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7 CONTINENTS – Global Jams by Maurice Gainen (2008)

Maurice Gainen is a multi-faceted Los Angeles, U.S.A.-based jazz musician, producer and arranger with his own studio.  In particular, he has worked for 12 years as music director, performer and sound engineer with the Hues Corporation, who had a #1 hit in the 1970s and who appear on one of the tracks on this CD.  The music here represents a journey to the continents and is played and sung by various musicians from their homelands, in collaboration with Maurice on a variety of flutes and saxophones.  The continent of Antarctica is represented by Antarctic Sunrise, a track with Maurice’s tranquil flute melody superimposed over real recorded sounds of penguins, skuas, seals, cracking glaciers and winds.  The natural soundscapes were recorded by Douglas Quin, who has spent many seasons in Antarctica.  Empyrean EM-754-5; www.mauricegainen.com; (See also ANTARCTICA by Douglas Quin (1998) in the above “Non-Classical, all or significantly Antarctic” commentary.)

 

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