A somewhat odd conceptual piece, this album from master hand drummer Glen Velez features seven percussion-heavy songs designed to stimulate and activate the body's seven chakras, or centers of energy. Eastern spiritual traditions hold that each chakra has its own color, musical tone, and esoteric attributes through which it can be stimulated, and ...
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Bob Becker (xylophone), Bob Becker (marimba), David Van Tieghem (piano), David Van Tieghem (marimba), David Van Tieghem (xylophone), Elizabeth Arnold (vocals), Gary Schall (marimba), Gary Schall (maracas), Glen Velez (marimba), Glen Velez (xylophone)
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Ananda Goud (mezzo-soprano), Bang On A Can, Barbara Borden (soprano), Bob Becker (percussion), Brooklyn Philharmonic [members of], Cheryl Bensman Rowe (soprano), Deborah Redding (violin), Donald Palma (bass), Evan Ziporyn (clarinet)
Steve Reich has a remarkable arrangement for a composer in that he is an exclusive artist for Nonesuch and has been so for more than two decades. Back in 1996, when Reich celebrated his 60th birthday, Nonesuch issued a 10-CD box set of "everything" -- all of the works in the Warner Classics vaults that he had recorded, including some new at the ...
Frame drummer Velez's fourth recording for CMP features two extended compositions. The title track, a 45-minute piece written for the tar, a North African frame drum, is scored for five drummers, and the drumming style is a composite of Arabic, Azerbijani, and original drumming techniques. The second piece, "White-Throated Sparrow," is scored for ...
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Bob Becker (xylophone), Chris Finckel (cello), Claire Bergmann (viola), David Van Tieghem (xylophone), Douglas Hedwig (trumpet), Ed Joffe (sax), Edmund Niemann (piano), Elizabeth Arnold (vocals), Gary Schall (marimba), Glen Velez (marimba)
The third volume dedicated to the music played at Paris' and New York City's Man Ray restaurants was put together by DJ Nat Rahav of the New York outpost. Like the previous volumes, Man Ray, Vol. 3 sticks to laid-back loungey electronic music with lightly sung vocals and breezy rhythms. It's not exactly a who's who of downtempo club/dance music ...
Assyrian Rose continues the style he developed on his earlier CMP release Seven Heaven, with Layne Redmond helping out on various frame drums and Steve Gorn playing bansuri and South American flutes. They are joined by Jon Clark on French horn and Howard Levy on harmonica and piano, adding a greater melodic range to the music. Glen plays his usual ...
An excellent budget-priced introduction to the worldbeat smorgasbord offered by the Ellipsis Arts label, Earth Creative Planet samples musical traditions from the far-flung corners of the globe; it includes material previously released on collections like Planet Squeezebox, Celtic Mouth Music, Tibet: The Heart of Dharma and Klezmer: A Marriage of ...
From new age percussion master Glen Velez comes this album designed to allow for a physical and spiritual experience via the forces allowed by the controlled breathing, overtone singing, and rhythms of the music set. The vocals are supposed to activate the upper body, the melody activates the central region, and the drumming and breathing are to ...
Glen Velez' experimental percussion exotica and Ellipsis' book packaging makes for a singular and peerless release. This drummer pays homage to the ancient frame drum. Accompanying his sonic visions is a 20-page museum depicting the instrument through history. Here he has a quintet, the Handance Ensemble. The group is mostly percussionists, ...
Best known for his work with Steve Reich, Glen Velez is widely regarded as one of the masters of the frame drum. His virtuosity is on display throughout Internal Combustion, which focuses almost solely on his improvisational drumming skills (although Layne Redmond contributes his own frame drum and vocals on two tracks). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music ...
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Bob Becker (marimba), Bob Becker (xylophone), David Van Tieghem (piano), David Van Tieghem (marimba), David Van Tieghem (xylophone), Elizabeth Arnold (vocals), Gary Schall (marimba), Gary Schall (maracas), Glen Velez (marimba), Glen Velez (xylophone)
If Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians is simply described in terms of its materials and organization -- 11 chords followed by 11 pieces built on those chords -- then it might seem utterly dry and monotonous. The actual music, though, is far from lackluster. When this recording was released in 1978, the impact on the new music scene was immediate ...
Sant Kabir was a mystic, poet and spiritual teacher in India around the 15th century. On this recording these seven songs of Kabir illuminate their devotional beauty and spiritual essence. The translations of these pieces are based on the artist Amitava Chatterjee's own interpretation of Kabir's work. Amitava combines traditional North Indian ...
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Catherine Ciesinski (mezzo-soprano), David Evitts (baritone), Elizabeth di Felice (piano), Erik Charlston (percussion), Glen Velez (percussion), Gordon Gottlieb (percussion), Gregg Smith Singers, Gwendolyn Mok (piano), John Serry (percussion)
Best known for his work with Steve Reich, Velez is widely regarded as one of the masters of the frame drum; his virtuosity is on display throughout Internal Combustion, which focuses almost solely on his improvisational drumming skills (although Layne Redmond contributes his own frame drum and vocals on two tracks). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
The second of four samplers issued by A&M, this set mixes together avant-garde jazz with avant-rock, some of the performances working better than others. Gary Lucas is heard on an unusual solo guitar version of Albert Ayler's "Ghosts," pianist Myra Melford stretches out on "Some Kind of Blues," Joey Baron gets some odd sounds on electronics during ...
This compilation has selections from the first ten titles on CMP's 3000 Series, with traditional music from a variety of non-Western cultures. The low price makes CMP-ler a great way to taste these high-quality releases. ~ Backroads Music/Heartbeats, All Music Guide
From a rather exceptional series of Global Meditation albums on Ellipsis comes this one, dealing with percussion of various forms from around the world. The quality of the album is incredibly high, including works from Burkina Faso's Farafina, Zimbabwe's Stella Chiweshe, master frame drum Glen Velez, and many more. The span over continents and ...
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