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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......
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Michael Gira - A Man
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Copper Press, Issue 10 | Julianne Shepherdhe could slice razors into our skin and convince you it was an act of love If Michael Gira sang about it, he could slice razors into our skin and convince you it was an act of love. Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash sing with an unrelenting sense of pending doom, but Gira imbues that sentiment with a resigned clarity, as if awful sorrow is beautiful merely because it exists at all. His baritone drifts heavily through the darkest parts of the human psyche. But M. Gira is a writer of love songs – he just deals in the atypical, the blackest parts of love, such as obsession, rejection, the masochism inherent in any devotion. You could say he explores the connection between love and horribleness. He says, “ I hope [the songs] portray an essential sentiment in some way – whether it be violent, mournful, lustful, tender or ecstatic. All these emotions seem to fit in a ‘love affair’ usually, at some point.” On How I Loved You, the latest record by the Gira-fronted ensemble Angels of Light, he sings “New York Girls, scattered crimson pearls / You touch me like......