The medium of recorded music has reached a pivotal age in its maturation. The origins of recording technology reach back well over a century (the earliest phonograph recordings date to the late 1800s), and the most longstanding traditions of American music– blues, folk, rock– now penetrate the ears and hearts of over three generations.
There has been a perceivable spike in African music reissues over the last few years with scores of titles hitting the market from funk, jazz, soul, along with genres as rare as afro-psych being found amongst the swarm
Much of the fussiness with "Shutter Island" arises from a perception that Scorsese's considerable erudition and verve are wasted upon a film whose story seems to have no overt purpose or greater resonance beyond its mere sensationalism. But that's exactly the point.
Folk troubadour and enfant terrible, Eduardo Mateo was a paradoxical figure in the Uruguayan rock scene of the 1970's. At a time when Uruguay was undergoing deep political strife due to the uprooting of a democratic government by a dictator- he chose to make folk music that was utterly personal, fragile, brimming with mysticism.
Better known for his novels, Roberto Bolaño shirked from the nomen of NOVELIST. . . until a hungry first child forced him to think about making some money--ergo the novels. But it seems that even then he liked to think of his business as POETRY (himself, a detective of poetry)--with or without much white
Today's zeitgeist: Public. It new (sort of). It is an ongoing discourse amongst artists, curators, theorists and cultural producers (leading to symposiums, salons, conferences and publications); as well as an evolving artistic practice which has given form to collective groups like Fallen Fruit, Machine Projects, Islands of LA (just in LA), who explicitly or
On the inspiring and melancholy life in diaspora of twoubadou musician Manno Charlemagne, and the tragedy of the Haitian earthquake.
The role of the music producer is analogous to that of the film director; he oversees the many elements that enter into a composition and attempts to conjure from the players involved whatever is necessary to render an artistic work of compelling depth and penetrative vision.
Reflecting on Nam Le's "The Boat" from a Miami immigration detention center.
Directed by composer Ed Bland, the Cry of Jazz features a very early Sun Ra (then known as Le Sun Ra) with his Arkestra demonstrating the film's argument: that rhythmic form and harmony in jazz are emanations of the restraint and the futureless future suffered by blacks in America, while melodic improvisation and rhythmic
