Mega Blowout Sale
"This disc will play in stereo on a CD player and with film and 5.1 surround sound (or stereo) on a DVD player or computer. The music, as always, is prodigious, sounding like a small band, but played by one person in real time (as the film attests). In this format, you can also see the instrument close-to - a highly rebuilt and extended giant Sardinian guitar - with many sympathetic and extra strings, motor driven hurdy gurdy wheels, whirling strings, springs and other appendages, played, like a cello...
This is uproarious Bulgarian wedding band music, ala Ivo Papposav, performed by Yasko & his crack outfit of alto sax, accordion, keyboards & drums.
If you've never heard Bulgarian wedding music, at its best, it sounds like polkas in insane, always changing time signatures, performed at speed-core tempo. This stuff simply must be heard to be believed! Terrific fun and unconditionally recommended.
''Yasko Argirov, master of clarinet, is a living legend in Bulgaria, but his fame, because...
The Artchipel Orchestra, led by conductor / arranger Ferdinando Farao, is a Italian big band (over 20 participants) and Ferdinando is a big fan of the British jazz and jazz rock scene of the 70s, having previously covered tunes by Alan Gowen, Dave Stewart, Mike Westbrook & Fred Frith, among others.
Here, he's tackling the Soft Machine book, but even though the title is "Play Soft Machine", a more accurate title would be "Plays Hugh Hopper's Tunes For Soft Machine", as that's what this mostly is....
The Artchipel Orchestra, led by conductor / arranger Ferdinando Farao, is a Italian big band (over 20 participants) and Ferdinando is a big fan of the British jazz and jazz rock scene of the 70s, having previously covered tunes by Hugh Hopper, Alan Gowen, Dave Stewart, Mike Westbrook & Fred Frith, among others.
Here, he’s taking on the compositional works of Phil Miller, with whom the Artchipel Orchestra actually collaborated. Included are some of Phil’s great tunes: Above & Below, Calyx, Eastern...
“Sadly underrated album from Swedish acid folk rockers. Pastoral sounds, gently performed, and well arranged songs. Plenty of acoustic guitars, mellow dual vocals, flutes, tablas etc, recorded in the deep wood to catch the right feeling. This is seriously recommended for friends of HERON, GARY HIGGINS, PENTANGLE, ESPERS etc, and of course really recommended!!”
“A fine debut album by Swedish act Barr, and Skogsbo sounds like an idyllic place indeed if that is the inspiration for the music on this...