More from John Diliberto
Kevin Keller's Ambient Chamber Music
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From: John Diliberto
Ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller's In Absentia is a study in finely calibrated emotions dealing with the disappearance and likely death of his father-in-law. ...
Hammock: Chasing After Shadows...Living With the Ghosts
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From: John Diliberto
Hammock is Nashville-based guitarists Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson. They've made their money writing country and Christian music but their hearts reside in the shoegaze ...
International Guitar Night: Four virtuosos from Germany, Israel and America talk about a converge...
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From: John Diliberto
There are some guitarists for whom one insturment isan't enough. Brian Gore is one of them. For the past decade, he’s been realizing his ambition of a global guitar ...
Mediaeval Baebes
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From: John Diliberto
The allure is undeniable. Six talented, attractive women breathe renewed life into the rich texts of medieval songs and poetry with their hauntingly beautiful musical ...
Mellodrama: the Signature Sound of Progressive Rock
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From: John Diliberto
The Mellotron was the sound of progressive rock and space music in the 1970s. Before digital synthesizers, it was an instrument that played back the sounds of orchestras, ...
An exotic forest of sensual grooves, ambient atmospheres and intoxicating melodies
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From: John Diliberto
Ylang ylang is a flowering tree that grows in South Asia, and on his album, Ylang, Robert Rich has sculpted another exotic forest of sound, full of sensual grooves, ambient ...
Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica
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From: John Diliberto
You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, ...
Violinist Anna Schaad's Dream Within a Dream
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From: John Diliberto
Violinist Anna Schaad’s music is steeped in fantasy and inspired by her Navy pilot husband. Though heavily Celtic influenced, she takes an electronica turn on her album ...
English electronic duo plugs in with vintage synthesizers and heads into space
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From: John Diliberto
English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has roots in German space music ...
Kronos Quartet: Four Decades of Breaking the String Quartet Rules
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From: John Diliberto
In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to Sigur Ros. We talk with ...
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You may not think of Lou Reed as a meditative kind of guy, but the founding member of The Velvet Underground and purveyor of proto-punk songs like "Walk on the Wild Side" has a new electronic CD designed for meditation and body work. A longtime devotee of Tai Chi, Lou Reed talks about his ambient spaces.
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LOU REED IS AN ICONIC FIGURE IN MODERN MUSIC. THE FOUNDER OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, HE PROVIDED A COUNTERPART TO THE HIPPIES AND FLOWER POWER OF THE 1960S, TRAWLING A DARKER AND SEEDIER SIDE OF LIFE. AS A SOLO ARTIST, HE'S PRETTY MUCH DONE THE SAME THING, WITH A LEAN, DISTORTED GUITAR SOUND AND SONGS THAT WERE OFTEN GRITTIER THAN A BACK ALLEY. BUT THERE'S ANOTHER SIDE TO LOU REED AS WELL, ONE THAT'S EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTEMPLATIVE. IT COMES OUT ON A NEW CD CALLED HUDSON RIVER WIND MEDITATIONS. IT'S AN ALL ELECTRONIC DISC OF DRONES AND AMBIENCES. KIMBERLY HAAS TAKES A WALK ON THE MILD SIDE, WITH LOU REED.
John Voci
Posted on April 24, 2007 at 11:25 AM | Permalink
Review of An Interview with Lou Reed: Metal Machine Meditations
Producers Kimberly Haas and John Diliberto provide a sound-rich portrait of a unique side of Lou Reed?his meditation music. Best known as a rocker and founder of the Velvet Underground, Reed has explored ?ambient music? throughout his career. ?Metal Machine Meditations? primarily focuses on his most recent recording "Hudson River Wind Meditations," a series of compositions inspired by Reed?s practice of t?ai chi. This piece is very well produced and includes numerous interview clips and musical segments. The piece would be appropriate during a contemporary music program or as an arts feature in a magazine show.