World Music Site of Pioneering Band Ancient Future Announces Fall into the Future Sale

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Calif. - Sept. 22, 2013 - PRLog -- Fall into the Future Sale
Four Acclaimed Releases Just $10 Each, 25% off Books, and New Tracks A.F.A.R.

Ancient Future is the world's first and longest running band dedicating to the creation of world fusion music, a term coined at the ensemble's inception in the late 1970's by band leader Matthew Montfort. Their web site, Ancient-Future.Com is a world music supersite, with a detailed educational section on many important world music traditions, information on the more than thirty master musicians from around the world who perform with the band, concert listings, a world music links page, and an e-commerce catalog of world music recordings and books.

For a limited time, Ancient-Future.com is hosting a "Fall into the Future" sale (http://www.ancient-future.com/catalog.html) with the lowest prices ever offered on four releases, so now is the time to pick them up! They also make great gifts. Plus, the band's fan funded Archive of Future Ancient Recordings is close to a fundraising milestone propelling A.F.A.R. to fall into the future with two new studio tracks!

CDs
Planet Passion (http://www.ancient-future.com/planetpassion.html) by Ancient Future. Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010. List $17.98. Sale: $10. Re-issued with 64-Bit Tuned Harmonic Mastering to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Ancient Future concert, 2/11/2009. The seventh Ancient Future recording features nineteen top masters of Indian, Nepalese, African, Cuban, Celtic, Arabic, Palestinian, Jewish, Indonesian, Chinese, Eastern European and American music traditions. The Best of ECHOES Radio Listener Poll Winner!

Sangria (http://www.ancient-future.com/sangria.html) by Mariah Parker. Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2017. List $17.98. Sale: $10. This debut recording features her original compositions that draw musical inspiration from Brazil, Cuba, Spain, and India. Her Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble accompanies her and includes musicians from the bands Ancient Future, Oregon, Sun Ra, and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters.

Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar (http://www.ancient-future.com/serenade.html) by Matthew Montfort. Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2008. List $17.98. Sale: $10. This debut recording by Ancient Future leader Matthew Montfort showcases his pioneering work on the scalloped fretboard guitar, a special modified instrument able to produce ornaments more characteristic of the sitar. While previously known more for his compositions for the trendsetting world music group Ancient Future, this first solo effort showcases his improvisational music

Sympathetic Serenade (http://www.ancient-future.com/sympathetic.html) by Matthew Montfort. Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2012. Signed EP CD-R. List $12.98. Sale: $10. When Matthew Montfort was working on his debut solo recording, he recorded a series of improvisations. Were it not for some serendipitous sequencing coupled with the allure of alliteration, it's likely that this recording would have been released as the eighth improvisation on what became Seven Serenades. Instead, this evocative Spanish serenade/raga hybrid was released as a mini EP, resulting in Montfort being added to the DigitalDreamDoor list of the world's Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists.

Books

Ancient Traditions–Future Possibilities (http://www.ancient-future.com/atfp.html) by Matthew Montfort. Book/Enhanced CD set with MIDI Soundfiles. List $69.95. Sale: $52.95.

"You've heard Afro-Pop, sitar, gamelan and world music for years. But do you know what they are and how they work? Better yet, would you like to play those twisted cross-rhythms and melodies? In Ancient Traditions--Future Possibilities, Matthew Montfort, a founding member of the world music band Ancient Future, has put together the book for people who want to dig into world music with both hands." – Richard Kadrey, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

The Archive of Future Ancient Recordings Ready to Fall into the Future

The Archive of Future Ancient Recordings concept is to involve fans of world fusion music in supporting the creation of a collection of new recordings that are available to subscribers as they are created, including beautiful digital liner notes of the recording in progress, downloads of all available files in MP3, CD, or hi-res audiophile quality, and files to print an A.F.A.R. So Far CD label, cover, and tray card for CD and hi-res subscribers. So far, $2865 of the total project goal of $25,000 as been rased, and there are already eight tracks in the archive totaling 52 minutes and 31 seconds. Two more studio tracks were completed and mixed over the summer, and will be added when the fundraising milestone of $3000 is reached. Supporters can help Ancient Future "fall into the future" by subscribing to the Archive of Future Ancient Recordings (http://www.ancient-future.com/30CD.html) now!