Posted in Concert Photos, Indie Rock, Post-rock, World Music, tagged aladdin, aladdin theater, concert photos, concert review, Hildur Gudnadottir, iceland, icelandic music, mum, oregon, portland, seabear, set list, setlist, Sin Fang Bous on 5th Nov 09 (Thu) | 1 Comment »
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There must be something about the Icelandic landscape
that yields such magnificent music.
I got into Múm (pronounced “moom”) via Sigur Rós. In fact, it may have even been a direct email from Sigur Rós about Múm right around the time Finally We Are No One (aka Loksins Erum Við [...]
Posted in Indie Rock, World Music, tagged american tribal style, bellydance, bewitched, concert review, eugene, joe's, mood area 52, oregon, raquy, raquy and the cavemen, ruins of ooah, set list, setlist, world music on 25th Sep 09 (Fri) | Leave a Comment »
In Cincinnati, we got to see Raquy Danziger, Liron Peled, and the rest of the Cavemen about twice a year due to the large tribal bellydance scene. Well, luckily, Raquy’s sister lives in Eugene; so we get a visit roughly once a year. They always put on a great show, full of wonderful percussive world [...]
Posted in Concert Photos, Rock & Pop, World Music, tagged african, celebration, concert photos, concert review, eugene, eugene celebration, kenya, oregon, rock, world music on 7th Sep 09 (Mon) | Leave a Comment »
So, Eugene Celebration is one of the many good things going in Eugene every fall. We went down on Saturday and caught the tail end of Thomas Mapfumo, Extra Golden, and much later in the evening Gift of Gab. Both Gift of Gab and Thomas Mapfumo were good, but the highlight of the evening for [...]
Posted in Concert Photos, Hip-hop, Indie Rock, World Music, tagged american tribal style, beats antique, concert photos, concert review, contraption, electronic, eugene, Faerieworlds, indigo, indigo belly dance, mt pisgah, oregon, tribal fusion, zoe jakes on 1st Aug 09 (Sat) | 4 Comments »
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We last saw Zoë Jakes dance with her troupe, Indigo Belly Dance Company with Rachel Brice & Mardi Love, at last year’s Oregon Country Fair. She has a fun American tribal style fusion mixed with some hip-hop pops & locks. Anyway, she’s fun, and a lot of [...]
Posted in Indie Rock, Rock & Pop, World Music, tagged amelie, Asobi Seksu, concert review, french music, horrible, oregon, portland, wonder ballroom, yann tiersen on 30th Apr 09 (Thu) | 7 Comments »
(that’s unnatural)
So, I was soooo stoked about seeing French musician Yann Tiersen for the first time. His albums are quite delightful. I, like many people in the States, first heard of him via the soundtrack/score to Amelie. But then based on the Brooklyn Vegan (photo credit above) and photobear 2009 tour reviews, I got a [...]
Posted in Indie Rock, Singer-Songwriter, World Music, tagged aladdin theater, britney spears, concert review, french, french music, grey anne, israeli, new soul, oregon, pop, portland, quirky, singer-songwriter, toxic, world music, yael naim on 16th Oct 08 (Thu) | Leave a Comment »
Mini-Review
Well, I heard about Yael Naim a week ago thanks to the NPR World Cafe podcast… she’s a Paris-born, Israeli singer-songwriter. She’s been described as “a touch of folk and a touch of jazz, with mysterious and evocative words sung with a delicate and intentionally husky voice.” After just hearing of her, I found out that [...]
Posted in Indie Rock, Post-rock, World Music, tagged concert photos, concert review, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust, oregon, portland, sigur ros, tour on 11th Oct 08 (Sat) | Leave a Comment »
Sigur Rós pictures from the Portland show on Monday, October 6th are now posted over at my review of the show:
http://jazzsick.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/sigur-ros-pdx2008/
Posted in Concert Photos, Indie Rock, Post-rock, Rock & Pop, World Music, tagged concert photos, concert review, iceland, icelandic music, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust, oregon, parachutes, portland, schnitzer, set list, setlist, sigur ros on 7th Oct 08 (Tue) | 8 Comments »
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This was my third time to the Arlene Schnitzer Hall. It’s a great venue, and while I thought I would have gotten a better ticket via ordering from Klink (the Sigur merch site)… well, I was further to the back and left than I would have liked. It [...]
