A song about gender dysphoria that you can dance to.

Big Shoes

Det Förgångna VI

The Music You Need

Flamingo

Alison Eales - Ever Forward

From Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1968 - 1971, out August 4th on Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/playing-for-the-man-at-the-door

In the 1950s and 60s, the blues was the dominant form of Black vernacular music throughout Texas and the surrounding areas. In segregated neighborhoods, community members gathered in saloons, dancehalls, and each other’s homes to hear their neighbors sing their stories of sorrow, heartbreak, jubilation, and triumph. Robert “Mack” McCormick, an academically untrained but fanatical devotee of the blues, stepped into this world and became one of its most devout advocates and documentarians. By photographing Black and Latino Texans and their neighborhoods, as well as recording and interviewing musicians—many of whom never stepped foot into a proper recording studio—McCormick endeared and eventually embedded himself into these communities. By the time he died in 2015, McCormick had amassed a collection of 590 reels of sound recordings and 165 boxes of manuscripts, original interviews and research notes, thousands of photographs and negatives, playbills, and posters. Because McCormick never published or released most of these materials, his collection became a thing of legend and intense speculation among scholars, blues aficionados, and musicians alike.

Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971 is the first compilation of music drawn from this fabled collection, which indelibly documents a pivotal moment in African American history. It features never-before-heard performances not only from musicians who became icons in their own right—including Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb—but also, crucially, performers whose names may be unfamiliar to even the most devoted blues fans and scholars. Newly mastered recordings and accompanying photographs bring to life many of these forgotten figures: offering insight into their lives and illuminating in new, enlightening ways their joys and anguish, deep social connections, distinctive voices, and cultural networks. The collection spans gospels, ragtime, country blues dirges, the unclassifiable music of George “Bongo Joe” Coleman, and more, showing that no community, no matter how tight knit, is monolithic.

Accompanying the music is a 128-page book, which contains breathtaking photographs by McCormick and his associates, as well as contextual essays by producers Jeff Place and John Troutman on McCormick’s life, and by musicians Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons on some of the marginalized communities throughout “Greater Texas” to which McCormick devoted his life’s work. This release is a partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958 - 1971

Leroy “Country” Johnson with Edwin “Buster” Pickens - Train Roll Up

"HYMN FOR HUMAN"

Written, performed and produced by Roman Gorielov.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Roman Gorielov.
Cover design and photo by Roman Gorielov.

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© 2017 Roman Gorielov.

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Hymn For Human

Young Child

02 Floating in the Clearest Night

SIEMPRE BAILO (w/ MAÏ)
(DRG, M. Azra / DRG, A. Goulet, Eugenio R. Osorio)
Vox, Sampling, Guitarra Eléctrica, Synths, Programming X Boogát
Vox X Maï
Guitarra Eléctrica X Adam Goulet
Congas, Timbales, Bongos X Kiko Osorio

Mix X Andrés Oddone
Master X Sebastian Cordoves
Artwork X Jenny Maroquin

Siempre Bailo (w/ Maï)

(H.Q 320kbps MP3 currently posted)

Tribute to Sir Winston Ma (Winston Kam Hong Ma August 24, 1939 – May 24, 2016) R.I.P 
Founder of https://www.discogs.com/label/167751-First-Impression-Music

Mr. Ma was one of my critical audiophiles friends between mid 90's throughout the 2000's and had shared raw digital audio files so I could master such files according to my personal preferences! This mix is one of those precious raw digital audio files! All contributing artists including musicians, producers, production staff in this mix are honorably credited for their contributions to this historic live session! https://www.discogs.com/release/15638989-Arne-Domn%C3%A9rus-Bengt-Hallberg-Georg-Riedel-Egil-Johansen-Lars-Erstrand-Jazz-At-The-Pawnshop

Jazz at the Pawnshop is a multi-session recording produced by Gert Palmcrantz on December 6–7, 1976, at Jazzpuben Stampen (Pawnshop) in Stockholm, Sweden. A pawnshop had operated on the site prior to the jazz club. Proprius Records founder Jacob Boethius produced the album, and it has been issued at least five times under multiple labels and formats. The album is widely regarded by audiophiles as the best jazz recording of the 20th Century! Enjoy the music! Grab a free download for your offline enjoyment when possible! Thank you all my friends!

Behind this mastering production:
Not only a Jazz, Classical music enthusiast, wine connoisseur, home gourmet chef, world #1 DJ 😉 Lol...etc, I'm also a critical audiophile and recording, mastering quality are extremely important to me! (although Mum said I have suffered with minor hearing issue since childhood! It's called "selective hearing") 😉 Few years ago, after having listened to several releases, extremely frustrated with the previous mastering quality so, I decided to take on this remastering project with assistance kindly offered by one of my critical audiophile mates who worked at near by mastering facility as an audio mastering engineer & in fact I believe he is one of the best audio mastering engineers I have ever known! (name withheld due to his privacy concern)! After several weekends of hard works, final mastering successfully achieved  & approved by my ears! Hope you'll enjoy the music & the sound quality as much as we do! Raw files digitally captured from original analog master tape, rendered in 24Bit/88.2K (1/4 million dollars system) and kindly shared with me by my great friend Sir Winston Ma! Thank you Winston! Rest well my great friend!

*All rights reserved by respective copyright holders/owners/entities!
**For demo, promo, inspirational, educational, technical purposes only!
***Several different mastering of same mix produced for different listening environments! This version was specifically mastered for my custom installed reference car audio system!

Jazz At The Pawnshop

Jazz At The Pawnshop (Reconstructed by Trancix & Friend) see description

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Leroy “Country” Johnson with Edwin “Buster” Pickens - Train Roll Up

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