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Rufus Cappadocia: Songs for Cello

Read "Songs for Cello" reviewed by Greg Camphire


Canadian-bred, New York-based cellist and composer Rufus Cappadocia is a world music traveler, having studied and performed in a variety of traditions--from American blues, folk and jazz to Spanish flamenco, Haitian voodoo drumming and various styles from the Balkans, the Middle East and India. Citing saxophonist John Coltrane and guitarists Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King as formative influences, and playing a self-designed, five-string electric instrument, Cappadocia whips up a hypnotic blend of sounds with Songs For Cello, his debut solo ...

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David Fiuczynski & Rufus Cappadocia: Kif

Read "Kif" reviewed by AAJ Staff


The country of Morocco is respected throughout Europe for, among other things, an estimated 30% of the continent's marijuana imports. The superior raw material called Kif is found there in the mountains of Rif. In Arabic, it's spelled كيف. Okay, got that? Enough said.

But don't go into Kif, the record, thinking it's some sort of stoner jam-band excursion. Quite the opposite: guitarist David Fiuczynski and cellist Rufus Cappadocia apply a razor edge to these pieces, asserting a ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Songs for Cello

Velour Music
2008

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Kif

FuzeLicious Morsels
2003

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