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Given birth to Steven Edward McDonald in the British Midlands in 1956, McDonald started formal musical teaching while an orchestral percussionist in age ten, getting an avid enthusiast of classical music after viewing 2001: AN AREA Odyssey in 1968. A family group proceed to Mandeville, Jamaica, in 1969 opened up …

Washington, D.C.-centered guitarist Anthony Pirog is certainly a musician who knows zero stylistic limits. Educated in jazz but enthusiastically embracing different forms from indie/punk-informed rock and roll to ambient experimentation, Pirog provides emerged among the many noteworthy artists for the 21st hundred years D.C. region music picture, defying predictability with …

London-based author Mick Dark brown is certainly a freelance journalist, broadcaster, and the writer of 3 books: Richard Branson: THE WITHIN Story, American Heartbeat: Travels from Woodstock to San Jose by Song Title, as well as the Religious Tourist, which cataloged modern spiritual quests around the world. Brown also put …

Multi-instrumentalist Loren Nerell may be the face in back of the atmospheric grooves of Indonesian Soundscapes. Especially keen on the gamelan music of Bali and Java, Nerell composes a carefree audio that combines character and vocalic chants thrust in space. Indonesian Soundscapes was released on Soleil Moon in 1999.

Representing the mixed vision of multi-instrumentalists/composers Randy Armstrong and Ken LaRoche, Do’ah (also: Do’ah: World Music Ensemble) was among the first rings under western culture to mix musical traditions and instrumentation from around the world. Devotees from the Baha’I religious beliefs, Armstrong and LaRoche utilized music as a manifestation because …

Only 12 years of age when he was named a Davidson Fellow in Music from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, California’s Evren Ozan is a Native American flute prodigy who found out the instrument while on holiday along with his family. He was just six when he spent weeks …

Christopher Blasdel began his research from the Shakuhachi and of Japan music in 1972 using the past due Goro Yamaguchi, among the great Japan Shakuhachi experts. In 1982, he received a M.F.A. in ethnomusicology from Tokyo School of Great Arts and in 1984 his professional name, “Yohmei,” from Goro Yamaguchi. …

Japanese singer Eri Shugai (pronounced airy soo-gah’-ee) was raised in Osaka and became a specialist singer following finishing her schooling at 23. She relocated to Tokyo and released her 1st recording, Watashi Wa Genki Davo (which means “I’m Fine therefore Content”), in Japan in 1994. But she obtained her greatest …

A European studio room musician focusing on harmonica and skillet flute, Richard Ball has released many albums of instrumental easy hearing music featuring those instruments, including three early-’90s initiatives for the Czech label Multisonic.

Assembling single compositions built by different inspirations, Rodrigo Leão built his own method of creating music, somewhere among progressive and experimental electronic soundings. Perhaps one of the most essential composers and performers from the past due ’90s in Portugal, Rodrigo Leão began his profession by dealing with a few of …