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spectrumtalentmanagement · 1 year

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A big thank you to Spectrum leadership for the wonderful year-end get-together. It was a great way to celebrate our achievements and strengthen our team spirit. The laughter, music, and good vibes made it a night to remember.

#TeamBuilding #FunAtWork #SpectrumCulture #TeamAppreciation #PartyTime #FunWithColleagues

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f0restpunk · 2 years

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"This mixture of youthful energy, rock ‘n’ roll and sonic excess all come across on Melt Away, which sounds beamed from an alternate history where the Beach Boys came up during the sock hop/malt shop ’50s than the psychedelic ’60s." My review of the new @sheandhim album, Melt Away: A Tribute To Brian Wilson, is up now on Spectrum Culture! . . . . . #sheandhim #zooeydeschanel #mward #meltaway #albumreview #musicjournalism #SpectrumCulture https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg5roXgrTaK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#sheandhim #zooeydeschanel #mward #meltaway #albumreview #musicjournalism #spectrumculture

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seasurfacefullofclouds1 · 4 years

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For your anon who asked abt Harry's songs and lyrics, maybe they can read Fine Line reviews on SpectrumCulture (and while you're at it, check also Walls review they did ❤️) and The Michigan Daily. Both are the best reviews I've read about Fine Line, tbh.

Spectrum Culture review of Walls

Spectrum Culture review of Fine Line

Michigan Daily Roundtable on Fine Line

Thank you. I love the Spectrum Culture take on Fine Line too.

#reviews #21 march 2020

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gpalmora · 4 years

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"Why do these men think being a jerk is an incurable disease that makes them the victims instead of the women they wrong? Are we supposed to find this sexy? Are we supposed to feel for them? Songs like the ones on Harry Styles’ second album Fine Line just make us feel contempt when we’re supposed to feel empathy." -- spectrumculture*com/2020/01/07/harry-styles-fine-line-review/

I think PopCorn is going for vulnerable uwu I'm a snowflake I have a delicate heart image but without any depth in songwriting, it comes across as I was a jerk instead. When Louis was singing about giving into the pressure and being lost and ultimately hurting the one he loves, PopCorn's was just with his wandering hands.

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matwalerian · 5 years

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Spectrum Culture Magazine - review - Matthew Shipp Quartet with Mat Walerian Michael Bisio Whit Dickey “Sonic Fiction” - by Will Layman

"It is music that makes you more human and more alive ... It is a joy and a joke, though a perfectly serious one ... They sound great together, listening constantly and dueling with casual grace."

"Walerian (...) plays with superb control even when he is using “extended techniques” to overblow, squeak, or play split tones. “The Station” is a pure bass clarinet solo."

Pianist Matthew Shipp is a creative force, a wiry channel for creative improvisation whose two new recordings on ESP-Disk, Sonic Fiction (with a quartet) and Zero (solo piano) demonstrate his range: from lyrical to knotty, from blues-drenched to abstract, from difficult to easy-as-pie.

Shipp is a veteran of the New York “downtown scene”, and he achieved a certain beyond-jazz renown in the ‘90s when his music—and particularly the music he was making with saxophonist David S. Ware’s quartet—was featured alongside rock and post-punk artists whose music connected as regal and defiant at once. Ware’s band was actually signed to the Cadillac of record labels, Columbia, in 1997 by Branford Marsalis. For a time, Shipp was the thorny pianist in the coolest jazz band on Earth.

Neither Ware not Shipp was one to compromise, and their moment in the spotlight was reasonably short. Why? Because they shared a creative, restless, uncontainable sensibility. And while Shipp left the quartet in 2007 (and Ware sadly died in 2012 at only 62), the pianist was already on his own path of daring invention. He delved into free improvisation, electronics, hip-hop, all kinds of duets, variations on jazz standards. But for all this variation, Shipp’s music maintained unity. His music always has a ravishing combination of compositional power and refracted strangeness. It is easy to follow its logic and power, but there is always something weird or disruptive at its heart, whether a craggy rhythm, a curious dissonance or the element of pure surprise. And those disruptions are why it is exceptional music.

Shipp releases music with speed and abandon, and Sonic Fiction and Zero were released just eight days apart, though the quartet date is from 2015 and the solo set is from last May. Sonic Fiction features Shipp’s longstanding trio with Whit Dickey on drums and Michael Bisio on bass and adds Mat Walerian on alto saxophone, clarinet, and bass clarinet. It is a joy and a joke, though a perfectly serious one.

