This fascinating instrumental record from the three 10-inch box set of Romanian folk music on the Electrecord label released in 1959, featuring alphorns, flutes, violins, cimbaloms, cobzăs and bagpipes, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/03/romania-anthology-of-romanian-folk.html

Anthology of Romanian Folk Music / Antologia Muzicii Populare Românești Vol. I, record 1 – Electrecord EPD 78

Anthology of Romanian Folk Music (1959)

Eric Chenaux • "Hello, How? and Hey"

Vale (Midori Hirano Rework)

Simon Goff and Midori Hirano - Vale (Midori Hirano Rework)

Terry Jennings – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (SLT-007)

Saltern’s latest offering marks the first-ever release of “lost minimalist” Terry Jennings’ visionary 1960 composition, Piece for Cello and Saxophone, as arranged in just intonation by legendary composer La Monte Young for renowned cellist Charles Curtis. Born in Los Angeles in 1940, Jennings was a close associate of Young, Terry Riley, and Dennis Johnson, and an early adopter of minimalist tendencies, creating slow, sustained music, influenced by jazz, modalism, and late romantic classical music. Jennings died tragically in his early forties, most of his work lost to a chaotic life; however, his forward-looking music quietly exerted a lasting influence on composers including Young and Harold Budd. Composed over sixty years ago, Piece for Cello and Saxophone, foreshadows a number of movements in postwar avant-garde music.

Despite the title, there is no saxophone on this album. At over eighty minutes, La Monte Young’s justly tuned realization of Piece for Cello and Saxophone for cello alone unifies and extrapolates Terry Jennings’ dense harmonies, creating an extended field of complex sonorities in motion, all brought to life by the immaculate playing of Charles Curtis. The recording captures Curtis in a performance from 2016 reflecting more than twenty-five years of dedication to the piece. Piece for Cello and Saxophone is released physically on double LP and digitally with kind permission from MELA Foundation. Mixed by Anthony Burr, mastered by Stephan Mathieu, and cut to vinyl via direct metal mastering by Hans Jörg Maucksch at Pauler Acoustics. Pressed at RTI and printed at Stoughton. Includes a four-page insert with liner notes by Young, Curtis, Burr, and Tashi Wada, and a download of the full recording.

Piece for Cello and Saxophone

Terry Jennings – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (excerpt)

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Nicole Lizée 
© 2016 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2016 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded July 2016 at Studio Trilogy, San Francisco, CA
Engineered and mixed by Laura Dean
Assistant Engineer: Alex Spencer
Production Assistant: Minna Choi
Mixed at Women's Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Mixing Engineers: Monica Bonilla, Ripley Young, Becca High, Victoria Fajardo, Hannah Valente and Victoria Fajardo

Darkness Is Not Well Lit

Nicole Lizée - Darkness Is Not Well Lit

Out on December 21

release page: https://dronarivm.com/2016/12/07/chihei-hatakeyama-above-the-desert/

"Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord". 

- John Cage 

I recorded this album in the basement studio. 
I recorded the sound output from the guitar amp and the speaker. 
The sound seemed to be blowing. 
In this album I worked underground in the bottom, so I imagined by creating an image of the sky. 
So this album is the theme of desert and sky. 

- Chihei Hatakeyama 

Chihei Hatakeyama's pure white zen drone is one of those good ways to wake up, probably.

Above The Desert

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CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA - Energy (from 'Above the Desert' CD)

These stunning vocal polyphonies sung by indigenous people of Taiwan, including fertility songs, healing songs, songs for the ancestors, recorded in 1966 and 1988, are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/06/taiwan-polyphonies-vocales-des.html

Polyphonies Vocales des Aborigènes de Taiwan – Ami / Bunun / Paiwan / Rukai – Inédit W 460011 (Cassette)

Taiwan indigenous vocal polyphony - Germination Song

"White Eyes" is taken from "The Burrow", the upcoming duo album by Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin. Released 30th of October, 2020 on the PATTERN series by Sonic Pieces.

The album also features Merja Kokkonen on voice and comes in a laser cut sleeve.

Jasmine Guffond & Erik K Skodvin - White Eyes

"Let's say it's a narrative drift, the last whisper of an Ophelia lost in the shore, some sounds escaping from a broken window, a "vague a l'ame " caught in the syphon, some breads unknotted by mistake.

You know, a one side vinyl is a kind of second-handed moon, shining in the dust of thrift store, belonging to a suburban galaxy: you might need to hitch hike and lose you left shoe to travel in time.

18 mns or so, it's a walk from home until the bridge, 9 subways stations, 25 kisses, an apple crumble baking in the oven, a summer nap, 3 extra minutes before being tired of waiting.

It's a gem, a glass eye, a melting ice cube, a lost tooth, a traveling secret, a kind of chanting ring." 
Félicia Atkinson, august 2013

With Her Own Hands is a limited edition vinyl published for the exhibition L'attraction Minérale, Toulouse, may 2013. Edition of 100 copies.

http://shelter-press.com/main/category/024/

Félicia Atkinson "With her own hands" (SP024)

forthcoming in Feb 2021, contact abby@cafeoto.co.uk

Double CD documenting the magic meeting of one of the all-time great rhythm sections in jazz: percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker, with London’s brilliant Black Top (Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas) and Elaine Mitchener. Across two sets the quintet are infectiously energetic and inspired, striding from synchronised heavy groove to star bright solos, whilst incorporating dub effects, guimbri and sumptuous blues piano playing. 
 
Formed by Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas but always realised with an ever changing number of invited musicians, Black Top's blend of lo-fi samples, dub effects and experimental electronics has been daring free improvisation since 2011. Their virtuoso performances draw on their Afro-Caribbean roots with delicious spontienty and humour; the histories of Ridley Road Market, the LIO and Islamic West Africa are sounded out side by side on iPad, marimba and vibraphone. Having met in 2006, Black Top played with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake as part of their residency at Cafe OTO in 2016; forming a quartet grounded in transatlantic kinship but which looked outward to the Carribean, calypso music and Saharan gnawa rhythms. When Parker and Drake returned to OTO in 2019 Black Top reformed again, but this time with the brilliant addition of vocalist Elaine Mitchener. 
Over the last few years the clarity with which Mitchener has explored vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde has been stunning, but here the range in her influences is manifest, moving effortlessly between phonetic and poetic experimentation and spoken word, all the while at ease with soul soaked jazz and dissonant free fall. A hand drum duet with Hamid Drake astonishes before being laced perfectly with cosmic theremin and Parker’s fantastic acid shehnai. 

Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Sunday 28th July 2019 by Paul Skinner and mixed and mastered by James Dunn. Photos by Dawid Laskowski and artwork by Oliver Pitt. 

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Hamid Drake / percussion

Elaine Mitchener / vocals

William Parker / double bass, guimbri

Orphy Robinson / marimba, electronics

Pat Thomas / piano, electronics

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CD1
Put the Brakes On - 50:08

CD2
Some Good News - 56:43

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