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Aérea Negrot – It’s Lover, Love Continue to lyrics / tracklist →
Venezuelan born (1980), singer/producer residing in Berlin.
Influenced by classical and electronic music, Aerea Negrot integrates a wide range of elements into her productions, creating somehow, experimental pop songs.
World of Echo
Arthur Russell – Lucky cloud
Arthur Russell (May 21 1951 – April 4, 1992) was a prodigious talent. Classically trained on cello while growing up in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Arthur studied with Ali Akbar Khan in San Francisco in the early 1970’s.
During this period he also collaborated with Allen Ginsberg, accompanying him on cello while Ginsberg read or sang. Russell also spent time in a Buddhist commune in California; he left when they decided to collectivize his cello.
View the documentary about him.
Sledgehammer ’57
John Coltrane – Chronic blues (sampled by genesis)
John William Coltrane (Hamlet, North Carolina, September 23, 1926 – Huntington, New York, July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
American jazz great John Coltrane emerged in the 1950s, playing tenor and soprano sax with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. A leader of “hard bop”, in the 1960s he led his own groups and changed the face of jazz with experimentation and improvisation, his later recordings reflecting his belief that music was a form of spiritual expression.
Germany
Balanescu Quartet – String Quartet No. II 3
The Balanescu Quartet is a London-based avant-garde string quartet founded in 1987 by Romanian-born violinist Alexander Bălănescu. The group achieved fame through the release of Possessed, consisting of complex cover versions of songs by German experimental electronic music band Kraftwerk.