Among the 10 tracks, “The Note” is the shortest, consisting of a single piano note, struck once and allowed to ring with its echoing overtones for 17 seconds. “The Problem of Jazz” might seem equally jokey, as it starts with one of jazz’s standing clichés: a walking bass line by Bisio, fast and supple, like Ron Carter jacked on some cocaine. Walerian and Dickey enter suddenly, frenetic but light on their feet, but for only 30 or so super-fast bars. Bisio continues, undeterred. Drums and saxophone reenter, but in a totally different mood, growling and smearing the blues, then they are OUT again. Bisio, busy, double-stops and stutters, but always at that fast tempo. Then alto and drums again, playful this time. This toggling continues, with the band playing a different way each time: free squiggles, low grunts leading to swirls–then Biso cuts the tempo back to half time and digs in so gloriously deep, playing blues licks that finally bottom out to a way low note. But who does not participate at all in the “The Problem of Jazz”? Shipp himself. Ha.

Mainly, we get Shipp in heaping doses. “Blues Addition” begins with a two-minute piano solo that is largely consonant and clear, though its pretty chords keep shifting in unusual directions. Shipp will play a blues-drenched eight bars, then a sunny run of chords that sound like light refracting through a skylight. He finds moments of cool two-hand counterpoint and then ends it with a thumping rhythmic figure. Bisio and Walerian follow with a blues duet, bass clarinet bending notes and hunting for 12-bar style chord changes that never quite come. They sound great together, listening constantly and dueling with casual grace.

There are more conventional quartet performances as well. “Lines of Energy” is a pure quartet group improvisation, with each member finding their place in a stop-start kind of groove. “3 by 4” begins as a highly intuitive improvisation for the piano trio alone, with Shipp generating a high percentage of slight of hand where he seems to improvise a middle voice line while also creating a melody high in the piano’s register. Soon, however, Walerian comes in on alto to add what seems now to be a third voice. The piece concludes with thunderous moments that devolve back to a throbbing, peaceful conclusion. “Cell in the Brain” is ballad improvisation for the quartet, using clarinet that bends notes often as the trio works atmospherics on the canvas. The long title track is the most tonal free improvisation in the set, an interlocking set of statements.

Walerian, born in Poland, has been a frequent partner to Shipp in the last few years. He plays with superb control even when he is using “extended techniques” to overblow, squeak, or play split tones. “The Station” is a pure bass clarinet solo. But the best solo here belongs to the leader. “Easy Flow” is just Shipp, improvising from scratch, building lines and chords atop each other like they were Legos, finding lyricism where you least expect it.

The truth is that Shipp can sound as suddenly melodic as Chick Corea or as insistently soulful as Keith Jarrett. He simply does it without a single hackneyed phrase or stock lick. He has the ballad touch of Brad Mehldau but without any sense of cushion from known tunes or repeated harmonic patterns. This is not to put down these more conventional jazz pianists but just to say that Matthew Shipp achieves the same wonders and pleasures but does so through less conventional launching pads and less conventional technique. Yet he does it—and the results are perhaps more starling and beautiful because they come without any familiar markers of “beauty.”

Unlike most “jazz” musicians, Matthew Shipp inhabits a space that he creates nearly from scratch every time he plays. That is not to say that he always improvises freely but rather than his technique is always pushing toward something that will astonish you. Unable to play the predictable, he seems to follow a path that unfolds before him without obvious precedent. That the path turns out of have form, that it turns out to take a logical journey, gets you every time. Gets you somewhere. To the next note. To the next feeling. It is music that makes you more human and more alive.

read full review here :

https://spectrumculture.com/2018/03/21/matthew-shipp-sonic-fiction-zero-review/

#FatCatsDoItInBrooklyn #SupremeDreamTeam #GiveItToYouRaw #matthewshipp #matwalerian #michaelbisio #whitdickey #espdisk #sonicfiction #matthewshippquartet #spectrumculture #willlayman

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gnumanblog · 6 years

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Gary Numan, 2017.

SpectrumCulture

#gary numan #music #new wave #synthpop #dark wave #goth rock #industrial rock #2010s #10s #gothboyv2

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urockradio · 6 years

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Loudest Whisper: The Children of Lir - Spectrum Culture

Loudest Whisper: The Children of Lir – Spectrum Culture

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nadineshahtmblrtwitter · 7 years

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@1965Records: RT @SpectrumCulture: .@nadineshah's #HolidayDestination is a dark response to a darkening world. https://t.co/Rr6j4F4m4q @1965Records https://t.co/mo5bQVEMjc

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biz3publicity · 7 years

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@spectrumculture shares an awesome concert review of @JamilaWoods featuring fellow Chicago native collaborators powerful live performances at the Great Scott.

