"with Vince Delgado, Dana Pandey, Aushim Chaudhuri. Born 1951 in Mumbai, Hussain died this week in. He was born into music and, of the many stories coming out about him this week, one I love is about his father, Alla Rakha's, first greeting him as a newborn. Tradition is that the father whispers a prayer into the child's ear and, instead, Rakha, who was a master tabla player in his own right, recites a series of tabla rhythms. It made his mother upset, but the die was cast. He also believed in the universality of music, and did not limit himself to one kind of playing. He said, _If I am going to sit and play only a particular king of music, I am limitig myself as a creative artist._ This let to many far-reaching collaborations. The night before he died, I was talking with my singer friend Renee on the phone. She'd seen him recently in performance with Bela Fleck, happy, she said ,that'd she had because, she told me, he was dying. It was a lung condition he'd developed over time from inhaling the talc he'd apply to his hands to be able to play. Thanksto Dom Aversano for his excellent substack tribute. See link. "
"s the debut studio album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, then called Yuya Uchida & The Flowers, released in 1969. It features mainly cover songs, and was a means for Yuya Uchida (1939-2019) to explore the emerging psychedelic rock movement outside his own career, and to introduce the work of upcoming Western bands such as Cream, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane to a Japanese audience."
Toni Iordache (17 December 1942 – February 1988) was a Romani-Romanian l_utar born in a village near Bucharest and one of the most famous cimbalom (Romanian: _ambal) players in the world. He was nicknamed the God of the Cimbalom[ and Paganini of the cimbalom - wiki
"Garcia (born 1991) is a British jazz musician, saxophonist, composer and bandleader. born in 1991 in Camden Town, London, the youngest of four siblings, to a Guyanese mother, a former civil servant, and a British Trinidadian filmmaker father. Sinephro (born 1996) is a Belgian experimental jazz musician, currently based in London. She is best known for her ambient jazz compositions, where she predominantly plays the pedal harp, modular synthesiser, keyboards and piano. - wiki"
The band was active 1982-1991 and gained a reputation as a _drug band_ due to the members' drug-taking habits and band member Peter Kember's candid interviews and outspoken opinions on recreational drug use- wiki
"Rainey is a Pow Wow singer of the Red Lake Ojibwe people. On his debut album, Niineta, he demonstrates his command of the Pow Wow style, descending from Indigenous singing that's been heard across the waters of what is now called Minnesota for centuries. This is his debut release and according to one review (click link), demonstrates his command of the pow-wow style. "
"Wonderful discovery this week -- a set of collaborations Lonnie undertook with this latest release, including Jeff Parker, Bon Iver, Michael Stipe, Moor Mother, Sharon Van Etten, Rokia Kone. Lonnie Bradley Holley (born February 10, 1950), sometimes known as the Sand Man, is an American artist, art educator, and musician. He is best known for his assemblages and immersive environments made of found materials. Click link for full wiki bio
" Right up to the rocksteady age, the duo of Lloyd _Charmers_ Terel and Roy _Teddy Charmers_ Willis entranced Jamaica and beyond with their music. The pair partnered up in the late '50s, building a strong reputation in Kingston's sound systems and clubs. Read a full bio of The Charmers by Jo-Anne Greene by clicking link "
is the solo debut studio album of London jazz musician Shabaka Hutchings, working under the name Shabaka. On 1 January 2023, Hutchings announced his intention to take an indefinite hiatus from playing the saxophone, explaining later in the year that his enthusiasm for the instrument had waned after years of intense touring. This also coincided with the end of his two bands, Sons of Kemet and the Comet Is Coming. The album ends Hutchings's hiatus .
The record came to fruition after Beylis discovered a CRB Elettronica Ancona – Model: Diamond 708 E electric keyboard while digging through the Leitrim recycling centre, and found an old image of her mother sitting with a couple of friends at the beach. Read full Quietus commentary, click link
Oliver is good friend, woodworker, poet, and beautiful musician. He was over for dinner last weekend with his Elizabeth and poet Fanny Howe. Pulled out a banjo made in Austin TX in 1893…a rare and very beautiful instrument made by Samuel Swain (SS) Stewart b: Philadlephia 1844, died 1898, of apoplexy, age 44.
