Watch The PBS 1988 Documentary On Sonic Youth In Its Entirety Now. THE PLAYLIST: MASOCHISTIC PIANISTS. Satanic climaxes, perilous fireworks, duelling fencers: there's nothing quite so seductive to piano students as a nearly unplayable piece of music.
Irving Wardle finds some models on iTunes ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Summer 2009 Piano students tend to be difficulty snobs for whom nothing is worth playing unless it’s unplayable. It’s a thrill akin to bull-fighting to look down at a page of Liszt and then observe some reckless newcomer or leathery old slogger heading into the minefield of double-flats, octave marathons, multiple time-signatures, and copious droppings of demisemiquaver fly-shit.
If some music arises from this collision, so much the better, as in the following gladiatorial items. LIGETI: ETUDES Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Sony Classical 1996)Proceed to Track XIII, “L’escalier du diable”, and surrender to those deadly feet coming up the ladder again and again until they reach the top with a satanic climax which ebbs away into the longest dying fall in piano literature. The Evolution of Music Online. Bandcamp. 100 Ultimate Folk Rock Albums. Treble : 10 Essential Shoegaze Albums. Around the late ’80s, Oxford psych-rock band Ride unexpectedly gave birth to the name of a new genre because of their somewhat introverted performance style.
Taking note of the way the band members’ habit of looking down while playing, British journalists named the genre “shoegaze,” a once joking name that now represents some of the most beautiful and/or powerful rock records in existence. Shoegaze music is frequently marked by its heavy use of guitar effects, and for that matter, heavy use of guitars. It’s dense and dreamy, often very loud, but quite gorgeous all the same. Shoegaze has been in the spotlight for much of the past decade, with bands like Deerhunter and M83 incorporating many of its stylistic elements.
And bands like Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver and Chapterhouse have all embarked on reunion tours in recent years. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy (1985, Blanco y Negro)Buy at Insound Ride – Nowhere (1990, Sire)Buy at Insound. Trish Keenan, Singer In Dreamy Electronic Group Broadcast, Has Died : The Record.
Drew Brown/Courtesy of Warp Records Trish Keenan, the singer for British electronic group Broadcast passed away on Friday morning, according to a message posted on the website of Warp Records, Broadcast's label: It is with great sadness we announce that Trish Keenan from Broadcast passed away at 9am this morning in hospital.
She died from complications with pneumonia after battling the illness for two weeks in intensive care.Our thoughts go out to James, Martin, her friends and her family and we request that the public respect their wishes for privacy at this time.This is an untimely tragic loss and we will miss Trish dearly - a unique voice, an extraordinary talent and a beautiful human being. Rest in Peace. Broadcast formed in 1995 in Birmingham, England and released four albums of lush, woozy pop. In a 2009 interview with British magazine The Wire centered on the band's final album, Witch Cults Of The Radio Age, Keenan talked about the echoes of previous eras in Broadcast's music:
Remembering Trish Keenan, Singer For The Band Broadcast : All Songs Considered Blog. Hide captionTrish Keenan, singer for the band Broadcast.
Courtesy of Warp Records Trish Keenan, singer for the band Broadcast. Note: Trish Keenan, singer for the British electronic band Broadcast, died Friday morning after a two-week battle with pneumonia. NPR Music's Otis Hart has this remembrance. "In the present, we are always in memory. " If you didn't know much about Trish Keenan, it was easy to mistake her for an emotionally detached artist. Performed Nov. 3, 2005, at The Current studios in Minneapolis. "Black Cat" "Michael A Grammar" "I Found The F" Keenan wasn't concerned with her own agenda. None of this is exceptionally rare in music, especially in the U.K., which has a thriving "free-music" scene.
While Keenan's mind may have been obsessed with apophenia — finding significance in insignificant things — her voice was blessed with the one trait humans can't help but appreciate: natural beauty. Music News and Reviews, Concert Tickets, Videos, Pictures and Free MP3s - NME.COM.