Orelsan Sama

Although these live tracks were recorded on the same evening in 1978 as McCoy Tyner's earlier Milestone album Passion Dance, they inexplicably remained unreleased until 2004. With Tyner joined by a powerful rhythm section consisting of bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams, the fireworks begin with an explosive interpretation of the pianist's "The Greeting." Next are two solo piano features, including a return to Tyner's exotic "Aisha" and "Sama Layuca," the latter building upon a hypnotic vamp from Tyner's left hand as thunderous chords with occasional tremolos are played by his right hand. ~ AllMusic

As a music and graphic duet, Gangpol & Mit have jointly developed, since 2002, a peculiar universe of digital pop inhabited by colorful and geometrical characters: a bunch of shy salarymen, call-center music lovers, or disturbed parking attendants jumping from mondofuturistic musicals to severe apocalyptic batucadas.
Their sonic and visual world find its roots and echoes the humour of duos like Yello or Sparks, hybrid arrangements of the French François de Roubaix, and narrative sides of cartoon and graphic novel classics, occasionally re-appropriating moods and tips from many adventurous music styles: digital cumbia, shibuya-kei, synthetic funk or disco dangdut.

Lucette Bourdin and Darrell Burgan - Prasantih (2010)
MP3 320kbps | 73 min 13 sec | 167.58 Mb
Genre: Downtempo,Ambient | Label: Earth Mantra

Lucette Bourdin and Darrell Burgan return to Earth Mantra with their second collaborative release, an album of soothing ambient electronica entitled "Prasantih". Sometime in winter 2009-2010, Lucette and Darrell began working together on some cross-composed music, to see what sort of results might emerge from such a collaboration. Living thousands of miles apart, face to face recording was impossible. So instead they embarked upon a free-form style of composition, where each artist recorded bits of solo material called doodles, which were then shared mutually and remixed and reworked into whole new pieces. The result was a set of lovely ambient tracks that often bear little resemblance to the individual doodles that went into them.