January 5, 2024
Biography
Hailing from Elazig, a city in East Anatolia, but blessed in Ankara in 1954, Erkan Ogur began on violin as a kid and discovered cumbus, a little fretless lute, from local music artists playing traditional dances at wedding ceremonies. Hearing Jimi Hendrix on the air was a significant surprise, and …
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December 30, 2023
Biography
The Czechoslovakian ambient group the Ecstasy of St. Theresa comprised vocalist/keyboardist Irna Libowitz, audio designers Jan Muchow and Petr Wegner, bassist Jan Gregar, guitarist John Moore, multi-instrumentalist Misa Klimkova, keyboardist Colin Stuart, flautist Vladimira Jestrabova and percussionist Katie Hecker. Debuting in 1993 using the EP …fluidtrance centauri…, they came back …
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December 28, 2023
Biography
An all-but-unearthed jewel from the Nude Information steady in the mid-’90s, the short-lived Scottish trio Goya Gown contains Astrid Williamson (acoustic guitar, vocals, piano), Terry de Castro (bass), and Simon Pearson (drums). The three EPs released before their lone LP in 1996 had been the calm prior to the storm …
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December 27, 2023
Biography
The youngest & most photogenic person in the Paris Sisters, willowy Priscilla Paris was the featured vocalist for the trio’s 1961 Phil Spector-produced girl group classic “I REALLY LIKE How YOU LIKE Me personally.” She later on installed a little-noticed solo profession, and also progressed right into a songwriter of …
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December 26, 2023
Biography
Susan Christie was a Philadelphia-based folksinger and a one-time person in the Highlanders, that city’s best “big-band” folk ensemble of the first ’60s. She went to the Berklee University of Music in Boston, and had taken easily to the brand new requirements from the flourishing folk-rock field in the middle-’60s. …
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December 24, 2023
Biography
Edmonton, Canada local Alex Calder initial made his name in indie rock and roll when he moved to Vancouver and played drums in the group Makeout Videotape. Offering fellow long term Captured Paths labelmate Mac pc DeMarco, the group been around between 2008-2010, and released some CD-R EPs and an …
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December 24, 2023
Biography
After departing the Still left Banke, Michael Dark brown — who was simply the group’s chief artistic force as principal songwriter, arranger, and keyboardist — caused Montage to keep in the splendid Baroque pop/rock and roll vein of his early recordings using the Still left Banke. Although Dark brown was …
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December 24, 2023
Biography
Offering both male instrumentalists/singers and female vocalists, the Uk group Justine released one album, 1970’s Justine, that drew from American and Uk varieties of folk-rock, and a little psychedelia.
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December 23, 2023
Biography
George Crumb was probably one of the most distinctive compositional voices to emerge in the next half from the twentieth hundred years. A charter person in the “New Virtuosity” motion, Crumb created an expansive musical palette mentioned for its focus on prolonged instrumental and vocal methods, its wealthy and advanced …
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December 20, 2023
Biography
Santa Barbara, CA, designer F.J. McMahon released a rare recording, Spirit from the Golden Juice, in the past due ’60s in the easygoing, though reserved and somewhat dark, folk-rock, early vocalist/songwriter style.
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