Japan’s Keigo Oyamada, a.k.a. Cornelius, is often touted as a modern pop savant, and it’s for good reason. There are few things as gleefully disorienting as a Cornelius album, and Fantasma, his 1998 U.S. debut, is just the kind of sonic tapestry that can keep its listeners as simultaneously confused and enthused as a horde [...]
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
3 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
Free jazz is a lot like abstract expressionism — streaming, raw and unintelligible. Listening to Ornette Coleman is like listening to an untranslatable language, much like seeing the work of Jackson Pollack is like looking at pictures of consciousness. Instead of the traditional dynamic (you look at and decode it) those two artists’ works flip [...]
Wu-Tang Clan – (36 Chambers)
14 March 2011 by Leave a Comment
For most groups, the next number after ‘six’ is ‘orchestra’. Often times, bands that surpass the average number of members also claim the inalienable need for three bassists or five vocalists or a member who only plays an enormous drum and a tambourine. But of course there are exceptions to this superfluousness – particularly large [...]
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