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...works to a song's disadvantage if it's too explicit," says Jackson Browne. "A song is like an instrument, like a guitar. Once it is built, it can be played by anyone." The music on Browne's new album, I'm Alive (Elektra), is so extraordinarily bare-hearted and openhanded, his lyrics so steady in their power, that the songs transcend the personal, working themselves into the listener's memory...
...These adjectives might well describe your old favorite blanket. But they apply equally well to the newest release from the Cincinnati band The Afghan Whigs. Formerly on the Seattle-based Sub Pop label, the Whigs' are now bringing a solid dose of grunge pop-rock to the major label Elektra...
...Unplugged; Elektra...
This year's most unexpected hit, classical division, has been Henryk Gorecki's 1976 Symphony No. 3, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" -- a transcendentally dour, radiantly miserable minimalist cogitation on suffering and death for soprano and orchestra. Boosted by savvy marketing and extensive airplay, an Elektra Nonesuch recording of the symphony transformed an obscure Polish composer into a grand master...
...tune wonder, or does he have more songs to sing? Two new CDs provide the answer. Koch Schwann has issued Symphony No. 1, "1959"; Choros I, a major work for string orchestra from 1964; and the brief Three Pieces in the Old Style (1963) for strings. From Elektra Nonesuch come two recent string quartets, Already It Is Dusk (No. 1) and Quasi una Fantasia (No. 2). The result is a fuller, rounder picture of an uncompromising modernist who just may be the Bruckner...