Tag: Adam O'Farrill

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David Lynch, the transcendental meditator and itinerant Eagle Scout who believes that a daily routine allows the mind to travel unfettered, has at pivotal moments of his artistic career been inspired by the limpid light or electric spark of visions, whether the manicured lawns and picket fences which sprung up one day as he listened to the Bobby Vinton...

For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for a set of melodic formulas which guide musical improvisation and often take the form of sprawling epic suites. Combining song, dance and instrumental sections, characterised by rhythmic...

Four years in the making, for her first full-length on New Amsterdam Records the composer and vocalist Mingjia Chen presents a collection of through-composed songs which still carry the discursiveness and formal spontaneity of recitative or more melismatic arioso, as half-scrawled thoughts and ribbons of reflections stack together in a manner at once reminiscent of the opera or Broadway,...