jig Is Up - Peter Stampfel and the Bottlecaps - 13.99 H.M. Rounder Peter Stampfel is back again, in a series of recordings made 1989–1999 with a host of different musicians, but all pulled together by his insatiable, exploratory lust for good songs, odd ideas and bizarre juxtapositions (and a Quicktime video clip, too!). Dance of the Vampires - Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Iva Bittová, Leoš Janácek - 17.99 The innovative new music ensemble in a program performed with Czech singer and violinist Iva Bittova and composed by Bittová and fellow Czech Leoš Janácek. Challenging, exhuberant and exciting music that bridges the classical, folk and avant garde musical worlds with ease and energy. Tur - Tromsř Kunstforsyning - 17.99 Experimental new music from Tromso, Norway performed on cello, trombone, electronics, voice, piano and percussion. Daa - Henricksen, Isungset, Seglem - 18.99 Three of the more adventurous musicians in Norway team up to create bold new music with some deep roots but ultimately with an unswerving sense of innovation and a passion for the new. Null G - Isglem - 19.99 Norwegians Terje Isunset (percussion, voice, drums) and Karl Seglem (saxophone, goat horm voice) in a 1993 recording of new routes in Norwegian rhythm and noise. Kropp och Själ - Fagel Roc - 13.99 Sweden-based Fĺgel Roc gets its inspiration from their own home and around the world, and the band of synth-guitar, keyboards, bass and percussion uses an excellent pallat of Latin rhythms, Oriental melodies, western pop, Bagdad rock, and what they call Etnoschlager. They are vocally led by the wonderful Nadia Louis, an Iraq singer now based in Sweden who works in many languages including Assyrian and Swedish. Dans and Drom - Fagel Roc - 13.99 The 2009 release by Sweden-based Fĺgel Roc gets its inspiration from their own home and around the world, and the band of synth-guitar, keyboards, bass and percussion uses an excellent pallat of Latin rhythms, Oriental melodies, western pop, Bagdad rock, and what they call Etnoschlager. Valkoista Sukua - The World Mankeri Orchestra - 17.99 Founded in 1984 as Etno-Pojat, the World Mänkeri Orchestra is an innovative (and aggressive) 'primitive jazz" ensemble that features hand-made, ancient reeds, horns, and drums and electric bass, and on this recording young Finnish vocalist Meri Titola, who brings a new dynamic to the ensemble's powerful noise. En Forme De Poire - Melonious Quartet - 18.99 The Melonious Quartet, four musicians led by Patrick Vaillant, make an unseemly postulate: the mandolin and Satie. Practising the art of what if, the mandolin quartet has taken on in the painstaking work of transcription of Erik Satie. Completely original and unique. Highly recommended! Yiddpop - Fayvish - 18.99 The Berlin based band brings together what they believe has been separated for a too long time: songwriting, punkpop, jazz and Yiddish music. Steffen Illner (double bass), Philipp Bernhardt (drums), and Fabian Schnedler (guitar/voice/songwriting) with Alan Bern (accordion, melodica, keyboards) and Paul Brody (trumpet) as guest musicians blend these ingredients with utter coolness. The lyrics by modern and contemporary Yiddish poets (e.g. Peretz Markish, Itzik Manger, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Morris Rosenfeld or Peretz Miranksy) risk a sly look at today's bitters of life. Alan Bern says: "The band grooves like mad, but so relaxed and with so much space, you could drive a train through it. The chords, melodies, riffs and hooks are all freshly twisted out of something you feel like you must have heard before, but you haven't. This is the most individual, natural, flowing, and deeply connected take on Yiddish language and song I've heard in a long, long time." Pan - Rinneradio - 17.99 The 2004 release by this innovative Finnish ensemble of Tapani Rinne - saxophone and clarinet; Verneri Lumi - electronics and Juusonik - percussion. Uumen - Kimmo Pohjonen and Eric Echampard - 12.99 Kimmo Pohjonen (accordion)/ Eric Echampard (drums) joined forces in 2001 with the goal to make totally improvised music, live on stage with no rehearsals. They have succeeded in their aim to ride the edge of melody, counterpoint, energy and tension as proven by the enthusiastic audiences at each performance, as well as by the satisfaction and exhilaration of the two players. list of lights and buoys - Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - 17.99 Norwegian duo of Susanna Wallumrřd (vocals) and Morten Qvenild (keyboards) features nine low key, sparse and austere original songs (sung in English) plus highly personal interpretations of Dolly Parton's 'Jolene' and Leonard Bernstein's 'Who Am I'. Unique contemporary pop music from Scandinavia. Ethnology - Sketis Music - various - 13.99 14 track sampler of the Russian Sketis lable features Reel, Volga, Drobinska, Samosad Band, Ivan Smrnov, Namghar, Tellen Gwad. A mix of ethnix and modern-roots derivitives from Russia and central Asia. MALIcool - Roswell Rudd and Toumani Diabate - 17.99 The outside jazz trombonist and the master of Malian kora and cool mix it all together on an exporation of sound. Akrobakkus - Afenginn - 16.99 fRoots says: 'Denmark's favorite madmen (the closest analogy as far as bizarre humor goes is 3 Mustaphas 3) are back with more of what's become their stock-in-trade: Balkan-influenced original music that veers from the bizarre to the sublime. The music, by mandolin player Kim Nyberg, is delightfully complex and full, bringing in not only the five-piece band but a number of guests here and there. The musicianship is wonderful throughout (just listen to clarinetist Rasmus Krřyer wail, or the solos from bassist Andrzej krejniuk) and the sense of strange fun is as palpable as on their previous discs (you have to love a band that lists "trash" among their instruments). The liner notes are as interesting and amusing as the music and that's saying a lot. They've developed into a worldclass eccentric group, even though there's little of Denmark in their sound (okay, absolutely nothing). Take them for what they are, which is wonderful, and enjoy. Pure madness' Reptilica Polaris - Afenginn - 16.99 the band says: "In the dark uniform western hemisphere, where rationality and stress seems to be the new religion, a small distant light is now appearing. Deeply rooted in the faith and tradition of sincere musical virtuosity and sheer madness, the new release from the acrobatic Danish deviates Afenginn, must challenge the stagnate state of every part-time depressed citizen of modern society. In a challenging unpretentious head-on collision with the conformity of well polished musical mainstream, this one-of-a-kind polyethnic contrastic Balkan-Scandinavian music blend will make every honest delirium-connoisseur go into ruptures. The music is best defined as Bela Bartok drinking schnappses of melancholic nordic klezmer with Mike Patton." 