Brass Ecstasy is the newest project from trumpeter Dave Douglas. The band recently released Spirit Moves – a showcase for the bandleader’s parading chamber music and jazz-based compositions, as well as some spirited covers of Otis Redding, Hank Williams, and Rufus Wainwright.
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"Astatke's music tends to ooze with dark minor or modal chord progressions, but set against a hip-hop drum-beat it sounded hip, sexy and infectious. Horn solos from saxophone and trumpet propelled songs into open-ended jazz-jam territory."
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ben yaz başından beri eve gelirgelmez balkona geçip galata kulesi karşı bir mulatu muhakkak dinlerim.
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As it turns out, not everyone pretended to be “otherwise broke” and the band has raised $10,000 to date for the Guthrie archives.
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while the general public has no trouble embracing avant garde and experimental art, there is, by contrast, mass resistance to avant garde and experimental music
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"I remember a youth pastor preaching against the evils of rock music: he informed us that Led Zeppelin’s song “Stairway to Heaven” contained hidden subliminal messages (about drugs, Satan, sex, etc.), which can be discerned not only when the song is played backwards, but also when a person hears the song under the influence of marijuana."
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coool ! to piss this pastor off iam gonna hear it again & again & again ... under my heart's influence which hate all dogma forms !
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Cornelius Cardew (1936-81) developed a philosophy of experimental notation and indeterminacy that influenced art music throughout the world. He was a deeply moral thinker, engaged in a constant struggle for truth in art, life, the political world, and himself. In face of all criticism and mockery, he stood with his personal, political and aesthetic beliefs against British musical conservatism, the avant-garde establishment, and finally, the experimentalism he himself had created.
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The jazz of animals: Musical collaboration between dolphins, humpback whales, sea lions and jazz guitarist Jim Nollman | Art Threat - http://artthreat.net/2008...
As I write this, I am listening to an excerpt from one of Interspecies CD recordings of aquatic animals responding to improvised guitar. It is strangely moving music. The recording was made in an underwater recording studio attached to a boat. Underwater speakers emitted improvised guitar, and hydrophones recorded underwater responses.
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Motion.Fm is a radio portal offering several streams ranging from deep house to cool vibes. Motion.Fm has become the daily destination of eclectic music lovers from around the world - http://motionfm.com/
BEST ever swiss duo jazz/electronic who work with infinite livez/Erik Truffaz/Wayne Paul/ya/Elliot Sharp/ils Petter Molvaer and so on ...
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LOUD techno music has been banned on a Sydney Harbour island after residents in one of the city's wealthiest suburbs complained to a state government agency. "It's a wall of sound with the dance beat going 'doof, doof, doof' and hitting you all day long, non-stop," said a Wolseley Road resident who asked not to be named.
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Disco is not back. Meaning two things. First: True disco culture, as it happened in NYC and San Francisco and elsewhere in the late 70s/early 80s, and as it remains romanticized and pined for by those absent, an uninhibited confluence of pre-HIV intercourse, psychotic drugss, disenfranchised gays and blacks and Hispanics in the midst of self-liberation, record houses flush with rock&roll cash to burn baby burn, kickass soundsystems and impossible dance moves, and (lest we forget) a soundtrack of well-played, well-produced, emotionally raw and utterly danceable positive force tunes we called, as a convenient catch-all, disco––this is not back.
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