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Glenn Dickson
Clarinetist Glenn Dickson has had a varied career playing klezmer, jazz, rock, Balkan and ambient music. His first solo album, "Wider than the Sky," was recently released and has received glowing reviews from US & European reviewers. His klezmer band, Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, has performed concerts and festivals across the US, Canada and Europe, with recordings including the “Klezmer Nutcracker” and a collaboration with Maurice Sendak (Pincus and the Pig). The band has played live on the CBC and with the Philadelphia Pops. Glenn's music has been used by Woody Allen (Deconstructing Harry soundtrack), and he was a featured soloist on Sidney Lumet's "A Stranger Among Us." His klezmer-fusion band, Naftule’s Dream, features Glenn's compositions and has played major jazz festivals in the US, Canada and Europe, including the Berlin, Montreal and New York Jazz Festivals and recorded for John Zorn’s Tzadik and the Innova labels. Glenn is a recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Artist Grant award in composition.
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Glenn Dickson & Bob Familiar: The Clarinet In The Machine
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines on clarinetist Glenn Dickson and electronic musician Bob Familiar.When a cutting-edge klezmer artist meets a former rock synthesist, you might expect creative tension. Instead, Glenn and Bob found something else entirely--a shared language that turns clarinet and electronics into the most unlikely yet inspired pairings.Their new album All the Light of Our Sphere (Sounds Familiar), layers acoustic clarinet with synthesizers and loop devices to create what they describe as orchestral ambient music. ...
Continue ReadingDickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere
by Alberto Bazzurro
Una musica asettica, sufficientemente plastificata, scarsamente comunicativa, salvata solo parzialmente dal girovagare imperterrito del clarinetto di Glenn Dickson, è quanto ci offre questo album in duo fra il succitato e Bob Familiar, il primo proveniente dal klezmer, il secondo decisamente più incline a un rock evidentemente depurato di ogni eccesso o turgore. L'incedere è largo, quieto, incruento, ma anche piuttosto sonnolento, in quel suo deambulare sempre attorno a situazioni e temperature decisamente univoche, quindi largamente monocordi, oltre che ...
Continue ReadingSolo Flights: Glenn Dickson and Joe Fielder
by Jerome Wilson
These are solo recordings by two musicians who can create dense forests of sound with only one instrument. one with the help of electronics and the other just using his lips, breath and tongue. Glenn Dickson Wider Than The Sky Self-Produced 2022 Glenn Dickson is a klezmer clarinetist who has been experimenting with electronic effects since the early 2000s. He produced all the sounds on this album in real time using loops and ...
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When the Mist Thins
From: All the Light of Our SphereBy Glenn Dickson
Gentle Touch
From: Wider Than the SkyBy Glenn Dickson
