{"id":1632,"date":"2020-02-01T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2020-02-01T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:36:24","slug":"february-2020-good-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2020\/02\/01\/february-2020-good-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"february 2020 \u2013 good to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haverford College 1980 Solo Piano<\/strong><\/a>
\nSun Ra<\/strong>
\nAmerican jazz pioneer Sun Ra (1914-1993), whose legal name was Le Sony’r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount) was a composer, poet and bandleader. He played piano, organ, keyboards, Minimoog, percussions and synthesiser, as well as being an enthusiastic vocalist, and he was famous for his prolific experimental music, his wild performances and his esoteric philosophy. \u201cDecades after his death, the Afrofuturist pioneer\u2019s influence is popping up everywhere, from Solange gigs to the underground.\u00bb\u201c (Rolling Stone) \u00a0The meditative concert covers Ra’s customary approach to solo outings: original Ra crowd pleasers (Space is the Place , Love in Outer Space); standards (St. Louis Blues, Rhapsody in Blue, Over the Rainbow); and untitled improvisations (here assigned the titles “Haverford Impromptu” numbers one and two.)
\nEnterplanetary Koncepts, December 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Neon Skyline<\/strong><\/a>
\nAndy Shauf<\/strong>
\nBorn in Saskatchewan, Andy Shauf lives in Toronto. His parents ran an electronics and musical store, giving him access to a variety of instruments, of which he plays drums, guitar, keyboard and clarinet. Before starting a solo career, he was a drummer in the Christian punk band Captain, having been introduced to Christian music by his parents.\u00a0The Neon Skyline<\/em>\u00a0is his seventh album. The LPs eleven interconnected tracks follow a simple plot: the narrator goes to his neighbourhood dive, finds out his ex is back in town, and she eventually shows up. A great storyteller, Shauf sets a familiar scene of inviting friends for beers on the opening track: \u201cI said, \u2018Come to the Skyline, I\u2019ll be washing my sins away.\u201d While the arch of its narrative captivates our imagination, the real thrill of the album comes from how Shauf finds the humanity and humour in a typical night out and the ashes of a past relationship.
\nAnti- Records, January 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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Simmer<\/strong><\/a>
\nHayley Williams<\/strong>
\nKnown as the singer-songwriter and keyboardist of Paramore, Hayley Williams, a soprano with a four-octave range, is producing her first solo album. Born in Mississippi in 1988, she moved to Tennessee at age fifteen. There she met her future bandmates. In 2015, along with co-writer Taylor York, Williams won the Grammy Award for Best Rock as well the APMA (Alternative Press Music Award) for Best Vocalist. In December 2019, on her 31st birthday, Williams announced she would be releasing solo music in 2020, with a “taste” of it to come in January. Flyers consisting of a picture of Williams under the title\u00a0Petals for Amor<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0began appearing in several US cities and abroad. She released her debut solo single \u201cSimmer\u201d with its accompanying music video. That same day Williams announced that her debut solo album would be released in early May.
\nAtlantic Records, January 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fender Sessions<\/strong><\/a>
\nBlack Pumas<\/strong>
\nMade up of singer Eric Burden and guitarist\/producer Adrian Quesada, the Black Pumas are a funk and soul duo with strong Latin influences, based in Austin, Texas. They have been nominated for this year\u2019s Grammy Awards as Best New Artists. Dominating their local music scene, the group was recognised as one of the breakthrough artists at SXSW (South by Southwest, an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences in Austin) last year and took home the Best New Band trophy at the 2019 Austin Music Awards. Each month, Fender Sessions, a new YouTube performance series and deep dive into the creative process, features a live performance by a band or artist as well as a panel discussion moderated by another artist or industry veteran.
\nFender Sessions, January 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

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Suite for Max Brown<\/strong><\/a>
\nJeff Parker<\/strong>
\n\u00abJeff Parker (born April 4, 1967) is an American guitarist and composer based in Los Angeles. Born in Connecticut and raised in Hampton, Virginia, \u00a0Parker is best known as an experimental musician, working with jazz, electronic, rock, and improvisational groups. Also a multi-instrumentalist, Parker has been a member of the post-rock \u00a0group Tortoise since 1996, and was a founding member of Isotope 217 and the Chicago Underground Trio in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and has worked with George Lewis, Ernest Dawkins, Brian Blade, Joshua Redman, Fred Anderson, Meshell Ndegeocello, Joey de Francesco , Smog Carmen Lundy and Jason Moran. A prolific sideman, he has also released six albums as a solo artist:\u00a0Like-Coping, The Relatives, Bright Light in Winter, The New Breed, Slight Freedom,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Suite for Max Brown.<\/em>\u201d (Wikipedia)
\nInternational Anthem, January 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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