Vladimir Yuryevich Bystryakov (1946, Kiev, Ukraine), is an Ukrainian composer, pianist, showman; honored artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1987).
18/06/2023
Koalas moving their hips
Omar Khorshid (1945
- 1981) was an Egyptian guitarist, musician, composer, accompanist, and
actor. Born in Cairo, Khorshid was a well-known guitarist who
accompanied many singers, including Farid Al Atrash, Umm Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Abdel Halim Hafez.
Khorshid's
musicality in orchestra performances, original songs, and film scores
was considered revolutionary at the time in the Middle East. His
extensive theoretical knowledge, fusion of Western and Eastern music,
and incorporation of different, more modern instruments (e.g. the
electric guitar, electric keyboard, synthesizer) in Arabic music was
previously unheard of. Khorshid's unique style sparked inspiration from
many aspiring musicians not only in the Middle East, but in Europe and
the Americas as well. His mixing of "modern" western electric
instruments with older Eastern tunes spawned a new, more modern sound of
electric music that many use for discos today.
16/06/2023
Poems from the bamboo forests
Sonthaya Kalasin (1957) is a Thai Molam singer, he was the male lead singer in in the molam section of legendary
producer/impresario Surin Phaksiri's beloved musical troupe Thidso Lam
Phloen.
Death is hovering near
Luciano Michelini (1945) is an Italian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist and organist.
Tales of forgotten times
Veronique Chalot (1950 - 2021) was a French singer and musician; she was born in Normandy in the north of France, but it was in Paris that
she first became interested in traditional French folk music.Over the past 30+ years she has given hundreds of concerts, presenting
her repertoire of traditional French/Italian folk songs and building
awareness of that fascinating patrimony of antique melodies and dance
rhythms. Since 2005 she has played with Veziana, an ensemble dedicated
to early music from both sides of the Pyrenees.
Tender calls from the dunes
Tarik Bulut (1921-2006) was a Turkish percussionist, composer and arranger.
Abstractions from deep cortical zones
Suzanne Ciani (Indiana, 1946) is an USA musician, sound designer,
composer, and record label executive who found early success in the
1970s with her electronic music and sound effects for films and
television commercials. Her career has included works with quadraphonic
sound. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album
five times. Her success with electronic music has her dubbed "Diva of
the Diode" and "America's first female synth hero".
14/05/2023
Grunts behind the veil
Basil Kirchin (8 August 1927 - 18 June 2005) was an English
drummer and composer; he pioneered techniques which are now commonplace
but were considered
radical at the time. These included recording sounds he came across and
then cutting, splicing, slowing down or stretching the tape to create
strange, new noises.
Deep tracts of the unknown
Sven Libaek (1938) is a
Norwegian-Australian composer, record producer and musician. He composes
film and TV soundtrack music and, as the staff producer for the
Australian division of CBS Records, influenced the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s.
Reaching transient states of consciousness
Ali Akbar Khan (1922 - 2009) was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he also composed numerous classical ragas and film scores.
He established a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and the Ali Akbar College of Music in 1967, which moved with him to the United States and is now based in San Rafael, California, with a branch in Basel, Switzerland.
Khan was instrumental in popularizing Indian classical music in the West, both as a performer and as a teacher. He first came to America in 1955 on the invitation of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and later settled in California.
He was a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ustad Vilayat Khan (1928 - 2004) was an Indian classical sitar player. Along with Imdad Khan, Enayat Khan and Imrat Khan, he is credited with the creation and development of gayaki ang (an attempt to mimic the sound of the human voice) on the sitar.
08/04/2023
Swallows flying over the pyramids
Nostalgique Egypte - Chansons d'amour, de charme et improvisations 1925 - 1960 is an Egyptian tribute compilation made by French label Buda Musique.
During this golden age that runs from the interwar period until the
early 1970s, Egyptian music will literally flood the region, from the
Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean, undergoing profound and complex change; the greatest are all there: Oum Kalthoum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Abel Halim Hafez, Farid El Atrache, but also remarkable artists, less known outside the East, like Laure Daccache, Egyptian of Lebanese origin, not only a singer but also one of the first Arab women to compose her own songs and to accompany herself on the 'oud, or even Asmahane, sister of Farid El Atrache.
(This post is dedicated to the wonderful crew of Dream Weapons, who have allowed to open portals of awareness and learning for many years to those who are eager for this ancestral knowledge).
Not suitable for claustrophobic minds
Basil Kirchin (8 August 1927 - 18 June 2005) was an English
drummer and composer; he pioneered techniques which are now commonplace
but were considered
radical at the time. These included recording sounds he came across and
then cutting, splicing, slowing down or stretching the tape to create
strange, new noises.
