Anette Askvik - Liberty

Anette Askvik has been described as «a Norwegian treasure who sings like an angel. Her songs will haunt you after only one listen.» Anette weaves mysterious melodies that are a curious blend of pop, rock, jazz, folk, electronica, and classical music. In 2011 she released her debut album «Liberty» on her own label; «BIRD». On the recording she collaborated with producer and pianist Øystein Sevåg, Audun Erlinen on bass, Rune Arnesen on drums, Petter Wettre on saxophone, the string quartet Katharsis among others.http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anette_Askvik

Anette Askvik: el-piano and vocals
Øystein Sevåg: pads, piano
Audun Erlinen: bass
Rune Arnesen: drums
Petter Wettre: saxophone
Julie Falkevik Tungevag: piano
Elisa Herbig: cello
Rune Arnesen: percussion


1. Liberty (5:45)
2. The Bird Song (3:41)
3. April (4:00)
4. Under the Tallest Tree (4:32)
5. Blue Lights (5:53)
6. Time to Move On (3:17)
7. Bring Her Home (5:19)
8. Without Permission (5:44)
9. You Shoot Me (4:17)
10. Days Like This (4:06)

Tessa Rose Jackson - Songs From The Sandbox

The stunning debut album ‘(Songs From) The Sandbox’ by singer-songwriter is a charming and quirky affair. Made up of 12 songs, the debut release features a charming vocal style, accompanied by pleasant instrumentals that are consistent throughout the album. There’s many stylistic pop elements on the album, combined with element of simple acoustic music (though that isn’t strict on this album). The debut release is akin to artists such as Gregory & The Hawk or even the notable Laura Marling. It is every bit as unique though, with many of Jackson’s creative ideas coming through the songs, and presenting them as her own little creations in music.
‘(Songs From) The Sandbox’ offers what is a fun and quirky experience, which has some relaxing moments thrown in for good measure. Jackson demonstrates a lovely approach to song-writing, with her tracks simply being enjoyable. The album starts off to a fun start, and continues through most of the songs. It is broken up by more solemn tracks, which shows a diversity in the themes Jackson is drawing her writing from. There seems to be a strong focus on the lyrics in the songs, which is what draws the listener towards Jackson’s music. It is also accompanied by great instrumentals that fit the tone and style of the lyrics perfectly. It is simple and honest songwriting and heart, but it seems all the effort Jackson has put into her debut record has payed off and worked. There is a wonderful flow to the album, with each track complimenting each other in tone and style. There’s a wonderful range in the dynamics of the songs, as there is a rise in intensity and greatness in a few tracks, whilst other seems to just float around and bring up relaxing and fun emotions.
Tessa Rose Jackson’s debut effort just works in most respects. It should be said, that it isn’t a perfect album by any means, but within its genre, it demonstrates some lovely song-writing that easily draws the listener in. The album could perhaps be seen as being limited by what could be perceived as a rather simplistic style, but Jackson’s music doesn’t really need to be anything more than what it simply is. The simplicity and honesty of the music is perhaps part of the whole appeal of her debut release, and it is music that is just music, without it insisting on being anything more. There’s a lot that can be enjoyed on the album for what it is, and Jackson really doesn’t need to do anything more than just continue to write good honest songs. For her d
ebut release, Tessa Rose Jackson has done herself proud with her stunning and gorgeous release ‘(Songs From) The Sandbox’. The gentle, and at times almost humorous style of the album is enough to keep the listener interested. There’s a wonderful craft to the song-writing style Jackson has used for this album, which results in a selection of lovely songs that are simply pleasant to listen too. There’s a wonderful range of different styled songs, combined with a simply lovely and attractive personality that comes through her songs. It would be great to see where this debut release takes Tessa Rose Jackson to in the future.