'Nuff said. Duologues - Yggdrasil - 16.99 Faroese composer Kristian Blak creates new works with the Danish painter Anders Hjuler. They imagine "duologues' between ancient and modern figures from philosophy and literature (Beatrice and Dante; Munch and Nietzsche; Mandela and Dalia Lama, Lao Tse and Confucius) performed by the reknowned Nordic ensemble Yggdrasil. The Four Towers and Heygar of Dreygar - Kristian Blak and Yggdrasil - 16.99 Two suites composed in 1983 and 1985 by Faroese artist Blak and perfoemed by his ensemble. Askur (2 CD) - Kristian Blak and Yggdrasil - 22.99 Yggdrasil is a Nordic ensemble based in the Faroe Islands, formed in 1981 by composer and pianist Kristian Blak. The ensemble has a repertoire that encompasses a wide range of genres - from free jazz to classical - and expressions - from humor and beauty to disaster and destruction. This is a 2 CD cololection fo live concerts from 1982- 2006. Artists in these shows include Anders Hagberg - Anders Jormin - Angelika Nielsen - Annika Johannesen - Aviaja Lumholt - Brandur Jacobsen - Eivřr Pálsdóttir - Ernst Dalsgarđ - Heđin Ziska Davidsen - Herfinnur Árnafjall - John Tchicai - Kári Sverrisson - Karin Korpelainen - Kristian Blak - Lelle Kullgren - Mia Káradóttir - Mikael Blak - Morten Carlsen - Ólavur Řster - Philippe Carré - Sunleif Rasmussen - Tarira - Tore Brunborg - Villu Veski Risastova - Kristian Blak and Yggdrasil - 15.99 The ensemble Yggdrasil embarks on its 25th year with an ensemble of musicians from Faroe isalnds and Estonia, and featuring Kari Sverrisson. They perform modern interpretations of traditional Faroese skjaldurs, ballads and hymns. There are also unusual compositions by Kristian Blak. Force Majeure - Jokke Schreurs - 15.99 Elegant Belgian guitarist, accompanied by upright bass and guitar, performs straight-ahead jazz in the lineage of Django, but certainly not hemmed in by the Gypsy's legacy. 9 pieces, most originals, with works by Piazzolla, Tchaikowsky, Coltrane and one trad tune filling out the set. Sell Out - The Who - 10.99 OK, why the hell is this in here? One of the 'proprietor's perogatives,' I guess. I found one of my suppliers selling a very reasonably priced edition of what I consder to be one of the 5 best rock records ever made. It was a gem, and this remastered version brings out all its quirks. There are a bunch of bonus tracks, but I don't listen to the out-takes. The core is the madness of their music and advertising parodies, and it's all you need! Live For the Moment - Willy Schwarz - 14.99 File under: rootless cosmopolitan. For his groundbreaking first solo CD, Willy assembled 40 players, from India's master musicians to American virtuosi Howard Levy and Paul Wertico, to produce (with Warren Senders) what Rolling Stone called '...a many-layered fusion of folksong-writing, social criticism, as well as eastern wisdom, of Irish, Indian, and Caribbean blasts – all with disarming innocence' The Well-Tampered Accordion - Guy Klucevsek - 16.99 The centerpiece of composer/accordionist Guy Klucevsek's new solo recording is a collection of 12 short pieces that consist of etudes, preludes, chorales, songs without words, dances and a fantasy. In his most ambitious solo composition to date, inspired by J.S. Bach's 'The Well-Tempered Klavier,' Klucevsek draws on all the elements of his previous music and ventures into new territory as well: hints of Bartok, Copland, Gottshalk, Eastern European folk music, Middle Eastern melodies and minimalism. Features 'Accordion Misdemeanors,' which Klucevsek wrote to accompany E Annie Proulx's novel Accordion Crimes, and 'Four Portraits,' inspired by Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer-winning novel The Hours. Heart of Andes - Guy Klucevsek - 16.99 A series of solo accordion pieces by a master of the instrument, compositions by Klucevsek, Philip Johnston, Dave Douglas and Dmitri Shostakovich. Wind In The Channel - Stuart Saunders Smith - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Vishnu - Robert Macht - 16.99 Innova_mcf Vishnu blends Macht's playing of the tuned bronzed gongs, xylophones and calf skinned drums from Java, known as the gamelan, with the lyric-coloratura voice of Hyunah Yu. Sandip Burman (Indian tabla), John Wubbenhorst (bamboo flute) and the group Global Percussion add to the spicy concoction. Video Ears-Music Eyes - Joseph Celli - 16.99 Post-Minimal Music for Video: featuring 74 minutes of Joseph Celli's music for video, with written commentary by Tony Conrad, and poster art created by artist/designer, Robert Appleton. The performances include Jin Hi Kim, komungo; Brian Johnson, percussion; Grupo de Musica Folklorica del Peru; Ulrich Krieger, saxophones, and Malcolm Goldstein, violin. It strips away instruments to their most minimal form. We hear the violin bow in a constant 360 degree rotation, Peruvian musicians playing through their instruments, the endless glissandi of mallets, and new innovations on the ancient komungo. This system of organizing sound is part of Celli's long-standing investigation into generating sound that relates solely to the instrument that is being played, rather than to pre-established notions of Western, Asian or African scales. Una banda di pezzenti - Daniele Sepe - 18.99 A full-blown modern jazz recording from the Neapolitan saxophonist and musical revolutionary and his ensemble of musicians and singers. There are the usual Arabic, Mediterranean and Italian roots, the requisite Sepe-reggae, but they are sumblimated on this recording, serving the larger goal of making a sometimes terse, sometimes lush contemporary jazz sound with an edge of social/political commentary. Uccelli - Teatro Settimo - 17.99 The soundtrack of the theatre version of Aristophanes' "The Birds" presented at the Spoleto Festival in June 1996 as performed