Tag: Allan Gilbert Balon

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Alex Weiser - in a dark blue night A plangent, plunging bass line and the traipsing and frolicking of Spiegelberg's clarinet introduce the titular 'Coney Island', which in rhapsodic terms describes a day at the beach without adults or limits, whose highlights include such quintessential fare as a hot dog at Nathan's and a frozen custard, which in the recollection...

'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

On the opening song 'Stella Maris' from his debut long play, the artist and composer Allan Gilbert Balon offers a cloistered procession of organ and voice which feels both evocative and utterly self-contained. The music of the piece bears comparison with the sustained notes and partial tones of works for organ and carillon by Charlemagne Palestine, but where the...