Hindustan Times
Over-produced music has never really caught my fancy. I’m referring to the kind of music that producers or DJs sitting in their bedrooms conjure up using nothing much more than a laptop or two. They either mix and match sound samples or “create” compositions using synthesised sound. I’m probably a bit orthodox when it comes to musicians—I prefer mine to actually pick up instruments and play them rather than use the keyboards of their computers to tweak and program software to produce their music. There are exceptions, though. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Beck, Brian Burton, Bull and Me, Causers of This, Cee Lo Green, Chazwick Bundick, Chillwave, Danger Mouse, Download Central, Feed The Animals, Girl Talk, Greg Gillis, Grey Album project, I found a job/I do it fine/Not what I want/But I still try, Illegal Arts, Jay-Z, Jay-Z’s Black Album, Music, Sanjoy Narayan, The Beatles, The Black Keys, The Gorillaz, Toro Y Moi, Twitter, U2, Underneath the Pine, White Album
It is likely you may not have even heard of S Carey, leave alone heard his music. I hadn’t a clue who this guy was till I accidentally caught a set by him and his band at a free live gig in Brooklyn recently. Carey (whose real name is Sean Carey) plays the drums with a flair that shows his influences – shades of percussive jazz. I wasn’t surprised to learn that Carey has been surrounded by music all his life (he’s probably still in his twenties) as a son of a music teacher in Wisconsin. His set was full of brooding, inward-looking tracks, made all the more deep by his bandmate Mike Noyce who adds layers of low-frequency string sounds on an upright viola. Carey, who self-released his debut album, All We Grow, this year, plays what you could call chamber pop with a touch of folk music and a non-intrusive, ambient nature. Read more
(5 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged All We Grow, argus48, Beck, Bitter End, Bleecker Street, Bon Iver, Broken Social Scene, Captain Lawrence Gold craft, Chris McDermott, Cohiba, Download Central, For Emma, Forever Ago, Greenwich Village, Kingfisher, Makers Mark, Mike Noyce, Modest Mouse, Muddy Waters, S Carey, Sanjoy Narayan, Sean Carey, Sonny Boy Williamson, Tallest Man on Earth, Terra Blues, The Blue Bar, The Peculier Pub, Twitter, Wisconsin
I am yet to meet anyone who likes going for an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan. You know what I’m talking about—you are made to lie down in a claustrophobic pod and hear strange clanging noises, while your head is scanned. In fact, I’ve heard of people who’ve insisted on being administered general anaesthesia before lying in an MRI scanner. So, I was quite surprised when I found out what Charlotte Gainsbourg, the Anglo-French singer and actress, had called her new album. It’s called IRM and it means MRI in French.
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(3 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 5:55, Amblin Alps, Antichrist, Beck, Charlotte For Ever, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dandelion, Download Central, Dylan, Harlan T. Bobo, IRM, Jaga Jazzist, Jane Birkin, Jarvis Cocker, Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes, Lemon Incest, Mlle. Chatte, MRI, Neon Indian, Odelay, Psychic Chasms, Serge, Should Have Taken Acid With You, Yeasayer
