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...British-Colombian DJ Bushbby celebrates the heady, underground sounds of Latin dance music at her night Candela Viva....
...Music is the centre of my life. I’m passionate about the silence and space and meanings between the notes and the sounds. The silence before the performance and after....
...The performance lacked sharpness and suffered from a buzzy sound system and a disruptive audience member, while the music did not work separated from the larger piece....
...Qawwali is the most popular form of Sufi music and became internationally famous thanks to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-97), the larger-than-life singer who performed at the Womad world music festival and...
...The overall result was a compelling hypnotic sound that captured other top musicians’ hearts, as Gittins noted....
...A La Sala is hip, convivial mood music. ★★★☆☆ ‘A La Sala’ is released by Dead Oceans...
...Concert sound increasingly resembles the highly engineered and edited world of recorded music....
...McCreesh lays out much of the choral music with amplitude and captures a very English feeling of sanctity in this wide-ranging score, which brings Anglican chant and anthem into a fruitful embrace with Wagnerian...
...I had my music to escape — and the families I found in the theatres: exotic people, paradise birds who made the night the realm of fulfilment....
...The issue brings together some of music’s most dazzling proponents, among them the blisteringly brilliant Irish band Lankum, jazz prodigy Samara Joy and the Nigerian sensation Burna Boy....
...In many ways, our everyday lives are framed by sound, from the alarm that wakes us up in the morning to the hum of traffic and the music we turn on as background noise....
...Half the time, he says, his music sounds “wrong”, experimenting “with my thick musical crayon” until it turns into something viable....
...“Summon” is an exercise in horror-movie atmospherics with tense strings and sinister metallic sounds....
...“He makes me feel like I can do anything and take any risks . . . and we make great music together. He also makes a mean coffee.” I’m interested in Ford’s take on today’s music industry....
...She sounds animated but non-judgmental, a provoking presence amid the foreboding machinery of percussion and noise. ★★★★☆ ‘The Collective’ is released by Matador...
...These songs turn jungle and drum and bass into pop music. It’s not a novel move: the crossover has been fuelled by the abbreviated culture of TikTok with its sped-up songs....
...“I don’t want to sound like I’m taking any credit for this, but here’s what I think the effect was: a lot of young people at the time, kids that were eight years old or 10 years old, heard that music for...
...Chacon incorporates unusual sounds and non-musicians into his works....
...“Pop Pop Pop” finds an intriguingly moody new register for the heavy basslines and guitar distortion of their former sound....
...Our sound engineers are Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco, with original music by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is our executive producer and our global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...The last time new music poured forth in such abundance from Yorke and Greenwood was in the early 2000s, when Radiohead overhauled their sound with Kid A and its companion album Amnesiac....
...While alt-rock became corporatised, they treated rock music as a way of life. It was a fuzzy kind of idealism — but idealism nonetheless....
...At only 27, she has a voice that fills the theatre with sound and colour, her youth and prodigious vocal gifts making a formidable combination....
...The music hasn’t died off entirely....
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