photos by David Andrako Last night's installment (3/14) of the 2013 Ecstatic Music Festival was the the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert which saw the Bang on a Can All-Stars performing world premieres of new commissions by Anna Clyne, Dan Deacon, Tyondai Braxton, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Paula Matthusen , and Fay Kueen Wang's Weltinseln . Dan Deacon's piece made use of his flashing iPhone/Android app , which was certainly a first [...]
You'll doubtless have already heard – at length – of the bloody bona fide debacle that was Bloc.'s inaugural London festival stop from the seemingly endless, ever Schadenfreudian hit-hiking reportage hastily regurgitated by nigh on every online outlet over the course of this past weekend. With organisers at long last having issued some form of apology – however reticent – along with now avowing to gather further 'information about Friday night's events', further pontification as to precisely what went wrong how and when down on Pontoon Dock seems as redundant as some of the farcical absurdities [...]
The shape of things to come for the the Big Ears 2010 fest. in Knoxville, Tenn, March 26-28
About Big Ears Fest : BIG EARS debuted in February 2009 in Knoxville, Tennessee with a line up that included Philip Glass & Wendy Sutter, Antony & the Johnsons, Jon Hassell, the Necks, Fennesz, Pauline Oliveros, Negativland, Michael Gira, Sparklehorse, Ned Rothenberg, Dan Deacon, Neil Hamburger, and others. The mission of BIG EARS is to offer an exciting and dynamic platform of musical and artistic discovery by artists possessed of singular and unique visions that stand apart from the mainstream. Response to the first BIG EARS was phenomenal [...]
Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn. was looking like one hell of an annual fest. Strange lineup, unique character, big heart, good times. Then I saw the lineup for this year, which includes Vampire Weekend , Gang Gang Dance , The XX and a few other bloghaus snorecore acts. Not so encouragingg. However, the negative is at least partially being offset by folks like Andrew W.K. , My Brightest Diamond , Clogs , the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Doveman among others. So while [...]
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Bang On A Can All-Stars - Music For Airports 1/2 (live) I'm very excited about the BBC4 Arena documentary on Brian Eno tonight. Eno is one of only a handful of musicians (the others including Miles Davis, John Cage, Sun Ra, Richard D James and er... William Shatner) who have changed the way I think about music by producing stuff that was simultaneously completely off-the-wall and also very listenable. The general record-buying (maybe these days that should be "music-downloading") public will know Eno best as [...]
I remembers the first time I heard Greyboy . Yep, back to Sexual Chocolate. That video was hot full of esoteric secret handshake knowledge that I'll reference for the rest of my life. Cuts straight made the credits the best part of the video (I love watching credits b/c thats when they throw in all the odd footage, its like the inside joke part of videos). I ran straight to my mom and had her drive me to the nickle spot to buy Greybreaks (vol 1) , Dub Breakbeats (1.0) , and greyboy allstars ( [...]
The man who wrote a music for a shoe company has decided to lob his Kelly Kapoor approved efforts in a slightly more conventional direction: a movie company. Sony Pictures is releasing 21 (as in never always double down on 11) this March and has commissioned LCD to write a track, which they entitled "Big Ideas." Other artists on the soundtrack include Rihanna, UNKLE, MGMT, Amon Tobin (contributing old songs), Mark Ronson and Kasabian (doing most likely a Motowned version of Kasabian's "Lost Souls Forever") and D Sardy & Duke Spirit's Liela Moss (doing something [...]
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