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"The roll call of guest musicians (on Iris Nova) is testament to the immense respect that bassist Benny ‘Cha Cha’‚ Rubin and singer Marilyn Carino carry in the underground musician-scene in New York City. ‘Wonder Boy’‚ allows Marilyn Carino to…

Scenes from My Life is the debut studio album by Cameroonian jazz bassist and musician Richard Bona. It was released on July 20, 1999 through Columbia Jazz

Born in Fukuoka Prefecture . He started playing classical guitar at the age of seven and won a guitar competition at the age of 15. At the age of 15, he became interested in jazz after listening to John Coltrane . After graduating from Fukuoka…

Truly fantastic, this Puin + Hoop; phenomenal debut, hopefully not a one-hit wonder, you might think.

"It is certainly surprising that until now an exhaustive recognition of the work of Charlotte Moorman has not been undertaken. The cellist can be numbered among the most charismatic and influential protagonists to have appeared on the avant-garde or…

The 'Strømblocque Phantasiën' is a song cycle inspired by Die Winterreise by Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller. The subject of the cycle is a contemporary version of Schubertian romanticism: the inner struggle of man with nature, his nature and…

Daphne Oram, founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, died in 2003 leaving a colossal archive of reel-to-reel tapes and documents behind. This important collection of material eventually made its way to Goldsmiths College, London, who have been…

Hypnotic trashrock, sleazy garage chansons and anarchistisc trashpunk by an androgyn looking quartet from Dutch origin. Sounding like ‘The Scream’ by Munch stolen by the Stooges en heald by Tarantino.

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Anacaona is the name of an all-female orchestra, founded in Havana in the early 1930s by Concepción "Cuchito" Castro Zaldarriaga and her sisters. Eventually, all 11 sisters joined the band.[1] The band was formed during the Machado era when the…