Jabobs' Symphony No. 6 is an ode to the entrancing qualities of the natural world, echoing through music an appreciation for its transcendental beauty and concern for the devastating impact of climate change. Inspired by what he calls _cathedral-like sentinels of nature,_ the work meditates on the magnificence and grandeur of the tall trees towering in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. -- liner notes
This, the fourth album from the renowned Scottish psychedelic group at a time when they'd begun to sell out major venues in the U.S. Said Mike Heron about the genesis of the music _...we were touring maybe six months of the year and by that time we all lived together, in eight cottages joined together in this place called Glen Row. When we were not on the road we were either in the studio or playing each other songs we'd written. So it came out of the experience of just being in each other's company all the time._
I Gufi was an Italian musical and comedy ensemble, mainly successful in the second half of the 1960s. They had their breakout in 1966 with the show _Il teatrino dei Gufi_ (i.e. _The Little Theater of the Owls_), & toured across Italy...their material encountered some censorship issues. After undergoing a legal complaint for foul language for the song _Sant’Antonio allu desertu_ (St. Anthony in the Desert), from which they were acquitted, between 1967 and 1969 the group achieved some further success. -- wiki Lino Patruno (see above) was a member of the group. After undergoing a legal complaint for foul language for the song _Sant’Antonio allu desertu_ (St. Anthony in the Desert), from which they were acquitted, between 1967 and 1969 the group got further success
Written for the movie Dumbo. This from the scene when a group of crows are hanging out on a wooden fence, joking about Dumbo….making fun of the idea that an elephant could fly. The next thing you know, of course, is that Dumbo lifts off, with the crows flying alongside him with encourgement.
Both species live to the age of about 60. Both almost certainly remember long-past events. And individuals of both species act heroically to protect other members of their group. Both hippos and whales evolved from four-legged, even-toed, hoofed (ungulate) ancestors that lived on land about 50 million years ago. Modern-day ungulates include hippopotamus, giraffe, deer, pig and cow. As for elephants, the genetic linage of elephants split from primates about 80 million years ago. The tree shrew is considered their nearest common ancestor. Elephants do not like bees. Whales do not like
I mixed together sounds of a baby whale with its mother recorded by underwater photographer & filmmaker Annie Crawley with baby elephant, Belle, captured by a family visiting the Fort Worth Zoo.
Structured around four movements invoking the four cardinal directions and three interstitial _tótems_ for smaller forces, Terrazas draws on Mesoamerican conceptual traditions to examine the relationship between the absolute quality of direction and the relative nature of perception. Through a score that relies heavily on improvised elements and spatialized performance instructions, Terrazas delivers a message...our understanding of a place, idea, or event is framed by where we stand in relation to it. -liner notes. In addition to composing the work, Torres is also a virtuistic flautist.
Suculima is from Puebla, Mexico. Of this album, she says _This is an album about the seeds and the heart, las semillas que plantamos desde el vientre, from the wind, desde nuestro viento, nuestro aliento para el mundo. We dismantle that which needs dismantling,_ - see link in track list to her bandcamp page
Vocals, percussion: Sabu Martinez. Herbie Mann on flute. See link for full personnnel. It's an early example of a percussion-oriented jazz record, a format Blakey had first explored in 1956 on the first side of his Drum Suite LP for Columbia. - wiki
It has been noted since ancient times that elephants seem to have an affinity for music. Performing circus elephants commonly follow musical cues, and early American circuses such as Adam Forepaugh and Barnum & Bailey even featured _elephant bands._ In the 1950s, German evolutionary biologist Bernard Rensch found that elephants can distinguish 12 tones on the musical scale and remember simple melodies, even when played on different instruments at various pitches, timbres, and meters The Thai Elephant Orchestra is a musical ensemble consisting of as many as fourteen Thai elephants near Lampang in Northern Thailand. The elephants play music, essentially as conducted improvisations, on specially designed heavy-duty musical instruments. The orchestra was co-created by elephant conservationist Richard Lair of the National Elephant Institute and the American musical artist and neuroscientist Dave Soldier.- wiki
Belgian new wave band from Aalst. Original members on the first album: Gust Guns - vocals, guitar and arrangements; Toon Van Tilborgh - guitar and textwriter; Jo Bogaert - bass; Kris Michiels - drums; Helene Corthals - keyboards.
The lyrics were ultimately not included in the movie, Hatari, for which Mancini wrote this tune. Lawrence Welk, who covered the tune the next year, had the best chart ranking for Baby Elephant Walk.
