Tag: Palle Mikkelborg

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It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Palle Mikkelborg is perhaps best known as the composer and producer of the Aura suite, which he wrote in tribute to Miles Davis and was released as the iconic American trumpeter's final album in 1989. Scored for a big band and blending jazz fusion with classical impressionism, Mikkelborg's suite drew upon Davis's seminal work with the arranger Gil Evans...

Everything on this side of death was the purview of the Vita Duvan, which opened in the northern coastal city of Luleå in 1856 as Sweden's only true panopticon prison. The concept was devised in the eighteenth century by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham who envisioned the panopticon as a means of reform and rehabilitation as well as control:...