Piano Magic was a musical collective formed in the summer of 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance in London, England. Over the years the quiet bedroom project expanded and changed as Johnson enlisted the help of friends, acquaintances, and moonlighters from other bands.
Iraqi-American trumpeter, santurist, vocalist, and composer, ElSaffar uses Middle Eastern and American jazz to create new techniques to ornament that are idiomatic to Arabic music. Mohamed Saleh featured on english horn
known by her stage name Gigi, is an Ethiopian singer. She has performed the music of Ethiopia in combination with a wide variety of other genres, often in collaboration with her husband Bill Laswell, a bassist and producer.
Yopo is "visionary snuff" used used by various tribes in South America for spiritual and healing purposes. Desenne is a Venezuelan cellist and composer, whose composition style fuses elements from native Latin American and European music. He says about this composition...here the worm performs a solo accompanied by an Afro-Cuban band in a Saharian cartoon setting. The dialogue between the worm and the band grows into a frenetic and sinuous belly dance. The climax smooths into a meditation, after a few spasms. A salsoso coda reminds us of the dance of life and death, in which the worm acts as the recycling force.In memoriam Alegría Beracasa>
“Mother Sky” recorded in July 1970 for the soundtrack of Jerzy Skolimowski's film Deep End. Holgar Czukay (synth), Irmin Schmidt (guitar), Micharl Caroli (bass), Jaki Liberzeit (drums)
Diabate dedicates this album to his father, Djelimory N’fa Diabate, and to Nelson Mandela who were from the same generation and passed away two weeks apart in December 2013