Puvirnituq is a northern village in Nunavik, on the Povungnituk River near its mouth on Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Its population was 2,128 as of the 2021 Canadian census. The name means _Place where there is a smell of rotten meat_. This unusual name may have originated from either one of these events (occurring a long time ago): A herd of caribou was swept away by the Povungnituk River while attempting to cross it and washed ashore near the current village site where the decomposing bodies began giving off a staunch smell orAn epidemic killed off most of the area's residents to the point where there were not enough people to bury the dead, allowing the exposed bodies to decompose, giving off a putrid smell. Tik tok star Shina Novalinga is from this town who, with her mother, has used social media to share the culture of her people.
Famed sister trio -- Vet. Martha, and Conee -- came from Minneapolis, MN. They eventually split up b/c Martha and Vet wanted to focus on family, and all three agreed that "fun had turned into business."
The Creation (German: Die Schöpfung) is an oratoriHarro written between 1797 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn (Hob. XXI:2), and considered by many to be one of his masterpieces. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis.- wiki
Reed also drew inspiration for the music on this record from some of his friends and fellow artists. For instance, in the song _Last Great American Whale_, Reed quotes John Mellencamp, referring to him as _my painter friend Donald._] Upon hearing the album, Mellencamp himself said, _Yeah, it sounds like it was produced by an eighth-grader, but I like it._ The album reached #1 on the charts in Switzerland .. Reed's sister Merrill, born Margaret Reed, said that as an adolescent, Lou suffered panic attacks, became socially awkward and _possessed a fragile temperament_ but was highly focused on things that he liked, mainly music. He was dyslexic. - wiki
There are four populations of Pygmies, collectively called the Bambuti, living in the Ituri Forest in what we now recogonize as Congo. Each Pygmy population is associated with a different tribe of Bantu- or Sudanic-speaking agriculturalists.
Windham Hill wanted to branch out, so they began a set of projects designed for children called _Rabbit Ears_. They approached McFerrin, and about a year after his Spontaneous Inventions, the afforded him a sandbox and a choice of what to do with it. He was tasked with providing music soundtracking the words to a few of Rudyard Kipling’s less culturally problematic selections from his Just So stories. Jack, gamefully, came ready to apply his trademark acting skills into a format that richly rewarded his laconic delivery, leaving open space for Bobby to fill in the atmosphere. -- notes by Diegos Olivos (FondSound)
Clayton, who was born in New Bedford, MA, became a prominent figure in the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York City during the early 1960s. He was close with artists such as Dave Van Ronk and Liam Clancy and was also a mentor and friend of Bob Dylan. Their friendship dated back to 1961, Dylan's first year in New York City. They traveled cross-country with two other friends in 1964, during which they visited poet Carl Sandburg in North Carolina, attended Mardi Gras in New Orleans and rendezvoused with Joan Baez in California. A song Clayton wrote was allegedly _borrowed_ by Dylan in 1962 as the basis for one of his most famous tunes, _Don't Think Twice, It's All Right_.[4] The resulting lawsuits by their record companies were settled out of court, and the two remained friends for several years afterwards...Clayton was beset with personal problems in his mid-30s, including frustrations with his career, doubts arising from his homosexuality, manic depression, drug abuse, and a related arrest. On March 30, 1967, he died by suicide by taking an electric heater into his bathtub.[35] He is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts.. - wiki
Mancini wrote this in 1961 for the movie HatariThe instrumental earned Mancini a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement in 1963. The origin of the elephant walk is traced to Texas A&M University, in which -- the week before the last regular-season football game -- the senior class walks around campus to remember the good times they had at school, generally takes place. The story goes... in 1922, two freshman members of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band, Oluf G. _Piccolo Red_ Carson (Fort Worth, Texas) and J. William _Sarge_ Dorsey (Harlingen, Texas), began playing a funeral march after losing a football game. They wandered around campus remembering the good and the bad times that they had while students at A&M, and those who had fallen over the years. An underclassman, who had never seen the march before, remarked that they looked like a bunch of old elephants looking for a place to die, hence the name of the tradition. -- wiki Not sure
In 1947, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919 – 1995) wrote a collection of poems entitled _Prieres Dans L'Arche._ Her collection was subsequently translated into English as “Prayers from the Ark” by Rumer Godden (1907–1998) who went to the Benedictine Abbey in France and spent time with the poet to do the translation. It is an extraordinary story as well. She stumbled upon a copy of the _Prayers_ in the early 1950's quite by accident as she was helping the nuns at the Cenacle Convent in London clean out a cupboard.. The 27 poems (prayers) represent the imagined hopes, fears, and aspirations of the animals aboard Noah's ark. - liner notes
New Hampshire born Ajeet Kaur (Siobhán Moore) is a recording artist and yogi whose music and teaching draw on the sacred traditions of Ireland, India, and other world folk traditions. Ganesha, also spelled Ganesh, also called Ganapati, elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings, who is traditionally worshipped before any major enterprise and is the patron of intellectuals, bankers, scribes, and authors. Ganesh is also understood to possess superhuman strength and, as such, is the remover of obstacles.
