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SWP 048CD
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Twelve different tracks, 12 different moods. With guests David Tronzo (USA) on slide guitar, Yvonne Cornelius (Germany) on vocals, and Andy Moor (UK) on guitar. There is a string sextet, there are wailing electric guitars, there are thumb pianos, there are sensual vocals, there are various drums, there is an electric cello -- just a few of the colors on this album. This music cannot be categorized; you will have to hear it!
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SWP 049LP
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Limited-edition 180-gram LP version. Includes seven tracks from the CD version. With guests David Tronzo (USA) on slide guitar, Yvonne Cornelius (Germany) on vocals, and Andy Moor (UK) on guitar. There is a string sextet, there are wailing electric guitars, there are thumb pianos, there are sensual vocals, there are various drums, there is an electric cello -- just a few of the colors on this album. This music cannot be categorized; you will have to hear it.
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SWP 004CD
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1996 release. There are few contemporary productions where African polyrhythms, Western composition techniques and jazzy improvisations are mixed in such a fresh and surprising way. On this album, recorded in 1996, with the help of international friends David Tronzo (USA), Vitold Rek (PL), Michael Moore (USA), Hans Hasebos (NL), Mark Lotz (D), Michel Massot (B) -- all top musicians in the field of improvised music -- Zambian-born drummer/composer Michael Baird continues developing his "voodoo-jazz" style.
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SWP 018CD
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2002 release. A solo project by drummer/composer Michael Baird. Gongs and bells vibrate, tremble, quake, quiver, flutter, flicker, murmur, hum, throb, ding, dong, peal, ping, trill, tinkle, oscillate, ring and shake. Each one a microcosm, wonderfully recorded, capturing every overtone. The album enters the borderland between ethnic music, improvisation and soundscape without the pretension of being experimental, and where you seem to get liberated from all kinds of musical conventions. Includes an 8-page booklet.
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SWP 038CD
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2010 release. A nicely weird but groovy collection of 13 different pieces, all written and performed by drummer/composer/producer/field recordist Michael Baird. An ambient Afro-jazzy meltdown, original down to its inner core. Voodoo-jazz for all occasions. An idiosyncratic, avantgardistic mix of African rhythms, European jazz and pop. With some help from friends Layba Diawara (GUI) (balafon), Rick van Heerden (ZIM) (alto sax), Sophie de Vries (NL) (vocals), Marianne Noordink (NL) (nay), Cherry Wijdenbosch (SUR) (vocals), and Jasper le Clercq (NL) (violin). Housed in a 6-page digipak.
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SWP 029CD
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2005 release. Modern music with a pan-African basis! Zambian-born drummer/composer Michael Baird mixes electronics with audio and some words. This is highly personal music -- nine different rhythmic pieces, nine different moods. With wonderful contributions by guest musicians such as Kofi Ayivor (GHA), Ousmane Seye (SEN), Jeroen van Vliet (NL), and Konkie Halmeyer (CUR), who all love to cross over existing boundaries. Idiosyncratic groove music that cannot be confined to one category. Includes a 20-page booklet.
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SWP 042CD
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A solo project by Michael Baird, playing the music of the Roto-Bongi on a set of five closely-tuned drums, representing the sun, moon, earth, pre-life and after-life. This melodic approach has been passed down over the generations and is seen as ancient knowledge, reflecting a cosmic view of interconnectivity. (Actually the Roto-Bongi are not an imaginary people invented by MB, but the roto-toms and bongos he plays this music on!). Deep polyrhythms by a special drummer, with a splash of synthesizer added here and there. 17'18" of bliss.
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