by Banda Osiris, Aringa & Verdurini, Paolo Pizzimenti, Anna Coppola and many other singers and musicians from the Italian music world. Tuareg - Agricantus - 16.99 1996 recording by the Italian global-grooves experimenters finds them criss-crossing southern Italy and Nortth Africa for inspiration. Transumanza - Daniele di Bonaventura and Alfredo Laviano - 16.99 Daniele di Bonaventura, bandoneon and Alfredo Laviano, percussion Top Quality Bones And A Little Terrorist - Britta Persson - 17.99 A curious Swedish pop recording (sung in English) by a unique voice with a unusual song writing style. She accompanied by a mostly acoustic ensemble that is equally comfortable with rock, pop and jazz. Thousand Year Dreaming - Annea Lockwood - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information The Star Chamber - Industrial Jazz Group - 16.99 The ensemble says ' Not that kind of industrial. This one is way more fun!' I heard their Gross Fugue on the radio (WPKN, in Connecticut) and was positively blown away by it, and immediately put it in the catalog. They skirt the edge of a 60s noir jazz style, but ultimately, they are so far beyond categorizing that it is silly to try. Adventurous and unique. The Piano Music - Frederic Rzewski - 16.99 includes the composer's dramatization of Oscar Wilde's years in prison for homosexuality, as well as four ballads concerning the working conditions in textile mills in North Carolina in the 1930's. Rzewski never backs down, never compromises. He is dangerously political, with a vision that is at once steadfast, honest and courageously innocent. The New Village - Enzo Favata Tentetto (featuring Tenores di Bitti) - 17.99 Sardinian musician and composer Favata has been roiling the roots-jazz of Italy for decades now, recording Cds and playing more than 2,000 concertsaround the world. He fuses tradition with a contemporary sense, forging a new music form folk, jazz and avant garde elements that are strictly original. He has studied classical and jazz saxophone, plays the soprano, sopranino and tenor sax, and the bass clarinet, as well as other ethnic wind instruments from Sardinia and elsewhere. Adding Latin, African and middle eastern influences, he has come up with a creative and original new sound that pays homage to the jazz greats while being beholden to no one. This recording features the incredible Tenores di Bitti, who offer not only their voices, but the inspiration of their melodies that are infused into the very core of Favata's new compositions. The Good Book's - David First - 16.99 First calls it 'North American Teahouse Music.' But there is nothing polite or quiet about it. In his passionate liner notes, First states, 'The creation of a deeply joyous, ecstatic, environment that people could fall into, and revel in, has always been most important to me.' First invites us into the home of glissando, vibrato, tremolo, timbral modulation, trilling and panning. The room is set spinning, careening and flying into a whirling dervish of tone and vibrational resonance. Sound swoops into the very fiber of the listener's being, and soars up the spine, directly into the cerebral cortex. The Glass World - Annea Lockwood - 16.99 Please click here for more information. The Beauty Of Silence - Orlando Jacinto Garcia - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. The Aerial #3 - a journal in sound - various - 17.99 The Aerial is published periodically and each issue includes an informative color booklet in which the artists discuss their work and/or present other ideas suitable to the printed page. In this edition: Ellen Fullman, Marc Barreca, Nicolas Collins, Peter Cusack, Tom Guralnick, Johanna M. Beyer, Zae Munn, Myra Melford and Marion Brandis, William Hooker and Leslie Dalaba. The Aerial #1 - a journal in sound - various - 17.99 The Aerial is published periodically and each issue includes an informative color booklet in which the artists discuss their work and/or present other ideas suitable to the printed page. Artists in this volume: David Moss, Christine Baczewska, Richard Kostelanetz, Rich Jensen, Loren Mazzacane and Suzanne Langille, Malcolm Goldstein, Lost Souls, Floating Concrete Octopus, Jerry Hunt, Stuart Sherman and Bern Porter. Suite per bandoneon e orchestra - Daniele Bonaventura - 19.99 The bandoneon master performs two new major compositions, a suite for bandoneon and orchestra, and Piccolo Requiem for Solo Bandoneon. Subterranea - Ken Field - 16.99 This was recorded in several underground rooms in Roswell, New Mexico. Ken Field, a member of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, has composed eleven tracks ranging from overdubbed saxophones, sticks on juice cans, sticks on suitcase, and lots of percussion. The music is improvised music, but not in the traditional jazz sense of solos over chord changes. Field has stated, 'Each track is a spontaneous response to the previously recorded tracks with no preconception at the outset of the final outcome.' Storie di fiume - Simone Guiducci and Gramelot - 17.99 The Italian guitarist once again explores Italian roots in his efforts to redefine Italian jazz, joined by Roberto Dani (drums and percussion), Salvatore Maiore (double bass), Fausto Beccalossi (accordion) and Achille Succi (clarinet). Steel and Bamboo - Dick and Gorn - 16.99 Ethno-techno' Interface of World Music and Revolutionary Flute Sounds. - Robert Dick and Steve Gorn are both virtuosi flautists and the duo name, Steel and Bamboo, reflects their choice of instruments. Dick performs on the world's only stainless steel flute and Gorn plays bamboo flutes from India and the Orient. State Of The Bass - Robert Black - 16.99 The contemporary bass master performs on the traditional doublebass, the electric bass guitar, the electronic upright bass and the MIDI base. Black strums, picks, slaps, hugs and plucks music out of these instruments with both a wild emotional abandon, as well as an intellectual control. The recording includes the compositions Two in the Hand by Robert Zvonar, Composed Improvisation for Steinberger Bass Guitar and Snare Drum by John Cage, Radio Sonata by James Sellars, Piece #1 for Doublebass and Tape by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Big and Cheap by Amy Knoles, Mirrors by Paul Dresher and Trio by Richard Zvonar and Robert Black. Stari Most - Stefano Saletti and