May 2013
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Listen to This: Music from the Roaring Twenties
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Baz Luhrmann, the director responsible for the most recent cinematic incarnation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has a knack for compiling amazing soundtracks…and this one is no exception. The film is full of dazzling shots of confetti tumbling through the air onto throngs of merry revelers, accompanied by thundering, contemporary R&B beats and swinging 1920s jazz....
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: Listen to This: Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings... →
cincylibrary:
In 1969 a young Harry Nilsson, still riding high on the success of his rendition of Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” (featured in the film Midnight Cowboy) and a messianic endorsement by The Beatles, approached a then-unknown singer-songwriter named Randy Newman with an…
: Listen to This: The League of Automatic Music... →
cincylibrary:
Fasten your seatbelt, this is one of the weirdest CDs in our collection. The League of Automatic Music Composers 1978-1983 is a retrospective look at the wild creative output of a group of musicians and computer scientists from northern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s….
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April 2013
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: Listen to This: Amor de Días - The House at Sea →
cincylibrary:
Amor de Días began in 2008 as a secret collaboration between The Clientele’s Alasdair MacLean and Lupe Núñez-Fernández of the Spanish indie-pop duo Pipas. Their first album, 2011’s Street of the Love of Days, was a lovely culmination of their respective styles: Núñez-Fernández’…
First installment of my new weekly music column!
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March 2013
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