Shukar's sound is coming from the old times, when Tatars and Mongolians
came to Dacia (the old name of Romania). The members of Shukar (that's
mean "fine" in rom language) play very original sounds called ursari
music (which descends from the brotherhood of the bear-tamers), a very
old and primitive kind of gipsy nomad music. They use primitive and old
"instruments" like spoons, wooden barrel or darabuka. Shukar's music is
very powerful and "aggressive" but highly and deeply emotional.
Basically it's exclusively a music made of percussions and voices. The
core of the group is made of 3 exceptional people: Napoleon, Tamamgo and
Classic.
Tamango, Napoleon and Clasic are ex-street circus performers who used to
use trained bears for their shows. However this incorrect treatments of
animals has stopped and their energies are now focused on music and
feeding their families.
I have had this album in many forms over the years including a couple of dodgy cassette version which both had tape snap situations. Got it today in a local charity shop today, played very loudly. One of the great reggae albums of all time.
I was always fond of the Bill Nelson sundtrack to that film. I was a bit of a fanboy at the time mind! Saw him play with The Yorkshire Actors a mime 4 piece do a stage version around 1985.
I was "out on my feet" with a bad dose of flu at the time; which may have helped. Also Frank Chickens and Richard Jobson's poetry on that bill at Manchester Uni (or maybe Poly).
Going back to something like 50 years ago when the entire Danish music establishment were seriously puzzled as to how a person with a voice like this could even think about singing
Just dropped yesterday on Bandcamp. If you like your piano knotty and angular yet still melodic (and if it's one/both of these pianists, or Matthew Shipp, etc... I do!), this is for you... :-)
Read an interview with Steve Vai - Scott Henderson was mentioned as one of the guitarists that Steve really likes, so I decided to try this. Pretty good so far.
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Recently snapped up at used record store, which was a good snap decision
Spacemen 3 - "Perfect Prescription"
Well, here it comes. Here comes the sound. The sound of confusion. The sound of love.
2011. Eugene S. Robinson
2002 & Jacob Kirkegaard 2004 & Janek Schaefer
2007 & Gavin Bryars / Alter Ego 2009
2011 Sohrab - You Are Not Alone II
Daniel Menche, Jana Winderen, Philip Jeck,
Philip Marshall, Michael Esposito
2015 2017
Aaron Martin - "A Room Now Empty"
Released on Bandcamp in a week. It's so good. Definitely up there with his thing with Christoph Berg "Day Has Ended"...
https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/a-room-now-empty
Shukar's sound is coming from the old times, when Tatars and Mongolians came to Dacia (the old name of Romania). The members of Shukar (that's mean "fine" in rom language) play very original sounds called ursari music (which descends from the brotherhood of the bear-tamers), a very old and primitive kind of gipsy nomad music. They use primitive and old "instruments" like spoons, wooden barrel or darabuka. Shukar's music is very powerful and "aggressive" but highly and deeply emotional. Basically it's exclusively a music made of percussions and voices. The core of the group is made of 3 exceptional people: Napoleon, Tamamgo and Classic.
Tamango, Napoleon and Clasic are ex-street circus performers who used to use trained bears for their shows. However this incorrect treatments of animals has stopped and their energies are now focused on music and feeding their families.
1987/2002 Pixies 1988 Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
1989. Doolittle 1990. Bossanova
I have had this album in many forms over the years including a couple of dodgy cassette version which both had tape snap situations. Got it today in a local charity shop today, played very loudly. One of the great reggae albums of all time.
- Not as horrific as it may seem . . .
I was "out on my feet" with a bad dose of flu at the time; which may have helped. Also Frank Chickens and Richard Jobson's poetry on that bill at Manchester Uni (or maybe Poly).
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Going back to something like 50 years ago when the entire Danish music establishment were seriously puzzled as to how a person with a voice like this could even think about singing
Just dropped yesterday on Bandcamp. If you like your piano knotty and angular yet still melodic (and if it's one/both of these pianists, or Matthew Shipp, etc... I do!), this is for you... :-)
Kris Davis and Craig Taborn - Octopus
1991 1998
2006
Read an interview with Steve Vai - Scott Henderson was mentioned as one of the guitarists that Steve really likes, so I decided to try this. Pretty good so far.
1994 2005
2003 2007
The Cuckoos - "The Cuckoos"
Vocals as close as you can get to Jim Morrison and music straight out of the 60s, yet recorded last year.
https://www.emusic.com/library/album/122141739/The-Cuckoos/The-Cuckoos
John McLaughlin - "Devotion"
A fabulous early album from John before he formed the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
https://www.emusic.com/library/album/804136/John-McLaughlin/Devotion
2005 2009
2004 2007 Second Souffle
On (Sylvain Chauveau, Steven Hess, Pierre-Yves Macé)
2010 Mixed By – Christian Fennesz
2011 Rainier Lericolais & Sylvain Chauveau w/Pierre-Yves Macé - Piano
2009 2013
Sylvain Chauveau
2012 2013
2012