Nights under the red moon
Tandy Love (real name: Andrew Shallcross, AKA Andy Votel, 1975) is an English producer and musician who co-operates Finders Keepers Records, Pre-Cert Home Entertainment & Dead-Cert Home Entertainment.
07/04/2023
Expressions that arise from the deep interior
Daniela Casa (1944-1986), also known under the pseudonym Elageron was an Italian singer, composer and synthesist . A genuine pioneer of experimental pop music, abstract electronics,
Giallo jazz and even heavy drone rock jams, her elusive and infectious
music joins the dots and loops between other Italian female electronic
composers such as Giulia De Mutiis (later Giulia Alessandroni), Doris
Norton and Suzanne.
The essence that motivates life
Giancarlo Barigozzi (1930-2008) was an Italian jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist, composer and sound engineer; he has played with Franco Cerri, Gianni Basso, Gil Cuppini, Giorgio
Gaslini, Tony Scott, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Jack Teagarden, Frank
Sinatra and many others.
Rhythmic echoes coming down from Ararat
The Armenian musician Hamlet Minassian was born in Tabriz
(North-Western Iran) in 1940. After graduating from the music school of
his native city, he attended advanced courses at the Teheran
Conservatoire followed by musical research work in Europe and the United
States. His career began with composing chanson type songs.
He then
moved into the film industry where he rapidly built up a reputation as
the composer of a number of popular themes. Hamlet Minassian has also
produced original vocal and orchestral arrangements of Armenian folk
tunes and has composed a number of romances and the ballet.
Awinsome and dizzying spin on disco pop, recorded in westernized Iran
during the last moments before the 1979 revolution. All but criminalized
in the wake of Ayatollah Khomeini's theocratic repression, Hamlet
Minassian's solo masterpiece is a testament to the Middle East's
forgotten dance music culture.
A journey furrowing dark skies
Босса Нова Навсегда Самая Красивая Музыка В СССР is a Russian Bossa Nova Tribute compilation made by Мелодия Label.
A dance for two serpents
Michel Legrand (1932 - 2019) was a French composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz
pianist. Legrand was a prolific film and television scores composer and wrote many memorable songs. His scores for the films of Jacques Demy,
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - 1964) and Les
Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort - 1967) earned
him Academy Award nominations and he won his first of three Oscars for
the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair
(1968).
05/04/2023
Overwhelmed by the vertigo of modernity
Alessandro Alessandroni (1925, Rome, Italy - 2017, Rome, Italy) was an Italian composer, arranger, vocalist,
whistler, conductor and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, sitar, keyboards,
mandolin, mandocello, accordion, banjo, flute, harmonica, jew's harp,
recorder, melodica and ocarina). He was the founder of the vocal
ensemble I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. Husband of Margaret Courtney-Clarke. Previously married to Giulia Alessandroni (Kema) until her death in 1984.
Also collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti Westerns.
Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of
instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is
central to the main theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films, including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Pervirella. He also collaborated with Morricone in scoring the 1974 film Around the World with Peynet's Lovers.
He founded the octet vocal group I Cantori Moderni in
1961. The group, which included his wife, Giulia De Mutiis, performed
wordless vocals on several Italian movie soundtracks. Most notably, I Cantori Moderni are featured on the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà", written by Piero Umiliani for the 1968 Luigi Scattini mondo film Svezia, inferno e paradiso and popularized on The Muppets Show.
Alessandro has also composed film scores, including Any Gun Can Play (1967), Johnny Hamlet (1968), The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine (1969), Lady Frankenstein (1971), The Devil's Nightmare (1971), The Mad Butcher (1971), Seven Hours of Violence (1973), Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973), Poker in Bed (1974), White Fang and the Hunter (1975), Blood and Bullets (1976), L'adolescente (1976), La professoressa di scienze naturali (1976), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976), Women's Camp 119 (1977), Killer Nun (1978), L'imbranato (1979), and Trinity Goes East (1998).
The beauty of psychotic thoughts
Suzanne Ciani (Indiana, 1946) is an USA musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s with her electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials. Her career has included works with quadraphonic sound. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album five times. Her success with electronic music has her dubbed "Diva of the Diode" and "America's first female synth hero".
Harmonies to relive the past
Gogo People - Fabulous Gogo Music From Tanzania is an Ethnic African Compilation made by Kenyan label Sapra Studio.
(The Gogo/Gongwe are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania).
21/03/2023
Overdose of flashing lights
Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg 2 April 1928 - 2 March
1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet,
painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director. Regarded as the most
important figure in French pop whilst alive, he was renowned for often
provocative and scandalous releases which caused uproar in France,
dividing its public opinion; as well as his diverse artistic output,
which ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later
efforts in rock, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varied
musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize,
although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded
as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
His lyrical works incorporated wordplay, with humorous, bizarre,
provocative, sexual, satirical or subversive overtones, including
sophisticated rhymes, mondegreen, onomatopoeia, spoonerism, dysphemism,
paraprosdokian and pun. Gainsbourg wrote over 550 songs, which have been
covered more than 1,000 times by a range of artists.
