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Let It Go Or Give In, Take 2 by pazazygeek

MeFi Music This is a wicked rough, one take demo of one of the seven songs I will be recording with a full band for my EP. I would love to hear about what you think. I actually posted the original version of this song quite a while back. It’s since been changed relatively [...]

Fricke’s Picks: String Dreams

By itself, the first disc of the two-CD set Open Strings: 1920s Middle Eastern Recordings/New Responses (Honest Jon’s) is an essential trip: torrid improvisations by local oud and violin masters such as Nechat Bey, Sami Chawa and Abdul Hussein Khan Shahnazi, recorded by EMI in Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Turkey, nearly 90 years ago. [...]