Letter from Ron Kadish ....

Hi Claudio,

It must be Spring, because awesome new music keeps coming our way! Let me tell you about just a little of it.

Punk rocker turned historical preservationist Jason Hamacher is back with a May 12 release: Lost Origin Sounds Series, "Forty Martyrs: Armenian Chants from Aleppo". Recorded in the resonant Forty Martyrs Armenian Orthodox Church in Aleppo just before Syria's civil war began, this recording captures a time, place, and language poised to blink out of existence.

Lost Origins - Wondrous Happenstance: A Last Echo from Syria’s Ancient and Embattled Armenian Community on Lost Origin’s Forty Martyrs: Armenian Chants from Aleppo - 
Lost Origins Sounds Series is releasing Forty Martyrs: Armenian Chants from Aleppo at the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, the tragic and bloody Ottoman campaign that drove many Armenians to the centuries-old community in Aleppo.
 
Veteran journalist Banning Eyre will be releasing a fantastic new book and CD project about the legendary Zimbabwean singer Thomas Mapfumo on May 5. This is a killer project, and I'm happy to be working with Banning on the CD release. (I don't have copies of the book, unfortunately, and a very limited number of CDs. If you'd like a CD let me know ASAP.)

Thomas Mapfumo - Thomas Mapfumo and Lion Songs: Essential Tracks in the Making of Zimbabwe
This album is the audio companion to the book Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe by Banning Eyre. Eyre first visited Zimbabwe and met Mapfumo in 1988. Since then, he has enjoyed a 27-year friendship with the artist, his family and musicians.
 
What do you get when a rock tuba player with a serious Balkan bent turns his eye towards composing? Check out Rob Teehan's new release for the wonderfully crafted and highly cinematic answer.

Rob Teehan - Long Way Home: How Rock Tuba, Eastern European Antics, and Moving Images Led Composer Rob Teehan to Come Home - 06/10/2015 - Release 
Toronto-born composer Rob Teehan has inhabited many unexpected places, demanding unusual approaches: Soloing to mad crowds across North America and Eastern Europe on the sousaphone (marching band tuba). Creating string quartet mash-ups with DJ Skratch Bastid. Learning rock and soul attitude from Prince’s masterful guitarist.

Please let me know if you'd like any or all three of these great upcoming releases.

Best,
Ron

ron kadish, publicist
ron@rockpaperscissors.biz