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Guitarist Nels Cline, recently named a "Guitar God" by Rolling Stone Magazine, presents a brilliant solo CD that covers an extraordinarily brand range of musical styles, with a surprising acoustic sensibility. The provocative title is misleading as this intensely personal album demonstrates a daring musicianship and a willingness to take musical and emotional risks. Coward blends improvisation and composition with a huge and constantly changing emotional and timbral palette. "Coward" is a musical tour de force.

Wacław Zimpel, Paweł Posteremczak, Ksawery Wójciński, Paweł Szpura - Hera The Vandermark 5 - The Horse Jumps/The Ship Is Gone Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell - The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra - Ashcan Rantings Jason Ajemian & Daydream Full Lifestyles - Protest Heaven AMM - Sounding Music Harris Eisenstadt - Woodblock Prints Jean-Marc Foltz, Matt Turner & Bill Carrothers - To The Moon Angles - Epileptical West/Live In Coimbra Nobu Stowe - Confusion Bleue Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Milwaukee Volume Kirk Knuffke - Amnesia Brown Mural - Nectars Of Emergence Andreas Schmidt, Samuel Rohrer, Thomas Heberer - Pieces For A Husky Puzzle

Aaron Goldberg, Bill Carrothers, Dawn of Midi, Fred Hersch, Vijay Iyer, Danilo Perez, Dan Tepfer...

Prof. Eric Charry's seminal ethnomusicology essay on the West African drum called "djembe" or "jenbe, jembe."

Fula flutes speak, sing and cry simultaneously; fula flutes fold back the barriers of your heart.

Six of the seven songs in "Qin Show" use silk strings created using ancient techniques discovered only a year ago, thus maintaining historical accuracy in its timbre. The last song of the album uses steel strings to provide comparison to the sound of the

Master Zhongxian Wu has devoted himself for 30+ to the study of ancient Qin music, Qigong, martial arts, Chinese medicine, Yijing science, and Chinese calligraphy. (masterwu.m3u (audio/x-mpegurl object)