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GENRE: Fusion, Afro percussion, World

Label: Clinical Archives
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 1:02:23
Humberto Luis Schenone was born in Buenos Aires on September 6th 1955. Since his childhood had some school trouble for his pleasure of beating over anything, making “candombe-batucada”. Graduated as psychologist in 1985, he dedicated himself to his professional activities and for some time, to study Spanish guitar.
In 1990 he assumed his role in music as percussionist. After different periods travelling and living in Brazil, he settled a house 30 kms away from Buenos Aires where he built his first “percussion-room” and started his studies of afro-american rhythms with several important teachers.
He has been part of several bands related with afro-percussion, bossa nova, samba, salsa, rock, south-american folk, tango, etc. Nowadays, again in Buenos Aires, he works on his solo project CD collections: “Human Tracks”, “The Rhythms of Life I & II”, “Human Fights”, etc. , dedicates part of his time to the construction of ceramic udus and participates as guest musician in different groups.

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GENRE: Jazz, Free Jazz, Improvisation, Classical, Contemporary Classical

Label: WM Recordings
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 1:11:02
Claudio Nuñez was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. He studied classical guitar during the 70s, composition with Hilda Dianda and obtained a choral conductor degree in 1980.
Claudio lived in the USA between 1981 and 2004. He has released 7 CDs: “Algunas revelaciones sobre el tango chino”, “La zappatilla de zappa” “El zen del tango – el tango del zen”, “Paseando por lomas”, “Solos en la madrugada” “Freejazz on monday” and “Freejazz on sunday”.
He has participated in several projects in Los Angeles (Dannie Cove Big Band, Storacci Sextet, Carlos Miralles group, Bhrama Nada and the Nuñez/Tomlinson/Weiss trio), and in New York (Nuñez-Bagnato duet, the Charlie Martins quartet and several versions of the Claudio Nuñez trío, quartet or quintet with people like Sam Hendrix, John Riley, Larry Granadier, Matt Wilson, Charles Gayle, William Parker, George Fernandez, etc.), covering the space from modern jazz to freejazz and avant garde classical to indian classical music and new tango.

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GENRE: Jazz, Free Jazz

Label: Dharmasound
Release date: 2006
Total running time: 0:30:32
Gepel is a trio founded in 2006. The music is characterized by its original way of playing different popular music languages from Latin America with the traditional jazz sound texture.”
Regarding this release, Gepel writes:
“Moducue is the first album from Gepel (‘Moducue’, meaning ‘Thanks’ in Lucumí, a Yoruba dialect). All compositions performed in the album are original and each one of them is dedicated to a singular popular music language.

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GENRE: Classical, Instrumental, Ambient, Choral

Label: Jamendo
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:47:27
Since I started composing and publishing music at the end of 2007, I had a little dream: A music fairytale, a story that evolves through music and has all these elements of an original fairytale: Fairies, knights, castles and -of course- a beautiful princess. Now, a couple of years later, this dream became true… Album starts with a remake of “Winter princess”, one of my first published songs. Music trip continues, with a moon waltz and a fairy dance, to a forest with unicorns and a forgotten castle… After a battle with darkness knights, there is a king who returns home, giving his princess a message of love. At the end of this fairytale, there is an intro of Cinderella story. I preferred an intro instead of an ending, because, when a story ends, another one begins… I am thankful to JB-Anastasia for giving her voice to this Cinderella intro. However, “End of a story” is the end song of the fairytale, but not of the album. After a fairytale adventure, “Dreamland” is fine for relaxing… This is the second remake of an older song. I am also thankful to “The Copyright Group” for allowing me to use at “Bless and glory” a part of Oscar Wilde’s “Vita nuova” poem, told so lyrical by actor Sean Barrett, recorded by Robert J. Nichol.
Also available as a CD image on authors site: http://www.zero-project.gr

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GENRE: Electronic, Downtempo, Trip-Hop, Chill Out

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 0:20:34
The debut Aydio’s EP “Deltitnu” is a fabulous chilled fairytale! The tracks gradate lightly one into another, painting beautiful dreamy soundscapes with a wonderful ornate melange of groovy basslines, dub soulful guitars, phat beats and expanded ambience.
If you feel the Groove Armada and Morcheeba’s chilled trippy vibes, you’ll definitely fall in love with this release!