Posted in Classical, Jazz & Avant, World Music, tagged branford marsalis, brazil, brazilian music, concert review, Darius Mihaud, eugene, Gil Jardim, Heitor Villa-Lobos, hult center, jazz, marsalis, Marsalis Brasilianos, oregon, Philarmonia Brasileira, set list, setlist, silva concert hall on 3rd Oct 08 (Fri) | 2 Comments »
I first got into (Grammy Award-winning saxophonist) Branford Marsalis when I sat through the 10-disc (20 hour) Ken Burns JAZZ documentary that I got from the University of Oregon Library. Let’s just say that I spent a lot of rainy spring weekends watching these discs and getting more into the roots of jazz when there [...]
Posted in Art, Concert Photos, World Music, tagged american tribal style, balkan, belly dance, eugene, indigo, indigo belly dance, mardi love, oregon, oregon country fair, rachel brice, tribal dance, tribal fusion, veneta, zoe jakes on 14th Jul 08 (Mon) | 3 Comments »
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Rachel Brice, Mardi Love & Zoe Jakes are three tribal fusion belly dancers from San Francisco who go by the name The Indigo Belly Dance Company. I’d heard of them before, and my wife has gone to performances & workshops of theirs in the past when we [...]
Posted in World Music, tagged bellydancers, concert review, cozmic pizza, drum circle, dumbek, eugene, kemanche, oregon, raquy and the cavemen, tribalation, world music on 1st May 08 (Thu) | Leave a Comment »
Raquy and the Cavemen put on a great show last night at Cozmic Pizza. They had put out two CDs since we saw them last time in Cincinnati; so we snagged those (2007’s Naked & 2008’s Mischief). They played almost exclusively from those two CDs (per Raquy & Liron’s onstage banter).
CDBaby – [...]
Posted in Jazz & Avant, World Music, tagged concert review, cozmic pizza, eugene, jazz, oregon, slavic soul party, world music on 2nd Mar 08 (Sun) | Leave a Comment »
well, in keeping with an unwritten “review the shows I see” pact… here’s a mini review…
Slavic Soul Party! at Cozmic Pizza on Thursday was fantastic. They went on shortly after 9:30, took a short break, and then started a 2nd set. I had to leave at 11pm (I was heading up to Seattle [...]
Posted in Classical, Singer-Songwriter, World Music, tagged antibalas, cincinnati symphony orchestra, Concert Reviews, CSO, ellery, southgate house on 30th Apr 07 (Mon) | Leave a Comment »
Great three-concert weekend… Ellery/Over the Rhine on Friday, Paavi Järvi’s CSO with Alison Balsom on Saturday, and freakin’ ANTIBALAS on Sunday. Wow… I don’t mean to sound bitchy, but Over the Rhine was the lowlight of the weekend. I think I’m done seeing them live for a long time. So, yeah, you won’t hear me [...]
Posted in Classical, Indie Rock, Jazz & Avant, Post-rock, Singer-Songwriter, World Music, tagged amiina, amina, bryce dessner, cincinnati, concert review, Concert Reviews, david cossin, enjoy your rabbit, Irena, memorial hall, musicnow festival, my brightest diamond, ohio, osso, padme newsome, pedro soler, set list, setlist, shara worden, solo percussion, sufjan stevens, tan dun, the clogs, the havels, the national, Vojtech, water music, year of the boar on 9th Apr 07 (Mon) | Leave a Comment »
I’ll start this 1st review by saying that I truly feel fortunate to live in the city that is hosting this truly wonderful MusicNow Festival. It is elegantly and professionally put together and a trove of new and exciting music (many of the pieces from last night were world premieres).
Music Now Festival – April 5, [...]
