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Barclay/Licence Arion - with the voice of Arlette Thomas French poetry from the 14th to the middle 20th century played with the Lary/Baschet sonore structures. Absolutely beautiful. The Lasry/Baschet "structures sonores" are cristal sculptures with a sound absolutely unique and great.

Invented early in the 20th century by Pannalal Ghosh; a single-jointed, thin-walled bamboo tuned to an untempered chromatic scale...Sachdev gets up to 3 octaves via a 7th finger hole.

Rembetika music is the music of the Greek Underground. It originated in the hashish dens of Pireaus and Thessaloniki around the turn of the 20th century and was influenced by oriental elements that came with the forced immigration of 2 million Greek refug

One of the most influential, innovative flamenco singers of the 20th century, his cante helped flame the flamenco nuevo movement, although his career precedes this movement, spanning a period from the 1960s-1992 (dying of lung cancer at 41).

Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. He was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music and the Theatre of the Absurd.

The timbral aspects of guqin technique are unparalleled in stringed instruments of the world. With over 20 different types of right hand plucking techniques and almost as many left hand fingering techniques, the potential for timbral contrasts between notes is immense. When listening to guqin music, the appreciation of timbral contrast is traditionally one of the most important aspects of the music. Such appreciation of contrast can happen locally from one note to the next or structurally - appreciating different sections of the music set in different timbral styles. Such appreciation for timbre on this level in Western music has only been present since the beginning of the 20th century in classical music.