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- Elmore Judd: Soul brothers’ electric funk
- Dance – washingtonpost.com
- Amherst horse heads to Pan Am Games
Elmore Judd: Soul brothers’ electric funk
Independent – Jun 29, 2007
And they’re very keen on Snakefinger and the Residents “the biggest underground band on the planet basically” explains their French bassist De Bretagne the aesthete in shiny red and yellow shoes. “The Residents were even more weird than Zappa man even more conceptual” De Bretagne enthuses. “The Residents were the first band to do electronic music way back in the Sixties. They were nerds in the bedroom and they thought ‘oh we’re going to do a record and call it Warner Bros’ and they sent it to Warner Brothers. Warners sent it back and said ‘you’ll never get a record deal’. “Elmore Judd’s record deal is with Damon Albarn’s sympathetic Honest Jon’s (also home to Moondog Tony Allen and Lobi Traore) an independent label that the band respect and one that allows them plenty of freedom to experiment with the likes of Greek music P-funk and rock avant-garde-ism. Hackett who has worked as a session keyboard player with Barrington Levy and Ms Dynamite is on first-name terms with Albarn and travelled with the Gorillaz impresario in Mali.
Dance – washingtonpost.com
Washington Post – Jun 29, 2007
23: "ELLESMERE" Choreographer Francesca Jandasek Acayan performs a multimedia work set to a gypsy-influenced acoustic and electronic music score. Dance Place 3225 Eighth St.
Amherst horse heads to Pan Am Games
Amherst Bulletin – Jun 29, 2007
Hickey said that the selection of music for the freestyle portion of the competition is vital and can make or break a performance. Scores are multiplied by degrees of difficulty and riders and horses are scored based in part on how well they interpret the music in their routines similar to figure skaters Hickey said. At the selection trials in New Jersey earlier this month Hickey used some electronic music with a strong beat and bass line that he felt could take advantage of Regent’s strengths. “He’s a very very powerful horse and he can support that kind of music” Hickey said. “He has good rhythms and beat he just flowed with that music very well. Hickey said that because dressage is very much like ballet for horses it takes a tremendous amount of strength to do some of the movements. Kucinski said that because of their distinct personalities some horses get caught up in the excitement of competition and react to the energy and anticipation of the people around them but that Regent seems to take it all in stride.