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Tag Archives: contemporary music
Frank Zappa’s Zappa Picks – By Jon Fishman of Phish
Frank Zappa was an iconoclastic American musician. He surfaced in the ’60s but was decidedly non-hippie and anti-drug, and his music drew more on jazz and cabaret than the folk and acid-rock of that decade. If I had to pick … Continue reading
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Frank Zappa’s Zappa Picks – by Larry LaLonde of Primus
Frank Zappa has become legendary in death. He must be laughing as he looks down, or up, from wherever he is spending eternity. His music is still available in beautifully packaged editions, just the way he always wanted it to … Continue reading
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Mohammad Motamedi & Rembrandt Trio’s Intizar: Songs of Longing
As soon as I started listening to “Intizar,” the first and title track on this beautiful album by the Rembrandt Trio and the Iranian classical singer Mohammad Motamedi, I thought I was hearing a santur, the Iranian hammer dulcimer. Then … Continue reading
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Sinikka Langeland’s Wind And Sun
Magical. That’s the first word that came to mind as I listened to Sinikka Langeland’s Wind And Sun. This is Langeland’s 11th solo album and seventh on ECM (her work has also appeared on Grappa and Heilo labels). I first … Continue reading
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Carsten Dahl’s The Solo Songs of Keith Jarrett
I’ve never been able to get into Keith Jarrett’s music, no matter how I tried. I’m one of those who’re put off by his vocalizations. I know it’s my loss, because he’s one of the most successful and highly honored … Continue reading
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Brìghde Chaimbeul’s Carry Them With Us
Brìghde (BREE-cha) Chaimbeul’s second album Carry Them With Us is a masterful, exhilarating melange of traditional and modern music for the Scottish smallpipes. It’s definitely not for the traditionalists among piping fans, but what Chaimbeul is doing with Scottish smallpipe … Continue reading
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Calefax’s An American Rhapsody
It’s been a long time since I’ve covered “classical” music, perhaps going all the way back to 2003 when I reviewed Sony’s A Copland Celebration compilation in honor of Aaron Copland’s centenary year in 2000. So bear with me! This … Continue reading
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Širom’s The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
Speaking only for myself, the best way I found of listening to The Liquified Throne of Simplicity was while binge-reading my favorite webcomic Questionable Content. I also found it worked pretty well while reading anything – like right now I’m … Continue reading
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Kevin Courrier’s Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Zappa
There have been many books written about Frank Zappa. Perhaps the most disappointing, and yet most enlightening, was his own The Real Frank Zappa Book. A bizarre but strangely readable book was Ben Watson’s Frank Zappa’s Negative Dialectics of Poodle … Continue reading
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Stefan Aeby Trio’s Fairy Circus
From the first bar of Fairy Circus‘s opening track “Marea Alta” you know this is the Stefan Aeby Trio, if you’ve ever listened to them before. The unique piano voicing and technique, the production and placement of bass and drums … Continue reading
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