The gloom and doom is leavened by Paul’s habitually buoyant melodies and a predominantly acoustic musical prettiness. The players include Wild Swan Ged Quinn on piano and the Granite Shore’s Nick Halliwell on guitar, and it’s produced with a gossamer-light touch by another legend of the L...
The genre of shuo chang (说唱- literally “speak sing”) is something I know very little about, but I was so moved and impressed with the attention to detail. One thing I’ve noticed when listening to recordings of shuo chang and learning some of the melodies was how it strengthens a ...
The bassist joined him in a downright sexy take on the standard “How Insensitive,” her tango-touched rhythm entwining with his sinuous single-note lines (which turned into suggestively dissonant chords when he accompanied her solo)."Michael J. WestThe Washington Postread more Pat Metheny and ...
“Dig Down Deep” was the moment of epiphany, the moment of spiritual awakening, when Mark reminded me of what art can do when it reaches its highest potential – that is, how it can close the gap that divides us into separate beings. But, as I learned from George Harrison years earlie...
“About a year ago I bought a cheap bajo quinto, which is a 10 string low register guitar like instrument used in Tejano, conjunto and norteño musics. As it is a cheap one, only certain chords sound good on it. One of them, annoyingly, is the open ‘cowboy’ voicing of D major...
I've reached a low, don't you know You're the apple of my eye I'm running low, with this show No matter how I try I'm sick of this angst, don't need thanks You're the apple of my eye I drink a lot of wine When I am alone I lose all track of time And my ideas turn...
ve been making it for years and years, is remembering what turned me onto doing it in the first place. When I was starting out just strumming a Beatles song, I’d realize they used like the wrong chords and chords that weren’t in the same key. I was just fascinated by how those ...