Author: Press Room
In 1996, a 19-year-old Israeli music student witnessed the Indian classical music heavyweights Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain performing in Jerusalem. He didn’t understand a word, but his response was physical. He decided to travel to India to arrive closer to its source, fell in love with and married the daughter of a Sufi sheikh in Ajmer, and made the country his home for more than a decade. Shye Ben Tzur’s journey since has aligned with the tenets of Sufism. Often at odds with orthodoxy, this branch of Islam looks at the relationship between the divine and the self through…
The high-tech was once handmade. From the 1950s through the 1970s, computers stored data in ceramic rings called cores. These cores were strung with wire by a single worker and formed a neat grid of power and memory. Electricity being sent to one core would induct the adjacent wires, the activation of one bit empowering its neighbors. As a data storage solution, it was effective: each core could retain its data even if it lost power. As a craft object, it was elegant, a loom of information partway woven. This interdependent system of lines intersecting tiny nodes of history was…
One, in Istanbul with Travis Scott with a record audience. The other in Philadelphia Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Two days ago, Boards of Canada released Inferno, their long-awaited LP and first album in 13 years. While most everybody had to wait until Friday to listen, horror movie fans got to hear one of its unreleased songs a little early: “The World Becomes Flesh” plays in Backrooms, the new A24 film directed by Kane Parsons, during its end credits. You can listen to the song and watch the movie trailer below.If all of these names mean nothing to you, then the quick summary is that the Scottish duo Boards of Canada have been making esoteric, ambient, and downtempo electronic…
Non stavo cercando di seguire una moda. Volevo solo creare il suono che avevo in testa (Tom Scholz) La musica dei Boston è fatta per farti sentire meglio, per farti evadere, anche solo per qualche minuto (Brad Delp) Il successo dei Boston dimostra che il rock melodico può essere allo stesso tempo potente, estremamente curato e commercialmente travolgente (Rolling Stone) L’inventore Toledo, Ohio. Nel sobborgo di Ottawa Hills cresce un ragazzino dai folti capelli scuri di nome Donald Thomas Scholz, nato il 10 marzo del 1947. Suo padre, Don Scholz, è un importante architetto della zona, diventato presto ricco…
Less than a month after Kid Cudi booted M.I.A. as an opener from his North American Rebel Ragers tour for making “offensive remarks” onstage, she is suing the Insano rapper for allegedly breaching the contract, according to court documents viewed by Pitchfork. She filed the complaint in the United States District Court of California Western Division on May 29. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for M.I.A. and Kid Cudi for comment.In the civil lawsuit, M.I.A., born Mathangi Arulpragasam, accuses Cudi, whose full name is Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, of knowing her beliefs and reputation as a politically outspoken artist…
Among the guests, Morgan, Simone Cristicchi and Juri Camisasca Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Who said that bands necessarily have to change with each new release? And if for some the pond remains, paradoxically, the best escape route from the useless noise of today? Well, the Boards of Canada, who return thirteen years after “Tomorrow's Harvest”, act like the immobile stone at the bottom of the river, both to mock the current and everything that, all too often, flows uselessly on the surface, and to not let themselves be overwhelmed by the adversities of a rather crazy era. A parable mostly associated with the figure of Buddha and oriental tales that teaches how true…
1963: Alan Wilder, keyboardist and singer of Depeche Mode, is born in Hammersmith, UK. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
“Mi presentarono i miei cinquant’anni”. Ma stavolta senza contratti da firmare col circo Pace e Bene a girare l’Europa… “Bufalo Bill” compie mezzo secolo ma non invecchia, anzi, rimane più che mai al centro della storia artistica di Francesco De Gregori. Eppure l’Lp del 1976, che da sempre si contende con il predecessore “Rimmel” il titolo di miglior disco del cantautore romano, nacque in circostanze surreali. L’intero album venne registrato infatti in poco più di una settimana, con un suono molto “live”, quasi in presa diretta. Come a voler prendere le distanze preventivamente dalle critiche di eccessiva patinatura cui De…
