Tag: Cole Pulice

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Over a series of acclaimed and elliptical records, Lucy Liyou seems to have traced the outline of several possible careers. Welfare and Practice - albums so of a piece that they were soon bundled up by American Dreams Records - featured text-to-speech snippets of a diaristic and starkly confessional nature, whether reflecting on family history or setting the listener...

Now well into its second decade, the Coin Coin project by the saxophonist and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts continues to explore African-American history through a recuperative focus on memory and ancestry, summoning a heteroglossia of voices through group recitations, guttural catharsis and plainspoken word, graphic and other aleatoric forms of notation, samples, loops and effects pedals and the torrents...

A deep dive into the history of Greenwich Village spurred the author and lyricist David Hajdu to begin a song cycle in ode to a single building, an otherwise nondescript four-story brick townhouse at 64th East 7th Street in bustling New York. Built in 1889 as the parsonage for St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, home to the Reverend George...