Electronic Music Newsn the verge: Pageant prom and tour for the twin Veronicas
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- n the verge: Pageant prom and tour for the twin Veronicas
- From Boston to Austin: Acts head to SXSW
- Denny Zeitlin
n the verge: Pageant prom and tour for the twin Veronicas
USA Today
17 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. “When we first came out people didn’t take women in pop seriously like we’re contrived” Jess says. Adds Lisa: “We’ve been singing forever (since age 5) and we do write our own music.
From Boston to Austin: Acts head to SXSW
Boston Globe
And don’t worry dude. There’ll be plenty of time left over for beer and barbecue. Arms & Sleepers n their new EP “The Motorist” the Cambridge-based duo of Max Lewis (programming keyboards) and Mirza Ramic (bass keyboards) – along with visuals artist Dado Ramadani – have refined an approach to ambient electronic music that was preternaturally lovely to begin with. Instead of chilly brittle soundscapes that can constrain electronica Arms & Sleepers suffuse their mostly instrumental melodies with warm flushes of brass ethereal vocals (when voices materialize) brushed drums and artful dollops of plaintive piano. The result is an aural universe as wistful and heartrendingly human as it is electronic. March 20 and 21 at the Parish Downstairs (214 East 6th St. )Eksi Ekso Chances are your album’s going to sound pretty good if it’s coproduced and mixed by a Grammy Award winner (Malcolm Burn) who’s worked with Peter Gabriel and Emmylou Harris.
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Denny Zeitlin
All About Jazz
ne of his early compositions to take hold was the gorgeous requiem “Quiet Now” which soon became a staple in Bill Evans’ repertoire. After four albums as a leader for Columbia Zeitlin was frustrated with the limitations of acoustic piano and was drawn to electronic instruments in order to bend and sustain notes. After taking time away from performing to master them he recorded two electronic albums for 1750 Arch that integrated jazz rock freeform and classical music along with an LP of solo piano improvisations. Then director Philip Kaufman invited Zeitlin to create a soundtrack for a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers completed after ten weeks of intense work and a rare five-week break from his psychiatric practice. During the ’80s and ’90s Zeitlin refocused on acoustic music including albums of duets with.