The Soundcloud Round-Up: Some Hours Earlier Than Usual

This time around, the Soundcloud round-up will be more of a brief and a belatedly weekend affair. First off is a new instrumental track, “Saturday Morning Blues,” by a guitarist in

People Get Ready

Another recent EP release is Zelda Maria, put out earlier this month by the Brooklyn band People Get Ready (there is also evidently a band going by the very same name from

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

Sunday Evening Round-Up on Soundcloud

It’s just before midnight on Sunday, and the vernal season is at last upon us, though I’m rushing to catch up – so tonight’s round-up will be brief with words, but longer on sound.

Buke and Gase: “General Dome”

A Brooklyn band I wrote about back on the first of the year, Buke and Gase, will be playing in Paradiso later this month (in fact, tickets for the concert went on sale today) – one of a

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

On a Chilly January Evening: A “melancholic Winter mix” by Von Rosenthal de la Vegaz

For a very cold Friday such as this, the Amsterdam DJ Von Rosenthal de la Vegaz, who, exceptionally but not so surprisingly for someone with his formal conservatory training, works Continue reading →

René Baptist Huysmans’ EP: “Dawn of the Anthropocene”

With the new year there’s come a wave of releases of EPs, and among them a quite interesting one is René Baptist Huysmans’ Dawn of the Anthropocene, issued a few days ago by the small Greek label

Knalpot

Last month I wrote about a concert held in Amsterdam in which, inter alia, the guitarist Raphael Vanoli and the DJ and drummer Gerri Jäger performed in different

Three Pieces for the End of the Year: A Playlist

As we all get ready to leave 2012 behind (or for it to take its leave of us) it occurred to me that the event might call for a short, a very short playlist, and some tracks recently uploaded on

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

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

The Stedelijk Is “Open”

Amsterdam’s largest museum of modern and contemporary art, the Stedelijk, opened its doors again today to the public after several years of renovation, and one of the artists

The Brackman Trio: Liszt, “Tristia, Vallée d’Obermann”

On Anne Brackman’s Youtube channel, the Brackman Trio has posted a recording of a performance of Liszt’s “Tristia, Vallée d’Obermann” dating not from last Wednesday but from the Sunday before Continue reading →

At the Lunchtime Concert at the Concertgebouw: The Brackman Trio

Today in the Concertgebouw’s series of Wednesday lunchtime concerts, the Brackman Trio was performing – a young Amsterdam ensemble comprising the violinist Tim Brackman, the

Lady Gaga in Amsterdam

Today and tomorrow Lada Gaga is back in Amsterdam, this time on her Born This Way Ball; on the occasion I’ve put together a short playlist mainly comprised of some performances in which her voice

A Recording of “Cânone em π” (Luiz Henrique Yudo)

On his Soundcloud page, Luiz Henrique Yudo has uploaded a lovely performance (given on February 13, 2010) of his variable work “Cânone em π” (composed in 1983) by the

Von Rosenthal de la Vegaz

The Netherlands in general and Amsterdam in particular do not lack for DJs whose sound tends towards the memorable or the unusual, but in a class all his own is

At the Stroke of Midnight …

Well, it’s the stroke of midnight, so let’s kick off the Canal Pride weekend with some music that should appeal to everyone, shall we – Aretha Franklin! Here in one special short playlist