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- Feist live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times nline
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Tiny Dancers: Mixing The Band Neil Young the Stones and others into…
Independent – Jul 27, 2007
We didn’t have a background playing bluegrass so we had to mix it up. " "ur sound is English like the Beatles and the Stones took American influences and made it their own" Glover adds. "For me I was into electronic music like later Radiohead Steve Reich and Eno’s old stuff so I could bring that along. " And just as the band’s name was plucked almost from thin air so the title of their debut album floated across the ether from a radio programme. Yet Free School Milk does remind us of Margaret Thatcher’s first tilt at notoriety in the early Seventies long before she took on the miners as Prime Minister. But this is not something that particularly interests Kay even though his dad was a miner and he remembers him being home a lot during the strike. "People ask why we don’t write about politics when we come from a mining village but I just think about symbols and fitting yourself in with things that never change.
Accent on choreography
Hindu – Jul 27, 2007
In her suave and contemporary solo and group offerings one could see the happy blend of Western stagecraft and Indian aesthetics. Not that she did anything new or untried; it was the packaging that caught one’s attention. The style quotient dominated in the solo ‘Surya’ based on the Aditya Hridayam and in the subsequent ‘Current’ that was a truly electrifying group number the electronic music notwithstanding. Not to be left out was veteran dancer-choreographer Professor C. Chandrasekhar with ‘Pancha Deva Stuti’ performed by professionals from the Nrityashree group. The master craftsman energised the stage with challenging gati changes interesting movement patterns and excellent imagery.
n Stage
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Jul 27, 2007
It’s been more than two decades since Erasure formed but 2007 finds it riding its second or perhaps its third wind and Saturday’s appearance might have something triumphal about it. That wasn’t always the case for singer Andy Bell and synth player Vince Clarke who formed Erasure after departing from both Depeche Mode and Yaz. Bell was an openly gay performer at a time when such was only hinted at and he and Clarke gave electronic music enough pop hooks to make it accessible. Songs like “Always” and “Chains of Love” weren’t everywhere but they stuck in the ears of bands that love the 1980s. This year’s “Light at the End of the World” shows Erasure remains at least the equal of its successors with the advantageous experience of pioneers. Gilbertson Special to the Journal Sentinel GLEN PHILLIPS 8 p.
Nothing Much and Something More
Pitchforkmedia.com – Jul 27, 2007
Started as an outgrowth of his storied label Plus 8 Hawtin’s surging Minus imprint has situated itself among the elite enterprises that regard techno as more than a mere style. No label maintains a more faithful devotion to “minimalism” as an idea and certainly no label works as much to marry ideology to the functionalism that techno holds dear. Watch the Hawtin documentary DVD Pioneers of Electronic Music Vol. 1 and you’ll be hard-pressed to hear a more convincing argument for minimal-techno’s place within the whole of 20th-century art; ask anyone about the illicit party culture of contemporary Berlin and you won’t go long without hearing about Minus as a bellwether. Nothing Much compiles 11 tracks from the tight Minus roster with diverging interests met in kind. Studiousness and salaciousness abound from the start: In “48 Hour Crack in Your Bass” by Magda a constrained mood gives over to a mess of druggy back-and-forth noise when the tick of a beat fattens in time with an ominous throb. The same goes for “Fed on Youth” by False (another alias along with Audion for Matthew Dear) which moves from desiccated syncopation to a weighted mass of sirens and bangs.
db audioware Intros Sidechain Compressor & Gate Plug-Ins
synthtopia.com – Jul 27, 2007
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Feist live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times nline
Times nline – Jul 27, 2007
Now 31 the Canadianbegan her career in a punk band adopted the name Bitch Lap Lap as a backingsinger for the oddball electro act Peaches and revealed haunting folk-popvocals as a guest on records by Kings of Convenience and Broken SocialScene. In 2004 a solo album Let It Die became an underground sensation as newsof its sensual torch songs and quirky covers spread by word of mouth and hermusic began cropping up on adverts – she said yes to a bank and a perfumebut apparently turned down $1 million from McDonald’s. This year’sfollow-up The Reminder was hailed as a classic by critics and is crawlingtowards mainstream status. With a breakthrough single – and 1234 isprobably her best shot – Feist could burst pop’s banks KT Tunstall-style. That she may not play a venue as small as Scala again partly explained whyso many had crammed in… Now 31 the Canadianbegan her career in a punk band adopted the name Bitch Lap Lap as a backingsinger for the oddball electro act Peaches and revealed haunting folk-popvocals as a guest on records by Kings of Convenience and Broken SocialScene. In 2004 a solo album Let It Die became an underground sensation as newsof its sensual torch songs and quirky covers spread by word of mouth and hermusic began cropping up on adverts – she said yes to a bank and a perfumebut apparently turned down $1 million from McDonald’s. This year’sfollow-up The Reminder was hailed as a classic by critics and is crawlingtowards mainstream status. With a breakthrough single – and 1234 isprobably her best shot – Feist could burst pop’s banks KT Tunstall-style. That she may not play a venue as small as Scala again partly explained whyso many had crammed in. A claustrophobic club proved a poor venue in which to enjoy her songs.
This Week’s Music Scene
Canada.com – Jul 27, 2007
(TD)Handsome Furs (shown). Montreal couple Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) and Alexei Perry make sweet music – a mix of bruised indie-rock torch song and electronic blips ‘n’ beats. Their debut Plague Park is out on Sub Pop. They play Wednesday at La Sala Rossa 4848 St. with Silver Springs.