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Ry Cooder's Ceyleib People are arguably one of the more innovative groups of the late 60's. Taking the loping blues romp of Captain Beefheart and filtering it through Indian music, the group created a very short album, Tanyet what would be an EP now, of two 10 minute parts. For 1967, this is definitely hippy experimental music, hopping from guitar riffs to sitar drones to mellotron rambling and back without regard for convention. It's almost as if there was an intent to fuse the influences of Ravi Shankar with those of the old blues legends, except that rarely is there...

Bleiburg is a project created by Stefan Rukavina, the man behind the german label and Death In June fan club Thaglasz. He has since been joined by Edmund W. Schroeder (programming, various instruments, sampling, sequencing, main vocals, texts) and A. Schwarz (programming, various instruments, sampling, sequencing), as well as guest M. Turkovic (programming, guitar, main and backing vocals, sequencing). The project is influenced by the Bleiburg massacre, a crime committed by Yugoslav partisans on Croatian Nazi collaborators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleiburg_massacre .

Leib Glantz was born in 1898 in Kiev, the Ukraine. His father and both grandfathers were great cantors with Chassidic backgrounds. Leibele, as he was fondly nicknamed, was eight years old when he first appeared as a cantor. Word spread swiftly about the child prodigy, and invitations to appear flowed in from all over Europe. In his teens he organized and conducted a large choir in his father’s synagogue, a choir that would sing highly complex choral compositions by Baruch Schor, Solomon Sultzer, Louis Lewandowsky, Avraham Berkovitz Kalechnik, Joseph Goldstein, Nissan Belzer, David Novakowsky and Eliezer Mordechai Gerovitsch. He studied...

René Leibowitz (17 February 1913 – 29 August 1972) was a French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher born in Warsaw, Poland. He is remembered best as a champion for the music of the Second Viennese School and for his revolutionary anti-Romantic recordings of Beethoven’s symphonies. René Leibowitz was born in Warsaw on February 17, 1913. His musical career began with the study of the violin at the age of five. Between the ages of nine and thirteen he gave violin recitals in Warsaw, Prague, Vienna and Berlin, but his father decided to end his premature concert career, since he...