Steve Smith
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Writing for Goings On About Town these last several years, I've most frequently emphasized noteworthy performances. But given the uncertainty about live events now, my final New Yorker contribution instead spotlights a favorite 2021 recording I didn't get to write about at the time it was released, by JACK Quartet on the Greyfade label. (Click…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Tangerine Dream – Croydon 1975 (from The Bootleg Box Set, Vol. 1) (Reactive/Esoteric; 2012) Paul Lewis – Brahms: Late Piano Works, Opp. 116-119 (Harmonia Mundi; due Jan. 21, 2022) Igor Levit – Life – compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Schumann,…
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Marillion – Live in Hammersmith (Racket Lightsavers exclusive; 2021) Various artists – The Secret Museum of Mankind – Guitars Vol. 1: Prologue to Modern Styles (Jalopy; 2021) Will Ackerman/Jeff Oster/Tom Eaton – Brothers (Retso; 2021) Olivia Block – Innocent Passage in the Territorial…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Steve Roach/Michael Stearns – Beyond Earth & Sky (Projekt; 2021) Jonny Greenwood – Spencer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Mercury KX; 2021) King Crimson – Selections from 2021 U.S. Tour (DGMLive; 2021) Pauchi Sasaki – Yaqulla (self-released; 2021) Tim Parkinson & Travis Just –…
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Andrew McIntosh – A moonbeam is just a filtered sunbeam (Another Timbre; 2021) Arooj Aftab – Vulture Prince (New Amsterdam; 2021) Renata Tebaldi – Lebendige Vergangenheit (Preiser; 2002) Catherine Lamb – muto infinitas – Rebecca Lane, Jon Heilbron (Another Timbre; 2021) Catherine Lamb…
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Quiet Evenings – Narrows (Hooker Vision; 2021) Motion Sickness of Time Travel – The True Book of Space (Hooker Vision; 2021) Ethan Iverson – Every Note Is True (Blue Note; due Feb. 11, 2022) Michael Pisaro-Liu – Revolution Shuffle (Erstwhile; 2021) Michael Pisaro-Liu…
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Marillion – Live at Hammersmith – The Light at the End of the Tunnel (MarillionVOD; 2021) Genesis – Trespass (Charisma; 1970) King Crimson – Music Is Our Friend (Live in Washington, D.C. and Albany, 2021) (DGM; 2021) Ava Mendoza – New Spells (Astral…
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"Olga Neuwirth's bold gender-bending opera has won the Grawemeyer Award"NPRDecember 6, 2021
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Mach-Hommy – Pray for Haiti (Griselda/Daupe; 2021) Federico Antonini – I was a teenage metalhead and all I have now is this tinnitus (Superpang; 2021) Body Void – Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth (Prosthetic; 2021) Apparition – Feel (Profound Lore; 2021) Genesis…
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Stephen Hough – Chopin Nocturnes (Hyperion; 2021) Paul Hindemith – Nusch-Nuschi-Tänze; Sancta Susanna; Symphony "Mathis der Maler" – Ausrine Stundyte, Renée Morloc, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony/Marin Alsop (Naxos; 2021) Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn – String Quartets – Takács Quartet (Hyperion; 2021) Marillion –…
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events taking greater precedence among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Serena Gabriel featuring Steve Roach – Seeing Inside (Soundquest Music; 2021) Kate Moore – The Dam – Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; due Nov. 5, 2021) Graham Fitkin – Mesh – Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021) Steve Martland – Re-mix – Icebreaker (Rookery Hill; 2021) John…
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