Laya Project - Glorious Sun (Bhakti Brothers Remix Feat. Mc Yogi)

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Texitorial - Nick Wales & Sarah Blasko

This is a development of an earlier release “A Blank Canvas” with bass, drums and synth added to my acoustic and slide guitars by Danny MacLauchlan of The Online Recording Studio, who also mixed and mastered what has turned out to be a combination of Americana and Celtic mysticism.  Thanks very much Danny - a great job.

Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uv5vKL_eZ_8?feature=shared

Paint on Canvas

A Boy

Transparent Water is the new studio collaboration between 7-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist-composer-bandleader Omar Sosa and Nottingham-based Senegalese singer and kora master Seckou Keita.  It’s slated for release in February 2017.

The project idea grew out of Sosa’s impromptu addition to a mid–2012 date with drummer Marque Gilmore at the CLF Art Café in London, in what was Sosa and Keita’s first musical encounter.  Profoundly moved by the experience, Omar told Seckou he wanted to invite him to work together on a future recording project.
Given their respective touring and recording schedules, it took a year, but in July 2013 Omar and Seckou went into the Fattoria Musica recording studio in Osnabrück, Germany and laid down the core tracks for Transparent Water.

Another chance meeting informs Transparent Water:  in April 2013, Galician bagpiper-pianist-composer Cristina Pato invited Omar to Santiago de Compostela, where Pato hosts an annual residency frequented by associates of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.  There Omar met Silk Road charter member and sheng master Wu Tong, whom Omar was moved to bring into the project.  In connection with a concert date in Shanghai in July 2014, Omar arranged a side trip to Beijing to record Wu Tong’s traditional flute overdubs.

Tokyo-born, Paris-based koto player Mieko Miyazaki came to Omar’s attention via her recorded work with French jazz guitarist Nguyên Lê.  When Omar finally had the chance to meet her, Mieko’s creative spirit utterly impressed him, and he enlisted her distinctive voice for Transparent Water.

For percussion, Omar turned to longtime collaborator Gustavo Ovalles, who divides his time between France and his native Venezuela.  Ovalles (who can be heard on three prior Sosa projects—Sentir, Ayaguna, and Eggūn) brings the polyrhythmic soul of the African Diaspora to Transparent Water.

Paris-based drummer-producer Steve Argüelles crafted the mix with Omar, having previously worked on Sosa’s award-winning Mulatos and Afreecanos CDs.

Transparent Water is the latest example of Omar Sosa’s transcendent determination to seek new combinations, a manifestation of improvisatory freedom wherein the musical destination is subordinate to the extemporaneous joy of shared artistic expression.  Omar observes that, as he did with Sentir, “What I wanted to do was create something totally improvised.”

Transparent Water—suggestive of translucence and flowing light—is a deeply spiritual recording that reveals its inspiration in the close and compassionate listening of artists engaged in a genial and captivating musical conversation, liberated from time itself, reaching across five continents to probe the collective spirit of the human condition.

Tama-Tama(4.55)

Ethiopiques

new album available: http://smarturl.it/SandraNkake2017

SANDRA NKAKÉ has found her own new way in a musical land where no one had gone before, her inner soul. Led by her magnificent voice and her partnership with Jî Drû, a new genre is born: moon like land, misty, meditative, delicate and intimate. A perfect combination of arty minimalist songs and NKAKÉ’s powerful voice. TANGERINE MOON WISHES is a concept album, free from the first notes. A shamanic voyage into a reddening and introspective ethereal world clinging to SANDRA NKAKÉ’s voice and breath.

Tangerine Moon Wishes

The Last Journey

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- Guy Buttery - sitar 

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Guy Buttery - Nectarinia Amethystina (sitar improvisation)

Everyone  has a unique presence, 
we are not just shadows and shapes.
Identifie the depht of your soul ..through this rituel .dance and show who you TRULY are.


SHOW ME YOU
 SHOW me who you-ouh (who you are) SHOW me you...
(2x)
Show me who you are
There is something in your presence No matter where you are from Where you go
Where you are
Just show me, show me who you are
Now just feel the voices sounds
Now try to hum and feel the ground Let the sound... resound...profond...
SHOW me who you-ouh (who you are) SHOW me you...
(2x)
Show me who you are
There is beauty in your presence
Straight from my heart
Echoes of our emotions
Everyone has a voice, a sound to be heard...
Now just feel the voices sounds Now try to hum and feel the ground Let the sound... resound...profond
SHOW me who you-ouh (who you are) SHOW me you...
(2x)
Come, come on... Come, come on... ad lib

SHOW ME YOU REMIX 2019

"Listen Without Distraction" from 'Songs of the Bardo' by Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith, out 9/27/2019 on CD, LP, Digital, and Streaming on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: https://orcd.co/songsfromthebardo

'Songs from the Bardo' begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words. 'Songs from the Bardo' is a transporting experience, meant to draw the listener into the present moment and provide a framework for inner exploration. Anderson, Choegyal, and Smith fuse modern compositional techniques with the mystique of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to make these visionary traditions more accessible to a new generation of listeners and to reveal the ancient wisdoms contained within.

Songs from the Bardo

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith - Listen Without Distraction

http://www.flau.jp/releases/31.html


"Stories" is the first vibraphone solo album by Berlin-based Japanese artist Masayoshi Fujita, who also known as El Fog and a collaboration project with Jan Jelinek. This quietly exquisite album by Fujita, is like a book of illustration, painting 8 delicate pictures of small stories about the nature we are embracing….cloud, forest, river, swan and morning dews….things that we all are so familiar with, but yet so quaint.

Masayoshi Fujita’s style of solo vibraphone is uniquely inspired by classic and jazz music. In this beautiful album, in additional to some gorgeous strings and bowings, he also introduced some ingenious ideas in making unique sounds, like the usage of bead and aluminum foil on his vibraphone, like a prepared instrument. As such, “Stories” is a wonderful result of the beautiful vibration (of which the name Vibraphone came from) of all the delicate sounds produced in this album. They are poetic, they are melancholic, and they are lushly emotional.

Let the dimmed light continues on, and let Fujita tell you these wonderful stories.

Masayoshi Fujita - Deers

Brent Arnold, cellist, composer, producer. 
Ghost Quartet, Lullabies for Falling Empires, Filastine, Baby Copperhead.
Worked with The Antlers, Reggie Watts, Aditya Kalyanpur, Jessica Pavone, DJ/rupture, Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Wally Shoup, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, and many more.

A Boy

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