@greg: You might enjoy Abou Diarro, the n'goni player who is currently working with Lessazo (I have no clue if he was on the original album.) He released an album on his own over a year ago, and it is on eMu.
Thanks BT - I'll check it out. I have been trying to find out more about them, but quite a lot is in French, so that will have to wait until I next see my French sister-in-law or one of my nieces, who both have far superior French to me
I wouldn't try too hard. The album is six years old, and there wasn't a lot written about it. It's not for lack of quality: les internautes et blogueures haven't been as active as Anglophone counterparts until recently. Perhaps the most informative thing on the Lessazo website is that they are adapting the music of the album to live performance, but using more traditional West African instruments for rhythm.
- "Andrea Parker's avant-garde electronics label, Aperture, present a labour of love for Parker and co, delving into their in-depth knowledge of the life and works of electronics pioneer, Daphne Oram. Exploring a less familiar side to the BBC radiophonic workshop founder, original and un-heard compositions are reworked and reinterpreted by Parker and Daz Quayle with the intention of creating a body of material that second-guesses Oram's own moves."
- More . . .
- "New York based ensemble Essential Music had a strong relationship with John Cage in his later years. This experience gives these recordings a special authority. Recorded in 1993-94, they are being released for the first time.
In 1987 John Cage began writing his number and time-bracket compositions, which became his primary compositional method for the remainder of his life. These works are named for the number of musicians participating, consist of the number of parts with no complete score, within which are various series of flexible time-brackets in which each musician is free to choose the beginnings, ends, and durations of ones notes.
- Mode Records.
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Finishing off this from yesterday
Rodrigo y Gabriella
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Thumbs up!
Craig
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Yet again.....
Now:
Vol. 1, actually, thanks to the mispriced box set thread.
Touring the UK at the moment and receiving a lot of airplay. Now the album has been put out on a major label it is in the charts
Thanks to BT. Check out the videos on Abou Diarra's website.
- "Andrea Parker's avant-garde electronics label, Aperture, present a labour of love for Parker and co, delving into their in-depth knowledge of the life and works of electronics pioneer, Daphne Oram. Exploring a less familiar side to the BBC radiophonic workshop founder, original and un-heard compositions are reworked and reinterpreted by Parker and Daz Quayle with the intention of creating a body of material that second-guesses Oram's own moves."
- More . . .
Distance by Joe Fonda and Xu Fengxia (jazz bass and guzheng)
- Matt Johnson full speed ahead . . .
- "New York based ensemble Essential Music had a strong relationship with John Cage in his later years. This experience gives these recordings a special authority. Recorded in 1993-94, they are being released for the first time.
In 1987 John Cage began writing his number and time-bracket compositions, which became his primary compositional method for the remainder of his life. These works are named for the number of musicians participating, consist of the number of parts with no complete score, within which are various series of flexible time-brackets in which each musician is free to choose the beginnings, ends, and durations of ones notes.
- Mode Records.