Steve Smith
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Pixels III (October) by Mick Chillage King Crimson – Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI, June 23, 1974 (The Road to Red 10) (DGM) Ryoko Akama/Bruno Duplant – immobilité (Notice Recordings < Bandcamp) Yarn/Wire and Pete Swanson – Eliminated Artist (Distributed Objects) Louth Contemporary Music Society – Song of Songs (Louth Contemporary Music Society)> David Lang…
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily…
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King Crimson – Civic Auditorium, El Paso, TX, June 8, 1974 (The Road to Red 7) (DGM) Keller Quartett - Cantante e tranquillo (ECM New Series)> Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135 – Lento Assai, Cantante e tranquillo; György Ligeti – String Quartet No. 2 – Allegro Con Delicatezza –…
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Billy Sherwood, by Leslie dela Vega for Rolling Stone Yes + TotoFoxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, MA, Aug. 7, 2015RollingStone.comAugust 8, 2015 My second piece of music writing for Rolling Stone, and a review I ought to have posted a long time ago… the very first show by Yes following the untimely death of founding bassist-vocalist…
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Found art, East Boston Greenway, Sept. 5, 2015 I feel like I've been been decrying and lamenting my lack of genuine blogging (as opposed to endless playlists) here for some years now. But frankly, I've been an especially miserable blogger this past year or so. I've rarely even managed the bare-minimum gesture of posting links…
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Jenny Olivia Johnson – Don't Look Back (Innova; due Sept. 25)> Dollar Beers (Redondo Beach '96); Pilot; Cutter; Starling; The After Time (Dancing); The After Time (Drinking); The After Time (Falling) – Megan Schubert, P. Lucy McVeigh, Amanda Crider, Jessica Schmitz, Eileen Mack, Andrew Delclos, Todd Reynolds, Peter Gregson, David Russell, Melinda Menezes, Lisa Liu,…
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Lou Harrison La Koro Sutro – Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)> Lou Harrison/Richard Dee – Suite for Violin with American Gamelan – Gabriela Diaz; Lou Harrison – La Kora Sutro – Providence Singers Lukas Foss – Complete Symphonies – Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound)> Symphony No. 1 in G; Symphony No. 4 ("Window…
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Spooky Action by The Fierce And The Dead Celer – Pockets of Wheat (Soundscaping < Bandcamp) Josh Mason – Hellified Irie (FET Press) The Crimson ProjeKCt – Live in Tokyo (Inside Out) Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire (Columbia/Legacy) The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.) Cardiacs – Sing to God (YouTube) The…
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Lea Bertucci/Leila Bordreuil – L'onde Souterraine (Telegraph Harp; due Sept. 14) Harmonia – Musik von Harmonia (Grönland) Navel – Ambient 1: Music for Spaceports (taping-desk-ophon-mania < Bandcamp) Kamasi Washington – The Epic (Brainfeeder) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg/Interscope) Keller Quartett - Cantante e tranquillo (ECM New Series)> Ludwig van Beethoven – String…
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Great Star Entered The Fire by Tuluum Shimmering Blue Heron – Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 4 (Blue Heron)(Nicholas Ludford – Ave cujus conceptio; Sarum plainchant – Kyrie Deus creator omnium; Robert Jones – Missa Spes nostra; Robert Hunt – Stabat mater) Andrew Rudin – Cello Sonata – Samuel Magill, Beth Levin; Viola Sonata…
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Katharina Rosenberger – Erzählung – after Igor Stravinsky "L'Histoire du Soldat" - Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Soundcloud) Clay Wilson – Skandha EP (The Bunker New York) Hallock Hill – Folsom Cave (Bandcamp) Toto – XIV (Frontiers) Yes – Union (Arista) Thurston Moore Band – St. Vitus, New York, NY, Oct. 21, 2014 (YouTube) Sonic Youth –…
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Chen Yi – KC Capriccio; Suite for Cello and Chamber Winds; Woodwind Quintet; Feng; Tu – Carter Enyeart, members of the Lubbock Chorale; Texas Tech University Wind Ensemble/Sarah McKoin (Naxos) Stephen O'Malley – Gruidés – ONCEIM: l'Orchestre de Nouvelles Créations, Expérimentations et Improvisation Musicales (DDS) Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in D, Op. 70,…
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Weeks by Motion Sickness of Time Travel Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Weeks (self-released < Bandcamp) Tuluum Shimmering – Dark Star (Tranquility Tapes < Bandcamp) Palehound – Dry Food (Exploding in Sound; due Aug. 14) Palehound – Kitchen (Exploding in Sound < Bandcamp) Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians – Ensemble Modern/Brad Lubman…
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Billy Gomberg – 061715a (tw) (Soundcloud) Billy Gomberg – 051715 (not even tides) (Soundcloud) Billy Gomberg – 053115 (everything is a voice) (Soundcloud) Kid606 – Recollected Ambient Works, Vol. 1: Bored of Excitement (Tigerbeat6 < Bandcamp) Kid606 – Recollected Ambient Works, Vol. 1.5: Discreet Music (Bandcamp) Alcest – Tristesse Hivernale (Drakkar Productions < YouTube) Quiet…
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Jürg Frey – Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014 – Ensemble Grizzana (Another Timbre)(Petit fragment de paysage – version one; Fragile Balance; Ombres exactes san dureté; A Memory of Perfection; Extended Circular Music No. 8; Grizzana; Petit fragment de paysage – version two; Petit fragment de paysage – version three; Lieues d'ombres; Tendre enchaînement des valeurs;…
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John Weise of Sissy Spacek, by Amoeba Records NEW MUSIC BOSTONJuly 2015 (Posted July 11, and very much an attempt in progress this month…) We're late, and with more cause than usual. Rather than the characteristic attempt to catalog all of the myriad, wonderful new-music offerings coming up in Boston and the surrounding area,…
Night After Night 