D/B Retrospective: Delia Derbyshire & Download unreleased Audio
One of ours early gurus of electronic music Delia Derbyshire. Delia-derbyshire.org is currently offering 8 free mp3s of rare and previously unreleased material by her. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001) was an English musician & composer of electronic music\musique concrète. She is best known for her electronic realisation of Ron [...]
D/B Retrospective: Chet baker
Chesney Henry “Chet” Baker Jr. (born Yale, Oklahoma, December 23, 1929 — died Amsterdam, Netherlands May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer. Chet Baker — My Funny Valentine Specializing in relaxed, even melancholy music, Baker rose to prominence as a leading name in cool jazz in the 1950s.
D/B Retrspective: Leon Thomas
Amos Leon Thomas Jr (1937 – May 8, 1999) was an American avant garde jazz singer from East St. Louis, Illinois. He changed his name to Leone in 1974 because of an interest he had in numerology at the time. He did not legally change his name and he reverted back to Leon shortly thereafter. [...]
The Art Ensemble of Chicago
The bassist of the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago, Malachi Favors died exactly five years ago. The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz ensemble that grew out of Chicago’s AACM in the late 1960s. The group continues to tour and record through 2006, despite the deaths of two of the founding members. Art [...]
D/B Retrospective: Mary Mayo
Space Age Pop fans know Mary Mayo for her ethereal wordless vocals on Moon Gas, the superb 1963 album she cut with Dick Hyman. To be completely accurate, not all her vocals on the album are wordless, but what people remember best are the theremin-like sounds she created to go along with Hyman’s wizardry on [...]
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The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island