#music R&B FemaleSinger Soul soulfulsound singers vocals

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f0restpunk · 1 year

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The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (@subpop) "It’s also a snowglobe in that it’s complete and completely self-contained, existing in its own little world. This is part of what that PopMatters review was complaining about but, 22 years later, it feels almost startling and revolutionary. In a time where the sky is falling, the world is burning and falling down around us, artists face a pressure to comment on the nearly endless ills we’re facing. A short, sharp, catchy album jammed to the rafters with great songs, addictive melodies, tasty performances and interesting production is beyond refreshing to the point of being a revelation. It feels even more important, and more relevant, today than when it first came out." I got to write about one of my favourite records, The Shines - Oh, Inverted World, for Spectrum Culture's new series on the James Mercer discography. Had such a good time endlessly revisiting this record. Am honoured and humbled to get a chance to pen a few words, including a bit about The Shins' first EP, Nature Bears A Vacuum. Click the link in bio to read the full review! . . . . . #TheShins #OhInvertedWorld #NatureBearsAVacuum #SubPop #SubPopRecords #indie #indiemusic #indierock #indiepop #indieclassics #music #musicislife #June19 #2001 #June192001 #2001music #JamesMercer #NealLangford #MartyCrandall #JesseSandoval #AndreaLeah #albumcover #classicalbumcovers #greatalbumcovers #musicdesign #9bbad0 #JSimpson #albumreview #musicjournalism #SpectrumCulture https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnr8B_6r-fi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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f0restpunk · 1 year

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E.G Oblique Graph - Complete Oblique (Vinyl-on-Demand) "Much of Muslimgauze’s material feels downright poppy, with its insistent rhythms and occasional melodies, compared to the skeletal sparseness and abstract clinical ambiance of much of the material that makes up Complete Oblique. With its crude bleeping electronics and lofi rhythm boxes, tracks like “Merge,” from Extended Play or “Black Cloth Behind De Gaulle’s Wax Head,” from Triptych, sound more like early electronic pioneers like Dick Raaymakers or noise contemporaries like Merzbow than Frontline Assembly or Front 242." I write about E.G Oblique Graph - Complete Oblique on @vodvinylondemand for my first Rediscover article for Spectrum Culture. Click the link in bio to read the full piece! . . . . . #EgObliqueGraph #Muslimgauze #BrynJones #VinylOnDemand #CompleteOblique #industrial #industrialmusic #industrialculture #DIYmusic #noise #noisemusic #lofinoise #coldwave #newwave #minimalwave #musiqueconcrete #experimental #experimentalmusic #DIYunderground #cassetteculture #tapeculture #electronicmusic #80selectronic #1982 #1983 #JSimpson #albumreview #musicjournalism #SpectrumCulture #Sixtysixpointsix https://www.instagram.com/p/CnknAM_vYrj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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f0restpunk · 1 year

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“Only Shallow” kicks things off with a bang – four of them, to be precise – with O’Ciosoig’s iconic snare attack serving as a battle cry before being joined by the beatific jet engine of MBV’s sheets of sound, less a rock band than a turbulent sea set ablaze by a red and pink sunset. I got to do a track-by-track breakdown of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, my favourite album in the whole world for over a decade, for Spectrum Culture. Pretty stoked on this one! As usual, click the Link In Bio to read the full review. . . . . . #MyBloodyValentine #Loveless #Shoegaze #Shoegazer #ShoegazeClassics #indieclassics #KevinShields #ColmOCiosoig #BilindaButcher #DebbieGooge #AlanMoulder #1001Albums #GreatAlbums #TheGreatestAlbumsOfAllTime #November4 #1991 #November41991 #90smusic #90sclassics #OnlyShallow #Loomer #Touched #ToHereKnowsWhen #WhenYouSleep #BlownAWish #JSimpson #thesublime #AlbumReview #SpectrumCulture #ForestpunkClassics https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQJhuwMZ6H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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f0restpunk · 1 year

