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Visited with Roger Linn’s LinnStrument back in October 2014, where it did duty as a pseudo-pedal steel guitar. How fun would it be to hook up with my beloved Gestrument or Alchemy on the iPad? bonus: … Continue reading
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A new friend mentioned to me over the phone the other day, “Did I know Los Lobos, did I know they are coming to Cleveland?” Besides being reminded once again about how much fun it is to discover with ‘somebody … Continue reading
Complicated. Genius. Flyer. Remembering Prince (The New Yorker) It will be interesting to learn what will happen with the mountain of music he made, and didn’t make widely available, after 2005. … Continue reading
Cistern from Claudia Esslinger on Vimeo. My art and image making have gobbled all my creative time for a year. (This puts the couple of hundred or so hours of recording activity in 2014 in bittersweet relief.) At the moment … Continue reading
Lesley Flanagan, singer, composer, instrument builder, sound conceptualizer, deep listener 4. How could we make sound improve our lives? I think it’s about listening. I feel that when we take time to truly listen — to actively engage in listening … Continue reading
A Festival to Ponder the Nature of Time From Create Digital Music, and right up my alley; although nowadays I am more observer than participant. Right up yours too if you are concerned at all with future music, performance, experimentation, … Continue reading
Diane Birch is one of my favorite singers, oh, heck, she is my current favorite singer! Her new album Nous was released earlier this year, and is on Bandcamp. (I guess we’re sort of label mates in the new fangled … Continue reading
Ambient Jams by Rheyne Rheyne’s live jams have been featured on Tim Webb’s Discchord forever. His new Bandcamp album is tasty. … Continue reading
Land of Songs Trailer from Land of Songs on Vimeo. This little corner. . . … Continue reading
“He sailed over, he wouldn’t fly.” Cleveland Plain Dealer journalist Jane Scott, quoting David Bowie’s wife. David Bowie’s American debut took place at Cleveland Music Hall on September 22, 1972. I had graduated from high school on the far east … Continue reading
Courtney Barnett‘s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit came out in March last year. I got to it in late April. By May it seemed to me that unless Wussy delivered something unbeatable, Barnett’s second album … Continue reading
Best of 2016 – in no particular order A3 … Continue reading
Shelby Lynne is a very unique, honest, and very adult, musical talent. In her background is her very dark story. This “fake Christmas” concert at Daryl’s House is superb and grown up. I’m not a xmas person to any appreciable … Continue reading
The Tank is a kickstarter project to bring to fruition an going place for soundvisions. Bruce Odland hopes to use the huge steel chamber to educate people about the nature of sound, and, to provide a tool for sonic explorers. … Continue reading
Glori Selects Some Sounds of Kamelmauz (sampler) by Kamelmauz released in July … Continue reading
Synthesist Rheyne (Jon Barbieri) and guitarist Robert Manganaro mine the vein of improvised ambient on a terrific playlist full of chilled goodness. The duo records their improvisations live and so all the loopng and sequencing and mixing is in real … Continue reading