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Meditations
What IS a Zendo Tavern?', everyone asks. The lyrics came first, imagining monks, AWOL from DBZ monastery, going into town to hit the local zen tavern for beer and some shots - or tea, if it really was the Zendo Tavern. On the website, zendotavern.com, & on the back of the CD is a stage set - an idea of the Zendo Tavern - sparsely furnished, cushions on scrubbed wood floor at low tables. Dimly outlined in the shadows above the patron, who has thrown his happi coat over the rice paper screen, is a painting: a nude reclines odalisk-like she holds a book of Rousseau, a feather quill pen, an Opossum lurks on the back of the couch... a variation on the paintings in all the bars in movie saloons of the old west. The patron could be Asian or Western - alone, meditating, deep in his cups of tea, or vodka - or sake. A different kind of zazen. As the CD developed, we looked for a name for such a mixed band of musicians playing such a mixed bag of songs. A zendo is a refuge from the every day world - a place to confront one's self through zazen, meditation, alone or with others on a similar quest. And in a western sense, pubs or taverns are also places we go to find refuge - to meditate, to confront ourselves and others also searching, asking questions. Zendo Tavern, is a meeting of East and West both in the diversity of musicians, the music, and in the idea of all creatures seeking a refuge - the songs are meditations in the sense of thinking about 'just what the hell are we doing here on this planet'? Someone said, 'Ah, the zendo is the high road, and the tavern is the low road.' But this is not so - they are both ways to a path. Playing music with yiming, Jan and Phil was a refuge filled with gratitude and pleasure. Biff cuthbert Jan kalinowski, lead guitar - comes from Gniezno, Poland and was a founding member of the 'Prowizorka Jazz Band'. Prowizorka has won awards all over Europe, notably the Golden Washboard many times in Warsaw, and first place at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, the band has recorded many CDs of early Dixieland Jazz, as well as many jazz standards, Yiming Gao, violin- Fortunately for Zendo Tavern she can't find enough outlets for her talents. She has played violin for twenty five of her twenty eight years, graduated with degrees in pre-med & German at Johns Hopkins, plus violin at Peabody Conservatory. While obtaining her masters in violin at yale, she held a chair in the New Haven Symphony, and played with Orchestra New England, and organized several Chamber groups. Her classical form was first corrupted by playing and recording fiddle tunes from Prince Edward Island. She has just finished four years of medical studies and is now beginning her residency work, but she still plays in chamber groups and with Zendo Tavern. Phil Rosenthal, mandolin - is known for his children's series of folk music CDs, CDs of his own compositions of music and lyrics, and some twenty years as singer/song writer with the Seldom Scene bluegrass band and Bluegrass Union and the many CDs the bands produced. Phil's American Melody Studio being ten minutes away, and Phil being an accomplished musician and engineer all factored into making this CD possible in a very restricted time frame of eight weeks. Biff Cuthbert, guitar/vocals - ended his classical piano career at age fifteen and played ukelele for a year in Europe, mostly in Italy. His father took him to Wolf's in New York, age sixteen, and bought him a Drake guitar, in 1971 shortly after college, he bought a Gallagher D-70. He counts Irving Berlin,Fats Waller,Tin Pan Alley, Roberto Murolo,Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson & Lucille Bogan, Mississippi John Hurt, Scott Joplin,Dave Van Ronk, Paul Siebel,Doc Watson, Leo Kottke, Lyle Lovett, Mickey MacConnell as influences. This CD is a resolution of forty years of musical narrative.- Shop: odax
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Mice World Tour
