So Nathan and I were practicing the other day (practicing what? Read on!) and he started telling me about a new show he’d heard on WFMU, The Acousmatic Theater Hour, and a performance poet they’d played, Caorline Bergvall. She’s French-Norwegian and really fantastic, as you’ll hear in the piece we’ve included in this playlist. It’s [...]
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The violin isn’t a typical jazz instrument, but it’s got a lot of versatility, as easily used for soloing as it is for comping (plucked or bowed for staccato punctuations). It’s particularly well used in interplay with another instrument, and this is how it entered the jazz idiom, and generally how [...]
1. Medley: Thine Alone, etc. — Al Payne
2. An Astro Nation of the United Worlds of Outer Space — Sun Ra
3. Mr. Tough — Yo La Tengo
4. Metche New — Mahmoud Ahmed
5. Wedding Dress — Sam Amidon
6. Horsetail Feathers — Final Fantasy
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So here’s some of what I’ve been listening to lately. And as it [...]
Summer is ending. Just typing those words depresses me. This post is about depression. I get depressed a few times a year and I’m sure most of you probably do too. It’s happening to me again. The days are getting appreciably shorter and the light is changing. Our tree [...]
We kind of skipped out on the whole kids’ music scene, and now that our son Jasper is approaching five it looks like we’ve left it behind. I know kids’ music has gotten much better in the past ten years, what with all the aging B- and C-list recording artists starting second careers once they [...]