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Happy Birthday Mike mine was on Jan. 5th
Comfort is yet another fine discovery from Belgian experimental label Off. The band’s core is an Italian trio -- Alessandro Baris, Fabio Elia, and Leonardo Chirulli -- who use both live and electronic instrumentation to create lush compositions that marry ambient soundscapes with more traditional post-rock instrumental dynamism. Though Sleep Talking Shared is notable for its tranquility, there is a staggering diversity in mood and texture from song-to-song. Equally impressive is the concision of its tracks, all of which fall between three and five minutes. Quiet and gentle as the album, the succinct quality of the individual songs gives the whole thing a sense of immediacy that similar albums lack.
Mary Fettig is an incredibly talented musician on the alto and soprano saxes and flute. The first female member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, The Bay Area-based Fettig has recorded with Kenton, Tito Puente, Marian McPartland, Flora Purim, Nnenna Freelon and many more, along with television and movie soundtrack work. On this her third recording as leader she has surrounded herself with an impressive group of musicians to help her achieve an exploration of Brazilian music that is melodic, but not loungey, exciting, but not at the expense of warping the basic beauty of the Brazilian sound.
Butterfly Girl is an amazing new CD from cellist, Marcie Brown. Featuring an incredibly eclectic collection of original compositions, Brown’s stunning work on the cello is supported by a talented group of players. Drawing on influences as diverse as Indian ragas and Brazilian bossa nova, Brown describes her work as “classical-gypsy-circus-world cello music.”...Brown’s work ranges from delectably beautiful melodies to pulsing, polyrhythmic world beats, sometimes in the same piece. Dancing With Nel and Joberto is a duet with guitarist, Terence Brewer. Brown and Brewer weave a spell alternating between a beautifully intricate melody and Brazilian rhythms. Butterfly Girl, the title song, features Marcie Brown on cello and mandolin while Terence Brewer provides guitar. India 2 showcases Brown on cello with percussionist Katja Cooper. I listened with mouth agape as she brought sounds from her instrument that I had never heard from a cello. < http://www.musesmuse.com/mrev-marciebrown-butterflygirl.html
Excellent and skewed free improvising quintet with Dennis Gonzalez, Mark Sanders, label leader Ernesto Rodrigues, Alipio Neto and Guilherme Rodrigues...This is not music that will make you comfortable, it will suck you up, it will create distress, you will be glad and relieved and sad to hear some long lyrical phrases by González, but then they are replaced by some agonizing wails by Neto, which also dissapear, and you stay with the darkness created by off-beat drums and the extended technique sounds of the viola and cello. And through the quite uncanny and eery sounds, beauty emerges, once you get acquainted with the musical universe they create, once you accept what is going on and stop rationalizing, the artistry opens like a flower, not releasing sweet scents, but a dark and terrifying beauty. No, these guys are not a natural match, but for the music presented here (and it is not jazz, really), they are no doubt the perfect match.
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1122574/a/Cerebral+Caverns.htmReggie Workman, cerebral caverns
