"The pieces were performed from a piano enclosed in a dimly lit box covered in fabric, situated opposite the stage from the ensemble, mimicking [Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's] own cloistered life as a nun. Each return to Gebru’s works anchored the audience back in the box after every venture outward."
"The record’s sonics reflect the New York-based, Monterrey-born electronic artist’s border-traversing perspective: On the one side, bludgeoning U.S. techno à la Jeff Mills, flecked with acid house squelches, on the other, the triplet syncopations of Mexican guaracha …"
"He brushed off any mention of genius, likely haunted by the heightened expectations that come with it. 'No, I’m just a hard-working guy,' he told me. 'And I always get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention.'"
A tribute to Brian Wilson:
"He affectionately refers to the guitar as his 'Mouse Strat' because of a sticker on its body of a Mickey Mouse-like figure giving the finger … after decades of wear, about all you can make out is Mickey’s buttoned trousers and floppy shoes."
The Guitar That Defines Ed O’Brien's Haunting Sound:
"In the second part of a tribute to Steve Barrow, Steve Barker selects ten tracks from the catalogue of Blood & Fire, the reggae reissue label helmed by Barrow and underwritten by Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall and Elliot Rashman …"
No lightweight stuff — A Blood & Fire playlist:
"When working in film scoring, the piano often became a central element to [Ryuichi Sakamoto's] work, and there is no clearer example of this than the extraordinarily haunting theme from 'Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence'."
“My life has been startlingly devoid of the standard rock’n’roll drug-and-sex dramas, so I thought a documentary about me isn’t something people will want to see. It sounds boring.”
Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’:
On 'Asymmetrical Dot,' Stephen Emmer turns grief and new birth into a multigenerational meditation, drawing on the Indonesian folk traditions his mother carried from Ambon to Amsterdam and the hushed compositional vocabulary that hearing loss made necessary.
Stephen Emmer on Beauty Out of Misery:
In the second part of a tribute to Steve Barrow, Steve Barker selects ten tracks from the catalogue of Blood & Fire, the reggae reissue label helmed by Barrow and underwritten by Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall and Elliot Rashman
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As the musician and producer reaches 82, a new documentary reveals his life working with everyone from James Taylor to Carole King to Paul McCartney
On 'Asymmetrical Dot,' Stephen Emmer turns grief and new birth into a multigenerational meditation, drawing on the Indonesian folk traditions his mother carried from Ambon to Amsterdam and the hushed compositional vocabulary that hearing loss made necessary.
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We take a deeper look at the theory underpinning Ryuichi Sakamoto’s gorgeous, award-winning theme from the movie that gave him his acting and scoring debut
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Dalanie Harris reviews "The Interior Castle" program by Wild Up, performed at Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater in Los Angeles on Jun. 6.
