S. Victor Aaron / May 17, 2012 8:31 am
We tend to think of musicians who have been able to keep coming forth with creative, fresh ideas with nearly every attempt in the past tense. Mozart, Ellington, Miles, The Beatles are a few who can fit into that category but they are of long past eras.
Mark Saleski / May 17, 2012 7:23 am
The Internet is chock full of “Unboxing” videos, the so-called “new geek porn.” I don’t find them particularly interesting but that’s because I’m fairly certain I’m not part of their target audience.
S. Victor Aaron / May 9, 2012 8:20 am
One surefire way to know if your ears are trained to listen to European-derived music forms is to listen to microtonal music for even just a few seconds. If it strikes you as exotic and weird, then you are most attuned to Western style music
S. Victor Aaron / May 1, 2012 8:31 am
“Bending Bridges,” reveals Mary Halvorson, “is a title I came up with in a semi-conscious state”, the same as how most of the titles in her songs come about.
S. Victor Aaron / April 30, 2012 8:39 am
Anyone who has heard Mary Halvorson perform even just once has likely caught her trademark move: the sudden burst of notes quavering, akin to hitting the whammy bar but with a little more nuance.
S. Victor Aaron / April 28, 2012 12:00 pm
For their third album, the offbeat experimental jazz-rock trio Ergo brought in a few guest performers to shake things up a bit.
S. Victor Aaron / April 25, 2012 7:31 am
Clarinetists don’t typically have a reputation of being adventurous (our own Mort Weiss notwithstanding), but it isn’t for the lack of such practitioners as Ben Goldberg and Chris Speed working hard to punch holes into those perceptions. Add Aaron Novik to that list of clarinet insurgents. Novik, who once studied under Greenberg, has likewise reached back to ancient Hebrew music [...]
S. Victor Aaron / April 23, 2012 7:54 am
Music that’s noisy and unconstrained aren’t all the same, and the best hardcore experimental bands understand that merely creating chaos is not enough; the chaos is best created in an orderly way.
S. Victor Aaron / April 21, 2012 8:23 am
The music of Tomas Fujiwara and his Hook Up band is some of the most deceptively clever jazz out there, which makes it very difficult to describe his music.
S. Victor Aaron / April 17, 2012 8:13 am
What might sound to the casual ear like goofing around in the studio is actually a drumming genius at work.
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