This morning's #workout #music is from the great Maalem Mahmoud Guinia in a high fidelity performance. I first got into gnawa back in the early 90s and it is hard to name a better practitioner than Guinia. His album with Pharoah Sanders is, of course, a classic of #jazzFusion and #CrossCulturalCollaboration. His album Colours of the Night (release by @hivemindmarc in 2017) is probably my favorite. Calm joy through sound.

https://youtu.be/6blGJldtGWw
#Gnawa #Marrakech #KettleBells #RotationTraining

https://zehra.bandcamp.com/album/the-trance-of-seven-colors

https://maalemmahmoudgania.bandcamp.com/album/colours-of-the-night

Sylvia Brooks SOLILOQUY

https://www.makingascene.org/sylvia-brooks-soliloquy/

“I believe in the power of music to heal, to transform, to transport, to inspire and to unite people." — Chick Corea (June 12, 1941 - February 9, 2021)

Happy heavenly birthday. Chick Corea's influence on jazz and fusion is immense. His compositions and virtuosic playing reshaped modern piano and ensemble interplay, and his legacy continues to inspire musicians across genres.

Return To Forever • Romantic Warrior • CBS Records • 1976

#chickcorea #chickcoreaforever #jazzfusion #vinyl

today i came across original painting that was used as a cover to 1980's Den Za Den S/T infuential/representative yugoslav jazz rock scene

we had this album at home. i don't know how much i listened to it as very young but as i'm listening now it feels like it is quite familiar -- actually just spoted a part that i'm 100% myself and Miklavž Pirnat aka Trypno Nu Psylocybe sampled circa 97'

the album is pretty amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u07PSHe3V1U

it was a weird dejavu/image-spotting. of course also because the painting is futuro/sci-fi/gothic in content,... it is called CRUCIFIXION XX and is by Slobodan Zhivkovski and is dated 1976. digging around about Zhivkovski gets his behance and instagram as best sources, albeit poor and not resembling that painting much. he must have been very young when paiting it.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/23245149/Drawings
https://www.instagram.com/techno_neolith/

oh, and if you want to locate the paiting, it is in Restaurant Pelister right in the center of Skopje, on top of stairs otherwise leading to toilets, but well visible from the terace too.

#JazzRock #JazzFusion #yugoslavia #ExYu #macedonia #music #jazz #skopje @altbot

Russ Miller ARRIVAL FEATURING RUSS MILLER SOUL – MIND – BODY

https://www.makingascene.org/russ-miller-arrival-featuring-russ-miller-soul-mind-body/