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Turkey in the Straw
Moran "Dock" Boggs, miner and musician, was first recognized for his "unorthodox" playing style. His popularity only grew after he was featured on the Anthology of American Folk Music (SFW40090) in 1952 and made Boggs one of the most influential musicians in America. This third installment of Boggs’ music on...
Moran "Dock" Boggs, miner and musician, was first recognized for his "unorthodox" playing style. His popularity only grew after he was featured on the Anthology of American Folk Music (SFW40090) in 1952 and made Boggs one of the most influential musicians in America. This third installment of Boggs’ music on Folkways includes the classics "Turkey in the Straw" and the haunting "Prayer of a Miner’s Child." Extensive liner notes accompany...
Moran "Dock" Boggs, miner and musician, was first recognized for his "unorthodox" playing style. His popularity only grew after he was featured on the Anthology of American Folk Music (SFW40090) in 1952 and made Boggs one of the most influential musicians in America. This third installment of Boggs’ music on Folkways includes the classics "Turkey in the Straw" and the haunting "Prayer of a Miner’s Child." Extensive liner notes accompany this album and include facsimiles of some of Boggs’ original handwritten lyrics.
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Mi Chiquinina
Double Image: In Lands I Never Saw
Du Deluge Au Desert
On his second album, Soleil Vert mixes electronic sounds with the ambient sounds of nature, painting a surrealist picture of planet Earth.
Opening with a bestiary of living creatures, like cru...
On his second album, Soleil Vert mixes electronic sounds with the ambient sounds of nature, painting a surrealist picture of planet Earth.
Opening with a bestiary of living creatures, like crude digital memories of a paradise lost for ever... The album then brings you underwater with "Sous la mer...", and up with the areal...
"Du déluge au désert" is a voyage into a surreal landscape of sounds, with climate change used as an underlying theme.On his second album, Soleil Vert mixes electronic sounds with the ambient sounds of nature, painting a surrealist picture of planet Earth.
Opening with a bestiary of living creatures, like crude digital memories of a paradise lost for ever... The album then brings you underwater with "Sous la mer...", and up with the areal beats of "Ozone"... the voyages continues with the epic "Du déluge au désert" then the journey ends up in a desolate place, like in a post-apocaliptic future on "Planète désolation"... You can bet that the listener will have made quite a journey... from a deluge to a desert.
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Dulcimer Songs and Solos
Paul Clayton plays a three-string southern mountain dulcimer and sings songs that largely originated in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. About this album, Clayton says “I have tried to demonstrate the versatility of the dulcimer and to show it as an instrument capable of a variety of moods an...
Paul Clayton plays a three-string southern mountain dulcimer and sings songs that largely originated in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. About this album, Clayton says “I have tried to demonstrate the versatility of the dulcimer and to show it as an instrument capable of a variety of moods and effects.”
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Däfos
Däfos is a musical ethnography of an imaginary country created by Mickey Hart and Airto Moreira. The album was recorded live in San Francisco as a celebration of percussion music with the help of Jose Lorenzo and his Brazilian percussion group Batucaje. Originally released in 1983 and later reissued as part of €..
Däfos is a musical ethnography of an imaginary country created by Mickey Hart and Airto Moreira. The album was recorded live in San Francisco as a celebration of percussion music with the help of Jose Lorenzo and his Brazilian percussion group Batucaje. Originally released in 1983 and later reissued as part of “THE WORLD” series (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways), the album was produced without the...
Däfos is a musical ethnography of an imaginary country created by Mickey Hart and Airto Moreira. The album was recorded live in San Francisco as a celebration of percussion music with the help of Jose Lorenzo and his Brazilian percussion group Batucaje. Originally released in 1983 and later reissued as part of “THE WORLD” series (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways), the album was produced without the use of overdubs. The songs lead listeners on a journey across deserts and icecaps, through the fictional geography and mythology of Däfos, and features traditional Brazilian, Indonesian and African instruments, woodwinds and electric bass guitar.
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Early Band Ragtime
Echolalia
