Musicon / Gabriel / Peter Gabriel looking for a place to live
Growing Up, by Peter Gabriel (“UP” album) folded in your fleshy purse / i am floating once again / while the muted sounds are pumping rhythm / all the walls close in on me / pressure’s building wave on wave / ’til the water breaks – and outside i go, oh one dot, ::More
Musicon / TopLatest / The Year of Hibernation, inspired melodies by Youth Lagoon
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Top. The debut LP from Boise, Idaho’s Trevor Powers has all the sonic hallmarks of a bedroom project– lyrics that reference childhood, thin production, reverb– but manages to stand out from its lo-fi peers thanks to a sense of wide-eyed ::More
Musicon / Periscope / Steve Reich at Nonesuch: WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Periscope. Nonesuch continues to keep its Steve Reich discography up to date with major works from 2009 and 2010, alongside a smaller earlier piece, Dance Patterns for pairs of xylophones, vibraphones and pianos, from 2002. Reich’s string-quartet memorial to the ::More
Musicon / Periscope / Thinking about Pierre Boulez
musicon.byzantinewalls.org- Periscope. It’s as a result of his efforts that so much 20th-century music is now established in the concert repertory The public perception of Boulez as the most hardline of modernists still persists, even though that austere image belies the generous-spirited ::More
Musicon / Blogosphere / Radiohead, Kid A
musicon.byzantinewalls.org – Blogosphere. Radiohead’s 2000 LP Kid A is the 52nd most acclaimed album of all time. Everything in its right place. Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer made them bona fide superstars, and it’s no secret they were not entirely comfortable at that ::More
