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Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", may refer to:

Computing[link]

• Nimbus (cipher), an encryption algorithm
• Nimbus Sans, a sans-serif typeface created by URW++, based on Helvetica
• Nimbus (cloud computing), an open-source software toolkit for running an infrastructure as a service

Fiction[link]

• Nimbus, a brand of broomsticks in Harry Potter series
• "Nimbus Littling", a 2-inch tall Littling tween who can create clouds by exhaling
• The Nimbus is Zapp Brannigan's star ship in the animated television series Futurama
• The Cloud that Goku flys on in the cartoon called DragonballZ is named Nimbus.

Organizations[link]

• Nimbus Publishing, a Canadian publishing company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Nimbus Records, a British record company specialising in classical music recordings
• Nimbus (technical festival), an Indian student technical festival

Racing[link]

• Nimbus II, a French thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1910
• Nimbus V, a British thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1946, and winner of the 1949 Epsom Derby
• Nimbus (video game), a racing video game

Science[link]

• Nimbus cloud, a cloud that produces precipitation
• Nimbus program of meteorological research

Vehicles[link]

• Nimbus (motorcycle), a Danish produced motorcycle, manufactured in two periods 1919-1924 and 1932-1954
• Albion Nimbus
• Mitsubishi Nimbus one name for the Mitsubishi Chariot
• Schempp-Hirth Nimbus, a family of high-performance, open-class sailplanes.

Other[link]

• Nimbus (literary magazine), a magazine of literature, arts and ideas published in London (1951–58)

See also[link]

• Halo (disambiguation)

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Fernando Delgadillo (born in Naucalpan, Estado de México, México on December 7, 1965) is a Latin American musician and composer. He is considered a major representative of the Folk music genre in Mexico.

Biography[link]

In 1986, he begins to perform in "El sapo Cancionero", a place in Mexico City that attracts little known folk singers. In 1988, he becomes a regular performer.

In 1989, along with other musicians and writers, he creates SEIMUS, which stands for "Sociedad de Escritores y Músicos Urbanos Subterraneos" (Society of Underground Urban Musicians and Writers).

In 1990, SEIMUS records a home made tape, and in the same year he tapes another two named "Fernando Delgadillo" and "La Cancion Informal" (Informal Song). in 1991 he records two more tapes. By 1992, he records his first CD, "Con cierto aire a ti"(With a certain air of you).

He keeps recording a number of records and in 1997 he travels to the Beijing International Television Festival, as the only Spanish-speaking singer,^[1] and some of his songs are translated into Chinese.

Delgadillo was also invited to the "Youth Festival" in Cuba, and in 1998, he presented his first CD in front of a major audience in the Metropolitan Theater in Mexico City. Later on, he played alongside Cuban musician Silvio Rodríguez during his Mexican tour in the National Auditorium.

Later on, he records in Spain a compilation of his work.

Currently, he plays in major Mexican theaters in a monthly basis.

Topics[link]

He mostly writes about everyday happenings, he's been often called the creator of an "informal" kind of songwriting. He is a master of metaphors and deals with topics such as nature, the longing of someone special, birthday gifts, popcorn fights, hot phonecalls, etc. He specializes in describing the extraordinary out of something very ordinary.

Selected discography[link]

See also[link]

• List of singer-songwriters/Mexico

References[link]

External links[link]

• Fernando Delgadillo's News, music and lyrics (Spanish)

Ralph Towner
Background information
Birth name	Ralph Towner
Born	(1940-03-01) 1 March 1940 (age 72)
Origin	Chehalis, Washington
Genres	Jazz, classical, folk, world
Occupations	Guitarist
Instruments	12-string guitar, classical guitar, piano
Labels	ECM Records
Associated acts	Oregon, Weather Report Gary Burton, Gary Peacock Jan Garbarek
Website	http://www.ralphtowner.com/

Ralph Towner (b. Chehalis, Washington, March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.^[1]

Biography[link]

Born in 1940 in Chehalis, Washington, Towner has made notable recordings of jazz, classical music, folk music, and world music. He began his career as a conservatory-trained classical pianist, who picked up guitar in his senior year in college, then joined world music pioneer Paul Winter's "Consort" ensemble in the late 1960s. Along with bandmates Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott, Towner left the Winter Consort in 1970 to form the group Oregon, which over the course of the 1970s issued a number of highly influential records mixing folk music, Indian classical forms, and avant-garde jazz-influenced free improvisation. At the same time, Towner began a longstanding relationship with the influential ECM record label, which has released virtually all of his non-Oregon recordings since his 1972 debut as a leader Trios / Solos. Towner has also made numerous appearances as a sideman, perhaps most famously on jazz fusion heavyweights Weather Report's 1972 album I Sing the Body Electric.

