SKU: M7.ELLI-3570

ISBN 9781559614580. UPC: 052296357023.

The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc has opened a floodgate of communication with the nations of Eastern Europe, allowing access to their long sequestered heritage of music and culture. This collection ranges from ethereal church chorales to earthy peasant dances to modern fusions with Western rock, pop and jazz. The instrumentation includes fiddles and accordions, brass bands and bagpipes, cimbaloms and utogaardons, jew's-harps and hurdy-gurdies, with vocals that range from the sensual to the sublime. Accompanying ''Unblocked's'' three CDs are essays on Eastern Europe's tangled web of languages, tribes and religions, as well as photos and extensive track notes. ''Unblocked documents diversity and the survival of local forms against the pressures of homoginazation and globalization.'' [NY Times].

SKU: M7.ELLI-3610

ISBN 9781559614818. UPC: 052296361020.

Nach dem Überraschungs-Erfolg der ''Gravikords''-Compilatio n (die bewiesen hat, daß man mit experimenteller Musik ein großes Publikum begeistern kann) gibt ellipsis arts eine zweite Folge mit schrägen und faszinierenden, selbstgebauten Musikinstrumenten heraus. Dies 96-seitige Buch mit CD (oder umgekehrt) nimmt den Hörer mit auf einen weiteren Streifzug durch die Werkstätten der Erfinder und Erbauer neuer und / oder ungewöhnlicher Musikinstrumente. Diemal sind sogar einige echte Stars mit von der Partie, wie z.B. Ambient-Ikone Aphex Twin, Tom Waits (mit einem Ensemble aus Nähmaschinen), John Cage und das viel-gefeierte Tanz- und Percussions-Ensemble Stomp. (ZGA - Collin Offord - Tom Waits - Bill Colvig & Lou Harrison - Arthea - Aphex Twin - Les Phones - Peter Whitehead - Ela Lamblin - John Cage - Stomp - Sharon Rowell - Bradford Reed - Ellen Fullman - Uakti - Leonard Solomon).

SKU: M7.ELLI-50452

ISBN 9783932398018. German.

Contemporar y and Traditional West African Griot music In West Africa, the Griot (or Jali), is not just a musician. The Griot is historian, entertainer, myth maker and more. For more than 1,500 years this expert musician class have been ''walking libraries,'' responsible for preserving the region's wisdom and ancient historic lore. Epic songs, family histories and one of the world's richest instrumental traditions are passed from generation to generation through arduous musical training, ensuring that the Jali Kunda (Griot Family) endures. Features tracks with Foday Musa Suso, Philip Glass and Pharoah Sanders; produced by Bill Laswell, introduction by Robert Palmer. ++++ ''...a cohesive and introspective exploration of the music of the griots by one of its sons...one of the first truly personal collections of this incredibly complex and rich musical culture.'' [CMJ New Music Report] ++++ ''There is a something rather touching about the music - a sense of eavesdropping on something both ordiary and special'' [Gramophone (UK)].

SKU: M7.ELLI-4010

ISBN 9781559612746. UPC: 052296401023.

This book and CD set includes a rare recording of the forbidden zikr ceremony from Naqshbandi Sufis of Chines Turkestan; an all-night healing ceremony performed by the Ganawa of Morocco; and gamelan music from a Hindu temple festival in Bali in which participants stab themselves with long daggers in a frenzied ritual.

SKU: M7.ELLI-3450

SKU: M7.ELLI-4140

ISBN 9781559613163. UPC: 052296414023.

A melting pot of rhythms, melodies and sonic textures that promises to be as upöifting to the general listener as it is challenging to the musicians who endeavor to dissect its complex rhythms. A work of poetic beauty. Four frame drums, trombone and violin. Inspired by ancient frame drumming traditions, Glen Velez and Handance create a pan-global rhythmic style drawing on the music of South India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Rhythmcolor Exotica explores the terrains created by rhythmic cycles of 4,5,7 and even 41 beats. This inventive urban drum clan dazzles with its virtuosity, and with the playful melodic inventions of Art Baron on trombone. Add in tinwhistle, didgeridoo, shaker and conch and you have a one-of-a kind trancy, jazzy, border-crossing celebration. The frame drums played on Rhythmcolor Exotica include Moroccan bendir, North African mazhar and tar, Egyptian riq, and Celtic bodhrán with Arthur Baron, Jan Hagiwara, Eva Atsalis, Yousif Sheronick.