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Balanescu Quartet is an avant-garde string quartet founded in 1987 by Alexander Balanescu that achieved fame through the release of several complex re-interpretations of songs by Kraftwerk and collaborations with Michael Nyman, David Byrne and Goldfrapp amongs others. 

A new compilation, “This Is The Balanescu Quartet”, is available on www.mutebank.com and all good physical and digital retailers.

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Balanescu Quartet - The Model

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Bar Kokhba Sextet  - Zechriel

Since I go by the name Solo, it's always assumed I'm a big fan of the Star Wars franchise. I'm really not, though the films look and sound great on my home theater system. I am, however, a big fan of parody, and the creation of this track was a prime opportunity to channel that side of me into this first time creative collaboration with my theatrically oriented sister Heidi Maureen... as well as utilize a bunch of familiar music cues from the soundtrack for what turned out to be a genuinely fun production extravaganza — equal parts irreverent sendup and a love letter for fans who don't take it overly seriously.

Solo Goodspeed - arrangement, programming, production, and vocal performance. 
Heidi Maureen Goodspeed - concept, structure, and lyrics. 
Music composition is sporadically based on soundtrack cues and themes composed by John Williams.

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Please check out my other Ali Farka Touré tracks while you're here!

Time for another Ali Farka Touré  track, as the first two are proving to be consistently popular. If you like this track please feel free to leave a comment, share or repost - it would be great to hear from you!
This track, Ai Du, was recorded properly 6 years later by Ali when he joined forces with Ry Cooder on the Grammy Award-winning Talking Timbuktu album. We recorded this as part of a jam we arranged with Ali at Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh in 1988, when he just happened to have a night off on the Scottish part of a UK Tour. It was recorded on the Leapfrog mobile analogue 24-track, courtesy of producer/engineer Claude Harper, with a line-up of illustrious Edinburgh jazz and blues musicians including: Mike Travis on drums/percussion, Kenny Ellis on electric bass, Dave McNiven on keyboards, Jim Sutherland on percussion, and myself on guitar. Ali was accompanied by his own percussionist Roger Cissé. 
We heard much later that this session was what inspired Ali to make the recording with Ry Cooder. I'd like to think that's true! If you like this track, please leave a comment - we'd love to hear from you!

Ai Du - Ali Farka Touré with Jim Condie & friends, Edinburgh, Scotland 1988

Cover #23 from the series "Songs I Love" by Piers Faccini
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I first sang this song in 2010 when my friend Mauro Durante invited me to perform with his band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at the festival Le Notte Bianca in Puglia. 'Bella ci dormi' was traditionally sung by musicians under the balconies of women who were being proposed to but the tradition of the serenade and the custom of paying a musician to sing as a gesture of love has all but disappeared. Even if the concept of the serenade could do with a little C21st tweaking, I can’t help thinking that making a mixtape or a digital playlist for someone doesn’t have quite the same romantic quality as being sung to under a balcony in the light of the full moon but I may be wrong! 
 
Mauro visited me recently at home as we were writing the lyrics for a song on the new album called Bring down the wall, my words in English, his in the Salentino dialect. In between writing lyrics, we also found the time to record together a new cover for Vol II of Songs I Love.

Here’s 'Bella Ci Dormi', as always it’s a simple, no frills recording with Mauro on violin and me on guitar. I really hope you’ll enjoy it!

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Visit the website about the new album:
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'Songs I Love vol.1' still available on:
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SONGS I LOVE Vol II

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Piers Faccini ft. Mauro Durante - Bella Ci Dormi (Songs I Love #23)

Argentinian twin sisters Laura et Gianna Caronni were born in a family of Swiss, Italian, Russian and Spanish origins, where the music of Opera and Tango intertwined. They studied classical music, moved to France in 1998, where they played with Argentinian musicians (Juan Cedron, Juan Carlos Cáceres...). The sisters’ music reflects all these musical influences and something more, intimate and personal, that only belongs to them.

Gianna et Laura Caronni sont deux soeurs jumelles d'origine argentine nées sous le signe du tango, ascendants candombé,  chacarera, milonga et musique classique. Leurs chansons, c’est la synthèse de tout cela, et tout autre chose à la fois, une nostalgie aux sons chauds et caressants du violoncelle et de la clarinette, et deux voix en parfaite harmonie.