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GENRE: Classical, Minimalism

Label: INCUNABULUM
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 0:37:23
Jozef Van Wissem’s favorite compositional device is the palindrome. The Dutch-born, Brooklyn-based lutenist plays pieces forward, then backward, creating music that is potentially without beginning or end. Although this strategy is rooted in 17th century compositional practice, it still serves his agenda of rescuing his archaic instrument from history’s dustbin. His use of mirror-image structures is as informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis as by centuries-old repertoire. A former guitarist with a taste for country blues, Van Wissem came to the instrument as a way of affirming with his essential European-ness; ironically he used an artifact of the Renaissance to accomplish the decidedly post-Freudian pursuit of self-consciously establishing a self-identity. On an even more symbolic level, by constructing pieces that begin where they end and are therefore potentially endless, he subverts the march of time; why can’t obsolescence also be reversed?
On other records, Van Wissem has re-contextualized the lute by treating its sounds with electronics, juxtaposing it with field recordings of large public transit facilities, using it to improvise with Tetuzi Akiyama, or enlisting Mauricio Bianchi to transform its resonance into grim noise. A Priori offers his unadulterated take on the instrument, performed without accompaniment or outboard effects. Its sonorities, articulated in unhurried cadences, may sound ancient, but the language of dissonant harmonies, tone clusters, and rare bluesy flourishes to which he applies them is rooted in the 20th century avant-garde, not the time of bards in tights. The way Van Wissem traces and retraces A Priori’s seven palindromes, denying the listener any resolution or catharsis, is also pretty contemporary in its attitude of refusal; has there ever been a time besides now when more musicians refuted the expectations of audiences and authorities?
A Priori does not reward casual listening. Its slow cadences and well-proportioned tones feel contemplative, but the lack of pay-off makes the music potentially maddening; it actually stymies linear thought. If you want easily approachable Van Wissem, try his album he and James Blackshaw made as the Brethren of the Free Spirit. This record is best approached as obsessively as it was played. Spin it over and over and eventually the pieces really do lose beginning and end, seeming instead to hover in a timeless now. – By Bill Meyer

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GENRE: Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Progressive, Ambient

Label: RAIG
Release date: 2008
Total running time: 0:26:26
The man who stands behind Moscow-based instrumental bands THE RE-STONED and RUSHUS is a composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Ilya Lipkin whose interests, talents, experiences and crafts are manifold and diverse. He spent the early part of his career playing in various local bands including the legendary dark-folk act NEUTRAL and the defiant avant-core trio YARCHE-1000-SOLNTS, before forming his own acoustic neo-folk ensemble WALDSONNE in 2003. Three years later, he launched an experimental-fusion project RUSHUS that featured a former member of the Tuvinian groups BIOSYNTES and YAT-KHA Evgeniy Tkachev on acoustic percussions and congas, and a jazz-master Vladimir Nikulin on electric bass. Their intelligent and elegant electro-acoustic softness and trance-induced shamanism made them more popular among lovers of neo-psychedelic and cafe-shop lobbyists than jazz and rock purists.
Performed by Ilya Lipkin (guitars), Evgeniy Tkachev (percussion) and Vladimir Nikulin (bass). Tracks 1, 2, 3 were recorded at the Rushus Studio by the band; mixed and mastered by Alisa Coral at the KZI Studios (Moscow, Autumn 2008). Tracks 4, 5 were recorded live at the Kostarev studios; mixed and mastered by Alexander Kostarev. “Stories” includes previously unpublished tracks.

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GENRE: Rock, Indie, Country Rock

Label: Rock Proper
Release date: 2003
Total running time: 0:34:31
Horse Year plays like a funeral mass, each track an ethereally-charged dirge that draws us in. “Weak in the Knees” churns to life amid a settling fog, regretful, accompanied by a church organ send-off. “Don’t worry ‘bout me / You can still carry on / ‘Cause I’ll be dead when you’re gone,” Wagner opines, though you might imagine this as the message of a man looking back from the next world. “Nothing to Defend” juxtaposes soaring guitar riffs and whiskey bar piano, the shadow of a gunfighter who’s fallen a step slow, riding headlong into the rain in search of the next sunset.
These images lend an undeniable weight and immediacy to the album, but it’s the spectacularly bone-chilling, otherworldly reverberation of the pedal steel that stays with me every time I hear it. It’s there in the ending wash on the otherwise-amiable cowboy ballad “This World Can Be So Cruel”, and it’s revisited on the album’s final number, “One Key”. Here it resonates beside a wind chime lullaby as we drift along the river Styx, nestled beneath the stars and blissfully at peace with the horrors and the beauty of the world. – Justin Kownacki

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GENRE: Rock, Indie, Grunge, Alternative

Label: Trastienda
Release date: 2007
Total running time: 0:33:33
“Spread The Spirit” is the first work of Confusion Is Next, a quartet of Monza (Italy) formed in 2005, which seeks to combine the melodic sound with distorted guitars in the purest style of the early 90’s. The name of the group, a tribute to record “Confusion Is Sex” by Sonic Youth, leaves no doubt: if the grunge is about to return, would not be a bad CIN spearhead.

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GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Dubstep

Label: Phonotactics
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 0:28:37
Some people believe in the end of the world, the Apocalypse?…
Some people believe in a massive cleaning as solution to this world problems, Clean Up the World?…
The truth is… Dj Unite can merge some of the linear environments characteristic of dubstep with hip hop sample based oldschool beats, creating a habitat where both musical languages road to a development that promises to be logical… and is. The result clean up the world but also your ears with sometime melodic and deep hits or sub bass revolting kicks… im shure you all will like the groovy dope beats by this portuguese producer.
oldschool beat lover? sample maniac? here is your favorite food.

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