Synergetic Voice Orchestra - MIOSIn 1989, pianist and composer Yumiko Morioka put together a group of diverse street musicians and semi professional players for a project that would come to be called the Synergetic Voice Orchestra. Inspired by Yumiko's love of different musical cultures from around the globe, the band drew on influences from India, Ethiopia, Mali, Korea and China to create an album that merged these sonic identities with more traditional sounds from the southern

intuitively perceptive kind

Sung on record and described in liner notes with Hermes Nye's characteristic down-home humor

(kariti) - ('mourn the dead' in church Slavonic

It's emotional and intellectual power is considerable

opens the album with a quirky

are rooted in it's tradition

released in 1970

Raze 'Break 4 Love' gets a much deserved remastered reissue on Champion

pianist McCoy Tyner assembled a quartet with Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone)

Body Rock revisits and modernizes Maribel's freestyle classic "Roses Are Red" for a new generation of freestyle fans

Bananarama has been one of pop's most influential and revered groups

Prism includes contributions from Youth