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"The networked society, with its information overload and constant connectivity, is changing what it means to be human. The proliferation of cameras makes everything performative, putting us continually on display while making us cripplingly self-conscious. The constant curated drip-feed of our community’s highlight reel leaves us feeling inadequate and dissatisfied with the regular, humdrum details of our daily lives. Exposure to massive networks of near-strangers leaves us feeling insecure, unsteady, vaguely defensive and often outright aggressive. The Candy House, the spiritual successor and loose sequel to Jennifer Egan’s rock ‘n roll novel A Visit from the Goon Squad – winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Award – is a funhouse mirror distortion of our current world told from a vaguely dystopian near-future that is all too recognizable while still being entertainingly far-out and imaginative." Happy book release day to @jennifereganwriter, whose wonderful The Candy House (@scribnerbooks) came out today in paperback. Its one of my favourite books of the past few years. My review is up now on Spectrum Culture. Click the Link In Bio to read the full review! . . . . . #JenniferEgan #TheCandyHouse #books #bookstagram #bookreview #newbooks #releaseday #bookreleases #bookreleaseday #avisitfromthegoonsquad #literature #modernliterature #modernlit #pulitzerprize #nationalbookcriticsaward #2022books #bestof2022 #bestbooksof2022 #2022bestbooks #virtualreality #networksociety #networkedsociety #memories #nostalgia #authenticity #socialmedia #socialmedianovels #memoradelia #jsimpson #spectrumculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CpgtdNSOgMz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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f0restpunk · 1 year

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"Quibbles aside, In Giallo is one of the most striking collections of horror music in recent memory. Anyone into orchestral horror music, giallo soundtracks or film music in general needs this immediately. It’s also a comprehensive education in elegant, deft horror composition, making it a good introduction for someone looking to get into horror music more seriously. Either way, In Giallo should help cement Bruno Nicolai’s name alongside maestros like Ennio Morricone or John Carpenter." My review of the magnficent new Bruno Nicolai boxset, In Giallo, on @digitmovies, is up now at Spectrum Culture! Click the Link In Bio to read the full review! . . . . . #BrunoNicolai #InGiallo #Digitmovies #Tuttiicoloridelbuio #AllTheColorsOfTheDark #Iltuovizioèunastanzachiusaesoloioneholachiave #YourViceIsALockedRoomAndOnlyIHaveTheKey #Lacodadelloscorpione #TheCaseOfTheScorpionsTail #PerchéquellestranegoccedisanguesulcorpodiJennifer #giallo #giallofilm #ItalianHorror #horrorscores #soundtracks #filmsoundtracks #horrorlovers #horrorgram #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #60shorror #EuroTrash #EuroSleaze #RIYL #EnnioMorricone #JohnCarpenter #JSimpson #albumreview #musicjournalism #SpectrumCulture https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVTHOcLdqw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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f0restpunk · 1 year

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"The landscape itself is the main focus of A Line in the World, more so than memoir or human drama. Nors’ heartbreakingly beautiful prose takes on the incantatory power of poetry as she describes meadows “drinking from the energies of the universe” and the flowers on elder trees “hovering like small helicopters.” A Line in the World is about as non-fiction as you can get – somewhere between diary, history book and travel guide – yet it reads like magic realism with its lush, evocative language and intensely intimate gaze." My review of @dorthenors' exquisite A Line In The World (@graywolfpress) is up now at Spectrum Culture! Click the Link In Bio to read the full review! . . . . . #DortheNors #ALineInTheWorld #GraywolfPress #Denmark #NorthSeaCoast #Jutland #Danish #DanishBooks #travelogue #memoir #nonfiction #travelog #travelwriting #books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookreview #booksarelife #booksaremagic #bibliophile #bookworm #booktok #Faro #Grenen #folklore #landscape #scandinavia #Jsimpson #SpectrumCulture #bookreviewer https://www.instagram.com/p/CpL09zArGnG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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f0restpunk · 1 year

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"Given that its notability rides on the presence of these two titans, both are in short supply. You don’t hear a lot from either Baker or Davis, who seems to be unsure of how to fit together, circling one another like two prize fighters looking for their jabs." i do my best Downbeat 1962 impersonation on my review of Chet Baker's Live In Bologna, 1962 featuring Miles Davis. Click the Link In Bio to read the full review. . . . . . #ChetBaker #LiveInBologna1962 #Jazz #CoolJazz #WestCoastJazz #MilesDavis #ReneThomas #KarlTheodorGeier #GeorgeGruntz #JazzMusic #JazzHistory #MusicHistory #60sMusic #1962 #LiveJazz #Bologna #Italy #ItalianMusic #BolognaItaly #LiveRecordings #albumreview #JSimpson #musicjournalism #SpectrumCulture https://www.instagram.com/p/CovZoYaPg2o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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