Piccola Banda Ikona - 17.99 The latest work by Stefano Saletti (founder and leader of Novalia) and the Piccola Banda Ikona, a newly formed group that brings together members of Nuklearte), Agricantus, Novalia, Nando Citarella Band, Acustimantico, Klezroym and others to explore the culture and language of the mediterranean basin in a most contemporary way. Sounding The New Violin - Malcolm Goldstein - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Songs of Sunlife: Inside the Didjeridu - Douglas R. Ewart - 16.99 A deeply spiritual yet innovative approach to this ancient aboriginal instrument is at the heart of the composition and performance philosophy of Ewart's work, whether it is as a soloist or when joined by poet Louis Alemayehu, percussionist Steve Goldstein and bassist Adam Lane. Smiling Men with Bad Reputations - Mike Heron - 16.99 One of my guilty pleasures: the reissue of a bizarre, quirky and often quite funnny 1971 'solo' recording by Incredible String Bander Mike Heron includes The Who's Townsend and Moon, Richard Thompson, Jimmy Page, Dudu Pukwana, Elton John, various Fairporters and Dr Strangely Strange. Pop-powered flower-power folk-rock-jazz-silliness. Irresistible! Shreds Of Evidence - First Avenue Ensemble - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Satyricon Circus - Satyricon Circus - 18.99 A rich new musical production, the work of composer Gabriele Coen (Klezroym), Mario Rivera (Agricantus) and Vito Ranucci, with participation from Barbara Eramo, Gabriel Zagni, Maria Letizia Gorga, Federica Vincenti and Gianni Santucci. Ruby - Marc Anderson - 16.99 A percussionist with a global perspective but a unique personal style, Anderson has created a record finally worthy of the oft-butchered term world fusion. Working with an unusually diverse group of musicisans from world, folk, jazz and experimental backgrounds, Anderson's dream-like creations are thoroughly unique. Ronde Noe - Nidi d'Arac - 17.99 Rimfaxe - Gjallarhorn - 17.99 The new CD (2006) from this innovative and agressively creative Finnish new-roots ensemble Radius #4 - transmissions from broadcast artists - various - 17.99 Radius series was inaugurated to present experimental works made for radio broadcast. Works by Hildegard Westerkamp, Darren Copeland, Algojo and Robert Normandeau. Radius #3 - transmissions from broadcast artists - various - 17.99 Radius series was inaugurated to present experimental works made for radio broadcast. Works by Kathy Kennedy, Christol Migone, Chantal Dumas, Dan Lander Radius #2 - transmissions from broadcast artists - various - 17.99 Radius series was inaugurated to present experimental works made for radio broadcast. Curated by Helen Thorington. Features works by L.A. performance artist Jacki Apple, Voices in the Dark - a look at the cosmos as repository of information broadcast from the earth - (with vocalists Anna Homler and David Moss); Donald Swearingen, Salvation at 1 AM - cannibalizing late night television; and Gregory Whitehead, Pressures of the Unspeakable - an investigation into the nervous system of the city of Sydney, Australia. Radius #1 - transmissions from broadcast artists - various - 17.99 Radius series was inaugurated to present experimental works made for radio broadcast. Curated by Helen Thorington, director of the New American Radio series. Includes works by Sheila Davies, What is the Matter in Amy Glennon? - a witty, fast-paced and well-written merger of science, mythology and philosophy in relation to the Self; Helen Thorington, Partial Perceptions - an exploration of relationships between nature, machine and woman made possible by recent technologies - (with vocalist Shelley Hirsch and musician Joseph Celli); Terry Allen, Bleeder, - a fictional biography about an enigmatic Texas gambler, faith healer, gangster and hemophiliac (with performance artist/actress Jo Harvey Allen - of David Byrne's True Stories film - as the storyteller.) Quiver - KTU - 16.99 This powerful, agressively fronds group returns with this 2009 powerhouse of sounds. Trey Gunn / Warr guitar; Kimmo Pohjonen / accordion, voice; Pat Mastelotto / rhythmic devices, beats and noises with Samuli Kosminen additional beats and noises, Kosminization Pratomagno Social Club - La Banda Improvvisa - 17.99 It may look like it on first glance, but is is not your mother's municipal band. Giampiero Bigazzi's La Banda Improvvissa is a notorious big band with a bad attitude, taking the music of Italy's community orchestra to a new leverl with daring adventure. This time around they have invited violinist Blaine L. Reininger and zingane masters Kocani Orkestar along for the ride and the results of this live concert are surprising and completely original. Play Nice - twisted tutu - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Piripicchio - Addosso Agli Scalini - 16.99 The band from Puglia returns in 2006 with another modern recording about uneasiness of culture clash, and the poetry and rhythm in their encounter of various cultures. In ten songs they present a trip through the past to discover the feelings, memories and places that define the present. Pai Nai - Methel and Lord - 17.99 Impossible to adequately describe, this unusual collaboration of peorty and music crosses a lot of boundaries, with it's mix of jazzy rock, folky blues and artsy bad attitude. 'Methel is the composer and the voice of the band, and together with Lord arranges acoustic and electric music with special electronic effects that break the natural rythm of the compositions and create a very unusual, evocative sounds.' Paesaggi Lontani - Claudia Bombardella Ensemble - 17.99 An eclectic musician, singer and composer Claudia Bombardella plays various instruments (baritone sax, clarinets, tuba, accordion, steel drum). Joined by her ensemble of voices, violin, cello, bass, accordions, giutar and mandolin, they bring ancient folk songs and new compositions to life through their varied backgrounds of classical, folk and jazz. Complex, creative, rich and beautiful, and all recorded live. Overstepping - Eve Beglarian - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Outer Circles - Victoria Jordanova - 16.99 An astonishing talent, more than just a harp player. Her music is haunting and heartbreaking. The tones are surreal, eerie, barely discernable as a known instrument at times. The main piece, 'Outer Circles' is