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Tag Archives: Danny Elfman
Denizen Catch-Up + Tyondai Braxton
Apologies for the recent publishing blackout here at the Den. It’s been a busy winter and more or less pretty tough to keep up with anything at all. Working on stories for the Boston Phoenix on Sebadoh and O’Death, coming … Continue reading
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Tagged Battles, Danny Elfman, Esquivel, Stravinsky, Tyondai Braxton, Wordless Music
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Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1
But still — despite the zaniness throughout, it still strikes me as how generally reserved these artists are, or maybe just how far we’ve come since this was what you’d expect out of a DIY comp. Even the most tossed-off tracks here have a carefully crafted feel to them, something that’s harder and harder to come by when anyone can go from scratch to MySpace in a few minutes. Will there be anyone left interested enough to curate this kind of thing for people in 30 years? Or will the majority of it eventually just fade away into cloud computer heaven? Continue reading
Out Today: Tyondai Braxton’s “Central Market” (Warp)
Have you bought this yet? I have no idea how something like this made its way into the “indie rock” world of PR-machines and blog cred (okay, it’s clearly Braxton’s heavy role in Battles), but here it is regardless, in all it’s totally over-orchestrated glory. The fingernails of Bernard Herrmann, Carl Stalling, John Adams and effing Igor Stravinsky scrape across every bit of this gonzo bunch of pieces. Esquivel himself might have quivered at the thought of engineering these recording sessions, which wrangle strings, piano, looped guitars, mallets, woodwinds, percussion, vocals, whistling, kazoos, and what might be the entire contents of Spike Jones’ storage shed at RCA Victor. Continue reading
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Tagged Battles, Bernard Herrmann, Carl Stalling, Central Market, Danny Elfman, Esquivel, John Adams, Tyondai Braxton
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