Electronic Music NewsBalkan Beat Box will move you with its fusion of sounds.(Ticket)
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- Balkan Beat Box will move you with its fusion of sounds.(Ticket)
- Frederic Rzewski commanding and contemporary
- Nouvelle Vague – Gig previews & reviews – Music – Entertainment -…
- Sound ff! finalists old enough to rock the house
- Spare Times
Balkan Beat Box will move you with its fusion of sounds.(Ticket)
Free with registration – Register-Guard – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 29, 2008
YouTube videos show frenetic dancers lining stages all over the world while a saxophone soloist belts out Balkan melodies and a shirtless Tomer Yosef keeps hands clapping and feet jumping to synthetic and live beats. The scene is not an easy one to describe and it’s best experienced firsthand. “Blending electronic music with hard-edged folk music from the Balkans North Africa and the Middle East the exciting and internationally acclaimed group Balkan Beat Box has proved that the entire world is indeed a stage” a news release says. “(We) are all Gypsies. ” Spin calls the group’s new album “Nu Med” a “global peacekeeping mission you can dance to. ” The show starts at 7:30 p.
Frederic Rzewski commanding and contemporary
Seattle Times – Feb 29, 2008
Rzewski has lived and taught in Belgium since 1977. During the ’60s period of great political upheaval Rzewski and his avant-garde circle proposed the ideal of an art music communally created in the moment — sometimes even with audience participation. In 1966 he pioneered live-improvised electronic music with the trio Musica Elettronica Viva with Richard Teitelbaum and Alvin Curran and worked with jazz artists Anthony Braxton and Steve Lacy. But improvisation is less the point with Rzewski than his stunning virtuosity and command of complex compositional strategies. His best-known piano work is a series of variations on the South American protest song by Sergio rtega “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” (1975) which became a symbol of Chilean resistance against the American-assisted overthrow of President Salvador Allende. Rzewski’s moving 1992 work “De Profundis” dramatizes the ostracism of gays alternating between piano and a recitation of scar Wilde’s letter to Lord Alfred Douglas written from Reading Gaol where Wilde was imprisoned for two years because he was a homosexual.
Nouvelle Vague – Gig previews & reviews – Music – Entertainment -…
The Age – Feb 29, 2008
auDetailsAlso playing Manchester Lane March 3. The “Nouvelle Vague” or new wave – playfully and perversely -reinvented cinema. Now professional music fans Marc Collin andlivier Libaux cracking a joke and making an art statement bydubbing their outfit Nouvelle Vague are reinventing post-punk viasultry faintly kooky bossa nova renditions of new wave classicsby the likes of Joy Division the Specials PIL XTC and theirpost-punk ilk. Layering the in-joke further “nouvelle vague”translates to “new beat” in Portuguese the native language of manyof the bossa nova guest vocalists. Their studio album A BandeApart was presumably inspired by Jean Luc Goddard’s 1964 filmof the same name. Given the duo’s name it’s not surprising that Collin is a filmbuff. He released Coming Home in 2007 a collection ofclassic film soundtracks including Gato Barbieri’s Last Tangoin Paris and Michel Legrand’s score for the originalThomas Crown Affair… His cinema obsession is something he shares with Philippe CohenSolal a former cinema soundtrack composer who leads moderntangoists the Gotan Project joining Nouvelle Vague on theirMelbourne sojourn. His latest project The MoonshineSessions is a collaboration with former Bob Dylan sidemanBucky Baxter. Enlisting such country luminaries as Jim Lauderdaleand David lney the album achieves a highly appealing dirt-floorambience; faithful to country while exploring a striking ifdelicate marriage between delightful twang and electro tang. Having selected Charlie Rich and Glen Campbell tracks for NouvelleVague’s Late Night Tales album in 2006 Nouvelle Vague’sCollin is by no means immune to country moods either. Solal’s DJ-versus-pedal-steel interpretation of the album hasbeen a feature of recent Nouvelle Vague European shows Solal beingan ’90s old house acquaintance of Collin. Solal also took direct inspiration from cinema for MoonshineSessions. “I compare my work to a film director’s.
Sound ff! finalists old enough to rock the house
Seattle Times – Feb 29, 2008
The Pacific Northwest’s largest annual battle of the bands for musicians 21 and younger holds it finals Saturday night. Now into its seventh year Sound ff! has long picked winners that have gone on to score record deals and tours. Renton-based hip-hop group Dyme Def (… The five members are all students ages 17 to 21; they count influences ranging from folky rock classical and hip-hop. Together they create “electronic pop rock with strings” said Anderson. As for the name — Man Down Medic — the words popped into Anderson’s head at church when an elderly man had a seizure and an ambulance was called. The band applied for Sound ff! on a whim but since their formation last year they have already performed at several venues including El Corazón. “The biggest thing about Sound ff! is getting the exposure from it” said Anderson a senior at the University of Washington. “The ability for new people to hear about your music.
Spare Times
New York Times – Feb 29, 2008
“ne Step Beyond” a monthly party series with techno electronic and hip-hop music and dancing and screenings of the space show “Cosmic Collisions”; $20. the first of eight weekly after-hours drawing workshops using the animal displays; $160 for all sessions which are on Thursdays with the exception of this Monday and April 7.