01 Stepping Stone
02 Lost And Found
03 The Sea And The Storm
04 Again And Again
05 Change Time
06 You Do
07 405
08 (All The) Kings Horses
09 Mr. Carpenter
10 Forgive Me
11 20 Years
12 Where The Light Goes

Snatam Kaur - Live in Concert

NEW LINK!!!! BIOGRAFIA

Snatam Kaur Khalsa (Punjabi: ਸਨਾਤਮ ਕੌਰ ਖਾਲਸਾ, born 1972 in Trinidad, Colorado), is an American singer and songwriter. She lives in Española in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Kaur performs Indian devotional music, kirtan, and tours the world as a peace activist. The name "Kaur", meaning "princess", is shared by all female Sikhs.

Her family moved to California when Snatam was two, living in Long Beach and Sacramento. When Snatam was six, the family went to India where her mother studied kirtan. Snatam lived on a ranch near Bolinas, California until 8th grade and then moved to Mill Valley in 1986. During her childhood, she played kirtan with her mother in Sikh temples and at Sikh religious ceremonies. She attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. While at Tam High, she played violin in the school orchestra and began songwriting. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead coached Kaur and her classmates before they performed her song Saving the Earth at an Earth Day concert in San Francisco on April 22, 1990

ENLACES DE INTERES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatam_Kaur
http://www.snatamkaur.com/

VIDEOS

TRACK´S

01.Azure Salver
02.Ong Namo
03.Ong Sohung
04.Gobinda Hari
05.Adi Shakti
06.Shivoham
07.Aad Guray Nameh

DESCARGA
Part 1 , Part 2

Snatam Kaur - Anand

NEW LINK!!!! Snatam Kaur Khalsa (nacido en 1972 en Trinidad , Colorado ), es una cantante y compositora. Ella interpreta la música devocional india, kirtan y giras por el mundo como un activista por la paz. Ella vive en Española, Nuevo México . Al igual que todos los Sikhs, y los seguidores de Yogi Bhajan , que comparte el segundo nombre “Kaur” y el apellido “Khalsa” con otras mujeres sijs.

Nacida en 1972 en Colorado, EEUU, sus padres eran estudiantes del reconocido Maestro Espiritual Yogi Bhajan (quien inspiró el Yogui Tea), y seguidores del estilo de vida de la tradiciónSikh que destaca por practicar el yoga Kundalini y cantar mantras.





01 Guru Ram Das Raakho Saranaa-Ee (7:40)
02 Paramaysareh (Transcendent Lord) (7:20)
03 Jap Man Sat Nam (11:06)
04 Anand (Bliss) (7:06)
05 Ek Ong Kar Sat Nam (7:50)
06 Kabir’s Song (7:17)
07 Mul Mantra (7:55)

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Part 2

Huun-Huur-Tu & Malerija - Remix album

La naturalidad y autenticidad de Huun-Huur-Tu, casi rompiendo las leyes de la física, ha llevado el grupo a enseñar por el mundo entero sus prodigiosos registros: televisiones, bandas sonoras de películas y, entre muchas de sus colaboraciones, conciertos privados en la propia casa de Frank Zappa, enamorado de este género. Es en sus conciertos donde se puede comprender la dimensión de este prodigio y comprobar cómo sus poderosas cuerdas vocales pueden hacerte cómplice de su mágica comunicación con la madre naturaleza.

CANTO DIFÓNICO: Huun-Huur-Tu usa el estilo de canto de garganta Xöömej: sacan dos o a veces tres notas a la vez, formando un sólo polífono. Pero confiesan que dentro de su alma oyen un gran abanico de variantes de sonido, especialmente en los momentos en los que les faltan las palabras: “Cuando estoy contigo, no noto como desaparece Siete principes (su versión del nombre de la constelación Osa Mayor), cuando galopo no noto como la niebla se abre”.
Los sonidos auténticos de Siberia son inhabituales para la mayoría de la gente. Huun Huur Tu ya han hipnotizado con sus emociones claras y simples a los auditorios de las mejores salas de Europa, Estados Unidos y Asia. Les declararon su amor el legendario cantante Stevie Wonder, el ilustre Frank Zappa, el líder de King Crimson, Robert Fripp, y muchos otros.

