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Bloomin Reich!
Terrible heading but i couldn’t resist. Last week i went to see Steve Reich’s Drumming piece with Caryl Mann who plays harp and flute on a few of the A-Line recordings (quite beautifully too). There was an in conversation afterwards with him and Colin Currie and i was planning on only staying for a few […]
Through A Glass Darkly
I’ve never managed to finish an Ingmar Bergman film at least in part because they’re put on so late but last night I stayed up until the early hours watching Through A Glass Darkly. ‘Classics’ often intimidate me and last night was a lesson in realising that often works of art that are classified this […]
And Venn Some in January
Nancy below is nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Newcomer of the year - fingers crossed Nancy!
Kate McGarrigle
Very sad news for a lot of people as Kate McGarrigle died today. A lot of people I admire are big fans of the McGarrigle sisters, I particularly like this song.
BEAK
It’s the new year and one of my resolutions is to see more live music and meet up with my friends more, these should combine rather easily so it shouldn’t be too hard to keep up. I went to see Beak at The Garage in December and I totally loved them. Moody […]
Art Review - The Voice And Nothing more
Athanasios Argianas has an exhibition at the Max Wigram Gallery this month including a piece that has mine, Jo Apps and Amy Cunnigham voices and faces as part of one of the sculptures. The piece has been bought by some fancy American Collector apparently. Athanasios was interviewed by Art Review so you can see and […]
Famous songs in 3/4 time signature
I seem to have a soft spot for 3/4 time signatures when I write songs so I’ve been looking into examples that don’t sound too much like a waltz or a trad country song just to get ideas for arrangements. It’s been interesting discovering that it really is a genuine attraction, not just a habit […]
Dead Weather vocal recording technique
Bought tickets for the Dead Weather gig today so was listening intently to their album to justify the purchase to myself and really liked the vocal recording technique on 60 Feet Tall. There’s a delayed second vocal panned very hard right and i wonder whether it’s delay or just a second take that’s been lain […]
EP vs LP
Thom Yorke adds to my confusion on whether to make an EP or an LP (EP is ready, LP is not) on Drowned In Sound today saying that EP’s and one-off releases are the way forward in this article and that he can’t imagine Radiohead making another album.
Here he is at Latitude. It was funny […]