Since his death from a second heart attack in 1991, Gainsbourg's music
has reached legendary stature in France, and he is regarded as France's
greatest ever musician and one of the country's most popular and
endeared public figures.
Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943) is a French musician, composer
and arranger. Vannier has composed music, written lyrics, and produced
albums for many singers. Vannier is regarded as an important musician in
his native country; music critic Andy Votel noted his Eastern music
influences and named him a pop-culture icon of 1970s France, alongside Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.
20/03/2023
Scary sounds from Punjabi
Andy Votel (Andrew Shallcross, 1975) is an English producer and musician who co-operates Finders Keepers Records, Pre-Cert Home Entertainment & Dead-Cert Home Entertainment.
Votel name derived from the acronym VOTEL for Violators Of The English Language, a hip-hop crew on the Manchester scene at the time of early releases on the Fat City and now defunct Grand Central imprints.Andy Votel - Hindi Horrorcore
Messages from eternal ice
Olox duo is the creative union between Snow Raven (Haar Suor) and Andreas Jones, which is a fusion of heart rhythms and electronic sounds mixed with ethnic songs from the native Sakha people from Siberia characterized by animal, bird and deep nature vocals.Snow Raven was born in a small village in Sakha (arctic Siberia)
and was three years old when she started to learn the language of the
birds and animals. Her voice takes its breath from traditional Sakha
culture and is truly an instrument. She is the creator of "Arctic
Beatbox" - the reindeer breath and is the author of "Neoshamanic
Healing"
Lullaby in the rain
Shushā (Shamsi Assār, 1935 - 2008), was a writer,
editor, actress and - under the name of "Shusha" - a singer of Persian
and Western folk-songs.
Her first album produced when she was a student
in France in the late 1950s was under the name Chucha Assar. She had lived in London since the early 1960s. She was also a
talented amateur documentary filmmaker who was even nominated for an
Oscar (a First for an Iranian) back in 1976 for her feature documentary
People of the Wind co-directed with Anthony Howarth which was narrated
by British Hollywood Star James Mason.
Her books were reminiscent of the
very first generation of Iranian expatriates to study and live outside
Iran and who redefined and enriched their Persian heritage within a
cosmopolitan identity both by necessity and choice.
Journey into the unknown
Danger, Suspense Et Eprouvettes is a Jazz/Funk/Easy Listening compilation made by French Editions Montparnasse 2000 label.
The survival of the weakest
Partisans of Vilna: The Songs of World War II Jewish Resistance is a World/Folk WWII compilation made by Flying Fish Records label.
18/03/2023
Opening brains until universal borders
Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet
player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1961,
Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as
well as over 100 classical works.
Bruno Nicolai (1926, Rome - 1991, Rome) was an Italian composer, conductor and keyboardist (organ, piano). Notably the
composer and director of numerous film and television scores. He also
served as musical director for other composers' film scores, prevalently
those of Ennio Morricone, Carlo Rustichelli and Luis Enriquez Bacalov.
Nicolai studied piano, organ and composition at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, studying piano under Aldo Mantia, and composition and organ under Goffredo Petrassi. Whilst at the conservatory, he met fellow student Ennio Morricone who also studied under Petrassi. A friendship began that would last many years.
Throughout
the 60's and 70's, Nicolai scored a number of films, working several
times with directors such as Jess Franco, Tinto Brass and Alberto De
Martino for their giallo and exploitation films. During this time, he
also composed library music, primarily for his own labels Gemelli and
Edi-Pan, but also for other labels like RCA. His big break came in 1965,
when he was musical supervisor for the Sergio Leone film "For a Few
Dollars More", scored by Ennio Morricone. In 1966, he reprised this role
for "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Nicolai's last score was for the
1988 TV series "La coscienza di Zeno", directed by Sandro Bolchi.
Snow over Corcovado
Босса Нова: По-Прежнему Самая Красивая Музыка В СССР is a Russian Bossa Nova Tribute compilation made by Мелодия Label.
Embracing the dark side of soul
Nico Fidenco (Real name: Domenico Colarossi, 1933 - 2022) was an Italian singer and songwriter with a long and prestigious career who gained considerable popularity from 1960 onwards, after the release of the song What A Sky (Italian Su Nel Cielo), included in the soundtrack of the movie by Francesco Maselli I Delfini and composed by Giovanni Fusco. With his angelic voice he made millions of lovers dream not only in Italy, but all over the world, singing dozens of songs in English as well.
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