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Bret Higgins: Scoring The Unseen
by Glenn Astarita
Bret Higgins has built a career as a bassist among adventurous improvisers, but on Scoring the Unseen he steps fully into the role of film composer, minus the inconvenience of an actual film. The concept, soundtracks for movies that exist only in imagination, could easily be read as a gimmick on paper. On wax, it plays like a genuine calling. Higgins handles double bass, piano, synthesizers, clavinet, vibraphone, ocarina, and charango himself, an instrumental range that borders on showing off, ...
Continue ReadingIlios Steryannis: Babylonia Suite
by Dan McClenaghan
Canadian drummer Ilios Steryannis traces his family roots back 2,500 years to ancient Babylonia. With his Babylonia Suite, he explores the family tree and his maternal grandparents' diasporic journey from Baghdad to Mumbai to Manchester and finally to Canada with a world music selection of sunshine bright music, with eleven life-affirming compositions. The instruments include piano, bansuri flute, violin, tabla, oud and saxophone. The result is a sort of Middle Eastern, Indo-jazz fusion that shifts into the direction of “Blue ...
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From: Babylonia SuiteBy Jessica Deutsch
