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Sufjan Stevens: Coventry Carol

December 23, 2012 By guillaume

Sufjan Stevens Silver and Gold

On the back of 42 songs over the five volumes of [amazon text=Songs for Christmas&asin=B000K9L3IO] (2006), Indie Folk singer Sufjan Stevens released last month [amazon text=Silver and Gold: Songs for Christmas - Vol. 6-10&asin=B009KXRW5O],  adding 58 more songs to the collection.  Like the previous opus, Silver and Gold ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk, Traditional Tagged With: carols, indie, songwriting

Jon Hopkins: Monsters theme

December 17, 2012 By guillaume

Monsters

Monsters is a 2010 British independent science fiction film written and directed by Gareth Edwards with a wonderful soundtrack by Jon Hopkins.  Monsters chronicles the journey of an American journalist and her fellow citizen from alien-infected and quarantined Mexico to the American border. Filmed on a shoestring budget with ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, OST Tagged With: ambient, cinema, electro

The Gloaming: Live in Dublin

December 6, 2012 By guillaume

The Gloaming - Live in Dublin EP

The Gloaming is a new Irish "supergroup" composed of Sean Nós singer Iarla Ó Lionaird, pianist Thomas Bartlett, hardanger fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill.  A 21mn live track recorded in August 2011 at the National Concert Hall is available to listen to & download on ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Ireland, Traditional Tagged With: fiddle, guitar, piano

Sam Jackson: The Gramophone

November 28, 2012 By guillaume

Sam Jackson is a Dublin based pianist, but when I heard "The Gramophone" for the first time on the radio, I mistook it for what could have been a track from an early recording from the Esbjörn Svensson Trio.  Sam Jackson's music is of the same calibre. "The feeling I have something to say, the great difficulty in saying ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Ireland, Jazz, Modern Classical Tagged With: piano

Gerry Diver: Music for tape loop

November 9, 2012 By guillaume

The Speech Project

Multi-instrumentalist Gerry Diver based the “Speech Project” on several interviews of Irish musicians and singers such as Shane MacGowan, Christy Moore, Damian Dempsey, Martin Hayes and Danny Meehan. It also features archival recordings of Galway accordion player Joe Cooley. The various musical pitches of the musicians’ voices ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Ireland, Traditional Tagged With: sampling, voice

John Cage: In a landscape

November 7, 2012 By guillaume

John Cage - In a landscape (1995) - Solo piano: Stephen Drury

Referring to classical Indian thought and influenced by Gita Sarabhai, the Indian musician he was tutoring in the mid-1940s, John Cage formulated the idea that the purpose of music was to “to sober and quiet the mind, thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences”. Written as a clear homage to Erik Satie, “In a landscape” ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical Tagged With: John Cage, piano, Stephen Drury

About Spellbinding Music

November 7, 2012 By guillaume

Charlie Parker

Why is it that a particular piece of music, a tune or a song will move us in such a way that it will stop us in our tracks, send shivers up our spine or give us goose bumps?  Spiritual or secular musical traditions such as Sufi music, Gnawa music, plainchant, gospel, blues etc. all imply elements of introspection, meditation or ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Classical, Contemporary, Folk, Ireland, Jazz, Modern Classical, Traditional Tagged With: about

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