Tag: Meredith Monk

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Showing marked synergy, the lyrist Sokratis Sinopoulos and pianist Yann Keerim infuse folk music, including the six Romanian Folk Dances of Béla Bartók, with a dark and sometimes glacial kind of grandeur on their new album Topos, the first outing by the Greek musicians as a duo. Amplified by their four sylvan original compositions, this sense of careful stone-turning imbued...