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  • Album Review: REAL ME (Brit Taylor)

    By Connor McCormick | November 23, 2020
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    IT DOESN’T GET MORE REAL THAN THIS It’s not often that an album comes out that is instantly likeable. And Brit Taylor’s just-released debut album, Real Me, is also drenched in honesty, soulfulness and non-saccharine sweetness. And she goes deeper than just country; her ten songs are flavored with blues and rock. And she writes…

  • Music: APPALACHIAN SPRING (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)

    By Connor McCormick | November 23, 2020
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    SPRING INTO LACO Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra continues its digital season with Aaron Copeland’s masterwork Appalachian Spring. The chamber version, originally commissioned by choreographer Martha Graham as a ballet, provides a superb showcase for LACO’s artistry. Conducted by Music Director Jaime Martí­n with LACO Conductor Laureate Jeffrey Kahane on piano in their first joint appearance,…

  • Album Review: DAVID KOREVAAR: (Luigi Perrachio’s Nine Little Poems and 25 Preludi)

    By Connor McCormick | November 21, 2020
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    CAPRICIOUS CHROMATICS FROM KOREVAAR CATAPULT TO CLOUD NINE What a find this new album is — and the composer had better be a household name after this. The prolific David Korevaar’s world premiere recording of piano music by Italian impressionist composer Luigi Perrachio (1883-1966) is now available. The two works on the album, recorded for…

  • Album Review: SOUL OF THE SPANISH GUITAR (Pablo Sáinz-Villegas)

    By Connor McCormick | November 19, 2020
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    THE SOUL OF A NATION So, at first I thought “another Andrés Segovia for Brunch-like album”? Not that that’s a bad thing, but Pablo Sáinz-Villegas truly surprised me. He makes his guitar sing like an orchestra. Even the plucks go from a tinkle to a pounding. When supreme virtuosity is coupled with lightness of touch,…

  • Album Review: DRUNK TANK PINK (shame)

    By Connor McCormick | November 18, 2020
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    PUNK FOR ALL For those who know the band shame, then you know the UK members spent their entire adult life touring as riotous post-punkers (they’re first album 2018’s Songs Of Praise is a hoot). But what of those who like their punk adventurous, but without the feeling that an overripe drunk is distorting the…

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