The Sunday Soundcloud – Dash?

As regards this and the other Musicuratum website, the last week has largely been absorbed by the work after the work, which proved to be somewhat less protracted than the former but

The Work at Last Is Done!

Another Sunday evening’s come, and after several long weeks of work on the websites, I’m happy to announce that both of them are back in order and ready for action again – each now I hope

The Neil Jansen Playlist: Some of the Bordogni/Rochut “Melodious Etudes for Trombone”

The euphonium player Neil Jansen has recorded several performances of the “Melodious Etudes for Trombone,” drawn from Marco Bordogni’s “Vocalises” and arranged by

Pop Noir

An up-and-coming band based in Huntington Beach, though this fraternal duo, the lead singer Luke and the lead guitarist and producer Joe McGarry, hails from Manchester

Tracks to Travel by: A Playlist for the Road

While I am traveling, what could be better, in lieu of a more regular schedule of posts on this site, than an international playlist of twenty-five tracks meant to fill those empty

For an Evening Like This: “Heavy Metal Lover” (Lady Gaga)

Tonight bring all your friends because a group does it better … Yes, this evening it will be that time of the year once again. Now, apart from the intrinsic interest of much of what

Through Rooms of Music: Heidi Locher and Frederick Paxton’s “Hotel Kalifornia”

The year coming to an end conduces to thoughts about transience – and about the zones wherein whatever comes and goes might abide for awhile. Pieces of music can provide the

Jonnie Allen

A new discovery on Soundcloud is the Englishman Jonnie Allen; there is not a great amount of biographical information provided on his page there, nor on his Myspace page, though one Continue reading →

“Bizarre Love Triangle” Again: A Second Playlist

Some months ago I compiled a Youtube playlist of a number of covers done of the song “Bizarre Love Triangle,” perhaps the most memorable – certainly one of the most moving – of the numbers recorded

A Concert at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ: Seth Josel, Raphael Vanoli, Ben Frost, and Their Friends

Last Friday evening at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ here in Amsterdam, under the auspices of the Amsterdam Electric Guitar Heaven festival, and in co-operation with the Bimhuis and that

Alloapm

A duo of producers and DJs in Tokyo, Malc Yacob and Amelie Mirror Adnis, has recently begun to make music of its own under the moniker Alloapm, and it’s exciting stuff; it, along with the

A Musical Painter (or Two) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (where I happen to be at the moment) is a retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns called “Seeing with the Mind’s Eye” that merits a visit

The Soft Moon: A New Video and a New Audio Upload

Having just released a new album, Zeros, and currently on a tour of several European cities (according to the schedule posted on its website, a concert in Utrecht is slated for

A Correction Concerning the Band Light Light

Alexandra Duvekot of the band Light Light has sent word that the Dutch four-piece was not the band that performed earlier this week in California, as I had suggested – much as they might have

Light Light

Another new Amsterdam band is Light Light, which is a project recently initiated by Alexandra Duvekot and Thijs Havens of the duo Saelors in conjunction with Björn Ottenheim

Telefon Tel Aviv (Part III)

Apparently visual, a dream in the most literal sense of the word seems as if it were specifically addressed to the mind’s eye even though one is in the midst of sleep; yet, listening to

Telefon Tel Aviv (Part II)

This playlist includes songs drawn from the several records released by Telefon Tel Aviv from 2001 through 2009; by way of introduction it begins with a performance during a concert in

Telefon Tel Aviv (Part I)

September is shaping up to be a very busy month here (and towards the end of it I shall be going on vacation for several weeks), but I was so moved by a song I just came across while putting together

Garçon Garçon

August is coming to an end and tonight a nearly tropical thunderstorm is sweeping over Amsterdam – and on the Internet I just came across a duo from Down Under called

A New Recording by Neil Jansen

On his Soundcloud page, Neil Jansen has uploaded a recording of a composition by Anthony O’Toole entitled “War Machine.”

A Sunday Evening Interlude: “Bizarre Love Triangle”

To chance upon an allusion to “Love Will Tear Us Apart” today was unexpected, and the encounter threw me back forcibly to the time when that number was new; it struck me, but not for