"A Singer-Songwriter Ignores Musical Boundaries"
The New York Times, April 26, 2009

A feature about Gabriel Kahane, considerably more than a singer-songwriter, but most certainly ignoring musical boundaries. Earlier this evening, Gabriel's father, Jeffrey Kahane, presented the New York premiere of Gabriel's Django: Tiny Variations on a Big Dog. If you missed it, you can hear a performance taped last Friday during John Schaefer's program, Soundcheck, on the WNYC website. At least for the moment, you can still buy tickets for Gabe's return to Joe's Pub, coming up this Friday, May 1, at 8pm. And while you're on the Times web site, check out Vivien Schweitzer's article about another emerging son of a famous father, percussionist and composer Lukas Ligeti.

Playlist:

Grateful Dead – To Terrapin: Hartford '77 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)

U-N-I and Ro Blvd. – A Love Supreme (London/Live free download)

Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements (Industrial)

Ultravox – Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, Scotland (audience recording)

Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey, due out June 23)

George Tsontakis – Piano Quartet Trilogy – Broyhill Chamber Ensemble (Koch International Classics)

Sonic Youth – The Eternal (Matador, due out June 9)

Mike Jones – The Voice (Asylum, due out Apr. 28)

Young Jeezy – The Recession (Def Jam)

The Game – LAX (Interscope)

Giuseppe Verdi – Falstaff – Teresa Stich-Randall, Herva Nelli, Nan Merriman, Cloe Elmo, Gabor Carelli, John Carmen Rossi, Antonio Madasi, Giuseppe Valdengo, Frank Guarrera, Norman Scott, Robert Shaw Chorale, NBC Symphony Orchestra/Arturo Toscanini (RCA)

György Ligeti – Clocks and Clouds; Esa-Pekka Salonen – Violin Concerto – Leila Josefowicz, Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen (radio broadcast; with gratitude!)

El Michels Affair – Enter the 37th Chamber (Fat Beats)

Tanya Morgan – Brookynati (Interdependent Media, due out May 12)

Lily Allen – It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

Terry Riley – In C – SUNY/Buffalo Center of Creative and Performing Arts (Columbia)

Terry Riley – In C – Bang on a Can All-Stars (Cantaloupe)

Terry Riley – In C – The Styrenes (Enja)

Rick Ross – Deeper Than Rap (Def Jam)

The Dead – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, April 25, 2009 (soundboard recording)