Electronic Music NewsPoi Dog Pondering sings the body acoustic on new CD
The News Review:
- Poi Dog Pondering sings the body acoustic on new CD
- Five days of Zorn
- Measure for Measure in North Wall xford
- xygène: ba-boo-boo beew
- Felix da House Cat – Milan: gu 34
- Positive notes: DPS teacher brings sound of music back
Poi Dog Pondering sings the body acoustic on new CD
Chicago Sun-Times – Mar 27, 2008
They even tracked the whole album using analog tape. “We’re always a band to follow our instinct” rrall says. “When our instinct was interested in electronic music we followed it. This time we were in the mood to make a rock and roll record a rock and soul record. It’s a cyclical thing. I always like to let Poi Dog change as it does rather than stick to a certain sound.
Five days of Zorn
Jerusalem Post – Mar 27, 2008
Bungle Tomahawk and The Dillinger Escape Plan. A versatile vocalist Patton is known to scat croon bark rap and beatbox. The Zorn festival is one of many Israel appearances over the years for Patton who staged an electronic music show this past summer at Levontin 7. The remaining American imports represent a who’s who of the Tzadik inner circle many of whom have been active in alternative jazz and world music outside the Zorn community collaborating with some of the top names in music. Bassist Greg Cohen for example has played with Willie Nelson Keith Richards Bob Dylan and Lou Reed while guitarist Marc Ribot has worked with Allen Ginsberg and Robert Plant and has collaborated extensively with Elvis Costello and Tom Waits. Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista has recently performed with David Byrne Yo-Yo Ma James Taylor Paul Simon Trey Anastasio Sting and Herbie Hancock and his own Beat the Donkey ensemble has recorded on Tzadik. Drummer Kenny Wollesen is the founder of the renowned New Klezmer Trio while trumpeter Dave Douglas director of New York’s annual Festival of New Trumpet Music has just completed a major tour with his San Francisco Jazz Collective.
Measure for Measure in North Wall xford
Times nline – Mar 27, 2008
Lucy Wilkinson’s design makes the North Wall’s handsome brick-and-timberauditorium – a converted school swimming pool – into a split-levelgraffiti-spattered setting. Here squaddies pay prostitutes clad in luridLycra and faux fur for oral sex. Young men and women writhe bump and grindto electronic music. But if Conquest has a point to make about modernmorality she’s not stating it clearly enough. Isabella’s assertion “More than our brother is our chastity” when faced withthe option of sacrificing her virginity for Claudio’s life ought to soundstartling; here delivered by Amy Stacy’s rather prim and pallid Isabellait feels almost inconsequential. The dichotomy of the character’s ferventreligiosity and sensual language – and the irresistible attraction she holdsfor the ascetic Angelo – offer a rich variety of interpretations in acontemporary setting where fundamentalism and sexuality might have madedramatically potent bedfellows. Sadly the production never dares so far.
xygène: ba-boo-boo beew
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 27, 2008
5m and a Paris gig in 1990 with 2. ) “These instruments are legends of electronic music and could easily be compared to the Fender Stratocaster for rock and roll” he says. “It’s the dream of any violinist to play a Stradivarius an instrument designed centuries ago and it’s the same with these instruments designed by fantastic craftsmen with poetic visions of the future. Jarre 59 is the son of Maurice Jarre who composed music for the films of David Lean and French Resistance heroine France Pejot. In the Sixties he studied at Pierre Schaeffer’s Groupe de Recherche Musicale. Schaeffer was the man who invented Musique Concrete the experimental form based on tapes of “found” sounds that created the concept of sampling.
Felix da House Cat – Milan: gu 34
Skiddle.com – Mar 27, 2008
Already a ‘Hottest Record In The World’ for Radio 1′s Zane Lowe and a staplein the shows of Pete Tong Rob Da Bankand many more ‘Radio’ is liftedfrom his recent artist album ‘VirgoBlaktro & The Movie Disco’ an impressive long-player that has furtherenhanced his pedigree. Diddy and LCD’s James Murphy; criticsand bloggers alike have cited him as a worthy heir apparent to the greats ofmodern black music recognising that his contributions have followed in thelineage begun by figures such as Sly& The Family Stone Parliament and Prince.
Positive notes: DPS teacher brings sound of music back
Rocky Mountain News – Mar 27, 2008
A handful of sleepy-eyed students gathers in Grundy’s basement music room. Seating themselves at electronic keyboards the beginning keyboard students seem barely awake. Among the five or six only one or two start to practice. The others sit and stare at the notes on the page. After working with an intermediate student at an upright piano in the next room Grundy visits each novice.