https://vimeo.com/288972258 Update: the song is no longer a mystery! Read on to find out more. Caci Vorba (Poland) was one of the more cohesive and likeable bands at this years Crossroads … [Read more...]
L’ubomir Gašpar’s Cimbal Project: Jazz at the Crossroads Festival
https://vimeo.com/287316995 Jazz-World fusions abound, but in general, the musicians that create this music play instruments that have already been integrated into the jazz “sound.” What is less common is to find musicians who play what the Jazz Journalists Association’s Howard Mandel would dub “Instruments rare to jazz.” L’ubomir Gašpar (Slovakia) plays the Cimbal, a … [Read more...]
Techno-folk or Lieder? Jitka Suranska’s Love Affair With Looping.
I’ve recently had cause to research the term “modern modernity” as it applies to music. The nice thing about this kind of research is that it leads me to revisit videos of mine that I have not looked at for a long time, and to enjoy them again. The term certainly includes advances in music technology, and so here is a video I shot three or four years ago, spotlighting an artist … [Read more...]