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“The Gospel According the Other Mary”, by John Adams

Barbican Centre, London, Saturday 16 March 2013 European Premiere

I have heard someone describing John Adams as the Mozart of out times. It’s a definition that has made an impression. As I listen to the almost three hours of music of the Gospel according to the other Mary, I wonder if in several hundreds years [...]

Kenny Garrett, Pursuance: the Music of John Coltrane [CD review]

[also posted on Amazon.co.uk as a review of the album]

There is nothing new I can tell about Kenny Garrett, Pat Metheny and the other musicians in this album, nor there is anything new I can write about the album itself, a lot of people, amateurs like myself or established critics have said and [...]

Pat Metheny, Orchestrion at the Barbican, 10/02/2010

as a geek, this is a very exciting project. real instruments controlled by solenoids via MIDI. each with a light that shows when it’s being played. it is truly impressive and I can’t start thinking to all problems, especially latency and synchronisation. And I have no problem with the failure that happened at the end [...]

Sade and her old orange ibook

Sade’s new album is coming out on Monday.

In this video, Sade is seen using a very old iBook, the first generation, orange.

Good girl!!

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super gadgets: the Eigenharp the most futuristic music instrument ever?

it is the most incredibly futuristic music instrument and possibly the ultimate gadget for music geeks: the Eigenharp.

Check out the following videos:

Eigenhard on BBC

Eigenhard in the making