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Brendan Murray
Over the last decade, Brendan Murray has been one of the most consistently interesting musicians in Boston’s small, but vibrant experimental music scene. His idee fixe is the well-crafted, subtly shifting drone. An exacting and meticulous composer, he has just released his fourth solo CD that is perhaps his powerful (and certainly most personal) work to date. Named Commonwealth after his beloved home state, it consists of a single, epic 49-minute long drone. On Thursday, April 10 Brendan will perform live on RF for the second time.
An article that I wrote on Brendan appears in last week’s Boston Phoenix. In addition, you can read an interview that I did with him prior to his last appearance on the show here.
There is also an interesting recent interview about Commonwealth up on the 23Five website .
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Just learned (via Simon Reynolds’ blissblog) of the passing of electronic music pioneer Bebe Barron of Forbidden Planet fame at the age of 82.
Here’s a clip from Forbidden Planet in which the music of Bebe and Louis Barron’s music (and their innovative, homemade circuits) figures especially prominently….
Apparently, it’s a two-way street. I love Turkish psych and it loves me… if this 1968 song by Bariş Manço is to be believed.
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May 08 on Rare Frequency
Posted: May 8, 2008
On this week’s show I’ll play new music from Philip Jeck, Richard Chartier, Oren Ambarchi & Z’ev, Yoshi Wada, and rather a lot more! There you have it. Tune in.
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