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Amadou & Mariam: Wily Kataso

January 30, 2013 By guillaume

Folila (2012)

Amadou & Mariam have been playing music together since the early 1980s and Folila, released in April 2012, is the pair's latest recording. Often referred to as "the blind couple from Mali", Amadou & Mariam have a great knack for composing catchy songs in their inimitable Afro-pop style. While a lot of their music is ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk Tagged With: songwriting

Susanna Wallumrød: Who by fire

January 4, 2013 By guillaume

Susanna Wallumrød

Released in 2011 on the ECM record label, If Grief Could Wait  is a remarkable cross-genre recording featuring indie pop and jazz Norwegian singer Susanna Wallumrød, Swiss Baroque harp player Giovanna Pessi, Italian nyckelharpa (the Swedish keyed fiddle) player Marco Ambrosini and Swiss-based viola de gamba player Jane ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk, Modern Classical Tagged With: baroque, harp, nyckelharpa, songwriting, viola da gamba

Dave Brubeck: Piano Blues

December 27, 2012 By guillaume

Piano blues

Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) will of course be remembered as a brilliant musical explorer, a virtuoso improviser, a prolific composer with a fondness for odd time signatures and a great ambassador for jazz music in general. Yet, Dave Brubeck still regarded himself simply as "a composer who plays the piano". The pianist is also often ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Folk, Jazz Tagged With: blues, piano

Brad Mehldau: River Man

November 16, 2012 By guillaume

Brad Mehldau Live in Tokyo

Any version of Nick Drake’s River man will always stop me in my tracks.  The unusual time signature and the eerie contemporary classical arrangements to the original song make it such a rich ground for covers. If Norma Waterson’s version introduced me to the song, it is Brad Mehldau’s cover I keep coming back to. The American ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Folk, Jazz Tagged With: piano

About Spellbinding Music

November 7, 2012 By guillaume

Charlie Parker

Why is it that a particular piece of music, a tune or a song will move us in such a way that it will stop us in our tracks, send shivers up our spine or give us goose bumps?  Spiritual or secular musical traditions such as Sufi music, Gnawa music, plainchant, gospel, blues etc. all imply elements of introspection, ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Classical, Contemporary, Folk, Ireland, Jazz, Modern Classical, Traditional Tagged With: about

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