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Comes in black steel and measures 41” high, 34” wide, and 21” deep. Available with a short table that has a small shelf under the door or with a long table that has a bench, so you can sit comfortably close to the fire. Choose either a left or right side loading door and top or back vent. The Shaker is made in Germany and designed by Antonio Citterio with Toan Nguyen. It is the winner of the prestigious reddot design award and the Chicago Museum of Architecture and Design Good Design award for 2006.
The New York Percussion Ensemble - Bach For Percussion (mp3s)
MP3:
1. Fugue in G Minor-The Great (4:13)
2. Toccata in F Major (5:57)
3. Fugue in C Major (3:43)
Discovering this album in a thrift-store was one of the most startling experiences of my record-hunting life. Hearing good ol' Johann Sebastian performed on the likes of snare drums, woodblocks and tom-toms had me completely bewildered. The New York Percussion Ensemble didn't cheat by using melodic percussion instruments like xylophones or marimbas - the list of instruments on the back include, apart from the ones I just mentioned, tambourines, cymbals, maracas, castanets, bongos, claves, triangle, cowbell, tympani, boobams, and sleigh bells.
The sound lies closer to traditional African music then to classical. To quote a Time magazine review: "The result has the effect of an X-ray photograph of a flower — barely recognizable, eerie and oddly fascinating." We make available three of the album's four cuts - the first track, a version of "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," had a nasty gouge in it, but don't worry, it wasn't as good as the other three tracks.
This was no joke. Arranger John Klein's credits on the back cover are extensive - an early classical training, numerous classical and pop credits, and authorship of a "monumental two-volume work entitled 'The First Four Centuries of Music.'" I have no idea what this means, though: "Mr. Klein has composed music for no less then 137 dramas for the United States Treasury Department NBC Transcription Series..."
Passages from Finnegans Wake - Side One (27:13)
Passages from Finnegans Wake - Side Two (25:08)
You See Me Laughin' : Last of the Hill Country Bluesmen
In this day and age of media overload, it's astonishing that the wilds of America can still conceal vital, outstanding music that remains unrecorded and largely unheard. But Matthew Johnson, a skinny white boy from Mississippi, found a heap in his own backyard. In the early '90s, turned on to blues by a University of Mississippi class taught by rock critic and historian Robert Palmer, Johnson was inspired to seek out nearby elderly blues guitarists. Though he flunked the class, the young future label mogul went on to meet and record R.L. Burnside (a former cohort of Mississippi Fred McDowell), Junior Kimbrough (a local juke-joint owner, superb guitar player, and father of 28 children), Cedell Davis (a crippled but resolute guitarist), and T-Model Ford (an illiterate former convict who picked up his first guitar at age 58).