EcoSono presents the 2009 global circumnavigation tour of the Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble (MICE). Traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world on the M/V Explorer, MICE performed an ambitious series of concerts engaging with diverse environments and cultures of the world. MICE employs interactive acoustics and a networked human/computer ensemble to create deep collaborations between ecologies, human musicians and computer systems. This album features select compositions from the tour. In 'Sandprints' MICE created a desert dance by performing the sand dunes in the Namib Desert, Namibia, with microphones buried in the dunes. 'That which is bodiless...' features driving rhythms and harmonic changes and features sax, drums, percussion with the MICE computers. The piece was performed in Cape Town, South Africa. For 'Anemoi' MICE performed outdoors in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean using the howling wind to blow fragments of texts through the interactive computer systems. 'Sxueak' for squeaky toys and computer gradually accelerates from 4 BPM to 4000 BPM as the ensemble plays only squeaky toys. In Chennai, India, this piece had that audience clapping and stomping along. 'World Strings' is performed on string instruments from around the world including the Thai Khim, the European cello, the African Nyatiti, and Kora, the South American Birumbau, the Vietnamese Dan B'ao, the middle eastern Oud, and the Polynesian Ukelele. The piece premiered in Hong Kong, China In 'Kanja' the MICE performed underwater in the middle of the Indian Ocean using hydrophones to pick up the underwater performance and transmit it to the audience sitting on a ship deck. 'A'aa makes music from an active Guatemalan volcano, recorded as it erupted and pushed massive rivers of lava out. The so called 'A'aa flows reach 2000 degrees. At the end of this ambient, drone piece we hear the explosive eruptions of Pacaya like the earth is a giant drum. The World Radio Quilt is a real-time FM radio construction from noise, culture and FM transmissions. Found cultural artifacts from the FM spectrum at locatinos around the world were recorded live and mixed together into a sound quilt. Each of the 7 movements included here feature a particular location: Cape Town, Chennai, Shanghai, alvis Baia (Namibia), Dakar, Casablanca, Straights of Gibralter, and Cadiz.- Shop: odax
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Ukulele Tunes and Techniques Level 3
This fascinating lesson contains a potpourri of strums, rolls, triplets and syncopated fingerpicking patters for the ukelele, including Hawaiian, blues and jazz instrumentals. Includes tab. Level 3.- Shop: odax
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Birth and Death of Meaning
The Debutante Hour keeps it's musical roots in American country, blues and vaudeville while letting their lyrics run the gamut from absurd to sublime. Susan Hwang and Maria Sonevytsky switch fluidly between accordion/keys and hobo drum kit while Mia Pixley holds it down on the cello as the unconventional power trio harmonizes about planning, worldviews and works of literature, with the occasional swerve into a Carpathian mountain stomp. In their debut album, produced by Franz Nicolay, they are joined by talented friends including Brian Viglione (drums), Tuba Joe Exley, Ben Holmes (trumpet), Hubert Chen (violin), Sweet Soubrette (ukelele), Karen LeBlanc (saw), Jonathan Wood Vincent (guest piano), Ed Pastorini (piano), and Franz Nicolay. The group formed as a duo in late 2007 when Maria Sonevytsky and Susan Hwang joined songwriting forces and fashion sensibilities. In addition to playing their favorite NYC venues, they toured Far East Asia (South Korea, Japan) and Europe (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Italy, UK). Mia Pixley joined them in 2008 and has added to a fuller sound and irrepressible energy. Together, they've received rave reviews for their engaging and enthralling live performances. They will charm the hell out of you. I'm serious. They'll sing and play until you're completely hell-free. Radio exposure includes a live performance on WFMU radio with Julian Kytasty and the Experimental Bandura Trio as well as a radio interview and performance on Diradio in Padova in 2009. In 2010, they will be featured on the first vinyl release of Brooklyn-based Spaghetti Western recordings, and, in 2009, were included on a compilation album curated by Scottish friends from The Bowery, called TenTracks. Some of the great musicians they've had the pleasure of sharing the bill with are Deborah Harry, Shonen Knife, Nellie McKay, Corn Mo, Justin Bond, Murray Hill, Franz Nicolay, Amy Kohn, Emilyn Brodsky, Natti Vogel, Ching Chong Song, The Wowz, Virlana Tkacz and the Yara Arts Group, Phoebe Kreutz and Kevin Blechdom.- Shop: odax
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