Electronic Music NewsSound Affects: Music reviews and ratings
The News Review:
- Sound Affects: Music reviews and ratings
- International Music Summit 2009
- The live loses out to the electronic in performance
- Inquirer Music Critic
- ELECTRONIC CAROL KING
- Music brings out the art in the holidays
- Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Sound Affects: Music reviews and ratings
The Hour CT
– Michael Kabran——B. Fleischmann: “Angst Is Not a Weltanschauung” (Morr Music) (rating: 6)Daniel Johnston has more or less made his name on unruly all-natural talent the sort of songwriting acumen that cuts through every kind of personal handicap and gets to a messy core of truth. Lo-fi to the point of alienating some listeners he seems unlikely to have much in common with electronic music. Thus it’s sort of a shock to hear Johnston’s wild frayed voice emerging out of “Angst Is Not a Weltanschauung” by Berlin electronicist B. Johnston takes unembellished charge of “Phones Machines and King Kong” singing a capella for the first minute of the piece. He’s singing his “King Kong” an emotionally fraught imagination of what it is like to be a monster in love with a beautiful woman.
International Music Summit 2009
Dance Nova
Last year?s hugely successful inaugural summit brought together 300 of the most influential players at the cutting edge of the electronic music industry marking the successful arrival of the key business and networking event in the dance music calendar. Pete Tong summit co-founder states “what happened in Ibiza [last year] will impact our future and the way the music industry moves forward. The response was overwhelming; people walked away with ideas for the future with new relationships forged from different aspects of electronica and the film and brand industry. In 2009 we aim to build on this with some exciting new initiatives to be announced in Ibiza. ?The IMS has set a new standard for conference content bringing together provocative thought leaders from in and beyond the music industry.
The live loses out to the electronic in performance
Baltimore Sun United States
Studies have shown for several years now that the percentage of adults patronizing arts events has either been static or falling particularly for plays opera and the ballet. But I don’t think we’re losing interest in the arts. Americans still love music drama and comedy. It’s the form those things take that matters. We’re still in the shock-and-awe stage of new technology and it’s winning. The Baltimore Opera’s Web page announces the company’s Chapter 11 filing and its cancellation of the second half of its 2008-2009 season. Yet it still advertises a high-definition simulcast of the Metropolitan Opera on a big screen at the Lyric stage ironically promoted as “the ultimate stage spectacle.
Inquirer Music Critic
Philadelphia Inquirer PA
"American Boy" Estelle featuring Kanye West. Brit singer-rapper introduces herself to U. audiences with electro-splashed single with West "dressed smart like a London bloke" as her calling card. "Bust Your Windows" Jazmine Sullivan.
ELECTRONIC CAROL KING
New York Post NY
" Instead the composer will be giving out cassettes CDs and MP3s of his 44-minute wordless ambient music piece to a small army of boombox-equipped fans who meet yearly at Washington Square Park for the event. In unison they push play and make their way through Greenwich Village to Tompkins Square Park led by the sounds of the electronic Christmas carol. So if it doesn't have fa-la-las or jingle bells what does this carol sound like? "It sparkles and sings and sometimes contemplates the stars in the night sky" explains Kline who says that "Unsilent Night" was born from his love of electronic music and his memories of caroling as a kid in Ohio. Whatever it sounds like people seem to love the annual event which started here 16 years ago. While New York's "Unsilent Night" draws some of the biggest crowds (more than 1000) the annual Christmas event has become a tradition in more than 25 cities worldwide. This year's "Unsilent Night" kicks off at 7 tonight at the arch in Washington Square Park. Visit unsilentnight.
Music brings out the art in the holidays
Muskogee Daily Phoenix OK
A couple of folks who do it well are the Manhattan Transfer. They sing wonderfully without instruments. The instrumentals of the Mannheim Steamroller who are not all-acoustic or all-electronic all-digital or all-analog but a little of each also offer a new twist on the traditional. Since we reside in Muskogee there also should be mention that there are lots of country versions of standards for those who enjoy that particular cup of tea. I haven’t had the nerve or chance to listen but the Flaming Lips have a new Christmas CD out and after reviewing the track list I see nothing traditional has been sung. “Christmas on Mars” why not?Whatever your taste or religion or age there is seasonal music for you to enjoy. Savor the old sounds try to tune out the incessant commercial sounds and celebrate the season with music that touches your heart and soul however that happens.
Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Los Angeles Times CA
Black plans to debut his project Sunday night at the Spike TV Video Game Awards which he’s also hosting. Brutal Legend will be one of about 10 games unveiled at the sixth annual VGA which has become the premier venue for major game publishers to show off potential blockbusters. Brutal Legend scheduled for release by Electronic Arts Inc. next fall was initially the brainchild of Shafer a quirky developer known for his humor. Though two of Shafer’s earlier titles Grim Fandango and Psychonauts were not commercial hits their aesthetic brought him critical acclaim and near-cult status among fans. One of those fans is Black who wouldn’t talk with The Times without Shafer. “Tim is the moist and delicious chocolate pudding cake” Black said.
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