a about the 9/11 tragedy. Dark, brooding, yet with a strange and shimmering beauty illuminating hope underneath it all. The second work mixes things like church bells with harp and electronics. These ancient-modern instruments meet to create depth and warmth. A unique, earthy yet other-worldly experience. Orgia - Jaume Sisa - 17.99 Jaume Sisa was an important part of Musica Dispersa and is a folk-rock artist with a very idiosyncratic style. His first album Orgia was a prime example of psychedelic rock - the Spanish way - with Sisa followings his whim much like Incredible String Band. The vocals and harmonica playing is a little indebted to Bob Dylan, but a lot stranger. Elsewhere there are kazoos, piano, tablas, recorders, snippets of tapes, and even occasional strings and brass. The same year, 1971, that Musica Dispersa was released, he also put out this great solo album. Crazy acid folk with lots of humour and weird vocals by Sisa himself. Organic Oboe - Joseph Celli - 16.99 features the music of composer/double reed virtuoso Joseph Celli and was originally released in 1978 on vinyl as a small, independent edition. The impact of the recording in 1978 was significant with DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE writing, ...boldly experimentalstartling... and composer Anthony Braxton claiming, I was shocked to first hear this music, very advanced, ...a surprising use of instrumental techniques. Once upon a time in Chinese America - Fred Ho - 16.99 Combining music, theater and fantastic Chinese martial arts, Once Upon a Time in Chinese America is a heroic 17th Century martial arts legend of the betrayal of the legendary Shaolin Temple by a renegade monk. It is composer Fred Ho's action-adventure music/theater/ballet epic. On the sensations of tone - Tom Heasley - 16.99 California Bay Area-based Tom Heasley is an internationally active composer, performer, tubist, improvisor and recording artist whose compositions for electro-acoustic tuba create 'a rich and sonorous aural experience that flies in the face of all the dumb cliches about what tuba music is.' From cathedrals to bars, from barns to conservatories, Heasley is…the ambient tubist. Off-Hour Wait State - Tom Hamilton - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Nous percons les oreilles - Joane Hetu; Jean Derome - 16.99 Two saxophones, two voices, two strange minds collide in new ideas and challenging music. Says Derome: "The basis of our work is made of songs and improvisation. Our songs speak of our life. They are ordinary (like us) but not easygoing (like her). We really love to improvise together. It is not easy to describe accurately what we do while improvising — it is very close to the human beast that we are." No World Improvisations - Jin Hi Kim and Joseph Celli - 16.99 Korean-American composer/performer Jin Hi Kim and composer/double reed virtuoso Joseph Celli in five works that seem to cross the borders between new, experimental and world music. No World (Trio) Improvisations - Celli and Kim - 16.99 Features the music of composer/double reed virtuoso Joseph Celli and Korean-American composer/performer Jin Hi Kim, in collaboration with five brilliant new music/world music improvisers, resulting in five uniquely individualistic trio improvisations. The music crosses the borders of new, experimental, and world musics, with each work developing a distinct musical statement. This is the second No World Improvisations release by the Celli and Kim duo, who are joined by adventurous improvisers Adam Plack, didgeridoo; Mor Thiam, African percussion; Shelley Hirsch, voice; Malcolm Goldstein, violin; and Alvin Curran, electronics. All of the pieces reflect the strong individuality of the musicians creating them, ranging in sound from a meditative trance state to hyper downtown improv Nichil. - Trio Aldo Nichil - 15.99 Music from the film 'Pizzicata' by Eduardo Winspeare. Simple and direct music from Salento performed by guitarist Nichil and a trio of 2 female voices and tamburello. Nia maro - Daniele Sepe - 18.99 I know I say it almost every time he does a recording, but there really is no one like Sepe in the musical world, a composer and musician with a unique vision of his world, both musical and social, and an artist both global and local simultaneously. This recording is one of his more adventuous, and yet it is remarkably also one of his more 'rooted' although those roots spread all across the Mediteranean basin. Meshes - Teiji Ito - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Magony Vonósok (2 CD set) - Kovács Ferenc - 19.99 The Magony orchestra was formed in 2001, to perform in live Ferenc Kovács's solo album. Their repertory has been continuously enlarged with their own compositions and special elaborations of well-known Hungarian folk songs. Their musical style can be summed up by the expression 'contemporary rustic music.' The aim of Magony, the artist states, 'is to express our ancient Hungarian emotions in a Hungarian way by melting the classical, the Gypsy and our folk traditions.' Magony - Kovács Ferenc - 16.99 A solo album by the violin soloist of Djabe, Kalman Balogh's Gypsy Cimbalom Band and Dresh Quartet. Machine For Making Sense - Machine for Making Sense - 16.99 A cooperative venture between five of Australia's most interesting sound artists, creating a powerful interactive organic machine that explores the parameters of sense. The machine's synthesis of polemic and chaos has found the group acclaim in Europe, the USA and Australia as one of the most original developments in contemporary performance. Dispersing at the intersection of music and speech, text and improvisation, function and use, Machine for Making Sense explores distinctions between language, sound and music, as well as code, sign and meaning. Love and Fear - Song and Turner - 16.99 Vocals and kayagum performances from Jeff Song, and celli performances by Matt Turner. The CD was taped live in a recording studio with each piece a complete improvisatory effort. Living Tones - Jin Hi Kim - 16.99 A rare mix of traditional Korean music with a modern American sensibility that includes Robert Dick on flutes; Thomas Buckner, baritone; National Living Treasure Chung Jae-Guk, Park Jong-Sol and Yang Myung-Sok on piri; as well as Joseph Celli playing the oboe and English horn. With this new release, Jin Hi Kim