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From Oakland, California, Edmund Welles: The Bass Clarinet Quartet invented and engineered their so-called “heavy chamber music”. Four bass clarinettes and no other instruments! Debut review from our friend Caglar Kanzik / Etrafta.

Released last month on the ever-amazing 12 Rec netlabel Through All These Years of Trying To Belong is the collaborative work of netlabel veteran Emil Klotzsch and bass clarinettist Ruediger Krey.

Legendary bassist Henry Grimes has a rerelease on ESP-Disk, of the one and only disc he has been a leader on named “The Call“.

We’ve already mentioned this year’s most exciting lineup on Leaf where A Hawk and a Hacksaw meet with the Hun Hangar Ensemble lead by Béla Ágostone master of Hungarian folk music & jazz and a multi instrumentalist playing Hungarian bagpipes, clarinet, alto saxophone, taragoto, viola.

Well, after a busy week and no updates we are back. Let’s start this weekend with a post on the multi talented Jewish rabbi Mr. Tzvi Gluckin. You know I have a thing with interesting names and I should admit that his name was the first thing that intrigued me (and you know I am obsessed with grassroots jewish music for the last months), but after some quick research I’ve come across a very interesting figure.

Here is Turlu Tursu (means something like varied pickles in Turkish.) a band from Belgium with many traditional influences like Balkan, Celtic music as well as oriental music and klezmer. A diverse fusion of world cultures with jazz, rock and dub, Turlu Tursu’s music has many exotic instruments like Indian flute and Bansuri etc. in addition to the standards : accordeon, clarinet, drum and bass.