Kaigal-ool Khovalyg - voice, igil, doshpuluur, Chanzy
Radik Tyulyush - voice, byzaanchi, khomuz, amarga
Sayan Bapa - voice, doshpuluur, marinhuur, guitar
Alexey Saryglar - voice, tungur (drum), dazhaaning khavy (rattle)


1. Ancestors (5:22)
2. Ching soortukchulerining yryzy (6:00)
3. Ezir kara (4:30)
4. Orai-la boldu-la (4:12)
5. Sagly xadyn turu-la boor (5:50)
6. Kongurei (4:45)
7. Eki attar (2:48)
8. Aa-shuu dekei-oo (3:10)
9. Donen-shilgi (3:34)
10. Odugen taiga (instrumental) (6:13)

LINK

Mary Black - Stories from the Steeples

For the last quarter-century, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence in Irish music, both at home and abroad. She has shared stages, tv shows and recording studios with some of the most revered performers of her time. She has also played a frontline role in bringing Irish music, past and present, to an increasingly appreciative and ever-growing global audience. The San Francisco Chronicle has described her as "One of the best interpretative singers around".

At a time when less adventurous performers preferred to stick exclusively to the well-worn ballads from Ireland’s rich music heritage and the more obvious hits from contemporary writers, Mary explored the best work available from new composers and mined the rich seams they offered. That commitment to fresh material, combined with her unique interpretations of the songs she chooses, saw her release numerous albums that achieved platinum sales status and spawned countless hits. Indeed, one of Mary’s albums - No Frontiers - spent more than a year in the Irish Top 30!

To the acclaim and awards Mary has received over the years from both the public and the critics must also be added the esteem she has generated from her fellow artists. Indeed, many of them have recorded and performed live with her, including Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Joan Baez and Van Morrison, not to mention a host of Irish traditional musicians and singers. Along the way she has also recorded and performed with her siblings in The Black Family and with her highly successful sister Frances.

Coming from an intensely musical family, with her mother a fine singer and her father an entertaining fiddle player, Mary first came to the music public’s attention in the late ‘70s as a member of the group General Humbert with whom she recorded and toured. In 1983 she teamed up with guitarist/producer Declan Sinnott (later to become Christy Moore’s musical sidekick) and released her eponymously-named debut solo album. It reached No. 4 in the Irish Charts and is ranked among the best Irish albums of the early 1980's. It won her the Irish Independent Arts Award for Music, the first in a staggering sequence of awards that continue to come her way.SEGUIR LEYENDO

ENLACES DE INTERES
http://www.mary-black.net/
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Black

TRACKS
01. Mary Black - Marguerite And The Gambler (4:23)
02. Mary Black - The Night Was Dark And Deep (3:51)
03. Mary Black - Mountains To The Sea (With Imelda May) (4:54)
04. Mary Black - Faith In Fate (4:19)
05. Mary Black - Steady Breathing (3:44)
06. Mary Black - Walking With My Love (With Finbar Furey) (3:32)
07. Mary Black - All The Fine Young Men (4:12)
08. Mary Black - The Night Is On Our Side (3:46)
09. Mary Black - Lighthouse Light (With Janis Ian) (3:59)
10. Mary Black - Wizard Of Oz (4:20)
11. Mary Black - One True Place (5:16)
12. Mary Black - Fifi The Flea (2:42)

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Agnes Obel – Philharmonics

Subido por Marhali.

Philharmonics (2010) es el título del primer álbum de la pianista y compositora danesa Agnes Obel. Composiciones lentas, sombrías, e incluso lúgubres en ocasiones, pero dotadas de un sentido singular de la belleza, austeras y delicadas, construidas perfectamente en torno al piano y la voz, que hacen de este trabajo un disco excepcional.

