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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.

Piyut is a poem sung to God or about God. Piyut is also a prayer that expresses emotions in relationship to God, including praise, glory, joy, sorryow, anger, gratitude, lamentation, celebration, respect, fear, fury, loneliness, and longing. Piyutim are a crying out for connection with God.

It is difficult to describe, what Giora Feidman, bass clarinetist, does on stage with his clarinet, how it laughs, cries, and narrates...Master of innovative interpretations of tango, jazz, classical music, and klezmer, her merges all 4 genres into phenomenally expressive, virtuosic, and emotional songs.

Swirls of gypsy jazz viola and funky percussive cello and bass. Ljova's a fantastic composer, arranger, and performer. Check this glorious and emotional classical Eastern-European avant-garde jazzy stuff! ljova-heatmeup.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Even people who have no musical training, or who claim to be tone-deaf, have musical intelligence built into their brains.