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By Editor Kriss Perras And Heather Fuller
Opium Moon plays Kama Sutra music. Her violin weeps the notes of a love ballad. The bow is at times ecstatic and at others barely touching the strings. As she performs, we’re transported to another universe. There are overtones of Itzhak Perlman in her fingers, and Isaac Stern in her bow. Best of all, in her facial expressions you will find the plateaued emotions of her musical performance. Her whole body is into it, like a violent ballet. This is Lili Haydn with Opium Moon.
Haydn has joined forces with other master performers. The group consists of Haydn on violin and voice, Hamid Saeidi on voice and santoor, or Persian hammered dulcimer, MB Gordy on ancient percussion, and Itai Disraeli on dub
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The outside of the stadium was filled with police directing traffic this way and that. The traffic jam as backed up for miles in many directions as people made their way to hear this band that started across the pond. The stadium filled to the brim at 80,000. They came to hear U2 celebrate 30 years of their legendary album The Joshua Tree. This tour marks the band’s first time in full performance of this fan favorite album.
It is quite something to hear 80,000 people sing in unison, and this
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Eight-time Grammy Award-winning jazz icon Herb Alpert is also a platinum-selling musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist and philanthropist. He was born in Los Angeles. He grew up in a house filled with music. His early music career just grew from there. By mid-year 1962, Alpert and Jerry Moss formed a partnership they called Carnival Records. This name was later changed to what would become the iconic and highly successful label, A&M Records.
"By August 1962, Alpert and Moss
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The world premiere of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 was in Budapest November 20, 1889. Today’s version was hammered out by the composer in a series of public performances that then included and little by little excluded certain movements, namely the removal of Blumine, a symphonic love poem for his one time lover Johanna.
Valery Gergiev, conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), brings us the new release LSO Live Mahler’s Symphony No.1. It is a sure bet to invest in any recorded performance
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Eurocentric synthesizer-based influences of futuristic and fictional themes of American capitalistic technocratic society, The Best Of Liquid Dreams: DJ Uforia is an excellent example of techno dance music. Funny this great little CD purchased from a Santa Monica Promenade street vendor isn’t to be found much of anywhere except by each individual group’s own sites and works. Be prepared to travel to other worlds, filmic style sounds that are reminiscent of the original film Blade Runner and
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Perceval Press' recent CD release, At All by Viggo Mortensen is intellectually challenging and may draw entirely different emotions from another listener. This release is a near solo work, with only one track containing work from Buckethead and Travis Dickerson, a combination we have become accustom to hearing from this indie publisher. This writer-artist would disagree with categorizing the works on this CD as experimental music, as that term would be a shallow take completely overlooking the
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A solo venture by local underground Jazz artist Viggo Mortensen, this new Perceval Press CD Time Waits For Everyone fits into the ranks of the turn of the Century composers. The works as a whole are originally crafted products of human sensibility interpreted through jazz improvisation. Consonant motifs resolve into dissonant chords where pedals and keys linger on an idea of solitude in the minimalism of a single repeated note. The slow transformation of chords is merely one facet of these
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From the creative collaboration of previous Guns 'n' Roses guitarist Buckethead and prominent actor, musician, poet, photographer and indie publisher Viggo Mortensen comes this release of braided political-musical composition: Intelligemce Failure. In what has come to be expected from the indie publishing house Perceval Press, the cutting-edge, hard-hitting Progressive values of peace and anti-political corruption are more than mere overtones in this work.
However, there are subtextual
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The first of what seems an unfinished three act play: Please Tomorrow is a psychedelic weave of light extinguishing dark. The cover and inside art express emotions of isolation, cold and a hibernation of feeling. The musical threads icicle through a faded-out acid trip of juggernauted emotion and fade into a near Bach-like fugue in slow motion. The piano in this release seemed like the foundation for the piano themes in Perceval release Intelligence Failure. But the addition of Indian
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MALIBU - The Indie Pop/Rock CD Yo Tokyo! is not a one hit wonder album. There are in fact numerous tracks that show promise for a radio station's hit list. This is not surprising when you learn the lead vocalist is Cal Campbell, son of local Malibu residents Glen and Kim Campbell. Musical talent certainly runs in the Campbell family. Yo Tokyo! is on the cutting edge of today's Indie music industry.
"The CD is engineered well," Jon Griffin, a 20-year veteran as an audio engineer and music