Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise
For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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...moreThe clash of opinions about music is music itself.
...moreI’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.
...moreMusic columnist Rick Moody writes on ten albums that influenced him through his life.
...moreZappa, on the other hand, was never sentimental.
...moreI’m just being an artist. I’m just being creative.
...moreNate Wooley, the reason for this piece, is a essential force in the contemporary music.
...moreWhat follows, then, is a sort of first-thought-best-thought discussion of MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS.
...moreThank God music has wings and it can fly wherever, even countries we can’t reach.
...moreIf you love this album as much as I think you’re going to, make sure to tell a friend.
...moreThis is a deep dive, therefore, into the site of brilliant, uncompromising contemporary work.
...moreI see both subjectivity and objectivity as constructions.
...moreYou will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.
...morePart of what makes Belly important and lasting, that is, is that they really think and feel a lot.
...moreIf you like Owen’s haikus, and even if you don’t, you’ll really love his album.
...moreBecause Petty was so prolific and so popular, the intense craftsmanship of his body of work has been hiding in plain sight.
...moreThe interview, like the project Iso Omena, is both funny and revealing.
...more[T]hese are albums to distract you from the horrors taking place daily in the theater of American political life.
...moreThe point is not to control the medium, the point is to interact with the medium, to find out what’s natural to it and what’s native to it and work with that, respond to that.
...moreIt seems like it’s the point of this piece to draw attention to the fact that these instruments are wounded; it shouldn’t be something that tries to hide it.
...morePerhaps space is an inevitable resting place for music of this kind, because time is completely different when conceived of in the vastness of space, and not only because of relativity.
...moreThere really is not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t stop at some moment and think about George Harrison.
...more…yet she did what she did, and in the process made the most successful album of her career.
...moreThe Lost Boys had their moment in the media, but these people, these survivors, not boys at all and not lost now either, are still here, living lives, growing and changing and thinking and reflecting.
...moreMulcahy’s Possum is, like the animal titularly referred to, a sly and imaginative affair…
...moreMaybe there is something important about rock and roll now, rock and roll the neglected past tense of a musical form, and that is that it is the music of adults.
...moreShadowbahn […] is among the most unusual, and most extreme, in a literary career that has often been marked by its unpredictability.
...more[T]he thing about receiving music from other people is this: there is always some grace associated with the transaction.
...moreRick Moody talks with Abraham Burickson, Artistic Director of Odyssey Works, a San Francisco-based theater company whose works are designed for an audience of one.
...moreIn the broadest sense, I think of this work as being about the stuff of life: excitement, love, disappointment, pride, nature, cities, war, loneliness, work, class distinction, communication.
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