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2024-02-05 09:09:00
Not everyone climbs mountains
[…] explains "I look to the digital world as an important twenty-first century expansion of the orchestral world". Mason Bates has also worked as a DJ and techno artist using the name Masonic in clubs and lounges around San Francisco, and this means he has a deep understanding of the new and young audiences that is almost completely lacking elsewhere in today's classical industry. While in Goa my reading included The Islander, the autobiography of Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, who nurtured the careers of Bob Marley, U2, Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, and Norah Jones among others. In his book Chris Blackwell highlights how the bass line connects young audiences with music. He describes how bass is the lead line in reggae music, which explains the phenomenal success of Bob Marley and other other reggae acts far beyond their core Jamaican audience. Mason Bates' understands this importance of the bass line, as is shown […]
2023-09-11 13:45:34
Review of National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Children's Band performance - Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space in Symphony Hall
On Sunday 10 September I went to Symphony Hall with my son, who is a trombone player, to see a perfo
2023-07-30 10:58:00
Music of the Muslim counterculture
[…] along with Hendrix and others but after the first Ramadan in Morocco in 1971 and two weeks touring in Holland the band hit the buffers and broke up—but with no animosity. It just didn't play any more. We just couldn't keep it going. On my return to London I walked in the door of my £5 a week garden flat off Westbourne Grove (seen in the header photo) the phone was ringing with Chris Blackwell of Island Records inviting myself and Roger, our drummer, to go visit him. On offer was a recording contract, a modest advance to record whatever we wanted. But we had no idea what we wanted. Both of us had done much session work, particularly for Island artists John Martyn, Sandy Denny and the Fairports. John Martyn had wanted myself and Roger to join his band. So they must have dropped a few hints to […]
2022-03-09 10:08:09
[…] by RVW, who reputedly did not record the words because he could not understand the singer's dialect! Several of the songs are by the Cumbrian bard, Robert Anderson (1770-1833), and another such creator of local ballads was Susan Blamire of Dalston (1747-1794), whilst other songs come from manuscript books. The title track, Bleckell Murry Neet refers to a song by Anderson (written in 1803) which describes a lively night at the Theak't Cott pub at Blackwell, and the performance moves from Tommy Coulthard reading the words to Heslam and Altshuler's performance. And the record cover shows an old photograph of the inn (which was demolished in 1904). The booklet notes are excellent as Ed Heslam gives background to each of the songs, where it came from and the local background. Whilst there are toe-tapping dance numbers here, many are often gently engaging, the lyrical melodies benefiting from Heslam's imaginative treatments. […]
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