Dead Can Dance played last night at Wolf Trap in Virginia, an outdoor venue. Under a waxing moon, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry sang their world music influenced tunes backed two keyboardists, and two percussionists. Lisa wore a sea foam gown with a golden priest's shawl, while Brendan wore grey trousers and a slightly rumpled buttondown shirt. ( Read more... )

AGS's sixth album is a strange one.  Eleven of its fourteen tracks are essentially instrumentals, where the vocals are just one more instrument in a mix of acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, and feedback rounded out by bass and drum programs.  These compositions are primarily shoegazer-styled music, with a nod to ambient/space rock and ( Read more... )

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My review of Sylvi Alli's new cd, 'Vessel' is here, with sound excerpts.


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Yesterday was all about getting over the cat death and the flu that plagued me for a week.   I checked out the new Dupont Circle gelato shop Dolcezza and ate a delicious scoop of Thai coconut milk gelato.  My friend Sam took me to a lunch where I had a carb-festival full of potato pancakes with applesauce and sour cream.  Finally I went to Tom and ( Read more... )

Most people have heard or heard of Santigold, the African-American artist who performs and writes songs that are a mixture of New Wave, Pop Punk, Electro with a light dash of reggae and dance music.  Santigold sounds more early Go Gos/ Blondie than she does Beyonce.  She goes beyond the music that has been traditional marked out for African ( Read more... )

No doubt you've heard that Washington, DC was bombarded by a blizzard.  The snow has stopped, ending with about 3 feet.  The streets are silent, the cars are oblong lumps covered with icing sugar, and the sky is black and blue; yesterday it was an eerie yellow white.  Metro is closed, so I couldn't go anywhere if I wanted to.  The landscape reminds ( Read more... )

Zombieland
Woody Harrelson's swaggering swamppunk zombie killer was equal parts (late) Lux Interior with a soupcon of Gomer Pyle.  Jesse Eisenberg, the OCD protagonist, was charmingly nebbish and does his best Michael Cera impression.  The young woman in the film--'hot' actress Emma Stone and her filmic sister Abigail Breslin, did manage to rise ( Read more... )

Majestic, slow-moving ambient music by the singer of Sigur Ros and his boyfriend.


Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleep...

Dakini - Lisa Hammer

For fans of Lisa Gerrard or Azam Ali. Medieval ethereal darkwave vocal weaving.