Richard Harvey – Nifty Digits (1980, LP, England)

Tracklist:

A1 Motor Roller 2:57

A2 Festival (a) 2:10

A3 Festival (b) 2:05

A4 Exchange 2:13

A5 Dragonfly Dance 2:10

A6 Water Course (a) 1:57

A7 Water Course (b) 0:40

A8 Storm Riders 2:16

B1 Nifty Digits 2:28

B2 Song Of The Open Spaces (a) 4:00

B3 Song Of The Open Spaces (b) 3:00

B4 Air Spirals 0:56

B5 Soft Caress 1:35

B6 Victorian Lullaby 2:00

B7 Light Dancing 1:10

B8 Graylands 2:20

Composed By – Richard Harvey

The Seventh Century – Trinity - The Joffrey Ballet (1971, LP, Usa)

Liner notes says The Seventh Century is a contemporary instrumental ensemble with a musical concept that spans the 700 years of organized , written instrumental music...

Incredible lp from start to finish composed and arranged by Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge in New York. The group creates a variety of sounds variously reminiscent of the high renaissance to 70's jazz groove, baroque psych, orchestral folk sounds, a sublime oddity, not really known and underestimated.

Moondog - Moondog 2 (1971, LP, Usa)

Tracklist:
A1 Bells Are Ringing 1:19
A2 Voices Of Spring 1:47
A3 What's The Most Exciting Thing? 2:31
A4 All Is Loneliness 1:16
A5 My Tiny Butterfly 1:12
A6 Why Spend A Dark Night With Me? 1:09
A7 Coffee Beans 2:10
A8 Down Is Up 1:07
A9 Be A Hobo 1:09
A10 Remember 1:52
A11 I Love You 1:08
A12 Nero's Expedition 1:52
A13 No, The Wheel Was Never Invented 1:20
B1 With My Wealth 1:35
B2 This Student Of Life 1:24
B3 Some Trust All 1:28
B4 Wine, Woman And Song 2:23
B5 Sadness 1:22
B6 Maybe 2:03
B7 Each Today Is Yesterday's Tomorrow 1:37
B8 Imagine 2:16
B9 You The Vandal 2:08
B10 Trees Against The Sky 1:18
B11 Behold 1:27
B12 Sparrow 1:37
B13 Pastoral 2:42

Musicians:

Harp [Troubadour Harp] – Gillian Stephens

Percussion [Various Percussion Parts] – June, Mary, Specs Powel

Performer [Schom] – Stephen Silverstein

Viol [Viola Da Gamba] – Judith Davidoff

Virginal, Recorder, Piano, Harpsichord, Organ [Ancient Organ] – Kay Jaffee

Vocals, Percussion – June Hardin, Louis Hardin

Written-By – L. Hardin

Moondog 2 sees the return of the eccentric and visionary artist, who started his musical career as an idiosyncratic street musician in New York City.
On this album the focus does not lie on neo-classical experimentation alternating with jazz pieces. The style could rather be best described as modern Madrigals, renaissance avant-garde or simply…Moondog-music.
Repetitive and interlaced vocal lines are accompanied by Moondog’s typical and unique percussion patterns, as well as something that sounds like a harpsichord and occasional flutes.
Despite all of the pieces being quite short, in the long run, the musical maze becomes rather uniform with little change. The album thus feels almost like one musical idea stretched over plenty of short tunes. (RYM)

Gregorio Paniagua ‎– Batiscafo (1980, LP, Spain)

Tracklist:
A1 Dragon - 7:35
A2 Plancton - 4:02
A3 Kyrie Nicolai - 2:24
A4 Ciao - 4:16
B1 Spaghetti Alla Milanese - 6:15
B2 Vt De Sac - 2:02
B3 Preludio Balsamico Y Chacona - 1:54
B4 Batiscafo - 3:11
B5 Agua De Colofonia - 1:47
B6 Asi Es - 3:00

“Batiscafo” by Gregorio Paniagua is one of these elusive treasures. First released in 1980 on Hispavox, the album disappeared after a short run and no further editions in any format have been available until now. Paniagua is a classically trained musician and scholar of music with an extensive and fruitful history of researching, recording and rediscovering ancient music and has toured across the world to great critical acclaim. In 1980 he shut himself off from the world every night for a whole month to record “Batiscafo”: a record that seeks to emulate Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells and which vanished all too soon, becoming the Holy Grail of Spanish experimental music.
“Batiscafo” anticipated a wave of avant-garde Spanish music in the 80s with key figures such as Suso Sáiz, Pep Llopis, Ishinoana or Finis Africae who are now being rediscovered and admired outside Spain.
It is a highly original and imaginative record that continues to surprise listeners forty years on, with its bold combination of early electronic music, classicism, experimentation and psychedelia.

