What old Dmitri would do was start the thing very innocently, with nice, slow minor chords, and then put a bunch of crazy stuff in the middle, when the government suits in the audience had dozed off. The cool thing was that even the stuff he supposedly wrote to be "simple" was ...
Also, both our mothers were only married at the relatively late age of 30. Exactly twenty two years ago to the day, the beautiful and beloved Princess Diana passed away. Hello ladies and gentlemen! Many of you know me as Khai or Khai-Wei (鍾凱維). First, please let me acknowledge ...
“Sleep Sees Her Opportunity” offers up a rangy, mesmerizing environment, struck through with muted, atonal sprays of piano: frosty, one-handed runs that splinter into fragments in their flight and that put me in mind of the chillingly spectral prepared piano from the second movement of Arvo ...
Firstly I attempt to analyze the music mainly as heard on the Special Edition of the soundtrack album, but I will be making some comments on the score as heard in the film and the changes made to the score compared to the mus...
“New Old Age,” which seems to tell the story of a life in full circle. Taylor’s motive is the album’s heartbeat. Danielsson expands its EKG line and paves the way for Erskine’s airy considerations. This pattern repeats a cycle of experience, spinning the wheel of time and landing...
It was kind of Brazilian and I scatted over a simple intro of descending chords and John came up with that fabulous ending that unexpectedly stops dead on the 5. Then just before we recorded Obsession Jason re-did the arrangement so that it had more of an African feeling in the playing,...
“I Loves You Porgy,” the physicality of his playing is immediately apparent as every stretch of sinew and bone works itself back into flexible life. Treading a fine line between linear melody and cloudbursts of chords, between song and circumstance, it is the Rosetta Stone for all that ...