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- Trans-Siberian Orchestra Mannheim Steamroller make merry music
- English Electronic Music Band Depeche Mode Finish Recording New Album
- Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966 (Sub Rosa)
- Sound Affects: Music reviews and ratings
- Classical Music Review: Turangalîla Symphony
- Late Night
- HONOR ROLL ’08 | “Waltz With Bashir” Director Ari Folman
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Mannheim Steamroller make merry music
Detroit Free Press United States
Christmas is prime time for two major players from opposite ends of the music spectrum: Trans-Siberian Orchestra a circus of grandiose Christmas rock operas and Mannheim Steamroller electronic interpreters of boughs of harmonious holly. Though their sounds are decidedly different both have over-the-top sensibilities in their stage shows TSO especially. Both need multiple touring companies to keep up with Christmastime demand. Both are enormously popular. And both institutions hit metro Detroit this week — Mannheim at the Masonic Temple and Trans-Siberian at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
English Electronic Music Band Depeche Mode Finish Recording New Album
AHN
Redistribution republication. syndication rewriting or broadcast is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN. –>Nidhi Sharma – Celebrity News Service Reporter London England (CNS) – English electronic music band Depeche Mode has finished recording work on the band’s forthcoming studio album its first since 2005′s Playing the Angel. Frontman Dave Gahan has revealed that the band have completed work on their as-yet-untitled record which is due to be released next year. “We’ve completed the record. There might be a couple of bits and pieces we’ve got to clean up but I feel really good about the fact that we’re finished” Gahan told Pop and Hiss. Gahan confirmed the disc will be the first for EMI in the U.
Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966 (Sub Rosa)
SF Weekly CA
From its late-’80s start Deep Listening inspired a following for Oliveros and many meditative sonic retreats. But this new collection of her early long works finds her learning how to actively process sound—often harshly but with an ear toward absorbing sonic material that would inform the philosophy for which she’s best known. Oliveros recorded three of Four’s pieces near the end of her work in the San Francisco Tape Music Center a Mills-based electronic music studio she ran in the early ’60s with fellow experimental composers Terry Riley Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick. Made with simple tape loops and oscillators this trio of tracks portrays her ability to wrangle electronic noise into compelling structures that build from solitary buzzing signals into pulsing patterns and waves of wailing high-register tones. But the intimate home-recorded piece “Time Perspectives” proves most engaging. Here she juxtaposes radio voices atmospheric chimes mouth sounds and the inexplicable household plonk against the drones and whooshes caused by manipulated tape speeds (and the reverberations she got by recording in an empty bathtub). As a piece it perfectly portrays Oliveros’ burning desire to make sonic art out of her surroundings a principle that informed Deep Listening and made her a mentor to many in the realm of experimental electronic music.
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.
Classical Music Review: Turangalîla Symphony
Dallas Morning News TX
There’s a virtuoso piano part written for Ms. Loriod although much of it is buried in loud orchestrations. And repeatedly the ondes Martenot an early electronic keyboard instrument lends otherworldly glows and whooshes of sound. There’s little of the birdsong prominent elsewhere in Messiaen’s oeuvre but one does get his signature off-kilter rhythms borrowed from Indian music. Sometimes the winds seem to be dancing The Rite of Spring in saris. Turangalîla is a major score by a major composer musical theorist and teacher whose students included Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. But is it great music? The fifth and final movements open with themes of astonishing banality.
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Late Night
Rocktown Weekly VA
BOURBON STREET ON MAIN will host “Mental Mondays” featuring Mental Flossing on the first Monday of the month; no cover. Also featured: Monday karaoke night; College night dance party with DJ Maskell on Wednesdays; “Motion” electronic music party with DJs Suurenity and Fraggy spinning house and trance on Thursdays; iRon Lion Productions will play Fridays at 10 p. hip hop R&B and reggae DJ live bands. All evenings 21 and older except Monday 18 and older.
HONOR ROLL ’08 | “Waltz With Bashir” Director Ari Folman
Indie Wire
AF: Yes the Bach Piano Concerto # 5 repeats three times. And the Schubert sonata opus 959 is transformed into different styles – and plays over the whole ending [live archival footage revealing the Shatila massacre]. Then Max [Richter a German-born Brit composer] made some electro Schubert for the ending titles. Max writes a combo of classic and electronic music and performs on a computer with a band and strings. He’s totally responsible for the music. One song written specially for the film is called “Good Morning Lebanon.