{"id":1880,"date":"2020-11-01T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2020-12-28T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T14:36:56","slug":"november-2020-good-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2020\/11\/01\/november-2020-good-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"november 2020 \u2013 good to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wakeup Calls<\/strong><\/a>
\nCosmo Sheldrake<\/strong>
\nLondon based Cosmo Sheldrake\u2019s music reminds me of the legendary Incredible String Band, and that\u2019s certainly a compliment. I have been waiting for musicians to turn to natural sounds to change the way music is perceived \u2013 not just as something man-made but as a feat once taught us by the environment \u2013 singing birds, rushing rivers, whistling winds, whispering trees, the thundering sky\u2026 Each track is dedicated to a different bird, and we have ample occasion to hear them in the wild. Cosmo is just as radical in his approach to nature as his famous father, Rupert. Nine years in the making,\u00a0Wakeup Calls<\/em>\u00a0has thirteen track and directs us to the wonderful sounds of nature as well as providing a testimony to the vanishing of the natural world. Cosmo Sheldrake lives in a musical cosmos of his own (sgs).
\nTardigrade, September 2020<\/p>\n

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Cantus, Descant<\/strong><\/a>
\nSarah Davachi<\/strong>
\nSarah Davachi (born 1987 in Calgary, Canada) has released a new album, consisting of live works, realized between 2018 and 2919, for solo electronics, solo organ and organ and chamber orchestra. As a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, Sara Davachi\u2019s work is concerned with the close intricacies of intimate aural space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temperament and intonation. The instrumentation she employs is varied. Next to those mentioned, voice, early Western strings and keyboards, and orchestral strings, brass, and woodwinds, with mutual idioms often layered in tonal counterpoint. Her sound manifests an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant.
\nLate Music, September 2020<\/p>\n

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Ella \u2013 The Lost Berlin Tapes<\/strong><\/a>
\nElla Fitzgerald<\/strong>
\nElla Jane Fitzgerald (1917 \u2013 1996) needs no introduction. Luck hast it that the lost tapes of the great jazz singer\u2019s concert in Berlin\u2019s Sportpalast on March 25, 1962, recently turned up in the estate of Verve founder Norman Granz, who was also Ella\u2019s manager. Hearing the audience\u2019s enthusiastic reception of her gives me goosebumps, and it is a worthy testimonial to the love and admiration her singing and person garnered around the world. Seventeen standards show Ella at her best, her unique voice and modulation, her charisma, her swing \u2013 never to be forgotten. Many songs sound like they could have been the best theme song of any Bond movie ever, and the warmth and devotion of Ella\u2019s public in Berlin testify to an unusual love story. This recording marks one of the sublime highlights in the singer\u2019s career. (sgs)
\nUniversal, October 2020<\/p>\n

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Dvergm\u00e1l<\/strong><\/a>
\nSigur R\u00f3s \u2013 with Steind\u00f3r Andersen, Hilmar \u00d6rn Hilmarsson & Mar\u00eda Huld Markan Sigf\u00fasd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>
\n\u00abDvergm\u00e1l\u00bb is the first track to be released from the new Sigur R\u00f3s album\u00a0Odin’s Raven Magic<\/em>. The Islandic rock band, founded in 1994 in Reykjavik, is here seen playing with an entire symphonic orchestra to produce a dense etheric sound. In the fourth season of the U.S. fantasy series Game of Thrones, Sigur R\u00f3s has a guest appearance as a musician at the wedding of King Joffrey Baratheon in the second episode of the original title, \u2018The Lion and the Rose.\u2019 There they play an excerpt of their modified version of the song The Rains of Castamere. Composed in the 14th or 15th century\u00a0Odin\u2019s Raven Music<\/em>\u00a0is an Icelandic poem in the tradition of the Edda. The poem recounts a great banquet held by the gods in Valhalla. While they were absorbed in their feasting ominous sings appeared that foretold the end of the worlds of gods and men. Sigur R\u00f3s are also producers of their own brand of CBD.
\nLimited & standard editions, October 2020 (sigurros.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Redemption Song (The Carnival of the Animals)<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Kanneh-Masons<\/strong>
\nThis family orchestra were first discovered on Britain\u2019s Got Talent, and they are truly special. On this album Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who gained greater notoriety for playing at Harry & Meagan\u2019s wedding, collaborates with his six his siblings, all of which play either violin, cello or piano. They are between ten and twenty years old. Sheku, Kadiata, Isata, Braimah, Konya, Jeneba, Amitata and Mariatu were raised in Nottingham, England, by parents Stuart Mason, a business executive, and Dr. Kianatu Kanneh, a former university lecturer. Sehku and his family have been portrayed in a number of documentaries.\u00a0https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b083d749<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>Young, Gifted and Classical made by BBC Four, will be shown again twice in November.
\nDecca, October 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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