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"A Guide to the Birdsong of South America"

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This is a cool project I can get behind.

A Guide to the Birdsong of South America' is a non-profit, crowd-funded album of music inspired by birdsong. Featuring some of the continent's most talented young musicians and producers, each artist used the recorded song of an endangered species from their country and created an original track.

The album aims to raise awareness about the plight of these birds and also to raise funds for those working to protect them. All proceeds will be donated to a pair of Ecuadorian NGO birding charities, which will include paying the salary of chief ranger of the Tapichalaca reserve, home to the Jocotoco Antpitta, Franco Mendoza.

The compilation highlights the new wave of South American musicians revisiting the region's rich musical heritage in the 21st century and offers a diverse snapshot of the region's new sound. Taking in seven South American countries from Brazil to Chile and ten artists, from the much hyped digital Peruvian cumbia of Dengue Dengue Dengue to Argentinian rhythm trio Tremor. French born Nicola Cruz has worked with electronica whizz Nicolas Jaar, and has now returned to his roots in Ecuador, making this project close to him in every sense of the word.

The birdsong and the story of these 11 unique birds became the building block for each track in a myriad of different ways by each artist. Some used the song as a sample throughout, others incorporated it into the background while some even transformed the birds into a synthesizer.

This album not only celebrates great music but also the majesty of these species and the need to protect them. Art can be an effective vehicle to transmit a message and, in this case, remind us of the need to protect our planet and the species we share it with.
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Art Pepper Live At Ronnie Scotts, 20th June 1980

Another cassette (sorry team). This is my favourite from the pile to date, it's superb. The music is absolutely fantastic and what really makes it killer is the chat in between tracks. He talks about moving back to playing the clarinet, the upcoming release of his 'new' book, and the meaning behind the song Patricia (which he then plays). Interestingly, I thought this was going to be the same sessions which were recorded professionally for the 'Art Pepper At Ronnie Scotts' box set (released on Pure Pleasure) but it was actually recorded 7 days prior with a completely different selection of tracks.

Really really interesting, it makes me wonder if there are any record labels out there that would be interested in this stuff, the Pure Pleasure set is titled 'The Complete Art Pepper At Ronnie Scott's Club London June 1980', but it doesn't include this music from the same month so it's not exactly complete.

Also, if anyone knows of an archive which shows the dates/location/tracklist for old gigs could you send me a pm with a link please? I would be really interested to see if this info could be available so I can link each cassette to a tracklist etc

EDIT: There's even a part when a representative from Jazz Journal International walks on stage and presents Pepper with the award for their 1979 Reader's Poll musician of the year. He gives a great speech about only having 1 plaque before this one, which was a Downbeat award to commemorate his runner up status behind Charlie Parker in the late 1940's.

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