KISS and I (a retrospective) ...

Posted by Quixie at 10:09 PM

KISS celebrates forty years as a band this year. I have a confession to make. During the hormonal netherworld that the onset of pube...

A Review of “Spirit of Talk Talk” (Various Artists)

Posted by Quixie at 10:39 PM

Unlike most other musical groups of the period, I can actually recall my first experience of Talk Talk. It was the video for their song, ...

a tear in RIP (reaction/review) . . . .

Posted by Quixie at 7:29 PM

. Different musics serve different functions. This is an insight to keep in mind when practicing music. Although not mutually exclusiv...

non-sequitur of the day . . .

Posted by Quixie at 10:26 PM

I absolutely adore Aretha Franklin's singing voice. It soothes my savage breast. She made a gospel recording some time in the mid sevent...

la YiYiYi, que nos dice . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:53 PM

I've watched this video a bunch of times. When Pablo Picasso watched La Lupe perform for the first time, he said, "One word: genius...

Todd Rundgren on where music is heading . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:55 AM

His approach is one of the three models outlined in a great WGBH Forum lecture and in a previous FORA post . A good synopsis of the history...

quote of the day . . .

Posted by Quixie at 11:57 AM

  "T he music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die l...

blurring the frame . . .

Posted by Quixie at 1:29 PM

I attended a couple of performances in the past month, one an afro-pop concert (Angelique Kidjo at the Mesa Center for the Arts), and the ot...

pésame . . .

Posted by Quixie at 8:56 AM

Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez (1933-2009) .

dancing on Inauguration Day . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:14 PM

Today was the Jones/Gogh ninth cycle sextet clinic. I thought we would do something bluesy . . . gospely . But When I got there, I got the ...

discovering Heschel . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:12 PM

Recent listening: Bill Laswell — Baselines Bill Laswell — Hear No Evil Caetano Veloso — Fina Estampa Djivan Gasparyan — Duduk Music from...

two concertos and Transylvanian folk

Posted by Quixie at 4:51 AM

I attended a performance by the Phoenix Symphony last night. It was my first time in at least two or three years and my first time since the...

Bartók at the Phoenix Symphony ...

Posted by Quixie at 3:32 AM

The Heritage of World Folk Saturday, September 13, 2008, 8pm at Symphony Hall Romashka Gypsy Folk Troupe, Special Guests Michael Christie, C...

Que descanse en paz (1918-2008)

Posted by Quixie at 11:42 AM

"Music can always make you feel better about things. Classical music, of course, makes one feel very relaxed at a stressful time. Upbea...

Piazzolla and rain . . .

Posted by Quixie at 1:24 PM

In the course of doing some house chores and suchlike, I've been listening to a disc called " Astor Piazzolla y su noneto ", r...

carol . . .

Posted by Quixie at 5:18 AM

"peace on Earth and good will to all men" sounds like such a lovely idea . . . Ó

irreverence as art . . .

Posted by Quixie at 6:37 PM

" Aki no teto romba (tei chintes). " The year was 1975. Punk was busy being born and dying at the same time (inevitable, really—o...

Oh, be the music in my head . . .

Posted by Quixie at 4:36 PM

. . . . . . . . . Oh, be my rest. Ó

weedeater . . .

Posted by Quixie at 8:51 PM

Sifting through a stack of CDs, I came across a promotional compilation of music from Louisiana ( Music: The Language of Louisiana — vol.1 ...

batá Sunday . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:47 AM

Earlier today (yesterday by now) I went over to Emilio's to pay him for a recent gig. He had one of his students over (Shane). When I go...