Artist: Brian Landrus Trio
Title: The Deep Below
Label: BlueLand Records
Genre: jazz
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
Brian Landrus teamed up with Lonnie Plaxico and drummer Billy Hart to produce a quite unique offering.
Author: Pascal Bokar Thiam, Ed.D.
Title: From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta: How West African Standards of Aesthetics Shaped the Music of the Delta Blues (Revised First Edition)
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-63487-105-1, 154 pages
©2015
The Music is so varied that we still have no real idea what African music is.
I do know this, though: When an African touches an instrument, whether that African is an extension like Louis Armstrong or a master healer from Morocco or Mississippi, that instrument becomes an African instrument.
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Technology may change but principles do not. A society that encourages the creative spirit is rare in history and worth defending. The internet and digital technology have opened up many new opportunities for artists, but it has also opened up new opportunities for those who wish to exploit those artists.
We offer for discussion a set of principles as a guide for companies and policy makers to keep in mind. It is our hope that these principles will help build a sustainable online creative ecosystem, one that benefits creators, innovators, and the general public alike.
Date: Monday, July 6, 2015
Time: 8:15pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $12
Genre: jazz/improv
An amazing collaboration of musicians, led by drummer/percussionist Andre Martinez (former Cecil Taylor Unit). This evening’s performance will reprise the motifs from their groundbreaking 2001 album Waking the Living (www.earthpeople.tv,). In March 2001, a group of multi-talented musicians and friends premiered Waking the Living, a television broadcast performance, and the free-form music group Earth People was born. Deeply rooted in almost every major musical tradition, ancient and modern, the members of Earth People have combined to form the vanguard of the modern avant-garde. Earth People plays music that is inspirational and timeless, capturing the soul of the moment and the spirit of all people, young and old.
Andre Martinez – drums and percussion
Jason Candler – saxophone
Doug Principato – guitar
Francois Grillot – bass
Tomas Ulrich – cello
Rosie Hertlein – violin
Mark Hennen – piano
Chris Forbes – piano
Brian Groder – trumpet
Elliott Levin – saxophone & flute
Daniel Carter – saxophones, flute & trumpet
Karen Borca – bassoon
Jackson Krall – drums
Ricardo Solis – congas
Jimmy Cruz – percussion
On Davis – guitar
Firehorse – electronics
and special guest: Gunter Hampel – vibes, bass clarinet & flute
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GUIGUISUISUI’s second album Write Me A Death Letter has arrived at Metal Postcard Records and it’s a killer. Ten tracks of twisted 8-bit driven scuzz rock from the smog of Beijing, like traveling through a twisted time warp from ‘50s rock and roll and electric blues, to ‘60s hard rock and garage, to ‘70s punk rock and electronic noise. It’s every bit Rocky Erickson, Johnny Thunders, and Muddy Waters as it is a jilted journey of its own design, a run away train guided by the dark trio of GUIGUISUISUI, King Necro, and Lord Kamemameha.
While 2013 saw the first handful of formative GUIGUISUISUI releases and 2014 saw a couple of 7” EPs, 2015 is the year that sees the 8-bit zombie most polished work to date. A year in the making the album was written during and immediately after a forty something date tour of China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia. The recording was done at Yang Haisong’s (PK14) Psychic Kong studio immediately after ANOTHER tour (this time in Taiwan), with additional recordings wrapped up in China, Britain, Australia, and Canada just in time for GUIGUISUISUI to jet off again to South Korea and Japan and all over China.
