Getatchew Mekurya is probably the most revered veteran of Ethiopian saxophone.A real giant, both physically and musically. Not only is he at the very top level of Ethiopian saxophonists, but he is the 'inventor' of an extremely distinctive musical 'style.'
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HS098VL | HEAVENLY SWEETNESS
"Scattered Order were formed in 1979 in Sydney, Australia, by Mitch Jones on vocals, guitar and bass guitar; Michael Tee on guitar and Simon Vidale on drums. Jones worked as a live sound engineer for the Birthday Party and Pel Mel.The band formed their own record label, ...
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GG460 | KLANGGALERIE
"Un Drame Musical Instantané were founded in 1976, featuring Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé. Their aim was to promote collective musical creation, co-signing their albums, which they consider as artworks in themselves, or their live shows which ...
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GG477 | KLANGGALERIE
"The Residents are an American art collective best known for their over 60 studio albums that were recorded over a period of over forty years. They also created some outstanding multimedia works, mainly three CD ROM projects and ten DVDs. Working as an anonymous ...
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GG490 | KLANGGALERIE
"Cinder has been Cindytalk's sole constant member since they started in the early 1980s. A series of band albums from Camouflage Heart (1984) to Wappinschaw (1995) saw the group develop an often uncompromisingly dark, intense and poetic body of work, with Cinder's ...
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FW10 | FALSE WALLS
"Henry Dagg is a composer, improvisor, sound sculptor and builder of experimental musical instruments who formerly worked as a sound engineer for the BBC. His works include the Sharpsichord, a pin barrel harp commissioned for the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and ...
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FW09 | FALSE WALLS
""Nancy Mounir's debut album, Nozhet El Nofous, is a remarkable communion with ghosts. Moody, hypnotic, and sneakily catchy, the album - whose title means "Promenade of the Souls'' in Arabic - explores microtonality, non-metered rhythms, and bold vulnerability through a ...
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HOL142 | HOLIDAYS RECORDS
"Two pieces made with dismantled toy pianos, wind up toys, popping candy, bow, toy spring reverb, Buddha Machine, Tamayura bell, Japanese iron wind chimes, electronics, and voice. Percussive rhythms, hypnotic sounds and Cantonese words used like magic formulas. ...
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HOL134 | HOLIDAYS RECORDS
""Gran trotto" (literally translating to "grand trot") is a travel diary, in sound, recorded in a diverse range of geographies, meticulously listed in the album's credits: Tallinn, Scanno, Helsinki, Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Vilnius, Rosello, Brighton, Campo ...
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HOL140 | HOLIDAYS RECORDS
"Acchiappashpirt is the sound and video, poetry/poetronic collaboration between the Albanian poet and vocalist Jonida Prifti and the Italian sound artist Stefano Di Trapani. "Ninulla" was conceived as a suite of lullabies that were written and sung for, with, and by ...
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HOL145 | HOLIDAYS RECORDS
"The Kitchen center in New York City has been described as a mecca for the avant-garde arts. In this book, contributors including Laurie Anderson, Tony Conrad, Jenny Holzer, Phillip Glass, John Kelly, Robert Ashley, Christian Marclay, Karen Finley, et al., describe how ...
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978-0-963445-61-2 | THE KITCHEN
"Alemayehu Eshete". Alemayehu Eshete is no less than one of the great voices of the heyday of modern Ethiopian music - the swinging sixties which, in this country, went on until the fall of the Emperor Haile Sellassie 1 in 1974. On a par with Tlahoun Gessesse, Bzunesh ...
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HS095VL | HEAVENLY SWEETNESS
"The first vinyl 'Best Of' from the now classic Ethiopiques series. Francis Falcetto, the founder of the series (already 28 Cds available) and THE specialist of Ethiopian music selects, in his view, the best tracks of the series. He opened his large collection of ...
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HS107VL | HEAVENLY SWEETNESS
"The Congos started out as the duo of Cedric Myton and Roy Johnson. Here's the debut longplayer available again as LP-vinyl. Produced by Lee Perry at the Black Ark studio originally released in 1977." (label info)
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VPRL4237 | VP RECORDS
"A long-lost vinyl album is back in stock: for the last 20 years, Kosmischer Pitch by Jan Jelinek, originally released in 2005 on ~scape, existed only as a digital download. Right on time for the 20th anniversary the remastered album is available again on vinyl. The ...
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FAIT-BACK06 | FAITICHE
ox Set #6 ist die neueste in einer Reihe von umfangreichen Box-Set-Neuauflagen des beliebten Backkatalogs des Afrobeat-Pioniers Fela Kuti. Nach früheren Ausgaben, die von Künstlern wie Chris Martin, Erykah Badu, Ginger Baker, Brian Eno und Questlove kuratiert wurden, ...
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KFR4008-1 | KNITTING FACTORY
