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Harris Eisenstadt: Recent Developments
by Karl Ackermann
Canadian native and Brooklyn resident Harris Eisenstadt has built a solid reputation as a composer, matching accolades for his eclectic expertise as a drummer. His passion as a student of the art has taken him to West Africa, where he has studied the music of the Wolof people and Cuba, where he has delved deeply into ...
Quartet 1991
By Brad Shepik
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: Confluenza; Terrestrials; Bent House; Circa; Nightbirds; PLAW; Ramblin'; Way In;
Song Of Then.
The Westerlies
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: A Nearer Sun; So So Shy; New Berlin, New York; Saro; Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself; The Beekeeper; Where's The Music?; Double Situation; Lopez; The Shop; The Beach; Rue des Rosiers; Run On Down; Edomala; Ruddy Ducker; Songs My Mother Taught Me; All to Ourselves.
Fulfillment
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing: Sea Shanty; Perimeters; The Ballad of Gurdit Singh; Arrivals; Departures; Battle at
Baj Baj; Exaltation; The Soldier and the Saint.
Songlines: An Independent Voice for New Music
by Mark Werlin
The independent Vancouver-based record label Songlines Recordings was established in 1992. Inspired by the contemporary jazz music scene in Vancouver, label founder Tony Reif began recording Canadian, American, Dutch, German and French composer-performers. Over the next two decades, the core group of musicians who recorded frequently for Songlines included Benoît Delbecq, Harris Eisenstadt, Gordon Grdina, Wayne ...
Michael Blake: Fulfillment
by Giuseppe Segala
I fatti da cui Michael Blake prende lo spunto per realizzare le musiche di Fulfillment risalgono al 1914, ma sono tristemente attuali. Un dramma dell'immigrazione, verificatosi a Vancouver, quando una nave a vapore giapponese, la Komagata Maru, fu respinta con il suo carico umano di quasi quattrocento persone provenienti dall'India orientale. Solo a ventiquattro migranti fu ...
Brad Shepik / Ron Samworth: Quartet 1991
by Dan Bilawsky
Tony Reif is calling a mulligan here. Some twenty-five years ago, shortly before he founded and launched the Songlines imprint and long before he was known the world over for his work in the production and promotion of creative music, Reif went into a Seattle studio to produce a recording for a quartet fronted by guitarists ...
Michael Blake: Fulfillment
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist Michael Blake's previous concept album Kingdom of Champra (Intuition, 1997) is based on his experiences living with his family in Vietnam. On Fulfillment, the artist centers his focus on India, namely an incident that occurred when a Japanese freighter, transporting hundreds of East Indian immigrants was denied entry into the port of Vancouver, Canada in ...
