Bill Leslie
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Scotland - Grace Of The Wild www.billleslie.com
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est-selling and award-winning Celtic fusion artist Bill Leslie offers beautiful tracks of instrumental music inspired by a trip to his ancestral home of Scotland. Nine of the tracks are original melodies and five are traditional Scottish tunes including “Loch Lomond” and “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.” Instrumentation includes Leslie on acoustic guitar, Celtic flutes and whistles along with a hugely talented group of musicians playing grand piano, violin, cello, oboe, accordion and percussion. Leslie is famous for painting musical landscapes with his poignant and powerful melodies.
TERRA GUITARRA Dragonfly terraguitarra.com This album of instrumental Spanish style guitar music showcases a musical journey of travels and expressions of acoustic guitar at it’s most emotional and passionate. The entire CD insert is also a mini art show of paintings guitarist Bruce Hecksel created throughout the recording process of the album and for the project, in his original theme of guitar landscapes, Terra Guitarra. VANESSA Vo & Kronos Quartet Three-Mountain Pass vananhvo.com An Emmy Award-winning soundtrack composer, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo’s hyper-virtuosic Vietnamese traditional music enters the experimental world with a bang. In addition to dan tranh, Võ also performs as soloist on the monochord, the 6-string hammered dulcimer, the bamboo xylophone, among other instruments. Vo and the Kronos Quartet are worthy matches for this crossover that pushes both into new territory.
BAREFOOT DIVAS Walk A Mile In My Shoes barefootdivas.com.au Australia’s most acclaimed female Indigenous singer/songwriters, Barefoot Divas, come together with their sisters from New Zealand and Papua New Guinea to release their remarkable live album Walk A Mile In My Shoes. Helpmann Award winner Ursula Yovich (Aborigine) and Black Arm Band favourite Emma Donovan (Aborigine) join Whirimako Black, Maisey Rika, Merenia and Ngaiire (Papua New Guinea) in a powerful symbolic musical collaboration. Brian Prunka Nashaz rockpaperscissors.biz Jazz guitarist Brian Prunka makes an organic new integration of jazz and Arabic music, with tastes of Sudan, the Balkans, and Central Asia, bringing together the soul of the oud and the spontaneity and energy of jazz with memorable, sinuous melodies and kinetic Eastern grooves on Nashaz.
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