Baby Dee (or Little Annie Bandez?) and Andrew WK on vocals. The PRE ensemble, always new on each track, re-arranged and performed six songs that build a path through the musical history of XXth century. The song is rooted in American Applalachia and "first collected in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song." (wiki)
The band was founded end of 1967 by Aziz Azmet, Murat Ses, Cahit Berkay, Hasan Sel and Engin Yörükoğlu. They are one of the pioneering bands in Turkish rock music during their early career and one of the founders of Turkish folk rock (or Anatolian rock). They have been active for over 40 years
Quarantined inspired.." I invited musicians from all around the world to provide short snippets that I then assembled into cohesive songs. The rules were simple: the snippets (typically four or eight bars) could be any instrument and in any style. The only guideline was I provided seven different key and tempo combos. The artists could create as few or as many snippets as they wanted. "
Listener comments: "Unless I'm mistaken, the chanting in the background is Watts himself (that's why this famous recording is called the Onion chant). I think it's a Zen way of deconstructing thought. He wants the listener to realize there is no answer in the words. " And notes from the label: "Released in 1962, This Is It is an imaginative cacophony of percussion, non-verbal chanting, and free-flowing expression, punctuated occasionally by leisurely passes at a terrestrial piano, marimba, or french horn. It is at once experimental, intellectual, and experiential. Three years before Ken Kesey's inaugural Acid Test, This Is It constitutes the first transmission for a tuned-in counterculture of hippies, beats, and psychedelic revolutionaries of all stripes."
Barcelona based MuOM | Ecstatic Voices bill themselves as "the only vocal group in the world that produces polyphonies with harmonics." This selection comes from their soon (October 2021) to be released album.
The band was founded end of 1967 by Aziz Azmet, Murat Ses, Cahit Berkay, Hasan Sel and Engin Yörükoğlu. They are one of the pioneering bands in Turkish rock music during their early career and one of the founders of Turkish folk rock (or Anatolian rock). They have been active for over 40 years
Jarrett said in 1991, "When I first saw these pieces in a music shop, I knew I wanted to play them. I recognised the language. But when I started playing them, they were so close to me that I knew I had to record them." He began including Shostakovich pieces in his recitals in 1985, alongside works by Beethoven, Scarlatti and Bach, and his Shostakovich recording followed his acclaimed account of the two books of The Well-Tempered Clavier." More details via link above.
