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My good friend Sonya Belaya wrote a really beautiful guest post about today's song: Sufjan Stevens' seventh album “Carrie and Lowell” reveals the possibility of turning darkness into something honest and powerful. These eleven laments seek to find answers during a...
I remember meeting Justine Aronson in a cafe in midtown and immediately inviting her to a party at my house that night. She's just that kind of person. Turns out she's a great singer too, and will sing half our show with NYFOS. I really adore this little John Cage...
Jacob Cooper is a fellow member of Sleeping Giant, my composers' collective. I was really hoping to get his music on the show, but alas nothing quite fit. So I'm featuring this really beautiful song of his. Unlike Bon Iver, the voice is not transformed. Instead a lost...
I love Kanye. I also love "I love Kanye". Lots of folks can't stand him but something I fundamentally love about him is his blatant appropriation/re-adaptation of older materials. In "Blood on the Leaves" he pulls one of the most audacious moves I can think of —...
If there's two things I love in music, it's weird sounds, and beautiful harmonies; and the power of what happens when they're mixed together. "715 - CR∑∑KS" is a perfect example of both. Throwing his voice into a vocoder, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver transforms his...