Yazoo: a duo to make the heart glow
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Yazoo: a duo to make the heart glow
Telegraph.co.uk – May 29, 2008
Composer Vince Clarke pressed a button on his computer console and for the first time in 26 years Yazoo – one of the most influential groups in British pop music – performed the sad and beautiful Only You. A Basildonian with a gift for imbuing electronic music with soul Clarke formed Yazoo almost by mistake. Having left another key synth-pop band Depeche Mode in 1981 after just one album he feared he would have to get a proper job. But his record label loved the demo that he and Moyet made of Only You and put it straight out. The song went to number two (later going to number one with the Flying Pickets) and the duo’s striking sound and appearance made them instant stars. After just two albums and a handful of shows however they went their separate ways.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 29, 2008
The first Fi’Art was held last year as part of the Pompidou Centre’s 30th anniversary celebration. Each of the four museums will offer interactive art programs. The Children’s Museum’s is led by artists Garth Zeglin and Ian Brill whose “Wax Poetic” incorporates electronic music live sculpture illuminated wax fractals and water. Museum visitors can see their own artwork transformed into music and projected as fractalized images and there will be other creative activities for children. Zeglin and Brill will create a large sculpture throughout the weekend. For information: 412-322-5058. — Adrian McCoySundayC.
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New York Times – May 29, 2008
But these groups have fundamental differences. Orpheus a chamber orchestra has woodwinds brasses and percussion and devotes itself mostly to the standard repertory. Sonyc as its name suggests is strictly a string band and its specialty is new music. The four works Sonyc presented at the Kitchen on Tuesday evening were all from the more accessible precincts of the contemporary repertory and each found common ground with popular or folk music. In Paul Brantley’s “Verse Chorus Bridge” (2008) that common ground was mostly in the title an allusion to the standard structural components of pop songs. He may have toyed with those elements in his three contrasting movements — the slow bittersweet “Divers”; the robust clearly misnamed “Morendo”; and the rhythmically brisk “Turnaround” — but in each substance rather than structure held the attention. Paul Alexander’s involved rhythmically sharp-edged writing in “Rasa IV: La Danse du Désir Deviendra une Chanson d’Amour” (2003) touches on several classical and pop styles: at its heart is an Afro-Cuban rumba but passages building on a melodic chugging figure that momentarily evoked Bach’s Sixth “Brandenburg” Concerto gave way to cello and bass figures that hinted at jazz and later to an overtly jazzy bass solo… The basis of the work is a recording by MC Wordisbon a rapper on which Mr. Woolf has superimposed a beautifully detailed slowly flowing string score. Heard through the scrim of the string writing the rap lyric was only fleetingly comprehensible and the turntable scratches became a layer of electronic sound little different from what other composers might have produced on a computer. It didn’t matter. The combination of Mr. Woolf’s strings the scratches and the text created a movingly melancholy atmosphere bluesy in spirit and rich in texture.
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