Nicki Bluhm
“Before You Loved Me” (mp3)
from “Driftwood”
(Tim Bluhm)
Willis Proctor & the Georgia Sea Island Singers
“One of These Days” (mp3)
from “I’ll Be So Glad When the Sun Goes Down: Alan Lomax’s “Southern Journey,” 1959-1960″
(Global Jukebox)
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Chikita Violenta
“Tired” (mp3)
from “TRE3S”
(Arts & Crafts)
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Gregg Allman Low Country Blues Rounder Records Genre: Blues : Rock & Roll UPC: 11661221529 Territories: World Release Date: 1.18.11 |
As a founding member of the one and only Allman Brothers Band, and in his own storied solo career, Gregg Allman has long been a gifted natural interpreter of the blues. From his legendary time with his brother, slide guitar god Duane, to his bountiful solo career, Gregg Allman has made himself a fixture in Rock n’ Roll. |
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Rie Sinclair A Moment RieMixed I Miss You Records Genre: Pop : Electronic UPC: 720992100273 Territories: World Release Date: 1.18.11 |
Emmy-Nominated Rie Sinclair follows up her debut LP with a collection of remixed versions of songs off that album entitled A Moment RieMixed. |
By: Mike Madavi
The Atlantic recently posted a great article interviewing John Szwed, who has just put out the first proper biography of Alan Lomax entitled Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World. The book covers the life and times of one of music’s most important figures; Lomax is well known for amassing one of the most important collections of ethnographic material in the world. His collection includes more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of motion picture film, hundreds of photographic prints and negatives, over 120 linear feet of correspondence, field notes, research files, and much more. Lomax’s recordings capture the very feel and culture of the places he visited such as the American south (where he discovered Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, and Woodie Guthrie), the Caribbean, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. Without a doubt, he is one of, if not “the,” most important figures in music for the 1900′s.
NPR’s fantastic All Things Considered program also just featured Szwed’s Lomax book on a recent broadcast. You can catch it over on their website.
IODA proudly handles a large portion of the Lomax catalog for digital distribution, which we count among the treasures in our catalog. Here we’re highlighting some of our favorite Lomax recordings including the newly released “Southern Journey” set and his acclaimed Hati recordings boxset. (more…)
Kirk Whalum
“Fit To Battle” (mp3)
from “The Gospel According To Jazz – Chapter III”
(Rendezvous Music)
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Danilo Perez
“Galactic Panama” (mp3)
from “Providencia”
(Mack Avenue Records)
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Artist: Alan Lomax
Title: Alan Lomax in Haiti
Label: Harte Recordings
Genre: World
UPC: 824247018617
Territory: World
Release Date: 11.17.09
We are very excited to help release an amazing collection of recordings by Alan Lomax in Haiti. Curated from over 50 hours of field recordings by the pre-eminent Haitian scholar, Gage Averill and released by Harte Recordings, together with the estate of Alan Lomax, and in collaboration with The Library Of Congress and the The Association for Cultural Equity.
From the time that Alan Lomax left his position as head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1942 through the end of his long career, he amassed one of the most important collections of ethnographic material in the world. It includes more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of motion picture film, hundreds of photographic prints and negatives, over 120 linear feet of correspondence, field notes, research files, and much more.
While recording for the Library of Congress in the 1930s, Lomax made trips to Haiti and the Bahamas. The recordings made in Haiti in 1936–37 provide a window on Haitian expressive culture recorded soon after the departure of the American Marines, while Haiti was in the throes of a nationalist and africentric movement.
Anna Lomax Wood, Lomax’s daughter, explains in the notes:
“…[W]e can now listen in to a pivotal era in Haiti’s cultural history, when the country was throwing off U.S. imperialism and embracing both its African roots and the coming influence of jazz and African-American/Afro-Caribbean popular music and dance.”
This groundbreaking production of the story, the sounds, and the sights of the legendary musicologist’s trip to Haiti is a 10 disc product,bundled with a 165 page digital booklet, containing extensive notes, Lomax’s journal, and hours of amazing, never-before-heard music that no longer exists on earth!
“Demonstration of the Tuning of the Malinoumbas” (mp3) by Ago’s Bal Band
“Instrumental Merengue” (mp3) by Surprise Jazz
“Drumming – 3 Drums of the Sosyete Boumba” (mp3) by Drummers of the Sosyete boumba
from Alan Lomax in Haiti
(Harte Recordings)
“Alan Lomax was capturing the human spirit in song … The music moves us … not only because the traditions it documents are disappearing, but because it lives and breathes anew each time it’s heard.”
— David Greenberger, NPR’s All Things Considered
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