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Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger: Force Majeure

January 18, 2021 By guillaume

Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - Force Majeure (2020)

As soon as New York City entered a first lockdown in March 2020, double bass player Dezron Douglas and jazz harpist Brandee Younger launched a series of live streams on Facebook and Instagram Live from their East Harlem flat. Dubbed “Force Majeure: Brunch in the crib with Brandee & Dezron”, the Friday morning concerts ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Jazz Tagged With: Brandee Younger, Dezron Douglas, double bass, harp

Mary Lattimore: Silver Ladders

December 4, 2020 By guillaume

Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders (2020)

Originally from North Carolina, Mary Lattimore is a classically-trained harpist and composer now based in Los Angeles, California. Over the last decade, the musician has devised her own vocabulary to shape a novel and immersive ambient sound informed by experimental, modern classical music and post-rock. Equally striving as a ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: ambient, electro, harp, Mary Lattimore

Brandee Younger: Soul Awakening

September 1, 2020 By guillaume

Brandee Younger - Soul Awakening (2019)

Based in New-York, Brandee Younger is a young jazz harpist who is in the process of rejuvenating a style still dominated by the towering influence of her historic peers Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. As a composer and teacher, the musician is one of the rare contemporary jazz harpists recording today either as a solo artist, ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Jazz Tagged With: Brandee Younger, harp

The Harriet Earis Trio: From the Crooked Tree

April 9, 2015 By guillaume

The Harriet Earis Trio - From the Crooked Tree (2007)

Based in Wales, The Harriet Earis Trio is a rare Celtic Jazz Fusion band whose leading instrument is a Celtic Harp. Formed in the late 2000s, the sound of the trio hinges on the harp of English-born and Aberystwyth-based Harriet Earis. A classically trained musician on the concert pedal harp, Harriet Earis has been exploring ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Jazz, Traditional Tagged With: fusion, harp, Harriet Earis

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita: Clychau Dibon

February 20, 2015 By guillaume

Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita - Clychau Dibon (2013)

The pairing of a European classical pedal harp with an African 21-string kora sounds very unusual at first sight, but the rare duo recording of Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita is a truly remarkable feat. The association of the two stringed instrument from two different continents is the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk, Traditional Tagged With: Catrin Finch, fusion, harp, kora, Seckou Keita

Matthew Halsall: The Sun in September

July 12, 2014 By guillaume

Matthew Halsall - Fletcher Moss Park (2012)

Matthew Halsall is a Manchester-based DJ, composer, arranger and jazz trumpet player whose music is increasingly looking eastwards and leaning towards the spiritual.  Drawing inspiration from the modal jazz of the late 1950s/early 1960s (Miles Davis of course, John Coltrane and many Blue Note artists from that era), the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Jazz Tagged With: flute, harp, Matthew Halsall, trumpet

Joanna Newsom: Colleen

July 18, 2013 By guillaume

© Sophie Blackhall-Cain - Page 1 of "Colleen" illustrated as a comic

A stripped down collection of three tracks featuring two alternate and rearranged versions of older songs (“Crab, Clam, Cockle, Cowrie” and “Cosmia”) and a new composition (“Colleen”), the [amazon text=Joanna Newsom %26 The Ys Street Band Ep&asin=B000NIIUXS] was released in 2007, one year after her orchestral tour de force ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk Tagged With: harp, Joanna Newsom, songwriting

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