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Zoid is a 50 minute soundscape or sound sculpture which was created using over dubs, digital editing, digital synthesis and sampling by Mike Ellis and features Chicago trumpet player Jeff Beer (who can also be heard on the AlphaPocket release Chicago Spontaneous Combustion Suite). This piece is in tribute to late trumpet great Lester Bowie and the Australian aboriginal culture. Quicktime will be necessary to listen. Please be sure you have the latest version.

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Mike Ellis - Bahia Band

Mike Ellis Bahia Band
World Jazz from Salvador BA Brazil.
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Mike Ellis Soundscape
Mike Ellis has shown in the past his extraordinary ability to meld many influences together into a coherent whole underscored by an uncompromising aesthetic. Just when you think the music is getting too abstract, he strikes a groove or mood that brings the listener back to a secure and enjoyable vantage point. He is a master at using large groups of musicians to realize these aims. Soundscape is a musical voyage and needs to be listened to from beginning to end as a whole. - David Liebman.
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Speak in Tones Subaro
Bamako (Mali), New York City, Salvado de Bahia (Brazil)...urban jungle world-jazz groove pan-cultural soundscapes.
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Brice Wassy Meditations
Traditional Cameroonian instruments provide the distinctive timbre palette for this exotic, lush, and hypnotic polyrhythmic soundscape.
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Mike Ellis
Chicago Spontaneous Combustion Suite
Free form improvisation, no holds barred free jazz performed by exceptional musicians who love that music.
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Taj Weekes & Adowa Hope & Doubt
Roots rock reggae and soul, an organic and original testamonial of life in Babylon.
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Mike Ellis
Mike Ellis/Bahia Band
The Bahia Band is a project that developed after visiting Salvador (Bahia) Brazil several times during the recording and mixing of the Speak in Tones “Subaro” project (2003-2004). I fell in love with it’s people and it’s music. I have now come to make it one of my homes. This band is basically a continuation of what I’ve been doing along with artists like Graham Haynes, Brice Wassy, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Antoine Roney, Steve Coleman, Lonnie Plaxico, Santi DiBriano, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Roy Hardgrove, Wallace Roney, Leon Parker, Sam Newsome, Cassandra Wilson, Gino Sitson, Elizabeth Kotomonou, Daniel Moreno and Jorge Amorim for more than 10 years now, which is something I like to call “World Jazz”.

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