Multi-instrumentalist, multi-talented avant-garde folk artist Arto Tuncboyaciyan, and Singer Serj Tankian, team up for an improvisational, innovative, medley of rock/jazz,metal/Armenian/Turkish/African/Chinese/Japanese kaleidoscopic music...
Music from Other Minds is a program of new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world. Produced for KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco by Other Minds and presented by
Gonzalo Rubalcaba (born May 27, 1963 in Havana,Cuba) is a jazz pianist. A prolific virtuoso and composer, he fuses Cuban and American influences into a powerful and innovative hybrid.
A scholarly resource of recordings, liner notes, essays, and CD-quality audio ... from New World, Composers Recordings, and other innovative, important labels
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.
A few fans may find Latin roots-pop pioneer Lila Downs' return to old-fashioned, romantic ranchera music to be a retrograde move, but her commanding presence and the astonishing skill and economy with which she embellishes these old-school Mexican ballads with modern rock, electronica and even a tasteful dash of hip-hop will blow your mind, if you give it a close listen. Similarly, she weaves in the rich rhythms of Cuban son and Central American cumbia, reconciling and uniting several strands of Latin American popular music. The repertoire blends striking originals with classics from Jose Alfredo Jimenez, while Downs' dark, husky vocals give more than a mild nod towards the great Mexican diva, Lola Beltran, while Tex-Mex accordionist Flaco Jimenez anchors the album in a solid border vibe. You have to be willing to get into the style (and not everyone is, including plenty of folks who listen to other kinds of Latin American music...) But if you give it a chance, this is a pretty cool album, particularly how it points the way to a canny revitalization and modernization of one of the hemisphere's liveliest and most musically conservative genres. Oh, and Downs' old fans will not be disappointed: she's as authoritative, innovative and charismatic here as on anything she's done.
Multicultural, polyphonic, highly creative and entertaining group that takes rhythms beyond their natural frontiers and creates a brand of music too innovative and varied to be labeled.
"One of the best cantaores, thanks to his ability to innovate, his mastery of all the palos (forms), both festive and solemn, and his "magnificent vocal chords made of excellent flamenco metal" (José Manuel Gamboa).
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).
Now living in the USA, Arto has performed and recorded with an array of outstanding jazz and world music artists, including popular Greek artists such as Eleftheria Arvanitaki, as well as the Spanish guitarist Gerardo Nuñez, and Joe Zawinul, Al Di Meola,
The Armenian Navy Band was founded by the percussionist/vocalist of Armenian descent, Arto Tunçboyaciyan. Arto likes to describe The Armenian Navy Band as 'avant garde music from Armenia' which suggests something of the band but is a little limiting...
