Category Archives: Music/Composition/Performance

buggles on basing street

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Dave

by Paul Hamilton ( http://www.bisonics.net ) Trevor Horn makes for a diffident, somewhat baffled front man. Looking like Ronnie Corbett with an ice cream on his head, he engages with the audience like a slightly mad old uncle who’s walked … Continue reading →

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the bark and the sound bite: back to marciano

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Dave

by Paul Hamilton ( see full links at bottom): SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of … Continue reading →

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one moment sir

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Dave

In the human heart, is there a place that cannot be corrupted, a safe zone, a voice of conscience embedded within our DNA that acts as an underlying reason, giving meaning to our existence or is this sentimental drivel, say … Continue reading →

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the pause between seconds

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dave

Asking the Bisonics what their musical influences are is like trying to coax quicksilver into a mason jar on the first crack. So intrigued by the disc “seconds” that I had to, dared venture to ask. Its the kind of … Continue reading →

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piano in the woods

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dave

It was a pretty ordinary interview on Bloomberg last week with Chuck Leavell the great blues/rock pianist. Maybe the best in America right now. It was really light-weight stuff except when Leavell played a cut from his new disc Back … Continue reading →

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don’t let the sun go down on them

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Dave

Do only the good die young? Should we trust anyone over thirty? There was always Rimbaud, the brilliant prodigy, the romantic who was simply pining to be able to fall on his sword. And Keats and Byron who could not … Continue reading →

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don’t beat him he’s only the fiddler

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Dave

Joshua Bell impersonating an itinerant playing violinist in Washington DC .Its a living. It was not an original idea in that this set-up had been enacted in New York and within other contexts as well. Bell played six Bach pieces … Continue reading →

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go back to your woods

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Dave

Resurrection. Understanding the past as a key to unlock the future. The relationship of the individual to nature. All kinds of themes are present here in Chuck Leavell paying homage to the piano blues artists going back to the 1920′s … Continue reading →

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talkin’ bout a revolution

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff REeyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Gil Scott Heron (1949-2011). Visionary? Genius? Prophet? Grandparent of hip hop? Addict? Who was Gil Scott Heron? I’ll tell you who Gil Scott Heron was. In 1987 or 1988 … Continue reading →

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drinking with the man

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Dave

from Paul Hamilton of the Bisonics: DRINKING WITH JESUS I’ve been drinking with Jesus In a bar full of New Cross geezers He won the jackpot on the one-armed bandit Scooping the loot he smiled, ‘That’s the way Dad planned … Continue reading →