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Created at El Cerrito SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in Berkeley, California, USA, the Blue Velvets had been made up of John Fogerty (b. 28 Might 1945, Berkeley, California, USA; acoustic guitar, vocals), Stu Make (b. 25 Apr 1945, Oakland, California, USA; bass) and Doug Clifford (b. 24 Apr 1945, Palo Alto, …

20th century French composer Luc Ferrari is a main contributor to musique concrète for many decades. In the past due 1950s, he started collaborating using the “Groupe de Musique Cement” (a romantic relationship which lasted until 1966) and helped Pierre Schaeffer discovered the “Groupe de Recherches Musicales,” an organization and …

When Gabriel Fauré was a son, Berlioz had simply written La damnation de Faust and Henry David Thoreau was composing Walden. By enough time of his loss of life, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Springtime and World Battle I had finished in the devastation of European countries. With this dramatic …

When NY retro-funk label Desco shut its doorways, co-founder Phillipe Lehman started up a fresh label, Spirit Fire, that was dedicated to launching only the type of rough, organic, lower-fidelity funk Lehman recommended. Calypso Ruler & the Spirit Investigators were the very first music group to concern a full-length record …

A hotly tipped raggamuffin vocalist with three 1997 Tamika Reggae Music Honours to his credit (for Crossover Musician, Outstanding Male Musician, and Vocalist of the entire year), George Nooks fell afoul of regulations scant weeks prior to the public wedding ceremony, and was arrested by bounty hunters — authorized with …

George Morrow will be best known to be the bassist within the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet from 1954-56. An excellent swinging accompanist rather than main soloist, Morrow hardly ever became as well well-known. He began on violin, turned to cello when he was 13 and some years later completely turned …

DJ Faust is really a turntablist with a remarkably dense design of cut-and-paste blending that leaves small area for pause and entertains tones of primary musique concrétè companies like Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. Blessed in NEW YORK but located in Atlanta around the 3rd World People collective (including DJ …

Jazz guitarist Calvin Secrets is a tale among soul-jazz enthusiasts for his looks as a program musician and his little catalog of produces under his own name. Known for his slim, muscular single-string single style, Secrets was created in 1943 in Omaha, Nebraska. His 1st musical impact was his dad …

A co-employee of Robert Johnson, Calvin Frazier by no means attained the notoriety of additional Johnson protégés like Johnny Shines, Robert Jr. Lockwood or Honeyboy Edwards, but his scant documented legacy reveals a performer whose undertake prewar-era blues is really as unique and special as any within the cannon. Born …

The Hungarian symphonic black metal/folk metal outfit Sear Bliss has earned a reputation to be one of the most melodic bands in Eastern Europe’s extreme metal scene. Sear Bliss could be intensely intense, and they possess the familiar dark metal components (including sinister-sounding rasp vocals, blastbeats, and dark subject material). …