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Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys - Castle Studio 1950-1951: Complete Sessions (2017) {5CD Set RWA ACD 12522}
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© 1950-51, 2017 Castle / Decca / Richard Weize Archives | ACD 12522
Bluegrass / Country / Close Harmony / Old-Timey / Traditional Bluegrass / Bluegrass-Gospel

5-CD hardcover album (CD-size) - 68-page booklet - 181 tracks -(366 min.). For devotees of Bill Monroe's music, the CD box sets issued by BEAR FAMILY beginning in 1989 were the answer to a listener's dream: having the bluegrass originator's complete recordings tastefully collected in boxes, with informative books included. What we now have is something even more dreamlike: all the familiar Monroe recordings for DECCA in 1950-51, featuring lead singers Jimmy Martin, Carter Stanley, and Edd Mayfield, presented next to – unbelievably – all the outtakes (none pre- viously issued) of all the tracks. Among other things, this means multiple takes of Raw Hide.

John Adams - Fellow Traveler: The Complete String Quartet Works of John Adams - Attacca Quartet (2013) {Azica ACD-71280}
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© 2013 Azica Records | ACD-71280
Classical / Modern Classical / Chamber Music / Post Minimalism

When it comes to composers broadly categorized under the heading of minimalism, it's rare to find works grouped by genre in the conventional way. But the Attacca Quartet, a young group out of New York's Juilliard School, shows what can be done with this set of three pieces by John Adams, entirely different in tone but clearly the products of the same composer. The best-known work on the program, John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994), has been recorded several times.

Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jack Bruce, John Stevens - This That (1994) {Atonal Records ACD 3017}
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© 1994 Atonal Records } ACD 3017
Jazz / Blues Rock / Fusion / Neo-Bop

Heckstall-Smith was an active member of the London jazz scene from the late 1950s. He joined Blues Incorporated, Alexis Korner's groundbreaking blues group, in 1962, recording the album R&B from the Marquee. The following year, he was a founding member of that band's breakaway unit, The Graham Bond Organization. (The lineup also included two future members of the blues-rock supergroup Cream: bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker.)

Terry Riley - In C - Raoul Duguay, SMCQ, Walter Boudreau (2000) {Atma Classique ACD 2 2251}
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© 2000 Atma Classique | ACD 2 2251
Classical / Contemporary Classical / Avant-Garde / Experimental / Minimalism

"In C" is one of those contemporary works of which each listening differs from the previous one. Not because the interpretation is better or worse, but because the score is moving, according to the wishes of Terry Riley. We know, with "Stimmung", "In C is one of the two great works of the 60s, reacting against the excessive drift of contemporary music, serial type Terry Riley wanted to reappropriate modern and traditional music, in especially those coming from the East.

Natasha Barrett - Kraftfelt (2005) {Aurora ACD 5037}
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© 2005 Aurora | ACD 5037
Classical / Electroacoustic / Experimental / Modern Classical / Musique Concrète

The first "5.1 Surround Sound" release on Aurora contains three works by Natasha Barrett. Barrett was born in England, but moved to Norway in 1999, and is a central figure on the Norwegian electro-acoustic scene. These pieces are written and developed in the electronic domain, and composed especially for the surround sound environment, however the composer has developed stereo versions of the pieces as well, which are found on the standard CD available in the package. The pieces on Kraftfelt (Force Field) take place in the space between the abstract moving and the concrete descriptive. In "…fetters…" the laws of physics control the dramatic and audial content.

Pawel Szymanski - Partita III i IV, Dwie Etiudy, Lux aeterna, Miserere (1997) {CD Accord ACD 038-2}
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© 1994, 1997 Polskie Radio / CD Accord | ACD 038-2 / 011 378-2
Classical / Contemporary Classical

A monographic record of one of the greatest Polish composers of postmodern time - Paweł Szymański. The compositions recorded here perfectly define his compositional idiom, which consists mainly of two elements: a heterophonic texture and a specific technique of surconventionalism (composer's definition), consisting in revealing only parts of the musical narrative, so that the listener must reconstruct the whole by imaginary force. The tracks are characterized by a "ragged" rhythmic course and a wealth of color means. As a result, Szymański's unusually expressive, original style is perfectly recognizable to anyone who has ever met his music.

George Barnes and Carl Kress often teamed up to play guitar duets from 1962-65, although they made relatively few recordings. "Guitars Anyone?" was their last meeting on record, and it finds the pair in high spirits on a dozen selections. The second part of this CD features Barnes' Second Quartet with Dick Hyman, Hank Jones, Milt Hinton, Jo Jones and others.

After 3 years of a strong return to the "Master & M" Lizard prepared for their fans another position - presented "little yellow, a little more white." The music on the album is dominated by autumn atmosphere, not only in the title closely associating the color of autumn leaves. The band recorded the album in autumn, during the preparations for the jubilee concerts and is also reflected in the shape and content of the material presented.

Call of the Wild is the third studio album by singer Lee Aaron, released on June 27, 1985 through Attic Records; a remastered edition was reissued in 2002 through Unidisc Music. The album reached #86 on the RPM Canadian Albums Chart on August 24, 1985 and remained on the chart for twelve weeks…