Produced by Dylan Bell and Voyces Past

The Upstream Ensemble is a composer/performer collective based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Their remarkable music is a hybrid of the rich musical experience of all eight of its members.

Bellows & Brass (Guy Few, trumpet and piano ; Joseph Petric, accordion ; Alain Trudel, trombone) ; Boyd McDonald, piano.

From the romantic miniature tone poems of Barrios and the exuberant Afro-Caribbean folk rhythms of Casseus to the exotic colours of Domeniconi, we hear a rich legacy of influences that have come to bear on guitar music in the late Twentieth century.