Along with her work in the psych-folk group Spires That in the Sunset Rise, singer-guitarist Kathleen Baird has maintained a sideline career as a solo artist. Though Scatter Ways was released under the project name Traveling Bell, it's in fact a solo album by Baird, who has since reverted to her own name for her solo records. Centered on her delicate, shimmering acoustic guitar parts and low-pitched, ghostly vocals (both often overdubbed), with minimal accompaniment mostly consisting of h...   [ read more ]

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'Alongside Willie Mae Ford Smith, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is widely acclaimed among the greatest Sanctified gospel singers of her generation; a flamboyant performer whose music often flirted with the blues and swing, she was also one of the most controversial talents of her day, shocking purists with her leap into the secular market ? by playing nightclubs and theatres, she not only pushed spiritual music into the mainstream, but in the process also helped pioneer the rise of pop-gospel. Tharpe was born Mar...   [ read more ]

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Drummer Manu Katche's sophomore effort for ECM is, in some ways, an extension of his nearly brilliant debut Neighbourhood, issued by the label in 2004. The former recording listed such ECM standard bearers as trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and veteran saxophonist Jan Garbarek on the front line and a rhythm section comprised of pianist Marcin Wasilewski and bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz (from Stanko's group). Playground keeps the rhythm section intact, but Mathias Eick and {$Trygve S...   [ read more ]

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