Steve Smith
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Zs – Xe (Northern Spy; due Jan. 27) The Residents – The Sycamore Street Studio: 1974-77 Embracing Obscurity (Radio Thoreau Jr.) The Residents – The Grove Street Studio: 1978-80 Embracing Visibility (Radio Thoreau Jr.) The Residents – Performance Art: 1982-1990 Taking It on the Road (Radio Thoreau Jr.) The Residents – Interactive Media: 1991-97 Game…
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Demdike Stare – At Rest (DDS) Kyle Landstra – Dream Array (Twin Springs Tapes) Anne Guthrie – Codiaeum variegatum (Students of Decay) King Crimson – Elzer Hof, Mainz, Germany, March 30, 1974 (Starless, CD 15) (DGM) Richard Wagner – Die Walküre – Astrid Varnay, Birgit Nilsson, Ramon Vinay, Hans Hotter, Josef Greindl, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra/Hans…
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Grant Evans – Respite (Vaald) King Crimson – Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Germany, March 29, 1974 (Starless, CD 14) (DGM) Asher Tuil – Landscapes Elsewhere (CONV < Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – Interference (Semata Productions < Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – Twenty-Four Views (Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – Miniatures (Sourdine < Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – Eventides (Bandcamp) Peter Hammill – …all…
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Isabel Mundry and Raphaël Cendo ECCE Ensemble at Goethe-Institut Boston, December 6, 2014Boston GlobeDecember 8, 2014 ECCE Ensemble's next public concert program will be a portrait of Mark Andre, a French composer based in Germany and a student of Gérard Grisey and Helmut Lachenmann, among others (and not to be mistaken for Marc-André Dalbavie). Bostonians…
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Hailu Mergia and the Walias – Tche Belew (Awesome Tapes from Africa) King Crimson – Palais Des Sports, Besancon, France, March 25, 1974 (Starless, CD 11) (DGM) Jason Lescalleet – This Is What I Do – Volume Three (Glistening Examples) Jeffrey Zeigler – Something of Life (Innova/VisionIntoArt) Anna Clyne – The Violin – Cornelius Dufallo,…
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Asher Tuil – two compositions (summer 2014) (Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – selections from an unlimited series (Bandcamp) Asher Tuil – nocturne (Bandcamp) Little Richard – Here's Little Richard (Specialty) King Crimson – O.R.T.F. TV, Paris, France, March 22, 1974 (Starless, CD 9) (DGM) Eva-Maria Houben – 6 sonatas for piano – Eva-Maria Houben (diafani) Mortuus…
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Bob Dylan and His Band, Orpheum Theatre, November 14, 2014Boston Globe, November 16, 2014 "You were off base with your review. He was horrible. I couldn't understand any of his lyrics or the songs he was seeing. It was an awful show and I wouldn't ever go back to see him. The band sounded beautiful…
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Eva-Maria Houben/Bileam Kümper – improvisation 1 (diafani) Eva-Maria Houben – organ works – Eva-Maria Houben (Diafani) Ryan Streber – String Quartet – counter)induction; Cold Pastoral – Line C3; Shadow Etudes – Ben Fingland, Jessica Meyer; Descent – Daniel Lippel; Compassinges – Sam Solomon; Dust Shelter – Alex Sopp, Nadia Sirota, Clarice Jensen (New Focus Recordings)…
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Darius Jones – The Oversoul Manual (AUM Fidelity) David Sylvian – there's a light that enters houses with no other house in sight (Samadhi Sound) Kayo Dot – Coffins on Io (The Flenser) John Zorn – The Hermetic Organ: St. Paul's Chapel, NYC (Tzadik) John Zorn – The Tempest – International Contemporary Ensemble; All Hallows'…
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Mostly Other People Do the Killing – Blue (Hot Cup) Catherine Lamb – in/gradient – Andrew Lafkas, Tucker Dulin, Jason Brogan, Catherine Lamb (Sacred Realism) Toshimaru Nakamura, Ken Ikeda & Tomoyoshi Date – Green Heights (Baskaru > Bandcamp) Carcass – Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast) Peter Brötzmann & Fushitsusha – Nothing Changes No One Can Change…
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Michael Pisaro – Continuum Unbound – Michael Pisaro, Greg Stuart, Patrick Farmer, Joe Panzner, Toshiya Tsunoda (Gravity Wave) Radu Malfatti – die temperatur der bedeutung; das profil des schweigens – Radu Malfatti, Wandelweiser String Quartet (Edition Wandelweiser) Moniek Darge & Graham Lamkin – Indian Soundies (Kye) Eva-Maria Houben – sotto voce (Diafani) Oren Ambarchi &…
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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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Boston Landmarks Orchestra at Church of the Covenant, August 13, 2014Boston GlobeAugust 16, 2014 Most orchestras don't need any particular excuse to drop a piece as popular as Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World") into a concert program. Still, it's eminently possible to present the piece in an original and edifying context –…
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Album review: Buzz Osborne, 'This Machine Kills Artists'Boston GlobeJuly 8, 2014
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Yes performing "Siberian Khatru" at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion When it comes to the Yes shows I've caught since I first started attending in 2004 (late start, I know), as well as those I've heard via various audience-sourced recordings floating around on the Interwebs, there's a simple, fairly reliable rule of thumb: As goes "Siberian…
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Steve Howe, left, with Yes, by Rob Shanahan "Yes forges ahead with classic albums and new music"The Boston Globe, July 7, 2014 My second Boston Globe byline, and a treat I couldn't resist giving myself, having seen Yes five times since 2004 – the last tour to date with vocalist Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick…
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iPhone photo, June 7, 2014 The fifth installment in the three-part [sic] series "Days between," compiling my unblogged recent work for The New York Times, and – for reasons I expect to be fairly obvious – the final installment for the foreseeable future. The end of a run that meant the world to me. As…
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Annea Lockwood – Ground of Being (Recital) Tony Malaby's Tamarindo – Somos Agua (Clean Feed) Celer – Rags of Contentment (Digitalis > Bandcamp) Chubby Wolf – L'histoire (Gears of Sand > Bandcamp) Sneeze – Wilt (Glory Kid) Robert Fripp – Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, MO, March 4, 2006 (DGMLive) Jason Lescalleet – The Pilgrim (Glistening…
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James Maddalena, Michael Chioldi and David Kravitz, by Kathy Wittman Odyssey Opera June Festival at Boston University Theatre, June 11 & 12, 2014The Boston Globe, June 19, 2014 My first review for the Boston Globe covers the first two nights of a four-night festival by Odyssey Opera, a new company arisen from the demise of…
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King Crimson – Shibuya Kohkaido, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 9, 1981 (DGMLive) King Crimson – Kakodo, Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 10, 1981 (DGMLive) King Crimson – Expo Hall, Osaka, Japan, Dec. 12, 1981 (DGMLive) King Crimson – Mainichi Hall, Osaka, Japan, Dec. 13, 1981 (DGMLive) King Crimson – Kokusai Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 14, 1981 (DGMLive) King…
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