champions the cause of cross-cultural communication through four unique compositions that skirt, weave and dart across and between Asian-American microtonal sound chambers. The results are at once spiritual, artistic and illuminating--decidedly Korean, and subtly American. Jin Hi Kim's LivingTones ushers in a new era of East-West aesthetic understanding through the creation of a new place where subcultural investigations are allowed occur and grow freely. Live in Florence - Naftule's Dream - 16.99 a live concert performance by one of the most agressive and innovative of the 'new Jewish fringe' bands Liberte Creativite Feminite - Sabina Manetti - 18.99 Liberté Creativité Feminité presents a strong vocalist from Tuscany in a solid mix of roots and jazz, accompanied by a stright ahead jazz ensemble of bass, drums, pianos, percussion, with accordion and violin. This is the first I have heard her, and she's a voice to hear. Lesamore - La Banda Improvvisa w/ Sepe and Kokko - 16.99 The remarkable Italian 'municipal orchestra' in a concert that is nothing like you have heard on your town square. Powerful performances by excellent musicians, and joined by two legendary guests, saxophonist is joined by Daniele Sepe and singer Auli Kokko. It's challenging, romantic, funny and great fun. Kronomakia - Daniele Sepe, Ensemble Micrologus, Und Rote Jazz Fraktion - 18.99 Neopolitan arranger, composer and saxophone player Sepe, joined by two ensembles, takes on the early music of Italy in his usual shocking style, seamlessly joining jazz, classical and early art music into a beautiful whole. Klezmer at the Cotton Club - Helmut Eisel and Band - 16.99 The German clainetist and his band perform a 'what if' and recreate what klezmer might have sounded like if it had been nurtured at NY's most important jazz emporium. It's fine stuff, and the band us more than up to the task, featuring Michael Marx on guitar, Stimme Stefan Engelmann on double bass, Nino Deda on accordion and Jochen Krämer on drums and percussion. They cover klezmer classics, jazz and blues standards (Handy, Ellington, Calloway) and Eisel's originals (like Rondo alla Klez) are stand-outs on this excellent recording. The sound is unique, and it swings like crazy. Kapka - Tara Fuki - 16.99 A contemporary duo of voice and cello, Andrea Konstankiewicz-Nazir and Dorota Barová are joined on a few tracks of this unusual performance by Mario Buzzi (sampler). Jazzen - Nina Ramsby and Martin Hederos - 16.99 Singer Nina Ramsby and pianist Martin Hederos first met in 2000 and began singing casually together. In January 2004 recorded Visorna, a collection of their favorite songs in Swedish. In the spring of 2005 they began work on this new recording, Jazzen, featuring their own unique takes on jazz standards by notable jazz performers like Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Sade and Betty Carter. Nina has rewritten the lyrics in Swedish, to suit her own needs and experiences. These are bare, sometimes stark performances, mostly simply piano and voice, with occasional string, harmonica, reed and brass punctuations that envelope the voice and allow it room to expand and contract as it needs. They also have 2 original pieces (one song, one instrumental), which to my ear, are some of the best pieces on the CD. Io (4 CD box set) - Ennio Morricone - 74.99 4 CD set in presentation box: Music for Piano; Film Music; Chamber Music; Symphony Music Indigenous Music - Stephen Mosko - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Illud Tempus - Jocy DeOliveira - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Il Ritorno Alla Fede Del Cantante Di Jazz - Enrico Fink - 17.99 'The Jazz Singer's To Faith' is an exploration into Italian Semitic tradition from a decidely modern viewpoint by one of Italy's premier Jewish musicians. With Amit Arieli,clarinet; Stefano Bartolini,saxophones; Arlo Bigazzi,bass, Percussion, programming; Enrico Fink, voice, flute, programming; Alessandro Francolini, acoustic guitar; Filippo Pedol, double bass; Guglielmo R. Gagliano, programming and featuring Orio Odori and la Banda Improvvisa. Homescape - Nguyen Le - 16.99 French-Vietnamese jazz musician Nguyên Lê stands out as a unique explorer of sound. Homescape is based upon improvised duos with either Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu or oud player and vocalist Dhafer Youssef. Lę's postproduction then crafts these performances into a piquant series of moving and thrilling world-jazz tracks. Holnapig - Until tommorow - Lantos Iván - 16.99 Lantos was one of the remarkable members of the Vízönto and the Kolinda group in the 70s. This collection represents his unique work from 1992 to 2003 In his music the rootlessness mates with the limitlessness, irony with elevation and the renaissance with the postmodern. A great introduction to an important and innovative Hungarian musician. Hocus Opus - First Avenue Ensemble - 16.99 An electro-acoustic music ensemble formed in 1982 by classically-trained musicians dedicated to expanding their art through improvisation, theater, extended techniques, performance art and the integration of advanced technologies with acoustic instruments. Haramand Plane - Jerry Hunt - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Habanera, A Soundwalk Through Old Havana, Cuba - Philip Blackburn - 16.99 What better way to get to know the intimate details of a culture than through your ears and your shoes? Environmental sound artist Philip Blackburn ambled through Old Havana, a city full of sounds. Blackburn's path takes us past alleys, buildings and streets where you can hear Fidel waffling on and on, cigar black-marketers, flamenco dancers, kids playing, Santeria and Catholic chanting, and the nightly canon fire. Wear headphones for the full binaural effect and turn out the lights (the CD cover glows in the dark) and walk with Blackburn through Havana 2004. Ground - Jerry Hunt - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Go, Blue - Blue Gene Tyranny - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Go Guitars - Seth Josel - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Garage Tango - Gigi - 15.99 An evocation of bellows instruments (accordion, bandoneon, etc) are blended with pop-dance arrangements in an unusual and surprisingly satisfying montage. In this CD, the first 'virtual accordion' (Roland