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Diane Birch, a Rebellious Spirit with a Soulful Bent
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Michael Ricci
Soul music has become a burgeoning youth movement of sorts. The best new artist trophy at the Grammy Awards the last two years has gone to Adele and Amy Winehouse, two-younger-than-30 artists steeped in vintage sounds.
Like the aforementioned artists, Diane Birch is drawing from the decades before she was born. Titled “Bible Belt," Birch's debut pays homage to the sounds of the South -- “Photograph," for example, sways from a comfortably floral orchestration to a full-on gospel coda, and ...
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Bik Bent Braam from the Netherlands tours the US and Canada 2 - 9 September
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All About Jazz
Bik Bent Braam performs without a setlist - it employs a strategy known as “bonsai-ing" in which the musicians all provide input, calling out tunes in mid-phrase and deciding tempo and instrumentation, to generate a new musical direction for the ensemble. Pianist/composer Michiel Braam aims to allow his large ensemble to work with the same flexibility and nuances as a trio would. For this program he wrote 13 compositions, one for each band member, inspired by their specific qualities.
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Noisetet Debut, Plus Circuit Bent Festival 4-/3-4/10 in NYC
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All About Jazz
Noisetet has a new CD that you can hear bits of at www.noisetet.com (click on “mp3") The piece selected as 1 of 16 semifinalists from over 1700 entries in the Independent Music World Series, “jukebird" is at www.noisetet.com/jukebird.mp3
We will also be performing April 9 at the First International Festival of the art of Circuit Bending in NYC. http://thetanknyc.com/bent If you would like a CD to review, please send an address. ~ Donny Silverman Documenting our performance will be aboptv.com ...
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