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- Pop – New York Times
- Sexed-up B-52s fly once more
- … Holden reviews Lost Highway Philharmonia/Mackerras and…
Open call for Red Bull Academy
Jamaica Observer – Apr 13, 2008
Long-lasting friendships are formed and musical bonds are cemented. “We are exposed to a lot of different ideas cultures and people and partnerships are formed which endure for a long time” Jamaica’s 2006 representative Sawandi Simon said adding that he is now collaborating on a project with someone from Portugal who he met at the Academy. It doesn’t in any way sound mechanical” he emphasised. The 32-year-old medical doctor admitted that it was at the Academy that he performed his own music live for the very first time and recalled that a memorable moment was actually meeting Steve Spacek a British musician of Jamaican parentage who has been big in the electronic music scene. “I grew up listening to him” he said “so that was really a big moment”Always seeking to be on the cutting edge of musical innovation the Academy shifts location to zoom in on micro-cultures and new musical hybrids that are springing up all over the world. It gives international participants at each academy a chance for an original adventure their own unique set of experiences.
Can’t Miss
Washington Post – Apr 13, 2008
]AUTECHRE– Thursday at 8 p. This English duo may not command brand-name status outside of its sphere but to fans of glitchy experimental electronic music the pair is as big as it gets. With Massonix and Rob Hall. Black Cat 1811 14th St.
Pop – New York Times
nytimes.com – Apr 13, 2008
Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 North Sixth Street Brooklyn (212) 260-4700 musichallofwilliamsburg. (Sisario) MUTINY (Tomorrow) A revival of this long-running dance party devoted to hybrids of electronic music with various sounds from India. ‘s — Anju Navdeep Rekha Siraiki and Zakhm — will be on hand but the special guest is Talvin Singh the London-based producer and D.
Sexed-up B-52s fly once more
NEWS.com.au – Apr 13, 2008
"We should probably have our heads examined especially in the climate of the music business — but that’s the B-52s way. " The band that has influenced acts from CSS to the Scissor Sisters reasoned they would need to change with the times to have any chance of chart success in the new millennium. Strickland had been listening to a lot of electronic dance music and early rock ‘n’ roll and decided to marry those elements to the classic B-52s sound. "Keith was so inspired and came up with this great music with a rough guitar combined with the synthesizer and electronica sounds" says Wilson. "To us it was great so we wrote the lyrics and the melodies on top of that and it really started to shape up – by the fifth song we knew that we had something really great. "I am amazed we are here at this point. I’m so pleased and I feel like it’s a hit anyway.
… Holden reviews Lost Highway Philharmonia/Mackerras and…
Guardian Unlimited – Apr 13, 2008
When we recall how she upset Stockholm by failing to turn up to collect her 2004 Nobel Prize in person pleading ‘social phobia’ and other anxiety disorders we can perhaps see why. Lynch says he gets a bout of psychogenic fugue (in layman’s terms flight from reality) ‘almost every afternoon’; whatever the source of Jelinek’s anxieties she and Neuwirth say they saw in the movie an opportunity for music-theatre to ‘play with time flow’. But Neuwirth’s score turns out to be little more than cutting-edge mood music dropping allusions to Monteverdi and Weill into an electronic-cum-live soundtrack expertly conducted by Baldur Brönnimann. If this is an opera no one sings for the first 30 of its 90 minutes and then not often – only in fact when the fugue kicks in to add further confusion to those altered identities. Most of the dialogue is spoken. The main interest – and enjoyment – of this high-octane evening lay in some terrific performances at the heart of some vividly imaginative staging. Director Diane Paulus and her designer Riccardo Hernandez turn Neuwirth’s unpromising material into an absorbing psychodrama played out on the eponymous highway which spans the Young Vic auditorium and in a glass box suspended above it which convincingly doubles as upstairs apartment and basement prison cell.