V-accordion) was used; its physical sound modelling technology enables the musicians to express their creativity to sweep unexplored musical genres. Luigi Bruti, who's responsible for Roland's musical laboratory, is also the author of this musical instrument. Fuori dal Paradiso - Piero Brega - 17.99 One of the most beautiful voices of Italian popular music, winner of the Ciampi Award in 2005 with his debut record "Come Li Viandanti", is back with his second work, "Fuori dal paradiso", a record of original songs written by Brega and Martire, arranged by Mark Hamlyn and produced in collaboration with the Gianni Bosio Club. The record, twelve tracks, expresses the origins and the relevance of Brega's music, who, since his beginnings in the '70's with the Canzoniere del Lazio, has always loved the contamination of the tradition with the driving force of the rhythmic instruments. Also in "Fuori dal paradiso" music and words flow in a series of tales and colours, moving from waltzes to ethnic suggestions. Brega is in love with Rome and with its dialect, and gives us a well-balanced record in which personal stories mix easily with fantastic tales. From The Other Side - Electroacoustic Arists from Latin America - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Exquisite Corpses From Ps 122 - Exquisite Corpses - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Ethniogroove (DVD) - Mahmoud Ahmed and Either Orchestra - 16.99 A film by Anais Prosic follows the Ethiopian star and the American jazz band as they discover each others music and prepare for a concert. Includes documentary and a full 2006 concert. DVD, multi-zone, NTSC (North American) format. Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis (2 CDs) - Either/Orchestra - 16.99 The 10-piece jazz orchestra from Boston, in a 2 CD set recorded live in Addis with a number of great Ethiopian performers including vocalists Bahta Gebre-Heywet, Michael Belayheh and Tsedenia Gebre-Marqos, saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and percussionist Mulatu Astatqe. Inspired by the great Ethiopian pop and jazz of the '60s and '70s, they bring a full array of modern jazz and Afro-Cuban innovations to an Ethiopian repertoire. Unusual, to say the least. Erase The Fake - Arthur Jarvinen - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Emanations - Steve Peters - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Electricity - Neil Rolnick - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information El Dorado - 17 Hippies - 16.99 El Dorado perfectly demonstrates how a band matures over time. Having played together for 14 years, with 1,500 concerts in 20 countries, these musicians have found a unique style. Whether infl uenced by Balkan music, American rock, British pop, or film music, their compositions and sophisticated arrangements enter a new realm. Always filled with energy and razor-sharp interplay, 17 Hippies' music still “boils down to plain dance music!” Regardless of age or nationality, everybody around the world seems to get it, as proven by the international success of this “Rock-The-World-Orchestra.” Edible Black Ink - Arthur Jarvinen - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Dark Thoughts - Sigurdur Flolsason, Daniel Nolgĺrd and The Norrbotten Big Band - 15.99 Swedish big band jazz: listen Dancing In Place - Elizabeth Panzer - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Dancin' Roots - Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble - 17.99 Joined by acclaimed jazz clarinetist Don Byron, guitarist Guiducci and his ensemble of accordion, percussion, horns, reeds and bass experiment with jazz and roots. Crux - Stuart Saunders Smith - 16.99 Explores the insights and sonic discoveries of new music composer, Stuart Saunders Smith. Pieces range from Smith's early composition, Here and There using short-wave radio, flute and piano interior, to the opening tour de force Tunnels for musician/actor. oodiscs #11, Crux, features some of America's most noted new music performers including the redoubtable bassist Burt Turetzky, piano virtuosi Paul Hoffmann and Thomas Moore and singer/actor/percussionist Thomas Goldstein. Coastal Traces - Eleanor Hovda - 16.99 In stock. Please click on the title for more information Chris Mann and The Impediments - Chris Mann - 16.99 Play it, shuffle it and rearrange it. This 'interactive sound game' was made especially for the intellectually adventurous listener who is ready to take part in the creative process. Chris Mann, internationally reputed master of deconstructionalist sound poetry, has brought post-modern language, manipulated voices and mind-bending acoustics altogether on one huge shuffle board CD. Eighty tracks lend this disc to a new kind of sound-surfing, sitting back with the remote control and riding the waves of such heady concerns as the meaning of existence, what is language, is there such a thing as reality? By switching from track to track, the listener becomes part of the artistic journey, jumping into the textural sounds, forever making up new sound/word combinations that change and evolve according to the listener's whim. Chris Mann has created the ultimate interactive sound game, where there is no limit to what is heard and understood and ultimately created. Chorale - Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble - 17.99 The Italian guitarist and his ensemble of accordion, percussion, horns, reeds and bass experiment with jazz and roots, joined by a small bevy of guest artists. Chants, Hymns and Dances - Tsabropoulos and Lechner - 16.99 Compositions by Gurdjieff and Vassilis Tsabropoulos, performed by pianist Tsabropoulos and Anja Lechner on violincello. the pieces are boundary crossing experiments in multi-cultural classicism and contemporary minimalism, often mournful, occasionally spritely. Celestial Voices - Orlando Jacinto Garcia - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Caught By The Sky With Wire - The Maya Beiser/Steven Schick Project - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Cantador - Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble - 17.99 as the band itself puts it, this is “fluid and free, rippling between jazz, classical and popular music, between regional and global, between the ancient and modern world. It is a language of jazz improvisation interwoven with popular