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| From | "robert.pally" <robert.pally@bluewin.ch> |
| Subject | Perfect Sound Forever - Online Music Magazine was updated |
| Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:51:02 +0200 |
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Hi
I recently conducted an interview with Daniel Carlson, who is on the list.
Now you can read it here: http://www.perfectsoundforever.com
DANIEL CARLSON
"Daniel Carlson, who was raised in Chicago, creates on his third record
Aviary Jackson, music that goes beyond just putting some songs in a nice
order. In the tradition of Burt Bacharach, Pearlfishers, The Beach Boys,
High Llamas and Louis Philippe, he offers pop jewels of high quality that
satisfy the body and the mind."
And here is a list of the other articles:
TETUZI AKIYAMA
Avant boogie guitar
"It is rare that early '70's boogie, that sludgy, funky, crunchy version of
blues rock that morphed into Heavy Metal, is seen, or used as, a springboard
for experimental improvisation. OK, it has probably never been done aside
from guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. One of the more accessible of avant-garde
guitarists, Akiyama has long been able to reach people through boogie, and
take the form well beyond its traditional scope."
DANGER MOUSE & MIKE PATTON
Love, Italian Style
"It is no secret that Patton has been a long time admirer of film, film
scores and Italian culture. Evidence has been left like a trail of bread
crumbs throughout his body of work, maming Italian composer Ennio Morricone,
famous for his scorings of Leone's "Spaghetti Westerns," as one of his
musical Idols. So, what will marrying an Italian woman and spending the
better part of a decade living in Bologna get you?"
STEVE EARLE
Sympathy for an American terrorist
"In the weeks before 11 September 2001, country-rock singer Steve Earle was
thinking about putting together an album of protest songs. He already had
one in the bag: "Amerika v 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)," an attack on the U.S.
healthcare system he had written for the Nick Cassavetes movie, John Q. But
when two hijacked jets brought down the World Trade Center and another
crashed into the Pentagon, there was suddenly no room in America for
dissent."
FREE FORM RADIO & BRANDING
Sellin' Out & Buying In
"There are also counter-veiling forces out there that can expose us to great
music without the logo glow potentially adulterating the experience. These
forces and entities can give us a forum to communicate with people that
genuinely want to share with others, and have an unmediated dialogue with.
What follows are a few questions put to music directors and others involved
in Free Form radio stations."
MONKS OF DOOM
Camper Van project's genius?- interview "The story of the Monks of Doom is
both an object lesson in how the music industry used to work and a
cautionary tale about the difficulties of said lifestyle/pursuit. Its
ultimate tragedy is what happened to Meridian, one of those great albums I
bet you've never heard, long since out of print. As a special treat, Victor
Krummenacher has agreed to let some album tracks be available for streaming
on SoundCloud in perpetuity."
NEW YORK DOLLS
An early show reminisced
"They came on a few minutes later, to the cheers of twenty-or-so hard-core
fans, mostly photogenic young women. Though similarly attired to their scene
peers, the Dolls oozed a regal sleaze that evoked the early Stones’
mystique. Singer David Johansen looked bummed out, his frizzy hair combed
over his eyes. Seven-oz. Piels in hand, he sat in a folding chair and
lowered the mic. The band charged into their 'hit', 'Personality Crisis',
the only lyric I could decipher through the volcanic volume."
OLD-TIME MUSIC
Don't call it 'bluegrass'
"... we should talk about the distinction between 'old-time' music and
'bluegrass music,' a common misuse of musical nomenclature in our culture.
Old-Time music is a broad term that can refer to many different styles of
North American traditional music. For our purposes in this article, let's
say that when we use the term “old-time,” we are talking primarily about the
instrumental fiddle & banjo music native to the Appalachian mountains and
American southeast."
ANNETTE PEACOCK
Singer/composer interrogated- "I'm The One" reissued "For those who
don’t... the material on this album is subtle, varied and challenging.
Stylistically, there are elements of pop, rock, funk, jazz, gospel and
[electronic] contemporary classical. But none of these constraints can hold
this music. The songs tend not to follow the usual linear
verse-chorus-verse-break-etc format. Adding this to the often complex
melodic structure, this places demands on the listener, who has to
concentrate and really listen in order to appreciate the music fully."
QUADROPHENIA
How Townshend birthed it- interview with engineer Ron Nevison/book excerpt
"The recording of Quadrophenia was, like most of the Who's projects, fraught
with lurches, calamities, and struggles to fit the limits of the era's
technologies and market realities into Townshend's outsized conceptual
ambitions. For a 1973 recording, it was complex, involving not just the
band's usual power trio-plus-vocals format, but much in the way of
synthesizers, horns, and sound effects."
RUSSIAN JAZZ
Post-Perestroika music
"Any serious jazz follower remembers a brilliant book by Frederick Starr
entitled 'Red & Hot; The Fate of Jazz in the USSR.' However, the book
finishes just at the time when so called 'new jazz,' 'free jazz,' 'new
music' was emerging in the USSR. Zoom one quarter of a century forward and
the USSR does not exist anymore. Having lost 17 republics and about 100
million people, it's been reduced to Russia. But what happened to music?
Moscow jazz commentator and broadcaster Mikhail Mitropolsky throws some
light on the subject."
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Born in the USA/Viva Vietnam
"'Born in the U.S.A.' is rife with hard rock irony laid over the baby boom's
endless nostalgia for its rock and roll youth. 'Glory Days' and 'My
Hometown' are too, and Springsteen has always been happy with how they were
received. So, why did the national IQ drop so hard on 'Born in the U.S.A.'?
On the song's release, the public almost immediately took what they wanted
from it and never looked back. Its 'misinterpretation' is now its history."
VINYL ANACHRONIST
Lipstick, pigs & Technics
"Is everyone making analog too complicated? That's normally a question I
reserve for digital and computer audio, where competing formats and endless
approaches have made 21st century audio reproduction confusing,
confrontational and expensive. While there have always been people who
resist buying a turntable because of LP care, cartridge mounting/alignment
and a host of sometimes strange tweaks are designed to extract that last bit
of information from the grooves."
VIRGINIA ROCK
Not just GWAR- book excerpt
"Keeping It Tight in the Old Dominion tells the history of rock music in
Virginia from the 1950's and the rockabilly of Gene Vincent to the punk
energy of Cloak/Dagger and Conditions in the 21st century and everything in
between. The book's approach is done with interviews with over sixty
musicians from the '50's to the current time. This story needs to be told
because no one has ever tried anything like it before."
Best
Robert
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