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Civilization, the debut album by Italian singer-songwriter Adele H, represents four years of thoughts, ideas, and melodies. Adele H is the solo music project of Adele Pappalardo, a singer-songwriter who uses just her voice and a Brazilian tambourine (and occasionally other percussion instruments) to create primordial experimental pop songs. The essential instrumentation creates primitive layers of music where the theme of spiritual awakening is celebrated. Each track was composed on several occasions in the space of four years, during which Adele left a stable job in Milan, Italy ("Everything Is Changing") to travel to America for three months, where she lived in Oakland. During those years she also read essays on civilization (especially Zerzan, Diamond) and expanded her understanding of Difference Feminism, Queer Theories, and Buddhist Philosophies. Civilization contains all these themes which have become a part of Adele H's artistic journey. The album traces a handful of years where Adele H experienced an awakening from a routine life in the city and represents a journey of liberation from societal coercions. This is most evident on the second track "Dogmas": a manifesto which states the desire to not be defined anymore, by anyone. At the same time, the appreciation for the little things in life is the vital statement which makes up Civilization; moments of solitude and rest in the woods after working for many hours in a mountain shelter in Italy. "This Silence" celebrates the nature which surrounded her after work, one late summer day. "Once A Day" tells the moment of an incredible sunrise that she admired from atop Cistella Mountain. The song reminds, that despite each of us alive on the planet, everywhere in the world (whether or not witnessed) there are great spectacles of nature (sunrises and sunsets), free sublime moments are happening continuously. Another big artistic breakthrough for Adele H was being part of the Civic Choir of Milan, where for a year she sang music in Latin with an 80 member choir. During that year Adele became dedicated to studying choral music. "I Wish I Was" was born out of her experiences with this sacred music and through the state of ego abolition that exists when singing as part of a choir. "Sun Walker" features Grant Corum.
"She builds small cathedrals made of interwoven voices, rhythmic sighs and breaths that become soundscapes, sound hypnosis. . . . Visionary. We await her debut full length LP Civilization with great anticipation." --Stefan Pifferi, SentireAscoltare, 2017
"A new name overlooks the experimental Italian scene, a feminine presence that uses an ancient language of intuition and spontaneity." --Roberto Mandolini, Rockerilla, April 2017
"It reminds of some church music, a liturgy suspended between sacred and profane! She seemed a promise and we weren't wrong. A more than gratifying debut album." --Gino Dal Soler, Blow Up, April 2017
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Robbie Basho's guitar playing was first brought to light in 1965, when John Fahey released Basho's debut The Seal of the Blue Lotus (1965) on his own Takoma Records. Basho was armed with a unique and powerful singing voice, his 6 & 12 string guitar and a collection of special guitar tunings that he created (even originating the "Esoteric Doctrine of Color and Mood'' - a chart denoting a color and mood for each of his special tunings). After three decades of recordings and touring and a prodigious output, Basho went largely unnoticed. In 1986, his voice was forever silenced by a tragic accident. Basho's music displays an intense passion for different cultures from around the world - heavily influenced by the Japanese (his self-chosen last name inspired by the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho), Persian, Classical Indian, and a culture much closer to home: Native Americans. Basket Full of Dragons is a collection of both original compositions and new interpretations of Basho's songs, and is the second volume to pay tribute to Basho, following We Are All One, In The Sun (IMPREC 295CD, 2010). Both volumes are curated and produced by musician Buck Curran and feature an international lineup of artists. As with the first tribute, this volume includes a contribution by German guitarist Steffen Basho Junghans. Junghans maintains the Robbie Basho online archives, a vital resource for all things Basho. California-based guitarist Richard Osborn (a former student of Robbie Basho) contributes a gorgeous original composition. Rich has dedicated his life to exploring and composing raga based guitar music and evokes the pure spirit of his teacher. Glenn Jones is featured, a leading proponent in the world today of the American primitive tradition. Basket Full of Dragons also features: guitarist Chuck Johnson, Buck Curran joined by Italian singer Adele H, Syrian oud player Tammam Saeed and percussionist April Centrone, Italian guitarist Paolo Laboule Novellino, a duet by Henry Kaiser and Michael Gulezian, Israeli composer Yair Yona, Twelve Hides with Ben Tweddell, Mike Tamburo, the collaboration of Mariano Rodriguez, Karina Vismara and Jonah Schwartz and singer Eva Sheppard joined by her father Jesse Sheppard on 12-string guitar. The past volume, We Are All One, received great press: Acoustic Guitar Magazine placed it amongst its "Best Albums of 2010", Pitchfork gave it a rating of 7.8, Guitar Player Magazine named it an "Editors Top Pick" and Mojo Magazine rewarded it four stars.
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