melodies, spoken with an ease and grace. It is many “languages”, spoken as musical expressions or idioms, which come together in a world where the imagination shapes them into new and old forms that are always intriguing”. Cammenann - SOS - 17.99 They blend Mediterranean sound and Neapolitan lyrics, and as they put it, 'contaminations melt down to create a half-caste and strange rock.' They start the journey in a Naple's neighbourhood, taking inspiration by the' 'Neapolitan Sound' of the 80's (Pino Daniele, Avitabile, Senese, E' Zezi and Almamegretta) and add Egyptian, Nigerian, Senegalese and Algerian influences to make a melting pot of styles, races, cultures and traditions. Broken Dances - Tom Guralnick - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Border Music - Peter Garland - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Baqshish - Francesco Banchini - 17.99 Banchini's previous works have taken him from the study of classical and Medieval music to music therapy to southern Italian folk music to the traditions of Balkans and the Mediterranean. This is a CD bursting with colour and flavour, where original compositions blend with traditional Mediterranean songs and melodies. As well as various types of clarinet he plays nay, flute, chalumeaux, piano, while his own voice broadens the sound further. Accompanying him on the record are a group of fine musicians including Davide Della Monica (guitar), Cristiano Della Monica (percussion), Francesco Migliaccio (accordion) and Manuela Salinaro (darabouka, cajon, frame drums). Banter - Bailey and Bendian - 16.99 Pioneering guitarist Derek Bailey and percussionist Gregg Bendian in a lively game of musical ping pong. It startles and plays with sound images that are so alive they walk into the room and announce themselves. They don't take off their hats. They don't bother to sit down. They just appear--with an attitude. Ariadne Music - Eleanor Hovda - 16.99 In stock. Please click here for more information. Apologia Di Un Canovaccio - Neaskene - 17.99 The debut (2006) by a young band from Ravenna, Italy. Fronted by singer Sara Cicognani. Neaskenč work within and without the tradition, mixing jazz, ethnic music, other national idioms and original writing. Tammorre (traditional drums), fretless electric bass, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin and other local and global instruments are merged to create a distinctively "pop" sound with a real edge and solid roots. Anamnesis - Ecumenical Mysteries - Boris Kovac - 17.99 The Serbian composer's 1998 work is dedicated to mystics N. Berdjiaev and G. I. Gurdjieff and performed by the Ritual Nova Ensemble. Amore e Odio - Banda Bassotti - 16.99 Heavy ska, roots and rock from an Italian band of guitars, bass, drums and horns - they're political, passionate and loud (think Negu Gorriak, Les Negresses Vertes and The Clash). If you have the 'need for speed,' this is the band for you. Alhambra - Gabriele Coen and Atlante Sonoro - 16.99 Gabriele Coen is one of the founders of Klezroym. This is his second solo album with the Atlante Sonoro project.Featuring Pietro Lussu on piano, Marco Loddo on bass and Luca Caponi on drums, Gabriele Coen (soprano and tenor sax and clarinet) is exploring fascinating places the border lands between the sunny landscapes of Mediterranean music and contemporary jazz. This project also includes Lutte Berg on guitar, playing on two different tracks. The different pages of this Atlante Sonoro are Hebrew music from eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, various European jazz traditions and the arabesques of Alhambra. Adagio - Antonio Paolo Pizzimenti - 17.99 Unlike his previous recordings, which were both sountracks for film or theater works, this is an original work conceived as a multimedia piece (the CD includes a video 'story'). All the music is composed and performed by Pizzimenti, with the voice of Simona Barbero punctuating some of the tracks. It is all stark, moody and cinematic, as Pizzimenti's work always is. Act Of Finding - Thomas Buckner, Tom Hamilton, Ratzo Harris, Bruce Arnold - 16.99 The experimental New York-based improvising quartet creates sophisticated and compelling musical relationships on its debut recording. The quartet is comprised of veteran new music pioneer Thomas Buckner (voice); America's foremost performing composer of analog electronics, Tom Hamilton; innovative jazz bassist Ratzo Harris; and processed guitar wizard Bruce Arnold. 8 Armed Monkey - KTU - 16.99 Finnish accordionists Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen (Kluster) join Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn (percussion and guitar from King Crimson and duo TU) for a round of agressive, loud and utterly unclassfiable new music. Pa Gyllen Grunn - Anita Skorgan - temp out of stock-18.99 Pĺ Gyllen Grunn (On Golden Ground) - produced with great care and understanding by Erik Hillestad, recorded in a mausoleum at Slemdal, Oslo - is a remarkable new journey into traditional Norwegian folk music by former pop-singer Skorgan, at once primitive and avant garde, an experiment worthy of a great cast of musicians including Arve Henriksen (trumpet), Rolf Lislevand (lute, baroque guitar and theorbe), Eivind Aarseth (electric guitar) and Helge Norbakken (percussion). Highly Recommended. KKV: 30 years of fidelity - various - temp out of stock-19.99 One of Norway's premier labels, Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV) is known for their excellent combination of musicianship and high audio standards. This CD collection celebrates 30 years of cultural work with music from a wide variety of artists in all fields of music: folk, popular, jazz and art music. Artists in this collection include Kari Bremnes, Lill Lindfors, Knut Reiersrud, Iver Kleive, Ole Paus, Ketil Bjřrnstad, Arild Andersen, Sigvart Dagsland, Frode Alnćs, Sondre Bratland, Stian Carstensen, SKRUK, Rim Banna, Lynni Treekrem, Kirsten Brĺten Berg, Aage Kvalbein and Eva Dahlgren. Pa Egne Vegne - Anne-Marie Giortz - temp out of stock-18.99 With a stripped down ensemble sound (featuring marimbas, bass, percussion, banjo, keyboards and guitar), Norwegian composer and vocalist Anne-Marie Giřrtz creates a completely unique recording, rooted in jazz, pop and folk, but beholden to none. Highly recommended!
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