{"id":1796,"date":"2020-08-14T20:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2020-08-14T20:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:56:01","slug":"august-2020-good-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2020\/08\/14\/august-2020-good-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"august 2020 \u2013 good to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sp\u00e9cial F\u00eate de la musique<\/strong><\/a>
\nIbrahim Malouf<\/strong>
\nFor this 6th episode of\u00a0Livestreams\u00a0<\/em>and on the occasion of the F\u00eate de la Musique, Ibrahim Maalouf was live from his studio, accompanied by his faithful companion the guitarist Fran\u00e7ois Delporte! \u00abFranco-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf is also a composer best known for film scores, and an arranger, producer and teacher of improvisation and trumpet. He has achieved success in a wide range of genres, and counts jazz, oriental music and rock among his diverse sources of inspiration. In 2017, he received the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Original Music for the film In the Forests of Siberia. His father is trumpeter Nassim Maalouf and his mother is pianist Nada Maalouf. His uncle is the writer Amin Maalouf and his grandfather was the journalist, poet, and musicologist Rushdi Maalouf.\u00bb (Wikipedia)
\nSelf-published, June 2020<\/p>\n

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Angels and Demons at Play<\/strong><\/a>
\nSun Ra Arkestra<\/strong>
\nSaxophone player Marshall Allen is the current leader of the Arkestra, a jazz collective founded by Sun Ra in the 1950s. Le Sony’r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, cosmic philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. Allen assisted in producing, mixing, and engineering of their new album\u00a0Swirling<\/em>, which the group recorded in Philadelphia with Jim Hamilton. The band\u2019s longtime baritone sax player and manager Danny Ray Thompson, who died in March at age 72, also appears on\u00a0Swirling<\/em>. The album will only be out in October but this is a taste that proves that Sun Ra\u2019s cosmic jazz lives on. (Pitchfork and Wikipedia)
\nStrut, July 2020<\/p>\n

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since i was young<\/strong><\/a>
\nWrabel featuring Kesha<\/strong>
\nL.A. singer-songwriter Wrabel has asked Kesha, a frequent partner in crime, to sing on this fabulous nostalgic summer hit. \u00abIn the standalone single, Wrabel tells the story of how he became the person he is today, starting from his first cigarette at 16, \u2018trying to impress some guy or some girl.\u2019 Kesha sings backup on the song\u2019s chorus. The two friends worked together on multiple tracks featured on Kesha\u2019s 2017 album Rainbow and her latest LP,\u00a0High Road<\/em>, released this past January. Wrabel released the extended play\u00a0One of Those Happy People<\/em>\u00a0in September 2019.\u00bb (Rolling Stone) Stephen Wrabel (born 1989) went from being a back-stage writer to being one of pop\u2019s unsung talents. His songwriting credits include releases by Pink, Kesha, Louis the Child, Kygo, Backstreet Boys or Ruel.
\nPulse, July 2020<\/p>\n

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Burnt Umber<\/strong><\/a>
\nBrian and Roger Eno<\/strong>
\nOn their new album\u00a0Mixing Colours<\/em>, Brian and younger brother Roger, also a well-known figure in ambient music, \u00abinvite listeners to immerse themselves in the infinite space and calmness of their tonal meditations. Like good wine, the material on the album grew over many years. he reciprocal creative process for\u00a0Mixing Colours<\/em>\u00a0started back in 2005 with Roger recording individual synthesizer compositions and fragments of songs he then sent to Brian, who digitally decomposed his brother’s ideas and arranged them in new ways for giving each one its individual sound world.\u00bb \u201cThe idea for a full album emerged as the number of pieces kept increasing, and the results kept being interesting. It’s something that neither of us could have arrived at alone,\u00bb says Roger recapitulating the album’s birth. (Pop Matters)
\nDeutsche Grammophon, July 2020<\/p>\n

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ShadowDance<\/strong><\/a>
\nJosh Rice<\/strong>
\nMy old friend Josh Rice has written a couple of new songs recently. We go back to the early seventies, when we first met at a mutual friend\u2019s house. He was self-possessed and good looking, had come up to Ottawa from New York via Philly, and he played a mean guitar in a band called Fat Fox and the Dirty Sox, accompanied by band member Michael Ziegler and a basist Bobby Finkle. Theirs was a different kind of music then, younger, lighter, less accomplished than\u00a0Shadow Dance<\/em>\u00a0which owes its great graphics and funny storyline to Josh\u2019s daughter Tara Rice. Acid Rock and R&B have always held a big part of Josh\u2019s musical sway, and he was always a great singer whose voice has gained amazing power with age. His ironic play with stereotypes gives the lyrics additional appeal. (sgs)
\nSelf-published, July 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sp\u00e9cial F\u00eate de la musique Ibrahim Malouf For this 6th episode of\u00a0Livestreams\u00a0and on the occasion of the F\u00eate de la Musique, Ibrahim Maalouf was live from his studio, accompanied by his faithful companion the guitarist Fran\u00e7ois Delporte! \u00abFranco-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf is also a composer best known for film scores, and an arranger, producer andContinue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}