The sound of the berimbau takes you to a calm place where you can be quiet inside yourself. You can listen to your inner silence. It is like a meditation almost; the sound makes you so peaceful and at the same time it strikes very deep... Something of nature is in that sound. |
| | | | | Naná Vasconcelos, 1944-2016. (Centro Cultural Kirchner) | | | | | |  | “The sound of the berimbau takes you to a calm place where you can be quiet inside yourself. You can listen to your inner silence. It is like a meditation almost; the sound makes you so peaceful and at the same time it strikes very deep... Something of nature is in that sound.”
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| rantnrave:// Is SONY about to dump DR. LUKE? Yes, screamed a headline in THE WRAP on WEDNESDAY morning. But a close reading of the anonymously sourced blockbuster "exclusive" reveals that none of the site's sources actually says that. MATT DONNELLY's piece, artfully constructed with the passive voice ("SONY MUSIC is expected to..." but "It's currently unknown how," etc.) literally says nothing you didn't know before you started reading it. It doesn't quote anyone directly saying what the company plans to do. It does, however, attempt to suggest that SONY management believes KESHA has no contractual case against DR. LUKE or the label "but they can’t afford the ADELEs of the world out in the streets calling the label unsupportive," in case you weren't clear on how sexual assault cases are discussed in corporate boardrooms. The headline, which spread all over the web with no additional reporting by anyone, and which DR. LUKE's lawyer later denied, may or may not turn out to be true, but as of this writing there were no facts to fact-check, so let's just move on... In a very different contractual matter, the producers of NBC's "SONGLAND" did the right thing, belatedly... GEORGE MARTIN on JOHN LENNON: "He was never a person of nuts and bolts. The bitter truth is music is nuts and bolts, you’ve got to bring it down to horse hair going over a bit of wood, people blowing into brass tubes. You’ve got to get down to practicalities." PAUL MCCARTNEY on GEORGE MARTIN: "If you're stuck, if you say to him, 'Eh, excuse me, what are we going to do?,' he'll take the problem. He won't kind of just go. 'ohhhhawwwgggh.' He knows that's his job: 'Well, how's about this?' Work it out some way." If you want to know exactly what a producer can do, and what GEORGE MARTIN did do for the BEATLES, those two quotes, in a way, tell you everything you need to know. We collect interviews, essays and stories in our REDEF MusicSET "REMEMBERING GEORGE MARTIN"... This week we also lost the incomparable BRAZILIAN percussionist NANÁ VASCONCELOS. RIP to him and to ANDREW LOOMIS and JON ENGLISH... BAD BRAINS guitarist DR. KNOW is recovering after nearly dying from cardiac arrest in NOVEMBER. But he's facing massive medical bills. You can help. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Algorithmic music curation is hailed as the future of streaming. So what does that mean for DJs and tastemakers? | | |
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 | The Stranger |
| As people sprawl out on yoga mats on the dance floor of Capitol Hill's Q Nightclub during the Rare Air ambient/new-age event in February, Portland DJ Max Schneider (aka Incidental Music) fills the swanky venue with deeply resonant and peaceful sounds. From cassettes. | | |
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| There were plenty of sixth, seventh and eighth Beatles, but only one true fifth Beatle. A look back at the life, music and influence of the Fab Four's legendary producer. | | |
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 | Thump |
| This time two years ago, Eddie Rangel was just another aspiring music producer in the underground house and techno scene in Los Angeles. A golden opportunity to play a New Year's gig led him to the Mexican resort town of Sayulita, where a freak accident during a scuffle left him accused for a murder he didn't even know if he had committed. | | |
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 | Complex |
| In 2008, the biggest names in hip-hop blogging came together to form the New Music Cartel, hip-hop's new gatekeepers. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| Yes, sometimes Kanye West submits his own costume sketches. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| Like the prodigious artists before them, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West create work that allows us to know ourselves and order our world. | | |
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 | MTV News |
| The two lifelong friends and collaborators talk about their inspiring bond. | | |
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 | Noisey |
| Women have always had a voice in music, and it has been getting louder and louder. Now, it’s almost deafening. | | |
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 | Okayplayer |
| Hip-hop culture has been the dominant force in entertainment for the last 25 years. It has minted new words for your Webster's, created and destroyed popular trends, and made global icons out of personalities who escaped society's harshest environments. Or, more accurately: almost escaped. | | |
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 | The Bitter Southerner |
| Deep in the antebellum bowels of Southern history, there emerged a style of gospel music called the Sacred Harp. Designed so untrained singers could sing by sight from hymnals, it produced an otherworldly, earthshakingly loud brand of music. But who knew it would become one of the South’s most potent cultural exports? | | |
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 | Jezebel |
| What was meant to be a routine profile of a band -- of British duo The Last Shadow Puppets, for Spin -- instead became a thinkpiece: this happened because one member of that duo, Miles Kane, decided to sexually harass the writer, Rachel Brodsky, during their interview. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| Up close and a little too personal with the U.K. orch-rock duo. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The rapper tells a bankruptcy court he's employing "prop money" for "social media marketing activities." Anything wrong with that? | | |
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| Thump |
| In the 1940s, French composer Pierre Schaeffer invented musique concrète by stitching together field recordings of trains and found-sound speech with more traditionally "musical" passages. | | |
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 | Arcomusical |
| Naná Vasconcelos is one of Brazil’s most famous percussionists, and is probably the world’s most famous virtuoso of the berimbau. His musical career spans over five decades, and the list of mu- sicians with whom he has collaborated and recorded is enormous. | | |
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| MTV News |
| Carvell Wallace on Bankroll Fresh and the Quest for Freedom. | | |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| Meet the Nude Party: an indie psych-group learning to navigate American's DIY circuit -- a network defined by its lack of rules, its opportunity for growth... and the need to sleep rough. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| But she can’t stop saying she’s sorry. | | |
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 | Consequence of Sound |
| No tryouts, no replacement singers, just smile and wave buh-bye. | | |
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