Tag: Vol. 30 No. 26

Anyone who believes that folks from the northland are reserved or conventional should see Shirka Urechko’s 50-minute multimedia atavistic solo Pineappleheartofgoldpeacocks. Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, to Ukrainian parents, Urechko has created a video backdrop for this piece that shows rippling water and a naked woman wallowing in mud; later, in a close-up, some black […]

MIRROR Englishman Andrew Chalk and Germany’s Christoph Heemann, who’ve collaborated under the name Mirror since the late 90s, have been operating on the fringes of experimental music for nearly two decades. Heemann founded the early industrial group H.N.A.S. in the 80s and has worked with collagists and mod musique concrete practitioners like Nurse With Wound, […]

Pinetop Perkins with the John Primer Band Intergenerational blues summits are all too rare these days, especially between such well-matched musicians: pianist Pinetop Perkins, who’s 87, and guitarist John Primer, a relative youngster at 56, are both masters of the straight-ahead postwar Chicago style. His age notwithstanding, Perkins can still light fires: last year he […]

THE SIXTEEN Since conductor and musicologist Harry Christophers formed the Sixteen in Oxford, England, more than 20 years ago, he’s only had to dismiss two singers, even as the choir’s roster has grown from 16 to more than 20. He’s assembled a crew of quick learners with flexible temperaments and perfectly complementary voices, and his […]

DAVID JOHANSEN & THE HARRY SMITHS From his days as front man for the New York Dolls to his more recent incarnation as lounge lizard Buster Poindexter, David Johansen has often relied on an unstable mixture of gifted role-playing and heavy-handed irony. But with his new band he seems to have found a better fit–though […]