Angelo Branduardi ‎– Gulliver, La Luna E Altri Disegni (1980, LP, Italy)

Songs

1. La luna (2:49)

2. Tanti Anni Fa (5:06) 

3. Donna Mia (2:50)

4. Gli Alberi Sono Alti (4:09) 

5. Notturno (4:51)

6. Gulliver (4:11)

7. Rifluisce Il Fiume (4:29)

8. Confessioni di un malandrino (3:33)

9. Primavera (3:26)

10. La Danza (4:09)

Musicians

Angelo Branduardi / violin, classical guitar, flute, percussion

Maurizio Fabrizio / electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, percussion, quatro

Bruno De Filippi / bouzouki, quatro, guitar, sitar, banjo, harmonica

Gigi Cappellotto / electric bass

Andy Surdi / drums

Mike Logan / keyboards

Rondo' Veneziano ‎– Rondo' Veneziano (1980, LP, Italy)

Italian chamber orchestra led by Gian Piero Reverberi, playing in a classical crossover style, mixing traditional string instruments with synthesizers, bass guitar and drums.

Lato A

A1. Rondo' Veneziano (3:30)

A2. Tramonto Sulla Laguna (3:35)

A3. San Marco (3:20)

A4. Allegro Veneziano (3:10)

A5. Giochi D'Acqua (3:41)

Lato B

B1. Colombina (3:05)

B2. Notte Amalfitana (4:48)

B3. Andante Veneziano (4:12)

B4. Danza Mediterranea (5:00)

Musicians

Gian Piero Reverberi - direttore d'orchestra, pianoforte, clavicembalo

Orchestra Sinfonica di Genova

« ... il nome del gruppo musicale è nato dalla stessa composizione "Rondò veneziano". Quando Freddy Naggiar mi chiese di proporre qualcosa di particolare e sulla falsariga di Branduardi, dopo varie vicissitudini composi quattro pezzi, appunto "Rondò veneziano", "San Marco" e... beh gli altri due non li ricordo sinceramente! In una giornata registrammo i quattro brani come provini utilizzando un'orchestra composta da diversi elementi classici, ove in più accostai il basso e la batteria... e già in quel momento gli stessi elementi di quell'ensemble storsero il naso. A Baby Records il discorso dei provini andò giù e così si decise di comporre altri cinque pezzi e a formare i nove in totale del primo album del 1980. Un aneddoto particolare di quella prima esperienza fu che la prima orchestra utilizzata per registrare i quattro provini, si rifiutò categoricamente di entrare a far parte del progetto, successivamente poi quando le vendite del primo album schizzarono a ben 750.000 copie e forti anche di ottime posizioni in classifica, gli stessi umori all'interno di quell'ensemble si scontrarono l'uno con l'altro rei di aver perso una grande occasione!!! » (Intervista a Gian Piero Reverberi del 2000)

Ensemble Ambrosius - Live in Edinburgh (2002, FM broadcast BBC Radio 3, Finland)

Chamber music group, established in 1995, which plays modern music on baroque instruments.

This is the FM broadcast (on BBC Radio 3, 13 March 2002) of a concert given at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh by the Ensemble Ambrosius of works by themselves, FZ and Ligeti. They are an interesting bunch of guys who like to play contemporary music on Baroque period instruments, and have gained approval from the ZFT for their arrangements of some of FZ's works.

Tracklist:
1. Intro [1:34]
2. Pienet Sienet (Tiny Mushrooms) (Knif) [5:22]
3. Uncle Meat [4:34]
4. Night School [5:46]
5. Igor's Boogie [1:09]
6. Black Page #2 (New Age/Bach version) [4:23]
7. Yptor (Virtaperko/Knif) [5:27]
8. Zoot Allures [3:23]
9. Big Swifty [3:03]
10. Echidna's Arf (Of You) [4:34]
11. Questa storia del mago non mi convince (Virtaperko) [6:40]
12. G-Spot Tornado [4:50]
13. Hymni (Virtaperko) [8:34]

The ensemble for this occasion was:
Janne Nisonen (baroque violin), Anni Haapaniemi (baroque oboe, oboe d'amour, glockenspiel), Jonte Knif (chamber organ, harpsichord, dulcimer, melodica), Ere Lievonen (harpsichord, chamber organ), Jani Sunnarborg (baroque bassoon, obe da caccia, chamber organ), Tuukka Terho (archlute, baroque guitar), Olli Virtaperko (baroque cello), Ricardo Padilla (percussion).
1. 2. 3.