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Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2010

Read "Punkt Festival 2010" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

The trials and tribulations of international travel--flight delays, missing or damaged baggage, and increasing limitations on said baggage--can be enough to frustrate even the most patient and seasoned world traveler. But despite an almost incredible confluence of problems flying to Kristiansand, Norway, for Punkt 2010, once there all such problems were forgotten. Punkt is simply too ...

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Article: Interview

Jan Bang: Head, Shoulders, Hips, Knees and Toes

Read "Jan Bang: Head, Shoulders, Hips, Knees and Toes" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

When it comes to organically integrating modern technology into music, few countries are innovating to the degree of Norway, and at the epicenter of that country's forward-thinking approach to melding improvisation with jazz and Norwegian traditionalism--not to mention contemporary classicism, pop, ambient and more; truly any and all musical markers--is producer/remixer/sampler Jan Bang, who has just ...

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Article: Album Review

Jan Bang: ….and poppies from Kandahar

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by John Kelman

It's rare for an album to quietly shake the foundation of what music is...and can be. Fifteen years after Jan Bang first innovated the concept of live sampling--turning an Akai MPC 3000 sampler into a true improvising instrument by sampling other musicians in real time and feeding processed musical ideas back; pushing and pulling the music ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Rune Grammofon: Mutation and Reevaluation

Read "Rune Grammofon: Mutation and Reevaluation" reviewed by David McLean

by David McLean

Since its inception in 1998, Rune Grammofon has been at the forefront of ground breaking new music, heralding a new unprecedented interest in Scandinavian music. Whereas ECM's focus on the region has largely been based around the folk/traditional music explorations of its most prolific artists, including Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen, and ...

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Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2009

Read "Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2009" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Jazz Man of the Year honors go without a doubt to Rafael Gilbert of Spain, who attended a performance by Larry Ochs of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet at the Sigüenza Jazz Festival in December, and called the police to report that, whatever it was that Ochs was playing, it wasn't jazz. Ochs was asked to play ...

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Article: Interview

David Sylvian: To Blow the Heart Wide Open

Read "David Sylvian: To Blow the Heart Wide Open" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

Many artists deliberately avoid taking risks, making changes instead opting for the safe, but David Sylvian is not one of them. Across his illustrious career, Sylvian has always sought to take listeners out of their comfort zone. Self-consciousness and introspection permeate every corner of his works. His most riveting songs have explored various topics, including spirituality ...

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Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street

By Jon Hassell

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Aurora; Time and Place; Abu Gil; Last Night the Moon Came; Clairvoyance; Courtrais; Scintilla; Northline; Blue Period; Light on Water.

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Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street

By Jon Hassell

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Aurora; Time and Place; Abu Gil; Last Night the Moon Came; Clairvoyance; Courtrais; Scintilla; Northline; Blue Period; Light on Water.

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Article: Extended Analysis

David Sylvian: Manafon

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by John Kelman

David Sylvian Manafon samadhisound 2009 Since first emerging as the lead singer of 1980s synth pop group Japan, singer/multi-instrumentalist David Sylvian has turned, in many ways most surprisingly, into one of pop music's most intrepid explorers. As early as his first solo album, the crooner with a distinctive and intentioned vibrato ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon Hassell: Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street

Read "Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

One of the most significant American composer/musicians of the late twentieth century, Jon Hassell, has served as a synthesist, catalyst, and eventually a sound painter and innovator. He has, over the course of his career, unleashed a stunning new vocabulary that still resounds today in the playing of artists including Nils Petter Molvaer, Arve Henriksen, Paolo ...


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