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Various Artists: Eye & Ear: Artist <-> Musician
by Brad Glanden
It's ironic that musicians are persistently identified as “artists" in the commercial domain, where music is likewise termed “product" and longevity is seldom a direct consequence of artistry. A liberal approach to categorization cannot mask the public's suspicion of creative individuals who attempt to branch out. Whenever an established musician picks up a paint brush, be ...
The Beatles: Love
by Brad Glanden
For the truly serious musician, profit often runs a distant second to artistic success. An unsympathetic view of popular musical trends is therefore understandable among such artists, especially when such a trend--be it three-chord rock 'n' roll or unauthorized sampling--makes it significantly harder for them to earn a living. Piracy poses a genuine threat, but ridiculously ...
Henry Cow: Concerts
by Brad Glanden
To paraphrase filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, there's a fine line between making political music and making music politically. The members of Henry Cow understood the difference, and that's why their work has aged more gracefully than the once-revolutionary rants of so much “protest" rock. Cow was first linked to the Canterbury Scene and later to the variegated ...
Bartlomiej "Brat" Oles / Kenny Werner / Marcin Oles: Shadows
by Brad Glanden
According to psychologist Carl Jung, certain aspects of the personality are rarely acknowledged by the conscious mind, but make themselves known symbolically through dreams. One such manifestation, the Shadow, represents attributes that are instinctive and have been repressed. Recognizing the Shadow's presence may help bridge the gap between the Ego and the Self, leading to a ...
Francois Couturier: Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky
by Brad Glanden
Working in the former Soviet Union during the Cold War era, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky encountered the repression typically endured by artists operating under the Kremlin's control. Unable to channel his frustrations into explicitly anti-authoritarian films, Tarkovsky instead concentrated on the equally savage conflicts of spirituality. Though the authorities in Russia backed him financially, his films ...
EKG & Giuseppe Ielasi: Group
by Brad Glanden
Group is not an album for city dwellers. The fragile tones emanating from their stereo speakers would likely be overpowered by the din of the industrialized world filtering through their windows, and they would wonder why they paid good money for a CD they can't hear. Recorded live in 2005 and given further treatment in the ...
Nate Farrar: Shell Shocked
by Brad Glanden
According to the hard-bitten world view of Nate Farrar's Shell Shocked, the only certainty in life is drinking; to be more precise, the only certainty is heavy drinking, the kind that finds you waking up on a stranger's floor and staggering woozily out the door. “If money isn't made for drinkin'," Farrar sings, “what the hell ...
Ooioo: Taiga
by Brad Glanden
A basic principle of science is that experiments are bound to fail as often as they succeed, a point usually glazed over by devotees of experimental music. Because the cookie-cutter recording industry thrives on the preservation of niche markets, artists who refuse to play it safe receive automatic approval from many outsider music enthusiasts. Take the ...
Rich Woodson's Ellipsis: The Nail That Stands Up Gets Pounded Down
by Brad Glanden
A widespread practice among high school jazz bands is the requirement that students stand up as they take solos, removing all doubt as to where the audience should direct its attention. It is unsurprising that a society which promotes individuality would encourage its young musicians to show off, or that it would nurture the one-track minds ...
Sex Mob: Sexotica
by Brad Glanden
The easy listening boom of the middle 20th Century gave rise to some highly esoteric music. The “space age" fashions embraced by many a swinger hinted at a future that was never to materialize; an eagerness to test out new hi-fi systems resulted in a proliferation of quirkily arranged, bizarrely mixed records by bandleaders like Esquivel ...