Unlike most jazz guitarists, Towner eschews amplification, using only 6-string nylon-string and 12-string steel-string guitars. As a result, he tends to avoid high-volume musical environments, preferring small groups of mostly acoustic instruments that emphasize dynamics and group interplay. Towner also obtains a percussive effect (e.g., "Donkey Jamboree" from Slideshow with Gary Burton) from the guitar by weaving a matchbook among the strings at the neck of the instrument. Both with Oregon and as a solo artist, Towner has made significant use of overdubbing, allowing him to play piano (or synthesizer) and guitar on the same track; his most notable use of the technique came on his 1974 album Diary, in which he plays guitar-piano duets with himself on most of the album's 8 tracks. In the 1980s, Towner began using the Prophet V synthesizer fairly extensively, but has since deemphasized his synthesizer and piano playing in favor of guitar.

Born into a musical family, his mother a piano teacher and his father a trumpet player, Towner learned to improvise on the piano at the age of three. He started trumpet lessons at the age of five, but did not take up guitar until attending the University of Oregon, where he also studied composition with Homer Keller. He first played jazz in New York City in the late 1960s as a pianist and was strongly influenced by the renowned jazz pianist Bill Evans. He began improvising on classical and 12-string guitars in the late 1960s/early 1970s; formed alliances with musicians who had worked with Evans, including flautist Jeremy Steig, bassists Eddie Gomez, Marc Johnson, Gary Peacock, and drummer Jack DeJohnette;

Towner now lives in Rome, Italy.

Discography[link]

• Trios / Solos (ECM, 1972) — with Glen Moore
• Diary (ECM, 1974)
• Matchbook (ECM, 1975) - with Gary Burton
• Solstice (ECM, 1975)
• Sargasso Sea (ECM, 1976) — with John Abercrombie
• Solstice/Sound and Shadows (ECM, 1977)
• Batik (ECM, 1978)
• Old Friends, New Friends (ECM, 1979)
• Solo Concert (ECM, 1979)
• Five Years Later (ECM, 1982) - with John Abercrombie
• Blue Sun (ECM, 1983)
• Slide Show (ECM, 1986) - with Gary Burton
• City of Eyes (ECM, 1989)
• Open Letter (ECM, 1992)
• Oracle (ECM, 1994) - with Gary Peacock
• A Closer View (ECM, 1995 [1998]) - with Gary Peacock
• Lost and Found (ECM, 1996)
• Ana (ECM, 1997)
• If Summer Had Its Ghosts (1997) - with Bill Bruford & Eddie Gomez
• Anthem (ECM, 2001)
• Time Line (ECM, 2006)
• From a Dream (Material, 2008) - with Slava Grigoryan and Wolfgang Muthspiel
• Chiaroscuro (ECM, 2009) - with Paolo Fresu

With Oregon

1- OUR FIRST RECORD (1970 recorded in 1980)

2- MUSIC OF ANOTHER PRESENT ERA (1973)

3- DISTANT HILLS (1973)

4- WINTER LIGHT (1974)

5- IN CONCERT (1975)

6- TOGHETER (with Elvin Jones) (1976)

7- FRIENDS (1977)

8- VIOLIN (with Zbigniew Seifert) (1978)

9- OUT OF THE WOODS (1978)

10- MOON AND MIND (1979)

11- ROOTS IN THE SKY (1979)

12- IN PERFORMANCE (1980)

13- ESSENTIAL (Collectanea) (1981)

14- OREGON (1983)

15- CROSSING (1985)

16- ECOPATIA (1987)

17- 45th PARALLEL (1989)

18- ALWAYS, NEVER AND FOREVER (1992)

19- TROIKA (1993)

20- BEYOND WORDS (Collectanea) (1995)

21- NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1997)

22- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT DREAM (1998)

23- OREGON IN MOSCOW(with orchestra)(2000)

24- LIVE AT YOSHI’S (2002)

25- PRIME (2005)

26- THE GLIDE (2005)

27- VANGURD VISIONARIES(Collectanea)(2007)

28- 1000 KILOMETERS (2007)

29- IN STRIDE (2010)

As sideman[link]

With Egberto Gismonti

• Sol Do Meio Dia (ECM, 1978)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ralph Towner's Official Website
• Ralph Towner on ECM Records
• Ralph Towner interview by Anil Prasad from Innerviews
• Ralph Towner interview by Anil Prasad from Frets
• Ralph Towner guitar tabs
• Guitar Player magazine interview.
• Ralph Towner on NPR, 2006
• Home Page Bio
• Music Guide Bio