The Sandman’s Orchestra

A couple of years ago, the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist in Lille, Pierre Laplace, and his niece, the neophyte chanteuse and occasional

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 Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud

For this evening’s round-up I’ve cast a larger net, and so have one track, one set, and one mixtape to offer. To start with the mixtape, “1n+rødµk+1øn +ø §Y§+(3)m§ øf §øµnd§”: it’s the at times

Spring Is Here, Today

And it’s about time, too – this winter has dragged on and on. Well, on the occasion and to put some sprightliness into everyone’s step, here are three vivacious tracks found on

The Soundcloud Round-Up: Givan Lötz, Mithatcan Öcal, The Sandman’s Orchestra

Tonight’s round-up begins with “Strutt,” a piece which an artist and composer living in Johannesburg, Givan Lötz, has loaded on his Soundcloud page; and but for its last extra letter, the

Eines Nachts in Berlin

Poised now as we are here on the verge of Spring, I’ve been finding myself ready for a voyage – mainly a nocturnal one, though my hope is to conduct it without nostalgia – into the past and to

Sunday Evening Wrap-Up on Soundcloud: Nature’s Jokes (Birmingham), Floating Admiral (Lille), and Hess Is More (Copenhagen and New York)

Sunday evening is arrived, and so it’s time once more for what may (or may not) become something of a regular feature on this site, namely, a round-up of some music I’ve encountered on

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

Another Sunday Evening Wrap-Up on Soundcloud: Paris, Milan, and New York

Even though I’m on the road at the moment and absorbed by a few other matters, music is still very much on my mind; and so on this Sunday evening, it seems right to share some tracks to

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

Tona Scherchen

Every so often one chances upon an older composer who, without being entirely forgotten, does seem to stand far off on the sidelines of contemporary musical awareness – by

A New Discovery at the New Museum in New York

In the Rosemarie Trockel retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a short film of thirteen minutes from 1912 is included

Heinrich Heine’s “Ich hab im Traum geweinet” as Poem and Lied

Every so often it happens that the people, places, or times one dwells on – or circles about – in the recurrent privacy of thought, get overwritten by those which enter there unbidden on

Le Chat de Tom

A tip by Luiz Henrique Yudo drew my attention to the page Le Chat de Tom on Soundcloud, where a Parisian electronic musician – where, on a first-name basis only, Thomas introduced

Dan Tramte

Currently pursuing a doctorate in the music department of the University of North Texas, Dan Tramte is a composer with a great interest in computer technology and its musical usages

Franck Christoph Yeznikian

That portion of contemporary classical music that is mainly about other music or other artworks which are in some way musical without themselves being music (if it is indeed “about”

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

College

Those who, having missed it the first time around or paid insufficient attention back then, require instruction in electronica of a sort of which more than a few scores for Hollywood films

A Canal Pride 2012 Finale: Two French Chansons

To close out the Canal Pride weekend, here are a couple of French chansons. First, a short playlist with three very different renditions of “Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux”

Daphne Guinness

The English heiress Daphne Guinness (she divides her time between New York, London, and Paris) is renowned for her couture, but less often recognized is the fact of her early operatic

Nguyên Lê

A prolific recording artist since the 1980s and esteemed for the ensembles in which he’s participated with other musicians and for his enthusiastic reception of many varieties of