Tag: Eric Cha-Beach

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A multidisciplinary artist and curator who has spent the last few years producing exhibitions, developing documentaries and directing music videos and short films, Violaine Morgan Le Fur dips more than a toe into the sometimes murky waters of music production with her debut album as Violence Gratuite, adorning an aluminium tail as her siren vocals sound out from a...

Following up on Narrow Sea with Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish, a setting of text from the Sacred Harp which won the Grammy for best contemporary classical composition, and Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part which scoured the poet Anne Carson, the shape note composer Albert Brumley and the disco harmonies of ABBA and The Pointer Sisters for...

In the summer of 2019, as the venerable jazz and new music venue LOFT in Cologne prepared to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, the absence of the Steinway D-274 concert grand piano which had journeyed to Hamburg for restoration left space in the recording studio for something else of note. Since the early nineties, the LOFT studio has been host...