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New Release - 'Resonance Vibration Frequencies'
Wed Sep 20th 2023 SACD album - 96kHz/32bit + surround sound + 44.1kHz/16bit 68 minutes of fascinating but warm music - Michael Baird plays metal objects and instruments, recording in a special way, capturing every last vibration. Indeed, science tells us: "The resonance theory of consciousness suggests that resonance is at the heart not only of human consciousness but of physical reality in general. All things in our universe are constantly in motion, vibrating. Even objects that appear to be stationary are in fact vibrating, oscillating, resonating, at various frequenci...
More...New Release - 'Banana Login'
Sat Apr 22nd 2023 Single track - digital release only The track 'Banana Login' was recorded back in 2016. We decided to release it as a 'single' now in April 2023 - to celebrate this new season of spring. And to get you feeling spritely and give you happy toes! With wonderful mastering by Zlaya Hadzic. A percussion duet with 2 log drums (sometimes also called slit drums). Ton van Dort plays the low drum and Michael Baird the high one. You can download the track as a high quality 48000 kHz/ 24 bit flac file, or wav, or mp3 - downloadable via https://swprecords.bandca...
More...Finally concerts Ferrari Safari!
Tue Aug 9th 2022 Four dates in the Low Countries After so many ups and downs, governmental incompetence, fear and panic, and gigantic pharmaceutical profits since corona took hold in Europe, finally concerts by Ferrari Safari - percussion duo with Michael Baird and Pino Basile. Hot, weird, contemporary, swinging - duets from an impossible safari full of adventure..... Thursday 15th September, at 20.30 hours, in Salon De Ijzerstaven, Bickersgracht 10, Amsterdam Friday 16th September, at 20.30 hours, in Podium Ongehoorde Muziek, Ruysdaelbaan 106, Eindhoven Saturd...
More...New CD and digital release March 1st!
Tue Feb 22nd 2022 SWP 067 'Thumbs on the Outside'. Always with one foot in Africa and one foot in Europe, Zambian-born drummer/composer Michael Baird continues along his own contemporary path of African abstractions and deep grooves. With guests Lilo (NL) - vocals, Pino Basile (IT) - tamburello, Marianne Noordink (NL) - alto flute & flute, Rémi Charmasson (F) - guitars, Michael Moore (USA) - clarinet & alto sax. About the album title: as any bush-driver will tell you, never have your thumbs on the inside of the steering wheel, as a hidden pot-hole can sudd...
More...Nederlandse Première 'Mutanuka and Syasiya'
Wed Sep 8th 2021 Saturday 16 October at 14.30 hours in Zaal 1, Louis Hartlooper Complex, Tolsteegbrug 1, Utrecht: after official selection for the Austria International Film Festival, the Lyons International Film Festival (USA), and the Docs Without Borders Festival (USA) where we also won an Award of Merit, our documentary film 'Mutanuka and Syasiya' can finally be seen in the Netherlands. Two old master musicians amongst the Leya people in southern Zambia, Crispin Mutanuka on the silimba xylophone and Edwin Syasiya on the kanimba lamellophone, are the l...
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