This week the accidental theme of music I like is mostly solo artists: Nilufer Yanya, Christian Scott a Tunde Adjuah, Strand of Oaks. Exceptions include Falaise and Crows.
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Music I Liked – Pickathon 2019 Lineup
When the 2019 Pickathon lineup came out, there were a couple artists I was excited about, and a whole lot more I’d never heard of. More research was needed and here are the preliminary results. I haven’t worked through the whole line-up yet, but I’ve already got too many interesting bands to fit in one post.
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Music I Liked – Carmen
Carmen at Seattle Opera
This week has been all about Carmen for me. I am reviewing Seattle Opera’s new production elsewhere, but in preparation I’ve been listening to the music nonstop.
Carmen was the first opera I ever saw. In high school, my music teacher assigned the traveling production of Carmen (at the time my city didn’t have its own opera company) for extra credit. My only clear memory of the show was being startled awake by sound of a gunshot (which I now realize was the ending of Micaela’s aria when Don Jose catches Escamillo outside the bandits’ lair).
After this weekend, Carmen is one of my favorite operas, on par with Rigoletto. I have had Carmen’s “Habanera” stuck in my head since I heard since I heard it at Opera on Tap two weeks ago. And I will have the rest of the opera stuck in my head for a long time to come.
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Music I Liked – The Greatest Bits, Metallica, Hath, Pound, Árstíðir lífsins, Illimitable Dolor, Gloson
This week all the music I liked was metal. Well, more or less. I liked The Greatest Bits, Metallica, Hath, Pound, Árstíðir lífsins, and Illimitable Dolor. And Gloson.
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Music I Liked – Digawolf, Saba Alizadeh, Funereal Presence, Shana Cleveland, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, Hand Habits
Every now and then there a theme emerges naturally. In this week’s roundup, I’ve got a lot of hybridization. Specifically, I found a lot of contemporary approaches to traditional styles, but there’s at least one side project in the list. This week I liked Digawolf, Saba Alizadeh, Funereal Presence, Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastles, Ahmed Ag Kaedy, and Hand Habits.