Smith recorded this version of “Hey Joe” for a small private label. The tune had been the first single put out by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, in 1966. Several months later, the incipient Patti Smith Group—Smith, two guitarists, and a piano player—appeared at CBGBs, the small club on the Bowery that was spawning the early American punk bands, including Television, Blondie, and the Ramones. Soon after that, they recorded Horses. - New Yorker 2002 (link to full article)
Drawing inspiration from the Homestead Act and the Klondike Gold Rush to the John Day River and Pine Meadow Ranch, Rusnak’s music weaves together the rhythms and sounds of nature with the stories of the nation’s early inhabitants.
Lars-Ante Kuhmunen was born in 1979. He is a musician and reindeer breeder from Rensjön in Kiruna, a small town in the territory of Swedish Lapland (also known as Samiland).
"Ray lived with Patti Smith in Greenwich Village after her husband, Fred Sonic Smith died, and she left Detroit to return to the city. Bandcamp notes: Recruited by Patti Smith in 1995, Oliver Ray went from being a New York City street poet noise guitar player to a full-time member of her band for the next 10 years, honing his skills as a songwriter. He now lives in Tucson. This is his debut solo release. Ray had his debut on WMBR/ITMOTO about a year ago." See link for more
"Born August 05, 1953 in New York, NY, USA. Based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. He founded The Orchestra Of Excited Strings in New York in 1979 to perform his composiions. "
Silver Apples were an American electronic rock group from New York, active between 1967 and 1970, before reforming in the mid-1990s. It was composed of Simeon (born Simeon Oliver Coxe III, June 4, 1938 – September 8, 2020), who performed on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising; and, until his death in 2005, drummer Danny Taylor. The duo were among the first to employ electronic music techniques outside of academia, applying them to 1960s rock and pop styles. As part of New York's underground music scene, the band released two albums—Silver Apples (1968) and Contact (1969)—to poor sales. They began recording a third album before a lawsuit by Pan Am, owing to the use of their logo in the artwork of Contact, forced the end of the group and its label Kapp in 1970. - wiki
_The Tyger_ is a poem by the English poet William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection and rising to prominence in the romantic period….The Songs of Experience was published in 1794 as a follow-up to Blake's 1789 Songs of Innocence.[4] The two books were published together under the merged title Songs of Innocence and of Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake featuring 54 plates. - Wiki
SKY is made of mostly first takes, with very little over- dubbing. Beth and I comprised the clarinet section of SUNY Potsam's orchestra in 1975-76…Crane School of Music. She was a year ahead of me, and played principal. She had graduate studies w/Elsa Ludwig at U of Michigan, I with Joe Allard at NEC. She moved to San Fran and has established herself as an important vanguard of the experimental music scene there.... We've remained friends, and I like to appear out of nowhere at her gigs when I'm in town (and the stars align).
American rock band formed in Athens, Alabama, in 2009. The band consists of lead singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell, and drummer Steve Johnson. They went on indefinite hiatus in 2018 when Howard left. She said at the time..thinking about turning 30, and she didn't want music to become a routine. “Life was looking real simple, and any time it starts feeling like that, I kind of go, 'Uh-oh,'” - internet machine
Suicide was an American musical duo composed of vocalist Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev, intermittently active between 1970 and 2016. They were among the first acts to use the phrase _punk music_ in an advertisement for a concert in 1970—during their very brief stint as a three-piece including Paul Liebegott - wiki
"Boston based ensemble devoted to performing musical works by emerging composers. Their programming focuses on composers who actively blur the boundaries between popular musical genres and traditional art music. he current core members are Oliver Caplan (Artistic Director), Nicholas Southwick (Flute), Celine Ferro (Clarinet), Julia Scott Carey (Piano), Olga Patramanska-Bell (Violin), Thomas Schmidt (Percussion), Ryan Shannon (Violin), Lu Yu (Viola), Thomas Barth (Cello), Kelley Hollis (Soprano), and Anne Howarth (French Horn)"
This is a mash...with intro by Prum Manh taken from a collection of recordings culled from more than 150 aging cassettes stored at the Asian Branch of the Oakland CA Public Library. This leads into Some straight up rock -a-billy
Ray lived with Patti Smith in Greenwich Village after her husband, Fred Sonic Smith died, and she left Detroit to return to the city. Bandcamp notes: Recruited by Patti Smith in 1995, Oliver Ray went from being a New York City street poet noise guitar player to a full-time member of her band for the next 10 years, honing his skills as a songwriter. He moved to South Central America, then to Tucson. In 2019, he emerged from his chthonic hiatus with what has been dubbed ‘anti-psych,’ a music more concerned with the inner ordeal of the entheogenic experience than the hallucinatory flash and style of psych-rock today. This is his debut solo release (under his own name...previous solo release under the name of Saint Maybe). See link for a more recent bio on him.
"Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ammons (1925-74) studied music with instructor Walter Dyett at DuSable High School. Ammons began to gain recognition while still at high school when in 1943, at the age of 18, he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax's band. In 1944, he joined the band of Billy Eckstine (who bestowed on him the nickname _Jug_ when straw hats ordered for the band did not fit), playing alongside Charlie Parker and later Dexter Gordon."
During December 2020, SING THE NORTH travelled to historic Montréal, which sits on the banks of the mighty St Laurence river, to create a choral improvisation with the Paramorph Collective along with their two young Montreal-based composers, Kim Farris Manning & An-Laurence Higgins - see link for more
"May Blitz was a Canadian-British hard rock power trio that was active in the early 1970s. The group was formed in 1969 by bassist Terry Poole and drummer Keith Baker, the rhythm section of the blues-rock trio Bakerloo, both of whom left the group when guitarist Clem Clempson departed to join ColosseumBass, Vocals - Reid Hudson Drums, Vibraphone, Percussion - Tony Newman Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Vocals - James Black"
"This unusual collection captures songs workers sang as they harvested, fished, tamped railroad ties. The mastermind of this and many other collections of Japanese traditional music is Japanese musicologist Tomiko Kojima. She has curated many collections, including one featuring _unusual musical instruments_ (natural stone flute, a recorder with all holes closed, many/assorted drums). Find her on Discogs to explore further. "
SKY is made of mostly first takes, with very little over- dubbing. Beth and I comprised the clarinet section at SUNY Potsam in 1975-76…Crane School of Music. She was a year ahead of me, and played principal. She had graduate studies w/Elsa Ludwig at U of Michigan, I with Joe Allard at NEC. She moved to San Fran and has established herself as an important vanguard of the experimental music scene there.... We've remained friends, and I like to appear out of nowhere at her gigs when I'm in town (and the stars align). - click link for more
"Recruited by Patti Smith in 1995, Oliver Ray (aka Saint Maybe) went from being a New York City street poet noise guitar player to a full-time member of her band for the next 10 years, honing his skills as a songwriter and musician. After this formative experience, he left NYC for Central America, where he worked on material of his own and became a father. After shaking up the clubs and bars of Tucson with mythopoeic performances, Ray descended into the underworld to retrieve pieces of his soul lost along the way of countless incarnations. " - click link for video of him
"I worked with Nick VanderKok to produce this montage a few years back, drawing from NPR's archive library. I wanted to demonstrate the experimental, non-convential beginnings of NPR, and to also lift up the strength of live radio. You hear the latter in the report from the Vietnam protest -- completely unscripted and going live over the air to the (relatively few at the time) stations carrying the program. BIll Siemering was directng all the action from Washington, and it was very much a by-the-seat-of the pant operation that day (as he tells it). See link for wiki entry. "
