The great orchestra conductor and composer, Leonard Bernstein, never got over this one fact: that his great accomplishment in composition was not one of his later classical opuses but rather the music score to a Broadway play. But, it's true, and this musical score is as close to perfection as any. The Hollywood treatment, replacing good Broadway voices with great operatic uncredited singers, only made things better.
-The Warumpi Band originated in the Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in the central desert region of the Northern Territory in the early eighties. The Warumpi Band wrote, recorded and released the first rock song in an Aboriginal language "Jailanguru Pakarnu" (Out From Jail) in 1983
-Formerly a member of Yothu Yindi and Saltwater Band, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, who was blind from birth and passed away at age 46, released his first solo album in 2008. He sang mostly in the Indigenous languages of the Gumatj, Galpu and Djambarrpuyngu people, and attracted immense global acclaim,
Heavy 1967 prog rock benchmark which paved the way for hard rock and metal. Includes "You Keep Me Hanging On".
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Forever Changes (Love)
ARTHUR LEE y sus compañeros de Love tenían inclinaciones artísticas y creativas más allá del single pop de tres minutos. Y el tercer álbum de la banda, Forever Changes, lanzado en octubre de 1967, representaría el zenith de esas ambiciones. Es un clásico absoluto. maravilloso, innovador y un disco eterno.
This album is sometimes credited to Ash Ra Tempel but the music was composed and performed by Gottsching alone. All sounds were created with guitar, but Gottsching's use of echo, delay, and assorted treatments give these pieces the flavor of sequenced synthesizer music, occasionally reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's work from the period.