Month: April 2011

• Music Recorded music

  BaianaSystem – BaianaSystem (Brazilian/ Guitarra Baiana)

  

  Guitarra Baiana is both a Brazilian musical style and an instrument: the instrument is a small solidbody electric guitar, derived from the cavaquinho, whose origins predate the American inventions of Leo Fender and Les Paul (although not the solid bodied Hawaiian guitar). The musical style was a 1950s instrumental genre,…

  April 13, 2011
• Music Recorded music

  Simon Little – Mandala (ambient/ solo bass/ jazz)

  

  One of the tracks on this album is titled ‘Ohm Is Where The Art Is’: it’s awfully tempting to run with that, and build a critical edifice around the idea of ‘ohm’ signifying a metaphorical sense of impedance or resistance, but to be honest, I’m pretty sure Simon Little’s artistic…

  April 13, 2011