LAS HERMANAS CARONNI Los ejes de mi carreta

John Surman - Nestors Saga

17 Hippies - Marlene

Non Voglio

5 track tribute to the talented singer Lhasa De Sela:

1) Live recording of Lhasa Del Sela as she sings Fairuz's adaptation of the poem by Khalil Gibran 'The Nay/ A´tini  Al-nay /  اعطني الناي

أعطني الناي وغني, فالغنا سر الوجود وأنين الناي يبقى, بعد أن يفنى الوجود هل إتخذت الغاب مثلي, منـزلاً دون القصور فتتبعت السواقي, وتسلقت الصخور هل تحممت بعطره, وتنشفت بنور وشربت الفجر خمراً, من كؤوس من أثير هل جلست العصر مثلي, بين جفنات العنب والعناقيد تدلت, كثريات الذهب هل فرشت العشب ليلاً, وتلحفت الفضاء زاهداً في ما سيأتي, ناسياً ما قد مضى أعطني الناي وغني, وانسى داء ودواء إنما الناس سطورٌ, كتبت لكن بماء 

Give me the Nay and sing, /The secret song of eternity. /The laments of the Nay will linger /Beyond the decline of existence.

Have you, like me, /Chosen the forest dwelling /Rather than the castle? /Have you followed the stream /And climbed the rocks? /Have you anointed your body /With fragrance distilled in light? /Have you been drunk with dawn /In the goblets full of pure air?

Have you, like me,/ Sat down at dusk,/ Among the glowing languor/ Of vines laden with grapes? /Have you lain down on the grass at night /And covered yourself with heavens, /Opening your heart to the future, /Forgetful of the past?

Give me the Nay and sing, /The song in tune with hearts. /The laments of the Nay will linger  /Beyond the fading of sins. Give me the Nay and sing, /Unmindful of troubles and cures. /For each man /Is nothing more than a watercolor sketch.

2) Bia Krieger con Lhasa de Sela in 2008 singing "Los hermanos" (A. Yupanqui)

3) Lhasa De Sela live on piano singing her own "I'm Going In" (Toronto, 2006)

4) Lhasa De Sela "La Confession," live acoustic recording from France during tour of Living Road album in 2003

5) Studio recording of her song "Where do you go" (2009, self-titled album).

Lhasa de Sela Tribute Mix

1988 - I was approached by an old acquaintance of mine to assemble a bunch of Edinburgh musos for a session with the then up-and-coming Malian guitar star Ali Farka Touré (who went on to Grammy-winning fame with Ry Cooder on the album Talking Timbuktu). We had approximately 4 hours to put a band together. This track comes from the 90min gig we did at The Moray House Students' Union in Edinburgh. None of us had heard him before (or really heard of him, in fact!) so we didn't know what to expect - nor did he!

The line-up on this occasion consisted of 3 guys I'd called on many times before (Dave McNiven on electronic keyboard; Kenny Ellis on bass guitar; Mike Travis on drums) plus the multi-talented Jim Sutherland on percussion, and myself on electric guitar along with Ali on guitar and vocals, and Roger Cissé on calabash.

Dave McNiven's history included writing many musical productions for the 7:84 and Wildcat theatre groups, and all the incidental/theme music for the many BBC Scotland comedy shows being produced in the 80s and 90s. He played piano with me on many occasions; likewise I played on most of the TV work written and produced by him.
Apparently Ali liked his copy of the tape from this gig (it was recorded on multitrack and mixed by ex-Abbey Road Studios engineer, Claude Harper @ Leapfrog Mobile) so much that he carried it around with him for several years afterwards! Our keyboardist Dave went to see him at an Edinburgh gig 2 years or so later and Ali produced the tape from his jacket pocket!

We heard much later that this session was what inspired Ali to make the recording with Ry Cooder. I'd like to think that's true! If you like this track, please leave a comment - we'd love to hear from you!

Heygana - Ali Farka Touré with Jim Condie & friends Edinburgh 1988

Some of the gigs I've played on over the past few decades (and of which I managed to get recordings - usually from the mixing desk/board/mixer) and which were either one-off meetings or from tours. There'll be performances from Van Morrison, Ali Farka Toure, Tracy Nelson, Amos Garrett and Mose Scarlett amongst others when I finally get them all digitised. Watch this space!

Ai Du - Ali Farka Touré with Jim Condie & friends, Edinburgh, Scotland 1988

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