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Ashley Paul’s lock down album
Multiinstrumentalist/composer Ashley Paul has released a new album composed and recorded during lock down in summer. It’s a collection of songs – with or without lyrics – for the trio of Paul – voice, alto saxophone, clarinet, guitar, percussion, Yoni Silver – bass clarinet, and Otto Willberg – double bass. The ten tracks on Ray…
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Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday
On the first Friday of every month from midnight to midnight Pacific time Bandcamp supports artists by waiving its revenue share on all sales. If you plan to buy something on Bandcamp, tomorrow would be a good choice. Here are some recommendations: I wrote about Maja S.K. Ratkje’s COVID-performance for TUSK festival 2020 in a…
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Current Listening
Maja S. K. Ratkje: Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020 This year’s TUSK festival took place online due to corona. The events of the festival have been streaming twice, once in the evening and secondly in the following morning. There was one performance I listened twice and even tried to record the second stream,…
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Bruno Maderna (1920-73): Quadrivium (1969)
“Das Schlimmste auf der Welt ist Konsequenz”. “Consistency is the worst thing in the world”. Bruno Maderna Maderna’s statement about the harmfulness of consistency might be understood as a definition of human nature and as such a manifesto of humanity. We are men and women because we used to act inconsistently. Since I am a…
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