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Charlemagne Palestine | Interview
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Perfect Sound Forever | Daniel VarelaSensual, physical and visceral music trance Charlemagne Palestine courtesy by LEM Festival, Barcelona- Spain Sensual, physical and visceral music trance interview by Daniel Varela (June 2002) A long neglected musician, composer, performer and visual artist, Charlemagne Palestine is only recently recognized as a driving force in experimental music scene. Through many years of his recordings have been so difficult to obtain and his performances involving long sound masses could be heard only as an obscure story-telling. His early work with carillon and electronic sustained drones has given place to his better known piano work in the seventies, concerts in which many times Palestine bleed his own hands after an exhilarating playing technique. After years of retirement doing visual installations and traveling, the nineties has been more friendly with Palestine. Many young musicians value his work and some small independent record labels are particularly diligent with remarkable releases of his work. This interview was done in Barcelona, in November 2000 during LEM festival of experimental music. Many quotes will drive interested people to many other items Palestine- related. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: I read about your concept of "resonant" music (1), rather than "minimal" music. Under the label......
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Michael Gira | Interview | streaming audio
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WNYC | Spinning on Air | David GarlandIn this 2 hour program, Michael talks with David Garland about his 20 years of musicLISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE HERE Real Media Player required. Download free software here. WNYC's David Garland conducted a 2 hour interview with Mr. Gira it was aired on May 24th, 2002." About Spinning On Air: Where else can you find an interview with Academy Award-winning composer John Barry, flying saucer music, or wall-to-wall Hawaiian War Chants? Spinning On Air crosses musical boundaries in quest of the fire ignited by the interaction of Art and Pop. One of the bright spots on the New York radio dial (according to the "New York Times"), illuminated by host David Garland...
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Michael Gira | Interview | streaming audio
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WNYC | Spinning on Air | David GarlandIn this 2 hour program, Michael talks with David Garland about his 20 years of musicLISTEN TO THE ARCHIVE HERE Real Media Player required. Download free software here. WNYC's David Garland conducted a 2 hour interview with Mr. Gira it was aired on May 24th, 2002." About Spinning On Air: Where else can you find an interview with Academy Award-winning composer John Barry, flying saucer music, or wall-to-wall Hawaiian War Chants? Spinning On Air crosses musical boundaries in quest of the fire ignited by the interaction of Art and Pop. One of the bright spots on the New York radio dial (according to the "New York Times"), illuminated by host David Garland...
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Windsor for the Derby | Relocation
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Copper Press, Issue 9 | Julianne Shepherdintrospective in scope and highly emotional in conceptSince its 1994 beginnings in Austin, Windsor for the Derby has made music for brooding and sleeping introspective in scope and highly emotional in concept primarily through guitars and the occasional sampler. As a result, they've been perched on the cusp of many musical arenas; the band's sound is uniquely organic, but at the same time, the ambience they make with guitars and patience often sounds electronic-based, or at least electronic-influenced. Perhaps it is their spaciousness, but when they want to, Windsor for the Derby closes the circle between atmospheric "post-rock" music and the newer, more music/less dance-oriented "intelligent Dance Music" (iDM). After making several recordings of linear, spatial music, in 1999, Windsor for the Derby recorded Difference and Repetition, an album that was fully organic and intimate, complete with acoustic guitars and the occasional sweet, whispered vocals. The band waited two years to release their next record, The Awkwardness EP, on Aesthetics Records in late 2001; as if to further blur the line, the EP consists of remixes by such iDM luminaries as Pulseprogramming and I-Sound (and Windsor for the Derby themselves). Daniel Matz......
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Windsor for the Derby | Relocation
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Copper Press, Issue 9 | Julianne Shepherdintrospective in scope and highly emotional in conceptSince its 1994 beginnings in Austin, Windsor for the Derby has made music for brooding and sleeping introspective in scope and highly emotional in concept primarily through guitars and the occasional sampler. As a result, they've been perched on the cusp of many musical arenas; the band's sound is uniquely organic, but at the same time, the ambience they make with guitars and patience often sounds electronic-based, or at least electronic-influenced. Perhaps it is their spaciousness, but when they want to, Windsor for the Derby closes the circle between atmospheric "post-rock" music and the newer, more music/less dance-oriented "intelligent Dance Music" (iDM). After making several recordings of linear, spatial music, in 1999, Windsor for the Derby recorded Difference and Repetition, an album that was fully organic and intimate, complete with acoustic guitars and the occasional sweet, whispered vocals. The band waited two years to release their next record, The Awkwardness EP, on Aesthetics Records in late 2001; as if to further blur the line, the EP consists of remixes by such iDM luminaries as Pulseprogramming and I-Sound (and Windsor for the Derby themselves). Daniel Matz......