Hugh Nicoll's Weblog » music http://hughnicoll.org/blog patterns, poetics, polytexts Wed, 05 May 2010 05:31:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 LifeTime Session 16 Nov 2007 http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2007/11/17/lifetime-session-16-nov-2007/ http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2007/11/17/lifetime-session-16-nov-2007/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:29:20 +0000 Hugh Nicoll http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2007/11/17/lifetime-session-16-nov-2007/ Katsuki Yasuno (vocals and euphonium) and Onishi Yosuke (piano) played at LifeTime last night with special guests. session16nov07hoy2.jpg

]]> http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2007/11/17/lifetime-session-16-nov-2007/feed/ 0 Acapella: RobStar Lobster http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2007/10/21/acapella-robstar-lobster/ http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2007/10/21/acapella-robstar-lobster/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:20:12 +0000 Hugh Nicoll http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2007/10/21/acapella-robstar-lobster/ Attended a live performance by RobStar Lobster tonight. “Donny,” (Kotaro-kun) the second vocalist in the group is the son of one of my oldest friends in Miyazaki, Yano Yasuhiro. RobStar Lobster is an acapella group performing polished and moving covers of Stevie Wonder, Beatles, Carole King songs along with Japanese pop standards and a few originals. My preferences for jazz are pretty strong, but this group of young singers put on a great show, and did a great job of highlighting the wonders of the human voice. I especially liked their mic-less version of “What a Wonderful World” they performed as an encore.

Many of the audience are folks I’ve known almost my entire stay in Miyazaki, so lots of hisashiburi (Haven’t seen you in a long time!) sociability, and the strange mix of wonder and familiarity that seeing your friends’ children growing up and finding themselves as adults provokes.

]]> http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2007/10/21/acapella-robstar-lobster/feed/ 0 discovering new music blogs http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2006/03/25/discovering-new-music-blogs/ http://hughnicoll.org/blog/2006/03/25/discovering-new-music-blogs/#comments Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:42:24 +0000 Hugh Nicoll http://hughnicoll.org/blog/?p=50 Ron Silliman has a brief post about Anthony Braxton’s recent set of sessions at the Iridium. He links to the reviews posted on night after night by Steve Smith, a New York music writer. Also mentions the Current Free Practices in Music and Poetry symposium, which sounds like it would be a wonder to attend. But even if I dropped everything and hopped on a plane I wouldn’t arrive on time. Wonder what sort of proceedings or digital archives might become available. For now, I’ll content myself with virtual content: check out the bibliograpy/discography.

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