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Joan Jeanrenaud, PC Munoz - Pop-Pop (2010)
By Mark Saleski If you want to really scare yourself, wait until everybody else in the house has gone to bed, turn out all of the lights, and put the Kronos Quartet's Black Angels on the stereo. You will be assaulted with George Crumb's terrifying “Black Angels (Images I)," a piece so full of tension and ...
Eden Brent - Ain't Got No Troubles (2010)
By Mark Saleski I wish I had a cool story about where I learned about the blues. I never had an older brother who gave me his Howlin' Wolf records. There was no cousin who pointed out the line that runs backwards from Jimmy Page. Despite the early appearance of my inner music nerd, I doubt ...
Deep Cuts: George Harrison - "Rising Sun" (2002)
By Nick Deriso: That George Harrison kept recording until just two months before his death at age 58 in November of 2001 was its own blessing. After all, he hadn't put out a new album of solo material since 1987. But you wondered what would become of Harrison's final works, since producer Jeff Lynne had decided ...
One Track Mind: Little River Band "It's a Long Way There" (1975)
By Pico Lush strings, rich three part vocal harmonies, blending acoustic guitars and an almost non-stop lead guitar, all stretched out to nearly nine minutes. That's a hell of a way of a band to introduce themselves on the radio, but the then-infant Australian troupe The Little River Band did just that to break into the ...
Vijay Iyer - Solo (2010)
By Pico When a great, small combo jazz pianist makes a solo record, it usually doesn't signal that pianist's arrival, it means he's solidifying his legacy. We witnessed this with Art Tatum's Solo Masterpieces recordings made at the end of his life. The same goes with Bill Evans' Alone recorded several years after his Village Vanguard ...
The Friday Morning Listen: John Mellencamp - No Better Than This (2010)
By Mark Saleski I had intended for this essay to start out something like this: OK, I'll come right out and say it. I used to hate John Mellencamp. Back then he was known as John Cougar. All of my friends had their copies of American Fool, and I had to put up with that freaking ...
An Italian Twofer: Neo - Water Resistance/Tribraco - Glue (2009, 2010)
By Pico As I write this, two very talented bands from Italy specializing in the jazz of the whack variety are traversing the fruited plains looking to collect fans from the USA. The trio Neo and the quartet Tribraco are criss-crossing the country from August 23 to October 6, covering 37 cities, including Chicago, Philly, New ...
Somethingelsetribute: Hurricane Katrina's Musical Journey
This site's ties to Louisiana have provided a rich vein of musical delights over the years, but also a moment of staggering loss when Hurricane Katrina swept ashore near New Orleans five years ago today. A legacy of recovery for the city, and the wider Gulf Coast, subsequently found voice in songs from across the spectrum, ...
Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook up - Actionspeak (2010)
By Mark Saleski Many years ago, while stuck in traffic during the evening commute, I heard a radio segment on microtonal composer Easely Blackwood. I had read about things like microtones, 24-note equal tunings, and the like, but somehow none of the music had ever made it's way into my ears. Some of the pieces played ...
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches (2009)
By Tom Johnson I have two amazing young daughters who constantly remind me of the distance in age between them and me. The youngest is too young to ask much, but is plenty busy with toys and books, and being the family comedian. My older daughter, however, she is full of questions and I, while not ...
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