Realizado bajo la licencia de PIAS Recordings, Philharmonics es, prácticamente, un trabajo artesanal, compuesto, interpretado y producido por la propia Agnes Obel entre 2004 y 2010 en Dinamarca, Noruega, Alemania y otros países europeos.

Philharmonics es como una instantánea autobiográfica, una mirada de una vida sencilla con doce piezas en el conjunto, efímera, frágil y carente de cualquier tipo de artificio o decoración innecesaria. La intensidad que evocan las interpretaciones es sorprendente; voz y piano (ocasionalmente acompañados de alguna instrumentación sutil –como el cello o la guitarra-) en un esfuerzo sostenido de excluir cualquier elemento que pueda perturbar la tranquilidad sonora que se evoca. Ejemplo de ello es el tema de igual título "Philharmonics", un arreglo a modo de vals bendecido con unas armonías vocales encantadoramente límpias. O "Beast", un suave himno con un fascinante juego de piano y cello.

"Riverside" es una delicada canción, una balada de raíces populares que nos habla de tiempos perdidos y lejanas voces ancestrales, al igual que "Brother Sparrow", una preciosa instantánea cotidiana de la añoranza a través de una ventana. "Just So" es un pegadizo tema con coros de Alex Brüel Flagstad. "On Powdered Ground" brinda al disco un cierre señorial y majestuoso.

En definitiva, Philharmonics es un impresionante álbum debut, construido con canciones atemporales para perdurar a lo largo del tiempo y de las modas. Esencial.

01. Falling, Catching
02. Riverside
03. Brother Sparrow
04. Just So
05. Beast
06. Louretta
07. Avenue
08. Philharmonics
09. Close Watch
10. Wallflower
11. Over the Hill
12. On Powdered Ground

Philharmonics

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Signs of Life [new age, folk]

Subido por Marhali.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra surgió en mitad de los años 70 como una ocurrencia del Simon Jeffes, compositor, guitarrista clásico y arreglista, de mezclar su amor por la música folk con básicamente, lo que le viniera en gana. Él mismo se ha arriesgado a definir su estilo como "folklore imaginario" y "música de cámara moderna semi-acústica". De hecho, Jeffes se definía como amante de la música folk en todos sus matices, experimentando con composiciones en las que convivían piezas del folklore inglés e irlandés con trozos que recordaban a la armonía de la música clásica.

Llena de matices, principalmente debido a la variedad de instrumentos utilizados en su ejecución, y a la libertad con la que Jeffes componía, la música de Penguin Cafe Orchestra sigue siendo, al día de la fecha (y a pesar de la desaparición de Jeffes en 1997) una rara avis en la música contemporánea. Enérgica, melancólica por momentos, pero siempre vitalista y original, con una estética minimalista con reminiscencias ocasionales de Philip Glass.

Principalmente instrumental, la orquesta tuvo múltiples cambios de formación, una unión libre pero con Jeffes, la cellista y cofundadora Helen Liebmann y Emily Young (como autora de las curiosas portadas de sus discos) como piezas clave, a quienes se incorporaban artistas según los requerimientos de piezas musicales concretas o "performances". Actualmente, es su hijo Arthur Jeffes el que continúa con la formación, añadiendo nuevas composiciones al repertorio que tenía ya su historial.

Signs Of Life (1987) es un botón de muestra de la música de Penguin Cafe Orchestra: el encanto de lo sencillo como bandera de identidad que perdura a través de las modas, los tiempos y los matices de fondo, de forma o de innovación.

Más información: Simon Jeffes

Página web oficial: Penguin Cafe

01. Bean Fields
02. Southern Jukebox Music
03. Horns Of The Bull
04. Oscar Tango
05. The Snake And The Lotus (The Pond)
06. Rosasolis
07. Dirt
08. Sketch
09. Perpetuum Mobile
10. Swing The Cat
11. Wildlife

Signs of Life