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Paul Downing: Social Control Mechanism Number One

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Bassist Paul Downing is an artist with an eclectic taste whose music covers many grounds. In previous records, he has explored free improvisation, heavy funk, and, on Flight Through Cloudless Sky (Paulos Records, 1994), produced a fascinating suite of solo pieces performed using the meta-'cello, an instrument tuned in fourths. Social Control Mechanism Number One is ...

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Giorgos Tabakis: Moovin' With The Eight-String

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Greek guitarist Giorgos Tabakis is a restlessly inventive musician with a deep background in jazz theory and composition. His main instrument these days is an eight-string Moov (yes, eight!)—a custom-designed guitar which resembles nothing less than some sort of medieval crossbow. The inventor of the Moov GT 8, to give it its full name, has even ...

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Fiona Ross On Red Flags And High Heels

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Singer and pianist Fiona Ross will be known to many as the former Head of the British Academy of New Music, where she trained, among others, Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora and Jess Glynne. Ross is also an accomplished artist in her own right, with numerous awards to her name, including International Female Songwriter of the Year, ...


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This and That: November 2024
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