Jennifer Warnes - The Whole of The Moon

Jennifer Warnes is one of the most renowned singers of our time. Her voice is one of the loveliest instruments in contemporary music. As a solo artist or a duet partner, on albums or in movies, Warnes sings it straight from the heart. Her voice is pure. The emotions it conveys are pure, too.
  "To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think," says Warnes. "I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music."

  Warnes has recorded songs that have won both Grammys and Oscars, songs that have topped the pop charts and honored the most subtle aspects of art.

  Her smash duet with Joe Cocker, Up Where We Belong, is a defining example of her vocal majesty. Warnes is an artist with extraordinary emotional range. Her collaborations with Leonard Cohen - on his records, as well as on her classic album Famous Blue Raincoat - have a haunting, delicate beauty to them. For all the power and command in her voice, Warnes' singing reveals great emotional vulnerability.

http://www.jenniferwarnes.com

Carlos Alomar "Feline Lullaby (Sam's Song)"

Carlos Alomar (born 7 May 1951 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican guitarist, composer and arranger best known for his work with David Bowie, having played on more Bowie albums than any other musician other than Mike Garson. He has also performed with Duran Duran and with Duran Duran's side project Arcadia on the album So Red the Rose.

- Wikipedia

Bill Gable - "High Trapeze"

Bill Gable is an American singer-songwriter best known for his distinctive solo albums, “There Were Signs” and “This Perfect Day.”  A sophisticated and accomplished songwriter, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, his projects straddle the boundaries between pop, jazz and world music, resulting in a highly personal and evocative body of work.  His newest album, “No Straight Lines,” is scheduled for release in April 2015.

Bill Gable’s music has always defied easy categorization.  He grew up studying classical piano and cello, has a degree in literature, has travelled widely, and has worked with musicians and studied music from around the world – all of which contribute to his singular style.  Singled out for his “superb lyrical imagery” (Billboard) and “exotic grasp of world music” (MAC Report), “it’s the attention to musical detail and the perfect capture of mood with music that make Gable a remarkable artist.” (Jazz Link)


Bill Gable broke onto the scene in 1989 with his album “There Were Signs,” released worldwide by Private Music/BMG (and re-released worldwide by Sony Records in 2013).  The album, co-produced with Rob Mounsey (Steely Dan, Paul Simon), blends jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban influences in a colorful musical landscape.  Featuring Gable on vocals, guitars, synthesizers and sanfona, the rhythm sections include renowned pop drummers Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel, Crowded House) and Jeff Porcaro (Toto, Steely Dan), percussion legends Airto Moreira, Luis Conte (Madonna, Eric Clapton) and Manolo Badrena (Weather Report), with Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets, Bruce Hornsby), Mark Egan (Pat Metheny Group) and Octavio Bailly (Tamba Trio, Bossa Rio) on basses.  Incomparable jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff (Gil Evans, Blood, Sweat and Tears) adds his distinctive sound on several songs.  With elegant arrangements by Mounsey offset by Gable’s rawer rootsiness, the album creates a sound aptly described as “unlike anything on the radio today” (Mac Report), as true now as it was in 1989.

http://billgablemusic.com

Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar - Passages - 06 Prashanti

16 de septiembre 2014

En las décadas de los 80 y 90 la discográfica Private Music lanzó unos discos fenomenales, a la vez que desarrolló una identidad y sonido propios. Su catálogo incluyó trabajos de titanes como Eddie Jobson, Patrick O'Hearn, Leo Kottke, Jerry Goodman, Toots Thielemans, Carlos Alomar, Suzanne Ciani y Lucia Hwong.

Una de mis producciones favoritas de Private Music es Passages, una colaboración de dos gigantes de la música, el indio cosmopolita y trotamundos Ravi Shankar y el compositor vanguardista estadounidense Philip Glass.

Dice la Wikipedia:

Passages is a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990 through Atlantic Records.^[1] The album's content is a hybrid of Hindustani classical musicand Glass' distinct American minimal contemporary classical style. The album reached a peak position of number three on Billboard's Top World Music Albums chart.

Dan Hartman - De "Streets of Fire" a música ambient

13 de septiembre 2014

Sí, este es el mismo Dan Hartman que cantaba "I Can Dream About You" en la banda sonora de la película "Streets of Fire". En 1989 sacó un disco de música instrumental ambient-new age titulado New Green Clear Blue en la discográfica Private Music.
La entrada de Wikipedia de este disco es inusualmente larga y detallada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Green_Clear_Blue.
Hartman murió en 1994 debido a complicaciones médicas relacionadas al SIDA.