At the heart of Sean Shibe’s album Camino is Catalan composer Federico Mompou’s Suite compostelana, an atmospheric, affectionate homage to Santiago de Compostela, the destination on the famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route that winds through northern Spain. But this collection of French and Spanish music also represents a personal journey for the award-winning guitarist, as he sets out afresh with a new record label, Pentatone, and seeks solace from the melancholy and solitude of the pandemic in music he played in his youth. Alongside Mompou, de Falla’s moving tribute to Debussy, Poulenc’s introspective “Sarabande,” Satie piano works deftly arranged for guitar, and Ravel’s “Pavane pour une infante défunte” all provide comfort and reassurance. It’s beautifully phrased and recorded with equal intimacy.
Excellent prog/symph and Celtic folk from Finland that's related to The Samurai Of Prog.
A leading band in the developpement of the South America progressive rock scene with Los Jaivas and a few others. Their music is a solid combination of jazz rock, ethnic folk with sometimes subtle "spacey" symphonic arrengements…
For centuries pilgrimage was one of the greatest adventures on earth, involving epic journeys across the country and around the world. This series sees Simon Reeve retrace the exciting adventures of our ancestors. He learns about the forgotten aspects of pilgrimage, including the vice, thrills and dangers that all awaited travellers. He explores the faith, the hopes, desires, and even the food that helped to keep medieval Britons and more recent travellers on the road.
Chet Baker was a primary exponent of the West Coast school of cool jazz in the early and mid-'50s. As a trumpeter, he had a generally restrained, intimate playing style and he attracted attention beyond jazz for his photogenic looks and singing.
Chet Baker was a primary exponent of the West Coast school of cool jazz in the early and mid-'50s. As a trumpeter, he had a generally restrained, intimate playing style and he attracted attention beyond jazz for his photogenic looks and singing. But his career was marred by drug addiction. Baker's father, Chesney Henry Baker,Sr., was a guitarist who was forced to turn to other work during the Depression; his mother, Vera (Moser) Baker, worked in a perfumery. The family moved from Oklahoma to Glendale, CA, in 1940. As a child, Baker sang at amateur competitions and in a church choir.