Oliver is good friend, woodworker, poet, and beautiful musician. He was over for dinner last weekend with his Elizabeth and poet Fanny Howe. Pulled out a banjo made in Austin TX in 1893…a rare and very beautiful instrument made by Samuel Swain (SS) Stewart b: Philadlephia 1844, died 1898, of apoplexy, age 44.
Spotify: originally envisioned as a female-fronted Japanese heavy rock cover band (Flowers)by entrtainer & entrepreneur Yuya Uchinda, the FTB would eventuually chart their wn course…group comprised of Remi Aso (vocals), Hideki Ishima (guitar), Jun Kowzuki (bass), Joji Wada (drums), they released their first album, Challenge, in 1969, consisting entirely of Western pop/rock covers, it gained attention with the band appearing nude on the album cover.
"According to her website, _Tamil Nadu-raised and New York-born critically acclaimed vocalist Ganavya lives, learns, and loves fluidly from the nexus of many frameworks and understandings._"
World Standard is a long-running project by Japanese artist, musician, and writer Soichiro Suzuki. Over the last 30+ years, Suzuki has released 20+ albums, scored films, produced other artists, written articles and books on music. A sort of “homage to world music excursions,” the World Standard project began originally as a duo in 1982 with Michio Kojima. Dreaming of far off landscapes while watching old European movies, the two young musicians recorded several demo tapes in a room in Kojima’s parents’ house using guitars, mandolin, ukulele, upright piano, toy trumpet, melodica, and drums made of cardboard. - insheepsclothinghifi.com (click link for more)
"Japanese children's choir, formed by Kazuko Minagawa in Tokyo in 1943. It accepts children from the ages of 3 to 18. They perform one regular concert each year, as well as performing as a chorus for hire on recording sessions, TV commercials, opera performances, etc. The group's official English name is Hibari Children Chorus."
Duke Ellington And His Washingtonians was the name after Ellington became the leader. This was recorded in 1925. Trumpeter Bubber Miley was the main attraction in the group and gave it its unique sound, with his use of the plunger mute. The style which featured Miley’s growling, drunken, wah-wah trumpet playing was called the “jungle sound”. - read the full Syncopated Timeds description by clicking the link.
The Syn are an English band that were active from 1965 to 1967, and then reunited as a progressive rock band in 2004. This live recording comes from the 2009 festival (Rites of Spring) held in Sarasota, FL...one of North America’s longest-running and most renowned art-rock music festivals, it seems to still be getting back its feet post-Covid.
Composer Katherine Kennicott Davis (June 25, 1892 – April 20, 1980) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher born in St. Joseph, Missouri. She studied music at Wellesley College and NEC, taught music at the Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts, and at the Shady Hill School for Girls in Philadelphia. She died at the age of 87 in Littleton, Massachusetts and left all of the royalties and proceeds from her compositions, which include operas, choruses, children's operettas, cantatas, piano and organ pieces, and songs, to Wellesley College's Music Department. - wiki
"with Vince Delgado, Dana Pandey, Aushim Chaudhuri. Born 1951 in Mumbai, Hussain died this week in . He was born into music and, of the many stories coming out about him this week, one I love is about his father, Alla Rakha's, first greeting him as a newborn. Tradition is that the father whispers a prayer into the child's ear and, instead, Rakha, who was a master tabla player in his own right, recites a series of tabla rhythms. It made his mother upset, but the die was cast. He also believed in the universality of music, and did not limit himself to one kind of playing. He said, _If I am going to sit and play only a particular king of music, I am limitig myself as a creative artist._ This let to many far-reaching collaborations. The night before he died, I was talking with my singer friend Renee on the phone. She'd seen him recently in performance with Bela Fleck, happy, she said ,that'd she had because, she told me, he was dying. It was a lung condition he'd developed over time from inhaling the talc he'd apply to his hands to be able to play. Thanks to Dom Aversano for his excellent substack tribute.
Oliver is good friend, woodworker, poet, and beautiful musician. He was over for dinner last weekend with his Elizabeth and poet Fanny Howe. Pulled out a banjo made in Austin TX in 1893…a rare and very beautiful instrument made by Samuel Swain (SS) Stewart b: Philadlephia 1844, Died 1898 of apoplexy at age 44. link for more on Swain & his banjos
